Privacy Notice

1.  Introduction
This Privacy Policy was last updated on February 13th, 2025.

Beagle Searches Ltd takes the privacy of your personal information very seriously and is committed to safeguarding your privacy and your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and share your personal information.

2.  About our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is issued on behalf of Beagle Searches Ltd so that when we mention “Beagle Searches”, “Beagle Searches Ltd”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this Privacy Policy, we are referring to the relevant division in Beagle Searches Ltd responsible for processing your personal data (being the “data controller”).

This Privacy Policy relates to our websites, apps and other services, including subscriptions that refer to or link to this Privacy Policy (each, a “Service”). By using a Service, you are subject to the terms and conditions of this Policy. This Policy may be supplemented by different or additional privacy statements, terms or notices applicable to a specific product or Service.  If those terms conflict with this Privacy Policy, the terms specific to the product or Service apply instead.

The Beagle Searches Ltd company that owns or administers the Service, as identified therein, is the data controller of your personal information provided to, or collected by or for, the Service.

This Privacy Policy will explain the following:

What personal information we collect
How we use your information
How we share your information
Your personal account
Administrator data
Your communication preferences
Accessing and updating your information
Data retention
Data security
Location of processing
Changes
Contacts

3.  What personal information we collect

Information you provide to us
The types of personal information that we collect directly from you depends on the content and features of the Service you use and how you otherwise interact with us, and may include:

Contact details, such as your name, email address, postal address and phone number;

Account login credentials, such as usernames and passwords, password hints and similar security information;

Other account registration and profile information, including educational, professional and other background information, such as your field of study, current position, practice area and areas of interests, gender;

If applying for a role with us or accessing our job sites, your CV and job preferences;

Content that you upload and share or store in your account, such as annotations, comments, contributions and replies;

Payment information, such as a credit or debit card number or bank account details;

Information that you communicate to us, such as questions or information you send to customer support;

Data that you provide to us as part of interacting with the Service, such as your favourites and search queries; and/or

Communications preferences, such as the frequency, type and format of the alerts you sign up to receive.

Data from your institution or organisation

We may receive information about you from the institution or organisation with which you are employed or affiliated. This could be in order activate and manage your access to and use of the institution’s subscription to the Service. The data received may include:

Contact details, such as your name and institutional email address, postal address and phone number;

Other account registration information, such as job title; and/or

Institutional user ID.

Information collected through automated technologies
We may automatically collect certain information when you use our Services, either directly or through our third-party analytics providers. This information may include Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and settings, device identifier details, internet service provider (ISP), referring and exit pages, the Site content you interacted with, operating system, clickstream data, location data, or other usage information. We (and third parties acting on our behalf) may collect this information through certain tracking technologies, including first and third-party cookies, web beacons (also known as tracking pixels or pixel tags), embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, device recognition technologies, and session replay software. We may combine the information collected through these technologies with other information we collect about you. We use this information to enable website functionality, understand website interaction trends, gather demographic insights about our user base, personalize your experience on our Services, and otherwise administer and improve our sites and Services. 

For more information about cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

Data from other sources
We may obtain contact details and other information about you from third parties, such as: business partners and data processors in technical, payment and/or delivery services; advertising, marketing, digital and social media agencies; data brokers; analytics providers; academic institutions; journal owners, societies and similar organizations; search information providers; third parties who may recommend you as a potential service user and credit reference agencies.

We may also receive information about you from publicly accessible content, such as public databases or social media platforms. When we do collect publicly available data about you, we will abide by this Privacy Policy when we store and process it.

You should be aware that personal data (such as your name, social media handle, image, avatar, email address, or other identifier) that you voluntarily make publicly available by posting online to other users (e.g., on social media, forums, comments, or in chat rooms) could be collected and disclosed by others. Beagle Searches Ltd cannot prevent or monitor the collection or disclosure of publicly available personal data you post online.

4.  How we use your information
In accordance with United Kingdom data protection legislation, we will only process your personal data where we have a lawful basis for doing so. These bases are:

where it is necessary for the performance of a contract we have with you;

where it is necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation that we are subject to;

where applicable, where you have provided your consent; or

where it is in our (or a third party’s) legitimate interests, as described in the sections below, and where such interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.

We are committed to delivering a relevant and useful experience to you. Depending on how you interact with us and the Service, we use your personal information to:

Provide, activate and manage your access to and use of the Service (necessary for a contract and legitimate interests, of us and our customers, to ensure a good quality of service and security);

Process and fulfil a request, order, download, subscription or other transaction (necessary for a contract);

Send you personalised communications which you have requested or may be of interest to you, where it is in our (or a third party’s) legitimate interests. These may include information about product and service developments, promotions of our associated brands’ products and services.

Verify your identity and details of your payment method or credit card amount (where payments are required) (necessary to comply with our legal obligations);

Offer you customized content and other personalization to make the Service more efficient for you and more relevant to your interests and geography (legitimate interests, of us, to show you the most relevant content);

Enhance and improve the Service, such as add new content and features (legitimate interests, of us, to enhance our service to you);

Notify you about changes, updates and other announcements related to the Service (necessary for a contract and legitimate interests, of us, to ensure our customers are up to date with necessary information);

Deliver targeted advertisements, promotional messages, and other information related to the Service, other services of ours and third parties, and to your interests (legitimate interests, of us and our partners, so that we can show you the most appropriate adverts);

Provide technical, product and other support and help to keep the Service working, safe and secure (necessary for a contract);

Meet legal, regulatory and compliance requirements (necessary to comply with our legal obligations);

Aggregate information about you with other users (legitimate interests, of us, to better understand what services our users will be interested in);

Identify usage trends and develop data analysis, including for the purposes of research, audits, reporting and other business operations, such as to pay royalties and license fees to third-party content providers, determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, evaluate our business performance (legitimate interests, of us, so we can better understand those that use our products and services and improve our products, services, events and marketing practices), or in other ways pursuant to a customer agreement (necessary for a contract).

We may also use your personal information to:

Respond to your requests, enquiries, comments or concerns (necessary for a contract);

Invite you to submit or review our services (legitimate interests, of us, so we can maintain and improve our service);

Issue payments and statements, such as for royalties and editorial fees (necessary for a contract);

Conduct and administer user testing and surveys (legitimate interests, of us, in helping us improve our services);

Conduct and administer competitions and similar promotions (legitimate interests, of us, in offering an engaging product to our customer) and to deliver prizes (necessary for a contract).

5.  How we share your information
We share your personal information in the following ways and contexts.

Our group companies and service providers
Depending on the Service provided, we share your personal information with our:

Suppliers and service providers, payment processors, customer support, website and platform hosting suppliers, email service providers and IT service providers;

to process the information as necessary to provide the Service, complete a transaction or fulfil your request or otherwise on our behalf. Before we share your personal data with any service provider, they must agree to comply with applicable laws, maintain strong data security, and only process personal data as we instruct.

We do not permit our third-party service providers to use the personal information that we share with them for their marketing purposes or for any other purpose than in connection with the services they provide to us.

Our service is powered by a platform hosted by Elan Technology Group Limited (Elan).

 When you use the platform to order certain products and services, data relating to you or your clients (End User Data) is collected and processed by us (as provided in this privacy notice) and Elan. Elan may, as relevant to your order, share the data with its authorised third party.

 Elan acts on our behalf in this process, in accordance with the Elan data processing agreement concerning End User Data found at https://www.elanconvey.co.uk/files/processing-notice.pdf

Elan may further process and share End User Data as provided in the Elan privacy notice found at https://www.elanconvey.co.uk/files/privacy-notice.pdf

Partner organisations
We may share your personal data with certain partners, including:

If you access the Service through a subscription administered by your institution or organisation, we may share with them information about your usage of the Service, such as the number of items you downloaded, the results of any assessments, and other information you may enter into the Service (legitimate interests, of your institution/organisation, so they can understand how their staff/students/members are making use of the Service they have purchased);

Where you a declare an affiliation to a funder, institution, and/or consortium, we may share your information with that organisation and their service providers, at their request, necessary to the fulfilment of any of our services of which that organisation is a customer;

Where, even if not described above, you have consented to such disclosure or we have a legitimate business interest in making the disclosure.

With other third parties
We may share your personal data where we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to comply with the law or with legal process, to protect and defend our rights and property, to protect the safety or property of our users or the general public, or protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Services. We may also share your personal data in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a transfer of a journal or other assets, merger, acquisition, consolidation, change of control, or other corporate combination.

Ad targeting
Digital advertising helps us fund our news and content and enables us to keep some of our content free to access. We and third-party advertisers may display digital advertising on our sites that is tailored to your interests and preferences so the online adverts you see are more relevant to you. 

Data matching
Our websites use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google. In addition, our websites may use Google AdWords conversion tracking and remarketing and Google Signals, both services by Google. Google Analytics uses cookies to analyse and improve our websites based on your usage behaviour. Google AdWords uses cookies to measure the performance of advertisements and, where you have consented to personalised advertising, to show you individualised advertisements on websites that partner with Google. Google Signals compiles for us multi-platform data reports on Google users who have enabled personalised advertising. These reports are based on randomly sampled, aggregated, pseudonymised data, so your identity is not known to us or Google.

In addition, when you browse some of our websites or use our mobile applications and when you provide your email address on these (either to log in, or sign up to a newsletter, or similar) we may share it, in hashed, pseudonymised form with Google. Google uses this information to create a secure online identification code for the purpose of recognising you for cross-channel advertising. This code does not contain any personal information about you, and will not be used by Google or third parties to identify you. The code may be shared with our advertising partners and other third-party advertisers for the purpose of enabling interest-based or targeted advertising on our and other sites. 

You have the right to withdraw your consent or opt-out to the processing of your personal data in this way at any time via our Cookie Management Platform accessed via the ‘cookie settings’ link at the bottom of every webpage, or via your Google account.

Marketing communications
We may from time to time contact you by email, SMS, telephone or post about our products and services that may be of interest to you (legitimate interests, of us, to promote our products and services, and of our customers, to keep them up to date with promotions, events and subscriptions which may be relevant to their professions and job roles). Further information about such marketing is below.

Third-party data sharing
We may also share your personal information with joint venture partners and other third parties with whom we have a commercial relationship, including entities for which we are acting as an agent, licensee or application host, that wish to send you information about their products and services that may be of interest to you, in accordance with data protection legislation (legitimate interests, of us and our partners, to promote our products and services, and of our customers, to keep them up to date with promotions and subscriptions which may be relevant to their professions and job roles).

You can opt out of having your information shared with third parties at the point at which you share it with us and when you receive any subsequent communication from us.

We also use publicly available sources to research prospective customers in order to send them marketing information about products and services relevant to them (legitimate interests, to grow our business).

If you are submitting personal data on behalf of another person or are submitting personal data which may be used publicly on our products, you should only do so where you have the consent of the individual and it will be your responsibility to ensure that the individual is made aware of this Privacy Policy and our processing of their personal data.

6.  Administrator data
If you are an administrator of an institution or organisation with a subscription to a Service, we will use your details to communicate with you about your institution’s subscription and related services. If you supply us contact information of your colleagues, we may include a reference to you when we contact those individuals with communications about the Service.

7.  Your communications preferences
You can customise your communication preferences in several ways. Our customers always have the right to let us know that they no longer want to be contacted for marketing purposes. If at any point you would like to opt-out of receiving such marketing communications from us, or would like to change the channels that we use to contact you, please inform us at info@beaglesearches.co.uk

We reserve the right to notify you of changes or updates to the Service whenever necessary.

8.  Accessing and updating your information
The Service may allow registered users to directly access their account information and make corrections or updates at any time. Keeping such information up to date is solely the responsibility of the user. Registered users may also close their account by contacting the Service’s customer support.

Under the UK and European General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), you have certain rights relating to the data we hold about you:

The right to be informed (which this Privacy Policy will assist with)

The right to access, correct or request deletion of the personal information that we hold about you;

The right to object to or restrict our processing of your personal information, including for automated profiling;

The right to portability of your personal information.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us by emailing info@beaglesearches.co.uk. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

9.  Data retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the Service and fulfil the transactions you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, maintaining business and financial records, resolving disputes, maintaining security, detecting and preventing fraud and abuse, and enforcing our agreements.

For personal information used by us for our own direct marketing purposes, we will retain the data whilst accurate or responsive and if not, delete it after 5 years.

10. Data security
We take precautions to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and misuse and unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and destruction through the use of appropriate technical and organisational measures.

11. Changes
We will update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. If we make any material changes, we may provide notice through the Service or by other means.

12. Contact
If you have any questions, comments, complaints or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our processing of your information, please contact Beagle Searches Ltd via email info@beaglesearches.co.uk or by post:

Beagle Searches Ltd
Unit 9 Pebble Close, Tamworth, England, B77 4RD

You may also lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in the applicable jurisdiction. In the UK, contact the Information Commissioner’s Office: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/