Privacy Policy

RAF News is the official publication of the Royal Air Force.

RAF News Group GDPR Privacy Notice

At RAF News, we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This General Notice explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure. We may change this Notice from time to time, so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes. Any questions regarding this Notice and our privacy practices should be sent by email to admin@rafnews.co.uk

Who are we?

We are RAF News.

RAF News is the official newspaper of the Royal Air Force, produced by the MOD since 1961. RAF News Published every fortnight, we bring news, features on topical issues and life in the service, developments in military aviation and air power, reviews of significant events and the history of the RAF.

How do we collect information from you?

We obtain information about you when you use our website, for example, when you make inquiries about our subscription, advertising or publishing any releases.

We may also ask you for information if you enter a competition or promotion or if you report a problem with our website.

We also collect the information you provide to us by other means (including, for example, by telephone, fax, post or email) including:

  • If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
  • Details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access.

What type of information is collected from you?

The personal information we collect might include your name, business name, address, email address, IP address and telephone numbers.

How is your information used?

We may use your information to:

  • Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts between you and us.
  • To ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
  • To keep you informed about changes to our services.

We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally obliged to hold some types of information to fulfill our statutory obligations. We will hold your personal details for as long as necessary for the relevant activity.

Who has access to your information?

  • We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.
  • We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
  • We may transfer your personal information to a third party (or clients) as part of our contractual obligations such as a mailing house so that the subscription copies of your newspaper can be delivered. However, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected.
  • We may disclose your information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data to comply with any legal obligation, or to enforce or apply our website terms of use, any of our terms and conditions of supply and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of RAF News, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

protect the rights, property, or safety of RAF News, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

How you can access and update your information

The accuracy of your information is important to us. We are working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information we hold about you. If you change your email address or any other information we hold about you is inaccurate or not up to date, please email us at admin@rafnews.co.uk

Your Rights

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information RAF News hold about you.

You can request this information by contacting the Compliance Officer at the address above, by email to: admin@rafnews.co.uk

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organizations. This Privacy Notice applies only to our website, so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.

In addition, if you are linked to our website from a third-party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third-party site and recommend that you check the Notice of that third-party site.

Review of this Notice

We keep this Notice under review. This Notice was last updated on May 2019

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