Privacy Policy

Last updated – 21 March 2026

The following privacy policy describes how TelescopicWatch UK (“we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, protects and safeguards data that can be classified as personal and non-personal identification information. We are committed to protecting your privacy while providing the best possible experience for amateur astronomers.

Personal identification information

In order for our sites’ features to work at maximum capacity, we may ask our readers to share personally identifiable information. This process typically happens when you:

Visit our site or make a comment on an article.
Contact us for enquiries or astronomy advice.
Participate in an email promotion or survey.

This includes “Identity Data” (your name or username) and “Contact Data” (your email address). All private information is supplied voluntarily, though choosing not to provide information may affect your ability to use certain features on our site.

Non-personal identification information

Information that cannot be traced back to you is also collected while you are surfing our site to provide a better user experience.

Technical Data: Third-party applications we use may collect non-identifiable data such as your IP address, country, device type, browser, and internet service provider. We use this to provide relevant advertisements and localised resources.

Usage Data: To assess how our articles perform, we look at metrics like time on site, bounce rate, and pages visited. This data is used internally to make our astronomy guides even better for our readers.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), we only process your data when we have a legal reason to do so. This is usually based on:

Consent: When you opt-in to a newsletter.
Legitimate Interests: When we need to secure our site or improve our content.
Legal Obligation: If we are required by UK law to hold certain records.

Policies Regarding Website Cookies

You can choose to turn off cookies in your browser settings at any time. However, if cookies are disabled, we can’t assure that all parts of our site will perform as they are intended to.

How Do We Use Your Data?

We take the utmost care to protect your private data. All information is stored with multiple levels of security to avoid misuse.

How we use it:

To effectively communicate with users
To provide a better site experience for users
To send bulk emails to interested users
To display targeted advertisements
To retarget you to resources related to your own country
To keep the site secure from “scammers” and unauthorised access.
To modify a particular content section
To make our articles better

How Well Protected Are Your Data?

We take the utmost importance to protect your private data. All privacy pieces of information are stored with multiple levels of security to avoid misuses.

Online safety is not easy with all sorts of software getting updated all the time, thus causing small errors that can be exploited by talented scammers. Online safety isn’t something we can give a 100% guarantee on. But we do everything in our capacity. Our websites are hosted by reputable website managers who take security measures like the safety firewall.

How Do We Deal With Third Parties and Your Data?

We do not sell your personal data for monetary gain unless we have your explicit consent. Some data is shared directly with third parties (like Google or Amazon) to provide site services.

What Happens To Your Data When We Partner Up?

If we sell our site, partially or fully, your data will also be carried over to the new partner/owner. But we will make sure that the new partner agrees with the privacy policy of ours at the time of the partnership.

Your Legal Rights

As a UK resident, you have specific rights regarding your data:

The Right to Access: You can ask for a copy of the data we hold on you.
The Right to Erasure: You can ask us to “forget” you or delete your comments/account.
The Right to Withdraw Consent: You can unsubscribe from our emails at any time. To exercise these rights, please contact us via our Contact Page.

Contact and Complaints

If you feel we haven’t handled your data correctly, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK’s data protection regulator (www.ico.org.uk).