Privacy Policy
The short version
internationalfreelancersday.com is a publication you read, not a service you sign into. We do not require accounts, we do not know who you are when you visit, and the personal data we handle is limited to what standard web infrastructure produces, what analytics and advertising partners process, and what you choose to send us by email. This policy explains each of those in plain language. Questions and requests go to support@internationalfreelancersday.com.
Who is responsible
The site is operated by the independent editorial team behind INTERNATIONALFREELANCERSDAY. For the purposes of data protection law, the site operator is the controller of the personal data described here. We deliberately keep that footprint small: no login system, no user profiles, no requirement to hand over anything to read the site.
What we collect and why
Server logs
Like practically every website, our hosting infrastructure records technical logs when you request a page: your IP address, the time of the request, the page requested, your browser’s user-agent string and the referring page. We use these to keep the site running, to diagnose faults and to detect abuse such as scraping or attack traffic. Logs are kept for a short rolling window and then deleted or anonymised. We do not use server logs to build profiles of readers.
Analytics
We use analytics to learn which articles are read, roughly where readers are (at country or city level, never street level), and how people arrive at the site. This tells us, for example, that a platform fee guide is suddenly getting traffic, which is often our first hint that the platform changed something. Analytics data is aggregated; we look at patterns, not individuals. Where consent rules apply to analytics cookies in your region, they are covered by the consent banner described in the cookie policy.
Advertising
The site is partly funded by display advertising. Advertising partners may process your IP address and cookie or device identifiers to serve and measure ads, and, where you have consented, to personalise them. We do not hand advertisers your email address or anything you have sent us; their data comes from their own tags on the page. You can withhold or withdraw consent for personalised advertising through the consent banner, and the ads become non-personalised rather than disappearing.
Affiliate links
Some outbound links carry an affiliate tag so the destination platform knows the visit came from us. What the destination receives is the fact of the click and the page it came from, not your name or email. Affiliate cookies are set by the destination and are explained in the cookie policy and on our ownership and funding page.
Email you send us
If you email support@internationalfreelancersday.com, we receive your address and whatever you write. We use it to answer you, to fix what you reported and, if you sent a news tip, to verify the story. We do not add correspondents to any marketing list. Correction threads are kept as part of the editorial record; routine correspondence is deleted when it is no longer needed.
Newsletter, if you subscribe
If we operate a newsletter and you subscribe to it, we store your email address for the sole purpose of sending it, with an unsubscribe link in every issue. Unsubscribing removes you promptly. We never buy, sell or trade subscriber lists.
What we do not collect
- No accounts, so no passwords, and no reading history tied to your identity on our side.
- No payment data. We sell nothing directly to readers.
- No precise location, no contact-list access, no data from your device beyond what a browser normally sends.
- No data knowingly collected from children. The site is written for working adults, and we do not direct any part of it at children.
Legal bases
Where the law requires a named legal basis: we rely on legitimate interests for server logs, security and aggregate analytics measurement, since the site cannot operate or improve without them and the privacy impact is small; on consent for personalised advertising and any non-essential cookies, gathered through the banner; and on legitimate interests, and where relevant legal obligation, when handling correspondence such as corrections, legal notices and privacy requests.
Sharing
We share personal data only with the service providers who make the site work: hosting, analytics, advertising and email providers, each processing data on their own terms as described above. We do not sell personal data. We would disclose data to authorities only where the law applicable where the operator is established genuinely requires it.
International transfers
Our readers and our service providers are spread across many countries, so data may be processed outside the country you live in. Where transfer rules apply, we rely on our providers’ standard safeguards, such as approved contractual clauses, to cover them.
Retention
Server logs are kept for a short rolling window. Analytics is retained in aggregate form. Email is kept as long as the conversation, or the editorial record it belongs to, requires. Newsletter addresses are kept until you unsubscribe. Nothing here is kept for the sake of keeping it.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal data, to object to processing based on legitimate interests, to data portability, and to complain to a supervisory authority. In practice, the data we could hold about you is almost always limited to email correspondence and a newsletter address, and we honour requests about both without drama. Write to support@internationalfreelancersday.com with the subject line Privacy and tell us which right you are exercising. We may need to verify that you control the email address in question, and we aim to respond within the timeframe the applicable law sets.
Changes to this policy
When we change this policy in any way that matters, we update this page and its revision date. We do not have a way to notify readers individually, because in almost every case we do not know who our readers are, which is how we prefer it.
