Privacy Policy

What this page is for

WEBWIZARD 360 is free to read and paid for by advertising, and that means data about your visit passes through more hands than we would ideally like. This page tells you whose hands, what each one gets, and how you can stop most of it. We have tried to write it in plain language rather than in the dense style these documents usually arrive in, because a policy you cannot read is not really a disclosure.

You do not have to give us anything to read a story. There is no account to open, no registration wall, and no email demanded before a headline will load. Most of what is collected is not a dossier with your name on it. It is a record of requests and pages, a distinction that matters more to us than it does to the advertising machinery this whole industry runs on.

What we collect

Some data arrives whether anyone intends it or not. Our host and content delivery network log the IP address making each request, the browser it reports itself as, 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 script hammering the site.

On top of that sit a few things you choose to give us: an email address if you subscribe to a newsletter, a name and message if you write to us, and analytics about how pages are used. Advertising is the noisy part. The ad server and the exchanges that bid to fill our advertising slots set their own identifiers, limit how often you see the same advertisement, and, where you have consented, select advertisements based on a profile built elsewhere on the web. We do not run device fingerprinting and we never ask for your precise location.

Why we process it, and on what legal basis

The reasons are short to list. We serve the site and keep it standing when a big story multiplies our traffic in minutes. We count readers, because knowing which stories are read is how we decide what to cover next. We send newsletters that people asked for. We fight abuse and invalid advertising traffic, we sell and serve advertising, and we keep the records the law requires us to keep.

Under the GDPR and comparable regimes, consent is the basis for 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 narrow remainder. Nothing here feeds an automated decision that has a legal effect on you, because we do not make decisions about people. We publish stories.

Who else receives your data, and where it goes

We list recipients by category rather than by name, 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 provider, and, rarely, a professional adviser or an authority acting on a valid legal order.

Programmatic advertising fires a request at many companies at once, and we will not pretend we can recite every one from memory. The current list lives in our consent manager, which is the honest place for a list that moves. Your email address is never sold, swapped or rented. Our sources are never disclosed. The rules that keep advertisers away from the newsroom are on our advertise page.

These providers run servers in several countries, so your data is often processed outside the country you are sitting in. Processors are bound in writing to use it only for what we asked. Where data covered by European or UK law moves to a country without an adequacy finding, the transfer relies on standard contractual clauses or another approved safeguard.

Cookies, and the banner

Strictly necessary cookies keep the site working and remember the choice you made at the consent banner. Analytics, preference and advertising cookies wait for your consent where the law requires it, and refusing them does not break anything you came here to read. A story loads the same either way.

The categories, who sets them, how long they last and how to change your mind are set out in full in our cookie policy. If you clicked past the banner in a hurry, the consent manager reopens from the footer on every page, and your new answer replaces the old one on the next page you load.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct, delete or restrict it, object to processing we run on legitimate interest, withdraw a consent you gave, and receive what you provided in a portable form. You can complain to your data protection authority without coming to us first. To exercise any of this, write to support@webwizard360.com with PRIVACY at the front of the subject line, and we will respond within the time the law allows, usually within a month.

One honest limit. Where a request is really an attempt to erase or rewrite 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 tells you what happens next.

California and similar state rights

If you are covered by a United States state privacy law, you can know what we collect and disclose, have it corrected or deleted, opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising, limit the use of sensitive information, and not be treated worse for exercising any of it. An authorised agent may act for you on proof of authority.

We take no money for handing over anyone’s personal information. Serving behaviourally targeted advertising can still count as sharing under these laws, so we treat it that way rather than argue over the wording. Use the Do Not Sell or Share control in our consent manager, or write with PRIVACY in the subject. We also honour the Global Privacy Control signal.

How long we keep things

Server and delivery logs are held for roughly thirty days, then discarded or reduced to counts with no identifier attached. Event-level analytics is capped in the provider’s settings at fourteen months. Aggregate reports of the kind that 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 suppression record survives so that we do not accidentally mail you again. Messages that produced a correction are kept on purpose, because the corrections record is an accountability document.

Children

This is a general news site for adults. It is not directed at children, we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under thirteen, and we do not open newsletter subscriptions for readers under sixteen. There are no games, quizzes or rewards here designed to coax a child into handing over an email address.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has given us something, write with PRIVACY in the subject and we will delete it and confirm that we have. We also refuse advertising aimed at children, which is part of the refusal list on our advertise page.

Changes, and where to write

When this policy changes in a way that affects you, the date below moves, a short note sits at the top of the page for a while explaining what shifted, and where the law requires fresh consent we ask again rather than treating an old click as permanent permission. The rules governing your use of the site are separate and live in our terms of service.

Everything here routes to one address, support@webwizard360.com, read by our editors, and other ways to reach us are on our contact page. If a paragraph on this page is unclear, ask the specific question and we will either answer it or rewrite the paragraph.

Last updated: August 2026