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ISJ Privacy Policy

Last Updated: December 06, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to the Privacy Policy of Centurian Media Limited (publishing as International Security Journal). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from), subscribe to our publications, or interact with our services, and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Who We Are

Controller

Centurian Media Limited is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our” in this privacy policy).

Company Details:

  • Legal Entity: Centurian Media Limited

  • Registered Office: 71-75 Shelton Street, London, Greater London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom

  • Operating Office: The Maidstone Studios, New Cut Road, Vinters Park, Maidstone, Kent, ME14 5NZ

  • Company Number (GB): 11730376

  • ICO Registration Number: CSN0536342

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us using the details below.

Contact Details:

3. The Data We Collect About You

We collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped as follows, based on the forms and services observed on our site:

  • Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, job title, and company name.

  • Contact Data: Includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.

  • Financial Data: Includes bank account and payment card details (processed securely via third-party processors like Stripe).

  • Transaction Data: Includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased (e.g., Hardcopy Editions, Digital Subscriptions).

  • Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.

  • Profile Data: Includes your interests (e.g., specific security sectors like “Cybersecurity” or “Perimeter Security”), preferences, feedback, and survey responses.

  • Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

4. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

    • Subscribe to our publications (Digital or Hardcopy).

    • Request marketing to be sent to you (e.g., newsletters).

    • Enter a competition, promotion, or survey.

    • Give us feedback or contact us.

  • Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies and other similar technologies.

5. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Performance of Contract: Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., delivering your magazine subscription).

     
     
     
     

  • Legitimate Interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests (e.g., to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services).

     
     
     
     

  • Legal Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Marketing: We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us and you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

6. International Transfers

As a company with a global audience and international reach, we may share your personal data within the Centurian Media Limited group or with external third parties.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK or the European Economic Area (EEA), we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

  • We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the UK Government or the European Commission.

  • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved for use in the UK/EEA which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK/EEA (Standard Contractual Clauses).

7. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You have the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”).

  • Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.

  • Request erasure of your personal data.

  • Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest.

  • Request restriction of processing of your personal data.

  • Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.

  • Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at [email protected].

10. Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.