Privacy Policy

Who We Are

For the purposes of this website, the data controller is Project Universal. If you need to contact us about privacy, data protection, or a request relating to your personal data, please use the contact page.

Personal Data We May Collect

Depending on how you use the site, Project Universal may collect your name, email address, contact message, account details, profile information you choose to submit, comment content, moderation-related records, IP address, browser or device information, session and security logs, and cookie or consent preference information.

If you contact the site or use account features, some technical data may also be recorded automatically to help with fraud prevention, abuse monitoring, login security, debugging, and the reliable operation of the website.

How We Use Personal Data

Personal data may be used to respond to contact enquiries, operate user accounts, manage comment posting and moderation, send account-related messages, process password resets, protect the website against spam or misuse, maintain site security, monitor performance, and improve the site where optional analytics consent has been provided.

Project Universal does not state on this page that it sells personal data. If site features expand in future, this policy should be updated to reflect the real data uses in place at that time.

Legal Bases for Processing

Project Universal relies on different legal bases depending on the activity involved. For contact enquiries, account administration, comment functionality, and day-to-day website operation, the main legal bases are legitimate interests and, where applicable, steps taken at your request or performance of a contract-like service you asked to use.

For optional analytics cookies and Google Analytics measurement, the legal basis is consent. Analytics should remain off unless you actively accept it through the site's cookie controls.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

This site uses strictly necessary cookies for core website functions such as session security, sign-in, consent storage, and protected forms. It may also use optional analytics cookies if you choose to enable them.

More detail about the site's cookie categories, consent approach, and Google Analytics setup is available on the Cookie Information page.

Google Analytics

If you consent to analytics, this website may load Google Analytics 4 with the measurement ID G-CNCRGL0BC0 to help understand website traffic and usage patterns. This can involve the processing of online identifiers, approximate location data, browser information, device information, page views, and interaction events.

Analytics is intended to be consent-based and should not load before your consent has been recorded. Project Universal states that Google Analytics is used here for basic measurement and service improvement rather than for personalised advertising.

Google acts as a separate provider for analytics services and may process data on servers outside the UK or EEA. Where international transfers occur, they should be protected by an appropriate transfer mechanism recognised under applicable law, such as adequacy regulations or approved contractual safeguards, as relevant to Google's service setup.

Contact Forms, Accounts, and Community Features

If you send a message through the contact form, the site processes the information you provide so that the enquiry can be reviewed and answered. If you register for an account or use community functions, the site may also process authentication data, profile fields, comment submissions, moderation history, and technical security information linked to your use of those features.

reCAPTCHA or similar anti-abuse checks may also be used to protect forms and prevent spam or malicious automated submissions. These controls are used as part of the site's legitimate interest in keeping the service secure and reliable.

Sharing Personal Data

Personal data may be shared with service providers only where reasonably necessary to run the website and related services, for example website hosting providers, email delivery or contact-processing services, security or anti-spam providers, analytics providers, and professional advisers where required. Data may also be disclosed where there is a legal obligation to do so or where disclosure is necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Retention

Project Universal aims to keep personal data only for as long as it is reasonably needed for the purpose for which it was collected, including security, administration, moderation, record-keeping, and legal compliance. Different retention periods may apply to contact messages, account records, comments, consent logs, and technical security logs.

Where data is no longer needed, it should be deleted, anonymised, or securely removed from active use within a reasonable period, subject to any legitimate need to retain it.

Your Rights

Depending on your location and the circumstances of the processing, you may have rights to request access to your personal data, rectification of inaccurate data, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing based on legitimate interests, data portability where applicable, and withdrawal of consent for analytics at any time.

If you want to exercise a privacy right, please use the contact page. A response should be provided in line with the applicable legal timeframe, subject to verification of identity and any lawful limitation or exemption that may apply.

Complaints

If you are unhappy with how your personal data has been handled, you may raise the matter with Project Universal first through the contact page. You may also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK or, if you are in the EEA, to your local supervisory authority.

Security

Project Universal aims to use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. However, no internet-based service can guarantee absolute security, so users should take normal care when sharing personal information online.

Policy Updates

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website, legal requirements, analytics configuration, or the way personal data is processed in practice. The latest version published on this page should be treated as the current version.