How Wall Street Times collects, uses, and safeguards information.

Privacy Notice

1. Introduction

This Privacy Notice explains how Wall Street Times, Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “Wall Street Times”, “our”, “us”, or “we”) collect, use, and disclose personal data about you when you use our websites, mobile sites, applications (“apps”), newsletters, emails, events, digital products, or other online products and services that link to this Privacy Notice, and when you subscribe to our publications or otherwise interact with us (collectively, the “Wall Street Times Services”).

If there is a conflict between this Privacy Notice and a separate subscription, enterprise, or service agreement governing your use of specific Wall Street Times Services, that separate agreement will take precedence.

Specific privacy notices may apply to certain products or services we offer. Please review the webpage or digital asset of the relevant service for more information about privacy practices that apply specifically to that service.

By using the Wall Street Times Services, you acknowledge that you have read and accept this Privacy Notice.

The Wall Street Times Services are intended for general audiences. In accordance with applicable law, including the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13 years of age.

2. Data We Collect

Wall Street Times may obtain information about you from a variety of sources. This includes personal data you provide directly, data we receive from other sources, and data gathered through automated means.

2.1 Data You Provide to Us

• Contact or identifier data, such as your name, postal address, billing or shipping address, email address, and telephone or mobile phone number;
• Transactional and financial information used to process payments and transactions, such as payment card details and related billing information;
• Information you provide when registering for events, webinars, or conferences, such as your occupation, employer, or professional interests;
• User-generated content when you participate in comments, forums, surveys, submissions, or other interactive features, including comments, username, or profile image;
• Information you provide when creating a profile, entering a promotion, contest, or sweepstakes, or responding to surveys, such as your interests, education, profession, or demographic details;
• Information you provide through interactive features such as contact forms, chats, chatbot tools, article sharing tools, or QR code interactions;
• Customer service information, including messages and information you send through forms, email, chat, text, phone, or postal mail; and
• Personal data you provide about other individuals, such as names or email addresses when sharing content or sending gift subscriptions, where permitted by law and with appropriate consent.

2.2 Data We Receive from Other Sources

• Purchasing data, including transaction history and subscription information;
• Demographic data, such as age range, education level, household income range, or general market segment data;
• Occupational data, such as profession, title, employer, or industry;
• Preferences and interests;
• Geolocation data;
• Information about your activities on other websites, apps, or platforms, including interactions with content, products, services, or advertisements.

If you log in to a Wall Street Times Service through, or connect your account to, a third-party platform or social networking service, we may receive certain profile or account data from that platform consistent with your privacy settings there.

2.3 Data Collected by Automated Means Through Our Services

• IP address;
• Device identifiers and connection information, including mobile advertising identifiers;
• Device type, browser type, software, and operating system;
• Language preferences;
• Viewing behavior, including content viewed and duration of engagement;
• Web pages, links, ads viewed, and searches performed on the Wall Street Times Services;
• Referring URLs, access times, and usage details;
• Location information, including city, state, and postal code associated with your IP address, Wi-Fi triangulation data, and, where permitted and with consent where required, precise location information from device-based functionality; and
• Mobile phone number and carrier details in connection with certain app features.

For more information, please review our Cookie Notice.

3. How We Use the Data We Obtain

3.1 To Provide and Manage the Wall Street Times Services

• Provide products and services you request;
• Process subscriptions, purchases, and transactions;
• Create and manage online accounts;
• Provide customer support and respond to inquiries;
• Send service-related, transactional, or relationship-related communications;
• Provide technical support;
• Personalize content, recommendations, and user experiences across products and services;
• Administer promotions, events, webinars, surveys, sweepstakes, contests, and research initiatives;
• Send newsletters, marketing communications, promotional materials, alerts, and product updates, including by SMS or text where you have opted in; and
• Enable single sign-on or cross-service account functionality across Wall Street Times properties where applicable.

3.2 To Measure and Improve Our Products and Services / Conduct Analysis

• Operate, evaluate, and improve our business and services;
• Develop, enhance, and optimize features, products, editorial offerings, and communications;
• Conduct analytics, auditing, research, and internal reporting;
• Understand audience usage patterns;
• Improve pricing, distribution, marketing, and product strategy.

3.3 To Allow You to Share User-Generated Content

Certain features of the Wall Street Times Services may allow you to interact with us or other users, including by posting comments, creating a public profile, participating in forums, submitting feedback, or sharing content.

If you choose to use these features, information you choose to submit may become public and may be read, collected, or used by others. We are not responsible for personal data or other information you choose to make publicly available through these interactive features.

3.4 To Deliver Interest-Based Advertising

As described in this Privacy Notice and our Cookie Notice, we and our service providers may collect information about your activities over time and across websites, apps, or devices in order to provide advertising tailored to your interests, where permitted by applicable law.

We may also work with advertisers, ad networks, and other third parties that use this information to provide contextual and interest-based advertising, measure the effectiveness of campaigns, and better understand audience behavior.

Where required by law, we will obtain your consent before using personal data for targeted advertising.

3.5 To Protect the Rights of Wall Street Times and Others

• Protect against, investigate, identify, and prevent fraud, abuse, security incidents, unlawful activity, and other liabilities;
• Secure, protect, and defend the Wall Street Times Services and our rights, property, employees, contractors, users, and business partners;
• Comply with legal requirements, applicable regulations, contractual obligations, and internal policies; and
• Respond to law enforcement requests, legal claims, or regulatory inquiries.

We may combine information we obtain from different sources for the purposes described in this Section 3.

4. Data Sharing

4.1 Our Subsidiaries and Affiliated Businesses

We may share your personal data with our affiliates and related entities for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, including internal administration, service delivery, analytics, and marketing, subject to applicable law.

Users of affiliated services should review the privacy notices applicable to those services, which may differ from this Privacy Notice.

4.2 Subscription or Access Providers

If your access to Wall Street Times Services is provided through an employer, educational institution, corporate subscription, event partner, or other third party, we may share information about your access to and use of the relevant services with that provider, including your name, email address, account status, and usage information, as appropriate.

4.3 Our Service Providers

We may share personal data with service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, order fulfillment, analytics, communications, hosting, customer support, content delivery, and personalization.

These service providers are authorized to use personal data only as necessary to provide services to us or on our behalf, and not for their own independent purposes except as permitted by law.

4.4 Our Business Partners

We may share personal data with business partners that help us provide co-branded offerings, sponsored programs, conferences, events, contests, sweepstakes, or other joint services or features.

The business partner’s use of your information will be governed by its own privacy notice.

4.5 With Third Parties for Marketing Purposes

We may, where permitted by law, share certain information with third-party partners whose products or services we believe may be of interest to you. For example, if you subscribe to a print publication or register for certain products, events, or offers, we may share limited contact information for direct marketing purposes, subject to applicable law and your rights and choices.

This paragraph does not apply where prohibited by law or where we have stated otherwise at the point of collection.

4.6 With Third-Party Platforms

We may share your information with third-party platforms or social networking services if you choose to log in through them, connect your account to them, or use integrated sharing tools.

Any such third party’s use of shared information will be governed by that third party’s privacy notice.

4.7 For Legal Requirements and Proceedings

We may disclose your personal data where required to do so by law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other legal process, or where we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect rights, safety, investigate suspected wrongdoing, or comply with legal obligations.

4.8 In Connection with a Corporate Transaction

We may disclose personal data in connection with a proposed or completed merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or similar business transaction.

4.9 To Protect the Wall Street Times Services and Users

We may disclose personal data to protect and defend the rights, interests, safety, and security of Wall Street Times, our affiliates, our personnel, our users, and the public, including where necessary to prevent harm or financial loss.

5. Your Choices and Rights

5.1 Your Choices

5.1.1 Email Communications

You may opt out of marketing emails by updating your account preferences where available or by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in our emails.

Even if you opt out of marketing communications, we may still send transactional, service-related, or administrative messages.

5.1.2 Push Notifications and Text Messages

If you use our mobile applications, you may adjust push notification settings through your device or app settings.

You may opt out of text messages by following the instructions included in those messages.

5.1.3 Marketing Sharing Preferences

Where applicable, you may opt out of certain types of data sharing for direct marketing purposes by contacting us using the details below or by using available account privacy controls.

5.1.4 Browser Controls

You have choices about cookies and similar technologies. For more information, please review our Cookie Notice.

You may also be able to opt out of certain interest-based advertising through browser settings or industry opt-out tools.

5.1.5 Mobile App Privacy Settings

You may update privacy settings and permissions for Wall Street Times mobile applications through your device settings or the app itself.

5.2 Your Rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have rights regarding the personal data we maintain about you, including rights to access, review, correct, update, delete, or restrict certain processing of your personal data, or to request data portability.

You may exercise these rights by contacting us using the information in the Contact Us section below.

For security purposes, we may verify your identity before responding to a request.

5.2.1 Right of Access, Correction, and Update

You may have the right to access, correct, or update your personal data. Registered users may also be able to do so through their account settings.

Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal and contractual restrictions.

5.2.2 Right to Deletion

You may have the right to request deletion of your personal data, subject to applicable legal exceptions. If you request deletion, certain services may no longer be available to you.

5.3 California Privacy Rights

Residents of California may have additional rights under applicable California privacy laws.

5.4 Other U.S. State Privacy Rights

Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional privacy rights under applicable state law.

5.5 Rights for EEA and UK Residents

If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you may have additional rights under applicable data protection laws.

6. How We Protect Personal Data

Wall Street Times uses administrative, technical, organizational, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal data against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use.

While we take reasonable measures appropriate to the nature of the data and the risks involved, no system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. If you believe your interaction with us is no longer secure, please contact us promptly.

7. Other Important Information

7.1 Do Not Track Disclosure

Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” functionality. Because there is no universally accepted technical standard for recognizing and honoring Do Not Track signals, Wall Street Times does not currently respond to such signals unless required by law.

7.2 Transfers of Personal Data

Your personal data may be stored, transferred, and processed in the United States and in other countries where we or our service providers operate.

Those countries may have data protection laws that differ from those in your jurisdiction. Where required by law, we will implement appropriate safeguards for such transfers.

By using the Wall Street Times Services, you acknowledge that your personal data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside your country of residence, subject to applicable legal requirements.

7.3 Payment Services

In some cases, we may use third-party payment processors to process purchases or payments. Information you provide directly to a payment processor will be governed by that provider’s privacy notice, not this Privacy Notice.

We are not responsible for third-party payment processor practices.

7.4 Links to Third-Party Sites and Apps

The Wall Street Times Services may contain links to third-party websites, apps, advertisements, plug-ins, or services. Those third parties may collect information about you independently.

Wall Street Times is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party sites or services. You should review their privacy notices before interacting with them.

7.5 Updates to This Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or service offerings.

If we make material changes, we will update the Effective Date and may provide additional notice where required by law.

8. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Notice or how Wall Street Times or its service providers handle personal data, please contact us at:

Email: letters@wallstreetsttimes.com

Or write to:

Attention: Privacy Office
Wall Street Times, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

If you are located in the EEA, EU, or UK, the entity responsible for the collection and processing of personal data in connection with the Wall Street Times Services will be the relevant Wall Street Times entity providing the service to you, unless otherwise stated in a separate agreement or service-specific notice.