Terms & Conditions

MIC Buzz Magazine:

January 2023

The use of micbuzzmagazine.com is subject to the following terms and conditions. micbuzzmagazine.com is owned, run and managed by MIC Buzz Limited with support from teams of volunteers, volunteer contributors and support from other associates/organisations (referred to as ‘We’ below).

In entering our site you as a user (‘You’) are accepting our terms and conditions.

Using www.micbuzzmagazine.com

micbuzzmagazine.com is maintained for your personal use and viewing. The access and use of micbuzzmagazine.com featuring these terms and conditions constitutes your acceptance of these terms and conditions. They take effect from the date on which you first use this website.

You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes, and in a manner that does not infringe the rights of, or restrict or inhibit the use and enjoyment of this site by any third party. Such restriction or inhibition includes, without limitation, conduct which is unlawful, or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to any person, and the transmission of obscene or offensive content or disruption of normal flow of dialogue within this site.

Information collected by us is used for internal review, to improve the content of micbuzzmagazine.com, to customise the content and/or layout of micbuzzmagazine.com, to notify users about updates to micbuzzmagazine.com, and to contact users for marketing purposes and is not shared with other organisations for commercial purposes.

GDPR & PRIVACY POLICY

We treat your privacy very seriously and we want to offer a transparent policy to help you better understand the personal data we collect.

This policy applies to information held about all our clients and prospective clients, suppliers and prospective suppliers, artists, contacts and all other individuals whose records are held by micbuzzmagazine.com. By ‘information,’ we mean personal information about you that we collect, use, share and store.

In this policy, “we,” “us,” and “our” means micbuzzmagazine.com (trading a MIC Buzz Limited), a company registered in England and Wales and “you” means the individual (to whom the information relates).

This policy covers:

  1. What personal data we collect
  2. How we collect personal data
  3. How we use your personal data
  4. Contact and interaction with you
  5. Legitimate interests
  6. Sharing personal data
  7. How long will we keep your personal data?
  8. Links to other websites
  9. Cookies and similar technologies
  10. Transferring information outside the UK and Europe
  11. Security
  12. How to contact us
  13. Changes to the policy
  1. What personal data we collect

The personal data we collect includes:

  • your name;
  • your contact information such as your address, email address and telephone number;
  • information related to your attendance of, and interest in,  micbuzzmagazine.com events and services;
  • Information about you that you give us in person at  micbuzzmagazine.com events and services;
  • Only if required, your payment details and financial data i.e. your bank name, account number and sort code
  1. How we collect personal data

The personal data we collect is:

  • information you give to us when you visit and access micbuzzmagazine.com website, services or events;
  • collecting information you give to us when you purchase any  products or services on micbuzzmagazine.com, or vist and access micbuzzmagazine.com webisite, services or events.
  1. How we use personal data

We use your personal data to:

  • provide information about our micbuzzmagazine.com website, events and services to you;
  • keep you informed about micbuzzmagazine.com website, services and events that we think you may find interesting;
  • carry out our obligations arising from any agreements entered into between you and us;
  • communicate with you;
  • administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
  • keep our site safe and secure;
  • comply with legal and regulatory obligations; and
  • for security and to check your identity.
  1. Contact and interaction with you

If you sign up to our micbuzzmagazine or complete a form on our website, you are giving us permission to store data about you and interact with you to provide the information you requested. Contact can take place over the phone, email, by post or through social media.

To help us better understand the information you would like to receive, you can always update your email marketing preferences by emailing your preference on all your marketing communications to micbuzzmagazine at info@micbuzzmagazine.com

We will action any opt-out request from you without delay.

  1. Legitimate interests

We use your data to respond to your enquiries and provide you with information that we believe you would like to receive about micbuzzmagazine.com, our products, services, contributors, artists, and our events (the lawful basis for this is “legitimate interest”)

Where our processing is based on the legitimate interest grounds described above, those legitimate are:

  • collecting personal information to provide you with a smooth and efficient client experience;
  • to make sure you receive updated information on our business activities;
  • to provide the services you have requested; and
  • for our own marketing and research
  1. Sharing personal data

Except as expressly set out in this policy we will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

The personal information you provide to us may be shared with third party companies, agents, contractors, service providers or affiliated companies if this is necessary to provide you with our micbuzzmagazine.com events, products or services, respond to your inquiries or for any of the purposes described in this policy.

We may also share your personal information with:

  • law enforcement agencies, other governmental agencies or third parties if we are required by law to do so;
  • and other business entities should we plan to merge with or be acquired by that business entity, or if we undergo a re-organisation with that entity
  1. How long will we keep your personal data?

We will only keep the information we collect about you for as long as required for the purposes set out above or as required to comply with any legal obligations to which we are subject. This will involve us periodically reviewing our files to check that information is accurate, up-to-date and still required.

  1. Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other sites, including via our social media buttons. While we try to link only to websites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices employed by other websites and a link does not constitute an endorsement of that website. Once you link to another website from our website you are subject to the terms and conditions of that website, including, but not limited to, its internet privacy policy and practices. Please check these policies before you submit any data to these websites.

Certain features of our site will allow for social networking. You should ensure when using these features that you do not submit any personal data that you do not want to be sent, collected or used by other users, such as profile details or e-mail address.

  1. Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small data files that allow a website to collect and store a range of data on your desktop computer, laptop or mobile device. We use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., tags) on our website to distinguish you from other users, helping us to personalise and improve your experience of our website and the gallery.

We use cookies to:

  • understand how our website is being used, for example, by telling us if you get an error message when you browse;
  • understand and save your preferences and contact details so you do not have to submit this information twice;
  • measure the effectiveness of our marketing communications, for example by telling us if you have opened a marketing email that we have sent you, and
  • help us compile data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may use trusted third-party services, like Google Analytics, that track this information on our behalf

Some cookies are necessary so you should not disable these if you want to be able to use all the features of our website. You can disable cookies but this may affect your full experience of the website.

  1. Transferring information outside the UK & Europe

Your personal information may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us, or for one of our service providers.

When we, or our permitted third parties, transfer your information outside the European Economic Area, we or they will impose obligations on the recipients of that data to protect your information to the standard required in the European Economic Area or otherwise require the recipient to subscribe to international frameworks intended to enable secure data sharing. In the case of transfers by us, we may also transfer your information where:

  • the transfer is to a country deemed to provide adequate protection of your information by the European Commission; or
  • where you have consented to the transfer.
  1. Your Rights

At any time, you have the right to:

  • request access to or a copy of any personal data which we hold about you;
  • rectification of your personal data, if you consider that the information we are holding is inaccurate;
  • ask us to delete your personal data, if you consider that we do not have the right to hold it;
  • withdraw consent to our processing of your personal data (to the extent such processing is based on previously obtained consent);
  • ask us to stop or start sending you marketing messages as described above in the marketing section;
  • restrict processing of your personal data;
  • data portability (moving some of your personal data elsewhere) in certain circumstances;
  • object to your personal data being processed in certain circumstances; and
  • not be subject to a decision based on automated processing and to have safeguards put in place if you are being profiled based on your personal data.

Any request from you for access to or a copy of your personal data must be in writing and we will endeavour to respond within a reasonable period and in any event within one month in compliance with data protection legislation. We will comply with our legal obligations about your rights as a data subject.

We aim to ensure that the information we hold about you is accurate at all times. To assist us in ensuring that your information is up to date, do let us know if any of your personal details change by sending a message to the following email address info@micbuzzmagazine.com

  1. Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

  1. Changes to the policy

We reserve the right to change this policy at any time. Any changes we make to our policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our polic

Linking to micbuzzmagazine.com

Please let us know if you wish to link directly to pages on micbuzzmagazine.com by emailing the MIC Buzz Magazine web team through the link above. We do not object to you linking directly to the information that is hosted on our site. We do not permit our pages to be loaded into frames on your site; micbuzzmagazine.com pages must load into the user’s entire window.

micbuzzmagazine.com reserves the right to move or change its website URLs at any time in order to meet changing business needs and to continually improve its online service. External websites link to the MIC Buzz Magazine website at their own risk. We do not encourage deep linking but recommend linking to section homepages, which are less likely to move or change.

Intellectual property

The names, images and logos identifying micbzzmagazine.com are proprietary marks of  micbzzmagazine.com. If you wish to copy or use the MIC Buzz Magazine logo, you must get prior approval from the copyright manager by contacting the MIC Buzz Magazine branding team through the link above.

Tell us how and why you wish to use our logos. Please include your contact details: name, address, telephone number, fax number and email.

Disclaimer

The micbuzzmagazine.com website and material relating to MIC Buzz Magazine information, products and services (or to third party information, products and services), is provided ‘as is’, without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.

We do not warrant that the functions contained in the material contained in this site will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials.

In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including, without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damages whatsoever arising from use or loss of use of, data or profits arising out of or in connection with the use of micbzzmagazine.com.

Although we may from time to time monitor or review discussions, chat, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards and the like on micbzzmagazine.com, we are under no obligation to do so and assume no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations nor for any error, omission, infringement, defamation, obscenity, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on micbzzmagazine.com.

These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Any dispute arising under these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Links to external websites

Links contained in micbzzmagazine.com will lead to other websites which are not under our control. We are not responsible for the content of any linked site. Listing and linking should not be taken as an endorsement of any kind and we accept no liability in respect of the content. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and have no control over the availability of the linked pages.

Email disclaimer

The purpose of this policy is to ensure that people who communicate with MIC Buzz Magazine understand the way in which electronic mail (e-mail) should be used. Its aim is to ensure that e-mail is used effectively for its intended purpose without infringing legal requirements or creating unnecessary business risk.

The statement below applies to all incoming and outgoing e-mail messages to or from MIC Buzz Magazine:

“This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any reading, printing, storage, disclosure, copying or any other action taken in respect of this e-mail is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by using the reply function and then permanently delete what you have received.

Incoming and outgoing e-mail messages are routinely monitored for compliance with MIC Buzz Magazine’s policy on the use of electronic communications.

The views expressed by the author may not necessarily reflect the views or policies of MIC Buzz Magazine.

Internet e-mail is not a secure medium. E-mails sent via the Internet could be intercepted and read by someone else. Please bear that in mind when deciding whether to send material to the MIC Buzz Magazine.

You have a responsibility to ensure laws are not broken when composing or forwarding e-mails and their contents.

Attachments to e-mail messages may contain viruses that may damage your system. Whilst MIC Buzz Magazine has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise this risk, we cannot accept any liability for any damage which you sustain as a result of these factors. You are advised to carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment.”

Virus protection

We make every effort to check and test material at all stages of production. It is always wise for you to run an anti-virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet.

We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.

Updated January 2023

We may at any time revise these terms and conditions without notice. Please check regularly. Continued use of micbuzzmagazine.com after a change has been made is your acceptance of the change.

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This website, e-mail, data and any files transmitted with it are confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, any reading, printing, storage, disclosure, copying or any other action taken in respect of this website, e-mail is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the website team and sender immediately by using the reply function and then permanently delete what you have received.

Incoming and outgoing e-mail messages are routinely monitored for compliance with MIC Buzz Magazine’s policy on the use of electronic communications. For more information on the MIC Buzz Magazine’s e-mail policy please contact MIC Buzz Magazine.

This website, e-mail, data and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are those of the author and do not represent the views of MIC Buzz Magazine unless otherwise explicitly stated. The information contained in the website and e-mail may be subject to public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The confidentiality of this website e-mail and your reply cannot be guaranteed, unless the information is legally exempt from disclosure. Examples may include confidential personal information exempt under the Data Protection Act.

Whilst the contents of this email have been virus checked prior to transmission, MIC Buzz Magazine accepts no responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent nor any loss or damage arising from its receipt or use. MIC Buzz Magazine reserves the right to monitor e-mails and any replies sent back.

End of Terms and conditions

MIC Buzz Magazine:

January 2023