Privacy policy

At Dark Days Survival — preparedness, gear and self-reliance for hard times we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personal data you share with us. This policy explains what information we collect, for what purpose we process it and what rights you have.

Data processing is carried out in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Data controller

• Controller:
• Website: darkdayssurvival.com/
• Contact: via the contact form

What data do we collect?

This site is a free-access publication: you do not need to register or provide any personal data to read its content. We only process data in the following cases:

• Contact form: name, email address and the content of the message you send.
• Browsing data: IP address, browser and device type, pages visited and time on site, collected in aggregated form through cookies and analytics tools.

We do not collect special category data (health, ideology, beliefs, sexual orientation or ethnic origin) and we do not knowingly process data of children under 14.

Purpose and lawfulness

• Handling your enquiries: replying to messages sent through the contact form. Legal basis: your consent when sending them.
• Analysing site usage: building aggregated audience statistics to improve the content and the working of the site. Legal basis: your consent to analytics cookies.
• Showing affiliate advertising: this site includes links and banners from affiliate programmes, including the Amazon Associates Programme. Legal basis: your consent to advertising cookies.
• Security and maintenance: technical logging of access to prevent fraudulent use. Legal basis: legitimate interest.

Data retention

Messages received through the contact form are kept for the time needed to deal with your enquiry and, afterwards, for the legally required period to address potential liabilities. Browsing data is kept for the periods set by each analytics tool.

Recipients and international transfers

We do not sell or hand over your personal data to third parties. The following providers do act as data processors:

• Web hosting provider, where the site and its access logs reside.
• Google Analytics (Google Ireland Limited), for audience statistics.
• Affiliate programmes, such as Amazon, when you click a sponsored link.

Some of these providers may carry out international data transfers outside the European Economic Area, under the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission or adequacy decisions.

Cookies

We use first-party and third-party cookies. You can check the details of each type, its purpose and how to disable them in our Cookie Policy.

Links to other sites

Our content may link to third-party websites. This privacy policy applies only to this site, so we recommend reviewing the policy of every site you visit through those links.

Your rights

You may exercise the following rights at any time:

• Access: to know which of your data we process.
• Rectification: to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Erasure: to request that we delete your data when it is no longer necessary.
• Objection: to object to a specific processing operation.
• Restriction: to ask us to suspend processing in certain circumstances.
• Portability: to receive your data in a structured, commonly used format.
• Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.

To exercise them, write to us through the contact form stating the right you wish to exercise.

Security

We apply reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect data against loss, misuse or unauthorised access, including encrypted transmission over HTTPS.

Changes to this policy

We may update this privacy policy to adapt it to legislative changes or to the working of the site. We recommend reviewing it periodically.