FAQs

How can I see what information you hold on me?

You can contact our data privacy manager as set out in our ‘Contact Us’ section above.

How do I opt out of profiling?

You can contact us at any time. A member of our data privacy team will speak to you regarding your request.

How do I opt out of marketing?

You can update your preferences at any time and you can also opt out of email marketing by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. For other parts of IoT For All you can contact us.

How do I make a complaint?

If you have a complaint regarding any aspect of your personal information or this privacy policy, please write directly to the data privacy team.

Can I ask you to delete my information?

Yes, just contact us. We will consider your request and take appropriate action which may mean that we suppress it, rather than delete it to ensure that we can still follow your preferences as to whether or not we can market to you.

How do I update my information?

You can update it at any time via your online account at economist.com (for subscribers of the newspaper), or just contact us.

What are my rights under GDPR?

You have a right to ask us for information we hold about you, please email customer services or data privacy including the subject line, “Subject Access Request”, so that we can respond as promptly as possible.

You also have the right to ask for us to update, delete, or stop processing information we hold about you. However, please note that there are circumstances in which complete erasure of your information or ceasing to process your information will not be possible for operational, legal and business reasons. This may include if you remain a customer for whom we need to provide services, or if you wish us to no longer contact you for marketing purposes. In this case we may need to retain some of your details securely in order to facilitate this request by, for example, keeping you on a “do not contact” or suppression list. This will be the only purpose for which your data will be used if this is the case.

Changes to this policy

From time to time, we may make changes to the privacy policy. This may be in relation to changes in the law, best practice or changes in our services. These changes will be reflected in this statement, so you should check here regularly.