1. Categories of Personal Information We Collect About You

We collect the following categories of Personal Information:

• Information you provide. Your email address when you subscribe to our newsletter; your name, email address, company, job title, phone number and message when you complete our contact or advertising forms.
• Activity and device information. Information about how you use our website, such as the pages you view, links you click, your browser type, device type, operating system, approximate location derived from your IP address, and the date and time of your visit.
• Email interaction information. Whether you open our emails and which links you click.
• Information from third parties. Information from our service providers and advertising partners about the performance of our content and advertising.

2. How We Use Your Personal Information

We use Personal Information to:

• Deliver our website, articles and the daily newsletter you ask for.
• Respond to your questions, requests and advertising enquiries.
• Understand how readers use our content so we can improve it.
• Show, measure and improve advertising on our website.
• Keep our website secure and prevent fraud, abuse and spam.
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our rights.

3. How We Disclose the Personal Information We Collect

We do not sell your email address. We disclose Personal Information to:

• Service providers that host our website, store our data, send our emails and provide analytics.
• Advertising partners that serve and measure advertising on our website.
• Professional advisers, authorities and courts where required by law or to protect our rights.
• A successor if we are involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets.

4. Tracking Techniques and Technologies and Targeted Advertising

We and our partners use cookies, pixels, local storage and similar technologies (“Tracking Technologies”) to remember your preferences, measure audience, keep our website working and, where advertising is shown, to deliver and measure ads. Some advertising may be based on your activity across websites over time (“Targeted Advertising”).

5. Opting Out of Third-Party Tracking Technologies

You can limit Tracking Technologies by:

• Changing your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Some features may stop working.
• Using browser extensions or settings that send a Global Privacy Control signal.
• Using the industry opt-out tools at optout.aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.com.

Our website does not currently respond to “Do Not Track” signals, because there is no common standard for them.

6. Understanding Your Privacy Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Know what Personal Information we hold about you and obtain a copy of it.
• Correct inaccurate Personal Information.
• Delete your Personal Information.
• Object to or restrict certain processing, including Targeted Advertising.
• Withdraw consent at any time where we rely on it.
• Complain to your local data protection authority.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.

7. Exercising Your Privacy Rights

To exercise a right, please use our contact form. Please tell us what you would like us to do and the email address we hold for you. We may need to verify your identity before acting on a request, and an authorized agent or a parent or guardian may submit a request on your behalf with proof of authority. We aim to respond within 30 days.

8. Opting Out of Marketing Communications

You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time using the unsubscribe link in every email. After you unsubscribe we will stop sending newsletters, but may still send essential messages about your requests.

9. Retention

We keep Personal Information only as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy, including to meet legal, accounting or reporting requirements. Newsletter subscriptions are kept until you unsubscribe. Contact and advertising enquiries are kept for as long as needed to handle them and for a reasonable period afterwards.

10. Security of Your Personal Information

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect Personal Information, including encrypted connections and restricted access. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. Third-Party Links

Our website links to third-party websites and social media platforms. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, so please read their policies before sharing information with them.

12. Publicly Posting Personal Information

If you share Personal Information in a public place, such as a social media post that mentions us, it may be read, collected or used by others. We are not responsible for that use.

13. International Transfers

Our service providers may process Personal Information in countries other than your own, which may have different data protection rules. Where required, we use appropriate safeguards for these transfers.

14. Children

Our website is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their Personal Information. If you believe a child has given us Personal Information, please contact us and we will delete it.

15. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our practices, please use our contact form.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the updated version here and change the “Last Updated” date. If a change is significant, we will give additional notice where required.