Privacy Policy for The Hard News Daily

Welcome to The Hard News Daily. We value your privacy and are dedicated to safeguarding your personal information. This privacy policy delineates the methods by which we gather, utilize, and protect your personal information when you access our website, subscribe to our newsletter, make purchases, or engage in any competitions. It elucidates your privacy rights and the legal protections afforded to you.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

• Purpose: This privacy policy provides information on how The Hard News Daily collects and handles your personal data through your use of our website, including data you may submit when signing up for our newsletter, purchasing a product or service, or participating in a competition.

• Controller: The Hard News Daily serves as the data controller for your personal information. In accordance with GDPR Article 13, we disclose the entity responsible for determining the processing of your data, including the purposes and methods involved.

• Contact Details: For inquiries regarding this policy or our privacy practices, please reach out to our Data Privacy Manager via email at editor@thehardnewsdaily.com. Upon request, we shall furnish you with relevant regulatory contact information.

2. The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, utilize, retain, and transfer many types of personal data regarding you, as delineated below (these categories are illustrative and may intersect).:

• Identity Data: comprises first name, last name, username, or analogous identifier.

• Contact Data: comprises billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.

• Financial Data: include bank account and payment card information.

• Transaction Data: encompasses information regarding transactions to and from you, as well as specifics on products or services you have acquired.

• Technical Data: comprises your internet protocol (IP) address, authentication credentials, browser type and version, time zone, device identifiers, and additional technology on the devices utilized to access our website.

• Usage Data: comprises data regarding your utilization of our website, including pages accessed and links selected (gathered through cookies or analytics).

• Marketing and Communications Data: encompasses your preferences for receiving marketing communications from us and our third-party affiliates, as well as your communication preferences.

We may also gather Aggregated Data (statistical or demographic information) from which individual identities have been excluded, for instance, to evaluate usage patterns and enhance our website. We do not collect special categories of personal data, including ethnicity, religion, health, and information regarding criminal convictions..

3. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?

We collect data from and about you in several ways:

• Direct interactions: You may provide your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data using our website forms or by communicating with us by mail, phone, email, or other means. For instance, personal data is provided when registering for an account, completing a transaction, subscribing to a newsletter, or reaching out to customer service.

• Automated technologies or interactions: While you engage with our website, we may automatically gather Technical and Usage Data regarding your device, browsing activities, and behaviors. This encompasses data gathered via cookies, web server logs, and analogous technologies (for instance, we document your IP address and visited sites to analyze usage and enhance security).

• Third parties: We may obtain information about you from external sources, including analytics providers, advertising partners, or publicly accessible resources. For instance, an analytics provider may furnish us with aggregated usage statistics, or a payment processor may supply your transaction data.

Every collecting method is regulated by relevant legislation (for example, data acquired by cookies is communicated to you through our cookie notice).

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

Your personal data will be utilized solely in accordance with legal laws. The major legal grounds we utilize are:

• Performance of a contract: Your data is utilized to execute the services you have solicited, such as executing your purchases or subscriptions. These applications are essential to execute our agreement with you.

• Legitimate interests: Your data is utilized for our legitimate business objectives, as long as your interests and fundamental rights do not take precedence. This may involve enhancing our website, mitigating fraud, or dispatching service-related notifications, while balancing these interests with your privacy.

• Legal obligation: Your data is utilized as necessary to fulfill legal responsibilities, such as tax or accounting regulations.

Typically, we do not depend on consent as the principal legal foundation, except in some instances of direct marketing communications where we may solicit your approval. You may revoke consent at any time if it served as the basis for processing. We guarantee a lawful basis for processing your data at all times.

5. Data Security

We regard the protection of your personal data with utmost seriousness. We have instituted suitable technical and organizational safeguards to avert the accidental loss, theft, or unauthorized access of your data. These methods may encompass encryption, access controls, secure server protocols, and routine security audits. We adhere to established security policies and processes, encompassing both physical and logical measures, to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of information. Nonetheless, it is important to acknowledge that no storage or communication technique is entirely secure, hence we cannot assure absolute security.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and to satisfy any legal, regulatory, tax, or accounting requirements. In general, we keep your data only while your account is active or as long as needed to provide you with our services. When the data is no longer required, we will securely delete or anonymize it. For example, as one policy states, “We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary for the purpose for which that data was collected and to the extent required by applicable law”. In certain cases (such as pending litigation or compliance with audits), we may keep data for a longer period if allowed by law.

7. Your Legal Rights

Under data protection laws (such as the EU GDPR and similar regulations), you have certain rights regarding your personal data. These include:

• Right of access: You can request access to a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

• Right to rectification: You can ask us to correct any incomplete or inaccurate personal data we hold.

• Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”): You can request that we delete or remove your personal data when there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.

• Right to restrict processing: You can ask us to temporarily suspend processing of your personal data in certain situations (for example, if you contest its accuracy).

• Right to data portability: You can request that we transfer the personal data we have collected about you to another organization or directly to you, under certain conditions.

• Right to object: You can object to our processing of your personal data when we are relying on legitimate interests (or those of a third party), especially if you feel it impacts your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object if we use your data for direct marketing.

• Right to withdraw consent: If the processing of your data is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

You can exercise any of these rights by contacting us at editor@thehardnewsdaily.com. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law. (In general, we strive to respond within one month.) If you are not satisfied with our response, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority in your jurisdiction.

8. Third-Party Links

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, or applications (for example, links to social media or advertising partners). Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites, and their privacy practices may differ from ours. As one privacy policy notes, “We do not control these third-party websites and expressly disclaim any responsibility for the content, the accuracy of the information and any products or services available on the third-party websites”. We encourage you to read the privacy notices on any linked sites you visit.

9. Changes to the Privacy Policy and Your Duty to Inform Us of Changes

We keep this privacy policy under regular review and may update it from time to time (for example, to reflect changes in law or our services). When we update the policy, we will post the new version on this page with the date of last revision. If we make significant material changes, we may notify you by email or through a notice on our website. Your continued use of our website after any changes indicates your acceptance of the updated policy. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your information changes (for example, if you change email address or billing details) so that we can update our records accordingly.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, our practices, or if you wish to exercise your rights (such as requesting access or deletion of your data), please contact us at:

• Email: editor@thehardnewsdaily.com (Data Privacy Manager)

• Address: Editor, The Hard News Daily.

We will do our best to address your query promptly. This privacy policy sets out how The Hard News Daily uses and protects any information that you give when you use this website. We are committed to ensuring that your data and privacy are properly maintained.

Last updated: [4th January, 2026]

Sources: Our practices are guided by data protection laws and industry standards, as reflected in this policy.