Privacy Policy

What this page is for

Newfound Times is free to read and paid for by advertising, which means data about your visit passes through more hands than we would like. This page explains whose hands, what they receive, and how you can stop most of it. We have tried to write it in plain language rather than the dense style these documents usually arrive in.

You do not need to hand us anything to read a story. There is no account to create, no registration wall, and no email demanded before a headline will load. Most of what is collected is not a dossier about you as a person. It is a record of requests and pages, a distinction that matters a good deal less to the advertising industry than it should.

What we collect

Some data arrives whether anyone asks for it or not. Our host and content delivery network record the IP address making a request, the browser it reports, the page requested, the page you came from, and the time. That is simply how a web server works, and it is how we tell a genuine traffic surge on a big story from an automated attack.

On top of that sit analytics, an email address if you subscribe to a newsletter, and whatever you choose to put in a message to us. Advertising is the noisy part. The ad server and the exchanges bidding on our space set their own identifiers, limit how often you see the same advertisement, and, where you have consented, select advertisements from a profile built elsewhere across the web. We do not run device fingerprinting and we never ask for your precise location.

Why we process it, and on what basis

The purposes are short to list. Serve the site and keep it standing when a major story multiplies our traffic in minutes. Count readers, because knowing which stories are read is how a small newsroom decides where to spend its next effort. Send newsletters people asked for. Guard against abuse and invalid advertising traffic. Sell and serve advertising. Keep the narrow records the law requires us to keep.

Under the GDPR and comparable regimes, consent covers analytics, advertising, and newsletters, and withdrawing it costs you no articles. Legitimate interest covers server logs, security, and aggregate measurement, because a site that cannot see its own traffic cannot stay online. Legal obligation covers the rest. Nothing here feeds an automated decision about you, because we do not make decisions about people. We publish stories.

Who else receives it, and where it goes

We list recipients by category, because the specific companies change and a list frozen in prose is out of date within a quarter: our host and delivery network, our analytics provider, the ad server and the programmatic exchanges with their downstream partners, our newsletter service, and, rarely, a professional adviser or an authority acting on a valid legal order.

Programmatic advertising sends a request to many companies at once, and we will not pretend we can name every one from memory. The current list lives in our consent manager, which is the honest place for it. Your email address is not sold, swapped, or rented, and our sources are never disclosed. Some of these providers run servers in other countries, so your data may be processed outside where you are sitting. Where data covered by European or similar law crosses a border, the transfer relies on standard contractual clauses or another approved mechanism. No legal document turns a foreign server into a local one, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling something.

Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies keep the site working and remember your consent choice. Analytics, preferences, and advertising cookies wait for consent where the law requires it, and refusing them breaks nothing you came here to read. The categories, who sets them, how long they last, and how to change your answer are set out at length in our cookie policy.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, object to processing we run on legitimate interest, withdraw a consent, and receive what you gave us in a portable form. You can also complain to your local data protection authority without coming to us first. Write to support@newfoundtimes.com with PRIVACY at the front of the subject line, and we will respond within the period the law allows, usually a month.

One honest limit. Where a request is really an attempt to erase accurate published journalism, data protection law in most places carves out journalism, and we treat the matter as a question of accuracy instead. If a story is wrong about you, that is a correction, and our corrections policy explains what happens next.

How long we keep things, and children

Server and delivery logs are held for around thirty days, then discarded or reduced to counts with no identifier attached. Event level analytics is capped in the provider settings, typically at fourteen months. Aggregate reports that simply say a story was read a certain number of times are kept indefinitely, because they contain nothing about any individual. A newsletter address stays until you unsubscribe, after which a minimal record survives so we do not accidentally mail you again.

This is a general news site intended for adults. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age the law sets. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has given us something, write with PRIVACY in the subject line and we will delete it and confirm. When this policy changes in a way that affects you, the date below moves and, where the law requires fresh consent, we ask again. The rules governing your use of the site are separate and live in our terms of service.

Last updated: August 2026