Data We Gather and Why
casinoharbouruk.co.uk collects a limited range of information to operate the website responsibly, understand how pages are used, protect the site from misuse, and measure the performance of our editorial content and affiliate partnerships. The information we gather may include device and browser details, language settings, referring pages, approximate geographic indicators based on IP, page-view data, and interaction signals such as clicks or scroll depth.
We also store a small number of browser-based preferences, including whether you have confirmed that you are over 18 and whether you have already responded to our cookie notice. If you contact us directly, we may receive your name, email address, and any message content you choose to send. We do not ask readers to create user accounts on our site and we do not process payment details, gambling account credentials, or betting history.
We use this information to keep the site running, improve how it is structured, understand which guides are useful, manage commercial reporting, and ensure that safer gambling information remains visible and effective rather than decorative.
Legal Basis for Processing
Where UK GDPR or the Data Protection Act 2018 applies, we rely on different lawful bases depending on the type of processing involved. For essential site operation, security, and fraud prevention, our basis is usually legitimate interests. For browser-stored settings that are strictly necessary to remember age confirmation or basic interface preferences, we rely on necessity for service delivery. For optional analytics or similar technologies, we rely on consent where legally required.
If you contact us with a question, complaint, or request, we process the information you provide in order to respond and manage the communication. That may be based on our legitimate interests in operating the website and dealing with correspondence, or on legal obligation where a complaint raises a compliance matter.
Cookies and Behavioural Technologies
Our site may use local storage, cookies, and similar tools for several purposes: remembering that an age check has been completed, recording that a cookie banner has been acknowledged, gathering broad usage analytics, and tracking whether a referral to a partner site took place through one of our links. Some of these technologies are essential to basic operation. Others help us understand audience behaviour in a way that supports editorial and commercial decisions.
We do not use behavioural technologies to encourage gambling activity or profile you for gambling decisions. Where third-party services are used, they may process data under their own policies, and we encourage readers to review those policies directly if they want fuller detail about how those services function.
Sharing Your Information
We may share limited information with service providers that help us host the site, secure the platform, understand audience activity, or administer affiliate reporting. Those providers are expected to process personal data only on documented instructions, to use appropriate safeguards, and to avoid using the information for unrelated purposes.
We may also disclose information where necessary to comply with a legal obligation, enforce our terms, respond to lawful requests, investigate abuse, or protect the rights and safety of users, partners, or the public. We do not sell personal information in the ordinary consumer sense. If our business structure changes, data may be transferred as part of a business reorganisation, sale, or similar transaction, subject to appropriate safeguards.
How Long We Keep Data
Retention depends on the type of information involved. Browser-based preference data may remain until it expires, is overwritten, or is deleted by you. Technical logs are usually kept only for as long as they are needed for security, diagnostics, and operational reporting. Analytics information is retained according to the settings of the service in use, provided that the retention period remains proportionate to the purpose. Correspondence is retained for as long as necessary to answer the query, maintain records, or address legal concerns.
We review retention periodically and aim not to hold information longer than is reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Your Data Rights
Depending on your circumstances and the law that applies, you may have the right to request access to your personal data, ask for correction, request deletion, object to certain processing, restrict processing, or ask for data portability. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time, although this will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.
Because our site is largely informational and does not require account registration, we may not always hold enough information to identify you from a request alone. In that case, we may need reasonable additional detail before we can respond. We may also refuse or limit a request where the law allows us to do so.
Contact and Complaints
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise your rights, please contact us through the details made available on the website. We will review the request and respond within a reasonable timeframe. If you are unhappy with how your information has been handled, you may also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK.
We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in law, technology, or site operations. The latest version published here will apply from the date of publication.