Privacy policy

Last updated 14 November 2026.

Who we are

The publisher and data controller is [COMPANY LEGAL NAME], company number [COMPANY NUMBER], registered office [REGISTERED OFFICE ADDRESS]. VAT: [VAT NUMBER, if registered]. ICO registration: [ICO REGISTRATION NUMBER].

Contact the controller at [CONTACT EMAIL] or [CONTACT PHONE]. If those placeholders are still in brackets, the site owner has not finished the legal details in lib/legal.ts.

The law that applies

We handle personal data under the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018. This site is aimed at readers in the United Kingdom.

What we collect

• Contact form: your name, email address, the topic you pick, and the message. The form does not store the message on our servers unless a mailbox integration is added later. Until then, nothing is kept after the page responds.
• Newsletter: your email address, only if Supabase is configured. If it is not, the form says so and the address is not saved.
• Consent cookie: a record of whether you allowed analytics and advertising. This is necessary to honour your choice.
• Analytics: if you opt in, and a Google Analytics measurement ID is set, Google may receive usage data such as pages viewed and a truncated IP address.
• Advertising: if you opt in, and an AdSense publisher ID is set, Google may use cookies to serve and measure ads, including personalised ads where the law and your settings allow it.
• Affiliate links: when you leave for Amazon UK, Currys, Argos or a brand store, that site may track the click. We do not receive your payment details.
• Hosting logs: Vercel, which hosts the site, may process IP addresses and request data to deliver and secure the site.

Why we use it

• Consent, for analytics cookies, advertising cookies, and the newsletter.
• Legitimate interests, for securing the site, understanding aggregate failures, and answering a message you chose to send. You can object.
• Legal obligation, if we must keep a record for tax or a regulator.

How long we keep it

Newsletter addresses stay until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them. Consent cookies last about six months, then we ask again. Contact messages, once a mailbox exists, are kept only as long as we need to resolve the enquiry. Server logs follow the host's retention.

Who we share it with

Processors can include Vercel (hosting), Supabase (newsletter storage, if enabled), Google (Analytics and AdSense, only after consent), and the email provider we connect later. Affiliate retailers receive the fact of a click when you follow a tracked link. We do not sell personal data.

Transfers outside the UK

Some of those companies process data outside the UK, including in the United States. Where that happens we rely on the UK adequacy regulations or on the International Data Transfer Agreement / Addendum, as the provider offers them.

Your rights

You can ask us to:

• confirm whether we hold your data and for a copy of it;
• correct it;
• delete it;
• restrict or object to certain uses;
• provide it in a portable form where the law requires;
• withdraw consent, which you can also do with Cookie settings in the footer.

You can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk. We would like the chance to put things right first: email [CONTACT EMAIL].

Children

TechnoStatus is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their data.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will update the date above and, where the law requires a fresh consent, we will ask again. Related documents: cookie policy, terms of use, affiliate disclosure.