Privacy policy, copyright, legal, contact

Update on submissions: 17 01 2022

Atom welcomes contributions from outside parties and publishes in good faith. When submitting material for our consideration, you are confirming that you own the copyright to the material and that you are assigning us the right to publish your material. By submitting material for consideration of publication, you indemnify Atom, its brands and its staff and contributors from and against any and all costs, liabilities, losses and expenses (including, and not limited to, reasonable legal costs) incurred by Atom as a result of any claim by a third party that the material supplied infringes that third party’s copyright. Note that any contribution, whether pictorial or editorial, submitted by a third party for publication in AIJ magazine or website will also be deemed usable by GAI in general for any other of its marketing purposes.

Your information will be stored securely on Atom’s systems, or on Microsoft Office 365 which adheres to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and EU Model Clauses, with data stored in the UK and Europe.

We may also share your data with companies who help us provide our services, including our IT service providers who store backup data and companies who assist with our marketing and subscriptions.

We are satisfied that all our providers are complying with their data protection obligations.

We will keep your data for the duration of your membership of the GAI, if you access websites as a benefit of membership; or until we are informed that you want to unsubscribe from newsletters sent to you as an individual, which you can do by using the unsubscribe routine on the selected newsletter in question.

When membership of GAI ends, your data will be removed from all email lists up to two weeks after membership ends in terms of newsletters and up to one month after membership ends in terms of receipt of AIJ magazine. Membership data provided by the GAI to Atom will be held for 12 months, and then deleted.

Your Rights

Where processing of your personal data is based on consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time.

You have the following rights.

You can exercise these rights at any time by contacting us at [email protected].

You have the right:

Should you have any issues, concerns or problems in relation to your data, or wish to notify us of data which is inaccurate, please let us know by contacting us using the contact details above.

In the event that you are not satisfied with our processing of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority, which is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK, at any time. The ICO’s contact details are available here: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

For the purposes of data protection legislation, the data controller is Atom Media Partners Limited. Atom Media Partners is a limited company: reg 11762613. V.A.T reg no: 325 4762 01.

In addition to the above, we would also like to communicate with you in relation to other matters.

These will include:

Atom would like to communicate with you about benefits and offers to GAI and non-GAI members as a result of membership or other commercial affiliations. This information will have been considered as relevant to our members on a corporate or personal basis. No communication will come direct from the membership affiliation.

A current list of affiliated third parties can be found here. This page will be updated on a regular basis. You can opt out of receiving these emails at any time by clicking on the link within the email, or by following the process below.

All Atom and GAI partnerships are reviewed and considered to ensure that they align with Atom’s and GAI ’s ethics and values. These third parties may be connected to financial or insurance services, or connected to a sponsor for key events. Please note – if you do not provide consent the GAI will be unable to contact you regarding any of the above.

You will be asked to indicate your consent to these communications on your first contact with the Institute. Thereafter, you can change or update your preferences at any time by either visiting the Members Portal, clicking on the unsubscribe option within the communications or by contacting them at [email protected]

If you would like further information on any of the above, please email us at [email protected]

Disclaimer

Surveys

Responses you give will be reported anonymously and in aggregate (as a complete set).

We will not identify you against any individual comments you make unless we have obtained your explicit permission to do so.

Responses to some questions, including profile information and your ratings of membership, may be used to update GAI membership profiles – so that we can develop a more personalised membership experience.

Your identity and contact details, should you choose to provide them, will be used only for the purposes listed in the survey and to which you consent.

These purposes are:

The contents of all material available on this website are copyrighted by Atom Media Partners Limited ("Atom") unless otherwise indicated. All rights are reserved by Atom, and content may not be reproduced, downloaded, disseminated, published, or transferred in any form or by any means, except with the prior written permission of Atom or as indicated below. Visitors may download pages or other content for their own use; however, no part of such content may otherwise or subsequently be reproduced, downloaded, disseminated, published or transferred, in any form or by any means, except with the prior written permission of, and with express attribution to Atom.

The technical information contained herein is provided to Atom by various organisations, contributors and members of the public. While Atom makes every effort to present accurate and reliable information on this site, Atom does not endorse, approve or certify such information, nor does it guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, timeliness or correct sequencing of such information. Use of such information is voluntary and reliance on it should only be undertaken after an independent review of its accuracy, completeness, efficacy and timeliness. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process or service by trade name, trademark, service mark, manufacturer or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation or favouring by Atom. 

Atom (including its employees and agents) assumes no responsibility for consequences resulting from the use of the information herein, or in any respect for the content of such information, including (but not limited to) errors or omission, the accuracy or reasonableness of factual or scientific assumptions, studies or conclusions, the defamatory nature of statements, ownership of copyright or other intellectual property rights and the violation of property, privacy or personal rights of others. 

Atom is not responsible for, and expressly disclaims all liability for, damages of any kind arising out of use, reference to or reliance on such information. No guarantees or warranties, including to (but not limited to) any express or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular use or purpose, are made by Atom with respect to such information.

Atom welcomes contributions from outside parties and publishes in good faith. When submitting material for our consideration, you are confirming that you own the copyright to the material and that you are assigning us the right to publish your material. By submitting material for consideration of publication, you indemnify Atom, its brands and its staff and contributors from and against any and all costs, liabilities, losses and expenses (including, and not limited to, reasonable legal costs) incurred by Atom as a result of any claim by a third party that the material supplied infringes that third party’s copyright.

We will use your contact details (your name, job title, telephone and fax number and your e-mail and postal addresses) to provide any services requested by you and to tell you about important changes to the site and its functionality. Atom will also use the details to provide you with information about its services and products. If you do not wish to be contacted for these purposes, or want to alter your contact details, please email: [email protected]

This privacy policy was last updated on January 17 2022.