Privacy Policy
What this page is
BROAD BROWSE is free to read and paid for by advertising, which means data about your visit passes through more hands than we would like. This page says whose hands, what they receive, and how you stop most of it. We have tried to write it in plain language rather than the dense register these documents usually arrive in.
You do not have to give us anything to read a story. There is no account, no registration wall, and no email demanded before a breaking update. Most of what is collected is not a dossier about you. It is a record of requests and pages, a distinction that matters rather less to advertising technology than it should.
What we collect
Log data arrives whether anyone intends it or not. Our host and delivery network record the IP address making the request, the browser it reports, the page requested, where you arrived 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 a script hammering the site.
On top of that sit analytics, an email address if you take a newsletter, and whatever you put in a message to us. Advertising is the noisy part. The ad server and the exchanges bidding on our inventory set their own identifiers, cap how often a given advertisement reaches you, and, where you have consented, select advertisements from a profile built elsewhere. We run no device fingerprinting and never ask for your precise location.
Why we process it, and on what basis
The purposes are short to list. Serve the site and keep it standing when a major story multiplies our traffic in minutes. Count readers, because knowing which stories are actually read is how a small team decides what to cover next. Send newsletters people asked for. Guard against abuse and invalid ad traffic, sell and serve advertising, and keep what the law requires us to keep.
Under the GDPR and its equivalents, consent covers 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 up. Legal obligation covers the narrow rest. Nothing here feeds an automated decision about a person, because we do not make decisions about people. We publish stories.
Who else receives it, and where it goes
By category, because the specific companies change and a list frozen in prose is stale within a quarter: our host and delivery network, our analytics provider, the ad server and the programmatic exchanges with their downstream partners, our newsletter service, and rarely an adviser or an authority acting on a valid legal order.
Real time bidding fires a request at many companies at once, and we will not pretend we can name every one from memory. The consent manager holds the list that is actually current. Your email address is not sold, swapped or rented, and our sources are not identified to anyone. The rules that keep advertisers away from the newsroom are on our advertise page.
Those providers run servers in several countries, so your data is 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 comparable law moves somewhere without an adequacy finding, the transfer runs on standard contractual clauses or another approved mechanism. No legal instrument makes a foreign server local, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling something.
Cookies, and the banner
Strictly necessary cookies keep the site working and remember your consent choice. Analytics, preferences and advertising wait for consent where the law requires it, and refusing them breaks nothing you came here to read. The categories, who sets them, how long they last and how to change your answer are set out at length in our cookie policy.
If you clicked through the banner quickly and want to reconsider, the consent manager reopens from the footer link on every page, and your new answer replaces the old one on the next page you load.
Your rights
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, and take what you gave us in a portable form. You can complain to your data protection authority without coming to us first. Write to support@broadbrowse.com with PRIVACY at the front of the subject line, and we answer within a month.
One limit, stated plainly. Where a request is really an attempt to erase or rewrite 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 says what happens next.
Opting out of sale or sharing
In some regions, including parts of the United States, you can opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for cross context behavioural advertising, limit the use of sensitive information, and be treated no worse for doing so. We take no money for handing over anyone’s personal information, but serving behaviourally targeted advertising can still count as sharing under these laws, so we treat it that way rather than argue about wording. Use the opt out control in our consent manager, or write with PRIVACY in the subject. We also honour the Global Privacy Control signal, which is quieter and more effective than any button.
How long things are kept
Server and delivery logs are held for about thirty days, then discarded or reduced to counts with no identifier attached. Event level analytics is capped in the provider’s configuration, typically at fourteen months. Aggregate reports of the sort that say a story was read a certain number of times are kept indefinitely, because they contain nothing about anybody. A newsletter address stays until you unsubscribe, after which a minimal suppression record survives so we do not mail you again by accident.
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 there are no games, quizzes or rewards here built to coax a child into handing over an 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.
Changes, and where to write
When this policy changes in a way that affects you, the date below moves, a note sits at the top of the page for a while saying what shifted, and where the law requires fresh consent we ask again rather than treating an old click as permanent. The rules governing your use of the site are separate and live in our terms of service. Everything here routes to one address, support@broadbrowse.com, and other ways in are on our contact page.
Last updated: August 2026
