College Hobbies ("we", "us", "our") is an independent editorial travel publication operating collegehobbies.com. Our registered contact address is VUNE1183 Compass Building, Al Hulaila Industrial Zone-FZ, Al Hulaila, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates. If you have any questions about this policy, email hello@collegehobbies.com.
We collect the following categories of information:
We use your data to deliver the newsletter you asked for, respond to your enquiries, understand which stories readers find useful, prevent fraud and abuse, and comply with our legal obligations. We do not sell your personal data to third parties.
We rely on the following lawful bases: consent for marketing emails and non-essential cookies, legitimate interests for basic site analytics and security, and contract where you have signed up for a reader account.
We use a small number of trusted processors to run the site: our hosting provider, our email newsletter platform, a privacy-first analytics provider, and standard security services (spam and bot filtering). Each processor is bound by a data-processing agreement and is only permitted to use your data on our instructions.
When you click an affiliate link on College Hobbies — for example a booking, flight or gear link — the merchant may set a cookie so it can attribute the referral. That cookie is set by the merchant, not by us, and is governed by the merchant's own privacy policy.
Under UK GDPR you have the right to access your data, correct it, request deletion, restrict processing, object to processing, and receive a portable copy. You can exercise any of these rights by emailing hello@collegehobbies.com. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).
We keep newsletter subscriptions until you unsubscribe. Contact-form messages are kept for 24 months. Analytics data is retained for 14 months and then deleted or fully anonymised.
Some processors we use are based outside the UK. Where that is the case, transfers are covered by the UK's International Data Transfer Agreement or by adequacy regulations.
We update this policy from time to time. The current version is always available at this URL and dated at the bottom.