Privacy Policy Notice

This privacy policy notice is served by Sustainable Packaging News under the website spnews.com. The purpose of this policy is to explain how we control, process, handle, and protect your personal information through the business and while you browse or use this website. If you do not agree to the following policy, you may wish to cease viewing/using this website or refrain from submitting your personal data to us.

Policy Key Definitions:

  • "I", "our", "us", or "we" refer to the business, Sustainable Packaging News.
  • "You" or "the user" refer to the person(s) using this website.
  • GDPR means General Data Protection Act.
  • PECR means Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation.
  • ICO means Information Commissioner's Office.
  • Cookies mean small files stored on a user's computer or device.

Key Principles of GDPR:

Our privacy policy embodies the following key principles:

  • Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency
  • Purpose limitation
  • Data minimization
  • Accuracy
  • Storage limitation
  • Integrity and confidentiality
  • Accountability

Processing of Your Personal Data:

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), we control and/or process any personal information about you electronically using the following lawful bases:

We are exempt from registration in the ICO Data Protection Register because we use data only for core business purposes of staff administration, advertising marketing and PR, and accounts and record-keeping.

Your Individual Rights:

Under the GDPR, your rights are as follows:

  • The right to be informed
  • The right of access
  • The right to rectification
  • The right to erasure
  • The right to restrict processing
  • The right to data portability
  • The right to object
  • The right not to be subject to automated decision-making, including profiling.

You also have the right to complain to the ICO (www.ico.org.uk) if you feel there is a problem with the way we are handling your data. We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.

Internet Cookies:

We use cookies on this website to provide you with a better user experience. We do this by placing a small text file on your device/computer hard drive to track how you use the website, to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to keep you logged into the website where applicable, to display relevant adverts or content, and to refer you to a third-party website.

Some cookies are required to enjoy and use the full functionality of this website. We use a cookie control system that allows you to accept the use of cookies and control which cookies are saved to your device/computer. Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, while others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should provide you with the controls to manage and delete cookies from your device; please see your web browser options.

Data Security and Protection:

We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies and precise procedures in how we store, access, and manage that information. Our methods meet GDPR compliance requirements.

Fair & Transparent Privacy Explained:

We have provided some further explanations about user privacy and the way we use this website to help promote a transparent and honest user privacy methodology.

Sponsored Links, Affiliate Tracking & Commissions:

Our website may contain adverts, sponsored, and affiliate links on some pages. These are typically served through our advertising partners: Google Admanager, eBay Partner Network, Amazon Affiliates, or are self-served through our own means. We only use trusted advertising partners who each have high standards of user privacy and security. However, we do not control the actual adverts seen/displayed by our advertising partners. Our ad partners may collect data and use cookies for ad personalization and measurement. Where ad preferences are requested as 'non-personalized,' cookies may still be used for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse.

Clickable sponsored or affiliate links may be displayed as a website URL like this: https://spnews.com/value-chain/ or as a titled text link like this: ERU energy.

Clicking on any adverts, sponsored, or affiliate links may track your actions by using a cookie saved to your device. You can read more about cookies on this website above. Your actions are usually recorded as a referral from our website by this cookie. In most cases, we earn a very small commission from the advertiser or advertising partner, at no cost to you, whether you make a purchase on their website or not.

We use advertising partners in these ways to help generate income from the website, which allows us to continue our work and provide you with the best overall experience and valued information.

If you have any concerns about this, we suggest you do not click on any adverts, sponsored, or affiliate links found throughout the website.

Email Marketing Messages & Subscription:

Under the GDPR, we use the consent lawful basis for anyone subscribing to our newsletter or marketing mailing list. We only collect certain data about you, as detailed in the "Processing of Your Personal Data" section above. Any email marketing messages we send are done so through an EMS, email marketing service provider. An EMS is a third-party service provider of software/applications that allows marketers to send out email marketing campaigns to a list of users.

Email marketing messages that we send may contain tracking beacons/tracked clickable links or similar server technologies to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of data such as times, dates, IP addresses, opens, clicks, forwards, geographic and demographic data. Such data, within its limitations, will show the activity each subscriber made for that email campaign.

Any email marketing messages we send are in accordance with the GDPR and the PECR. We provide you with an easy method to withdraw your consent (unsubscribe) or manage your preferences/the information we hold about you at any time.

Resources & Further Information:

Privacy Notice Policy Base: Version 1. Sustainable Packaging News

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact Kevin Gambrill via email at kg@spnews.com.