Please read my full disclosure policy below. If you have any further questions regarding your data and how it is used then please contact info@studentskint.com.
Contents of this blog post:
Cookies
The privacy of our visitors to studentskint.com is important. At studentskint.com, we recognise that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit studentskint.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers
Affiliate Links
Student Skint is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com or amazon.co.uk.
Pages and blog posts might include affiliate links. This means the owner of Student Skint make a small commission from each sale when you buy through their link. We only use an affiliate link for products, companies or services that we have used and want to recommend or heard great things about and think our audience will like them. You will never find a false recommendation on studentskint.com. All opinions and reviews are my own unless stated otherwise.
Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), 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.
Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
We also use third party advertisements on studentskint.com to support the 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 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 geotargeting purposes (showing London restaurant 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). You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to leave a comment.
Subscribing
When you subscribe to anything on studentskint.com, including free downloads, you are required to double opt-in as part of the GDPR law effective since 25th May 2018.
This means that you will be sent a confirmation email after you sign up and your subscription will not be live until you click that link.
When subscribing you will also be sent newsletters and other special offers.
You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of every email, or emailing me at info@studentskint.com to be removed.
Please note that your details are stored with my mailing list provider, MailerLite. I have access to your data.
Outside websites
My blog posts contains links to other websites, and I am not responsible for content or the privacy policies on other websites.
Comment Policy
I really enjoy reading your comments, and by leaving a comment you accept that:
- Comments may be published at the bottom of blog posts.
- Whatever you enter into the ‘name’ field will be public, so you may wish to use your first name or an alias.
- Your email address is not published, and by leaving a comment with your email address you are not subscribing to any newsletters from me (you might choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment, and there is a link to unsubscribe in any emails you are sent.)
- Your IP address will be logged when you leave a comment, this is not for public viewing.
- Comments are held for moderation, and I approve them at my discretion.
Subject Access Request
If you want to see a copy of the information I hold about you, under section 7 of the Data Protection Act then please email info@studentskint.com with your name and email address. Your email needs to come from the email address you used, so that I can make sure I am not sending personal data to the wrong person. If you no longer have access to the email account you used, then you will still need to let me know which email address you used, and provide photographic proof of ID such as a photo of your driving license.
Please note that the law permits me 40 days to respond to a Subject Access Request.
Data breaches
If any data breaches do take place then I will let you know as soon as I am made aware of it and try my very best to put it right.