Privacy Policy Notice

Privacy Policy Notice

The policy: This privacy policy notice is served by GamHarm, under the website; [www.gamharm.com]. The purpose of this policy is to explain to you how we control, process, handle and protect your personal information through the business and while you browse or use this website. If you do not agree to the following policy you may wish to cease viewing / using this website, and or refrain from submitting your personal data to us.

Policy key definitions:

"I", "our", "us", or "we" refer to the business, GamHarm, Gamharm.com.
"you", "the user" refer to the person(s) using this website.
GDPR means General Data Protection Act.
PECR means Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation.
ICO means Information Commissioner's Office.
Cookies mean small files stored on a user’s computer or device.

Key principles of GDPR:

Our privacy policy embodies the following key principles; (a) Lawfulness, fairness and transparency, (b) Purpose limitation, (c) Data minimisation, (d) Accuracy, (e) Storage limitation, (f) Integrity and confidence, (g) Accountability.

Processing of your personal data

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control and / or process any personal information about you electronically using the following lawful bases.

Lawful basis: Consent
Where our purpose for processing is: Contacting or responding to enquiries, retention of contact details, retention of advice obtained or given out.
Which is necessary because: Our primary purpose is the provision of advice and information.
We process your information in the following ways: Correspondence received via electronic or physical media including contact details, contents of correspondence and date/times of receipt will be retained for the purpose of maintaining record of interaction.
Data retention period: We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent or it is determined your consent no longer exists.
Sharing your information: We do not share your information with third parties.

Lawful basis: Legitimate interests
Where our purpose for processing is: maintaining a database of information, contacts, correspondence and other purposes aligned to our principal activity which involves provision of information, comment and advice on matters considered to be of legitimate interest to the owners and operators of this website. In general all matters considered to be of public interest may constitute legitimate interests but areas of particular interest include: Gambling Related Harms, Public Health Initiatives, Criminal Justice Reforms, Gambling regulation, Addiction treatment, education and support.
Which is necessary because: Our primary purpose is the provision of advice and information, primarily in regards matters relating to the subject areas listed above.
We process your information in the following ways: Correspondence received via electronic or physical media including contact details, contents of correspondence and date/times of receipt will be retained for the purpose of maintaining record of interaction.
Data retention period: We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent or it is determined your consent no longer exists.
Sharing your information: We do not share your information with third parties.

Lawful basis: Criminal offence data
Where our purpose for processing is: Recording and reporting of statistics for Criminal Offence behaviours driven by Gambling Related Harms.
Which is necessary because: Providing information and advice on Criminal Justice matters and the interface with Gambling Related Harms and Public Health Issues are a primary purpose of the formation of GamHarm and Gamharm.com.
We process your information in the following ways: We will only process and retain information given voluntarily by yourself or information publicly and readily available through legitimate information sharing sources such as public criminal records and court data. Where details of specific involvement in criminality is provided to us we will take this to be alleged rather than proven unless criminal determination in a court of law has already been established.
Data retention period: We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent or it is determined your consent no longer exists.
Sharing your information: We do not share your information with third parties.

If, as determined by us, the lawful basis upon which we process your personal information changes, we will notify you about the change and any new lawful basis to be used if required. We shall stop processing your personal information if the lawful basis used is no longer relevant.

Your individual rights

Under the GDPR your rights are as follows. You can read more about your rights in details here;

the right to be informed;
the right of access;
the right to rectification;
the right to erasure;
the right to restrict processing;
the right to data portability;
the right to object; and
the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.

You also have the right to complain to the ICO [www.ico.org.uk] if you feel there is a problem with the way we are handling your data.

We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.

Internet cookies

We use cookies on this website to provide you with a better user experience. We do this by placing a small text file on your device / computer hard drive to track how you use the website, to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to keep you logged into the website where applicable, to display relevant adverts or content, referred you to a third party website.

Some cookies are required to enjoy and use the full functionality of this website.

We use a cookie control system which allows you to accept the use of cookies, and control which cookies are saved to your device / computer. Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, where others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should provide you with the controls to manage and delete cookies from your device, please see your web browser options.

Cookies that we use are;

[list of cookies used]

Data security and protection

We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies and precise procedures in how we store, access and manage that information. Our methods meet the GDPR compliance requirement.

Fair & Transparent Privacy Explained

We have provided some further explanations about user privacy and the way we use this website to help promote a transparent and honest user privacy methodology.

Sponsored links, affiliate tracking & commissions

We do not allow our website to display adverts, sponsored or affiliate links. We do not track users outside of their use of this website. We do not ask or receive commissions for services, references or inclusion of content. All views expressed on www.gamharm.com are those held by GamHarm except where it is clearly stated that they are the views of contributors, correspondents and external parties. Where third party organisations, businesses or individuals are named on this website this should not be taken as being in any way a recommendation or promotion of any services they offer, other than where explicitly stated as being so.

Where links to content hosted on other websites are provided these are done so purely for informational purposes and GamHarm takes no responsibility for the content or data usage, policies and security of those sites. GamHarm will never intentionally post links to harmful or illegal websites and will endeavour to immediately remove any such links if informed of potential harms.

If you have any concerns we suggest you do not click on any links found throughout the website.

Email marketing messages & subscription

Under the GDPR we use the consent lawful basis for anyone subscribing to our newsletter or marketing mailing list. We only collect certain data about you, as detailed in the "Processing of your personal data" above. Any email marketing messages we send are done via the Gamharm.com website and not through an EMS, email marketing service provider. An EMS is a third party service provider of software / applications that allows marketers to send out email marketing campaigns to a list of users.

Email marketing messages that we send may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of data such as; times, dates, I.P addresses, opens, clicks, forwards, geographic and demographic data. Such data, within its limitations will show the activity each subscriber made for that email campaign.

Any email marketing messages we send are in accordance with the GDPR and the PECR. We provide you with an easy method to withdraw your consent (unsubscribe) or manage your preferences / the information we hold about you at any time. See any marketing messages for instructions on how to unsubscribe or manage your preferences.

We hold the following information about you within our EMS system;

Email address
I.P address
Subscription time & date

Resources & further information

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