Privacy Policy

The New Statesman is determined to protect your privacy. It is very important to us that you should be able to use and enjoy the website without having to reveal more information than is necessary.

However, knowing some information about our users is necessary to ensure that our service is continually improved. To be able to communicate with you we need to build an accurate picture of the needs and wishes of our users. This enables us to offer a service that is relevant and interactive.

Q: "What information do you collect about me?"

A. This depends on the nature of your involvement with our website. We may ask you to provide personal information on a voluntary basis in order to get a clearer picture of our users. It is then up to you whether give us this information.

If you enter our competitions, promotions or participate in other online offers you will need to give us some details about yourself. You may also choose to email us or contact us in other ways. Such contact gives us information about you.

If you have any financial dealings or make purchases with our trading partners they will ask for certain information. Some of this information will be shared with us so that we can send you your purchases. We do not see or keep credit card details unless you specifically send them to us.

Q: "For what purposes do you collect and use this information?"

A: We use aggregate audience details (where no individual is identifiable) to help us improve our understanding of our users and their preferences. We use it to assist us in arranging relevant advertising, commercial opportunities and competitions, as well as ensuring the best editorial coverage. It also helps us develop the website and audit its use.

The information about you as an identifiable individual, including contact details, may be used in the following ways:

• to conduct market research and other surveys.
• to create and draw to your attention editorial material and commercial opportunities that may be of interest to you.
• to be shared with advertisers, trading partners and other commercial entities with whom we have or might have an association. We may also share the information that they obtain about their users, which may include you.

Cookies

We use cookies to help personalise your use of our sites. A cookie is a small piece of information sent to your computer's hard drive by the web server so that our website can remember who you are. This information may include information relating to your use of our sites, information about your computer such as the computer's IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at our site via a link from third party site, the URL of the linking page. If you are a registered user or subscriber this may include your name and email address for verification purposes.
We use information from cookies for purposes which may include:

• identifying returning users, registrants and subscribers and to allow subscribers to be presented with a personalised version of the site
• enabling you to move more easily around our site
• tracking your use of our site to better develop our sites in accordance with your requirements
• building up a demographic profile

Remember, you can delete cookies from your hard drive at any time however this will mean that any settings such as your stored username and password will have to be reset. You can set your internet browser so that it will not allow cookies to be stored on your computer. This may reduce functionality of the site, prevent access to subscriber-only areas of the site and mean that certain features or content will not be available to you. Further information on how to prevent cookies from being stored on your computer can be found on http://www.allaboutcookies.org under the "manage cookies" section. Alternatively go to the help menu within your internet browser.

From time to time we may permit 3rd party companies to set cookies on New Statesman sites for purposes which may include market research, serving advertisements, revenue tracking or to improve functionality of the site.

Adviva

We may use pixels, or transparent GIF files, to help manage online advertising. These GIF files are provided by our ad management partner, Adviva. These files enable Adviva to recognize a unique cookie on your Web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to our website.

Google Analytics

Some New Statesman websites use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use New Statesman sites. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our sites (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our sites, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of New Statesman. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Q: "How private are my details?"

A: We only share personal information about you with third parties whom we have selected carefully and with whom we have, or may have, a commercial relationship. New Statesman complies with the relevant legal requirements and takes all reasonable care to ensure that your information is secure and private and is only seen by responsible third parties. However we cannot be held responsible for the actions of any third party who receives or obtains access to the information, nor for any breach of security.

If you tell us that you do not want us to use your details, then data about your use of the website would then only form part of aggregated statistics and would not be related to you as an individual.

Q: "What do I do if I am not happy for you to share information about me with others?"

A: You may not wish us to share personal details about you with third parties outside the New Statesman, or to use your information in the other ways we have described in this Privacy Policy. You can e-mail us at info@newstatesman.co.uk at any time to let us know of any objections you may have to how we use or disclose your data. In any event your personal details may be shared with third party organisations we have contracted to provide services to us, on an agency basis, which include processing data. We may also have to release information (which could include the contents of e-mail communications between any persons) because of a legal requirement on us or pursuant to a court order.

International transfer of personal data

As you will know, the internet does not recognise national boundaries. Services on the net are accessible globally so collection and transmission of personal data is not always confined to one country. You should be aware that by using the website and those of our partners or any site we link through to, your personal data may be processed in or transferred to other countries and you agree to your personal data being transferred or processed in this way.

Further information about the Data Protection Act can be found here:
www.dataprotection.gov.uk

Last updated: November 2006