Privacy Notice

Privacy Notice & Cookies Policy ("Privacy Notice")

Last Updated: 14th September 2026

Privacy Notice – Highlights

This Privacy Notice explains how we and third parties obtain certain information about you when you complete a form (paper, online or otherwise) to subscribe to our magazine or other offering, enter a competition, provide your details at an event, and/or use or interact with a website, mobile or other digital app, print or digital subscription, product, or other service (which may include personalised content, features, and ads) (each a "Hearst UK Service") owned or operated by Hearst UK. In this Highlights section, we provide an overview of our privacy practices related to the Hearst UK Services. Please review our full Privacy Notice below for a detailed explanation of our practices.

What Information We Obtain

  • Information you provide when you use the Hearst UK Services or order related content, products or services, including when you sign up for newsletters, order subscriptions, create an account or register through the Hearst UK Services. This may include your contact, payment or demographic information.
  • Information you submit when you choose to participate in a survey, sweepstakes, competition, promotion, event or similar initiative.
  • Information you provide when you comment on articles, interact with Q&As, blogs and forums, including photos, images, videos, and other user-generated content.
  • Information you provide when you interact with AI-supported features provided as part of the Hearst UK Services, including chatbots.
  • Information you give us about others, such as a friend's contact information when you share an article or order a gift subscription.
  • Information collected by Cookies and Similar Technologies as defined below. This includes information about your device and browser, including IP address, unique identifiers or mobile device advertising identifiers, as well as information about how you and others use, interact with or respond to the Hearst UK Services. This type of collection takes place while you are using a Hearst UK Service or while the Hearst UK Service is running in the background of your device.
  • Precise location information associated with your device when location services are active.
  • Information we obtain from other sources, such as business partners, data suppliers, authentication service partners and social media platforms.

Read more here in Section B. What Information We Obtain.

How We Use Information We Obtain and Our Legal Bases for Doing So

  • To process your requests and subscriptions and provide you with the Hearst UK Services. Note that we use your payment information (such as your card number and expiration date) for limited purposes — to process your transaction (including recurring payments, if applicable), provide you with the requested products or services and to protect our rights or the rights of others.
  • To learn about users of the Hearst UK Services and analyse how you and others interact with and respond to the Hearst UK Services.
  • To improve, develop, and personalise the Hearst UK Services, including to deliver personalised content, features, and ads.
  • To communicate with you, including to send you marketing and promotional communications.
  • For advertising and marketing purposes, including to deliver interest-based ads, for cross-device linking and to analyse the performance of advertising and marketing activities.
  • We may leverage AI, machine learning, and algorithmic tools for any of the above purposes in providing you with the Hearst UK Services.
  • To protect our rights and the rights of others.
  • We process personal information for different purposes on the following legal bases: to perform our contract with you, to pursue our legitimate interests, to comply with our legal obligations and otherwise with your consent or at your direction. We provide more specific information on legal bases for processing here.

Read more about how we use information in Section C. How We Use Information We Obtain.

How We Share Information

  • Within the Hearst family of companies.
  • To service providers that perform services or handle transactions on our behalf.
  • To advertising-, marketing-, and personalisation-related partners as well as companies that help us learn how you and others interact with our content. This includes certain partners to whom we provide personal information, including for analysis and advertising purposes.
  • To content measurement companies, which help us learn about the performance of content across the internet, including on the Hearst UK Services.
  • To social media platforms and similar services, including when you interact with the Hearst UK Services that integrate tools and services provided by social media platforms.
  • To business partners, such as when we partner with a third party to offer products or services on a co-branded basis, or for their own advertising, marketing, or commercial purposes.
  • To other parties when required by law or as necessary to protect our rights, and in the context of corporate transactions.
  • With your consent or otherwise at your direction.

Read more here in Section E. How We Share Information.

Your Choices, Including Marketing and Cookies Choices, Including Interest-Based Ads Opt-Outs

  • Depending on where you live, and subject to applicable laws, you may make requests to the Hearst UK Magazines brands and businesses providing you the Hearst UK Services including to access, delete, or correct your personal information. See Section G. Your Rights Over Your Personal Information.
  • You can take steps to limit the use of your information for targeted advertising on your browser or mobile device and/or adjust your preferences regarding Cookies and Similar Technologies below in Section G. Your Rights Over Your Personal Information.
  • You can unsubscribe from marketing or promotional emails by clicking the 'Unsubscribe' link in emails, or for certain Hearst UK Services, by logging into your account and adjusting your preferences.

Read more here in Section F. Cookies Policy.

Additional Information

  • We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure.
  • We delete your data when it is no longer required for legitimate business or legal reasons.
  • We put appropriate safeguards in place to protect your data when it is transferred to, stored, and processed in a country that does not have similar data protection laws to the European Union or United Kingdom.
  • Applicable privacy laws contain certain exemptions that apply when personal information is processed for journalistic purposes. This Privacy Notice does not cover personal information processed in the context of our journalistic activities.
  • The Hearst UK Services are not intended for use by children or minors under the age of 18.

Read more here in Section G. Your Rights Over Your Personal Information.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Notice or about the privacy rights described in Section G. Your Rights Over Your Personal Information, you can contact us using the contact information provided here in Section O. Contact Us.

Privacy Notice

A. Introduction

This Privacy Notice describes how Hearst UK (referred to in this notice as "we", "us", "our" and "Hearst") collect and process personal information about you, how we use and protect this information, and your rights in relation to this information. This Privacy Notice explains how we and third parties obtain certain information about you when you complete a form (paper, online or otherwise) to subscribe to our magazine or other offering, enter a competition, provide your details at an event, and/or use or interact with a website, mobile or other digital app, print or digital subscription, product, or other service (which may include personalised content, features, and ads) (each a "Hearst UK Service") owned or operated by Hearst UK. If you have a query about this Privacy Notice or our data practices, we have provided contact details in the "Contact Us" section below.

This Privacy Notice describes the privacy practices of Hearst UK only and does not cover the practices of other companies, including those that advertise or sponsor content, products or services on the Hearst UK Services as explained further in the section "How We Share Information" below.

Depending on the specific Hearst UK Service you interact with, our practices with respect to personal information may vary; certain Hearst UK Services may have additional or different notices that should be read in conjunction with this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice does not apply to Hearst offerings that have a different privacy notice.

If you have interacted with our US brands and businesses, you may access their privacy notice from the website or mobile app you have interacted with.

B. What Information We Obtain

When you use a Hearst UK Service, we obtain various types of information related to you and your use of the Hearst UK Service. This includes information that directly identifies you, such as your name, address, or contact information as well as information such as online identifiers and cookie data, which may indirectly identify you (this type of information may be called "personal information," "personal data," or "personally identifiable information"). We, our service providers, and third parties may aggregate or anonymise information that we collect in connection with your use of the Hearst UK Services; this information is not "personal information," "personal data," or "personally identifiable information." Certain pieces of information we obtain (for example, information relating to ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs) may be considered a "special category" of personal information under privacy laws.

The information we obtain generally consists of information (1) you give us about yourself, (2) you give us about others, (3) automatically collected about your interactions with the Hearst UK Services and our content or ads on third-party websites, apps or other media, and (4) we get from other sources as described further below.

1. Information we collect directly from you

When you use certain features of the Hearst UK Services, we ask you to provide information about yourself. For example, to sign up for one of our newsletters, you will need to give us an email address. You may not be able to use certain features if you choose not to submit the requested information.

The information you give us includes details such as:

  • Contact information (e.g., name, mailing address, email address or phone number).
  • Demographic, interests and household information (e.g., age, gender or education).
  • Payment information for subscriptions or purchases made through the Hearst UK Services (e.g., payment card number, expiration date and billing information).
  • Comments, photos, images, videos and other user-generated content or information you choose to publish on the Hearst UK Services, including content you provide when you comment on articles, interact with Q&As, blogs, and forums, or otherwise share with us.
  • Information you provide when you interact with AI-supported features provided as part of the Hearst UK Services, including AI chatbots. Please note that we may transcribe and retain your inquiries and responses when you interact with AI chatbots that are part of the Hearst UK Services, which may be shared with others and used for training AI models. Please do not provide information in a chat session with these features that you do not want retained and used for these purposes.
  • Information you provide when you choose to participate in surveys, sweepstakes, competitions, promotions (including information about your participation in activities that generate loyalty or rewards points) or events.
  • Location information, including precise location information when you permit the Hearst UK Services to access device location. To prevent the collection of precise location information, please refer to instructions provided by your mobile service provider or device manufacturer.
  • Other information you allow us to access through your device's permissions settings, such as your contacts or address book.
  • Transactional and activity information (e.g., requests, searches or orders).

2. Information you provide about others

You may give us information about other people, such as the name and email of a friend or contact with whom you want to share an article or the name and address of a gift subscription recipient, or if you participate in a survey or a research initiative. Do not give us information about others unless you are authorised or have their permission to do so. We will use their information for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice.

3. Information automatically collected in connection with Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Hearst UK Services automatically log certain information about visits to the Hearst UK Services – the number and frequency of users, technical information about browsers and devices used to access the Hearst UK Services, and information about crashes or other technical issues. We and our service providers may collect data from your browser or device (including connected apps and devices) for analytics and measurement purposes. In addition, in accordance with your expressed preferences, we and third parties automatically collect certain information through automated means about your activities over time across the Hearst UK Services as well as across third-party websites, apps or other media. The tools that collect this information vary depending on the Hearst UK Services and include technologies such as cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, pixels, local shared objects (including HTML5 cookies) and software development kits ("SDKs") (referred to collectively as "Cookies and Similar Technologies"). Cookies and Similar Technologies may be included in our web pages, apps, emails, and other Hearst UK Services.

The information automatically collected includes the following:

  • Information about your computer, device, browser and operating system (e.g., type, model, or version).
  • Internet protocol (IP) address, which can be used to derive your general geographic area (e.g., city and country).
  • Device identifiers (e.g., mobile advertising IDs), or unique identifiers (e.g., based on hashed contact information).
  • Information about your interactions with the Hearst UK Services, including browsing and search activities and clickstream data that reflect the content (including advertising) and website features you have accessed, clicked on, or viewed, watched or otherwise interacted with.
  • Information about how you accessed the Hearst UK Services, including details about websites or apps visited immediately before or after accessing a Hearst UK Service.
  • Demographic, interests, and household information.
  • Information about your interactions with email messages and other communications, including through Cookies and Similar Technologies in our emails and communications to understand how you interact and engage with us, including for example, whether you opened or forwarded the email, clicked on links contained in or attachments to the email, or the time and frequency of your interactions. This information may be associated with your email address or device identifiers and is used for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, including to personalise, develop and improve your experience with the Hearst UK Services.

Some Cookies and Similar Technologies assign or collect unique cookie IDs or other identifiers associated with your browser or device and may collect information while you are using the Hearst UK Services or while they are running in the background of your device.

4. Information we obtain from other sources

We receive information about you from other sources and in certain circumstances combine it with other information about you. For example, we may obtain data from:

  • Operators of third-party websites or apps, content distribution channels and platforms (e.g., Roku, Amazon Fire TV), voice-activated assistants (e.g., Amazon Alexa, Google Home) or other devices and technologies when you interact with our content, products, services or ads available on those channels and platforms. The information we receive includes information about the content you view or access as well as your demographic information and information about your interests.
  • Third-party data suppliers such as data aggregators, data resellers, identity resolution providers, public databases and business partners. They provide us with demographic information, identifiers, hashed emails, information about your purchases, and information that helps us learn about you and other users of the Hearst UK Services.
  • Authentication service partners. Certain Hearst UK Services allow you to log in through third-party authentication services, such as Facebook, Google, Apple, or Microsoft. When you use one of these partners to log in to the Hearst UK Services, they share certain information with us including name and email address.
  • Business partners, including advertisers, joint marketing partners, co-sponsors, and others.

Social Media Platforms and similar services ("Social Media Platforms"). When you engage with our content or ads on Social Media Platforms, or interact with features on the Hearst UK Services that contain content or features provided by Social Media Platforms (e.g., login or sign in features or tools that allow you to share our content with others on Social Media Platforms), we might obtain information from Social Media Platforms, including your username, user ID, and demographic information, subject to the settings and privacy practices of the relevant Social Media Platform. We obtain this information directly from the Social Media Platform or through plug-ins, integrations or applications. Please keep in mind that the operators of the Social Media Platforms also gather information about your use of the Hearst UK Services and their features and tools. We are not responsible for their practices.

C. How We Use Information We Obtain

If you make a purchase or place an order through or in connection with a Hearst UK Service, we use your payment information (e.g., your card number and expiration date) for the purposes of processing your transaction (including recurring payments, if applicable), to provide you with the requested products or services and to protect our rights or the rights of others as described below.

With respect to information other than your payment information, we use that information:

  • To provide you with the Hearst UK Services or Other Requested Services. This includes:
    • Processing your requests regarding the Hearst UK Services and our subscriptions, products or services, or your participation in a survey, sweepstakes, competition, promotion, event or similar initiative.
    • Providing customer assistance or technical support.
    • Personalising content, features, and ads, and enhancing the quality and your overall experience with the Hearst UK Services. We may retain user preferences to personalise your experience with the Hearst UK Services and content recommendations based on your reading habits, preferences, interests, and location, including to highlight content you may be interested in and de-emphasise content you may have already read.
    • Presenting content and features in the most effective manner for the browser or device you use to access the Hearst UK Services.
    • Maintaining, operating, improving and developing the Hearst UK Services and related content, features, products or services including developing new products and features based on users' interactions with the Hearst UK Services.
    • Learning about users of the Hearst UK Services and analysing how you and others interact with and respond to the Hearst UK Services, including by measuring and optimising usage, reliability and performance, conducting market research, analysing trends, and supporting our operations (e.g., for accounting, auditing, financial, legal or other purposes).
    • Authenticating the account(s) being used to log in to the Hearst UK Services.

We may leverage AI, machine learning and algorithmic tools in connection with any of the above to provide you with the Hearst UK Services.

  • To communicate with you. This includes:
    • Sending you informational messages about the Hearst UK Services (e.g., to confirm your subscription, notify you of changes to a Hearst UK Service, or contact you about products and services by using the information you provide to us through a webform, including abandoned basket emails).
    • Delivering marketing or promotional communications, including offers or promotions about our or third parties' products, services or other initiatives.
    • Responding to your questions or addressing your requests.
    • Communicating with you about surveys, sweepstakes, competitions, promotions or events.
  • For advertising and marketing purposes, including interest-based advertising. Depending on your preferences, including for the use of Cookies and Similar Technologies, this may include:
    • Developing, personalising, managing and conducting advertising and marketing campaigns, promotions and offers, including about our content, products and services or third parties' products, services and other initiatives, whether on the Hearst UK Services or elsewhere.
    • Interest-based advertising (also known as targeted or personalised advertising or ads) is advertising based on your interests as inferred from your activities over time on the Hearst UK Services and online services operated by third parties, as well as information from other sources including information collected offline or sourced from third-party data suppliers, as further described in Section B. What Information We Obtain. Interest-based ads consist of text ads, images, animations or videos and are displayed to you based on various factors, including the context of the website or app in which they appear (e.g., sport or travel section), information you provided to the operator of the website or app (e.g., when you created an account), your activities on the website or app (e.g., pages viewed, searches performed or ads clicked), and information such as your demographic, interests and household information.
  • We, our service providers and third parties use automated means including Cookies and Similar Technologies on the Hearst UK Services and on third-party sites, apps or other media to (a) collect information for interest-based advertising purposes or (b) serve you interest-based ads. These automated means vary depending on the Hearst UK Services and include technologies such as cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, pixels, and SDKs. These technologies may use unique identifiers associated with your browser or device to support targeted advertising. When you agree to the use of Cookies and Similar Technologies on the Hearst UK Services, unique identifiers may be associated with your browser or device to support interest-based advertising.
  • We use online and offline information we obtain about you, including your personal information, and may match and/or combine your data with other available data sets for interest-based advertising purposes and other advertising and marketing initiatives. This may include, as applicable:
    • Targeting ads by using identity resolution partners that enable targeted advertising by matching or augmenting information we collect about you.
    • Hashing information, including your personal information (such as an email address), and disclosing it.
    • Aggregating the information we obtain to create audiences that are most likely to respond to ads based on demographic, interests or household information.
  • Interest-based ads may be displayed to you by third parties, such as ad networks or exchanges.
  • There are steps you can take to limit the collection of your information by Cookies and Similar Technologies and the use of your information for interest-based advertising purposes. These steps vary for the web and mobile app environments and are browser and device specific. To learn more about these choices, see "Your Choices, Including Marketing and Cookies Choices, Including Interest-Based Ads Opt-Outs" below.
  • Cross-device linking. If you access the Hearst UK Services from multiple browsers or devices, we, our service providers, identity resolution partners, data suppliers, and third parties may try to establish connections among and link the different browsers and devices you use to access the Hearst UK Services and our content or ads published elsewhere in certain circumstances. This helps us provide you with a seamless experience across the browsers and devices you use and serve you with more relevant content and ads on the Hearst UK Services or elsewhere (e.g., so that we don't show you the same article twice or to show you personalised or preferred content and ads on the different devices you may use).
  • Analysing and measuring the performance, effectiveness and reach of our advertising (including targeted ads) and marketing efforts on the Hearst UK Services and elsewhere.
  • To protect our rights or the rights of others. This includes:
    • Detecting, preventing and responding to fraud or potentially illegal activities, misuse of the Hearst UK Services, intellectual property infringement or other violations of law, this Privacy Notice, the applicable Hearst UK Services Terms of Use or other Hearst policies.
    • Maintaining, monitoring and enhancing the overall brand safety and information security and integrity of the Hearst UK Services.
    • Performing audits, assessments and testing or troubleshooting activities.
    • Backing up our systems (including for disaster recovery purposes).
    • Complying with and enforcing applicable industry and legal requirements (including legal process such as court orders, warrants or subpoenas) and fulfilling contractual obligations.

D. Legal Bases for Using Information

We process personal information for different purposes on the following legal bases:

  • To perform our contractual obligations to you. We and our service providers process your information to perform our contractual obligations to you when we use your information to provide you with the Hearst UK Services and related content, products or services and to communicate with you. For example, when you purchase a subscription from us, we process your payment and contact information as necessary to confirm the subscription and we process your contact information and other details to provide you with support services you request. We also send you informational communications on this basis, including to confirm a subscription or to notify you of a change to a Hearst UK Service. Failure to provide requested information could prevent or delay the fulfilment of our contractual obligations.
  • To pursue our legitimate interests. We process your information to meet our legitimate interests when we use your information to provide you with the Hearst UK Services and related content, features, products or services, to communicate with you and for our advertising and marketing purposes. For example, our legitimate interests include making improvements to, personalising, and understanding how you interact with the Hearst UK Services and related content, products or services, and sending you communications about products and services we think may be of interest to you. To accomplish our legitimate interests, we may share your information with our affiliates and subsidiaries, service providers and business partners (including for our advertising and marketing purposes) and in the context of a corporate transaction. We maintain safeguards to protect the information we process to pursue our legitimate interests.
  • To comply with our legal obligations. We process and share your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations when we use your information to protect our rights or the rights of others and when we share your information with other parties where required by law or as necessary to protect our rights. For example, we are required to collect certain information from you when processing your subscription payment for tax or financial reporting reasons.
  • With your consent. We obtain your consent to process your information when we are required to do so by law. If consent is the legal basis on which we process your personal information, you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the information provided in the "Contact Us" section below. In addition, where required by law, we obtain your consent to deploy Cookies and Similar Technologies. To withdraw your consent with respect to such Cookies and Similar Technologies, you can access our cookies consent management platform from the footer of our websites by clicking "Cookies Choices". For mobile apps, please visit the settings section to access information relating to Cookies and Similar Technologies and to manage your preferences.

E. How We Share Information

We share the information we obtain with:

  • Affiliates and Subsidiaries. We work closely with affiliates and subsidiaries within the Hearst family of companies. We provide your information to affiliates and subsidiaries as necessary or appropriate, including for their own analytics, insights, editorial, personalisation, communications, marketing and advertising purposes.
  • Service Providers. In connection with the operation and provision of the Hearst UK Services and the fulfilment of orders for our products or services, we engage various third parties to provide services or handle transactions on our behalf. These services include: payment processing, detecting and preventing fraud and illegal activities, monitoring and maintaining the brand safety and information security, account authentication, email distribution, list processing, postal mailing, cloud computing, analytics, digital content or print subscription performance measurement, and managing sweepstakes, competitions, promotions or events. Service providers also facilitate certain advertising and marketing functions, including audience overlap analysis, ad serving, and measurement and auditing of ad performance. These service providers use the information we provide to them as necessary or appropriate for the performance of their services.
  • Advertising, Marketing and Personalisation-Related Partners. We may provide your information to advertisers, advertising agencies, ad networks, ad exchanges, marketing businesses, identity resolution partners, ad tech vendors, data suppliers, technology vendors and other entities that support personalisation or create, deliver and assess advertising or marketing campaigns, including interest-based ads.
  • Content Measurement Companies. We and third parties seek to measure the performance of content across the internet, including on the Hearst UK Services. We may include third-party measurement software in the Hearst UK Services to enable market research or to measure digital and video content consumption.
  • Social Media Platforms. If you interact with social media widgets, share content using social media share buttons, or access features of the Hearst UK Services that contain content or features provided by Social Media Platforms, the relevant Social Media Platforms collect information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the Social Media Platforms that you engage with to understand their privacy practices, which we do not control.
  • Business Partners. In certain circumstances we provide your information to business partners including, without limitation, joint marketing partners, content sponsors or event organizers, for various purposes. For example, we partner with a third party to offer products on a co-branded, co-sponsored or cross-promotional basis that involves the sharing of information. These initiatives take place on the Hearst UK Services or on other media. The participation of a business partner in a particular initiative is communicated to you by the inclusion of the products, services or branding of the relevant business partner. We may share your contact information and/or email with business partners for their own advertising, marketing, or commercial purposes. These initiatives may be offered on the Hearst UK Services or on other media. Where a Hearst UK Service is operated by us under licence or other arrangement from a third-party brand owner, during the term of such licence or upon termination, we may share your personal information with that brand owner where necessary or appropriate to operate or otherwise support the licensed brand, publication, product or service.
  • Other Parties When Required by Law or As Necessary to Protect Our Rights. We may provide your information as we believe is necessary or appropriate to protect, enforce, or defend our legal rights, the privacy or safety of our employees, users of the Hearst UK Services or other individuals and entities, or to comply with or enforce applicable industry standards, law or legal process, including responding to court orders, warrants, subpoenas and other requests from public and government authorities.
  • Corporate Transactions. We may transfer any of the information we have about you to proceed with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a sale or transfer of all or a portion of our business or assets to a third party, such as in the event of a merger, acquisition or other disposition, or in connection with a bankruptcy reorganisation, dissolution, or liquidation.
  • With Your Consent or Otherwise at Your Direction. In addition, we share your information with third parties when you consent to or request such sharing.

Because we operate as part of a global business, the recipients referred to above will sometimes be located outside the jurisdiction in which you are located (or in which we provide the Hearst UK Services). See the section on "International Data Transfer" below for more information.

F. Cookies Policy

The Hearst UK Services automatically log certain information about visits to the Hearst UK Services – the number and frequency of users, technical information about browsers and devices used to access the Hearst UK Services, and information about crashes or other technical issues. The tools that collect this information vary depending on the Hearst UK Services and include technologies such as cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, pixels, local shared objects (including HTML5 cookies) and software development kits ("SDKs") (referred to collectively as "Cookies and Similar Technologies"). We and third parties automatically collect certain information through Cookies and Similar Technologies about your activities over time across the Hearst UK Services as well as across third-party websites, apps or other media. Cookies and Similar Technologies may be included on or in our web pages, apps, emails, and other Hearst UK Services.

Cookies and Similar Technologies on the Hearst UK Services may be served directly by Hearst (referred to as "first-party cookies") or by others such as advertisers and data analytics companies (referred to as "third-party cookies").

Cookies and Similar Technologies are browser- and device-specific and may endure for different periods of time. Some are deleted automatically once you close your browser or exit the Hearst UK Service. These are sometimes referred to as "session cookies". Other cookies are "persistent cookies", meaning that they remain on your device after your browser is closed.

You can learn more about the Cookies and Similar Technologies used on the Hearst UK Services, including how to manage your preferences, through our cookies consent management platform accessible from the footer of our websites by clicking "Cookies Choices". For mobile apps, please visit the settings section to access information relating to Cookies and Similar Technologies and to manage your preferences.

G. Your Rights Over Your Personal Information

This section describes the privacy rights you may have with respect to the Hearst UK Services. In certain circumstances, you have a right to access or object to the use of personal information held about you (including in relation to direct marketing). You can also ask us to rectify, update, erase, restrict or to share your information in a usable format with another company. Such requests are subject to applicable law.

We encourage you to contact us to update or correct your information if it changes or if the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate.

If you would like to discuss or exercise such rights, please contact us using the details provided in the "Contact Us" section below. We will contact you if we need additional information from you in order to honour your requests.

a. Your Choices, Including Marketing and Cookies Choices, Including Interest-Based Ads Opt-Outs

Direct Marketing Opt-Outs

  • Email marketing. You can opt out of receiving marketing or promotional emails from us or third parties (where you have chosen to receive third party communications or other types of communications from us, as required by law) by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link contained in such emails. Please keep in mind that if you opt out of receiving marketing or promotional emails, we will still send you transactional emails or other communications relating to your use of the Hearst UK Services (e.g., to confirm your subscription, to inform you of changes to a Hearst UK Service or in response to your password recovery request).
  • Text message marketing. If you choose to participate in a text message marketing campaign or promotion offered in connection with a Hearst UK Service, you can opt out of receiving marketing texts from us by following the instructions contained in those messages (e.g., texting the word STOP) or provided to you when you elected to receive text message marketing.
  • Direct mail. If you choose to receive postal mail offers in connection with a Hearst UK Service (whenever such choice is required under applicable law), you can request that we stop sending you postal mail offers by notifying us in writing at the relevant address provided in the "Contact Us" section below. Please indicate in your correspondence the name of the Hearst UK Service or publication to which your request applies.
  • Marketing by Third Parties. We provide your contact information to third parties for their own marketing purposes where you have provided us with your consent to do so. If you wish to withdraw your consent for future sharing you can notify us in writing using the relevant address provided in the "Contact Us" section below. Please indicate in your correspondence the name of the Hearst UK Service to which your request applies.
  • Co-Branded, Co-Sponsored or Cross-Promotional Offerings with Business Partners. If you choose to participate in a co-branded, co-sponsored or cross-promotional offering, the brand, sponsor or other third-party business partner involved in that offering may use your information for its own purposes, including advertising and marketing purposes, in line with the business partner's own privacy policy. You must contact the relevant business partner directly to exercise your opt-out choices with respect to the business partner's use of your information.

Cookies Choices, Including Interest-Based Ads Opt-Outs

Depending on your preferences regarding the use of Cookies and Similar Technologies, ads you see on the Hearst UK Services may be interest-based ads. This means that these ads are customised based on the information we and others obtain about you and involve the use of Cookies and Similar Technologies. Please keep in mind that if you opt out of interest-based ads, you will still see ads, but these ads will not be based on your inferred interests. In addition, some automated means will still be used to collect information about your interactions with the Hearst UK Services for the other purposes described in this Privacy Notice (e.g., to remember user preferences or enable specific functionality).

You have the right to choose whether or not to accept certain Cookies and Similar Technologies. However, if you choose to reject Cookies and Similar Technologies, this could affect the availability and functionality of the Hearst UK Services. You may express your preferences with respect to certain Cookies and Similar Technologies by clicking the "Cookies Choices" button accessible from the footer of our websites and adjusting your preferences. For mobile apps, please visit the settings section and follow the instructions to express your preferences.

The technologies used to deliver ads on websites and mobile apps differ. Please remember that cookie-level opt-outs are browser and device-specific and applied to the website (domain) with respect to which you complete your opt-out request.

If you have enabled certain location services as part of your use of the Hearst UK Services, you may have provided us with information (e.g., precise geolocation). If you would like to adjust your location preferences, please use the settings provided by your device manufacturer.

Website (Browser) Cookies Choices

  • Disabling Cookies. You may express your preferences with respect to certain Cookies and Similar Technologies by clicking the "Cookies Choices" button accessible from the footer of our websites.
  • If you choose to disable the use of cookies in your web browser, some features of the Hearst UK Services may become difficult to use or unavailable.
  • Opt-out Cookies. You can opt out via the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance ("EDAA") industry website at youronlinechoices.eu to opt out of Cookies and Similar Technologies from companies that have chosen to participate in the EDAA's opt-out scheme. These opt-out cookies enable you to block participating companies from installing future cookies on your computer or browser.
  • If you adjust your cookies preferences but subsequently clear or delete cookies on your computer or device browser, your preferences may be deleted and you may have to renew your choices for that specific browser or device.
  • Analytics Provider Opt-Out. To disable certain analytics cookies, you can use the browser opt-out cookies controls discussed above or, for some of our providers, you can use their individual opt-out mechanisms:
  • Opt out of Google Analytics: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Mobile App Opt-Out

Device Settings. To limit interest-based advertising on your mobile device, you can review and adjust the settings provided by your device manufacturer, such as guidance published for iOS or guidance published for Android.

Please keep in mind that as the mobile environment continues to evolve, additional opt-out mechanisms or privacy settings may become available to you. We encourage you to review the information on opt-outs and settings that device manufacturers, technology companies and industry associations make available to you. For further information about Cookies and Similar Technologies and how to exercise your choices, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Additional Choices

  • User Account. If you have created an account on a Hearst UK Service, you may be able to review some of your information for that account by logging in and updating your information or user preferences.
  • Device Settings. For relevant Hearst UK Services, you will be able to review and adjust your preferences by updating the settings on your device (e.g., permitting us to collect precise location information).
  • Push Notifications. If push notifications for a particular Hearst UK Service are enabled on your device, you can review and update your push notification preferences by adjusting the settings on your device. For example, you can select the relevant app from "Notifications" (for iOS devices) or "App notifications" (for Android devices) and turn off alerts accordingly.

H. How We Protect and Store Your Information

We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure.

We will keep your personal information for as long as we have a relationship with you. Once our relationship with you has come to an end, we will retain your personal information for a period of time that enables us to:

  • Maintain business records for analysis, understanding market trends and/or audit purposes and to improve our Hearst UK Services.
  • Comply with record retention requirements under applicable laws or other relevant legal or regulatory requirements.
  • Defend, establish, exercise or bring any existing or potential legal claims.
  • Carry out fraud detection and prevention.
  • Deal with any complaints regarding the Hearst UK Services, our products and services.

We will delete your personal information when it is no longer required for these purposes. If there is any information that we are unable, for technical reasons, to delete from our systems, we will put in place appropriate measures to prevent any further processing or use of the data.

I. International Data Transfer

In certain circumstances, your personal information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in countries outside the European Union or United Kingdom that do not have similar data protection laws to the European Union or United Kingdom.

In such circumstances we put appropriate safeguards in place to protect your data, including contractual commitments. For more information on these safeguards, please contact us at the details below.

J. Children's and Minors' Privacy Rights

The Hearst UK Services are not intended for use by children or minors under the age of 18.

K. Links to Third-Party Websites, Mobile Apps or Other Services

The Hearst UK Services contain links to websites and mobile apps, including Social Media Platforms, or other channels not operated by or affiliated with Hearst (collectively "Third-Party Services"). An example of a Third-Party Service is when you click on an advertisement or a link that appears on the Hearst UK Services (for example, in one of our articles that includes product recommendations) and you are taken to a new browser window with a different URL. In addition, we work with affiliate link vendors to attribute traffic to products and services sold on Third-Party Services that we feature on our Hearst UK Services.

The operators of these Third-Party Services use cookies and other technologies to collect information about your browser or device, including information about your navigation from the Hearst UK Services to Third-Party Services. The data collected from these links when you leave our Hearst UK Services are determined by the Third-Party Services, and they act as separate controllers of your data. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any Third-Party Services, and we encourage you to review the privacy policies or notices published by Third-Party Services you may visit.

L. Personal Data Processed for Journalism

Applicable privacy laws contain certain exemptions that apply when personal information is processed for journalistic purposes. As a publisher, Hearst processes personal information for such journalistic purposes, including to develop and publish our content. Because of these exemptions, privacy laws do not apply to some of the ways in which Hearst processes personal information. This Privacy Notice does not cover personal information processed in the context of our journalistic activities.

M. Careers/Job Opportunities

This Privacy Notice does not apply to web pages hosting our careers or job opportunities. Any information obtained through such pages is governed by the privacy notice published thereon.

N. Changes to This Privacy Notice

We update this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes in our privacy practices or applicable laws. Where changes to this Privacy Notice have a fundamental impact on the nature of the processing or otherwise have a substantial impact on you, we will give you advance notice so that you have the opportunity to exercise your rights (e.g., to object to the processing). We will publish the updated version on the relevant Hearst UK Services and indicate at the top of the Privacy Notice when it was most recently updated. Your use of the Hearst UK Services will be governed by the then-current version of the Privacy Notice.

O. Contact Us

The Hearst entity responsible for the Hearst UK Services you are using or accessing is the controller responsible for the personal information we collect and process in relation to Hearst UK. See below for the contact information of the data controller for the Hearst UK Services.

The National Magazine Company Limited
Attn: Data Protection Officer
30 Panton Street
London
SW1Y 4AJ
Privacy@Hearst.co.uk

We have appointed Hearst España S.L as our data protection representative in the EEA. You can contact Hearst España S.L at dpo@Hearst.es or Agustín de Foxá 4, 9º, 28036, Madrid, Spain. Please mark all correspondence "ATTN: EEA Representative (Legal Department)."

We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution in the event you have a complaint or concern about privacy. You have the right to make a complaint to us using the details listed above. If, however, you believe that we have not been able to assist with your complaint or concern, you have the right to make a complaint to a data protection authority.

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