Privacy Statement (UK)

This privacy statement was last updated on September 20th 2026 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United Kingdom.

In this privacy statement, we explain what we do with the data we obtain about you via https://www.electricbloomwebzine.com. We recommend you carefully read this statement. In our processing we comply with the requirements of privacy legislation. That means, among other things, that:

  • we clearly state the purposes for which we process personal data. We do this by means of this privacy statement;
  • we aim to limit our collection of personal data to only the personal data required for legitimate purposes;
  • we first request your explicit consent to process your personal data in cases requiring your consent;
  • we take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and also require this from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
  • we respect your right to access your personal data or have it corrected or deleted, at your request.

If you have any questions, or want to know exactly what data we keep of you, please contact us.

1. Purpose, data and retention period

We may collect or receive personal information for a number of purposes connected with our business operations which may include the following: (click to expand)

1.1 Contact - Through phone, mail, email and/or webforms

For this purpose we use the following data:

  • A first and last name
  • A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
  • An email address
  • A telephone number
  • Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
  • IP Address

The basis on which we may process these data is:

It is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, and that interest outweighs the interest of the person concerned.

Retention period

We determine the retention period according to fixed objective criteria: We retain contact enquiry and submission data only for as long as needed to respond to the enquiry, review the submission, manage related correspondence, handle complaints, or comply with legal obligations. Routine enquiries and unused submissions are normally deleted or anonymised within 12 months after resolution. If a submission is used to create or update published editorial or tour-listing content, the submitted non-personal content may be retained for as long as the related content remains published or relevant, but personal contact details are not published unless separately agreed. Voicemail audio files are normally deleted within 90 days, unless they are needed for an active complaint, legal matter, or privacy request.

1.2 Newsletters

For this purpose we use the following data:

  • An email address

The basis on which we may process these data is:

Upon the provision of consent.

Retention period

We retain this data until the service is terminated.

1.3 To be able to comply with legal obligations

For this purpose we use the following data:

  • A first and last name
  • A home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town
  • An email address
  • A telephone number
  • Geolocation data
  • Internet activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer's interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement
  • IP Address
  • Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information

The basis on which we may process these data is:

For compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Retention period

We determine the retention period according to fixed objective criteria: We retain compliance-related records only for as long as necessary to meet legal, regulatory, complaint-handling, or evidence requirements. Privacy request records are normally retained for up to 12 months after closure, unless a longer period is needed because of an active complaint, dispute, legal claim, or regulatory requirement. Consent and cookie preference records are retained for as long as needed to evidence the user’s consent choice and manage future consent preferences.

1.4 Compiling and analyzing statistics for website improvement.

For this purpose we use the following data:

  • Internet activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer's interaction with an Internet Web site, application, or advertisement
  • IP Address
  • Geolocation data

The basis on which we may process these data is:

Upon the provision of consent.

Retention period

Upon termination of the service we retain this data for the following period: 14 months.

2. Sharing with other parties

We only share this data with processors and with other third parties for which consent must be obtained.

Processors

Name: Google LLC / Google Ireland Limited
Country: Ireland / United States
Purpose: Website analytics, Google Site Kit, Google Analytics 4, Google Consent Mode, measurement of aggregate website and campaign performance, and Google Fonts where loaded from Google servers.
Name: Cloudflare, Inc.
Country: United States
Purpose: DNS, CDN, website security, performance, firewall/bot protection, Cloudflare Turnstile spam prevention, and country-level region detection for consent, security and regional ad relevance where used.
Name: Automattic Inc. / Jetpack
Country: United States
Purpose: Jetpack email subscriptions/newsletter, sending new post notifications to subscribers, Jetpack image/CDN delivery where active, and any active Jetpack site services.
Name: Bluehost
Country: United States
Purpose: Website hosting, server operation, database storage, backups, security, uptime and technical support.
Name: Google Workspace / Gmail
Country: Ireland / United States
Purpose: Handling privacy/contact emails, business correspondence, tour submission emails, and voicemail emails sent to Electric Bloom Webzine.
Name: Andrews & Arnold Ltd
Country: United Kingdom
Purpose: VoIP phone number, call routing, voicemail handling, and sending voicemail recordings to email.
Name: Complianz B.V.
Country: Netherlands
Purpose: Consent management, cookie scanning, legal document generation, privacy/cookie configuration, consent records, and cookie/service synchronisation where applicable.

Third parties

Name: Google / YouTube
Country: Ireland / United States
Purpose: Display of embedded YouTube videos and related video-player functionality after the visitor gives the relevant cookie/marketing consent.
Data: IP address, browser/device data, cookie identifiers, privacy/consent metadata, and interaction with embedded YouTube video content.

Name: Meta / Instagram
Country: Ireland / United States
Purpose: Display of embedded Instagram posts after the visitor gives the relevant cookie/marketing consent.
Data: IP address, browser/device data, cookie identifiers, security tokens, and interaction with embedded Instagram content.

Name: X (formerly Twitter)
Country: Ireland / United States
Purpose: Display of embedded X posts after the visitor gives the relevant cookie/marketing consent.
Data: IP address, browser/device data, cookie identifiers, security/bot-management data, and interaction with embedded X content.

Name: Spotify
Country: Sweden / United States
Purpose: Display of embedded Spotify audio players after the visitor gives the relevant cookie/marketing consent.
Data: IP address, browser/device data, cookie identifiers, referrer/landing data, UTM/source data, and interaction with embedded Spotify audio content.

Name: SoundCloud
Country: Germany / United States
Purpose: Display of embedded SoundCloud audio players and links to SoundCloud content after the visitor gives the relevant cookie/marketing consent where required.
Data: IP address, browser/device data, cookie identifiers, security/bot-protection data, display preference data, anonymous tracking identifiers, and interaction with embedded SoundCloud audio content.

Name: Dwango Co., Ltd. / Niconico / Nicovideo
Country: Japan
Purpose: Display of embedded Niconico/Nicovideo videos after the visitor gives the relevant external media/marketing consent.
Data: IP address, browser/device data, cookie identifiers, interaction with embedded video content, and service-related tracking or analytics data.

3. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. For more information about cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy. 

4. Disclosure practices

We disclose personal information if we are required by law or by a court order, in response to a law enforcement agency, to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information, or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety.

If our website or organisation is taken over, sold, or involved in a merger or acquisition, your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and will be passed on to the new owners.

We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google.

Google may not use the data for any other Google services.

The inclusion of full IP addresses is blocked by us.

5. Security

We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorised access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.

6. Third-party websites

This privacy statement does not apply to third-party websites connected by links on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites prior to making use of these websites.

7. Amendments to this privacy statement

We reserve the right to make amendments to this privacy statement. It is recommended that you consult this privacy statement regularly in order to be aware of any changes. In addition, we will actively inform you wherever possible.

8. Accessing and modifying your data

If you have any questions or want to know which personal data we have about you, please contact us. You can contact us by using the information below. You have the following rights:

  • You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
  • Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
  • Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
  • If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
  • Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
  • Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

Please make sure to always clearly state who you are, so that we can be certain that we do not modify or delete any data of the wrong person.

9. Submitting a complaint

If you are not satisfied with the way in which we handle (a complaint about) the processing of your personal data, you have the right to submit a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office:


Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

10. Children

Our website is not designed to attract children and it is not our intent to collect personal data from children under the age of consent in their country of residence. We therefore request that children under the age of consent do not submit any personal data to us.

11. Contact details

Charles Shepherd trading as Room.C Media
4th Floor, Silverstream House
45 Fitzroy Street
Fitzrovia
London
W1T 6EB
United Kingdom
Website: https://www.electricbloomwebzine.com
Email: privacy@ex.comelectricbloomwebzine.com
Phone number: 03333 409086

Annex

Electric Bloom Webzine may display first-party advertising, affiliate, sponsorship and house-promotion placements through its own EBW Sponsorships system. We use, or may use, aggregate performance data to understand impressions, clicks, campaign performance, creative performance, placement performance and broad audience context. Reports shared with advertisers or partners are aggregated and do not identify individual visitors.

 

When a visitor clicks a sponsorship or affiliate placement, they may pass through a first-party redirect so we can count clicks in aggregate. We do not use this redirect to identify individual visitors. We may append UTM parameters to destination links so advertisers or partners can understand traffic referred by Electric Bloom Webzine.

 

Electric Bloom Webzine may earn commission from affiliate links. This does not change the price paid by the visitor.