At Sex Toy Reviews UK we believe very strongly in keeping your personal information confidential. This describes what information is collected when you visit this website and how it is used and shared.

What information is collected?

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies / IP address tracking

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

With whom information is shared

None of your information will be shared with anyone else unless specifically required, i.e. to arrange delivery of competition prizes. It is not shared elsewhere.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Opting out

If you receive any communication from this website in the future, you will always have the option to opt out.

Third party advertising

Third party advertisers may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., IP addresses, click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you.

These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information.

Google Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics. This does not identify you.

Disclosures

Affiliate links

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Amazon Associates Disclosure

This website is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk.

If you use this link to shop at Amazon we will make a small commission which assists in the running of this site:

Reviews and sponsored posts

Where we have been sent PR samples free for review we will always make this clear in the post itself.

Where links have been paid for by a company or brand, this will be marked as sponsored links or collaborative.

If editorial control has been passed to a brand, for example where we have been paid to write about a topic and to include specific details, or where the brand has had the final say on copy, this will be disclosed as advertorial or a paid post.

Competition terms

Please refer to the individual Gleam widget for specific T&Cs. 

By entering any of my prize draws you are accepting these terms and conditions.

The specified number of winners will be drawn by random selection from entrants who have met the specified criteria (eg. those that have re-tweeted and followed) after the competition end date.

No purchase is necessary.

The winner will be selected at random and contacted within a week of competition close.

The prize is as stated. The prize is non-transferable and there is no cash alternative.

This competition is open to UK residents over the age of 18 only unless otherwise stated.

Should we be unable to contact the winner, or should the winner be unable to confirm their acceptance of the prize within 3 days of contacting them, we reserve the right to award the prize to an alternative winner.

In order to receive their prize, the winner is required to provide their full name and address (and possibly phone number, dependent on the method of dispatch) which will be provided to the brand supplying the prize.

Unless stated, the prize is provided by a third party brand and not by this website.