This policy explains what personal data Ugly Christmas Jumpers collects, why, and what your rights are. It applies to ugly-christmas-jumpers.com.
The short version: we are an affiliate site. We do not sell anything, we do not take payments, and we do not ask you to create an account or hand over personal details in order to use the site. The main privacy consideration here is that clicking a product link sends you to Amazon, where Amazon’s own privacy policy takes over.
Who we are
Ugly Christmas Jumpers is a website that lists and writes about Christmas jumpers available on Amazon. Our website address is https://ugly-christmas-jumpers.com. If you want to contact us about anything in this policy, please use our contact page.
What we collect
Server logs
Like almost every website, our hosting provider automatically records technical information when you visit: your IP address, the pages you requested, the time of the request, your browser type and, where your browser sends one, the page you came from. This is used to keep the site running securely and to diagnose faults. These logs are kept for a limited period and then deleted.
Comments
If you leave a comment, we collect what you type into the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string, which help with spam detection. Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely so that follow-up comments can be recognised and approved automatically rather than held in a queue.
An anonymised string created from your email address (a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you have a profile picture. Gravatar’s privacy policy covers that service. Your profile picture, if you have one, becomes publicly visible next to your comment.
Accounts
The underlying shop software can create user accounts, but because everything on this site is bought on Amazon, you do not need an account to use the site and we do not encourage you to create one. If you do register, we store the username and email address you provide. You can ask us to delete that account at any time.
What we never collect
We do not take payments, so no card or bank details are ever entered on or stored by this website. We do not ask for your delivery address. Anything you enter at Amazon’s checkout goes to Amazon and never reaches us.
Cookies
Cookies are small files stored by your browser. This site uses them in the following ways:
- Essential cookies set by WordPress and the shop software so the site functions correctly.
- Comment cookies — if you leave a comment, you can opt in to saving your name, email address and website in a cookie so you do not have to retype them next time. These last for one year. If you have an account and log in, a temporary cookie checks whether your browser accepts cookies, and login cookies last for two days (or two weeks if you select “Remember Me”).
- Amazon affiliate cookies — see below.
- Analytics cookies set by Google Analytics, so we can see which pages are read and which are ignored. See below.
- Advertising cookies set by Google and its advertising partners. See below.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking essential cookies may stop parts of the site working.
Amazon affiliate links
We take part in the Amazon EU Associates Programme. Product links on this site carry an identifier that tells Amazon the visit came from us.
When you follow one of those links, Amazon sets a cookie in your browser. If you then buy something, Amazon attributes the sale to us and pays a commission. Amazon reports these sales to us in aggregate only — we are told that a sale happened and what was bought, not who bought it. We never receive your name, address, email address or payment details.
Once you click through, you are on Amazon’s website and Amazon’s privacy policy and cookie policy apply to everything you do there. Our affiliate disclosure explains the commercial side of this arrangement.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics 4 to count visits and see which articles people actually read. It tells us that a page was read, roughly where in the world the reader was, and how they arrived — it does not tell us who you are, and we make no attempt to identify individual visitors.
Google processes this data on our behalf and sets cookies in order to do it. You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about you by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on.
Advertising
This site carries advertising served by Google AdSense. Advertising and the Amazon commission described above are what pay for the site — the hosting, and the time spent writing the guides.
Google and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to select and measure those adverts. Depending on the choice you make when you first arrive, the adverts you see may be personalised — chosen using data about your previous browsing — or non-personalised, chosen only from the content of the page you are reading and your approximate location.
The specifics, as Google requires us to state them:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve adverts based on your prior visits to this website or to other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve adverts to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.
- You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
- You can opt out of other vendors’ use of cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info/choices, or in the UK and EU at youronlinechoices.com.
- How Google uses data from sites that use its services is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
If you are in the UK or the EEA, we ask for your consent before any analytics or advertising cookies are set. You can change that choice at any time using the cookie preferences link in the footer of every page.
Embedded content from other websites
Pages on this site may include embedded content such as images, videos or product data from other sites. Embedded content behaves exactly as if you had visited that other website: it can collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with it, particularly if you have an account and are logged in to that site.
Who we share data with
We do not sell your personal data. Data may be processed by our hosting provider in order to run the site, and comment content may be checked by an automated spam detection service. Google processes data for the analytics and advertising described above, subject to the consent you give. Where the law requires it, we may disclose information to a competent authority.
How long we keep data
Comments and their metadata are kept indefinitely unless you ask us to remove them. For registered users, we store the personal information provided in the user profile; users can see, edit or delete that information at any time, except that they cannot change their username. Site administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your rights
If you are in the UK or the EU, you have the right to ask what personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, to object to or restrict how we use it, and to receive a copy of it. If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, and you can request that we erase it. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us via our contact page. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
Children
This site is intended for adults and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. The version published on this page is the current one.