Last updated: July 24, 2026
How ReaThis handles your information
This Privacy Policy explains how ReaThis collects, uses, stores, and protects information when you visit ReaThis, use our contact form, send us an email, submit feedback, report a correction, leave a comment where comments are available, or otherwise interact with the website.
In this policy, “ReaThis,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the ReaThis publication and the people responsible for operating it.
We aim to collect only the information reasonably necessary to:
- Operate and secure the website
- Understand how readers use our content
- Respond to questions and feedback
- Review correction requests
- Improve the reader experience
- Meet applicable legal obligations
ReaThis does not sell your personal information.
By using the website, you acknowledge the practices described in this policy. Where applicable law requires your consent, we will request it separately.
Who is responsible for your information?
ReaThis is responsible for the personal information described in this policy.
For privacy questions or requests, contact:
Email: [email protected]
Contact page: https://www.reathis.com/contact-us/
You can learn more about the publication on the About ReaThis page.
Information we collect
The information we collect depends on how you interact with ReaThis.
Some information is provided directly by you. Other information may be collected automatically through our website, hosting provider, security systems, cookies, and analytics tools.
Information you provide directly
Contact form and email enquiries
When you contact ReaThis through the website or by email, we may collect:
- Your name
- Your email address
- The subject of your message
- The contents of your enquiry
- Any links, documents, or evidence you provide
- Other information needed to respond to your request
Our contact form is provided through Fluent Forms.
Information submitted through the form may be stored within our WordPress website and delivered to the email address used to manage ReaThis.
Please provide only the information necessary for your enquiry.
Do not submit passwords, payment information, government identification numbers, medical information, private account credentials, or other highly sensitive information through the contact form or ordinary email.
Correction requests
When you report an error or request a correction, we may collect:
- Your name and email address
- The article you are contacting us about
- The information you believe is inaccurate
- Your explanation of the issue
- Supporting evidence or source links
- Your relationship to the subject, where relevant
- Further correspondence about the request
We may retain correction-related correspondence as part of our editorial record.
Correction requests are handled according to our Corrections and Updates Policy.
Comments
Where comments are enabled, we may collect:
- Your name or chosen display name
- Your email address
- Your website address, if provided
- The content of your comment
- Your IP address
- Browser and device information
- The date and time of submission
Some of this information may be used to identify spam, prevent abuse, or protect the website.
Your comment and display name may appear publicly if the comment is approved. Your email address will not ordinarily be displayed publicly.
Please do not include private or sensitive personal information in a public comment.
Information collected automatically
When you visit ReaThis, certain technical information may be processed automatically.
This may include:
- Your IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Approximate geographic area
- Language settings
- Referring website or search engine
- Pages viewed
- Links selected
- Date and time of access
- General navigation activity
- Website errors
- Security-related events
This information may be processed by our hosting provider, WordPress installation, security tools, and analytics services.
We use it to operate the website, identify technical problems, understand general readership patterns, prevent misuse, and improve ReaThis.
Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files that websites may store on your device.
ReaThis may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Keep the website functioning
- Process forms
- Support comments
- Remember limited preferences
- Protect the website from spam and misuse
- Measure website traffic
- Understand how readers navigate the website
- Diagnose technical problems
Some cookies may be placed directly by ReaThis. Others may be placed by services used to operate or measure the website.
Essential cookies
Essential cookies support functions required for the website to work correctly or securely.
These may be used for:
- Form submission
- Website security
- Spam prevention
- Session management
- Comment functionality
- Remembering privacy choices
Blocking essential cookies may affect parts of the website.
Google Analytics
ReaThis uses Google Analytics through Google Site Kit to understand how visitors use the website.
Google Analytics may process information such as:
- Pages viewed
- Page URLs and titles
- Approximate location
- Browser and device information
- Referral sources
- General website interactions
- Dates and times of visits
We use this information to understand general traffic patterns, identify useful content, improve navigation, and detect website problems.
We do not intentionally send names, email addresses, telephone numbers, or other directly identifying contact information to Google Analytics.
Google Analytics may use first-party cookies and similar technologies to measure website activity.
The way Google processes information is governed by Google’s own policies and the settings applied to our Analytics account.
Managing cookies
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings.
Most browsers allow you to:
- Review stored cookies
- Delete cookies
- Block some or all cookies
- Restrict third-party cookies
- Receive a warning before cookies are stored
Blocking cookies may affect the way certain website features work.
Where ReaThis provides a cookie-consent or privacy-preference tool, you may also use it to manage available choices.
How we use information
We may use collected information for the following purposes.
Operating ReaThis
We use information to provide, maintain, secure, and improve the website.
This may include managing:
- Website pages
- Contact forms
- Comments
- Editorial records
- Analytics
- Security systems
- Technical infrastructure
Responding to enquiries
We use contact information to reply to:
- General questions
- Reader feedback
- Correction reports
- Privacy requests
- Story suggestions
- Press enquiries
- Technical problems
- Other legitimate messages
Contacting ReaThis about one matter does not automatically add you to a marketing list.
Reviewing corrections
We use submitted information and supporting evidence to investigate possible errors, outdated claims, or disputed information.
Correction requests are evaluated according to the evidence, not the status or commercial influence of the person or company submitting them.
Understanding website use
We use technical and aggregated information to understand:
- Which pages readers visit
- How visitors discover ReaThis
- How readers move between pages
- Which devices and browsers are commonly used
- Whether pages work correctly
- Where the website can be improved
Protecting the website
We may process information to:
- Detect and prevent spam
- Investigate suspicious activity
- Protect website systems
- Prevent unauthorized access
- Enforce our website rules
- Respond to technical incidents
- Defend our legal rights
Meeting legal obligations
We may process or retain information where reasonably necessary to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, court orders, or other legal obligations.
Legal reasons for processing
Where applicable law requires a legal basis, we may rely on one or more of the following.
Consent
We may rely on consent when you:
- Accept non-essential cookies
- Submit information for a specific optional purpose
- Choose to receive optional communications
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it.
Withdrawal does not affect processing that took place before your consent was withdrawn.
Legitimate interests
We may process information where reasonably necessary for interests such as:
- Operating and improving the website
- Responding to readers
- Maintaining editorial records
- Understanding website usage
- Preventing spam and abuse
- Protecting our systems
- Establishing or defending legal claims
We consider whether those interests are outweighed by your privacy rights.
Responding to your request
We may use information when necessary to respond to an enquiry, review a correction, handle a privacy request, or take another action you have requested.
Legal obligations
We may process or retain information when required by applicable law.
How we share information
ReaThis does not sell personal information.
We may share limited information in the following circumstances.
Website and service providers
We may use third-party providers to help us:
- Host and maintain the website
- Process contact forms
- Deliver emails
- Prevent spam
- Protect website security
- Measure website traffic
- Store website data
- Maintain technical systems
These providers may process information only as necessary to provide their services, subject to their own contracts, settings, and privacy practices.
Providers may include:
- Website-hosting services
- WordPress and plugin providers
- Fluent Forms
- Email services
- Security and spam-prevention services
- Google Analytics and Google Site Kit
Legal and safety reasons
We may disclose information where reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law
- Respond to valid legal proceedings
- Protect the rights or safety of ReaThis or another person
- Investigate fraud, abuse, or a security incident
- Enforce our Terms and Conditions
- Establish or defend a legal claim
Business changes
If ReaThis is reorganized, transferred, merged, or acquired, relevant information may be transferred as part of that process.
Any new operator would be expected to handle the information according to applicable law and the privacy commitments in effect at that time.
With your permission
We may share information when you clearly request or authorize us to do so.
Advertising and sale of information
ReaThis does not currently sell personal information.
ReaThis also does not currently use information collected through the website for paid cross-context behavioral advertising.
Our current funding and commercial practices are described in our Editorial Policy and Independence.
If our advertising, analytics, affiliate, or commercial practices change, we will update this policy and provide any choices required by applicable law.
International processing
ReaThis can be accessed from different countries.
Some service providers may process or store information outside the country where you live.
Privacy laws in those locations may differ from the laws in your country.
Where applicable law requires safeguards for international transfers, we will take reasonable steps to use appropriate contractual, technical, organizational, or legal protections.
How long we keep information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
The retention period depends on the type of information and why it is needed.
Contact enquiries
We may retain correspondence for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the enquiry, maintain an appropriate record, resolve a dispute, or protect our legal rights.
Correction requests
Correction reports, evidence, and related correspondence may be retained as part of our editorial record, particularly where the request affects a published article or decision.
Comments
Approved comments may remain available for as long as the related article remains published, unless the comment is removed by ReaThis or following a valid request.
Analytics information
Analytics information is retained according to the settings configured within our Google Analytics account.
Security records
Security logs may be retained for a reasonable period to detect, investigate, and prevent misuse or technical incidents.
We may retain information for a longer period where required by law or reasonably necessary for a legal claim.
How we protect information
ReaThis uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information from:
- Unauthorized access
- Accidental loss
- Misuse
- Improper disclosure
- Alteration
- Destruction
These measures may include:
- Restricted account access
- Strong passwords
- Software and plugin updates
- Website backups
- Spam protection
- Security monitoring
- Hosting safeguards
No website, internet transmission, email system, or storage service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You should avoid sending highly sensitive information through ordinary email or a public website form.
Your privacy rights
Depending on where you live and which laws apply, you may have rights concerning your personal information.
These may include the right to:
- Ask whether we hold information about you
- Request access to your information
- Ask us to correct inaccurate information
- Request deletion of certain information
- Ask us to restrict certain processing
- Object to certain uses
- Withdraw consent
- Request a portable copy of eligible information
- Opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted advertising
- Complain to an appropriate privacy or data-protection authority
These rights are not absolute.
Applicable law may allow or require us to retain certain information for editorial, security, legal, record-keeping, or freedom-of-expression purposes.
Making a privacy request
To make a privacy request, email [email protected] or use the ReaThis Contact page.
Please include:
- Your name
- The email address connected to your interaction with ReaThis
- The request you are making
- Enough information to help us locate the relevant records
- Your country or region, where relevant
We may request additional information to verify your identity and prevent unauthorized access to personal information.
We will respond within the period required by applicable law.
Editorial records and published content
Privacy requests involving published editorial content may require additional consideration.
ReaThis may retain information where reasonably necessary to:
- Preserve an accurate editorial record
- Protect a confidential source
- Exercise freedom of expression
- Maintain the integrity of published work
- Establish or defend legal claims
- Comply with applicable law
- Protect the rights of readers or other people
A request to delete personal information does not automatically require the removal of accurate, lawful, and publicly relevant editorial content.
Requests involving published articles will be reviewed according to applicable privacy, legal, and editorial considerations.
For factual correction requests, read our Corrections and Updates Policy.
Children’s privacy
ReaThis is a general technology publication and is not directed specifically at children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
Where applicable law sets a higher minimum age, that higher age may apply.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information to ReaThis, contact [email protected]. We will review the report and take appropriate action where required.
Third-party links and embedded content
ReaThis may link to or embed content from third-party websites, products, videos, social platforms, documents, or other services.
Third parties may collect information when you interact with their content or visit their websites.
ReaThis does not control their privacy practices.
A link, review, citation, or mention does not mean that ReaThis is responsible for how another organization collects, stores, or uses information.
You should review the privacy policy of any external service you use.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when:
- Our website practices change
- We introduce or remove a service
- We change analytics, forms, hosting, or security providers
- Our advertising or funding model changes
- Applicable legal requirements change
- The policy requires clarification
The revised version will be published on this page with an updated “Last updated” date.
Where a change is significant, we may also provide notice through the website or another reasonable method.
Contact ReaThis
For questions about this Privacy Policy, personal information, cookies, analytics, or your privacy rights, contact:
Email: [email protected]
Contact page: https://www.reathis.com/contact-us/
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