Privacy Policy

Last updated: 03/04/26

Who we are

PerlaComps (“we”, “us”, or “our”) operates the website: Perla Comps. We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the information entered into the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent details. This helps us detect and prevent spam.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be shared with the Gravatar service to check whether you use it. You can view the Gravatar privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/

Once your comment is approved, your profile picture (if using Gravatar) will be visible publicly alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract any location data from images published on the site.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our website, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website details in cookies. These are for your convenience so you do not need to re-enter your details next time. These cookies persist for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will place a temporary cookie to check whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is removed when you close your browser.

When you log in, we set additional cookies to save login details and display preferences. Login cookies last for two days; screen option cookies last for one year. If you choose “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. Logging out removes login cookies.

If you edit or publish content, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser identifying the post ID of what you edited. It contains no personal data and expires after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Pages on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, social media feeds, or articles. Embedded content behaves as if you have visited the originating website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, track your interactions with the embedded content, and monitor usage if you are logged in to their platform.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

We may also share your information with trusted third-party services used to run our competitions, process payments, manage marketing activity, analytics, and fraud-prevention tools.

How long we retain your data

If you submit a comment, the comment and its associated metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognise and approve future comments automatically.

For users who register on our site, we store the personal information provided in their account profile. Users may view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (excluding usernames). Website administrators can view and edit this information.

Competition entry details may be retained for as long as necessary to meet legal, financial, or audit requirements.

Your rights over your data

If you hold an account on our website or have left comments, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including information you have provided.

You may also ask us to erase any personal data we hold about you — except where we are required to retain data for:

• legal compliance;
• security;
• administrative reasons.

Requests can be made via our website contact form or email: contact@perlacomps.com.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked via an automated spam detection service.

Some data (such as payment details, form submissions, emails, or analytics) may be processed by trusted third-party service providers. Some of these providers may operate outside the UK/EEA; where this occurs, appropriate data-protection safeguards are applied.

Payment information

Payments on our website are handled by secure third-party payment processors. We do not store full card details on our servers.

Contact us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your data is used, please contact us via: contact@perlacomps.com or Perla Comps