Privacy Policy
What APLive News collects, why, how long it is kept, who it is shared with, and the rights you have over it.
Last updated: 15 September 2026
This policy explains what personal data APLive News collects when you visit aplivenews.com, why we collect it, how long we keep it, who we share it with, and what rights you have. We are the controller of the data described here. It applies to this website only, and not to any site we link to.
1. What we collect
1.1 Data you give us
- Correspondence. If you write to the newsroom we hold your message and your address so that we can reply and keep a record of correspondence about our reporting.
- Tips and corrections. What you send, and the contact details you send with it.
1.2 Data collected automatically
- Access logs. The page requested, the date and time, the referring page, your browser and operating system, and your IP address.
- Aggregate readership counts. How many times each article is read. These are not tied to individual readers.
1.3 What we do not collect
Reading this site requires no account. We do not ask for or store payment details, and we do not ask for your name, postal address or any government identifier.
2. Why we use it, and our lawful basis
- Delivering and securing the website — access logs, on our legitimate interest in operating the service you requested.
- Diagnosing faults and detecting abuse — access logs, on our legitimate interest in protecting the site and its readers.
- Understanding which of our reporting is read — aggregate counts, on our legitimate interest in knowing what is useful to readers.
- Answering correspondence and maintaining a record about our reporting — your message and address, on our legitimate interest in replying to an enquiry you began and in keeping an accurate record of corrections.
- Meeting legal obligations — as required by law.
Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have considered whether they are overridden by your rights and have limited what we collect accordingly.
3. What we do not do with it
We do not sell personal data. We do not rent or trade it, we do not make it available to third parties for their own marketing, and we do not attempt to identify individual readers from access logs.
4. Cookies
We use only the cookies necessary for the site to function and to keep it secure. We do not currently set analytics or advertising cookies, and we do not permit third parties to set advertising cookies through this site. If that changes, this policy will be updated to name them, and consent will be sought before they are used. You can block or delete cookies in your browser at any time; the site will continue to work without the optional ones.
5. Sharing
We share personal data only with service providers acting on our instructions under a duty of confidence (hosting, content delivery, security), with professional advisers, with authorities where we are legally required to disclose, and with a successor entity if the publication is sold — in which case you will be told before your data becomes subject to a different policy.
6. International transfers
Our providers may process data outside your country. Where data leaves the UK or European Economic Area, transfers are made under an adequacy decision or under Standard Contractual Clauses with any supplementary measures required. You may ask us what safeguards apply.
7. How long we keep it
- Access logs: up to 90 days, then deleted or irreversibly anonymised.
- Readership counts: kept in aggregate only, with nothing identifying a reader.
- Correspondence: up to 24 months after the matter is closed, and longer where it relates to a published correction, a complaint or a legal claim.
8. Your rights
Depending on where you live you may have the right to access the data we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, restrict or object to processing, receive it in a portable form, withdraw consent at any time without affecting processing already carried out, and complain to a supervisory authority.
If you are in California you also have the right to know what is collected and disclosed, the right to deletion and correction, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising a right. We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA and CPRA.
To exercise any right, write to [email protected]. We respond within one month, extendable by two further months for complex requests, and we will tell you if an extension applies. We may ask for information to confirm the request comes from you. We do not charge a fee unless a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.
9. Sources and confidential correspondence
Where you contact us about a story, we treat your correspondence as confidential and will not disclose it or your identity to a third party except where compelled by law, and then only to the extent required. If you need a more secure route than email, tell us before sending details rather than after.
10. Children
This site is not directed at children under 16 and we do not knowingly collect their personal data. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, contact us and we will delete it.
11. Security
We use encryption in transit, access controls and least-privilege access to reader data. No system is perfectly secure and we do not claim otherwise. Where a breach is likely to result in a high risk to your rights, we will notify you and the relevant authority as the law requires.
12. Changes
We may update this policy. The date at the top always reflects the current version, and where a change materially affects your rights we will give prominent notice before it takes effect.
13. Contact
Questions, requests and complaints: [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with our response you may complain to your local data protection authority.