Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to the privacy policy of Michael Beverley trading as Meridian Press ("we", "us", or "our"). We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and look after your personal data when you visit our website and tells you about your privacy rights.

2. Controller

Michael Beverley is the controller and responsible for your personal data.

Contact Details:

• Full name of legal entity: Michael Beverley trading as Meridian Press
• Email address: hello@meridianpress.co.uk
• Postal address: BG12, Whirled Arts Studios, 500-505 Southend Lane, London SE26 5LB

3. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We collect the following data:

• Identity Data: First name, last name, or similar identifiers provided via contact forms.
• Contact Data: Email address, telephone numbers, and any other contact details provided via contact forms.
• Communication Data: The content of any messages you send to us through our website contact forms.
• Technical Data: Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, and operating system. This data is collected automatically to ensure the security and performance of the website.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To Respond to Enquiries: When you use our contact form, we use the data provided to respond to your specific query.
• Performance of Contract: Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• Legal Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

5. Third-Party Services

We engage the following third-party service providers to help us operate our website. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data.

Web3Forms (Contact Forms): We use Web3Forms to power our contact forms. When you fill out a form on our site, the data is processed by Web3Forms to forward the message to our email address.

• Data processed: Name, email, message content, IP address (for spam protection), and timestamp.
• More info: Web3Forms Privacy Policy

Google Fonts (Typography): Our website uses Google Fonts to ensure distinct and consistent typography. To display these fonts, your browser establishes a connection to Google servers. As a result, Google may process your IP address to deliver the font files.

• More info: Google Privacy Policy

6. Cookies

We do not use cookies for analytics, marketing, or tracking purposes. We may use essential technical mechanisms (which may function similarly to cookies) solely to ensure the security of our contact forms (e.g., to prevent spam) and the technical stability of the website. Because these are strictly necessary for the website to function, they are exempt from consent requirements.

7. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under data protection laws, you have rights including the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, or to object to processing of your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at hello@meridianpress.co.uk.