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infoscope.work is an independent editorial publication covering technology. It is run by a small editorial team rather than a media group, and it has no advertising business, no investor with a commercial interest in the subjects we cover, and no affiliate arrangements.
For the purposes of the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation, the site operator is the data controller for the limited processing described here. For readers in mainland China, the same processing is described in line with the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). Questions, requests, and objections go to privacy@infoscope.work and are answered by a person, not a template.
This page covers infoscope.work and its newsletter. It does not cover third-party sites we link to: when you follow a citation to a paper, a datasheet, or another publication, their privacy terms apply from the moment you leave.
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Aggregate traffic measurement. We count page views and approximate country from the request itself, without setting a cookie and without building a per-reader profile. This tells us which briefs are useful; it cannot tell us who you are.
Newsletter subscription. If, and only if, you submit the subscribe form, we store the email address and the date of consent. Nothing else — no name, no employer, no inferred interests.
Messages you send us. Contact and correction emails contain whatever you choose to write, including your address. They are kept as correspondence, not ingested into a marketing system.
Server logs. The hosting provider records IP address, timestamp, requested path, and user agent for security and abuse prevention. These logs are rotated after 30 days and are never joined to the newsletter list.
| Data | Why we have it | Kept for | Shared with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Page views | Aggregate counts — no identifiers, no profiles | 13 months | Not shared |
| Newsletter email | Delivering the daily brief you asked for | Until you unsubscribe | Email processor only |
| Contact message | Answering your question or correction | 24 months | Not shared |
| Server logs | Security, abuse prevention, availability | 30 days | Hosting provider |
When you write to editorial@, corrections@, press@, or privacy@infoscope.work, we keep the message and our reply so that a correction can be traced to the person who reported it and so that repeated questions can be answered consistently.
Correspondence is retained for 24 months, then deleted unless it forms part of a published correction record — in which case the correction stays public, but your email address is removed from the public note unless you ask to be credited.
We do not add correspondence addresses to the newsletter, and we do not use them for anything beyond answering you.
Under the GDPR and UK GDPR we rely on three bases, and only three. Security and aggregate measurement rest on legitimate interests: keeping the site available and understanding which briefs are read, with the minimum data required. Newsletter delivery rests on consent, which you can withdraw at any time. Answering your message rests on the legitimate interest of responding to a request you initiated.
We do not rely on legitimate interests for advertising, because there is no advertising. We do not process special-category data, we do not build behavioural profiles, and we do not make automated decisions with legal effects about readers.
For readers in mainland China, processing follows PIPL: consent for the newsletter, and the minimum necessary scope for security logging, with the same retention limits described on this page.
The site is served from a global content network, so a request may be handled outside the country you are reading in. Where personal data leaves the EEA or the UK, transfers rely on Standard Contractual Clauses together with the provider's supplementary technical measures; where a jurisdiction holds an adequacy decision, that decision is the basis.
Because the data set is small — an email address at most — the practical exposure is limited to the delivery of a newsletter or the receipt of a message. We do not transfer any profiling data across borders, because none exists.
Retention is not 'as long as necessary', because that phrase means nothing in practice. These are the actual periods, and they are enforced by scheduled deletion rather than review.
| Record | Retention | How it ends |
|---|---|---|
| Server logs (IP, path, user agent) | 30 days | Automatically rotated |
| Aggregate page-view counts | 13 months | No identifiers retained |
| Newsletter address (confirmed) | Until unsubscribe | Deleted on unsubscribe |
| Newsletter address (unconfirmed) | 7 days | Deleted if not confirmed |
| Contact & correction emails | 24 months | Deleted unless part of a public correction |
| Public correction records | Permanent | Email addresses redacted by default |
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You have the right to ask what data we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it deleted, to receive it in a portable format, to object to processing based on legitimate interests, and to withdraw newsletter consent at any time.
Write to privacy@infoscope.work with the request and, if relevant, the address you subscribed with. We respond within 30 days at the latest, and usually within a few business days. There is no fee and no form to fill in.
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The content is provided for information, not advice. It is offered 'as is', without warranties of any kind, and to the extent permitted by law the publisher is not liable for decisions taken on the basis of an article. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.
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Material changes are announced on the site before they take effect, with a dated note explaining what changed and why. Minor wording edits are made in place and recorded in the version history.
Earlier versions are available on request from privacy@infoscope.work. We keep them because a privacy policy that changes silently is not worth reading.
Rewritten around four processing categories; retention table and rights section added.
Clarified that analytics is cookieless and that no consent banner is required.
First publication of the privacy and terms page.
Access, deletion, correction, or simply “what do you have on me?” — every request is answered by a person within 30 days, usually much sooner.