Lodestar Marketing Ltd (Lodestar) is committed to the responsible management of personal information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679. Please read our Privacy Policy to understand how we collect, store and use your personal information.
1. Collection of personal information
Lodestar may collect and process information about you that we receive from you: (i) when you fill in forms on the website that require you to provide your name, address and email address; (ii) when you contact Lodestar, we may keep a record of the correspondence; and (iii) through the use of cookies (see below). When you use this website, you consent to Lodestar’s use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
2. IP addresses and cookies
Lodestar may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration purposes. This is statistical data about the users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
For the same reason, Lodestar may obtain information about your general Internet usage by using a cookie file that is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us improve the website and deliver a better and more personalised service.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, Lodestar’s system will issue cookies when you log on to the website.
_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz These cookies are used by Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
Squarespace This site is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace uses cookies to track a user session, when they last visited or did something on the site. No personal information is stored in these cookies, only timestamps related to that browser session. For more information go to www.squarespace.com/privacy.
Third party cookies The code provided by Twitter to include additional functionality on our website may, by default, set cookies. For information about these third party cookies, go to www.twitter.com/privacy.
3. Storage of personal information
Lodestar will keep your personal information for as long as we need it to provide our products and/or services to you. We will try to keep personal information that we holds about you up to date, but if you think that we are holding information which is inaccurate or you are otherwise unhappy about our use of your personal information, please tell us by sending an email to hello@lodestaruk.com.
4. Use of personal information
Lodestar will not sell the personal information that we collect from you. We use the personal information that we collect from you to help us provide products and/or services to you.
In the following circumstances, Lodestar may need to share your personal data with other parties: (i) where we have retained other companies or individuals to carry out certain services; (ii) where a related or associated company requires the information; (iii) in the event that some or all of Lodestar activities are transferred to another organisation; or (iv) where we are required by law to release or disclose customer information.
5. Access
Under the GDPR, you have the right to see the personal information we hold about you, at any time. You can change it, withdraw your consent for Lodestar to use it and, in some circumstances, ask for it be erased completely. Such requests are free of charge and can be made by email, letter or phone.
6. Changes to Privacy Policy
Lodestar may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post a notification on the website if we have made significant changes to the policy.
