Your privacy at Economic News

Last updated: 4 May 2026

This policy describes how Economic News Limited collects and handles personal information for the website at economicnews.nz. We comply with the New Zealand Privacy Act 2020.

What we collect

Subscribers: first name, last name, email address, your email subscription preferences, and the timestamps of subscription, confirmation and unsubscribe.
Push notifications: the browser-issued push subscription endpoint and keys. We do not see your identity unless you also subscribe by email.
Analytics: aggregate, non-identifying behaviour (page views, clicks, scroll depth, referrers, device type) collected via Google Analytics 4.
Server logs: standard request logs including IP address, user agent, timestamp and URL, retained for security and abuse prevention.

How we use it

To deliver the email channels you have asked for, and to allow you to change those preferences or unsubscribe at any time.
To send you breaking-news push notifications if you have explicitly enabled them in your browser.
To improve our content and the site itself, using aggregate analytics.
To prevent abuse and operate the service securely.

Who we share it with

We share the minimum data required with these processors:

Postmark (Wildbit, USA) — sends transactional and bulk email on our behalf.
Vercel (USA) — hosts the public website.
Neon (USA / EU regions) — hosts the database.
Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC) — anonymous usage analytics.

We do not sell personal information.

Cookies

We use a small number of strictly-necessary cookies (login session, theme preference) and analytics cookies set by Google Analytics. Analytics cookies can be blocked at the browser level without affecting site function.

How long we keep it

Subscriber records are kept while your subscription is active and for up to 24 months after unsubscribe (for audit and re-subscribe deduplication), then deleted.
Push subscriptions are deleted when revoked.
Server logs are retained for 90 days.

Your rights under the Privacy Act 2020

You have the right to:

Ask what personal information we hold about you;
Correct any information that is inaccurate;
Withdraw consent for any email channel at any time via the link in every email or your preferences page;
Complain to the New Zealand Office of the Privacy Commissioner at privacy.org.nz.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: hello@economicnews.nz.