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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 04/03/2026


1. Introduction

Welcome to Friday Clicks, a publication owned and operated by Tollgates Consulting Ltd ("we", "us", or "our"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy informs you how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
  • Contact Data: Includes email address and telephone numbers.
  • Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, products, and services across our diverse content pillars (including but not limited to Business, Technology, Finance, Entertainment, Wellbeing, Travel, Science, Environment, Food & Drink, and Culture & Society).
  • Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

3. How Your Personal Data Is Collected

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
  • Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
  • Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties, including analytics providers (such as Google), advertising networks, and affiliate networks.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • To provide you with content and updates across our editorial topics, including, but not limited to, Business, Technology, Finance, Entertainment, Wellbeing, Travel, Science, Environment, Food & Drink, and Culture & Society.
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.


5. Affiliate Disclosure & Third-Party Links

Friday Clicks contains links to third-party websites and affiliate partners. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. These third parties (such as Amazon or other retail partners) may use cookies to track your purchase for the purpose of assigning commission. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

6. 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, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

7. Data Retention & Marketing

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

Specific to Marketing:

  • Active Engagement: We retain your contact information for marketing purposes only as long as you remain an active subscriber to Friday Clicks.
  • The Right to Opt-Out: You have the absolute right to object to direct marketing at any time. Every marketing communication we send includes a clear, one-click unsubscribe link.
  • Post-Unsubscribe: If you choose to unsubscribe, we will immediately cease sending you marketing materials. However, we will retain your email address on a dedicated "suppression list" to ensure we honour your opt-out request in all future communications.
  • Inactive Leads: To maintain data minimisation, we regularly review our database. If you have not engaged with our content (e.g., opened an email or clicked a link) for a period of [e.g., 18 or 24] months, we aim to securely delete or anonymise your data, unless we are required to keep it for a separate legal or consultancy purpose via Tollgates Consulting Ltd.


8. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of your personal data.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to processing of your personal data.
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
  • Request transfer of your personal data.
  • Right to withdraw consent.

9. Contact Details

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact our team:

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