This Privacy Policy describes how The Forecast Herald ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you use our website and services. We are committed to transparency and protecting your privacy rights.
We collect information to provide and improve The Forecast Herald services. This includes data you provide directly and data collected automatically when you use our platform.
When you create an account or subscribe to our services, we collect:
We automatically collect information about how you interact with our platform:
If you participate in prediction tracking features, we collect:
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
We partner with trusted third-party services to provide our platform. These partners may receive limited data necessary to provide their services.
We aggregate publicly available data from prediction markets to generate our probability journalism. These sources include:
Our platform is built on trusted infrastructure providers:
We use the following services for analytics and error tracking:
We may share your personal data with third parties under specific circumstances. We are committed to transparency about who has access to your information and why.
We share data with service providers who help us operate and improve our platform. These providers only receive data necessary to perform their specific functions:
We may disclose your personal data when required by law or in response to valid legal processes:
In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your personal data may be transferred as part of the transaction:
We implement strict safeguards to protect your data when sharing with third parties:
Your consent matters. Here is how we handle consent for data sharing:
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. This section explains our retention periods, security measures, and data deletion procedures.
Different types of data are retained for varying periods based on their purpose and legal requirements:
We implement comprehensive technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data:
We maintain robust backup procedures to ensure data availability and integrity:
When you request deletion of your data or your retention period expires, we follow these procedures:
As a global service, your data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside your residence. We implement appropriate safeguards for international transfers:
In the event of a personal data breach that poses a risk to your rights and freedoms:
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), European users have specific rights regarding their personal data. We are committed to respecting and facilitating these rights. Below you will find a comprehensive overview of your eight GDPR rights and instructions on how to exercise each one.
You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether your personal data is being processed, and to access that data along with information about how it is used.
You have the right to have inaccurate personal data corrected and incomplete data completed.
You have the right to request deletion of your personal data under certain circumstances.
You have the right to request that we limit how we use your personal data in certain situations.
You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller.
You have the right to object to processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
You have the right not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you believe your data protection rights have been violated.
To exercise any of your GDPR rights, you may use the following methods:
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your privacy rights, or have concerns about how we handle your data, please contact us using the information below.
The Forecast Herald is the data controller responsible for your personal data. As the data controller, we determine the purposes and means of processing your personal information and are accountable for ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws.
We have appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO) to oversee our data protection strategy and ensure compliance with GDPR and other privacy regulations. You may contact our DPO for any questions related to data protection:
For general privacy questions, data subject requests, or concerns about our data practices, please contact our privacy team:
You may also contact us by mail at our principal place of business:
We aim to respond to all privacy inquiries within 5 business days. For formal data subject access requests under GDPR or CCPA, we will respond within the legally required timeframe (30 days for GDPR, 45 days for CCPA). Complex requests may require an extension, in which case we will notify you within the initial response period.