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Privacy policy
UK & EU/EEA privacy information. Updated 23 September 2026.
Who is responsible for your information?
This notice covers personal information handled in connection with groupe-visite.com, the Groupe Visite interiors journal. It is intended for readers in the United Kingdom and the European Union / European Economic Area. The website operator is the controller of information used to operate this publication and respond to enquiries. Contact the publication at [email protected] about privacy or to request the operator's identity and contact details.
Information involved
When you email us, your message may include your name, email address, correspondence and information you choose to provide. The contact form prepares an email in your own email application; it does not submit a message to a form database. Serving the website involves technical information such as IP address, requested URL, browser information and request time. Please do not include sensitive personal information in general enquiries.
Purposes and lawful bases
We use enquiry information to answer questions and manage correspondence. The relevant basis is our legitimate interest in communicating with readers, or taking steps at your request before an agreement where applicable. Technical information is used to deliver pages, investigate faults and protect the service, based on legitimate interests in a reliable and secure publication. Legal obligations may require us to keep or disclose particular records. Optional marketing or non-essential tracking would require a separate, appropriate basis, including consent where required; emailing us does not subscribe you to marketing.
Affiliate links and third-party websites
A link labelled as an affiliate or partner link may allow a merchant or network to attribute a purchase and pay a commission. Following it takes you to a separate service with its own privacy and cookie choices. Attribution may involve a referral identifier, cookies or similar technologies controlled by that service. We do not receive your payment card details from such purchases. The current shopping checklist contains no commission-bearing merchant links. Read any future link disclosure and the destination privacy notice before proceeding.
International transfers
Internet infrastructure and email services may involve processing outside your country. Where a restricted transfer is made from the UK or EEA, an applicable adequacy decision or appropriate contractual safeguards and any necessary supplementary measures are required. You may ask which providers handle your enquiry, where they process it and how to obtain information about relevant safeguards. A destination website you choose to visit may make its own transfers.
How long information is kept
Correspondence should be retained only while needed to answer the enquiry, deal with follow-up questions or resolve a relevant dispute. Technical records should be limited to the period necessary for security and fault investigation. Applicable legal obligations, the nature of an enquiry and unresolved claims may require longer retention. Contact us for the retention criteria applying to a specific record or to request deletion where your rights apply.
Your UK and EEA rights
Depending on the circumstances, you may request access to your personal information, correction, erasure, restriction of use and portability. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests, and you can object to direct marketing at any time. Where consent is the basis, you may withdraw it without affecting earlier lawful processing. These rights have legal conditions and exceptions. Email the contact address with your request; proportionate identity checks may be needed to avoid disclosing information to the wrong person. Requests will be handled within the applicable legal time limits.
Your choices and automated decisions
Providing information in an enquiry is voluntary, but we may be unable to respond without a return address or sufficient context. This publication does not make solely automated decisions about readers that produce legal or similarly significant effects. Ordinary content search and sorting are not decisions of that kind. You can read editorial pages without creating an account.
Children and security
The publication is written for a general adult readership and does not knowingly seek personal information from children. A parent or guardian may contact us about information submitted by a child. We aim to limit access, keep software appropriately maintained and avoid collecting unnecessary data. No internet or email system can guarantee absolute security; do not send passwords, payment details or identity documents in an ordinary enquiry.
Questions and complaints
Please contact us so we can address a privacy concern. You may also complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office. In the EEA, you may contact the data protection authority in the country where you live, work or believe a breach occurred. Information about your rights is available from the European Commission. You do not have to contact us first to exercise your right to complain.
Changes to this notice
This notice is dated 23 September 2026. Material changes to the publication's data practices should be reflected here before the affected processing begins. An updated date will accompany revisions. This notice concerns this publication, not the independent practices of external retailers or other linked websites.