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Privacy policy
Split Screen is a small games desk in Leeds running a set of static pages. There is no account system, no comment section, no advertising network and no analytics product anywhere on this site. That means this policy is shorter than most, and most of it is a description of things we do not do.
1. Who is responsible for this site
The site at wimarelqo.pro is published by Split Screen, an unincorporated editorial group of four people based at Duke Studios, 3 Sheaf Street, Leeds LS10 1HD, United Kingdom. For any question about this policy or about information we hold, write to [email protected]. Correspondence reaches all four of us; there is no separate privacy department, because there are only four of us.
Where this policy uses the words “we”, “us” and “our”, it means that group. Where it says “you”, it means anyone reading a page on this domain.
2. What the site does not collect
We want to be specific about this rather than vague, because vagueness in a privacy notice usually hides something. The following are not present on any page of wimarelqo.pro:
- No analytics or measurement product of any kind, including self-hosted ones.
- No advertising scripts, ad exchanges, retargeting pixels or conversion tags.
- No social network embeds, share widgets, comment systems or like buttons.
- No fonts, stylesheets, icon libraries, scripts or images loaded from another company’s servers — everything is served from this domain, which you can confirm in your browser’s network panel.
- No user accounts, logins, profiles or newsletters, and therefore no password or subscriber database.
- No tracking cookies. In fact this site sets no cookies at all; see the cookie policy for the two local storage values it does use.
Because none of those are present, the site itself does not build a profile of you, does not know which pages you read, and cannot recognise you when you come back.
3. Server logs held by our hosting provider
The pages have to be served by a machine, and that machine keeps ordinary technical logs in the way essentially every web server does. Those logs typically contain the requesting IP address, the date and time of the request, the file requested, the response status code, and the browser’s user-agent string.
We do not use those logs to analyse readership and we do not combine them with anything else. They exist so that a fault can be diagnosed and so that abusive traffic can be blocked. Our provider retains them for a short rolling window — under thirty days as things stand — after which they are discarded automatically.
Lawful basis for this processing: our legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR in keeping the site available, secure and repairable. The interest is narrow and the data is not used for anything else.
4. The form on the talk back page
The talk back page contains a form. It is worth being blunt about how it works: the form is validated by JavaScript running in your own browser and there is nothing behind it. No submission endpoint, no database, no email relay. When you press the button, the script checks your entries and prints a confirmation on the page. Nothing leaves your device.
This means we do not receive anything you type into that form, and cannot recover it for you. It exists so the page can explain what a useful message looks like and so you can see the checks working. Anything you actually want us to read must be sent by email.
5. If you email us
Email is a different matter, because a message you send by email genuinely arrives with us. When you write to [email protected] we hold:
- your email address and whatever name your mail client attaches to it;
- the subject line and body of your message, along with any attachments;
- the technical headers your mail provider adds in transit;
- our replies and any subsequent exchange in the same thread.
We use that material only to answer you, to check a correction, or to keep a record of a game suggestion so that we do not lose it. We do not add correspondents to any list, because there is no list. We do not pass your address to studios, publishers or anyone else.
Threads about corrections are kept indefinitely, because the audit trail behind a published correction matters. Everything else is deleted within twenty-four months of the last message. Our mailbox is hosted by a business email provider inside the United Kingdom acting as our processor under contract.
Lawful basis: legitimate interests under Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR — specifically, responding to correspondence somebody chose to initiate, and maintaining the accuracy of what we publish.
6. Local storage in your browser
Two small values are written to your browser’s own local storage by the site’s script. One records that you have dismissed the notice strip at the foot of the window. The other counts how many pages you have opened, purely so the footer can display that number back to you.
Both values stay on your device. Neither is transmitted, neither is readable by us, and clearing your browser data removes both. They are named and explained in full in the cookie policy.
7. Links out to other sites
Write-ups occasionally link to a studio page, a storefront listing or another publication. Once you follow such a link you are on somebody else’s site under somebody else’s policy, and we have no visibility of or control over what happens there. We do not use affiliate links, so no link on this site earns us anything or carries a tracking parameter added by us.
8. Children
This site is written for an adult general readership and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect information about anyone under thirteen. If a parent or guardian believes a child has emailed us, write to the address above and we will delete the thread.
9. Your rights under UK data protection law
In relation to the limited information described in sections 3 and 5, you have the right to:
- ask what we hold about you and receive a copy of it;
- have inaccurate information corrected;
- ask for information to be erased where we have no continuing reason to keep it;
- ask us to restrict how we use it while a dispute is resolved;
- object to processing carried out on the basis of legitimate interests;
- receive information you supplied in a portable form, where that applies.
Send requests to [email protected]. We answer within one month and we do not charge. Because we hold so little, most requests are resolved by us searching the mailbox for your address and telling you exactly what came back.
If you are unhappy with how we have handled a request you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the supervisory authority for the United Kingdom. We would rather you raised it with us first so we have a chance to fix it.
10. Security, in proportion
Pages are served over an encrypted connection. Editorial files and email are protected by two-factor authentication on the accounts that hold them. There is no visitor database to breach, because we never built one — which is a stronger security measure than any policy sentence we could write here.
11. Changes to this policy
If the site changes in a way that affects this notice, the revision date at the top changes with it and the substantive difference is described in a short line beneath that date. We have revised this policy twice since 2021: once to describe local storage properly, and once to state that the talk back form transmits nothing.