Privacy Policy

Identity & access

When you apply as a member to The Graphics Union, we ask for your name, email address, IMDb profile and two references. We use this information so we can verify your eligibility for membership, personalise your account, and send you updates, or other essential information about the running of the union. We’ll never sell your personal info to third parties.

Information from Integrated Sign-On Services.

When linking your Graphics Union account to a third-party social networking service such as Google, the only information the Graphics Union collect is the email address or account ID attached to that social account.

The only use for this information to verify your identity and allow you to log in to your account. We will only ever contact you by the primary contact email address listed when you apply to be a member.

Your Rights With Respect to Your Information

You may have heard about the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). GDPR gives people under its protection certain rights with respect to their personal information collected by us on the Site. The rights under GDPR include:

• Right of Access. This includes your right to access the personal information we gather about you, and your right to obtain information about the sharing, storage, security and processing of that information.
• Right to Correction. This is your right to request correction of your personal information.
• Right to Erasure. This is your right to request, subject to certain limitations under applicable law, that your personal information be erased from our possession (also known as the “Right to be forgotten”). However, if applicable law requires us to comply with your request to delete your information, fulfillment of your request may prevent you from using our services and may result in closing your account.
• Right to Complain. You have the right to make a complaint regarding our handling of your personal information with the appropriate supervisory authority.
• Right to Restrict Processing. This is your right to request restriction of how and why your personal information is used or processed.
• Right to Object. This is your right, in certain situations, to object to how or why your personal information is processed.
• Right to Portability. This is your right to receive the personal information we have about you and the right to transmit it to another party.
• Right to not be subject to Automated Decision-Making. This is your right to object and prevent any decision that could have a legal, or similarly significant, effect on you from being made solely based on automated processes. This right is limited, however, if the decision is necessary for performance of any contract between you and us, is allowed by applicable European law, or is based on your explicit consent.

If you have questions about exercising these rights or need assistance, please contact us at info@graphicsunion.co.uk

Data security

We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. What data we store, we’ll protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

Links to other sites

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and practices of these sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy policies.

This policy is effective as of 28th November 2018.