Privacy policy

Who we are

AFFHOUSE MEDIA LTD publishes affhouse.org and is the controller of the personal data described on this page. For anything about this policy or your data, write to [email protected].

What we collect

• Newsletter: when you subscribe to the brief, we store your email address, the site language and page you subscribed from, the topics you ticked and the time you gave consent.
• Contact form: when you write to us through the form on the About page, we store your name, email address, topic, message and site language.
• Emails: if you write to one of our addresses, we keep the correspondence.
• Technical data: like any website, our server receives your IP address, browser type and the requested page with each visit, and may keep them in technical logs for security and troubleshooting.

You do not need an account to read AFFHOUSE. We do not run analytics or advertising trackers, and we do not buy reader data.

Article read counts

To show the "Most read" list, an article page sends an anonymous signal when it is opened. We store only a daily total per article: no IP address, cookie or reader identifier. To filter bots and repeated hits, the server keeps your IP address in memory for up to 30 minutes; it is never written to the database.

Cookies and local storage

The public site sets no cookies. If you switch between the dark and light theme, your choice is saved in your browser's local storage and never sent to us. Editors who sign in to the admin area get a session cookie that the login needs to work.

Embedded content and links

Video pages load the YouTube player (youtube-nocookie.com) only after you press play; until then nothing is loaded from YouTube. Event pages can show a map from OpenStreetMap. When they load, your browser connects to these services, which receive your IP address and handle it under their own privacy policies. Partner banners and other links take you to sites with their own rules.

Why we use your data

• Newsletter: your consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)). You can withdraw it at any time.
• Contact form and emails: to answer you, a step you asked us to take and our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f)).
• Technical data and read-count filtering: our legitimate interest in keeping the site secure and the counts honest (Art. 6(1)(f)).

We do not sell, rent or enrich reader data, and we do not use it for profiling or automated decisions.

Who sees it

Only the AFFHOUSE team that runs the site and the brief. Your data stays in the site's own database; we do not pass it to advertisers, data brokers or third-party marketing services. We disclose data to authorities only when the law requires it.

How long we keep it

• Newsletter: until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it.
• Contact messages and emails: as long as we need them to handle your request and any follow-up.
• Technical logs: only as long as needed for security and troubleshooting.
• Read-count filter: up to 30 minutes, in memory only.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask to see, correct, delete, restrict or export your data, object to processing based on our legitimate interest, and withdraw consent at any time. Write to [email protected] from the address in question. Requests are handled within thirty days, usually within two.

You can also complain to Malta's data protection authority, the Information and Data Protection Commissioner (idpc.org.mt), or to the authority in the EU country where you live or work.

Age

AFFHOUSE covers affiliate marketing and the gambling industry and is meant for readers aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect data from minors.

Changes

If we change how we handle data, we update this page and the date at the top.