Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 1, 2026 | Last Revised: 2026

This Privacy Policy outlines how Curiouscrew Cartographic & Geographic Insights Ltd. ("Curiouscrewzayppy", "we", "our", or "us"), operating under UK Company No. 13894021 with registered offices at 14 Meridian Terrace, Greenwich Peninsula, London SE10 0ES, United Kingdom, collects, processes, stores, and protects personal data obtained through curiouscrewzayppy.garden.

1. Legal Basis for Data Processing

We process personal data in strict conformity with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR 2016/679). Our lawful bases for processing include:

• Legitimate Interests (Art. 6(1)(f)): Maintaining server stability, preventing fraudulent automated traffic, optimizing cartographic map rendering, and improving user reading experiences.
• Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)): Explicit consent provided by users for non-essential statistical cookies and direct inquiry submissions.
• Legal Obligation (Art. 6(1)(c)): Compliance with statutory accounting, regulatory inquiries, and law enforcement requests.

2. Categories of Information We Collect

We gather only the minimum necessary information required to provide our geographical reference portal:

• Direct Inquiries: When you communicate via our contact forms or editorial email, we collect your name, email address, institutional affiliation, and the contents of your inquiry.
• Technical & Telemetry Data: IP address (anonymized at subnet level), user-agent string, browser version, operating system, referrer URL, timestamps, and page request routes.
• Cookie & State Preferences: Local storage flags indicating your cookie consent choices to avoid repetitive consent dialogues.

3. Purpose and Use of Collected Information

We strictly utilize collected information for the following purposes:

• To provide, maintain, and secure the digital cartographic atlas and database.
• To review and respond to academic inquiries, treaty corrections, and partnership submissions.
• To detect and mitigate malicious network threats, DDoS attacks, and unauthorized web scraping.
• To analyze aggregate, non-personally identifiable readership trends across our enclave articles.

4. Data Retention & International Transfers

We retain inquiry correspondence for a maximum period of 24 months following resolution. Anonymized server logs are purged after 90 days. All servers and data backups reside within secure data centres within the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area (EEA). We do not sell, rent, or lease personal information to any commercial advertising broker.

5. Your Statutory Privacy Rights

Under UK and EU data protection regulations, you possess enforceable rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of Access (Subject Access Request): You may request a copy of personal information we hold about you.
• Right to Rectification: You may request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal records.
• Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You may request the deletion of your personal data where retention is no longer legally mandated.
• Right to Restriction & Objection: You may object to or restrict specific processing operations.

To exercise any statutory right, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: [email protected].

6. Supervisory Authority

If you believe our data processing violates applicable data protection regulations, you have the right to lodge a formal complaint with the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.