Who We Are

Slop-Eds.com is a community satire website. The data controller for the purposes of UK GDPR is Slop-Eds.com. You can contact us regarding data matters at: hello@slop-eds.com.

What Data We Collect and Why

1. Email Addresses (Newsletter)

If you subscribe to The Weekly Slop-Ed newsletter, we collect your email address. We use this solely to send you our weekly digest of community nominations. We do not share this with third parties for marketing purposes.

• Legal basis: Consent (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(a))
• Retention: Until you unsubscribe or request deletion

2. Email Addresses (Submission Notifications)

After submitting a nomination, you may optionally provide your email address to receive the community's verdict on your submission. This is entirely voluntary.

• Legal basis: Consent (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(a))
• Retention: Until you request deletion

3. Submission Content

When you submit a nomination, we collect the article title, publication, purported author, industry, seniority level, and your reason for nominating it. This content is published publicly on the site as part of the community feed.

• Legal basis: Legitimate interests (UK GDPR Article 6(1)(f)) — operating a community platform
• Retention: Indefinitely, as part of the site archive, unless removal is requested

4. Voting Identifier

To prevent duplicate voting, we generate a random anonymous identifier and store it in your browser's local storage. This identifier contains no personal information and cannot be used to identify you. It is not transmitted to any third party.

• Legal basis: Legitimate interests — operating fair community voting
• Retention: Stored locally in your browser until you clear site data

5. Analytics

We use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-respecting analytics service. Plausible does not use cookies, does not collect personal data, and does not track you across sites. It records only aggregate statistics such as page views and referral sources.

• Legal basis: Legitimate interests — understanding site usage
• Data collected: Aggregated, anonymous page view data only

Where Your Data Is Stored

Submission content, email addresses, and voting records are stored using Supabase, a database platform hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Data may be stored in data centres within the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom. Supabase complies with GDPR requirements. For more information, see Supabase's Privacy Policy.

Data Sharing

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes. We share data only with the service providers listed in this policy (Supabase, Plausible) who process data on our behalf under appropriate data processing agreements. We may disclose data if required by law.

Your Rights Under UK GDPR

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of access — to request a copy of the data we hold about you
• Right to rectification — to request correction of inaccurate data
• Right to erasure — to request deletion of your data ("right to be forgotten")
• Right to restrict processing — to request that we limit how we use your data
• Right to data portability — to receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format
• Right to object — to object to processing based on legitimate interests
• Right to withdraw consent — where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at hello@slop-eds.com. We will respond within one month.

Complaints

If you believe your data has been handled unlawfully, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection supervisory authority.

• Website: ico.org.uk
• Helpline: 0303 123 1113

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page reflects when it was last revised. Continued use of the site following any update constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.