Quicky Magazine is known for truth and care; we do the same for our users. Protecting their rights and data and offering them utmost security is one of our core values, and compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation is one of our attempts. It enhances transparency and gives the user more control and confidence in data sharing. By implementing advanced cybersecurity measures, we aim to reduce the fear of those frequent data breaches.
What Personal Data Do We Collect?
- We collect several types of data, e.g., name, email, IP address, device info, when you fill out our forms, through cookies, and our analytical tools.
- In case you are contributing, we may collect your bios, submissions, and contact info as well.
- We may also track user behavior when newsletter opt-ins to customize our newsletter and schedule it accordingly.
How Do We Use Your Data?
We use your data in several ways, but only for positive, healthy reasons because we value our users’ safety. Our core purpose in collecting your data is only to improve our website content and user experience.
- We use your data to improve our website performance and enhance content relevance as per user interest.
- Utilising this data, we respond to inquiries and contributor submissions and send newsletters accordingly, but only with consent.
- We use your data to monitor our digital space and prevent misuse or fraud closely, both for you and us.
Legal Basis for Processing
Legally, our data collection and processing fall under several categories, including:
- Data collection through contributor outreach and newsletters falls under the category of data processed under “user consent.”
- Data collected by site analytics or security software falls under “legitimate interest”
- Respond to any submissions using user data, which falls under “contractual necessity”
Note: As per legal compliance, we allow the user to withdraw consent anytime.
Your Rights Under GDPR
GDPR offers enormous benefits to the user that not only save their data but also build trust between any digital organization and its users. It gives the user:
- Right to access their data
- Right to correct or delete their data
- Right to withdraw consent at any time
- Right to data portability
- Right to complain to a supervisory authority
Data Retention
How long do we store personal data?
We keep your data only as long as it’s necessary and beneficial for both of us for smooth functioning. However, we may retain the editorial data for an extended period to maintain the editorial record.
Criteria for deletion or anonymization
We delete or anonymize the outdated and inactive data. Our team frequently manually checks data to ensure that we only have an active and energized community.
Third-Party Services
We utilize several auditing, marketing, and progress tracking tools to monitor our website and boost user experience. But we ensure that all our partners and tools we use are GDPR compliant. We guarantee that no data will be shared without our users’ consent.
Cookies & Tracking
We use cookies to personalize the content as per user needs and preferences, and analytics measurements. Based on the results, we improve our website UX and personalize content. Every user has control to manage the cookie preferences through accept all, reject all, or manage cookies options.
Data Security
Along with advanced and practical security safeguards, we conduct regular data audits to prevent data breaches. In case we find any issues, we address them promptly and transparently. Our certified cybersecurity officers continually improve our existing security measures and implement new ones to enhance security to its peak.
Contact Information
If you have any requests regarding your data correction, deletion, or you just need to access it, contact our team at email privacy@quickymagazine.com. We ensure you get the fastest response and swift solutions.