Privacy Policy
Meridian Ventures Ltd. ("we", "our", "us") is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and protect your data when you interact with our services related to curated travel experiences, bespoke event design, technology integration for lifestyle products, publishing, and premium book club services.
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services to you. This may include:
- Personal Identification Data: Name, address (for service delivery or book shipments), email address, phone number, and payment information (processed securely through third-party payment processors).
- Service-Related Data: Information related to your travel preferences, event requirements, literary interests, book club selections, and technology integration needs.
- Communication Data: Records of your correspondence with us, including inquiries and feedback.
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our online platform.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our online platform, products, and services.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide and deliver the services you've requested, including bespoke travel planning, event design, technology solutions, and book club services.
- To process your orders, manage payments, and facilitate book distribution.
- To communicate with you about your services, update you on new offerings, and respond to your inquiries.
- To improve and personalize your experience with our online platform and services.
- For internal record keeping, analysis, and research purposes.
- To comply with legal obligations and protect our legitimate business interests.
3. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell your personal data to third parties. We may share your information with:
- Service Providers: Trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our business, such as payment processors, shipping companies for book distribution, and IT support. These providers are bound by confidentiality agreements and are only permitted to use your data for the specific services they provide to us.
- Legal and Regulatory Authorities: When required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).
4. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
5. Your Data Protection Rights
Under applicable data protection laws, you have specific rights regarding your personal data. These may include:
- The right to access your personal data.
- The right to rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data.
- The right to erasure of your personal data ("right to be forgotten").
- The right to restrict processing of your personal data.
- The right to data portability.
- The right to object to processing of your personal data.
- The right to withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.
6. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
7. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will always be posted on our online platform. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Meridian Ventures Ltd.
14 Regent Street,
St. Giles', Suite 3A,
London, Greater London, SW1Y 4NX
United Kingdom