This is the privacy policy of Nerve News & Media Ltd (“Nerve”, “We”, “Us” or “Our”) which tells you  what to expect us to do with your personal information. 

Important Notice: The Nerve Online Magazine 

The Nerve online magazine is published on a website which is owned and operated by a third party  United States corporation, beehiiv inc. (“beehiiv”).  

Beehiiv collects and processes the personal data of users of its website, including subscribers to The  Nerve online magazine. Data is collected by beehiiv in a number of ways, including by the use of  cookies and other similar technologies.  

The beehiiv privacy policy, which sets out how beehiiv collects and processes the personal data of  users of its website, including readers and subscribers to The Nerve online magazine, can be read here: https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy. 

1. Purpose of this Privacy Policy 

This privacy policy aims to give you information on how Nerve collects and processes your personal  data. This includes information you provide when you take out a subscription, participate in discussion  boards, enter a competition, promotion or survey and when you report a problem with our online  magazine. 

The Nerve online magazine is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating  to children. 

Data Controller 

The data controller responsible for your personal data is: 

Nerve News & Media Ltd. 

Email address: : [email protected] 

Postal address: 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, W1W 5PF, United Kingdom. 

This privacy policy applies to all personal data we process as a data controller. If you have any  questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact  us using the details above. 

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can contact us using the above  details. If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data, you can also contact the Information  Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk. 

Changes to your personal data 

Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us by  contacting: [email protected].

1. The data we collect about you 

Personal data is any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does  not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store  and transfer the following categories of personal data about you: 

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, title.
• Contact Data includes postal and email address and telephone numbers.
• Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details. We use third party payment  service providers to process our subscriber’s payments.
• Transaction Data includes details of subscriptions you have purchased from us or events you  have registered for with us. 
• Technical Data includes internet protocol address, login data, 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 this website. 
• Profile Data includes your username, purchases or orders made by you. 
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website and subscription.
• Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. 

We may collect, use and share Aggregated Data, such as statistical data, for any purpose. Aggregated  Data may be derived from personal data but is not considered personal data in law, as it does not  directly or indirectly reveal your identity. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with  your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as  personal data, which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy. 

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data (such as details about race or ethnicity,  religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union  membership, information about health or genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any  information about criminal convictions. 

1. How we collect your personal data 

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through: 

Direct interactions. You may provide us with your Identity, Contact and Financial Data when you  subscribe to our online magazine or other content we publish, enter a competition or interact with  us (e.g. to give us some feedback). 

Automated technologies or interactions. beehiiv, which operates the website on which The Nerve  online magazine is published, may collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions  and patterns as you interact with The Nerve online magazine, by using cookies and other similar  technologies, and may make this data available to us. Please see the beehiiv privacy policy here  https://www.beehiiv.com/privacy for details on how beehiiv collects and processes the personal  data of users of its website, including readers and subscribers to The Nerve online magazine. 

Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various  third parties and public sources as set out below: 

• Technical Data from analytics providers, including beehiiv;2 
• Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of subscription marketing services; and 
• Publicly available information on you derived from social media which we integrate with our site. 

1. How we use your personal data 

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. We will use your personal data in the following circumstances: 

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into  with you. 
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your  interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests, including providing you  with information about goods or services we consider may be of interest you. 
• If you are an existing customer, we may contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS)  with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a  previous transaction with you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit certain  trusted third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only  if you have consented to this. 
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation. 

Purposes for which we will use your personal data 

We have set out below a summary of the main ways we may use certain categories of your personal  data and the legal bases we will rely on to do so.  

Processing and delivering your subscription 

Categories of Data: Identity, Contact, Transaction, Marketing / Communications Lawful basis for processing: Performance of a contract with you 

Managing our relationship with you, (including notifying you about changes to our terms or  privacy policy; customer support and keeping records of the services provided and our  interactions with you) 

Categories of Data: Identity, Contact, Profile Lawful basis for processing: Performance of a contract with you; necessary to comply  with a legal obligation; and our legitimate interests (to keep  our records updated and to study how customers use our  products) 

Delivering relevant website content to you and measuring the effectiveness of the  advertising we serve to you 

Categories of Data: Identity, Contact, Profile, Usage, Marketing /  Communications, Technical Lawful basis for processing: Our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our  services, to develop them, to grow our business and to  inform our marketing strategy)

Using data analytics to improve our services 

Categories of Data: Technical, Usage Lawful basis for processing: Our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for  our services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to  develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy) 

Making recommendations about offers that may be of interest to you 

Categories of Data: Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage, Profile Lawful basis for processing: Our legitimate interests (to develop our services and grow  our business) 

Asking you to leave a review or take a survey 

Categories of Data: Identity, Contact, Profile Lawful basis for processing: Our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our  services, to develop them and grow our business) 

Promotional offers from us 

We may also use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what promotional offers we think may be of interest to you.  You may receive marketing communications from us if you have subscribed to our magazine, or if you  provided us with your details and you did not opt out of receiving marketing communications from us  (see opt-out below) when we collected your information. 

Unsubscribe 

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by using the  unsubscribe link on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at: [email protected]. 

1. Disclosure of your personal data 

We may be required to share your personal data with the parties below for the purposes set out in  Section 4 above. 

• Service providers acting as data processors, who provide subscription management, mail  management, IT and system administration services. 
• Professional advisers acting as processors or joint controllers, including lawyers, bankers,  auditors and insurers based in the United Kingdom (“UK”). 
• HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and authorities acting as processors or joint controllers  based in the UK who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
• As required by law, or if in good faith we believe disclosure is required by law. We only transfer personal information to third parties for marketing purposes where the third parties  are trusted and only where we have your permission to do so. We require all third parties to respect  the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them  to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions. 

1. International transfers 

We may transfer personal data that we collect from you to a destination outside the UK, European  Union (“EU”) or European Economic Area (“EEA“). If we transfer your personal data outside of the UK,  EU or EEA, we will ensure that one or more of the following safeguards is implemented: 

• We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an  adequate level of protection for personal data. 
• Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved for use in the  UK/EU/EEA which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK/EU/EEA. 

1. Data security 

We have put in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost,  altered or disclosed or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal data  to 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. 

We have procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any  applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so. 

However, unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.  Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your  data you transmit to us over the internet. 

1. 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, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the  personal data, the potential risk of 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. 

By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial  and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes. Please contact  us using the contact details set out in this privacy policy if you have any questions about data  retention. 

1. Your legal rights 

In certain circumstances, data protection law gives you the right to do the following: 

• Request access to your personal data. 
• Request correction of your personal data. 
• Request erasure of your personal data. 
• Object to processing of your personal data. 
• Request restriction of processing your personal data. 
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent. 

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us at: [email protected]. 

You will not usually have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other  rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or  excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances. 

Confirmation of Identity 

We may need to as you to confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data  (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any  person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in  relation to your request to speed up our response. 

Time limit to respond 

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. If your request is complex or you have  made a number of requests, it may take longer than a month to respond In this case, in which case we  will notify you and keep you updated.