Who We Are
Our website address is: topukcasinoguide.com. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your data is handled responsibly.
Personal Data Collection
Comments
When you leave comments on our site, we collect the information provided in the comments form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection.
If you use Gravatar, an anonymised string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible alongside your comment.
Media
We advise against uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) to our website. Please note that visitors can download and extract any location data from images uploaded to the website.
Contact Forms
Information submitted through our contact forms is used solely to respond to your enquiries and is not shared with third parties unless required by law.
Cookies
If you comment on our site, you may opt to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for your convenience, eliminating the need to re-enter your details when leaving subsequent comments. These cookies remain valid for one year.
When visiting our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Upon logging in, we establish several cookies to save your login information and screen display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, whilst screen option cookies remain for one year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. Upon logging out, all login cookies are removed.
When editing or publishing content, an additional cookie is saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after 24 hours.
Embedded Content
Articles on our site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you had visited the original website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use analytics tools to understand how visitors interact with our site. This helps us improve our content and user experience. The data collected is anonymised and used for statistical purposes only.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties except as described in this policy or when required by law.
Data Retention
Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to facilitate automatic approval of follow-up comments rather than holding them in a moderation queue.
For registered users, we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for changing their username). Website administrators can also access and edit this information.
Your Data Rights
If you have an account or have left comments on our site, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This excludes data we are obliged to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Data Transmission
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to protect our site from malicious activity.
Contact Information
For any questions regarding this privacy policy or your personal data, please contact us through the website.
Additional Information
Data Protection
We implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
Data Breach Procedures
In the event of a data breach, we will notify affected users and relevant authorities as required by UK law and take immediate steps to secure our systems.
Third-Party Data Sources
We do not routinely receive data about our users from third parties. Any such data acquisition would be disclosed in updates to this policy.
Automated Decision Making and Regulatory Compliance
We do not engage in automated decision-making or profiling with user data. Our operations comply with all relevant UK gambling industry regulations and data protection laws, including GDPR and the UK Data Protection Act 2018.