Privacy Policy

Last Minute Continue (“LMC”) is dedicated to respecting and protecting your privacy. This privacy policy applies to this website, and other related services (each defined as a “Service”) that refers or links to this privacy policy. This privacy policy may be supplemented by additional privacy statements, terms or notices provided to you.

This Privacy Policy was initially posted on 4 January 2024 and subsequent updates will be noted at this point.

Who we are

LMC is a website covering several avenues, acting as a hub for entertainment content. It presents audio files (podcasts, radio show recordings), comics and videos focused on the video game sector, historically around the SEGA brand and Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. It also acts as a repository of news, information, audiovisual media and entertainment in the aforementioned categories relating to the history of the communities it has been a part of. LMC is a collective of individuals, but is based primarily in the United Kingdom. LastMinuteContinue.com is an extension of the Last Minute Continue and Sonic Wrecks brands, seen across social media and serves an international audience. LMC staff and contributors are volunteers. Our website is https://lastminutecontinue.com, and users can contact LMC via our general contact email at contact[at]lastminutecontinue.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form as the standard component of the WordPress service. This incorporates the comment you have left, the name given, the email address, a related URL should one have been left and the visitor’s IP address, as well as a browser user agent string which is used to help spam detection.

An anonymised 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 at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment, including those values defined by the Gravatar service (if applicable).

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

In leaving a comment on our website 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

There is no general login to the service for visitors. For contributors, 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, social media posts, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website, and is formatted per WordPress standards.

These websites/online services 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.

Who we share your data with

LMC only collects user data in order to improve the visitor experience on-site. These improvements range from convenience – such as keeping registered users logged in to make multiple comments on the website, to recommending content based on the news stories you have visited most frequently.

No personal information gathered on the LMC website will be be sold, rented or leased to third parties.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service, such as the Jetpack, or the Akismet WordPress mod.

No personally identifiable data is ever transmitted externally – including to Automattic. You can see exactly what kind of information is handled by Automattic by going to their Cookie Policy page and reading the “Visitors to Sites with Jetpack installed” section.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilises the Data collected to track and examine the use of this website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. You can find its Privacy Policy here.

reCAPTCHA

This site uses a CAPTCHA to ensure humans are performing certain actions. The CAPTCHA provider may set a session cookie and get information about your internet browser and device accessing this website .You can find a Privacy Policy related to this here.

Additional information

How we protect your data

LMC takes precautions to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and misuse and unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and destruction through the use of appropriate technical and organisational measures.