Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for Meridian
Your privacy is important to Meridian. This Privacy Policy outlines Meridian’s commitment to respecting your privacy and adhering to all applicable laws and regulations concerning any personal information we may collect from you, including through our website meridiancases.co.uk and any other platforms we own and operate.
This policy is effective as of 9th May 2025.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Meridian collects information that you actively provide to us when engaging with our services or promotions, as well as information automatically sent by your devices while accessing our offerings.
LOG DATA
When you visit our website, our servers may automatically record standard information transmitted by your web browser. This may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, the pages you visit, the date and time of your visit, the duration spent on each page, details about your navigation, and technical information related to any errors encountered.
While this log data may not directly identify you, it could potentially be combined with other information to identify individuals.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may request personal information from you, which could include, but is not limited to:
• Name
• Email address
• Social media profiles
• Date of birth
• Phone number
• Postal address
LAWFUL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Meridian will only collect and use your personal information when we have a lawful basis for doing so. This may include:
• Consent: Where you have given us explicit permission to process your personal information for a specific purpose
• Contractual Necessity: Where processing your personal information is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
• Legitimate Interests: Where we have a legitimate interest in processing your personal information, provided that your rights and freedoms do not override these interests. These legitimate interests may include providing and improving our services, marketing our services, and ensuring the security of our systems.
• Legal Obligation: Where we are required to process your personal information to comply with a legal obligation.
COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION
Meridian may collect personal information from you in the following ways:
• When you participate in our competitions, contests, sweepstakes, and surveys.
• When you subscribe to receive updates from us via email or social media.
• When you access our content through a mobile device or web browser.
• When you contact us via email, social media, or similar technologies.
• When you mention Meridian on social media platforms.
We may collect, hold, use, and disclose your information for the following purposes, ensuring that personal information is not further processed in a way incompatible with these purposes:
• To personalize and enhance your experience on our website.
• To communicate with you, including responding to inquiries and providing customer support.
• For analytics, market research, and business development to improve our website, applications, and social media platforms.
• For advertising and marketing purposes, including sending you promotional material about our services and information about third parties we believe may interest you (where we have a lawful basis to do so).
• To process your employment application.
• To enable your access to and use of our website, associated applications, and social media platforms.
• For internal record keeping and administrative tasks.
• To administer competitions, sweepstakes, and offer additional benefits.
• To comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes.
• For security and fraud prevention, ensuring our sites and apps are safe and used according to our terms of use.
We may combine information we collect about you with general information or research data from trusted external sources.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Meridian is committed to protecting your personal information using commercially reasonable measures to prevent loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification, both during collection and processing, and while we retain it.
While we strive to protect your personal information, please understand that no electronic transmission or storage method is entirely secure, and absolute data security cannot be guaranteed. We will comply with all applicable data breach laws.
You are responsible for the security of any passwords you create and for ensuring the security of your own information within our services.
HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Meridian will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as outlined in this Privacy Policy. The retention period may vary depending on the specific purpose. When your personal information is no longer required, we will securely delete it or anonymize it by removing all identifying details.
We may retain your personal information for longer periods if required to comply with legal, accounting, or reporting obligations, or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes, subject to appropriate safeguards.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES
Meridian may disclose your personal information to:
• Our parent company, subsidiaries, or affiliates.
• Third-party service providers who assist us in delivering our services, such as IT providers, data storage and hosting companies, advertising and analytics platforms.
• Our employees, contractors, and related entities.
• Our agents or business partners.
• Sponsors or promoters of any competitions or promotions we run.
• Courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement agencies, as required by law, in connection with legal proceedings, or to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights.
• Third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who help us provide information, products, services, or direct marketing to you.
• Third parties who collect and process data on our behalf.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
The personal information we collect may be stored and/or processed in countries where we, our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers have facilities. Please be aware that these locations may have different data protection laws than your country of residence. When we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries, we will do so in accordance with applicable legal requirements and ensure that your transferred personal information is protected in line with this Privacy Policy.
YOUR RIGHTS AND CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You have the right to withhold personal information from Meridian, understanding that this may affect your experience with our website. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights regarding your personal information. By providing us with personal information, you acknowledge that we will collect, hold, use, and disclose it according to this Privacy Policy.
You have the right to:
• Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
• Request rectification of any inaccurate, outdated, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading personal information.
• Request erasure of your personal information under certain circumstances.
• Restrict the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances.
• Object to the processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes or on other grounds.
• Data portability: Request to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller.
• Withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on consent to process your personal information.
If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as described in this Privacy Policy. If you are providing personal information about someone else, you represent and warrant that you have their consent to do so.
If you have previously consented to us using your personal information for direct marketing, you can change your mind at any time. We will provide you with mechanisms to unsubscribe from our email lists or opt out of other communications. We may need to request specific information from you to verify your identity.
If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided below. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.
If you believe we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to lodge a complaint, please contact us using the details below with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond in writing with the outcome and any steps we will take. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority regarding your complaint.
USE OF COOKIES
Meridian uses “cookies” to collect information about your browsing activity on our website. Cookies are small data files that our website stores on your computer and accesses each time you visit. This helps us understand how you use our site and tailor content to your preferences.
LIMITS OF OUR POLICY
Our website may contain links to external sites not operated by us. We have no control over the content and privacy policies of these sites and cannot be held responsible or liable for their respective privacy practices.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
Meridian reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at our discretion to reflect changes in our business practices, current acceptable practices, or legal and regulatory updates. If we make changes, we will post the updated policy on our website at the same link where you access this Privacy Policy.
Where required by law, we will obtain your consent or provide you with the opportunity to opt in or out of any new uses of your personal information, as applicable.
CONTACT US
For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy or this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the following details:
Company Name: Meridian Cases trading under Pixel And Block Ltd
Email Address: Meridiancases@pixelandblock.co.uk