Privacy Policy
Contents
Introduction
What personal information do we collect about you?
What do we use your personal information for?
Our legal basis for using your personal information
How can you access and update your personal information?
How long do we keep your personal information for?
Who do we share your personal information with?
Using children’s personal information
Will my information be sent overseas?
How we may contact you
Your data rights
Information for California residents
Exercising your rights, asking questions and raising concerns
Contact details for exercising your rights, asking questions and raising concerns
Introduction
At The Independent we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This privacy policy is for visitors to our websites, apps and other digital platforms. It sets out how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal data that we hold about you. It also gives information on how to exercise your legal rights. In this policy ‘we’ and ‘our’ means Independent Digital News and Media Limited.
When you provide us with your personal data you allow us to improve your experience of our products and services as well as helping to support our quality journalism. The majority of The Independent’s articles are free to read, so we rely on targeted advertising to fund our journalism.
Personal information is any information that can identify you and can include:
· Your name, email address, and year of birth, home address (if you’ve asked us to send something to your home address).
· Information about your device (your computer, mobile, tablet etc). For example your unique device ID, advertising ID, type of browser, and IP address. An IP address is a numerical code which identifies your device. It can provide information about the country, region or city where you are based.
· How you browse our websites, such as the pages you visit and links you click on.
· Details of products or services you buy, for example a subscription to The Independent.
· Debit or credit card details if you buy a product or service (these are collected via a secure third party payment provider and are not held on our systems).
When we refer to “personal information” in this policy, we are referencing “personal data” as defined under UK and EU data protection law, as well as “personal information” as it is defined under California law.
What personal information do we collect about you?
We collect your personal information in one of the following ways, in line with the relevant data protection laws:
1. Information you give us e.g. when you register for an account, comment on an article, purchase a product or service or download one of our apps on your mobile device.
2. Information from your devices when you visit our website or app through the use of cookies and similar technologies e.g. device type and ID, advertising ID and IP address.
3. Information we generate about you e.g. we give you a unique ID to remember you when you’re logged in.
4. Information we receive about you from other organisations, including social media logins.
More information about this is set out below.
What do we use your personal information for?
1) Personal information you provide directly to us.
When you register for an account to read Premium articles.
If you want to receive a select number of Premium articles a week you will need to register for an account. We will ask for your first name, email
