Description

At The Irrawaddy we collect information aboutour readers and supporters for three main reasons:

1.To help us to monitor and improve the services we offer.

2.To provide personalised services unique to individualreaders.

3.To use anonymous details about our readers to sell appropriateadvertising space on the site.

Protecting our reader’s privacy via the following steps.

1. The Irrawaddy will invest in high-quality security technologyto protect reader privacy (within funding limitations).

2. We will respect email privacy. Our readers will not receiveunsolicited marketing emails from The Irrawaddy unless they haveregistered as a subscriber with The Irrawaddy. Irrawaddysubscribers agree to receive: regular emails with news updates;occasional emails with information or queries about registration orsubscriptions; and occasional donation requests or Irrawaddymarketing and media product updates.

3. We will not pass on any individual reader details (includingemail address) for third party use unless we have the reader’sprior consent.

4. We always ensure that any contractors we use in connectionwith the running of the website and services (for example hostingproviders) are subject to strict contractual obligations. They areonly able to process data on our behalf and in accordance with ourprinciples and instructions and not for any other independentpurpose.

5. We will only share anonymous aggregate statistics about ourreaders, sales and traffic patterns with our advertisers.