Privacy policy
Privacy policy
Effective date
Scope
This policy explains how The Graded Gallery (Birmingham) handles information when you visit this publication about retro games and gaming culture or use the enquiry form.
It applies to this static website and to the information you choose to provide through the contact route. It does not cover services or data practices that are not configured on this site.
Information under UK data protection law
The Graded Gallery (Birmingham) is the controller for the personal information described in this policy. The canonical contact address is 33 Woodbridge Road, Birmingham, England, B13 8EH.
This notice is written against the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. Whether a particular provision applies to a particular person or enquiry depends on the circumstances.
Information we collect
If you use the enquiry form, it asks for:
- Name, which is required.
- Email, which is required.
- What would you like to discuss?, an optional selection from retro game history, game design and mechanics, arcade and home-console culture, platform and hardware context, or preservation and collecting.
- Your question or message, which is required.
- Consent, a required confirmation that the details may be used to respond to the enquiry as described in this policy.
The form also contains a hidden website field used for form control. Please do not include personal information that is not needed for your enquiry.
The site uses necessary and functional browser storage for the cookie-choice banner. Analytics and advertising products are not configured.
How we use information
We use enquiry details to understand your message, respond to you and manage any follow-up. The stated purpose is to respond to and manage an enquiry submitted by a visitor.
We do not use form details for advertising, analytics, newsletters, accounts, payments or social-profile activity. These practices are not configured for this site.
Lawful basis
For an enquiry, the stated default lawful basis is legitimate interests, subject to the controller’s assessment of the circumstances. The relevant interest is responding to and managing an enquiry submitted by a visitor.
The form also asks for your agreement that the details may be used to respond to your enquiry. That wording explains the intended use; it does not change the need to assess the appropriate lawful basis for the circumstances.
Your choices and rights
You can choose whether to contact the editorial team and what to include in your enquiry. You may also ask about the personal information held in connection with your enquiry, request correction of inaccurate details or raise a concern about how it is handled.
To make a privacy request, email [email protected] or call +44 121 594 0842. Please identify the information or enquiry your request concerns.
What happens when you submit the form?
When you submit the form, your name, email address, optional subject, message and required consent response are used to handle your enquiry. Please check that your email address is correct so that a reply can reach you.
The contact form does not send or store messages on this website. When you submit it, the site opens your email application with a draft addressed to [email protected]; you choose whether to send that message. No message is transmitted by the website itself. For a current answer about the handling of a particular message, use the contact route below.
Retention
Enquiry information is kept only for as long as needed to respond to and manage the enquiry, taking account of its subject, any required follow-up and continuing correspondence. No fixed retention period is stated here.
For a current answer about a particular message or the criteria being applied, use the contact route and identify the information or enquiry concerned.
Security
Reasonable care is taken to protect information handled through this site and limit its use to the purposes described here. No website can promise absolute security, so avoid including information that is not needed for your enquiry.
Your choices and rights
Subject to the conditions and limits in applicable data-protection law, you may have the right to:
- ask for access to personal information held about you;
- ask for inaccurate information to be corrected;
- ask for information to be erased;
- ask for processing to be restricted;
- object to processing, including where the relevant basis is legitimate interests; and
- request data portability where that right applies.
The right to object is particularly relevant where processing relies on legitimate interests. To exercise a right, use the full contact route below and identify the information or enquiry your request concerns. We may need enough detail to understand and locate the request.
Children
This publication is general editorial reading about retro games and gaming culture. The enquiry form should be used only to send information that is appropriate to share and necessary for the enquiry.
Complaints
Please contact The Graded Gallery (Birmingham) first using the route below, so that we can understand the concern and the information or enquiry involved.
You may also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection. The ICO can provide current information about its complaint process.
Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated when the site, its enquiry handling or its browser-storage practices change. The effective date at the top of the document shows when this version applies.
Contact
For a privacy request or question, use either contact method below and identify the information or enquiry your request concerns:
- Email:[email protected]
- Phone:+44 121 594 0842
- Postal address: The Graded Gallery (Birmingham), 33 Woodbridge Road, Birmingham, England, B13 8EH
For privacy requests, email [email protected] or call +44 121 594 0842. Please identify the information or enquiry your request concerns.