Who is responsible
Relay Lantern Editorial Ltd is the publisher and controller of personal information handled for this website. Its registered address is 18 Cinderwick Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 6LN, United Kingdom. The privacy contact is [email protected]. Please use “Privacy request” as your email subject where possible.
This policy concerns this publication, not the game studios, film distributors, book publishers or other organisations mentioned in its articles. Following an external link takes you to a service with its own information-handling arrangements.
Information collected and its purposes
Viewing a page requires the hosting infrastructure to receive technical request information, such as an IP address, requested file, browser information and request time. Hosting services may record this information for delivery, security and fault diagnosis. The site does not use analytics, advertising pixels, visitor profiling or account registration.
The contact form validates information within your browser and prepares an email link. It does not submit form fields to a website server. If you choose to send the resulting message, we receive your email address, message, any name you provide and email metadata. We use correspondence to answer enquiries, assess corrections, handle rights requests and resolve reported problems. Please avoid unnecessary sensitive information.
Legal grounds and applicable frameworks
Our approach is based on the UK data protection framework, including the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act, together with the rules relevant to electronic communications. Responding to editorial correspondence and protecting site operation normally rely on legitimate interests, balanced against the individual’s rights. Compliance with a binding legal obligation provides a separate basis where required.
Where the EU GDPR applies to a visitor’s circumstances, its relevant protections also apply. Where California privacy legislation, including the CCPA, applies to our activities and a visitor, we will handle requests under that framework. The site does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. These statements do not assume that every territorial regime applies to every visit.
Storage, processors and transfers
A localStorage entry remembers your cookie choice on your device. It contains preference values, not your contact message, and the site does not transmit it as a tracking identifier. See the cookie policy for controls and storage details.
Hosting and email service providers may process technical information or correspondence to supply their services. Access should be limited to the relevant operational purpose and subject to appropriate contractual and security protections. Information may also be disclosed when legally required or necessary to establish or defend a legal claim. If processing involves an international transfer subject to restrictions, an applicable adequacy mechanism or contractual safeguard is required. Contact us for information relevant to a particular request.
Retention and security
Correspondence is kept while an enquiry remains active and afterwards only where needed for a related editorial record, dispute or legal obligation. Retention depends on purpose rather than an indefinite archive of every message. Technical records should be retained only for operational and security needs. Browser preference storage remains until you change it or remove site data.
Reasonable access controls and service protections are used, but no internet transmission or email service can be guaranteed secure. Do not email passwords, payment details or identity documents without an agreed reason and suitable method.
Your rights and complaints
Depending on the applicable framework, you may request access, correction, erasure, restriction, portability or objection to processing. You may withdraw consent where consent is the basis, without changing the lawfulness of earlier processing. California rights may include access, deletion, correction and freedom from discriminatory treatment for exercising applicable rights.
Send requests to the privacy contact. We may need proportionate information to verify identity and clarify scope. Applicable exemptions and legal deadlines govern the response. You can raise a concern with the Information Commissioner’s Office or another competent supervisory authority. This policy may be revised if the site’s handling of information changes.