Privacy Policy
Effective date: 17/09/2026 · Last updated: 17/09/2026
This policy explains how Corporate Ace Limited collects and uses personal data when you visit M42 Traffic (m42traffic.co.uk), part of the UK Traffic News network. You do not need an account, and you do not need to give us any personal details, to read our traffic news.
Who we are
Corporate Ace Limited is the data controller for this website.
- Registered in England and Wales, company number 04435502
- Registered office: 24 St. Marys Way, Burghfield Common, Reading, England, RG7 3YR
- Registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office: Z1734656
- Email:
What we collect, why, and on what legal basis
Server records and visitor statistics
What: like most websites, our web server keeps a record of each request: the page visited, the date and time, the page that sent you to us, your IP address, and the browser information your device sends, from which we can tell the browser, operating system and type or model of device. We analyse these records with statistics software that runs on our own servers.
Why: to keep the site secure (including spotting and blocking abusive and automated traffic), to keep it working, and to understand which pages are used so we can improve them.
Legal basis: legitimate interests.
Kept for: up to 6 years (2,190 days). Statistics that have been added up into totals, and no longer identify anyone, may be kept for longer.
Approximate location
What: an approximate location, such as country or town, worked out from your IP address. We do not collect GPS or precise location.
Why: visitor statistics.
Legal basis: legitimate interests.
Kept for: up to 6 years (2,190 days).
Email correspondence
What: if you email us, your name, your email address and what you write.
Why: to reply to you and keep a record of the correspondence.
Legal basis: legitimate interests.
Kept for: up to 6 years (2,190 days).
Analytics cookies
What: if you allow analytics cookies, Google Analytics records how you use the site, such as the pages you view and how you move between them. Google provides us with reports that are anonymous and added up across many visitors, which can include age range, gender and interests. We cannot use these reports to identify you.
Why: to understand our audience and improve the site.
Legal basis: consent.
Kept for: the cookies are stored on your device; our Cookie Policy explains how to manage and delete them.
Advertising cookies and cookie choices
What: if you allow them, cookies set by Google and its partners that record your interests so adverts can be personalised, and a record of the cookie choices you make on our consent banner.
Why: to show adverts, which pay for this free service, and to respect your choices.
Legal basis: consent.
Kept for: the cookies are stored on your device; our Cookie Policy explains how to manage and delete them.
Advertising
We show adverts through Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet. You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings, and read how Google uses information from sites that use its services. You can change your cookie choices at any time through the consent banner on this site.
If you follow or interact with our UK Traffic News Facebook page, Meta provides us with statistics about our followers that are added up across many people. Meta’s own privacy policy applies to what you do on Facebook.
Where your data comes from
From your device when you visit the site, and from you if you email us. We do not obtain personal data about you from other organisations or from public sources. You are not required by law or by any contract to give us personal data.
Who we share it with
- Service providers who handle data on our behalf: our web hosting provider, Google (advertising and analytics), Cookie-Script (cookie consent) and Zoho (email).
- A buyer or successor, if our business or its assets are sold, merged or transferred.
- Anyone we are required to share it with by law.
We do not sell your personal data.
Transfers outside the UK
Some of our service providers, including Google, may process data outside the UK. Where that happens, it is protected by the safeguards UK data protection law requires, such as UK adequacy regulations or approved contract terms.
Your rights
Under UK data protection law you have the right to:
- ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you
- ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data
- ask us to delete your data, in certain circumstances
- ask us to restrict how we use your data, in certain circumstances
- object to our use of your data where we rely on legitimate interests
- receive your data in a portable format, in certain circumstances
- withdraw your consent at any time, through the consent banner on this site. Withdrawing consent does not affect anything done before you withdrew it
To use any of these rights, email or write to our registered office. We may need to confirm your identity first. We will respond within one month, or tell you within that month if a complex request needs up to two more months.
Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, please contact us first. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.
Security
We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data, and access to it is limited to those who need it. No system is completely secure.
Changes to this policy
We review this policy from time to time. Any change takes effect when it is published here, and the date at the top of this page will change. See also our Cookie Policy.