Last updated: 27 October 2026
At CTRL + ALT News, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect, why we collect it, how we use it and the rights you have under UK data protection law.
This policy applies to the UK edition of CTRL + ALT News, available at https://ctrlaltnews.co.uk.
1. Who is responsible for your data?
CTRL + ALT News is an independent technology news and reviews website operated by Regis Araujo, an individual based in the United Kingdom.
Regis Araujo is the data controller responsible for the personal information described in this policy.
Website: https://ctrlaltnews.co.uk
Privacy contact: ctrlaltnewsuk@outlook.com
Country: United Kingdom
We process personal data in accordance with applicable UK data protection legislation, including:
- The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
- The Data Protection Act 2018, as amended.
- The Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR), as amended.
- The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, where applicable.
If you have questions about this policy or how we handle personal information, please contact us using the email address above.
2. Personal information we collect and why
We aim to collect only the personal information reasonably necessary to operate, protect and maintain our website, communicate with readers and manage community interactions.
2.1 Visiting our website
When you access CTRL + ALT News, our hosting infrastructure may automatically process technical information, including:
- Your Internet Protocol (IP) address.
- Browser type and version.
- Device and operating system information.
- Pages and resources requested.
- Date and time of access.
- Technical errors, security events and related server log information.
Purpose: To deliver website content, maintain website performance, diagnose technical problems and protect the website against unauthorised access, malicious activity and abuse.
Lawful basis: Legitimate interests under Article 6(1)(f) of the UK GDPR.
Our legitimate interests include maintaining a secure, reliable and accessible website.
2.2 Contacting us by email
If you contact us directly, we may process:
- Your name, if provided.
- Your email address.
- The content of your message.
- Any information you voluntarily include in correspondence.
Purpose: To respond to enquiries, editorial feedback, corrections, complaints and other communications.
Lawful basis: Legitimate interests under Article 6(1)(f) of the UK GDPR, or another lawful basis where required by the circumstances.
Our legitimate interest is in communicating with readers and responding appropriately to correspondence.
Please avoid sending sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for your enquiry.
2.3 Leaving comments
When you submit a comment on an article, we may collect:
- Your name or chosen display name.
- Your email address.
- Your website URL, if provided.
- The content of your comment.
- Your IP address.
- Browser user-agent information.
- The date and time of submission.
Purpose: To enable reader discussions, moderate contributions, prevent spam and abuse, and maintain a safe and constructive commenting environment.
Lawful basis: Legitimate interests under Article 6(1)(f) of the UK GDPR.
Our legitimate interest is in operating a moderated reader discussion service and protecting it against misuse.
Your display name, comment and publication date may be visible publicly once approved. Your email address and IP address are not published as part of the comment.
Comments may be reviewed before publication. We reserve the right to reject, edit or remove comments that breach our Terms of Use.
Please do not include sensitive information, private contact details or other personal information you would not wish to make public.
Visitor avatars are disabled. We do not intentionally send commenter information to Gravatar for avatar generation.
3. Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files that websites may store on your device to remember information or support certain functions.
Apart from the advertising described in section 3.5, CTRL + ALT News does not use third-party analytics cookies.
3.1 Comment form cookies
If you choose the option to save your name, email address and website in your browser when submitting a comment, WordPress may store the following cookies:
| Cookie | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
| comment_author_{HASH} | Remembers your display name | Approximately one year |
| comment_author_email_{HASH} | Remembers your email address | Approximately one year |
| comment_author_url_{HASH} | Remembers your website address | Approximately one year |
These cookies are intended to make future commenting more convenient.
They are optional and are associated with your choice to enable the comment form’s save-details feature.
3.2 Essential technical cookies
Our website infrastructure or WordPress installation may use cookies that are strictly necessary for security, administration or essential website functionality.
Where cookies qualify for an exemption under PECR, prior consent may not be required. We will still provide appropriate information about their use.
3.3 Managing cookies
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings.
If we introduce analytics, tracking or additional third-party technologies, we will review our cookie disclosures and implement any consent or other controls required by applicable law before using them.
3.4 Affiliate links
Our site does not set any cookie of its own because of an affiliate link. When you click an affiliate link to Amazon UK, you leave our site and Amazon may set its own cookies or similar technologies so that it can tell the purchase came through our link. Amazon decides how those work and explains them in its own notices.
3.5 Advertising cookies (Google AdSense)
The UK edition shows advertising provided by Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies, device identifiers and similar technologies to show ads, to personalise them, to measure how they perform and to prevent fraud.
In the UK, the EEA and Switzerland we ask for your choice before Google uses these technologies for ads personalisation. The choice is collected through a consent message provided by Google, a consent management platform certified by Google. You can accept, reject or manage your choices, and you can change or withdraw them later. You can also manage ad personalisation in your Google account settings, and you can delete cookies in your browser settings.
If you do not consent, you may still see ads, but they will not be personalised using your browsing data.
Google explains how it uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
4. Advertising and affiliate links
CTRL + ALT News may publish product reviews, buying guides and links to external retailers.
Affiliate links. Some articles in our Gadgets section contain affiliate links to Amazon UK through the Amazon Associates programme. If you click one and buy, we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. Amazon tells us about orders and commissions through the programme; we do not ask for your name or contact details and do not expect to receive them from those reports. We label affiliate links as described in our Editorial Policy.
Advertising. The UK edition shows ads served by Google AdSense. When an ad is served, Google may receive information such as your IP address, your device and browser details and the page you are viewing, and it may read or set cookies as described in section 3.5. Our legal basis for advertising cookies and similar technologies is your consent. We do not receive your personal data from Google; we see aggregate reports about ad performance.
When you follow a link to another website, that website may collect information independently under its own privacy policy.
We do not control the privacy practices of external websites.
5. External links, fonts and sharing features
Our articles may link to external websites, publications, manufacturers, research organisations and online retailers.
External websites operate under their own terms and privacy policies.
Fonts
According to the configuration described in this policy, website fonts are hosted locally rather than being requested directly from external font providers.
This means that loading these fonts does not, by itself, require your browser to connect to Google Fonts.
Social sharing
Our article-sharing features are intended to operate through ordinary links.
Simply viewing an article does not, through these sharing links alone, transmit information to the relevant social media platform.
If you click a sharing link, you may be redirected to an external service, such as X or WhatsApp, where that service’s privacy policy applies.
Embedded videos and posts
Some articles embed videos from YouTube (Google) or posts from X. They load only after you click “Load video” or “Load post”. Once loaded, that service may set cookies and process your data, such as your IP address, under its own privacy policy.
6. Who we share personal data with
We may share limited personal information with trusted service providers where necessary to operate the website or respond to communications.
These may include:
Website hosting provider: Hostinger, which provides website hosting and related technical infrastructure.
Email provider: Microsoft Outlook, which processes correspondence sent to our published email address.
Advertising partner: Google, through Google AdSense, as described in sections 3.5 and 4.
Technical service providers: Other providers supporting essential website functionality, security or maintenance, where applicable.
These providers may process information on our behalf or act as independent data controllers, depending on the service and circumstances.
Where required, we use appropriate contractual arrangements and safeguards to protect personal information.
We do not sell personal information.
We may also disclose information where legally required or where necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
7. International data transfers
Our website is intended to use UK-based hosting infrastructure.
However, certain service providers may process or access personal information from other countries.
Where a transfer of personal data outside the United Kingdom is subject to UK international transfer rules, we will ensure that an appropriate legal mechanism applies.
Depending on the circumstances, this may include:
- UK adequacy regulations.
- The UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA).
- The UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
- Another lawful transfer mechanism permitted under UK data protection legislation.
You may contact us for further information about relevant international transfers and applicable safeguards.
8. How long we keep personal information
We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, taking into account legal requirements, security needs and the nature of the information.
Server logs: Retained in accordance with the hosting provider’s applicable settings, retention arrangements and our operational or security requirements.
Email correspondence: Retained while an enquiry or matter is being handled and subsequently only where reasonably necessary for record-keeping, legal obligations or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Comments: Published comments and associated moderation information may be retained while the relevant article or discussion remains available. We will review requests for deletion in accordance with applicable data protection law.
Comment cookies: Normally expire after approximately one year, unless removed earlier through your browser settings.
When personal information is no longer required, we take reasonable steps to delete it securely or anonymise it where appropriate.
We periodically review our retention practices.
9. How we protect your information
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, accidental loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
These measures may include:
- HTTPS encryption for website connections.
- Access controls for website administration.
- Software updates and security maintenance.
- Appropriate authentication and account protection.
- Hosting infrastructure security measures.
No online system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
If we become aware of a personal data breach, we will assess it and comply with any applicable legal notification requirements.
10. Your data protection rights
Under the UK GDPR and applicable UK data protection law, you may have the following rights:
- Right of access: Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
- Right to rectification: Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Right to erasure: Request deletion of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Right to restriction: Ask us to restrict how your information is processed in certain circumstances.
- Right to data portability: Receive certain personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format where the legal conditions apply.
- Right to withdraw consent: Withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent, without affecting processing carried out lawfully before withdrawal.
Right to object: You may object to processing based on our legitimate interests. We will assess your objection and stop the relevant processing unless we have compelling legitimate grounds to continue or another applicable legal justification.
These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal conditions or exemptions.
To exercise your rights, contact:
We may request information reasonably necessary to verify your identity before responding.
We will normally respond without undue delay and within one calendar month, subject to any extension permitted by law.
We do not currently describe any solely automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects concerning visitors.
11. Data protection complaints
If you have concerns about how CTRL + ALT News handles your personal information, you can submit a data protection complaint by emailing:
Please include sufficient information to help us understand and investigate your concern.
We will:
- Acknowledge receipt of your complaint within 30 days.
- Take appropriate steps to investigate it without undue delay.
- Keep you informed about its progress where appropriate.
- Explain the outcome and any action taken, without undue delay.
You also have the right to complain to the UK supervisory authority:
Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
Website: https://ico.org.uk
We welcome the opportunity to address concerns directly, but you are not required to contact us before approaching the ICO.
12. Children’s privacy
CTRL + ALT News publishes general technology news, reviews and educational articles. Our services are not specifically directed at children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information from children under 13 through comments or direct communications.
If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child has submitted personal information to us, please contact ctrlaltnewsuk@outlook.com.
We will review the situation and take appropriate action in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.
13. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in:
- Website features and functionality.
- Privacy practices and service providers.
- Advertising or affiliate programmes.
- Applicable laws and regulatory guidance.
When changes are made, we will update the date displayed at the beginning of this policy.
Where required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain appropriate consent before introducing new processing activities.
14. Contact us
For privacy enquiries, personal data requests or data protection complaints, please contact:
CTRL + ALT News — UK EditionData Controller: Regis Araujo
Email: ctrlaltnewsuk@outlook.com
Website: https://ctrlaltnews.co.uk
Location: United Kingdom
We aim to handle all privacy enquiries fairly, transparently and in accordance with applicable UK law.