Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. Top 10 Casino List (‘Company’, ‘we’, ‘us’, or ‘our’) is a website whose focus is on comparison content, with the aim of providing information and resources regarding various services. It is our explicit policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you across our website, http://www.top10casinolist.co.uk, and other sites we own and operate.

This privacy policy (‘Privacy Policy’) serves as one part of our Terms of Use. The Privacy Policy defines the Company’s privacy practices regarding users that access our website. In this Privacy Policy, we disclose how and why we collect, use, and share user data, as per the EU General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (‘CCPA’) where applicable.

We only ask for personal information when we truly need it to provide a service to you. We collect it by fair and lawful means, with your knowledge and consent. As per the GDPR, we would like to explain these lawful means through which we process user data on the website:

When you sign up for our services, we will process your personal data:

• in order to fulfil our contract with you;
• for direct marking purposes or online identifiers when you access the website;
• when you have provided us your consent to do so.

We only retain collected information for as long as necessary to provide you with your requested service. What data we store, we’ll protect within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

To ensure that users make an informed decision whether you wish to use our website or provide us with any of your information which we may obtain or require, we encourage them to read this Privacy Policy.

Should you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can contact us at [email protected].

What data we collect and how we use it

We may collect two types of data from users: Non-personal Data and Personal Data.

• Non-personal Data is non-identifiable user information that may become available or be gathered when you use our website and services. It’s important to note that this information does not provide us with your identity.
• Personal Data is identifiable information, in other words individual information that may, with reasonable effort, identify an individual.
• If we combine Non-personal data with Personal Data, we will treat the combined data as Personal Data.

Below you will find information on the types of data we may collect and the way we may use it:

• Technical and aggregated data about users, gathered via their use of the website. This includes information on their browser, operating system, the device they use to access the website, the time and date they access it, their navigation of the website and the actions they carry out on it, language preferences, and country-level location. This data is used only to enhance our services and enable operation of our website.
• Users who get in touch with us through the contact form on the website or by sending is an email or contacting us through any other means may be asked to provide certain information, such as their name and email address. To provide you with the support you need or respond to your inquiry, we will process your contact details. We may retain our contact history and correspondence if needed, for instance to provide background in the event of any future inquiries, or to improve our services.
• Users who sign up to receive periodical email correspondence, such as newsletters, from us will be asked to provide their name and email address. Users can unsubscribe at any point, by clicking on “Unsubscribe” within the emails, or by contacting us. We will use your name and email address with the sole purpose of providing you with contact you have requested.
• When users leave a comment or submit feedback on the website, they will be asked to provide a name and email address. They may be offered to connect to the website through a social media account (e.g. Google or Facebook). Social networks may provide us with access to certain information as stored therein (full name, e-mail address, and any other information the user has made public). When we approve a comment, it is posted under the name or social media profile the user has provided. We may additionally notify the user of responses their comment has received from other users. We will use this information with only with the purpose to approve and publish your comment or feedback or for authentication purposes. We recommend that you refrain from disclosing Personal Data via your comment or feedback. Comments and feedback are publicly posted, and we have no control over potential third-party use of such information.  
• We will collect users’ Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses. While IP addresses are considered personally identifiable information in many jurisdictions (such as the EEA), in others such data sets are not considered to constitute Personal Data. Consequently, in accordance with applicable laws we make sure to treat IP address information as Personal Data. Collecting IP addresses helps us protect, manage, and customise our website and services as well as improve user experience. We also use IP information for research, both analytic and statistic, regarding user traffic and interaction with our services, as well as detect and resolve security or technical issues that may arise. We may use IPs for remarketing purposes – for more information, please see below the section on Cookies.
• Users may voluntarily provide us with certain personal information, such as their name, phone number, email or mailing address, etc. in order to receive customised services. We use this information with the sole purpose of providing you with the services you have requested.
• Users may voluntarily subscribe to receive notifications from the website (directly or from our service providers). In this case, we will process the user’s IP address and approximate geographical location (country). We will use this information with the sole purpose of sending you notifications that you have subscribed to receive. You may unsubscribe from receiving notifications at any point, by changing your standard browser settings.
• Users who contact us voluntarily to inquire about establishing a business partnership with us may do so through the contact form on the website or other contact information we make available. Users may accordingly be requested to provide their name, company name, email address, phone number. We will use this information with the sole purpose of contacting you and evaluating the potential of a future collaboration.

How we collect user data

We may collect the above data in one of two ways:

• Automatic data collection: This includes the use of cookies (please refer to the “Cookies” section below) or other, similar tracking tools when users visit and interact with our website.
• The collection of data that users voluntarily share with us: This includes data gathered via contact forms, user reviews or feedback, registering to receive emails from us, and more. We will, as required by applicable laws, ask for users’ consent for collecting their Personal Data and offer the choice to opt out, to the extent that technology enables us to do so.

You are free to refuse our request for your personal information, with the understanding that we may be unable to provide you with some of your desired services.

Cookies, APIs, and tracking tools

We may use “cookies” (or similar tracking tools) when you visit our website or make use of our services. This is standard practice across all industries with a web presence. A cookie is essentially a small piece of information. Whenever you visit a website, the site will assign a cookie and store in on your computer. Cookies can be used for a wide range of purposes and are helpful tools to both websites and visitors. Cookies allow you to navigate between a website’s pages efficiently and enable and automatically activate certain features. Cookies also remember your preferences and make the interaction between users and websites/web-based services significantly faster and easier. In addition, cookies are used to create a customised user experience.

There are three main categories of cookies:

• Essential, functionality, operation, and security cookies: These cookies allow user movement around a website and make it possible for the site to properly function. They also serve important security purposes (user authentication, preventing fraudulent use, and protecting user data from unauthorised third parties). These cookies cannot be disabled as without them certain features of a website may not work.
• Analytic, measurement, and performance cookies: These cookies provide information on how users use our website and allow us to improve the services we offer. They also help us assess performance and evaluate our content accordingly. These cookies also provide us with the number of users who of the Content and campaigns. These cookies enable us, for example, to assess the number of users who have viewed our websites, along with the pages they have viewed as well as their location (country). Through their use, we receive information such as your language preferences. In addition, they help us understand what our users like and provide content that will interest them. Lastly, we use this data to compile reports.
• Preference, targeting, and advertising cookies: These cookies are used to display ads that are tailored to users and based on websites and pages of websites they have visited. In other words, these cookies will “remember” that you have visited a certain web page and will show you ads that are related to that page.

The cookies and APIs used on our website

Security cookies

Analytic, measurement, and performance cookies

Preference, targeting, and advertising cookies

Browsers allow you to delete cookies and remove them from your device, block cookies, or get warned before a cookie is stored on your device. Please bear in mind that removing our cookies or blocking them may cause some features on the website not to function properly.

Third-party content on our website

Our website may link to external, third-party sites that are not operated by us – these can include landing pages, registration pages, and other web pages. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and privacy practices of these sites, and thus we cannot accept responsibility or liability for practices and policies of such third parties. We recommend that whenever you leave our site through an external link you examine the privacy policy of the third-party website.

Sharing data with third parties

We do not share our users’ Personal Data with third parties, with the following exceptions:

1. Explicit consent by the user: We may disclose Personal Data to third parties following the user’s explicit consent.
2. Enforcement of policies: We may share your Personal Data to the extent it is necessary to enforce our policies; exercise our rights defend against legal claims, as well as investigations of potential violations thereof, including without limitations; investigate, detect, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities or other wrongdoing, suspected fraud, security or technical issues

• Third-party rights: We may share users’ Personal Data in order to protect the rights (including any legal rights), property (including intellectual property), safety, or more of our users or any third party involved.

1. Law enforcement: We may users’ Personal Data for the sole purpose and extent to of complying with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or governmental requests (e.g. compliance with court orders, tax authorities, etc.)
2. Affiliated companies and corporate transactions: We may share users’ Personal Data with our parent company, partners in joint ventures, or other companies under shared control (“Affiliated Companies”) only if and when necessary, and solely for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, we may disclose Personal Data in the event of a corporate transaction (e.g. sale of the business, merger, consolidation, or asset sale), in which case the Affiliated Companies or the acquiring entity will assume the rights and obligations described in this Policy.
3. Identifiers: We may share online identifiers that we have collected, such as IP addresses, for the purposes of business operations, providing our services, calculate payments, as well as detecting fraud, security, or technical issues.

• Service providers: We may disclose users’ Personal Data with service providers whom we hire to provide requested services on our behalf. It is prohibited for these service providers to use our users’ Personal Data for any purposes other than providing us with requested services

In addition to the above, we may share Non-Personal Data with our partners and other third parties in any of the above circumstances as well as for operational purposes and commercial use.

How long we retain data

We retain the user data we collect for the time we need it in order to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, and for other purposes including dispute resolution, enforcement of agreements, and business purposes, in accordance and compliance with applicable laws. Users can submit an individual request to us to delete their Personal Data, as detailed below.

Users’ rights and controls

You have the right to know what information we hold about you, and under certain conditions, to have this communicated to you. You may also ask to verify whether we have processed your Personal Data. Subject to limitations in applicable law, you may be entitled to request and receive from us the Personal Data you have provided us in a structured, commonly-used, and machine-readable format. In addition, as per the above, you may have the right to transmit such Personal Data to another party.

Applicable data protection law in relation to Personal Data states the following principal rights (depending on your jurisdiction): the right to access any information which is provided to us; the right to rectification; the right to erasure; the right to restrict processing; the right to object to processing; the right to data portability; the right to complain to a supervisory authority (if you are an EEA resident); and the right to withdraw consent (to the extent applicable).

If you wish to exercise any of the aforementioned rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer at [email protected]

In the event that we are not able to provide you with the information you have requested, we will do our best to explain the reasons behind this. In this event, we will also inform you of your rights, which for EEA residents includes the right to complain to the supervisory authority. In order to verify your identity before we provide you with any such information, we may ask for documents that prove your identity, as per applicable law. Please note that the process of locating and deleting your data may take up to 1 month from the moment we receive proof of your identity, in line with applicable law. Depending on your jurisdiction and its data privacy laws and related laws, you may have different or additional rights related to the data we collect from you, which may also apply.

The right to opt-out

If you wish to opt-out of data collection, the data sharing process, and advertising services carried out on or in relation to our website, you may choose one or more of the following courses of action:

• Setting your browser to block all cookies (including cookies related to our services) or indicate when a cookie is being set: You can do this through the privacy and security settings of your web browser. Here are some links to assist you in this process: Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Edge, Opera
• Direct opt-out from retargeting cookies and other ad-technology trackers: You can do this through self-regulator services like the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) consumer opt-out page or the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (“DAA”) opt-out page.
• Contacting us: Get in touch with us (for more information, please see below) for assistance.

Please note that if you choose to opt out, some of our services may no longer be available to you. In addition, certain features may not work if you revoke the data transfer.

Data security

We take great care to maintain the security of the website to the highest standards and to ensure the safety of our users’ Personal Data. We employ state-of-the-art technology as well as industry-standard procedures and administrative security measures to prevent unauthorized access or use of such information. Having said that, no data transmission over the Internet is guaranteed to be 100% secure, and therefore we cannot be responsible for others’ unauthorized access or abuse of our website. Please note that we make no warranty, express, implied or otherwise, that we will be able to prevent such intrusion.

We have adopted what are in our view appropriate practices of data collection, storage, and processing, and we have security measures in place to protect such data, as per applicable law. If you suspect that someone has attempted to gain unauthorized access to your data, abused the website, or acted inappropriately, please get in touch with us directly at [email protected]

Child privacy and data

Our website and services are not intended for use by persons under the age of 18. As a result, we refrain from knowingly soliciting data from children or market our services to them. We define “children” as per the applicable law (e.g. 13 years of age regarding US persons, and 16 years of age regarding European Economic Area [“EEA”] individuals).
We ask that these persons refrain from providing their Personal Data through our website and services. We may request proof of age at any stage in order to verify that children under the age of 18 are not using our website. If you have any reason to believe that a child has shared information with us, please contact us at [email protected]. We will immediately take the appropriate steps to make sure that such information is deleted from our end.

Data transfer

We may store or process our users’ Personal Data in the EEA or in other countries. Please be aware that if you visit our website from a location outside of the EEA, the information you provide to us when you use our website could be processed in countries other than the one from which you accessed our website. Regarding residents of the EEA, we take careful measures to ensure that these users’ Personal Data receives an adequate level of data protection if it is transferred out of EEA. Some jurisdictions may require your consent for the transfer of your Personal Data. If you reside in such jurisdiction, then your consent to this Privacy Policy contains your express consent for such transfer of your data.

Do Not Track Disclosure

Our website and services do not respond to Do Not Track signals. For more information about Do Not Track signals, please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com

Amendments

We reserve the right to amend or revise this Privacy Policy. We may do so at our sole discretion, and any changes to the Privacy Policy will become effective immediately upon publishing. Therefore, we encourage you to revisit this page on a regular basis. Please note that the most recently updated version of this Privacy Policy is what will always appear on this page, and we will update the date at the top of the page accordingly.  The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted. Your use of the website or our Services, constitutes your acknowledgment of and consent to the latest version of this Privacy Policy. In the event of a material change we will make best efforts to provide a written notification.

Note to California Residents: This Privacy Policy will be reviewed and updated every 12 months, as required under the CCPA.

Contact us

Should you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please get in touch with us:

[email protected].

The Data Protection Officer

Please contact our Data Protection Officer with any requests regarding the data collected under this Privacy Policy (including requests to remove, delete, amend, modify or transfer the Personal Data) at [email protected].

*This Privacy Policy is effective as of 22 July 2020.