Privacy policy

The short version

We don’t sell your data. We don’t build a profile on you. We run analytics to see which articles people read, and affiliate links that tell a retailer we sent you. If you contact us, we keep your message so we can reply. That’s about it.

The detail below is the formal version, because the law rightly requires specifics.

Who we are

This site, The Clash Test (theclashtest.com), is operated by Andrew Nolan , based in the United Kingdom. We are the “data controller” for the personal data described here.

Contact for privacy matters: appsparktechnologies@gmail.com

What we collect, and why

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand which pages are read and how people find us. It sets cookies and collects data including your approximate location, device and browser, pages viewed, and how you arrived.

Lawful basis: consent. You can withdraw it at any time via your cookies settings.

Affiliate links

Some links to retailers are affiliate links. Clicking one may set a cookie in your browser so the retailer knows we referred you. We don’t see your payment details or what else you bought — typically only anonymous, aggregated data about whether a sale occurred. Once you land on the retailer’s site, their privacy policy governs what they do with your data, not ours.

See our affiliate disclosure for how this works commercially.

Lawful basis: consent.

If you contact us

If you use our contact form or email us, we receive whatever you send — typically your name, email address, and message. We use it to reply to you and nothing else. We don’t add you to any mailing list from a contact form.

Lawful basis: legitimate interests (responding to an enquiry you chose to send us).
Retention: we keep enquiries for up to 6 months, then delete them.

Comments

If you leave a comment, we collect the name, email address and content you submit, plus your IP address and browser user agent, which helps with spam detection. Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely so follow-up replies make sense.

Server logs and security

Our hosting provider Hostinger keeps standard server logs, which may include your IP address, browser type, and the pages requested. These exist to keep the site running and secure.

Lawful basis: legitimate interests (site security and reliability).

Cookies

[THIS SECTION DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON WHAT YOU DECIDE ABOUT CONSENT — SEE THE GUIDE. It must list, at minimum: what cookies are set, what each is for, who sets them, roughly how long they last, and how to refuse or withdraw consent. If you install a consent tool, it can generate and maintain this list for you, which is the sane option.]

You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings, though some parts of the site may not work as intended if you do.

Who we share data with

We don’t sell your personal data, and we never will. We do use service providers who process data on our behalf:

• Hostinger — hosting and server logs
• Google Analytics — analytics
• Amazon Associates — referral tracking

We may also disclose data where we’re legally required to.

International transfers

Some of these providers are based outside the UK, which means your data may be transferred internationally. Where that happens, we rely on the safeguards those providers have in place — typically UK adequacy regulations or the International Data Transfer Agreement / Addendum.

How long we keep things

We keep personal data only as long as we need it for the purpose it was collected, then delete it. Specifics are given in each section above.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you have the right to:

• Ask what personal data we hold about you, and get a copy of it.
• Have inaccurate data corrected.
• Have your data erased in certain circumstances.
• Restrict or object to how we process it, including objecting to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Withdraw consent at any time, where we rely on consent.
• Ask for your data in a portable format, in certain circumstances.

To exercise any of these, email appsparktechnologies@gmail.com. We’ll respond within one month. There’s no charge.

Complaints

If you think we’ve handled your data badly, please tell us first — email appsparktechnologies@gmail.com and we’ll look into it properly.

You also have the right to complain to the UK’s data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint, or by calling their helpline. You don’t have to come to us first, though we’d rather you did.

Children

This site isn’t aimed at children, and we don’t knowingly collect data from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact us and we’ll delete it.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle data, we’ll update this page and change the date below. If the change is significant, we’ll say so clearly rather than hoping you don’t notice.

Last updated: 15th May 2026