As a media relations and PR company, Ballantyne Communications know your privacy is very important to you and that it is your right to control your personal information. We know that providing personal, work and contact details is an act of trust and we take that trust seriously. We know, because we feel exactly the same about our privacy. We have reviewed all our practices, taken legal advice and audited our systems complying with GDPR regulations. All the personal information we hold are related to individuals and organizations within the media industry and we solicit emails, social media and telephone communications on the grounds of ‘legitimate interest‘ as laid out in the ICO’s guidelines.
We supply UK and international radio & TV network producers and presenters, newspaper and magazine editors, journalists, researchers and DJs a mix of visual, video and audio content that they then use that content to enhance their work output.
COOKIES & WEBSITE
We use third party cookies on our website in order to build a picture of our audience. The use of cookies is made clear in our website, and you have the option of allowing or denying their use upon your visit. These include cookies for platforms including Google Analytics which we use to measure and analyze anonymized platform traffic. We use third party audio and video embeds on our websites (Bandcamp, You Tube) in order to provide options for engaging with audio and video content – these embeds may include cookies from the host platform, used in accordance with their own privacy policies. If you wish to remove cookies from your browser, you are free to do so via your browser’s settings at any time.
OUR THIRD PARTY DATA PROCESSORS
We use a number of third parties to process data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation
Google (Privacy policy)
MailChimp (Privacy policy)
MAILING LISTS & EMAIL COMMUNICATION
We host email lists for the use of B2B communications. These lists are built through the MailChimp email platform and are never shared with anybody or a third party. We include unsubscribe and preference review options on all our email marketing as standard, and our network peers are free to update or remove their information from specific lists or entire database at any time via these methods or direct via email. If you choose to remain subscribed, your email address will remain within MailChimp’s database for as long as we continue to use MailChimp for B2B email communication.
Additionally, If you want to be added/deleted to/from any of our lists, please contact: duncan@ballantynecommunications.com