Privacy policy

NewsWLD is the controller of the personal data described here. For any privacy question or request, email [email protected].

• When you read: technical data your browser sends (IP address, browser type, the page requested and the time), kept in server logs for security and to keep the service running.
• A count of premium articles you have opened this month, stored in a cookie on your device so the free article allowance works. Article view totals are stored per article, not per person.
• If you create an account: your name, email address, a securely hashed password, your saved articles and your newsletter choices.
• If you subscribe: your subscription plan and status. Payments are handled by Stripe; we never receive or store your full card number.
• If you sign up for newsletters: your email address and which newsletters you chose.
• If you contact us: the message and the details you include.

We use a small number of cookies and browser storage:

• Essential: keeping you signed in to your reader account, the monthly free article count, hiding ads for subscribers, and remembering your cookie choice. These are needed for the features you ask for.
• Preferences: your light or dark theme, stored in your browser only.
• Measurement: Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics help us understand which stories are read, in aggregate.
• Advertising: Google AdSense may use cookies to show and measure ads, and, where you allow it, to personalise them. You can manage Google ad personalisation at adssettings.google.com.

Your choice: a banner lets you accept all cookies or keep only essential ones, and "Cookie settings" at the bottom of every page lets you change it at any time. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, measurement and advertising cookies stay off until you accept them. Elsewhere they are on by default and you can switch them off with "Essential only". With essential only, any ads you see are not personalised. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser; signing in may not work without essential cookies.

• To provide the site, your account, saved articles and the free article allowance.
• To process subscriptions and send receipts and service messages.
• To send newsletters you asked for. Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link.
• To protect the service against abuse, fraud and attacks.
• To understand readership in aggregate and to fund our journalism through advertising.

We do not sell your personal data. We do not use readers' personal data to train AI models.

Where data protection laws such as Indonesia's Personal Data Protection Law (UU No. 27 Tahun 2022) or the EU and UK GDPR apply, we rely on: performing our agreement with you (accounts and subscriptions), our legitimate interests (security, keeping the service running, aggregate measurement), your consent (newsletters and, where required, advertising and measurement cookies), and legal obligations (tax and accounting records).

We use trusted service providers that act on our instructions:

• Hosting and storage providers that run our servers and store images (including Cloudflare R2).
• Stripe, for payments and billing.
• Resend, for sending newsletters and account emails.
• Google, for measurement (Tag Manager, Analytics) and advertising (AdSense).

Some of these providers process data outside your country. They are bound by contracts and safeguards required by law. We may also disclose data if the law requires it.

Account data is kept while your account is active and deleted when you ask us to close it. Newsletter addresses are removed when you unsubscribe. Server logs are kept for a short period for security. Billing records are kept as long as tax and accounting laws require.

You can ask to access, correct, export or delete your personal data, object to or restrict its use, and withdraw consent at any time. Email [email protected] from the address linked to your account and we will respond within 30 days. You may also complain to your data protection authority.

Passwords are stored as one-way hashes, connections use HTTPS, and access to newsroom systems is limited to staff who need it. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects you, we will tell you as the law requires.

NewsWLD is a general news service and is not directed at children under 16. We do not knowingly create accounts for them.

When we change this policy we update the date above. Significant changes will be announced on the site or by email to account holders.