Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 24 May 2026

Who we are

Our website address is: https://startupdeals.uk.

StartGround is operated by Press Digital Limited, incorporated in England and Wales under company registration number 12416113, with its registered office at 53 Sheen Lane, London, England, SW14 8AB (VAT number GB 346563384). In this policy, “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to Press Digital Limited. We are the data controller responsible for your personal data.

This policy also covers our community platform at community.startupdeals.uk.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Deals, partner links, and affiliate tracking

StartGround presents software deals, discounts, and offers from third-party partners, and some of the links on our site are affiliate or referral links. When you click a partner link, the partner or an affiliate network may set cookies or use other tracking technologies to record that the referral came from StartGround, so that any commission can be attributed to us. This tracking is carried out by those third parties under their own privacy policies, and the data they collect is outside our control. Once you leave our site and visit a partner, your information is handled in accordance with that partner’s privacy policy.

Newsletter and marketing

If you subscribe to our newsletter or submit your email to receive deals, we collect and store your email address in order to send you the deals, offers, and updates you have requested. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in our emails or by contacting us. We process this data on the basis of your consent.

Memberships and subscriptions

If you join our community or purchase a Premium subscription, we collect the information needed to create and manage your account, such as your name, email address, and account preferences. Payments for Premium subscriptions are processed by third-party payment providers; we do not store full payment card details ourselves. Those providers process your payment information under their own privacy policies. We process this data to perform our contract with you and, where relevant, to comply with our legal and accounting obligations.

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 data with service providers who help us operate the site and our community, such as hosting providers, email and newsletter services, payment processors, analytics providers, and spam detection services. These providers process data on our behalf and only as instructed by us. We do not sell your personal data.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

As you are based in the UK or the wider European region, you also have rights under data protection law to access, correct, restrict, object to, or request portability of your personal data, and to withdraw consent where we rely on it. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk if you are unhappy with how we have handled your data.

Where we send your data

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

How to contact us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or how we handle your data, please contact us via our contact page.