YOUR PRIVACY.

Who we are

GameFEST runs gamefestival.co.uk. We are responsible for the personal information collected through this community website. For privacy questions or requests, email [email protected].

Contact enquiries

The contact form asks for your name, email address, enquiry topic and message. We use these details to respond and handle any follow-up. Your enquiry is sent to our mailbox and is not published on the website. Sending a message does not sign you up to a mailing list. Please leave out sensitive information that we do not need to answer you.

Comments and avatars

Where comments are enabled, WordPress collects the details shown in the comment form, together with technical information such as your IP address and browser information for security and spam prevention. Your display name and approved comment can appear publicly; your email address is not displayed. If avatars are enabled, an email-derived identifier may be sent to Gravatar. See Automattic’s privacy notice.

Security and performance

Our hosting and security services process technical information needed to deliver and protect the website. Cloudflare Turnstile checks contact submissions for automated abuse. Cloudflare’s performance beacon is also enabled to measure visits and page-loading performance. Read the Turnstile Privacy Addendum and Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

Fonts, cookies and external links

The website loads fonts from Google, so your browser contacts Google’s font servers. Google handles these requests under its privacy policy. WordPress may use login, preference and optional comment-detail cookies; security services may also store essential technical data. This theme does not add advertising trackers.

Discord, Facebook, EXTIGY Mir and other external websites have their own privacy practices. Their policies apply when you follow a link and use those services.

Why we use this information

We rely on our legitimate interests in responding to enquiries, maintaining community discussion and keeping the website secure. We use information for those purposes and keep the impact on visitors in mind. The form needs the required details to handle a submission; you can also contact us directly by email.

Who can receive it

People handling your enquiry, site administrators and our hosting, email and security providers may process information where needed to operate the website or respond to you. Some providers operate internationally and may process technical data outside the UK. Their linked privacy notices explain their international processing arrangements. You can contact us for information about the services used for a particular enquiry.

How long we keep it

We keep enquiry correspondence while it is needed to answer you, manage any continuing discussion or resolve a related issue. We review what is still needed rather than keeping it indefinitely just in case. Relevant information may be kept longer where a legal obligation requires it. Public comments remain with the associated discussion unless removed. Temporary anti-spam and submission-confirmation markers expire automatically; hosting and service logs follow the relevant provider’s retention arrangements.

Your choices and rights

You can ask about the information we hold about you and request access, correction, deletion or limits on its use, where those rights apply. Email [email protected] so we can consider the request and check your identity where necessary.

You can object to our use of your information where we rely on legitimate interests. You can also ask us to stop corresponding about an enquiry. If you have a concern, please contact us. You can complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

Updates

We will update this notice when the website’s handling of personal information changes. The date shown on this page identifies the latest revision.