Privacy Policy

We may collect and process the following categories of information:

This includes information you voluntarily submit, such as:

• Your name
• Your email address
• Your company name, if you provide it
• Messages sent through contact forms or email
• Information submitted through newsletter signup forms
• Comments or other content you choose to publish on the site

When you visit the website, certain technical and usage information may be collected automatically, including:

• IP address
• Browser type and version
• Device type
• Operating system
• Referring website or source
• Pages viewed
• Time spent on the site
• Clicks, interactions, and navigation patterns

We may also collect information relating to:

• Your cookie preferences
• Consent choices
• Privacy settings you select through our consent tools

We use personal information only where we have a legitimate reason to do so. Depending on how you interact with Straithead, we may use your information to:

• Operate, maintain, and improve the website
• Deliver newsletters and editorial updates you have requested
• Respond to enquiries, requests, or messages
• Manage subscriptions and mailing lists
• Moderate comments or community contributions
• Monitor site performance, reliability, and security
• Understand how readers use the website
• Comply with legal obligations
• Protect our rights, users, and systems from abuse or misuse

Where required under applicable law, we rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

• Consent — when you choose to subscribe, accept optional cookies, or otherwise agree to specific processing
• Legitimate interests — where processing is necessary to operate, secure, improve, and develop Straithead in a reasonable and proportionate way
• Contract — where processing is necessary to provide a service you requested
• Legal obligation — where we are required to comply with applicable laws or regulatory requirements

If you subscribe to Straithead’s newsletter or editorial updates, we may use your email address to send you:

• New article alerts
• Newsletters
• Editorial updates
• Occasional notices related to the publication

You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email or by contacting us directly.

We will not send you marketing emails you have not requested or consented to receive where consent is required by law.

If comments are enabled on the website and you choose to post one, we may collect the information you provide in the comment form, including your name, email address, website, and comment content.

Comments may be moderated to prevent spam, abusive material, unlawful content, or misuse of the platform.

Straithead may use cookies and similar technologies to:

• Make the website function properly
• Remember your privacy and consent choices
• Support embedded tools or social sharing features
• Improve usability and site performance
• Understand aggregate usage patterns, where permitted

Some cookies are essential to the operation of the site. Others are optional and will only be used where required consent has been given.

For more information, please see our Cookie Policy.

We may share information with carefully selected third-party service providers that support the operation of Straithead, such as providers of:

• Website hosting
• Newsletter delivery
• Form processing
• Spam prevention
• Security and performance monitoring
• Consent management
• Analytics, where enabled

These providers may process personal data only to the extent necessary to perform services on our behalf and subject to appropriate safeguards.

We may also disclose information where required by law, to respond to lawful requests by public authorities, to protect our legal rights, or to prevent fraud, abuse, or security incidents.

We retain personal information only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, including legitimate operational, legal, security, and record-keeping purposes.

When personal information is no longer needed, we will delete it, anonymise it, or securely dispose of it, where appropriate.

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Request access to the personal data we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data
• Request deletion of your personal data
• Request restriction of certain processing
• Object to certain forms of processing
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Request portability of your data
• Lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@straithead.com.

Straithead may include links to third-party websites, services, or embedded content. Those third parties may collect and process data according to their own privacy policies and practices.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites or services that we do not control.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, technology, legal obligations, or data practices.

This policy was last updated 20 March 2026.