Taranis Minerals collects, holds and uses Information on individuals in compliance with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation that is effective from 25 May 2018.

The information used by Taranis Minerals broadly falls into two categories -

(i) Data held under consent for marketing and advertising purposes. This information is gathered only when an individual actively opts-in to receive marketing information from Taranis Minerals and provides their contact information for this purpose. An opt-out option is available at any time.

(ii) Data held for contractual, legal and legitimate purposes to support business activities and legal requirements. This information is gathered during the course of business operations and is necessary for Taranis Minerals to fulfil its business contractual and legal obligations and to optimise the service offered to customers.

The treatment of information for these purposes and your rights as an individual to manage and control this information are explained further below.

What information is held?

Taranis Minerals holds information relating to individuals including contact names and email addresses for advertising and marketing purposes in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations.

All information is held securely and only shared with third parties where it is necessary to do so as part of marketing activities, such as the use of marketing and email platforms. These third parties will not use the information shared for their own marketing purposes.

What do we use it for?

We use this information for advertising and marketing purposes. Specifically we send up to and no more than one newsletter per week by email. The newsletter contains information that we think you as a mineral collector might be interested in, which may include details of new mineral specimens that have been added to our website, new stock that will be added soon, forthcoming mineral shows and other news relevant to mineral collecting.

Taranis Minerals will not pass any personal data held for advertising or marketing purposes to third parties to use for their own advertising or marketing purposes.

How is this information collected?

This information is collected from individuals who have specifically opted in to receive updates and news from us. Options for providing this consent include completing the newsletter subscription form on our website at www.taranisminerals.com/subscribe.php or sending an email to Taranis Minerals requesting to be included in the subscription list.

What are your rights?

You have the right to request details of the information that we hold about you under the GDPR.

You also have the right to request that this information is deleted.

You may opt-out of receiving marketing information at any time by completing the un-registration form at www.taranisminerals.com/unsubscribe.php

What information is held?

Taranis Minerals holds customer information including contact names, postal addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers.

Records relating to our business operations that contain such information will be retained and stored securely and appropriately in accordance with our Data Management Policy.

Information is only shared with third parties where it is necessary to do so in order to meet our business obligations, such as payment gateways and postal and shipping companies. Where information is shared with third party organisations the privacy and data protection policies of those organisations will apply.

Records are held securely and for the minimal length of time as stated in our Data Management Policy, after which records will be permanently deleted.

Taranis Minerals does not directly store any financial information for receiving payments such as bank account, cedit or credit card details. This is done through third party organisations.

What do we use it for?

We hold this information to allow us to meet our contractual and business obligations and to help us improve the service that we offer.

Information held for contractual, legal and legitimate purposes will not be used for marketing or advertising or passed on to third party organisations for these purposes.

How is this information collected?

This information is collected during the course of business operations, such as completed online order forms and email correspondence regarding mineral sales.

What are your rights?

You have the right to request details of the information that we hold about you under the GDPRs.

You also have the right to request that we delete this information, however we will only be able to carry this out if it does not contravene any legal requirements. In addition should your request contravene any of our contractual or legitimate requirements then we may no longer be able to offer our business services to you and any current contractual obligations may be terminated.

You can opt in to receiving our newsletter by completing the subscription form on this link www.taranisminerals.com/subscribe.php or by emailing us with your name, email address and a statement to say that you wish to sign up to our newsletter.

You can opt out of receiving our newsletter by completing the subscription form on this link www.taranisminerals.com/unsubscribe.php or by emailing us with your name and a statement to say that you wish to be removed from our newsletter mailing list.

You can request to know what information we hold by emailing us and stating your name and details of your request.

You can request deletion of the information that we hold by emailing us and providing your name and details of your request.

You may also update the information that we hold by emailing us the updated details.

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Last updated: May 2018