Sprue Gate is a reading site. It has no accounts, no comment forms, no newsletter, no advertising and no analytics, and it sets no cookies. This notice explains the little data that is handled when you visit, and how to get in touch.
Contact
Questions about this notice, requests about your data and corrections to any page can be sent by email to the editorial team at [email protected].
Server logs
Like any website, the pages are delivered by a web server and a content delivery network. To do that they process the technical data every browser sends: your IP address, the date and time, the page requested, the referring page and your browser and operating system. This is used only to deliver the pages, to keep the service secure and to diagnose faults. It is not used to build profiles, it is not combined with other data and it is kept only as long as those purposes require.
Fonts and tools
The fonts and scripts are served from this site’s own server, so reading a page does not contact any other company. The paint conversion chart and the scale calculator run entirely in your browser; nothing you type into them is sent anywhere or stored.
The club finder map
The club finder lists clubs as plain text, and the map is not loaded until you press the button to show it. Only then does your browser request map tiles from the OpenStreetMap tile servers, run by the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Those requests carry your IP address and browser details, as any web request does, and the Foundation handles them under its own privacy policy. If you never open the map, no request goes to OpenStreetMap.
Links to other sites
Guides link to clubs, show organisers and manufacturers. Once you follow such a link, the other site’s own privacy policy applies.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you can ask what data about you is held, and ask for it to be corrected or deleted, or object to its use. Because the site keeps no personal data beyond short-lived server logs, there is usually nothing to hand over, but every request to the address above receives an answer. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Changes
If the site adds a feature that handles data differently, this notice is updated before the feature goes live.