Your Personal Data

We collect and hold some personal information about several groups of people: Way subscribers and former subscribers, bookshop customers, authors, businesses and suppliers, people who have asked for a sample copy and people who have asked to join our mailing list. This information consists of contact details, records of any purchases or sample copy requests and, if you have supplied it, some individual data about age, religious affiliation and occupation. We use the contact information to keep in touch, in particular to keep you informed about new journal issues and book publications, keeping communications infrequent. The other personal details are used to help us understand who our readers are, which helps us to make decisions about what and how we publish. We never retain any financial information; online purchases are handled entirely through the secure services provided by PayPal and LibertyPay. The information that we do retain will be held and processed by The Way in accordance with all applicable data protection laws.

We will not supply your data to any third party except where this is a necessary part of something you have asked us to do—for example we share subscriber data with our distributors, and occasionally send books direct from another publisher—or where we are legally required to do so. We are careful to ensure that such third parties treat your data with as much care as we would ourselves and also comply with the relevant law.

All information is stored securely, in our own offices at Campion Hall, Oxford and also, for subscribers and ex-subscribers, by Turpin Distribution (their privacy policy can be found here). E-mail sent to us is archived on secure servers provided by Oxford University and by the British Province of Jesuits. Only the Assistant Editor and Administration Assistant have access to computers and files containing personal data. Unfortunately, the storage of data and their transmission across the internet can never be completely secure and so, although we use our best efforts to protect it while it is in our charge, we cannot absolutely ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur. For this reason we urge those making purchases never to send financial information by e-mail.

We keep data for as long as we need it for the purposes described above, based on our experience of how long details typically remain relevant. This may include holding the information that you have removed yourself from a mailing list or do not wish to be contacted in order to make sure that those preferences are respected.

You have a legal right to obtain information from us, including a copy of the data that we hold on you. Should you have any queries concerning this right, please contact the Assistant Editor at The Way, Campion Hall, Brewer Street, Oxford OX1 1QS, UK; the.way@campion.ox.ac.uk; (01865) 286117. We will comply as soon as possible with requests for removal from our mailing list. We will also completely remove all data about you if you wish.

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