Privacy Policy

1. Data Controller Overview

Mercia Gabion Network (operating online at britishgabion.com) is dedicated to safeguarding the privacy and digital rights of our visitors. This Privacy Policy details our data collection practices, security standards, and your statutory rights under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

2. Information We Collect

We practice strict data minimisation and only process necessary information:

• Contact Inquiries: When you submit a message through our contact desk, we collect your name, email address, inquiry subject, and message content to formulate a response.
• Engineering Bulletin: When you subscribe to our quarterly WebGL technical updates, we store your email address solely to deliver bulletins.
• Technical Server Logs: Standard web server logs collect anonymised IP addresses, browser user-agent strings, referring URLs, and timestamps to maintain network security and diagnose server errors.
• Local Preference Tokens: Pseudonymised session identifiers (ssn_ui5) and interface layout tokens (canvas_density_oz2) stored in cookies or local storage to preserve your browsing choices.

3. Legal Grounds for Processing

Under UK GDPR Article 6, we process data under the following legitimate bases:

• Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)): For sending technical bulletins and executing non-essential analytics via Google Consent Mode v2 where you have granted affirmative consent.
• Legitimate Interests (Art. 6(1)(f)) (Mercia Gabion Network): To maintain web server stability, protect against DDoS or form spam, and audit WebGL performance benchmarks.
• Contractual / Pre-contractual Steps (Art. 6(1)(b)): To respond to direct inquiries submitted by visitors regarding game indexing.

4. Cookies & Google Consent Mode v2

Mercia Gabion Network implements Google Consent Mode v2 by default. Prior to your explicit consent, storage signals (ad_storage, analytics_storage, ad_user_data, and ad_personalization) remain denied.

Essential session tokens enabling basic HTTP request state and theme persistence remain active without tracking your browsing history across other domains. For granular specifics, please consult our dedicated Cookie Policy.

5. Data Retention & Security Measures

We retain personal correspondence for no longer than twelve (12) months following the resolution of your inquiry. Email dispatch addresses remain in our bulletin registry until you unsubscribe.

Our hosting infrastructure utilizes modern Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.3), hardened server configurations, and isolated database sandboxes to prevent unauthorised data access, leakage, or modification.

6. Outbound Publisher Links & Mercia Gabion Network Independence

Mercia Gabion Network never sells, rents, trades, or monetises your personal contact details to third parties. We do not share personal information with corporate advertising networks.

When following links to external game publishers, please be aware that those websites operate under their own privacy protocols. We encourage reviewing the respective privacy notices of any external site you visit.

7. Your Statutory Rights Under UK GDPR — Mercia Gabion Network

As a data subject in the United Kingdom, you possess clear enforceable rights:

• Right of Access: You may request copies of personal data held about you.
• Right to Rectification: You may request corrections to inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Right to Erasure: You may request the deletion of your personal contact records (“Right to be Forgotten”).
• Right to Restrict Processing (Mercia Gabion Network): You may request that we suspend processing your data under certain conditions.
• Right to Object: You may object at any time to data processing carried out under legitimate interest grounds.

To exercise any of these statutory rights, please send your request directly to studio@britishgabion.com. We respond to all verified requests within thirty (30) calendar days free of charge.

8. Supervisory Authority

If you have concerns about our data protection practices that our team has failed to resolve, you have the statutory right to lodge a formal complaint with the UK supervisory authority: Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

9. Privacy Policy Updates

We may periodically revise this Privacy Policy to reflect technical infrastructure updates or changes in UK data protection legislation. Any modifications will be posted to this page with an updated revision date.