Privacy Policy

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Contact [email protected] for general enquiries, or [email protected] to reach the Data Protection officer

The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Acknowledgement

Your use of any of our services indicates your acknowledgement of the practices described in this Privacy Policy. We may update it from time to time, and we will provide notice of these changes if we believe it is necessary. Unless we require your consent, you agree to those updates by continuing the use the services.

What information do we collect?

We collect only basic information from you when you use our app, or register on our site, namely your name (if you choose to provide it), username, and email address. During your time participating in the forum by reading, writing, and evaluating the content shared here we will collect additional information on your usage.

When registering on our site, you may be asked to enter your name and e-mail address. You may, however, visit our site without registering. Your e-mail address will be verified by an email containing a unique link. If that link is visited, we know that you control the e-mail address.

Your email address is not visible to anyone else on the site unless you choose to share it with them. The only people with access to your email address are site administrators.

Data Storage

Data stored on this site residents in the UK.

Analytics

We’re always interested in how we can improve.

We use google analytics to better understand usage behaviours on our site, so each click you make will be analysed by google. Google’s privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy

We use the discussion software discourse to power the discussion forum which also records and stores analytics about activity on the site.

What do we use your data for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To personalise your experience — your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.
  • To improve our site — we continually strive to improve our site offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
  • To improve customer service — your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.
  • To send periodic emails — The email address you provide may be used to send you information, notifications that you request about changes to topics or in response to your user name, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

How do we protect your data?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.

What is your data retention policy?

We will make a good faith effort to:

  • Retain server logs containing the IP address of all requests to this server no more than 90 days.
  • Retain the IP addresses associated with registered users and their posts no more than 5 years.

Cookies

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow). These cookies enable the site to recognise your browser and, if you have a registered account, associate it with your registered account.

We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.

3rd Party Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Third party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our site. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Our site, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older. If this server is in the USA, and you are under the age of 13, per the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), do not use this site.

Your Rights

  • Right to be informed: We will inform you if we intend to share your private data with any 3rd parties.
  • Right of access: We will provide you with a copy of all data we hold on you on request.
  • Right of rectification: We will correct any information which is inaccurate about you.
  • Right to be forgotten or deleted: We will on request anonymise posts made by you, but we reserve the right to keep the content you produced otherwise this may leave significant gaps in readability and forum usage for other users. You can request your user data is removed either from your profile page, or by emailing [email protected]
  • Right to object: You have a right to not agree to the way we use data and suggest an alternative method. You also have the option to unsubscribe and anonymise your activity.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our site and not to information collected offline.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our web site privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.

This document was last updated 14/05/2022