British Giveaways Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit https://www.britishgiveaways.com/(the “Site”).
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
– “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
– “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
– “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
We also collect a user’s name/nickname and/or email address when a user opts to subscribe to our email updates, enter a giveaway that we are hosting, or chooses to leave a comment on a blog post. We refer to this as “Opt-In Information”. There is an “Unsubscribe” option at the bottom of every email newsletter we send out. If a user leaves a comment on a blog post and requests an email follow up, we will use their email address to respond to their query. Winners of giveaways hosted on British Giveaways will be asked to provide their mailing information and phone number in order to fulfill their prize. Winners may opt-out and forfeit their prize if they do not wish to provide this information. Winner’s name, shipping information, phone number, and email will be provided to the sponsor of the giveaway who is handling prize fulfillment.
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking about Device Information and Opt-In Information.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We use Opt-In Information to send out email newsletters to subscribers, notify giveaway winners and distribute prizes, and respond to questions when an email follow-up is requested.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our readers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
British Giveaways is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. You can read the Amazon.com privacy policy here.
British Giveaways uses Google Analytics, which upgraded their system in 2014 and rolled out features including demographic information relating to age and gender and “Interest categories“. You can opt-out by clicking here and find other opt-outs here.You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your Personal Information with third parties as described above. We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
DO NOT TRACK
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
YOUR RIGHTS
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us by e-mail at: beebashcroft@gmail.com
Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you, or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.
DATA RETENTION
When you subscribe to our email updates, enter a giveaway or leave a blog comment, we will maintain your Opt-In Information for our records unless and until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete this information.
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at: beebashcroft@gmail.com
This Privacy Policy was last updated on May 24th, 2018