Updated 13.04.2026
Privacy Notice
- What is the company controller and processor for processing your data?
Surrey Magazine LTD (the Data Controller), is a legal UK entity with registered office address at Dunmore Farm, Guildford, GU3 3BL with Company Number 9155597, VAT number 268678737 and ICO Registration Number 00013372803 (Hereinafter, referred to as “Surrey Magazine”), We would like to inform that this Website (hereinafter, the “Website”) is owned by Surrey Magazine.
The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to inform the user (hereinafter, the “User”) of the Website https://www.surreymagazineonline.co.uk/ and subscribers to SURREY MAGAZINE (print edition) about the collection and use of his/her personal data.
The access and/or use of the Website, attributes you the condition of User, and implies the acceptance, from such access and/or use, of the present Privacy Notice.
The User may contact Surrey Magazine in connection with the present Data Privacy and Protection Policy at annalisa@surreymagazineonline.co.uk
2.- Why is Surrey Magazine lawful to process your data?
Surrey Magazine is enabled to process your data in order to provide its services.
Surrey Magazine is also enabled to process your data based on the consent requested from the User or on a legitimate interest, if applicable.
Surrey Magazine takes the protection of your privacy and personal data very seriously. Therefore, your personal information is kept secure and treated with the utmost care.
This Privacy Notice governs the access to and use of the service of the Website (the “Service”) that Surrey Magazine makes available to the User interested in the services and Content hosted on the Website.
In this sense, the legitimation purposes used by Surrey Magazine for the treatment of the Users’ data are:
- The Users’ consent to the processing of their personal data for the purposes specified in each case.
- Legitimate interest
- Execution of subscription contract between the subscriber and Surrey Magazine.
- The User data processed by Surrey Magazine are exclusively identification data. In no case do we process special categories of personal data.
3.- What are the purposes of the processing of your personal data from Surrey Magazine?
Your personal data collected by Surrey Magazine maybe used for the following purposes, according to the consent given in the corresponding registration form:
3.1 The provision of Surrey Magazine services.
- In order to provide the service demanded by the User, Surrey Magazine will need to process personal data obtained from the information the User provides to Surrey Magazine.
- Surrey Magazine will process Users’ personal data in order to facilitate, speed up and fulfil the commitments established between the Website and the User, and to improve the quality, operation and navigation of the Website, as well as to manage the relationship established with the User through the forms on the Website in order to respond to a request or query.
3.2. The sending of commercial communications and/or newsletters by Surrey Magazine:
- This purpose will be the sending, by letter, telephone, email, SMS/MMS, or other equivalent electronic communication of information and commercial communications that may be of interest to you on behalf of the organization Surrey Magazine
3.3. Sending of commercial communications and/or newsletters by Surrey Magazine on behalf of third parties.
By giving their consent to the sending of commercial communications and/or newsletters by third party companies in accordance with the preferences indicated in the corresponding form, the user may consent that their data may be transferred to the following sectors:
- Telecommunications: Telecommunications and technology products and services
- Health: Medical and health care. Medical and pharmaceutical products. Prosthetic and hearing products
- Financial: Provided by financial institutions
- Insurance: Insurance companies (cars, commercial vehicles, health, life, motorbikes, pets, home, etc.) and social security
- Energy and water: Products related to Electricity, Hydrocarbons, Gas and Water
- Marketing or commercial prospecting
- Leisure: Sports, Collecting, Tourism, Photography, Hobbies, Toys, Transport, Gardening, Hobbies, Publishing, Communication and Entertainment, Lotteries
- FMCG: Electronics, computers, image and sound, accessories, home, bazaar, furniture, real estate, food and beverages, health and beauty, personal care (parapharmacy, pharmaceutical specialities, perfumery, cosmetics), fashion and accessories, jewellery, costume jewellery, precious stones, decoration, textiles
- Automotive: Products and services related to all types of automobiles (cars, motorbikes, trucks, etc.)
- NGOs: Products and services related to NGOs and ideologies
- Jewellery and precious stones: products and services related to jewellery, costume jewellery and precious stones
- Energy and Water: Products and services related to energy and water
- Training: products and services related to education, textbooks, school or training material, offers on on-site and distance learning courses, etc
The purpose of use will be the sending by letter, telephone, e-mail, SMS/MMS, or other equivalent means of electronic communication by these companies of information and commercial communications that may be of interest to you.
3.4. Transfers of personal data to third parties.
- If the User has consented, their data may be transferred to companies related to the sectors listed and detailed in point 3.3.
- The purpose of the transfer will be to send, by letter, telephone, e-mail, SMS/MMS, or by other equivalent means of electronic communication by these companies, information and commercial communications that may be of interest to you
- We may share your personal data with a third-party auditing organisation (ABC) so they can verify aggregated statistics about circulation and usage of our products or review our policies, processes and procedures for compliance with relevant standards.
- When you enter your email address on our website (either to log in, or to sign up to a newsletter, or similar) we may share personal or other information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, pseudonymous form), IP address, or information about your browser or operating system, with our partners for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or targeted advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. web, email, connected devices, and in-app, etc). These third parties may in turn use this to link demographic or interest-based information you have provided in your interactions with them.
- We may also provide your personal data to Public Administration bodies and competent authorities in those cases that Surrey Magazine receives a legal request, or in acting in good faith, we consider that such action is necessary to comply with a legal process, such as to answer any claim; or to protect the rights of Surrey Magazine or its customers and the public.
3.5. The sending of commercial communications to carry out satisfaction surveys, market studies, among others to be able to offer Users the most appropriate offers and quality in the Products offered on the Surrey Magazine.
3.6. Management and processing, where appropriate, of the participation of Users in competitions or promotions, among others.
3.7. Sending commercial promotions to members of the Surrey Magazine.
3.8. Manage subscriptions and deliveries of Surrey Magazine products, such as Surrey Magazine.
3.9. In case of registration and/or invitation to the User, to enable participation in events and to send electronic communications about these events.
3.10. If the User has profiles on Social Networks and interacts with Surrey Magazine Products on such Social Networks, such as pages and posts, Surrey Magazine may process the User’s profile data and other information accessible within the Social Network, depending on the User’s privacy settings on the Social Network and based on the terms and conditions and Privacy Notice of such Social Network, for the purposes applicable to each Social Network (replying to messages, giving likes, etc.)
3.11. If the User has profiles on Social Networks and interacts with Surrey Magazine Products on such Social Networks, such as pages and posts, Surrey Magazine may process the User’s profile data and other information accessible within the Social Network, depending on the User’s privacy settings on the Social Network and based on the terms and conditions and Privacy Notice of such Social Network, for the purposes applicable to each Social Network (replying to messages, giving likes, etc.).
3.12. The creation of commercial profiles for Users of https://www.surreymagazineonline.co.uk/. These profiles are only created with the prior consent of each User. The elaboration of user profiles is based on the combination of the data provided by the User at the time of registration on our website (name, age, sex and contact email) with the browsing history obtained by the cookies used by our website. Based on the profile of the Users, Surrey Magazine will only show information according to their preferences while browsing our website. Otherwise, Users may be shown information that is irrelevant to their preferences and points of interest. We also collect your gender and age data in order to carry out profiling and segmentation with your data in order to carry out personalised display advertising, as well as to be able to send you commercial communications about our products and services that are more adapted to your tastes and needs, provided that we have obtained your consent. In accordance with current legislation on data protection, the User retains the right to revoke such consent at any time by contacting Surrey Magazine at annalisa@surreymagazineonline.co.uk.
4.- Veracity of the data provided by the Users and minor’s data
All data have been provided to Surrey Magazine by the Users through forms available on surreymagazineonline.com, the User guarantees the veracity of the personal data supplied and undertakes to communicate to Surrey Magazine any changes in said data. The User shall be responsible, in any event, for the veracity of the data supplied, and Surrey Magazine reserves the right to exclude from the services any Users who has provided false data, without prejudice to any other legal action that may be taken.
In addition, the User should provide Surrey Magazine with an email address or any other means of electronic communication, the User expressly authorizes Surrey Magazine to use such means as a way of communicating with him/her in order to reply to his/her requests and/or consultations, to provide him/her with information or news of Surrey Magazine and to inform him/her of any relevant changes which are made on or to the Web Site. However, the User may object to the use of his contact email for commercial purposes by means of the corresponding box in the respective form for collecting data. In addition, the User retains the right to revoke such consent at any time.
In relation to the protection of minors’ personal data, access to and use of the website by minors under the age of 16 is prohibited. Surrey Magazine is not responsible for the use of the website by minors, so it is the responsibility of parents or guardians to monitor access to the Surrey Magazine website.
5.- Data conservation
User’s personal data that Surrey Magazine collects through the different contact and / or information collection forms will be kept as long as deletion is not requested by the User. The data provided by our subscribers will be kept as long as the commercial relationship between the parties is maintained with regards to any minimum legal requirements.
Likewise, Surrey Magazine will preserve the User’s personal data only for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, or until the User expresses his/her wish to unsubscribe from Surrey Magazine services, for the purpose of receiving information about the company’s services. Subsequently, if necessary, Surrey Magazine will keep the information blocked for the legally established periods.
Personal data will also be kept responding to issues that arise, to solve problems, to make improvements, to activate new services and will also meet legal requirements. This may mean that we retain your personal data for a reasonable period of time even after you have stopped using our products or website. After this period, your personal data will be deleted from all Data Controller and Data Processor systems.
6.- User’s rights regarding their data
Users are entitled to:
- Access their personal data
- Request the rectification of any inaccurate data
- Request the erasure of their data
- Request that the processing of their data be limited
- Oppose to the processing of their data
- Request the portability of their data
- Not be subjected to automated individual decisions
The User can exercise all these rights at the following email address annalisa@surreymagazineonline.co.uk indicating the specific reasons for the request and a copy of ID card.
The User may also send his request by ordinary mail to the following address:
Dunmore Farm, Guildford GU3 3BL
Without prejudice to any other administrative and/or judicial actions which may be at their disposal, Users shall be entitled to file a claim before the Supervisory Authority (https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/), in particular in the Member State where they have their usual residence or their workplace or in the place where any alleged infringement has taken place, if they consider that their personal data have not been processed in accordance with applicable regulations and/or if they have been prevented from exercising any of their rights. The Supervisory Authority receiving the claim shall inform the claimant of the situation and result of the same.
7.- Data security and conservation.
The protection of the privacy and personal data of its clients and visitors is very important to Surrey Magazine. Surrey Magazine uses all its best efforts to prevent your data from being used inadequately. Only authorized personnel have access to your data.
Surrey Magazine adopts the security levels required by UK and European regulations in force in data protection taking into account the state of the art, the costs of application and the nature, scope, context and purposes of the treatment described, as well as the risks of probability and severity variables for their rights and freedoms as a person.
Surrey Magazine keeps personal data protection security levels as provided by applicable regulations and has implemented all technical means at its disposal to prevent any loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorized access to and/or theft of the data provided by the Users through its Website, without prejudice to informing Users that security measures on the Internet are not unbreakable.
Surrey Magazine undertakes to comply with its duty to maintain the secrecy and confidentiality of personal data as provided by applicable law, as well as to provide them with secure processing in international data transfers and assignments, where appropriate.
In those services of the Web Site that require registration as a User, a password must be chosen. The User is responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of this password, as well as for all activities that occur during the session initiated with his/her name and password.
The User agrees to notify Surrey Magazine as soon as possible of any unauthorized use of its Username and/or password or any other breach of security. Surrey Magazine will not be liable for any damage or loss that may arise due to the User’s failure to comply with this obligation.
8.- Updates and changes in our Privacy Notice
Surrey Magazine has the right to revise its Privacy Notice from time to time. For this reason, we encourage the User to regularly check this Privacy Notice for the most recent version of this Privacy Notice.
However, any changes to this Privacy Notice will be communicated to the User.
9.- Links
Surrey Magazine’s Website may contain links to the websites of third-party companies and entities. Surrey Magazine is not responsible for the treatment of privacy and personal data by these companies, so we advise you to carefully read the Privacy Notice statements of these websites that are not owned by Surrey Magazine regarding the use, processing and protection of personal data. This Privacy Notice will be applied exclusively to information which we compile on this Website.
The conditions offered by these websites may not be the same as those offered by Surrey Magazine.
10.- Subscriptions and General inquiries
To cancel your subscription to our newsletter and alerts go to this page
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or the processing of your data, please contact Surrey Magazine by e-mail at the following address: annalisa@surreymagazineonline.co.uk
In the case of subscriptions to digital editions of Surrey Magazine we inform you that the Data Controllers on the processing of your data will be the management entities of the online content download platforms. Consequently, Surrey Magazine does not assume any responsibility for the processing of your data made by each online content management platform. You should carefully read the privacy policy of the content management platform of your choice.
It is noted that the Data Controller of the ‘Subscriptions’ section refers to print subscriptions is Surrey Magazine.
In any case, we must warn you that a refusal on your part to provide certain requested information during the subscription process could hinder the development of the contractual relationship between the parties with the possibility of the cancellation or termination of your subscription.
11.- Acceptance and Consent
The User declares to have been informed of the conditions on personal data protection, accepting and consenting to the processing of this data by Surrey Magazine, in the manner and for the purposes indicated in this Privacy Notice.
These Conditions will be governed at all times by the provisions of UK and European legislation on the protection of personal data and privacy.
Cookies notice
If you have any questions or can not find the specific information you are looking for, please contact annalisa@surreymagazineonline.co.uk
1.- What are cookies?
Cookies are files that are downloaded on the computer / smartphone / tablet of the user to access certain websites and applications that allow to store preferences of the user’s navigation, making the interaction between the user and the Website faster and easier.
The information collected by cookies is anonymous and does not contain any sensitive information as they do not collect data that can personally identify the User. In any case, the user will be able to access the settings panel of their browser to modify and / or block the download and installation of cookies sent from the Website, without this preventing the access to the content.
2.- Why does Surrey Magazine use cookies?
In accordance with Recital (30) Data Protection Act & GDPR EU 679/2016 (hereinafter “GDPR”), this Website uses cookies or other information storage and retrieval devices to track users’ interactions with the services offered on the Website.
Cookies can recognize the browser of a user and the type of device from which the user has accessed to the Website and are used to facilitate the next visit of the user and make the App more useful.
Surrey Magazine uses cookies to:
- Optimize navigation of the User by tracking the session.
- Collect information to optimize navigation and improve the Website.
The Website uses the following types of cookies:
- Mandatory: Cookies strictly necessary to provide a service or content requested by the user. These take care of technical aspects such as identifying records and managing tool preferences in the use, interaction and location of the access to the content.
- Functional: Functional cookies give the user information that enriches the browsing experience, such as displaying the weather forecast based on your location.
- Statistics/analytics: These cookies collect information regarding the use of the page such as the page stay and content visited by readers to measure their performance and improve navigation.
The main objectives pursued with this type of cookie are:- To allow the anonymous identification of the navigating Users and therefore the approximate accounting of the number of visitors.
- To identify anonymously the most visited contents.
- To know if the User who is accessing is new or he/she has repeated the visit.
- Advertising: These cookies obtain information from the user’s navigation to manage advertising spaces and offer more relevant and quality content for him/her adapted to his/her tastes.
Surrey Magazine takes the use of cookies on the Surrey Magazine website very seriously.
3.- How to disable cookies?
Those cookies that are not mandatory for navigation of this Website.
These settings are in the footer of the Website. In addition, all browsers allow the user to make changes to disable cookie settings.
This is why most browsers offer the ability to manage cookies, for more precise control over privacy.
These settings are located in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser.
Below, you can find links for each browser to disable cookies by following the instructions:
- Internet Explorer (https://goo.gl/iU2wh2)
- In the tool menu, select “Internet Options”.
- Click on the privacy tab.
- You can set privacy with a six-position cursor that allows you to control the number of cookies that will be installed: Block all cookies, High, Medium High, Medium (default level), Low and Accept all cookies.
- Mozilla Firefox (http://goo.gl/QXWYmv)
- At the top of the Firefox sale click on the Tools menu.
- Select Options.
- Select the Privacy panel.
- Under the Firefox option you can choose to Use a custom history setting, as well as other issues related to your Privacy.
- Google Chrome (http://goo.gl/fQnkSB)
- Click on the menu located on the toolbar.
- Select Settings.
- Click on Show Advanced Options.
- In the “Privacy” selection, click the Content Settings button.
- In the Cookies selection, you can configure the options.
- Safari (https://goo.gl/dQywEo)
- On the setup menu, select the “Preferences” option.
- Open the privacy tab.
- Select the option you want from the “block cookies” section.
- Please note that certain features and full functionality of the Website may not be available after cookies are disabled.
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881t or https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
4.- Cookies on mobile device
Surrey Magazine also uses cookies or other storage devices on mobile devices.
These settings can be found in the Website footer. In addition, as with computer browsers, the browsers of mobile devices allow you to make changes in the options or privacy settings to disable or delete cookies.
If you wish to change your privacy options, please follow the instructions specified by the developer of your mobile device browser.
Below are some examples of links that will guide you through modifying the privacy settings on your mobile device:
- IOS: (http://goo.gl/61xevS)
- Windows Phone: (https://goo.gl/tKyb0y)
- Chrome Mobile: (http://goo.gl/XJp7N)
- Opera Mobile: (https://cutt.ly/TF1Fly6)
5.- Acceptance of cookies
This Website does not install our cookies on user’s device until they accepted the installation of the referred cookies.
Please note that if you do not accept the installation of cookies or disable any of them in the cookies setting panel, it is possible that certain services are not available without the use of any of these cookies or cannot access to certain services or take full advantage of everything this Website offers.
