Privacy Policy

Introduction

This is the privacy policy for Equities News (collectively referred to as “Equities”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this policy), our sites such as equities.com (“our sites”), and our associated apps.

Our values guide everything that we do – including our editorial approach and how we use personal data. We are strongly committed to keeping your personal data safe. This commitment exists throughout the lifecycle of your personal data, from the design of any Equities service which uses personal data to the deletion of that data.

To complement our global approach to privacy protection, this policy also incorporates specific information privacy rights granted to individuals under Californian and Australian privacy law. This reflects our relationship with our readers in these locations where we provide localized editions of our editorial content.

We think carefully about our use of personal data, and below you can find the details of what we do to protect your privacy. This policy covers, among other topics:

  • Information about your rights, the choices available to you, and our obligations in the UK, European Union, in California, in Australia, and elsewhere.
  • Transparency about how we collect and use your personal data, including when and how it is shared.
  • Information on how we protect your personal data.
  • Information on how we will facilitate your rights and respond to your questions.

Find out more about how we manage your personal data below:
 

About this privacy policy

This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, share, transfer and sell (for California residents only) your personal data when you use the services provided on our sites and our apps or interact with us. This privacy policy also explains your data privacy rights.

Personal data is any information about you by which you can be identified or be identifiable. This can include information such as:

  • Your name, date of birth, gender, email address, postal address, phone number, mobile number or financial details, such as payment cards you use to purchase products or subscriptions or to support our journalism.
  • Information about your device (such as the IP address, which is a numerical code to identify your device that can provide information about the country, region or city where you are based).
  • Information relating to how you use and interact with our sites, apps and services.

When we refer to “personal data” in this policy, we are also referencing “personal information,” as it is defined under California law, and as it is defined under Australian law.

Sometimes our sites and apps may contain links to sites and services that are not part of the Equities family of offerings. These sites and services have their own privacy policies. If you follow a link to these non-Equities sites and apps, you should read the privacy policy shown on their site.
 

Who we are and how to contact us

Equities News Inc, 1520 Tower Grove Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 is the data controller in respect of your personal data that you share with us. This means that we are responsible for deciding how and why we hold and use your personal data. If you want to contact us directly, you can find our contact details in the “Contact us” section below.
 

The types of personal data we collect about you

We collect your personal data when you visit our sites and apps, subscribe for products or services, contribute to Equities or when you interact with us. We will only collect your personal data in line with applicable laws. We collect your personal data in the following ways:

  • Directly from you, e.g. when you sign up for our services, purchase products or services, including by signing up for newsletters or selecting specific topics you are interested in, and when you browse our sites or use our apps.
  • Personal data we generate about you, e.g. personal data we use to authenticate you, or personal data in the form of your IP address or your preferences.
  • Personal data we collect from third parties, e.g. personal data that helps us to combat fraud or which we collect, with your permission, when you interact with your social media accounts and/or payment service providers (e.g. Paypal).

More details about the types of personal data we collect are provided below.
 

Personal data collected

When you register for a Equities account, subscription, newsletter on Equities.com, we collect:

  • Your name.
  • Your email address.
  • Other details such as your contact number and residential or billing address when you sign up to support us or a subscription.
  • Your user name, if you comment on our sites.
  • Your photograph, if you add one to your profile page.
  • Some limited data from your social media profile (further information on this is below), if you have signed in to Equities.com using your social media details.

You can change or remove these details using the profile and settings area of your Equities account, once these features are offered.

Personal data we generate about you

When you register for a Equities account or sign up for a newsletter, we assign you a unique ID number. We use this to manage your preferences, for example, the newsletters you have subscribed to. When you register for an account we use your unique ID to recognise you when you are signed in to our services. This will recognise you if you sign in using the same account on a new device or through a different application such as an Equities app on mobile devices.

When you use our sites or apps we may also use cookies or similar technologies to collect extra data, including:

  • Your IP address – a numerical code to identify your device, together with the country, region or city where you are based.
  • Your geolocation data – your IP address can be used to find information about the latitude, longitude, altitude of your device, its direction of travel, your GPS data and data about connection with local Wi-Fi equipment.
  • Information on how you interact with our services.
  • Your browsing history of the content you have visited on our sites, including how you were referred to our sites via other websites.
  • Details of your computer, mobile, TV, tablet or other devices, for example, the unique device ID, unique vendor or advertising ID and browsers used to access our content.

We will not collect special categories of data from you – such as personal data concerning your race, political opinions, religion, health or sexual orientation – unless you have chosen to provide that type of personal data to us.

Personal data when you post comments about the Equities on other social media sites

If you have mentioned the Equities in posts on social media sites, then we may collect your social media handles. For example, when you mention the Equities in a tweet, we may collect your Twitter handle.

When you post publicly (comments) on our sites

When you post on a discussion board or comment publicly on an article on one of our sites, the personal data you post, including your username and other information about yourself, are publicly accessible. This personal data can be viewed online and collected by other people. We are not responsible for the way these other people use this personal data. When contributing to a discussion, we strongly recommend you avoid sharing any personal details, including information that can be used to identify you directly such as your name, age, address and name of employer. We are not responsible for the privacy of any identifiable information that you choose to post in our online community or other public pages of the site.
 

How we collect personal data

We collect personal data when you:

  • Become a subscriber or register for an account on Equities.com.
  • Make contributions to support the Equities.
  • Pay for a subscription or purchase any other products/services for yourself or others.
  • Manage your account settings (e.g. notification, preferences).
  • Attend our events (in person and/or virtually).
  • Enter our competitions, prize draws, bids and surveys.
  • Take part in our call-outs.
  • Sign up for our editorial emails.
  • Post in our online community.
  • Sign up for marketing communications.
  • Use mobile devices to access our content.
  • Access and interact with any of our sites and apps.
  • Contact us via email, social media, our apps or similar technologies or when you mention us on social media.
  • Test our products, participate in focus groups or provide us with feedback.

We also collect personal data through cookies and other similar technologies. Please refer to our cookie policy for more details on how we use cookies.
 

How we use your personal data

We use personal data collected through our sites and apps only when we have a valid reason and the legal grounds to do so. We determine the legal grounds based on the purposes for which we have collected your personal data.

Legal grounds for using your personal data

The legal ground may be one of the following:

  • Consent: Often we will use your personal data because we have asked for your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. Please refer to the table below for examples of where we ask for your consent.
  • Performance of a contract with you (or in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract with you): We will use your personal data if we need to in order to perform a contract with you. For example, where you have purchased a subscription from us, we will need to use your contact details and payment data in order to process your order and deliver your subscription or we may contact you directly via social media or email if you enter competitions, prize draws, bids or respond to call-outs.
  • Compliance with law: In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to use or keep your personal data.
  • Our legitimate interests: We may process your personal data where it is necessary for our legitimate interests in a way that might be expected as part of running Equities and in a way which does not materially impact your rights and freedoms. For example, it is in our legitimate interests for us to understand our readers, promote our services and ways to support us, and operate our sites and apps efficiently for the creation, publication and distribution of news, media and related journalistic content both online and in print form, globally. Please refer to the table below for examples of when we rely on our legitimate interests to use your personal data.

 

Terms and Conditions

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website at.
 

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our web site privacy policy.
 

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.

This policy was last modified on 2024-01-23.
 

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.

Contact Us page

Email us at [email protected]

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Beverly Hills, CA 90210
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