Privacy Notice

Some service-provider or international-transfer details are still being verified.

IRONINDEX publishes equipment guides. The website has no user accounts, checkout, newsletter registration or contact form.

Privacy at a glance

You can read our guides without signing up. The services delivering this website receive technical information when you visit. If you email us, we use the information you send to answer you. Please do not put private details in searches or send more information than we need. You can ask us about your information using the email address below.

Who handles your information

The operator responsible for personal information is named under Operator details at the end of this notice.

For privacy questions or requests, email admin@ironindex.co.uk.

Messages and website requests

If you email us, the message includes your email address and information you choose to send. We use correspondence to respond to enquiries, investigate corrections and handle privacy requests. Please provide only what is relevant to your enquiry.

Loading a page sends technical information, such as an IP address and the requested address, to the infrastructure serving the website. The hosting service may keep request and security logs. Searches appear in the page URL, so avoid entering personal or confidential information in the search box.

Why we use personal information

We use enquiry and correction messages, and technical request and security information, for our legitimate interests in answering readers, maintaining accurate content and operating a secure website. We process privacy requests and complaints to meet our legal obligations under data protection law.

Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies and similar technologies, such as your browser's local storage and IndexedDB, let a website keep small pieces of information on your device. We use two categories.

Strictly necessary

Your browser's local storage remembers your cookie choice and when you made it, so the banner does not reappear on every page. It is not used for tracking, and it is always on because the cookie controls cannot work without it.

Analytics

With your permission, we use Google Analytics for Firebase to count page views and clicks on retailer links, and to see which websites or social posts sent visitors to us. It records the pages you view, the website or campaign that sent you, approximate location, and device and browser type. Google Analytics does not log or store IP addresses. Google processes this data for us and may process it outside the UK. Google signals and advertising personalisation are switched off.

Analytics is off until you choose “Accept all”, or switch it on in “Manage settings”. If you reject it, or make no choice, it does not load and stores nothing.

What is stored

Legal basis

We rely on your consent for analytics. Storing your cookie choice is strictly necessary to provide the cookie controls, so it does not need consent.

Changing or withdrawing consent

Use “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page to change your choice at any time. Withdrawing consent stops analytics, deletes its cookies and databases, and reloads the page. We ask again after 12 months, or sooner if what we store or why changes.

There is no newsletter signup or advertising cookie.

Service providers and international processing

Website hosting: Hosting and content-delivery providers.

Email service: Email service provider.

These providers receive the information needed to deliver the website and handle email. With your consent, Google also receives the analytics information described above. Information may also be disclosed where required by law or necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Our hosting and email providers may process information outside the UK, including in the United States. The hosting provider's data-processing terms describe its contractual transfer safeguards, including Standard Contractual Clauses with the UK Addendum where applicable. You can request information about these safeguards using the contact details above.

We are verifying the international-transfer arrangements for email and will update this section once they are confirmed.

External source links and social profile links take you to another organisation's website. That organisation's privacy notice applies there. Our affiliate disclosure explains commercial links.

How long information is kept

Routine enquiries and correction correspondence are kept for 12 months after resolution. Privacy requests and complaints are kept for 3 years after closure. Ordinary hosting logs are retained for 30 days; required infrastructure audit logs are retained for 400 days. Information may be retained longer where required by law or necessary for an ongoing legal claim.

Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, UK data protection law gives you rights to access and correct personal information, request deletion or restriction, and receive certain data in a portable form. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw that consent.

Your right to object

You may object to processing based on legitimate interests on grounds relating to your situation. Send privacy requests using the contact details above. Rights depend on the processing and applicable exceptions.

Providing information in an enquiry is voluntary, but we may be unable to answer without the relevant details. We do not use your personal information to make automated decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects on you.

You can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office if you are concerned about how your information is handled.

You can also send a privacy complaint to our contact email. We acknowledge complaints within 30 days, investigate them without undue delay and keep you informed of the outcome. Requests to exercise your data protection rights are handled separately, normally within one calendar month.

Changes

We update this notice when the site's services or data handling change. The date above records the latest change to this page.

Operator details

IRONINDEX is the trading name of Omar Ghounbaz, a sole trader in the United Kingdom.

Email admin@ironindex.co.uk.