Our Privacy Policy: The Edge of Existence Commitment

When you’re filming on a granite skerry 230 miles from the nearest permanently inhabited landmass, you learn a thing or two about trust. Out on Rockall, your word is your bond, and respecting the boundaries of your fellow crew members isn’t just polite—it’s essential for survival. We carry that same ethos into the digital world. This privacy policy explains how we handle your information as you explore our blog and follow the journey of our Rockall documentary, The Edge of Existence.

What Information We Collect

To keep you in the loop about our documentary’s release, we need to collect a minimal amount of data. We’re not interested in hoarding information; we simply gather what’s necessary to run this site effectively and share our Rockall story with you.

You might choose to give us your name and email address when you sign up for trailer alerts or leave a comment on one of our behind-the-scenes posts. This is entirely voluntary, and we only use this data to send you the updates you’ve requested or to display your approved comment on the site. Like any vessel navigating the open sea, our website also logs certain technical details automatically—your IP address, browser type, and the date and time of your visit—to keep the site seaworthy and secure against malicious bots.

Our Use of Cookies and Tracking

We use small text files called cookies to ensure the site doesn’t run aground. Our WordPress platform relies on a handful of necessary session cookies to function. Without these, you wouldn’t be able to navigate between pages or submit a comment about our Rockall expedition. These essential cookies don’t track you across other websites and vanish as soon as you close your browser. As soon as you land on our site, a consent banner provided by CookieYes appears, especially for our readers in the United Kingdom. This tool lets you accept or decline non-essential cookies with a single click. You can revisit your preferences at any time by clearing your browser cache and reloading the page.

Analytics and Performance

We want to know if our tales of life on a remote granite islet are reaching the right audience. To do this, we rely on aggregated, anonymised data from Google Analytics 4. This tool tells us things like how many visitors we had from Scotland last week or which blog post about the Rockall documentary trailer is currently trending. We’ve switched on IP anonymisation by default, meaning your full IP address is never written to disk or stored in our reports. We see the general region a visitor comes from, not a pinpoint location, ensuring your reading habits remain private.

Third-Party Services We Rely On

We’re a small film crew, not a tech conglomerate. To keep this site afloat, we partner with a few trusted service providers who handle data on our behalf under strict contractual agreements. When you subscribe for updates, your name and email address are stored securely with Mailchimp. Because Mailchimp’s servers are based in the United States, we’ve ensured they adhere to Standard Contractual Clauses approved for international data transfers. Our website lives on servers managed by SiteGround, with a major data centre right here in London, adding an extra layer of legal certainty for your data.

Your Rights Under UK GDPR

We fully support the robust privacy framework established by the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation. You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you. Whether it’s a comment you left three years ago or a mailing list subscription, we’ll compile the relevant information and deliver it to you within one month of verifying your identity. If you’d rather walk away from the Edge of Existence entirely, you can ask us to erase your personal data. We’ll oblige unless there’s a compelling legal reason to retain it, such as an ongoing contractual obligation or a security investigation.

How Long We Retain Your Data

Different types of data have different shelf lives. We don’t believe in hoarding information indefinitely, but we do keep certain things around to maintain the community we’ve built around this film. When you leave a comment on a blog post, that comment and its metadata are stored indefinitely. This allows us to recognise and approve follow-up comments automatically, keeping the conversation flowing without forcing you to wait in a moderation queue every time. Our Google Analytics 4 property is configured to automatically delete user-level and event-level data after 26 months, purging older records without us lifting a finger.

Getting in Touch About Your Data

We don’t hide behind automated chatbots or faceless contact forms. For any privacy-related requests, including access or deletion demands, please email us directly at [email protected]. We operate out of Scotland, so you can expect a reply in plain English within the statutory timeframe. If you believe we’ve fallen short of our obligations, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. The ICO is our supervisory authority, and they have the power to investigate and enforce data protection standards across the country.

Respecting your privacy is as non-negotiable as our commitment to documenting the truth about Rockall. We didn’t risk the North Atlantic swells to cut corners on integrity, and that applies to how we treat your data as much as it does to how we frame our shots. Thank you for trusting us and for being part of this wild journey to the edge of existence.