Privacy Policy

UK AI News is published by Captivated Ltd ("we", "us"), the data controller for the personal data described here. This policy explains what we collect, why, and your rights under UK GDPR and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR).

Contact: Captivated Ltd, Electric Works, 3 Concourse Way, Sheffield, S1 2BJ, United Kingdom — [email protected].

The newsletter

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address. To keep a lawful record of your consent, we also store the date and time you signed up and confirmed, the page you subscribed from, your browser's user-agent string, and a one-way hashed (irreversible) form of your IP address. We never store your raw IP address.

Legal basis: your consent. We use double opt-in — you must click a confirmation link before we send you anything — and you can withdraw consent at any time via the one-click unsubscribe link in every email, or by emailing us. We use your address only to send this newsletter; we never sell it, and subscribing to one of our newsletters never adds you to another.

The newsletter runs on our own system hosted on Cloudflare (data stored in the EU/UK region), and emails are delivered via Amazon Web Services (SES). Both act as our data processors under contract.

Analytics

We use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-friendly service that is cookieless and does not collect personal data or track you across sites. It gives us aggregate, anonymous visit statistics only. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in understanding site usage.

Advertising & cookies

We display ads via Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure ads, in some cases using data to personalise them. You can control ad personalisation in your Google Ad Settings, and manage cookies through your browser settings. See Google's advertising policies for details. Our own analytics and the newsletter do not use tracking cookies.

How long we keep your data

We keep your newsletter data for as long as you remain subscribed. When you unsubscribe, we retain a minimal record so we can honour your choice and not re-add you. If you ask us to erase your data, we delete it across all our lists; note that residual copies may persist in encrypted backups for up to around 30 days before ageing out.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you have the right to access, correct, or erase your personal data, to restrict or object to its processing, and to data portability. To exercise any of these, email [email protected] — we can provide an export of, or delete, everything we hold about your address across all our newsletters.

If you believe we have mishandled your data, you can complain to the UK's supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), though we'd appreciate the chance to put things right first.

Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. The "last updated" date above reflects the current version.