The Daily Prick (“we”, “us”, “our”) operates thedailyprick.com. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and the choices available to you.
By using the website, you agree to the practices described in this policy.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following information:
- Information you provide: name, display name, email address, nomination details, comments, summaries, and any other information you choose to submit.
- Voting information: your vote and related technical data needed to prevent duplicate or fraudulent voting.
- Usage information: pages visited, time spent on the site, referring website, browser type, device type, and approximate location derived from your IP address.
- Cookies and similar technologies: small files used to remember preferences, analyse traffic, support site functionality, and deliver advertising where applicable.
You are not required to provide personal information to read most of the site. However, certain features, such as nominations, comments, or voting, may require you to provide some information.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve The Daily Prick.
- Publish and moderate nominations, comments, and user submissions.
- Process and display votes.
- Prevent spam, abuse, duplicate voting, and fraudulent activity.
- Respond to enquiries, complaints, and requests to correct or remove content.
- Analyse site traffic and understand how visitors use the website.
- Send service-related communications, such as moderation notices or account updates.
- Send marketing or newsletter communications, only where you have opted in.
- Comply with legal obligations and protect the rights, property, and safety of the site and its users.
3. Legal Bases for Processing
Where the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies, we rely on the following legal bases:
- Consent: when you sign up for newsletters, accept optional cookies, or submit certain content.
- Legitimate interests: to operate and secure the website, prevent abuse, analyse usage, and respond to enquiries.
- Legal obligation: where we must retain or disclose information to comply with law.
- Contract: where processing is necessary to provide a service you have requested.
4. User-Submitted Content
If you submit a nomination, comment, summary, or vote, please do not include sensitive personal information about yourself or others unless it is necessary and you have the right to share it.
User-submitted content may be published publicly. Once published, it may be visible to other visitors, copied, shared, or cached by third parties. We cannot control how others use content once it is publicly available.
We may edit, shorten, reject, or remove submissions at our discretion, particularly where they contain unlawful, defamatory, abusive, hateful, private, or otherwise inappropriate material.
5. Cookies and Analytics
We use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Keep the website functioning properly.
- Remember user preferences.
- Measure traffic and site performance.
- Detect and prevent spam or vote manipulation.
- Support advertising or social media features, where enabled.
You can usually manage cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect how parts of the website work.
Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies.
6. Third-Party Services
We may use trusted third-party providers for services such as website hosting, analytics, email delivery, comment moderation, advertising, or security.
These providers may process information on our behalf and are only permitted to use it for the purposes of providing their services.
The site may also include embedded content or links to third-party websites, such as social media platforms. These third parties may collect information about you in accordance with their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for their practices.
7. Data Sharing
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share information only in the following circumstances:
- With service providers who help us operate the website.
- With legal, regulatory, or law-enforcement authorities where required by law.
- To protect the rights, property, safety, or security of The Daily Prick, its users, or others.
- In connection with a merger, acquisition, or transfer of assets, subject to appropriate safeguards.
8. Data Retention
We keep personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including:
- To provide and improve the website.
- To moderate content and prevent abuse.
- To comply with legal, accounting, or regulatory requirements.
- To resolve disputes or enforce our Terms and Conditions.
When information is no longer required, we will delete or anonymise it where reasonably possible.
9. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate information.
- Request deletion of your personal information, subject to legal retention requirements.
- Object to or restrict certain processing.
- Withdraw consent for marketing or optional cookies.
- Request a copy of your data in a portable format, where applicable.
- Lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details below. We may need to verify your identity before responding.
10. Children’s Privacy
The Daily Prick is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us and we will take appropriate steps to remove it.
11. Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information from unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
However, no website or internet transmission is completely secure. You use the site and submit information at your own risk.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.
Continued use of the website after changes are published means you accept the updated policy.
13. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, or wish to exercise your data protection rights, contact us at:
The Daily Prick
Website: thedailyprick.com
Email: info@thedailyprick.com