Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us at UKTechHub.com we have a few fundamental principles that we follow: § We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. § We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, or protect our rights. § We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Website Visitors
UKTechHub.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. UKTechHub.com purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use its website.
UKTechHub.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our forums. UKTechHub.com only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that forum commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to UKTechHub.com website choose to interact with UKTechHub.com in ways that require UKTechHub.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that UKTechHub.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask Forum members who comment on our forum to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive UKTechHub.com updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, UKTechHub.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with UKTechHub.com. we do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below, users can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
UKTechHub.com may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors/members to its websites. For instance, UKTechHub.com may monitor its most popular pages on the various ranking tools site or use spam screened by the Akismet service (for example) to help identify spam. UKTechHub.com may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, UKTechHub.com does not disclose personally-identifying information.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
UKTechHub.com only discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to UKTechHub.com administrators and hosting company.
UKTechHub.com will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. UKTechHub.com will discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when UKTechHub.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of UKTechHub.com, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of an UKTechHub.com website and have supplied your email address, UKTechHub.com may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with UKTechHub.com. We primarily use our registered domain/portal www. UKTechHub.com to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email) we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. UKTechHub.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. UKTechHub.com uses cookies to help UKTechHub.com identify and track visitors, their usage of UKTechHub.com website, and their website access preferences. UKTechHub.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using UKTechHub.com website, with the drawback that certain features of UKTechHub.com websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
UKTechHub.com Cookie Policy – https://uktechhub.com/cookie-policy-uk/
Business Transfers
If UKTechHub.com, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that UKTechHub.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by such a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers (highly unlikely) may occur, and that any acquirer of UKTechHub.com may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads (active 13/03/2019)
Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by an advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by UKTechHub.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Links to third party (external) web sites
UKTechHub.com may contain links to external (third parties) web sites. UKTechHub.com are not responsible for the privacy policy or security for any such external sites which we may be linked to, our policy also does not extend to such sites including security and trust of content.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service (or similar) are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, UKTechHub.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, UKTechHub.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
If you decide to remove you account from this site, contact Administration and your Account will be deleted, content posted will remain and Profile name will be anonymised, You can also request that we erase any personal (posted content) data we hold about you, This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
GDPR – Data Protection Notice (your reference)
People have the right to be forgotten, unless the information is business critical You must have informed consent rather than assumed consent, you can’t use an email address for marketing if it was sent to you asking a question etc. Data can only be made available to those who need it.
Information We Obtain From Facebook Authentication (added 20/05/2020) ended (06/08/2023)
UKTechHub.com will collect information about you when you elect to register via the Facebook. ‘Continue with Me’ login service.
The categories of information we receive from these sources include:
- Facebook registered email address,
- Facebook Access Token (API).
- Facebook Profile Picture / Avatar
- Facebook First or Last names (used to auto-create Forum uusername and can be changed after registration)’
These information profile sources are ported into the Forums user registration system (encrypted) and data is treated the same as all other personnel user data forms at UKTechHub.com.