The privacy of our visitors to TheGeneralElection.net (hereby referenced to as The General Election) is important to us.

At The General Election, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. As with most websites, we collect and use data contained in log files. The information in the log files includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as Plusnet or BT), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

We do use cookies to store information, such as personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup or ad once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as members only parts of the site.

We also allow third party advertisements on The General Election to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense programme) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geo-targeting purposes (showing London property ads to someone in London, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites, as an example).

Users Terms of Service

If you are a Contributor or Regular User of TheGeneralElection.net and are at any time allowed access to our resources for posting content to the site, subject to Editorial Review, you must also be aware of both the YouTube Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy if you are to use such resources.

This is to ensure the utmost transparency in everything we do and to comply with YouTube’s Terms of Service (ToS) for users as well as the Google Privacy Policy.

How can I control cookies?

If you visit our Website from anywhere in Europe, only strictly necessary cookies and other tracking technologies will be used on our Website by default. Other cookies and tracking technologies will only be used if you consent. You can opt in or out of Behavioural Advertising at any time by visiting http://www.youronlinechoices.eu, and reviewing each companies Cookie Management where available.

If in the UK you can go straight to http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices.

Where you visit our Website from outside Europe, the cookies and similar tracking technologies mentioned above will be used by default.

Internet browsers allow you to change your cookie settings via the “options’ or “preferences” menu in your browser. Please note that if you set your browser to refuse or block all cookies, certain features or functionalities of our Website will be limited or unavailable to you.

Some internet browsers include the ability to transmit “do not track” signals. Because no industry standard has yet been developed with respect to “do not track,” our Website does not currently process or respond to such “do not track” signals.

You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site. For more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies, visit https://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html.

Further information about deleting and blocking cookies can be found at http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Further information about our advertisers’ use of cookies can be found at:

European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance: https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
Internet Advertising Bureau (US): https://www.iab.com/
Internet Advertising Bureau (EU): https://www.iabeurope.eu/

Analytics – Who we share your data with, How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us, by emailing us at cj@thegeneralelection.net. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How can I get further information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other tracking technologies, please email us at cj@thegeneralelection.net.

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