Our Privacy Policy

Note: A PDF version of our Privacy Policy is available here.

Last updated: 15 Aug, 2022.
Chiffriermaschine is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This statement explains how we collect and look after your personal data when you visit our website and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Purpose of this privacy statement:

The purpose of this privacy statement is to explain how Chiffriermaschine collects and processes your personal data through your use of our website, regardless of where you visit it from.

The Chiffriermaschine website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children. It is important that you read this statement as well as any other privacy, transparency or fair processing notice we may bring to your attention on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you.

Information regarding confidentiality in services that we offer can be found in Section 1 of our Terms & Conditions.

Who may process data?

Your personal information (which includes your name, address and any other details you provide to us, which concern you as an individual) may be processed by us.

Changes to the privacy notice:

We always publish the latest version of our privacy policy here on our website. This version was updated and published on 15th August 2022.

Purpose of processing:

We will use your information for the purpose of fulfilling requests for information placed by you, processing any other transactions authorised or made by you with us and informing you of exhibitions and new acquisitions.

How long will we keep your information?

We will only keep the information we collect about you for as long as required for the purposes set out above or as required to comply with any legal obligations to which we are subject. This will involve us periodically reviewing our files to check that information is accurate, up-to-date and still required. Where we are permitted to send you direct marketing communications (in the form of the monthly newsletter) we may retain your contact information necessary for this purpose, for as long as you do not unsubscribe from receiving the same from us. If you opt out from marketing, we will retain your information to enable us to respect your wishes to not be contacted for marketing purposes.

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 also to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or statements. When you link to them, we encourage you to read their privacy statements as well.

Disclosure of information:


In the unlikely event that a liquidator, administrator or receiver is appointed over us or all or any part of our assets that insolvency practitioner may transfer your information to a third party purchaser of the business provided that purchaser undertakes to use your information for the same purposes as set out in this policy. Your information will not be disclosed to government or local authorities or other government institutions save as required by law or other binding regulations.

Access to information:

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out below, please contact us at info@chiffriermaschine.com.

As per UK GDPR regulations, you have the right to:

Request access
 to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

No fee usually required:

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What we may need from you:

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond:

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
Questions, comments and requests regarding our Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Chiffriermaschine at info@chiffriermaschine.com.