Welcome to Techrater.co.uk. Our privacy policy page outlines how we protect your privacy and the information you decide to share with us. We are very pro-privacy and always make sure we comply with privacy laws, regulations and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We hope you find our website useful and satisfactory. By using the website, you are consenting to our TERMS & CONDITIONS which can be found on our terms and conditions page and PRIVACY POLICY outlined below.
This page answers the following questions
- TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
- REASONS FOR INFORMATION OR DATA COLLECTION
- WHEN AND HOW INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
- HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION OR DATA
- HOW TO ACCESS AND UPDATE YOUR DATA
- WHAT COOKIES ARE
- EXTERNAL LINKS FROM OUR WEBSITE
- WHAT THE TERM “INFORMATION” MEANS
- THIRD-PARTY INFORMATION USE
- YOUR DATA OUTSIDE THE EU OR EEA
- CONTACTING US
- LAST UPDATE DATE OF OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Types Of Information or Data We Collect
Information that you provide when filling in when registering, filling forms, posting threads on forums, or directly through contact forms and any other information we may ask for at any point on our website which is not outlined here. All information you exchange with this website is accessible by its administrators and will only be used to prevent abuse, fraud and threats to members’ confidentiality or safety. This information will only be accessed with respect to specific reports of such activity.
Reasons For Information Or Data Collection
- We do this to keep your information secure and minimise the risk of unauthorised access to your information, we use some of your information to authenticate you when using the website.
- To prevent fraudulent or abusive use of this website we do store the date and time of your visit and what IP Address you were accessing the site from along with the browser you were using.
- Monitoring, developing and improving our website, services and user experience experience.
- For content and services you request that may interest you.
- In order to process your registration as a member and to process and administer your membership.
- Helping us process and deal with any complaints or enquiries made by or about members.
- To help investigate any suspected breach of the Terms of Use or made by or otherwise relating to you and to monitor compliance including by way of using keyword triggers to investigate usage that may be inappropriate.
- Deal with investigations by the police regulatory bodies.
- Complying with legal requirements.
- Our ability to communicate with you.
When And How Information Is Collected
- The information you provide when you register as a member.
- You login credentials you use to log into your account. For example User or Nickname name
- Information that changes when you update your member profile, settings, preferences, and registration details.
- In the event you make a complaint, enquiry or provide other feedback to us.
- Through your communications sent via and use of the website to ensure and check compliance with our Terms and Conditions of Use or membership Terms of Use or otherwise as required by law.
- Any other information you disclose to us or otherwise through the site at any other point of your membership
How We Use Your Information or Data
- Communicating with you. We may use your data to send you important notices, such as communications about your registration, transactions, and changes to our terms, conditions, policies, and/or other internal purposes.
- Delivering your requests. We may use your data to provide the services, products and content you request. If you enter a competition, contest, or similar promotion, we may use your data to administer such promotion.
- Improving our service to you. We may use your data for auditing, data analysis, and research to improve our products, content and services.
- Presenting offers that may interest you. We may contact you to offer you additional or third-party products, content or services that may be of interest to you.
- Complaints about or from users: For processing and dealing with any complaints or enquiries made by you or about members.
How to Access And Update Your Data
As a Member, You may Access and Update Your Data contained in your Account. You must make sure that You update Your Data as soon as possible with any and all relevant changes.
- To update, access, or obtain a copy or correct personal data we hold about you, please email through our contact page
- To opt out of emails and marketing communications please email through our contact page or use the unsubscribe feature outline in all our communications.
What Is A Cookie?
Cookies are small pieces of information stored by Your browser on Your computer’s hard drive. Cookies Do NOT contain any personal information and are only used to allow Us to understand who has seen which pages and advertisements, to determine how frequently particular pages are visited, to determine the most popular areas of the Site and generally in order to monitor usage of the Site. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, and membership is required to be able to do so.
We do not control the use of cookies by third parties. If You wish to disable cookies then You can do so by readjusting Your browser settings although please note that by disabling cookies You may not be able to register with or use all features of the Site. For more information about Cookies, please visit our Cookie Policy page or the Information Commissioner’s Office Website
External Links From Our website
Please be aware that the Site may link to other websites that may be accessed by You through this website. We are not responsible for the data policies, content or security of these linked websites. We do not have any control over the use to which third parties may put Your Data where You choose to purchase products or services or otherwise to contact them via this Site.
What The Term “Information” Means
“Information” means any Data about You which is personally identifiable, including, without limitation, Your name, address, telephone number, email address, Member Name, Password, comments, profiles, personal descriptions, photos and other Data from which You can be identified and which You may disclose to Us or otherwise via the Site at any time.
Third Party Information Use
Where relevant, Your Member Name and the information you voluntarily provide in Your Member profile will be published in the Members’ area of the site and this will be the identity by which You are known on the Site. Where other Members wish to contact You, they will be able to identify You by Your Member Name and any other information You may yourself disclose via the Site.
We may disclose Your Data to the police, regulatory bodies or legal advisers in connection with any alleged criminal offence or suspected breach of the Terms and Conditions of Use and (where appropriate) Membership Terms and Conditions by You or otherwise where required by law. We do not pass or sell Your Data to third persons for any other purpose than those set out above.
Always think carefully before disclosing Your Data or other information to other Members or otherwise posting Your Data on the Site. It is important that You are aware that any of Your Data or other information which You disclose to another Member may then be disclosed on the Site by that Member. As stated in the of Use, We have no responsibility or control over the contents of communications made between Members.
Your Data Outside The EU Or EEA
This Site is accessible via the internet and therefore may potentially be accessed by anyone around the world. Other visitors may also be or access the Site from outside the European Economic Area. This means that, where You post Your Data on the Site, this could be accessed from anywhere around the world and therefore a transfer of Your Data outside of the European Economic Area may be deemed to have occurred. Data protection laws in countries outside the European Economic Area are generally not as protective as those in the UK. You consent to such transfer of Your Data for and by way of this purpose.
Contacting Us
If You have any comments or queries in connection with Our privacy policy, please use the website CONTACT FORM
Last Updated January 2024