Privacy Policy

Scope

This page describes what THUNDER TIGER learns about a person who reads thundertiger-europe.com, why any of it is kept, which other companies see a part of it, and what you are entitled to demand. It reaches the website itself and anything we mail out from it. Sites we link to run their own arrangements and are outside it.

Our readers live under a wide assortment of privacy regimes, so the policy is written to hold up wherever you happen to be sitting rather than being drafted for one country and hoping. It is also worth stating early that a news site holds very little. Nobody has an account here. There are no payment details, no order history, no saved addresses. Almost everything below concerns the small residue that does exist.

Reading a page

Requesting an article produces the ordinary server record that any web request produces: the network address it came from, which page was wanted, the moment it was wanted, the page that referred it, and whatever your browser volunteers about itself and your hardware. Those entries let us deliver the site, keep it standing under load and work out what happened when it is attacked. They live for a short fixed window and are then thrown away, and they are never attached to a name.

Alongside that runs a measurement tool, which counts readers, shows which articles held attention and for how long, and reveals whether a page is collapsing on a slow connection. It is set up to shorten network addresses and not to assemble a dossier on any individual. Its output is a set of totals, and those totals drive what we choose to cover and what we are able to tell an advertiser about our readership.

Writing to us

A message to support@thundertiger-europe.com brings whatever you chose to put into it: the address it came from, a name if you signed one, and the contents. Each message is retained only while the reason for it lasts. Something reporting an error sits with the record of that correction. A tip sits until the story runs or is abandoned. Anything arriving through the confidential route on our contact page is handled under tighter rules and is deliberately kept out of shared systems. Newsletter sign ups leave an address and a note of the request, and every mailing carries a way out.

Cookies and the advertising network

A short list of cookies belongs to us. Our cookie policy names each one, explains its job and describes how to turn it off. Where the law reaching you demands consent before a non-essential cookie exists, none is written until you have given it.

Advertising pays for this site and is delivered by an outside network. Requesting a banner hands that network some technical detail: which page is loading, what kind of device is loading it, a rough location inferred from the network address, and a cookie identifier. From that it selects a creative and confirms the creative was displayed, and it may pool what it observes across the many sites it fills in order to sort browsers into interest categories. Your name, your email address and the contents of anything you have written to us are never part of that exchange. Interest based targeting can be reduced through the consent panel, through browser settings and through the opt out schemes recognised where you live, though none of that empties the page of advertising. It only makes the advertising less pointed.

The uses we make of it

Six purposes exhaust the list: delivering the site, measuring it in the aggregate, defending it, replying to your mail, sending alerts somebody asked for, and satisfying a legal obligation. Reader data is not sold. It does not feed automated decisions about individuals. It is not repurposed for anything unrelated to publishing.

Rights and how to use one

A growing list of statutes give readers enforceable control over personal data, among them the General Data Protection Regulation, its United Kingdom counterpart, the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended, and comparable laws in other states and countries. The wording varies; the substance seldom does. You may ask what is held, ask for it to be put right, ask for it to be erased, object to or restrict its processing, request a transferable copy, and take a complaint to your own regulator.

Where a lawful basis has to be identified for each activity, ours are four. Legitimate interest covers running, defending and measuring the site. Consent covers non-essential cookies and mailings, and can be withdrawn at any moment. Necessity covers reading and answering your message, since we cannot reply to mail we refuse to process. Legal obligation covers the small remainder.

Personal information is not sold here. Advertising cookies may amount to sharing under some of these laws, and both the consent panel and the Global Privacy Control signal switch that off. Nobody is penalised for exercising a right. To make a request, put PRIVACY at the front of a subject line, write to the address above, and state plainly what you want. Acknowledgement follows within two working days and the substantive answer inside whatever deadline applies, normally well ahead of it. We may need to satisfy ourselves you are who the data concerns, and we will ask for nothing beyond what that takes. Somebody may act for you on showing they are authorised.

Others in the chain

Four parties touch any of this: the host, the mail provider, the measurement tool and the advertising network. The first three act on our instructions under processing agreements. The fourth acts substantially on its own account, as described above, and what it does with what it gathers is governed by its own terms rather than ours.

Providers and readers sit in different countries, so data can be processed somewhere other than where you live. Where a transfer falls under rules requiring safeguards, we rely on the mechanisms those rules accept, standard contractual terms and adequacy findings among them. Disclosure to police or a court happens only under legal compulsion. Requests that look excessively broad, or that appear aimed at unmasking a source, are challenged rather than filled, and we tell you when a request concerning you has arrived unless we are barred from saying so.

Children, retention, security, changes

Nothing here is aimed at children, and we do not knowingly take personal information from anyone under thirteen, or under a higher local threshold where one applies. Tell us that a child has sent something and it goes.

Retention is short and specific. Server entries survive weeks rather than years. Measurement data persists only as totals. Correspondence lasts as long as its purpose. A subscription address lasts until it is cancelled. Traffic is encrypted, access is limited to those who need it, and those permissions get reviewed. Perfect security does not exist; a breach touching your data brings notification, on the legal timetable and in practice ahead of it. Amendments of substance are dated at the head of the page and flagged before they bite. The rest of the relationship is covered by our terms of service.