Privacy Policy
This policy is adapted from the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Privacy Policy (eff.org/policy). If any translation conflicts with the English text, the English version governs.
BusinessIntel.Group is committed to protecting the privacy and security of data shared with us by visitors to our websites and by our newsletter subscribers, to the fullest extent possible while still ensuring our resources can fully support our mission of independent business journalism. BusinessIntel.Group has established this Privacy Policy to explain what information we collect through our websites and how it is used, and what information is collected by third-party contractors and data processors.
In this policy, "BusinessIntel.Group" refers to BusinessIntel.Group staff, contributing journalists, contractors, and consultants, all of whom are bound by law or contract to keep confidential any information they receive as part of their work for BusinessIntel.Group.
BusinessIntel.Group does not sell or rent subscriber or website visitor information under any circumstances, and we do not share subscriber or visitor information with government entities except as compelled by law.
BusinessIntel.Group is located within [operating jurisdiction], and therefore will transfer, process, and store your information there, which may not provide as much protection as your home country.
Information Gathered by Our Site
Logging: For visitors to our website, we generally log only timestamps, URLs, and HTTP requests, and do internal analytical logging, including additional technical information such as a single byte from IP addresses, for up to seven days from when the data was collected.
Circumstances in which we may need to log and retain technical information for longer than seven days include:
- diagnosis of technical problems,
- defending against attacks on the site,
- handling a spike in traffic or other abnormal, short-term circumstances, or
- research projects (in anonymized form) that serve our overall editorial mission.
In these and similar situations, we will delete the information as soon as it is apparent that it is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was retained.
How Our Internal Analytics Work: We endeavor to gather sufficient information for analyzing our website and how visitors move within it without compromising the privacy of our visitors. Our internal analytical logging involves logging for up to seven days a single byte of the IP address, as well as the referrer page, time stamp, page requested, user agent, language header, and a hash of all this information. After seven days we keep only aggregate information from these logs. We also geolocate IP addresses before anonymizing them, but we store only country-level data.
Cookies: We do not use persistent tracking-ID cookies across the site. We use session cookies (for example, to remember your selected language and light/dark theme preference) on certain portions of the website.
Voluntarily Submitted Information: We collect and retain information you voluntarily submit to us. If you choose to subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address, along with your selected language and the page from which you subscribed. We may ask for additional personal information when you provide feedback or comments, or otherwise communicate with us.
Newsletter Subscriptions: If you choose to subscribe to receive email updates from us, we collect your email address and use it only for messaging purposes as described in this policy. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link included in every newsletter email, or by contacting us directly.
Our Use of Information
In general, we use the information provided by you to further our editorial mission of covering business, investment, and capital activity across emerging European markets.
Subscriber Information: We use your email address to send you the newsletter and editorial updates you signed up for. We do not use subscriber information for any purpose beyond operating and improving our publication.
Other activities: We may run reader surveys or similar activities through this site. Any such information will be used only for the purposes for which it was collected, and those purposes will be described on the page requesting the data. We also look at technical information to diagnose problems with, or consider improvements to, our servers and related technologies.
Third-Party Service Providers
When necessary and appropriate, BusinessIntel.Group uses the following categories of third-party services:
- Content delivery networks and cloud hosting providers (for hosting and handling traffic to our site).
- Cloud communications providers (for example, sending you our newsletter).
- Currency and market-data providers (for the live exchange-rate information shown on the site).
We control our own data practices carefully, but some of our tools operate under their own policies. Where possible, we take steps to limit the ability of third parties to retain data about our users. Some service providers may place session cookies on your device or log standard technical information such as IP address, browser, operating system, and access time. Where applicable, we enter into General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)-compliant data protection agreements with third parties who process data on our behalf.
For all service providers and hosting providers we use, the information collected from our users remains protected by the terms of our agreements with those providers, and we ensure that information is kept confidential and disclosed only to personnel who require such access in the course of their duties. We require our third-party service providers to notify us if they receive legal process seeking information about visitors to our website.
Third-Party Services and APIs
Our site links to or interacts with third-party websites and services, including social media platforms and market-data APIs. BusinessIntel.Group is not responsible for, and does not have any control over, the privacy practices or content of such third parties. We encourage users to read the privacy policies of any website visited via links from or interactions with our site.
Disclosure of Your Information
While BusinessIntel.Group endeavors to provide the highest level of protection for your information, we may disclose personally identifiable information about you to third parties in limited circumstances, including: (1) with your consent; or (2) when we have a good faith belief it is required by law, such as pursuant to a subpoena or other judicial or administrative order.
If we are required by law to disclose information you have submitted, we will attempt to provide you with prior notice (unless we are prohibited from doing so or it would be futile) so that you have an opportunity to object to the disclosure.
Updating or Removing Your Information
You may unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time using the link in any newsletter email. To otherwise access, correct, or delete information you have submitted to us, please email privacy@businessintel.group.
GDPR Data Deletion Requests: Users in the European Union have the right to request deletion of personal data under GDPR. To make a request, please contact us at privacy@businessintel.group with the subject line "GDPR Data Deletion Request." We will respond within the time limits required by law.
Data Storage and Retention
Our server logs are stored and retained as explained above in the section on logging.
Newsletter subscription information (email address, language, and subscription source) is retained until you unsubscribe or request that we delete it.
If we inadvertently collect more personal information than intended, we endeavor to delete the extraneous information. When we no longer need to retain information, or when deleting information on request, we endeavor to remove all copies, though deleted information may persist for a time on backup media.
Security
BusinessIntel.Group employs industry-standard security measures to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control, including appropriate technical and organizational measures such as encryption of data in transit and data backup systems. Our site uses HTTPS by default. Although we make good faith efforts to store information collected by BusinessIntel.Group in a secure operating environment, we cannot guarantee complete security.
Changes to Our Policies
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Any revised policy will be consistent with BusinessIntel.Group's mission. If we make any substantive changes, we will post notice of the changes on this page.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about our privacy and data protection practices, you can reach us at:
BusinessIntel.Group
[mailing address]
Email: privacy@businessintel.group
If our processing of your personal data is covered by EU law, you may also lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection supervisory authority for your country of residence.
Adapted from the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Privacy Policy (eff.org/policy), used as a structural template under its original organizational framing replaced throughout with BusinessIntel.Group. Bracketed placeholders mark details (mailing address, operating jurisdiction) that need to be filled in with BusinessIntel.Group's actual information before this page is treated as final.