Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Metropolis International Group Ltd – 02916515 is a media company consisting of various financial services facing brands. Its principal business activity is to deliver content digitally through our websites, by email, face to face by organising events and by print by publishing magazines. It is part of the emap brand which is part of the Metropolis Group. Its registered address is 10th Floor, Southern House, Wellesley Grove, Croydon, CR0 1XG.
Metropolis International Group Ltd respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data [“data”]. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept.
This policy summarises the information we may collect about you and how we may use that data. We primarily collect data to provide you with services you have requested, to provide services likely to meet your needs and to improve services provided to you. The policy tells you how we ensure the information we have is kept accurate and how you can request access, deletion, rectification, restriction, transfer and withdraw consent (where applicable) and make a complaint.
- What Information do we collect and how is this collected?
We only collect the personal information you provide. This may include your name, job title, company that employs you, email address, birthdate, telephone number, gender, preferences, content you post on our websites. We do not share personal data with third parties except to provide services to you e.g. for web site hosting. They do not decide what is done with your data and only process it on our behalf. We take reasonable commercial steps to ensure that your data is kept secure and confidential by any third party. If these third parties are located outside the European Economic Area (EEA); we only use providers that provide adequate protection for your information.
- Legal basis for processing data
We are processing your personal data using your consent. As a registered user of Future Financial Adviser we may include you in relevant newsletters based on your activity. You can choose which emails you would like to receive or opt out through your online account. If you encounter any issues, please contact customer services on ffa.info@emap.com
- Use of personal data
We will only use personal information for the purpose it was collected. We primarily use data to communicate with you, deliver the service you have requested.
- How long do we keep your data for?
Data is not kept any longer than is required for the purposes of the processing or to comply with the law. When data is no longer required for the purposes of the processing it is securely removed from our systems.
- Security & Confidentiality
Metropolis takes commercially reasonable physical, technical, and administrative measures to protect personal information from theft, misuse, or accidental destruction and to keep it confidential. We aim to protect personal information but cannot provide a 100% guarantee of security. All employees and data processors (third parties who process data on our behalf) who access your data are obliged to keep the information confidential and secure and not to use it for any other purpose other than that they are contracted to carry out for us.
- Withdrawal of consent
When you have provided consent, if you should wish to withdraw that consent, you can let us know by sending an email (details provided on the business website) or by emailing dataprivacy@metropolis.co.uk including the email address and brand associated with your account and we will remove your data from our systems.
- Restriction of liability
Our websites link to other websites. Metropolis is not responsible for the privacy policies of those websites, nor does it have or accept any liability for their content.
- Cookies
We use cookies to monitor web usage. Cookies are written to the hard drive of a web user; they contain no personal information about the website user and only keep a record of the sites visited and actions on the web site. Some cookies expire after your browser is closed whilst others stay on your hard drive. They are of standard use across many websites. We use them on an aggregated information basis and to assess your areas of interest – they are used to identify the number of unique visitors to a site, to improve further web visits (store preferences, user name and your email address so you don’t need to reinput every time you visit) and to improve the user experience for you by, amongst other things, providing content based on your preferences. We use the following categories of cookies on our websites: (1) Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have asked for such as remembering your login details cannot be provided. These cookies cannot be disabled (2) Performance cookies. These cookies collect anonymous information on how you use a website. The data stored by these cookies never shows personal details from which your individual identity can be established. Without these cookies we cannot learn how the website is working to make improvements which improves your browsing experience (3) Functionality cookies. These cookies remember choices you make and then can be used to provide you with an experience more appropriate to your selections and to make the visits more tailored and pleasant. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Most browsers offer you ways to control or block cookies should you wish to. These browser controls will usually be found in the “options” or “preferences” menu in your toolbar. The “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to stop or manage cookies. Note that should all cookies be rejected we are unable to match site content appropriate to the preferences given to us by previous visits and you will not be able to fully utilise all the web site features. For further information on cookies visit aboutcookies.org or the Information Commissioner's webpage on cookies ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.
- Legal information and how to contact us
You have the right to see, erase and correct data we hold, the right to restrict the processing we do, and the right to object to it and to have your data transferred to a third party. If you wish to do any of these things or have any questions about how we use your data, or wish to make a complaint about any privacy issues, please contact the Group Data Privacy Lead – Richard Hutchinson at richard.hutchinson@metropolis.co.uk or write to him at:
Richard Hutchinson
Group Data Privacy Lead
Metropolis International Group Limited
10th Floor
Southern House
Wellesley Grove
Croydon CR0 1XG
Requests will be dealt with and responded to within a reasonable period, and no longer than 30 days. If you are not satisfied with the way your request was handled, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority – details of which are given below:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Telephone: +44 303 123 1113