OUR PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and was designed to harmonise data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizens data privacy and to reshape the way organisations across the region approach data privacy.

To comply with new EU regulations, which come into force on May 25th 2018, Wonderland Magazine Online [Visual Talent Ltd] is legally required to contact all members, including anyone who has been a subscriber to our site and subsequently unsubscribed, who in turn must actively give us permission to gather personal information. This information is the questions you are asked by us when you register to become a customer of our shop, a subscriber of our online content, receive newsletters, or enter competitions. Our data is stored in a secure database protected by a number of access controls supplied to us via MailChimp. If you have opted-in when registering to receive third-party communications by email they will be from specially vetted companies who we feel may be able to supply you with products or services that add value to your experience with Wonderland Magazine Online and the Wonderland Online Shop. In these circumstances, any information you provide will be subject to the privacy policies of these companies. Data collected through the registration process or market research processes on the site will be used to improve the site, helping us to tailor our services to your needs. If you want to know more about GDPR click here

We collect different types of information about our users for these main reasons:

1. To help us to monitor and improve the services we offer.
2. To sell advertising space on the site, which helps us to keep the site free for people who visit it.
3. If we have permission from the user, or where otherwise allowed by law, to market services to them.
4. Where we have permission from the user, or where otherwise allowed by law, to distribute our content to them.

Privacy:

1. We do our very best to protect your privacy by using security technology appropriately. This means:

• we make sure that we have appropriate security measures to protect your information; and we make sure that when we ask another organisation to provide a service for us, they have appropriate security measures.

2. We will respect your privacy. You should only receive emails from us, and if you agree, from other organisations we have carefully chosen. We will make sure it is clear when you can make these choices, for example, we have boxes you need to tick if you want to receive marketing and you can change your preferences if you no longer want to receive it. However, we may email you occasionally with information or questions about your registration, your subscription account or postings
3. We will collect and use your details only if we have your permission
4. We will be clear in our dealings with you as to what information about you we will collect and how we will use it.
5. We will use personal information only for the purposes for which it was originally collected and we will make sure we delete it securely.

Information we collect:

1. We collect information on you should you register to use our online shop or sign up to our emails
2. When you use the website. This is anonymous data, not directly identifying you.
3. Through the use of cookies
4. When you enter competitions or complete polls or surveys

Registration:

Wonderland Magazine Online (Visual Talent Ltd) may be visited and browsed by anyone in the world for free, unless paying tp access pay for content, however, to receive communications from us you will be required to either sign up to our emails and or register when making a purchase on our shop.  Registration is for a single user only and the responsibility of any passwords rests with you. The minimum information required to sign up for emails, is your name and email address and select the relevant opt-in to register on our shop the minimum required information we will need from you is your name, address, postcode, phone number, gender, email address, user name and a password. Unless we say otherwise, you have to answer all the registration questions.  Why do we ask these questions?  We ask for your name in order to personalise your newsletter; your postcode, phone and email to be able to deliver you purchased items to you and contact you should the need arise. We also may specifically target 3rd party communications (which you only receive with your permission), for instance, a fashion brand may be targeted to female subscribers only, a music based email may be targeted to a specific age group. Your email address is to ensure you are a real person and not a robot; a password so that you can log in to your account. If you enter a competition we will ask you for a telephone number, this is so that we can contact winners directly.

We will never, ever sell or share any of this information without your permission.

After you have signed up for emails or registered for an account through our shop, and only with your permission, we may send you emails we think may interest you, ie. regular newsletters, plus short newsletters, made of relevant content to our business and that we feel you would find of interest. At any time you can decide not to receive these emails and will be able to ‘unsubscribe’.

It at any time you wish to see the personal information you have shared with us, you can do this by getting in touch with us here and making a request [need a form for people to complete] we will endeavour to provide you with this information in a timely manner in accordance to the law.

Right to be forgotten

At any time you can close your shop account, by visiting My Account in your profile on wondemlandshop.com.  All your details will be securely deleted.

Use of children’s data – Compliance with children’s online privacy protection act

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our Site from those we actually know are under 13, and no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 13.

Who we share data with

We will not share your personal information with others for marketing purposes unless you have given us your permission, and then we will share your information only with other organisations we have chosen carefully. We may make other organisations’ services available, through our sites, although we are not necessarily operating these sites. We process any information, which we collect when you access a service provided by another organisation under this privacy policy. Information these other organisations collect is governed by their own privacy policies.

If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our members, or others.

Sale or transfer of all or part of our business or assets

We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event we sell or transfer all or a part of our business or assets so that the buyer can continue to offer you the online services. We will make reasonable efforts to provide you with advance notification of the transfer of your information in such circumstances.

COOKIES USED ON WONDERLAND MAGAZINE

The following table summarises the main cookies used by the Wonderland Magazine website.

You, as a user of the Wonderland Magazine website, have the ability to accept or decline any of the cookies on the site. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline some or all cookies if you prefer.

If you wish to decline cookies, please select the browser you are using from the list below and follow the instructions to prevent cookies being served to you during your visit.

• Firefox 
• Chrome
• Internet Explorer 
• Safari 
• iPhone/iPad Safari
• Opera

If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to use certain interactive features of  the site as certain pages depend on cookies, and some advertising preferences that are dependent on cookies may not be able to be respected.

Cookies set by us, at Wonderland Magazine Online

These are Tracking and Analytics cookies. These are dropped in when a user visits our site. This data is anonymous and helps us understand better how our readers use our site and which content they prefer.

3rd Party Cookies used on Wonderland Magazine Online

• None of the cookies used here contain Personally Identifiable Information, Website Data or Customer Interaction Information.
• None of the information is given out to 3rd parties nor does it contain any intrinsic value; being temporary references.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

How Google uses your data

Many websites and apps use Google services to improve their content and keep it free. When they integrate Google services, these sites and apps share information with Google.

Google uses the information shared by sites and apps to deliver services, maintain and improve them, develop new services, measure the effectiveness of advertising, protect against fraud and abuse and personalise content and ads that you see on Google and on partners’ sites and apps. Google’s Privacy Policy explains the legal grounds that Google relies upon to process your information.

If ad personalisation is turned on, Google will use your information to make your ads more useful for you. If ad personalisation is off, Google will not collect or use your information to create an ad profile or personalise the ads that Google shows to you. You will still see ads, but they may not be as useful. Ads may still be based on the topic of the website or app that you’re looking at, your current search terms or on your general location, but not on your interests, search history or browsing history. Your information can still be used for the other purposes mentioned above, such as to measure the effectiveness of advertising and protect against fraud and abuse.

When you interact with a website or app that uses Google services, you may be asked to choose whether you want to see personalised ads from ad providers, including Google. Regardless of your choice, Google will not personalise the ads that you see if your ad personalisation setting is off or your account is ineligible for personalised ads.

Google uses the following types of cookies and technologies for the following reasons:

1. Functionality

Cookies and other technologies used for functionality allow you to access features that are fundamental to a service. Things considered fundamental to a service include preferences, such as your choice of language, information relating to your session, such as the content of a shopping basket, and product optimisations that help maintain and improve that service.

Some cookies and other technologies are used to maintain your preferences. For example, most people who use Google services have a cookie called ‘NID’ or ‘ENID’ in their browsers, depending on their cookies choices. These cookies are used to remember your preferences and other information, such as your preferred language, how many results you prefer to have shown on a search results page (for example, 10 or 20) and whether you want to have Google’s SafeSearch filter turned on. Each ‘NID’ cookie expires 6 months from a user’s last use, while the ‘ENID’ cookie lasts for 13 months. Cookies called ‘VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE’ and ‘YEC’ serve a similar purpose for YouTube and are also used to detect and resolve problems with the service. These cookies last for 6 months and for 13 months, respectively.

Other cookies and technologies are used to maintain and enhance your experience during a specific session. For example, YouTube uses the ‘PREF’ cookie to store information such as your preferred page configuration and playback preferences like explicit auto-play choices, shuffle content and player size. For YouTube Music, these preferences include volume, repeat mode and auto-play. This cookie expires eight months from a user’s last use. The cookie ‘pm_sess’ also helps maintain your browser session and lasts for 30 minutes.

Cookies and other technologies may also be used to improve the performance of Google services. For example, the ‘CGIC’ cookie improves the delivery of search results by autocompleting search queries based on a user’s initial input. This cookie lasts for six months.

Google uses the ‘CONSENT’ cookie, which lasts for two years, to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices. Another cookie, ‘SOCS’, lasts for 13 months and is also used to store a user’s state regarding their cookies choices.

2. Security

Cookies and other technologies used for security help to authenticate users, prevent fraud and protect you as you interact with a service.

The cookies and other technologies used to authenticate users help ensure that only the actual owner of an account can access that account. For example, cookies called ‘SID’ and ‘HSID’ contain digitally signed and encrypted records of a user’s Google Account ID and most recent sign-in time. The combination of these cookies allows Google to block many types of attack, such as attempts to steal the content of forms submitted in Google services.

Some cookies and other technologies are used to prevent spam, fraud and abuse. For example, the ‘pm_sess’, ‘YSC’ and ‘AEC’ cookies ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. These cookies prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user’s knowledge. The ‘pm_sess’ cookie lasts for 30 minutes, while the ‘AEC’ cookie lasts for 6 months. The ‘YSC’ cookie lasts for the duration of a user’s browsing session.

3. Analytics

Cookies and other technologies used for analytics help collect data that allows services to understand how you interact with a particular service. These insights allow services to both improve content and build better features that enhance your experience.

Some cookies and other technologies help sites and apps understand how their visitors engage with their services. For example, Google Analytics uses a set of cookies to collect information and report site usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google. ‘_ga’, the main cookie used by Google Analytics, enables a service to distinguish one visitor from another and lasts for two years. Any site that implements Google Analytics, including Google services, uses the ‘_ga’ cookie. Each ‘_ga’ cookie is unique to the specific property, so it cannot be used to track a given user or browser across unrelated websites.

Google services also use ‘NID’ and ‘ENID’ cookies on Google Search, and ‘VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE’ and ‘YEC’ cookies on YouTube, for analytics.

4. Advertising

Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalising ads (depending on your settings at myadcenter.google.com and adssettings.google.com/partnerads), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads that you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads.

The ‘NID’ cookie is used to show Google ads in Google services for signed-out users, while the ‘ANID’ and ‘IDE’ cookies are used to show Google ads on non-Google sites. If you have personalised ads enabled, the ‘ANID’ cookie is used to remember this setting and lasts for 13 months in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland and the United Kingdom (UK), and 24 months everywhere else. If you have turned off personalised ads, the ‘ANID’ cookie is used to store that setting until 2030. The ‘NID’ cookie expires six months after a user’s last use. The ‘IDE’ cookie lasts for 13 months in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland and the United Kingdom (UK), and 24 months everywhere else.

Depending on your ad settings, other Google services, such as YouTube, may also use these and other cookies and technologies, such as the ‘VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE’ cookie, for advertising.

Some cookies and other technologies used for advertising are for users who sign in to use Google services. For example, the ‘DSID’ cookie is used to identify a signed-in user on non-Google sites and to remember whether the user has agreed to ad personalisation. It lasts for two weeks.

Through Google’s advertising platform, businesses can advertise in Google services, as well as on non-Google sites. Some cookies support Google showing ads on third-party sites and are set in the domain of the website that you visit. For example, the ‘_gads’ cookie enables sites to show Google ads. Cookies that start with ‘_gac_’ come from Google Analytics and are used by advertisers to measure user activity and the performance of their ad campaigns. The ‘_gads’ cookies last for 13 months and the ‘_gac_’ cookies last for 90 days.

Some cookies and other technologies are used to measure ad and campaign performance and conversion rates for Google ads on a site that you visit. For example, cookies that start with ‘_gcl_’ are primarily used to help advertisers determine how many times users who click on their ads end up taking an action on their site, such as making a purchase. Cookies used for measuring conversion rates are not used to personalise ads. ‘_gcl_’ cookies last for 90 days.

5. Personalisation

Cookies and other technologies used for personalisation enhance your experience by providing personalised content and features, depending on your settings at g.co/privacytools or your app and device settings.

Personalised content and features include things such as more relevant results and recommendations, a customised YouTube homepage and ads that are tailored to your interests. For example, the ‘VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE’ cookie may enable personalised recommendations on YouTube based on past views and searches. And the ‘NID’ cookie enables personalised autocomplete features in Search as you type search terms. These cookies expire six months after a user’s last use. Another personalisation cookie, ‘UULE’, sends precise location information from your browser to Google’s servers so that Google can show you results that are relevant to your location. The use of this cookie depends on your browser settings and whether you have chosen to have location turned on for your browser. The ‘UULE’ cookie lasts up to six hours.

Non-personalised content and features are distinct from personalised content and features insofar as they are influenced by things like the content that you’re currently viewing, your current Google search and your general location.

For more information please visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Advertising

An advertising service called DoubleClick, allows us to deliver targeted advertising to people who visit our website. It works by showing you adverts that are based on your browsing patterns and the way you have interacted with our site. It then shows you adverts, which we believe may interest you. As you browse our sites, some of the cookies we place on your computer will be advertising cookies, so we can understand what sort of pages you are interested in. We can then display advertising on your browser that is based on these perceived interests. For instance if you have been reading a lot of food and drink articles, you may be shown more adverts for food and drink. It is important to remember that none of this we use will collect information such as your name, email address or postal address.

We may also share anonymous behavioural data with our advertising partners. This may mean that when you are on other websites, you will be shown advertising based on your behaviour on Wonderland Magazine Online (Visual Talent Ltd), we may also show you advertising on our site based on your behaviour on other sites. Behavioural retargeting is another form of advertising that allows us and some of our advertising partners to show you ads based on your browsing patterns and interactions with a site away from our site. For example, if you have visited the website of an online clothes shop, you may start seeing ads from that same shopping site displaying special offers or showing you the products that you were browsing. This allows companies to advertise to you if you leave their website without making a purchase. If you want to opt out of receiving online behavioural advertising, this does not mean that you will no longer receive advertising when you are using our site. It just means that the advertising you see will not be customised for you.

Advertising on mobile devices may require the collection and sharing of the unique device ID with companies who purchase advertising space on the mobile application.

Other Advertising

Our site contains links to other websites from which we may earn revenue. Our articles are never influenced by advertisers or affiliates, nor are they written for the purpose of promoting a product, except when clearly branded as ‘Advertisement Editorial’

Legal information and how to contact us

If you have any questions or concerns, including use of disclosure of personal information, or breach of our Privacy Policy, please contact us and we will investigate.  We will treat your request or complaint confidentially and aim to resolve in a timely and appropriate manner.

Contact us at info@wonderlandmagazine.com or you may write to Visual Talent Ltd, 133 Notting Hill Gate London W11 3LB United Kingdom

Changes to our Privacy Policy
Should we elect to change our privacy policy we will post the changes here. Where the changes are significant, we may also choose to email all our registered members with the new details. Where required by law, will we obtain your consent to make these changes.

Page updated on March 23rd 2023