Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 12, 2026

Digital Politics respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect personal data when you visit digitalpolitics.co, subscribe to our newsletters, create an account, purchase a subscription, or use our research services, including Ask Digital Politics.

Digital Politics is operated by Digital Politics Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 16451190), with its registered office at 14 Chertsey Road, Shepperton, England, TW17 9LB.

Digital Politics Ltd is the data controller responsible for the personal information described in this Policy, except where otherwise stated.

For privacy inquiries, contact digitalpolitics@protonmail.com.

1. Information we collect

We may collect the following categories of personal information.

Account and subscription information

When you register or subscribe, we may collect your name, email address, account identifiers, subscription plan, membership status, and subscription history.

Payment and billing information

When you purchase a subscription, payment processing may be handled by a third-party payment provider. We may receive payment status, transaction identifiers, billing details, and information necessary to administer subscriptions and invoices.

We do not ordinarily receive or store complete payment card numbers.

Institutional subscription information

Where an organization purchases access, we may collect its name, billing contact details, authorized users' names and email addresses, seat assignments, subscription entitlements, and usage information.

Newsletter and website information

We may collect information about newsletter delivery and engagement, website visits, pages viewed, referral sources, browser information, approximate location derived from IP addresses, and other technical information.

Ask Digital Politics information

When you use Ask Digital Politics, we may process:

• Questions and follow-up messages you submit.
• Answers generated by the service.
• Conversation identifiers and history.
• Account identifiers and subscription entitlements.
• Usage counts, timestamps, and service-performance information.
• Feedback you voluntarily provide about answers.
• Technical logs required for security, troubleshooting, and service improvement.

Communications

If you contact us, we may retain your correspondence and the information you provide.

2. How we use personal information

We use personal information to:

• Create and manage accounts.
• Deliver newsletters and subscription content.
• Process payments and administer billing.
• Provide access to individual and institutional subscriptions.
• Operate Ask Digital Politics and other research services.
• Apply subscription entitlements, seat limits, and usage allowances.
• Respond to inquiries and provide subscriber support.
• Maintain website security and prevent misuse.
• Diagnose technical problems and improve service reliability.
• Understand how our publications and research services are used.
• Comply with applicable legal and regulatory obligations.

We do not sell personal information to advertisers or data brokers.

3. Our legal bases for processing

Where UK GDPR or EU GDPR applies, we rely on the following legal bases, as appropriate.

Performance of a contract

To provide subscriptions, manage accounts, process payments, deliver purchased services, and administer institutional access.

Legitimate interests

To maintain service security, prevent fraud, diagnose technical problems, understand service performance, and improve our publications and research tools, where those interests are not overridden by individuals' rights and freedoms.

Consent

Where consent is required, including for certain marketing communications or nonessential cookies and tracking technologies.

Legal obligations

To comply with applicable tax, accounting, financial, regulatory, and other legal requirements.

Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing undertaken before withdrawal.

4. Newsletters and communications

When you subscribe to Digital Politics, we use your email address to deliver the newsletters and communications associated with your subscription.

We may also send administrative messages about your account, payments, subscription renewals, service changes, or security.

You can unsubscribe from marketing or editorial emails using the unsubscribe link provided in those messages, where available, or by contacting us.

Unsubscribing from newsletters does not necessarily close your account or cancel a paid subscription.

We may use email delivery and engagement information to understand whether communications are reaching subscribers and how our publications are used.

5. Ask Digital Politics and AI processing

Ask Digital Politics is an AI-assisted research service that provides answers using Digital Politics reporting, analysis, and selected research materials.

When you submit a question, we process the question and relevant conversation context to generate a response.

Providing the service may involve transmitting your question, relevant context, and selected research material to third-party AI infrastructure providers acting on our behalf.

We may retain questions, answers, usage records, diagnostic information, and feedback to operate the service, maintain conversation functionality, investigate failures, evaluate answer quality, and improve reliability.

Access to this information is restricted according to operational requirements and applicable security controls.

You should not submit passwords, financial account credentials, highly sensitive personal information, or confidential third-party information to Ask Digital Politics unless you are authorized to do so and understand the relevant risks.

We do not use Ask Digital Politics to make solely automated decisions about individuals that produce legal or similarly significant effects.

The service is intended for research and informational purposes.

Any use of submitted questions or conversations for model training, and any applicable restrictions on such use by third-party AI providers, will be governed by our actual provider arrangements and applicable disclosures.

6. Institutional subscriptions

Where an organization purchases a Digital Politics institutional subscription, we may process information necessary to manage its subscription and authorized users.

This may include user identities, institutional email addresses, access permissions, subscription entitlements, and aggregated or account-level usage information.

We may provide an institutional administrator with information reasonably necessary to manage seats, billing, and subscription usage.

We do not routinely disclose the contents of individual Ask Digital Politics conversations to institutional administrators solely because they administer a subscription.

Any additional data-sharing arrangements with institutional customers will be governed by the applicable agreement and privacy requirements.

7. Cookies and analytics

Digital Politics may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Maintain account sessions and authentication.
• Remember essential website preferences.
• Support subscription and payment functionality.
• Measure website performance and usage.
• Understand newsletter and content engagement.
• Protect against security threats and misuse.

Some cookies are essential to operating the website. Other technologies, particularly nonessential analytics or advertising cookies, may require consent under applicable law.

Where consent is required, we will provide an appropriate mechanism to obtain and manage that consent.

You can also control certain cookies through your browser settings, although disabling essential cookies may affect website functionality.

8. Third-party service providers

We use third-party services to operate Digital Politics.

Depending on the service, these may include providers of:

• Website hosting and content management.
• Newsletter distribution and membership administration.
• Payment processing.
• Cloud hosting, databases, and technical infrastructure.
• AI model processing and related services.
• Website analytics and performance monitoring.
• Email and customer communications.

These providers may process personal information on our behalf or, in some circumstances, act as independent data controllers.

We seek to use appropriate contractual, technical, and organizational safeguards when engaging service providers that process personal information.

We may also disclose information where legally required, to protect our rights or users, or in connection with a lawful business transaction.

We do not sell subscriber lists or Ask Digital Politics conversation data.

9. International data transfers

Digital Politics is operated by a company registered in the United Kingdom and provides services to an international audience.

Personal information may be processed in countries outside the United Kingdom or European Economic Area, depending on the location of our infrastructure and service providers.

Where applicable data protection law requires safeguards for international transfers, we rely on appropriate mechanisms, which may include adequacy regulations or decisions, recognized contractual clauses, and supplementary protections where necessary.

You may contact us for further information about relevant transfer safeguards.

10. Data retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including providing services, maintaining security, resolving disputes, and meeting legal obligations.

Retention periods depend on the type of information and the purpose for which it is processed.

In general:

• Account and subscription information may be retained while an account remains active and for an appropriate period afterward.
• Billing and transaction records may be retained for the periods required by applicable tax and accounting law.
• Newsletter engagement and website analytics information may be retained according to the relevant service settings and operational needs.
• Ask Digital Politics conversations, usage records, feedback, and diagnostic logs may be retained for service operation, quality evaluation, and troubleshooting, subject to applicable retention controls.
• Correspondence may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to address inquiries and maintain appropriate business records.

Where information is no longer required, we will delete, anonymize, or otherwise securely dispose of it, subject to legal and technical constraints.

11. Data security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.

These measures may include access controls, authentication, encrypted connections, service monitoring, and restrictions on access to operational systems.

No internet-based service can guarantee absolute security.

If you believe your account or personal information has been compromised, please contact us promptly.

12. Your privacy rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Request access to personal information we hold about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Request deletion of personal information.
• Request restriction of certain processing activities.
• Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Request portability of certain personal information.
• Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent.
• Complain to an appropriate data protection authority.

These rights are subject to applicable legal conditions and exceptions.

To exercise your rights, contact digitalpolitics@protonmail.com.

We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request.

Where UK data protection law applies, you may also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.

Where EU data protection law applies, you may have the right to complain to a supervisory authority in the relevant EU member state.

13. Public research materials and external links

Digital Politics publishes research materials, regulatory trackers, dashboards, and links to external sources.

These materials may contain information about public officials, organizations, companies, or other individuals where relevant to legitimate journalistic and research activities.

Personal data processed for journalistic purposes may be subject to applicable legal provisions and exemptions.

Our website may link to third-party websites and resources. We are not responsible for their privacy practices, and we encourage you to review their policies separately.

14. Children's privacy

Digital Politics is intended primarily for adult readers, researchers, and professionals.

We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information directly from children through our subscription or research services.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us so that we can assess and address the situation.

15. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our services, data-processing practices, technology, or legal obligations.

The latest version will be published on this page with its updated date.

Where a change materially affects how we process personal information, we will provide additional notice where required by law.

16. Contact

For questions about this Privacy Policy or how Digital Politics processes personal information, contact:

Digital Politics Ltd
14 Chertsey Road
Shepperton
England, TW17 9LB

Email: digitalpolitics@protonmail.com

Website: digitalpolitics.co