This page supplements Spark's master Privacy Policy with disclosures required for visitors in the United Kingdom under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. It does not restate rights already described in the master Privacy Policy — only what UK law adds.
1. Applicability
This page applies to you if you are located in the United Kingdom.
2. Your Rights Under UK Law
The UK GDPR grants you substantially the same rights as the EU GDPR: access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, objection to processing based on legitimate interests, and protection from decisions based solely on automated processing. As noted for EU visitors, Spark's peer-verification and merit-evaluation features reflect the independent judgment of other users, not an automated decision made by Spark.
3. How to Exercise Your Rights
You may exercise these rights by contacting us using the details in Section 7. We will respond within one month of receiving your request, extendable by a further two months for complex or numerous requests, in which case we will notify you.
4. Complaints to the ICO
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if you believe our processing of your personal data violates UK data protection law.
5. Children's Code
The Service requires all users to be at least 16 years old, so the Service is not designed or directed at children as defined by the ICO's Age Appropriate Design Code ("Children's Code"). Consistent with the Children's Code's high-privacy-by-default principle, we apply privacy-protective defaults across the Service regardless of a user's age — including the absence of public vanity metrics and the opt-in, invite-only nature of Trusted Circles. If we become aware that a user is under 16, we will close the account and delete the associated personal data.
6. Clause Overrides
Spark's Terms of Service designate the courts of South Australia and the Federal Court of Australia as the forum for disputes, and Australian law as the governing law, since Spark is an Australian venture. As a UK consumer, you retain the right to bring a claim in the courts of the United Kingdom, and mandatory consumer-protection provisions of UK law continue to apply notwithstanding the Terms of Service's choice of Australian law and forum.
7. Contact
Questions about this page may be directed to privacy@spark.bebulbed.com.