STARBURST

Welcome to star-burst.co.uk. This Privacy Policy outlines how Starburst Entertainment Ltd. ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, protects, and shares your personal data when you visit and interact with our website, star-burst.co.uk.

We are dedicated to providing a secure and transparent online experience, especially given the nature of the content we provide (information about the Starburst™ slot game). Your trust is paramount, and we are committed to complying with all applicable data protection laws, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

1. Who We Are

Starburst Entertainment Ltd. operates the website star-burst.co.uk. We are a company registered in England and Wales.

For the purposes of data protection law, Starburst Entertainment Ltd. is the data controller responsible for your personal data collected via this website.

2. Our Commitment to Your Privacy

We understand that you are in a vulnerable position when engaging with gambling-related content, even on a free-play or informational site. Learn more about our responsible gambling commitment. Your financial well-being and personal data security are serious matters. This Privacy Policy is designed to:

• Be Transparent: Clearly explain what data we collect and why.
• Build Trust: Demonstrate our commitment to responsible data handling and compliance.
• Reassure: Address common concerns about data security, fairness, and legitimacy.
• Be Accessible: Use clear, straightforward language, avoiding unnecessary legal jargon.

3. The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data: Your name, username, or similar identifier (if you choose to provide it, e.g., for a newsletter signup).
• Contact Data: Billing address, email address, telephone numbers (if you provide them).
• Technical Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, 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: Information about how you use our website, including pages viewed, links clicked, duration of visit, and specific interactions with the Starburst™ game demo (e.g., spin counts, bet levels used in demo, features triggered in demo, game settings adjustments, navigation through paytable screens). This helps us understand user engagement and improve the game information presented.
• Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

4. 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, Contact, and Marketing and Communications Data by filling in forms or corresponding with us by email. This includes personal data you provide when you:
  • Subscribe to our newsletter or other publications.
  • Contact us with an enquiry or feedback.
• Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical and Usage Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
  • Gameplay Data: When you play the Starburst™ demo game on our site, we record anonymized data related to your interaction, such as:
    • The number of spins you make.
    • The bet levels and coin values you select (in demo currency).
    • Which symbols appear and which features (like Starburst™ Wilds) are triggered.
    • Win amounts (in demo currency).
    • Your navigation within the game's interface (e.g., opening the paytable, adjusting settings).
    This data helps us analyze game engagement and ensure the demo functions correctly. It is not linked to your personal identity.
• Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties:
  • Technical Data from analytics providers (e.g., Yandex.Metrica, as detailed below).

5. 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:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., to send you a newsletter you subscribed to).
• 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.

We rely on the following lawful bases for processing your personal data:

Purpose/Activity	Type of Data Collected	Lawful Basis for Processing
To register you as a new subscriber	Identity, Contact, Marketing & Communications	Performance of a contract with you
To manage our relationship with you	Identity, Contact, Marketing & Communications	Performance of a contract with you; Legitimate interests (keeping our records updated)
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you	Technical, Usage, Marketing & Communications	Legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business)
To improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences	Technical, Usage	Legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products/services, to keep our website updated and relevant)
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences	Technical, Usage	Legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business)
To comply with legal or regulatory obligations	Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage	Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

6. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with the following parties for the purposes set out in Section 5:

• Service Providers: We engage third-party service providers to help us operate our website, such as hosting providers, email service providers, and analytics providers. These service providers are only permitted to use your data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
• Affiliate Partners: This site may contain links to third-party online gambling operators. These links may be part of affiliate programs, meaning we may earn a commission if you click through and engage with their services. When you click on these links, you will leave star-burst.co.uk and be subject to the terms and privacy policies of that third-party operator. We only link to reputable, licensed operators. Check out our bonuses section for trusted partners.
• Regulators and Law Enforcement: We may disclose your personal data to regulators, government authorities, and law enforcement agencies where required by law or to protect our legal rights, property, or safety, or the safety of others.
• Professional Advisers: Including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
• Third Parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. Read our full terms and conditions for more details. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

7. International Transfers

We are based in the UK, but some of our service providers may be located outside the UK or European Economic Area (EEA), meaning their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the UK/EEA.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK/EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

• We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the UK government or European Commission.
• Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the UK government or European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK/EEA.

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the UK/EEA.

8. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. Learn more about us and our security practices. This includes:

• Encryption: Using SSL/TLS encryption for data in transit.
• Access Controls: Limiting access to your personal data to employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
• Regular Audits: Regularly reviewing our security practices and updating them as necessary.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

9. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements.

10. Your Legal Rights

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

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at [email protected]. Visit our contacts page for additional ways to reach us.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we could refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

11. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

We use the following categories of cookies:

12. Responsible Gambling

13. Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Visit our UK section for region-specific information. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review. Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. We encourage you to review this page periodically for the latest information on our privacy practices. Return to our homepage for the latest updates.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 10 October 2024.

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact our Data Protection Officer (DPO) at: