Welcome to baberankings.com (“we,” “us,” “our”). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we collect from you, how we use it, our legal basis for processing, and your rights regarding your data when you use our website baberankings.com (the “Site”).

2. An Important Notice on Age Restriction

This Site is intended exclusively for use by adults. You must be at least 18 years old (or the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction) to use our Site.

We do not knowingly collect, use, or store personal data from individuals under the age of 18.

3. What Personal Data We Collect and Why

We collect and process data in the following ways:

a) Data You Provide to Us Directly

  • Contact Information: If you contact us via email or a contact form, we will collect your name, email address, and the content of your message. We use this data solely to respond to your inquiry.

b) Data We Collect Automatically (Technical & Usage Data)

When you visit our Site, we automatically collect certain technical information about your device and your Browse activity. This data helps us improve our Site and provide a better service. This includes:

  • Log Data: Information such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, and the pages you visited on our Site.
  • Analytics Data via Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors engage with our Site. It uses cookies to collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come from, and the pages they visited. We have activated IP anonymisation, so your full IP address is not stored by Google.

For more information, please see our Cookie Policy – baberankings.com/cookie-policy.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

  • To operate, maintain, and improve our Site, content, and services.
  • To perform statistical analysis of user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the Site (on an aggregated basis).
  • To respond to your comments, questions, and support requests.
  • To protect the security and integrity of our Site.

5. Our Legal Basis for Processing Data

We must have a legal basis for processing your personal data. Our legal bases are:

  • Legitimate Interests: We process your technical and usage data to maintain and analyse our website, which we consider a legitimate interest in operating and improving our online presence.
  • Consent: If we ever ask for your data for other purposes (such as signing up for a newsletter), we will ask for your explicit consent, which you can withdraw at any time.

6. Data Sharing and Third Parties

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data. We may share your data with the following third parties for the purposes described above:

  • Service Providers: Google Analytics provides us with website analytics. Google is a “data processor” acting on our behalf.
  • Affiliate Partners: When you click on an affiliate link on our Site, you will be redirected to a third-party merchant’s website. These sites have their own privacy policies and data collection practices. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any external websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

7. International Data Transfers

Some of our third-party service providers (like Google) are based in the United States. This means that your data may be transferred to and stored in a country with different data protection laws.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Anonymised analytics data from Google Analytics is retained for a period of [e.g., 26 months] before being automatically deleted. Correspondence will be retained for a reasonable period as required to handle the inquiry.

9. Your Data Protection Rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
  • Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at baberankings.com/contact. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data.

10. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way. However, please note that no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure.

11. How to Complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at baberankings.com/contact.