Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

Retro Gaming Central is an educational and entertainment platform focused on retro gaming history, culture, and interactive quizzes. Our registered address is 12 Wentworth Way, Darlington DL3 0JJ, United Kingdom.

For the purposes of UK data protection law, we are the data controller responsible for your personal data.

2. What Data We Collect

We may collect the following types of personal data:

• Contact information: Your name and email address when you submit our contact form.
• Message content: The content of any message you send us through our contact form.
• Technical data: IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, and time spent on the site — collected automatically through cookies and analytics tools.
• Cookie preferences: Your acceptance or decline of our cookie policy, stored locally in your browser.

We do not collect sensitive personal data (such as health information, financial details, or government identification numbers).

3. How We Use Your Data

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To respond to enquiries you send us via our contact form.
• To improve our website content and user experience based on aggregate analytics data.
• To remember your cookie preferences so we don't ask repeatedly.
• To comply with any legal obligations.

We do not use your data for automated decision-making or profiling, and we do not sell your data to third parties.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

Under UK GDPR, we rely on the following legal bases for processing your data:

• Legitimate interests: For technical and analytics data, to understand how our website is used and improve it accordingly.
• Consent: For cookies beyond those strictly necessary for the website to function.
• Contractual necessity / pre-contractual steps: When you contact us, to respond to your enquiry.

5. Cookies

We use cookies to store your cookie consent preferences and to collect anonymous analytics data. For full details on how we use cookies, please read our Cookie Policy.

6. Third Parties

We may share limited data with the following categories of third parties:

• Analytics providers: We may use analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to understand general website usage. These services receive anonymised or aggregated data only.
• Hosting providers: Our website is hosted on a third-party server. Hosting providers may have access to server logs which could include IP addresses.
• Map services: Our contact page embeds a Google Maps element, which may set its own cookies. Please refer to Google's privacy policy for details.

We do not share your name, email address, or message content with any third party except where legally required to do so.

7. Data Retention

We retain contact form enquiries for up to 12 months unless a longer retention period is required by law or the enquiry relates to an ongoing matter. Analytics data is retained in aggregated, anonymised form and is not linked to individuals.

8. Your Rights

Under UK data protection law, you have the following rights:

• Right of access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to rectification: You can ask us to correct inaccurate data.
• Right to erasure: You can ask us to delete your personal data in certain circumstances.
• Right to restrict processing: You can ask us to limit how we use your data.
• Right to data portability: You can request your data in a commonly used, machine-readable format.
• Right to object: You can object to our processing of your data where we rely on legitimate interests.
• Rights related to automated decision-making: We do not make automated decisions using your personal data.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond within one month.

9. Complaints

If you are unhappy with how we handle your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK's data protection regulator:

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
Website: ico.org.uk
Helpline: 0303 123 1113

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "last updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to check back periodically.