This document outlines how thebungo.co.uk ("we", "us", "the site") handles visitor data. Accessing any page on thebungo.co.uk constitutes acceptance of the terms described here. This policy applies to every section of the site, including our reviews of new UK betting sites, comparison tables, and editorial content. We process personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
1. Data Controller
TheBungo is the data controller for personal information collected through thebungo.co.uk. For any data-related queries, contact us at [email protected].
2. Data We Collect Automatically
Each time you load a page on our website, certain technical details get recorded by our servers and analytics tools. This happens without any manual input from you and may include:
- Your IP address (anonymised where technically feasible)
- The browser and its version number
- Your device's operating system
- The page that referred you to our site, and the pages you viewed
- Timestamps and session duration
- Screen size and device category (phone, tablet, or desktop)
- General geographic region derived from IP address (country and city level only)
This information helps us monitor site performance, identify technical issues, and understand how visitors interact with our content about new UK betting sites.
3. Data You Provide Directly
When you contact us — either via a contact form or by email — we receive the details you choose to share. Typically this includes:
- Your name and email address
- The content of your message
- Any attachments or supplementary information you include
We store this data solely to process your enquiry and will not reuse it for unrelated activities. We never request and do not store payment details, bookmaker account login credentials, or any other sensitive financial data — all such information should remain strictly between you and the platforms you choose to use.
4. Why We Process Your Data
Each piece of information we collect serves a defined function:
- Operating, maintaining and upgrading the website
- Studying traffic patterns to improve user experience and our reviews of new UK betting sites
- Responding to reader questions and editorial feedback
- Identifying and resolving security threats or technical errors
- Tracking affiliate referral activity for accurate commission reporting
- Meeting any applicable legal or regulatory obligations under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018
Under no circumstances do we sell, lease, or trade your personal information with third parties for their own advertising use.
5. Lawful Basis for Processing
Under UK GDPR, we rely on the following lawful bases to process your personal data:
- Legitimate interests — for analytics, site improvement, security monitoring, and affiliate tracking
- Consent — for non-essential cookies and any direct marketing communications
- Legal obligation — where we're required to retain data for tax, accounting, or regulatory compliance
- Contract — where you've requested specific services from us via direct correspondence
6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Cookies are small data files placed on your device when you visit a website. thebungo.co.uk uses them for several purposes.
6.1 Cookie categories in use
- Strictly necessary cookies — enable core functions such as navigation and page rendering. These cannot be disabled.
- Performance cookies — power our analytics platform (Google Analytics) to measure visitor behaviour
- Partner cookies — set by affiliate networks when you follow an outbound link to a UK betting site or related operator
6.2 Managing your cookie preferences
Every major browser lets you block or remove cookies through its settings panel. Note that restricting cookies may impair certain site features. A comprehensive guide to cookie management is available at allaboutcookies.org. Privacy-conscious users may also want to use browser-level tracking protection or privacy-focused browsers like Brave or Firefox with strict settings enabled.
7. External Services We Use
Parts of our infrastructure are operated by third-party providers, each operating under their own data processing framework:
- Google Analytics — traffic measurement and audience insights. Policy: policies.google.com/privacy
- Cloudflare — DDoS protection and content delivery. Policy: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy
- Affiliate platforms — when you click through to a recommended UK betting site, the destination operator may implement its own cookies and collect data under its own privacy terms
We bear no responsibility for external sites' data practices and strongly recommend reviewing their policies independently before registering an account.
8. Affiliate Relationships
Certain links on thebungo.co.uk lead to third-party UK betting site platforms. If you follow one of these links and subsequently open an account or fund it, we may receive a referral commission from the operator. This arrangement carries zero additional cost to you and has no influence on the editorial integrity of our reviews or rankings — a bookmaker cannot pay for placement, a higher rating, or a softer assessment.
9. Important Notice About Bookmaker Accounts and Transactions
thebungo.co.uk is a review and comparison platform. We do not process payments, accept money transfers, hold customer accounts, or have any technical access to the bookmaker platforms discussed in our content. When you click an outbound link to a UK betting site and open an account or deposit funds, the transaction takes place entirely between you, your bank or payment provider, and the bookmaker. We have no visibility into your account balance, transaction history, deposit addresses, or any activity on the platform you sign up for.
Account management, fairness, and payout obligations lie with the destination platform — not with us. If a UK betting site declines a withdrawal, freezes your account, or otherwise fails to deliver what was promised, that's a matter to be handled with the bookmaker directly and, if necessary, escalated to the UK Gambling Commission or IBAS (Independent Betting Adjudication Service). We cannot intervene in account-level disputes.
10. How Long We Keep Your Data
Anonymised analytics records are retained for a maximum of 26 months before being automatically deleted. Personal information submitted via email or contact forms is kept only as long as necessary to resolve the relevant enquiry, after which it's permanently deleted from our systems. Affiliate referral logs are retained for 12 months for commission reconciliation and then deleted.
11. Protecting Your Information
We implement industry-standard security measures — including SSL/TLS encryption across the entire site, access-restricted hosting environments, and role-based internal permissions — to minimise the risk of unauthorised access. That said, no digital transmission method can be considered fully immune to interception, and we cannot offer an absolute guarantee of security.
12. Your Data Rights Under UK GDPR
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Right of access — receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you
- Right to rectification — have inaccurate or incomplete records corrected
- Right to erasure — request removal of your personal data from our systems
- Right to restriction — ask us to limit how we process specific data
- Right to object — oppose data processing carried out under legitimate interest
- Right to portability — receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format
- Right to withdraw consent — where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw it at any time
To exercise any of these rights, send an email to [email protected]. We will confirm your request within 30 calendar days.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if you believe our data processing breaches UK law. Visit ico.org.uk for details on how to submit a complaint.
13. Age Requirements
thebungo.co.uk publishes content related to online gambling and is strictly intended for individuals aged 18 or over. We do not knowingly collect information from minors. Should we discover that data belonging to a person under 18 has been submitted, it will be deleted without delay. UK gambling law requires all bettors to be at least 18 years old, and the same threshold applies to use of our review content.
14. Policy Updates
This document may be periodically revised to reflect operational changes or shifts in applicable legislation. The revision date at the top of the page indicates when the most recent changes were made. We recommend returning to this page from time to time to keep yourself informed.
15. Questions and Data Requests
For anything related to this privacy policy — whether it's a general question or a formal data rights request — contact us through the details below:
- Email: [email protected]
- General Enquiries: [email protected]
- Information Commissioner's Office: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF (complaints to the UK data protection authority)