Privacy and cookies.

Bridging Today (“we”, “us”) publishes BridgingToday, a news site for the UK bridging finance market. We are the controller of the personal data described in this policy, which means we decide how and why it is used.

We only collect what you give us, plus a small amount of technical information when you visit.

• Newsletter. Your email address, name, firm and the type of business you work in.
• Advertising enquiries. Your name, work email, company, sector and message.
• Story submissions. The story and picture you send, and your name and contact details so we can follow up.
• Reporting an issue or submitting a deal. Your message and, if you give one, a contact email.
• When you visit. A count of how many times each story is opened (not tied to you), and the technical information any web server receives, such as your IP address and browser type. See the cookies policy below for what is stored on your device.

• To send you the newsletter, if you have signed up.
• To reply to enquiries, and to review and publish stories and deals you send us.
• To look into problems you report and to keep the site secure.
• To understand which stories are read, so we can show the most popular ones and improve the site.

We send the newsletter because you have asked us to (your consent), and you can withdraw that at any time. We answer enquiries and review submissions because you have asked us to, and we count readership and keep the site secure because it is in our legitimate interest to run a safe, useful publication. Where we rely on legitimate interests we make sure it does not override your rights.

We do not sell your personal data. We use service providers who host the site and store its data on our behalf, and they may only use it to provide those services. If you submit a story we may publish it, with your agreement, and an advertising enquiry is seen only by the people who handle advertising. We may also share data where the law requires it.

We keep newsletter details until you unsubscribe. We keep enquiries, submissions and reports for as long as we need them to deal with them and to keep a sensible record, and then delete them. Anonymous story-view counts are kept as ongoing statistics.

Under UK data protection law you can ask us for a copy of the personal data we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict how we use it, to move it, or to stop using it where we rely on legitimate interests. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the link in any email we send.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk. We would always like the chance to put things right first.

BridgingToday is written for professionals and is not aimed at anyone under 18.

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top of the page shows when it last changed.

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Everything below is needed to run the site or to remember a choice you have made. We do not currently use advertising, tracking or analytics cookies.

The adverts on BridgingToday are served by us, not by an ad network. If you click one you will leave our site, and the advertiser's own site may use cookies we don't control, so check its policy.

You can change your answer to the cookie notice at any time with the button below. You can also block or delete cookies and site storage in your browser settings, although parts of the site may then not remember your preferences.

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If we start using other cookies we will update this page and ask you again where the law requires it.