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 4.  Who we share your personal information with
 5.  How long we retain your personal information
 6.  How we keep your personal information secure
 7.  Your rights
 8.  Where this Privacy Policy applies
 9.  EU Representative
 10. Privacy Notice for United States Consumers
 11. Privacy Notice for California Consumer Privacy Act
 12. Changes to this Privacy Policy


PRIVACY POLICY

The Financial Times provides premium news, insight and analysis to a growing
audience of global decision makers. We have held true to our values of
integrity, authority and independence for more than 130 years. Central to this
mission is our commitment to upholding the highest standards of data protection
for our customers. 

This Privacy Policy applies to all websites and web applications which link to
this policy and are published by FT companies (“Sites”). 

If you wish to amend any of the personal information that we hold about you, or
update your marketing preferences, you can do so at any time through your
account.

If you have any queries about how we use your personal information, please
contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy.officer@ft.com.


INFORMATION WE COLLECT

This section details the information we may collect about you. We explain why,
and how, we use it in later sections.


ACCOUNT INFORMATION

If you decide to create an account or enquire about one of our products or
services, we’ll ask you to provide us with some specific information, for
example:

 * Basic personal details - such as name, title and date of birth;
 * Personal contact details - such as home address, delivery address, home phone
   number, mobile phone number, and email address;
 * Work details - such as job title, department, company name, company address,
   work email address and office phone number;
 * Student or institution details, if you are signing up to a subscription of an
   educational establishment - such as student status, graduation year,
   establishment name;
 * Log in details - such as username and password;
 * Payment details - such as your bank account and payment card information.

We may also use your account information, such as your title, name and country,
to infer your gender.


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

On occasion, we will ask you to voluntarily provide additional information, for
example:

 * Your opinion of our products and services;
 * Your preferences, including newsletters or myFT topics; 
 * Your investment details if you use our portfolio tool to store your holdings;
 * Information such as your dietary preferences and accessibility requirements
   when attending an FT event;
 * Information about your ethnicity and gender to support our diversity and
   inclusion goals;
 * Information about your role, area of study, and areas of interest to help us
   personalise your FT experience;
 * Information contained in your CV, including qualifications and biography, and
   any learning accessibility requirements if you are completing one of our
   courses.


INFORMATION WE OBTAIN FROM PARTNERS AND PUBLIC SOURCES

In some circumstances, we collect information about you from our partners or
from publicly available sources to help us better understand our audience and
enhance the relevance of our content and marketing. For example, in some cases
we obtain the contact details of potential speakers for FT Live events from
public websites. We also obtain some information from publicly available sources
for the purpose of inclusion in our directories, such as MandateWire.


INFORMATION WE OBTAIN THROUGH COOKIES AND SIMILAR TOOLS

We use cookies (and similar technologies) and analytics tools across our Sites
to collect information about you. This information can be used to improve the
performance of the site, make advertising more relevant and enhance your user
experience. We provide detailed information about cookies and similar
technologies within our Cookie Policy; examples include:

 * Your location - we use cookies to display the version of the site that is
   most relevant to your location. For example, if you log in to FT.com from the
   US, you will be shown a US version of the site.
 * Your usage - we use cookies to understand how our customers use our Sites,
   and interact with our communications and journalism. For example, we use
   technology on our Sites which records user movements, including page
   scrolling, clicks and text entered. (It does not record payment details.)
   This helps us to identify usability issues and improve the assistance we can
   provide to users and is also used for aggregated and statistical reporting
   purposes.
 * Your device - we use cookies to understand what type of device you are using
   to show you the best version of the site.
 * Your engagement with advertisements - we use cookies to understand what
   advertisements you have been shown, or clicked on, to bill our advertising
   partners, and to present you with advertisements that are more relevant to
   you.

If you wish to manage your cookies, please follow the instructions on our Manage
Cookies page.


LAWFUL BASIS FOR PROCESSING

We only process personal information where we have a lawful basis for doing so,
such as the following:

 * User consent
   This is where you have given us permission to process personal information
   for a given purpose. For example, if you complete one of our general enquiry
   forms, we would ask for your consent if we wanted to use your personal
   information for any other purpose. You have the right to withdraw this
   consent at any time. You can manage your preferences within your account or
   by contacting customer services.
 * Legitimate business purposes
   This is where we have a legitimate interest, as a business, to process
   personal information. For example, where we are aware of copyright
   infringements on our Site, it is in our legitimate interests as a business to
   identify those responsible. We take due care to balance our interests against
   your right to privacy.
 * Contractual necessity
   This is where we have to process personal information to meet our contractual
   obligations. For example, if you are a print subscriber, we would need to
   process your delivery address to fulfil your subscription.
 * Legal obligation
   This is where we have to process personal information in order to comply with
   the law. For example, we process and retain customer invoice information to
   comply with financial regulations.

We may also rely on relevant exemptions under the GDPR to the requirement to
identify a lawful basis for processing.


HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect personal information for the following main reasons:

 1.  To provide our service
     We require some of your basic personal information so our services work as
     you would expect, for example, delivering the newspaper to your correct
     address, providing access to our digital content, notifying you of changes
     to our services and dealing with customer services queries. We record
     customer calls for monitoring and training purposes. Our Customer Care team
     may need to access your account to assist you with queries.
 2.  To maintain performance and improve our products and services
     In order to provide you with the best possible user experience and value,
     we need to make sure that our products and services work as they should.
     Using personal information helps us understand how our readers experience
     our Sites and services, so we can make improvements. This includes
     analysing onsite data to test new and existing events, products and
     developments for the FT group; contacting customers with market research
     surveys or for telephone and video interviews; and hosting subscriber focus
     groups. We may link the answers you provide with other data we hold about
     you, for example, your account information and usage data about your use of
     our sites. 
 3.  To bill our customers
     We, along with our authorised payments processors, securely process your
     payment information to take payments, give refunds and to detect and
     prevent fraudulent activity. We will also update your payment information
     in the event that a payment is unsuccessful. You can manage your payment
     information at any time by contacting customer services. If your
     subscription is provided under a group subscription or trial, we will
     report information about your activity on our Site(s) for the purposes of
     billing.
 4.  To monitor compliance with our policies and terms
     We monitor for breaches of our terms and conditions and copyright policies.
     For example, we reserve the right to inform the subscription holder if,
     through use of a group subscription, you are using our content in breach of
     the terms and conditions or copyright policies of our Sites. We also
     monitor activity on our Sites to detect and prevent invalid or fraudulent
     traffic.
 5.  To personalise our products and services
     We improve your experience of our products and services by personalising
     parts of our Sites and apps with the information you give us and what we
     learn about you. This includes showing you articles you may be interested
     in and recommending emails you may wish to sign up to. Where our Sites have
     such functionality, you can manage elements of personalisation in your
     account.
 6.  To communicate product changes and offers
     We want you to get the most out of our products and services, including
     showcasing our latest content and newsletters. We will contact you with
     carefully-curated FT offers and promotions, exclusive event invitations and
     feature announcements. For example, if there are no updates on topics you
     follow in MyFT, we will send you articles on other topics that we think you
     might be interested in. You are able to change your preferences at any time
     through your account or by contacting customer services.
     We also personalise our communications for strategic purposes. For example,
     we might offer group subscriptions to portfolio managers.
 7.  For the purpose of advertising
     We rely on advertising revenue in part to support our award-winning
     journalism. We need to process your information to understand the
     effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver
     relevant personalised advertising. We use the information you give us, the
     information we collect about you, and the information we infer, to serve
     you with the most appropriate advertisements.
     You can manage your advertising settings for the Sites that carry out this
     activity in your account. If you do decide to turn off personalised
     advertisements or advertisements tailored to you, you will still see the
     same number of advertisements but they may be less relevant to you. You may
     continue to see advertisements that are targeted to you based on other
     non-personal information, for example, the article that you are reading.
 8.  For the purpose of marketing 
     We use your personal information to show you offers and promotions for FT
     subscriptions and events. For example, we may send you emails or show you
     adverts on our websites or on other third party websites; where we do this,
     we may also use information to monitor how our adverts perform.
 9.  Recruitment - If you apply for a role via one of our Sites, we will process
     your information in order to facilitate the application process.
 10. To build directories - A number of our sites (including The Banker, fDi
     Intelligence and MandateWire) process personal information to create
     databases and directories. These directories provide key business insights
     and profiles to those that have licensed access. Where we make an
     individual’s contact details accessible in our directories, we inform the
     individual and provide instructions on how to have their contact details
     removed.
 11. To administer prize draws and competitions
     If you enter a prize draw or competition, we will process your information
     in order to run the competition or administer the prize draw. For example,
     we will process your address information if you are a winner and we need to
     send your prize by post. We may be required to publish or otherwise make
     available your name and/or region if you are selected as a winner in a
     competition or prize draw.
 12. For the purpose of diversity & inclusion initiatives
     We rely on information, such as gender, or inferred gender, and ethnicity
     to understand the composition of our audience and ensure that our products
     and services are engaging across our audience.
 13. To facilitate networking communities 
     Where our events or courses provide the opportunity to network, some of
     your personal information may be visible to other community members. Where
     this happens, you will be informed and provided with information about how
     to opt-out.


WHO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH

We disclose personal information to facilitate the running of our business or to
provide specific services you have requested. Commonly, we will disclose
information to:

 * Service providers
   We engage service providers who help to support our business and improve our
   products. These service providers include, for example, fulfilment providers
   for delivery of our digital content and marketing; customer service agencies;
   hosts, organisers and sponsors of our events; organisations that host our
   Sites, events or databases; and providers of online surveys. We also work
   with a number of distribution partners to deliver subscriptions. We have
   contracts in place with suppliers who process data to provide these services
   and they can only use your personal information under our instruction. For
   example, if you have a print subscription with us, we will disclose your
   information (address, contact details) to our distribution partners to
   facilitate delivery of the newspaper or magazine. 
 * Advertisers
   We, and our advertising partners, use cookies to collect personal information
   and serve you with advertisements that we believe are relevant to you and
   your interests. There is more specific information about our advertising
   partners and data sharing in our Cookie Policy.
 * Institutional customers
   If your subscription is provided under a group subscription or trial, we will
   provide our client with information about your activity on our Site(s) for
   the purposes of user management, licence administration, content suggestion
   and billing. We may also make online tools available to our client for these
   purposes. Information about your activity is provided at a high level and our
   client cannot track exactly what articles you have read. We may also provide
   current or prospective clients with activity information about individual
   subscribers who registered using that entity’s email address. We will always
   contact individual subscribers before doing so, and will respect any requests
   not to share this information.
 * Complimentary subscription/access provided by our corporate partners
   If you take up a complementary or trial subscription / access at the
   invitation of one of our corporate partners or clients, we will provide them
   with some information about your use. This may include: your name and email
   address, whether or not you activated the subscription and, if so, start and
   expiry dates, recency of use, and the volume of articles read.
 * Social media providers
   Information will be shared with social media platforms where you log in to
   our Sites via a social media account, or use components on our Sites provided
   by social media platforms (e.g. if you choose to share our content via
   LinkedIn using one of the buttons on our website). We also share the
   information of our customers with social media partners for the following
   reasons:
   * To prevent existing subscribers from being targeted with subscription
     offerings on social media platforms;
   * For the purposes of targeted advertising on social media platforms, and to
     create lookalike audiences for these purposes;
   * To encourage users to get the most out of their subscription.
     If you would like to opt out of the sharing of your personal data with
     social media platforms, please let us know by emailing
     privacy.officer@ft.com.
 * Microsoft Teams
   If you choose to access our Sites through the Financial Times App for
   Microsoft Teams, we and Microsoft may share some information about you for
   transactional purposes such as to link your Microsoft Teams account with your
   FT.com account.
 * Other users
   Our Sites are publicly accessible and anyone around the world who accesses
   our Sites will be able to see anything you post, such as comments about an
   article. We encourage you to use a pseudonym when commenting on our Sites if
   you do not wish to be identifiable to other readers.
 * FT group
   We share your information with other companies within the FT group to provide
   our services and to better understand the relationship between our products.
   More information about the FT group is on our “About us” page. Sometimes
   services are provided between legal entities in the FT group, which may
   involve the processing of personal data by one entity on behalf of another.
   For example, we may share publicly available personal data with F.T.
   Specialist Inc. for inclusion in our MandateWire directories; or, we may
   share information about our subscribers with our parent company, Nikkei Inc.,
   for the purposes of sharing joint subscription offers with our customers.
 * Legal processes and successors in title
   We, and our suppliers, may also disclose your information to comply with
   applicable laws and regulations, court orders or other valid legal processes,
   and to enforce or apply our terms of use, any subscription agreement, or any
   of our other rights.
   We may transfer or disclose your personal information to any entity which
   takes over or acquires the relevant FT business.

We also share aggregated, non-identifiable information with third parties.
Before sharing this information, we ensure that it cannot identify you as an
individual. For example, we regularly release information about the size and
growth of our audiences.


HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We retain the majority of your personal information for as long as your account
is active and therefore open; this allows you to continue accessing our content,
products and services.

If you become inactive and are not a subscriber, we may delete elements of the
information associated with your account. We will normally warn you if your
access is going to be withdrawn and give you the opportunity to retain your
account. 

Where we don’t need to keep all of your information in full, we may obfuscate or
aggregate it, for example, web activity logs and survey responses. This is to
ensure that we do not retain your information for any longer than is necessary.

A summary of how long your personal information is retained can be found below:

Category of Data Example Retention Period Justification for Retention Billing
information Masked details of most recently used payment method 7 years For
regulatory reasons we are required to retain accounting records for 7 years.
Business intelligence Web activity on FT.com 36 months (then aggregated +
non-personally identifiable) To improve and maintain performance, personalise
our services and to provide our product. Comments Comment on an FT article Life
of the article To enable our readers to see other readers’ comments about our
content. Customer service queries Complaint about non-delivery of newspaper 7
years To provide a case history to assist us to answer your queries.
Communication history Email stating that your subscription is up for renewal 7
years So that we have a record of what communications we have sent to you, to
better assist your queries Event registration Sign up information for Innovative
Lawyer Awards 13 – 36 months For event administration and, with your permission,
to invite you to future events. Market research Responses to a survey about FT
journalism 36 months (then aggregated + non-personally identifiable) To
administer market research incentives, avoid duplicating research requests and
to understand research responses against usage of our Sites. Site features
Portfolio tool information Lifetime of the account To improve your experience of
our products and services and to enable you to continue accessing site features.
Subscription information Account information relating to a Financial Times
newspaper subscription 7 years post-subscription To enable us to fulfil your
contract with us. Diplomas and certifications Name, contact information and
course attendance / completion 99 years To confirm completion of courses when
requested. Sensitive personal data Dietary or accessibility requirements for
events Deleted after the event To ensure we comply with your requirements.




It is sometimes necessary for us to keep your personal information for longer
periods of time, for example:

 * If there is a statutory requirement to retain it;
 * If we require the information for legal reasons or there is a legitimate
   business need for us to retain it;
 * To ensure we do not contact you if you have asked us not to.


HOW WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE

We have appropriate technical and administrative security measures in place to
help ensure that our users’ information is protected against unauthorised or
accidental access, use,  alteration, or loss. To demonstrate our commitment to
security, we have achieved the UK Cyber Essentials accreditation. We use
encryption technology, such as Transport Layer Security (TLS), to protect your
personal information when you order products or services from us. More
information about our approach to cyber security can be found in our Cyber
Security Statement.

We operate a global business, so your personal information may be processed and
stored outside the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA). For example, our
global customer services team need to access information about you in order to
respond to your queries. We put in place safeguards, such as standard
contractual clauses, to protect information that is transferred in this way.  


YOUR RIGHTS

Under data protection laws, you may have rights as an individual in relation to
the personal data we hold about you. These rights include:

 * The right to object to direct marketing - your preferences, including in
   relation to direct marketing, can be found in your account;
 * The right to access the personal data that we process about you;
 * The right to request the deletion of your personal data;
 * The right to request the rectification of your personal data - you can manage
   some of this information in your account.

You can exercise these rights through your account or by contacting Customer
Care (for FT.com) or the relevant customer services department for our other
products.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In
the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).


WHERE THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES

Personal information is collected by The Financial Times Limited on behalf of
the Financial Times group of companies and its trading entities (including FDI
Intelligence and MandateWire).

Our Sites are not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not
intentionally collect or use any information from children.

Our Sites contain links to third party websites which are not subject to this
privacy policy. We are not responsible for their content, use of personal
information, or security practices.

If you have a query in regards to the processing of your personal information,
please contact our Data Protection Officer directly at Privacy.Officer@ft.com.

The Financial Times Ltd
Registered Office: Bracken House, 1 Friday Street, London, EC4M 9BT, United
Kingdom.
Registered Number: 00227590


FT GROUP

Please also refer to the relevant Privacy Policies for FT Overseas and GIS
Planning if you are also using, or have notified us of marketing contact
permissions relating to, FT Locations products.


EU REPRESENTATIVE

To comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) we have
appointed a European representative. If you wish to contact them, their details
are as follows:

Bird & Bird GDPR Representative Services Ireland 
Deloitte House 
29 Earlsfort Terrace 
Dublin 2 
D02 AY28

EUrepresentative.FinancialTimes@twobirds.com

Key Contact: Vincent Rezzouk-Hammachi


PRIVACY NOTICE FOR UNITED STATES CONSUMERS 

This section of our Privacy Policy applies to consumers who reside in some US
States and supplements the information above, as well as the State-Specific
information below. 

Privacy laws in certain US States may give consumers rights with respect to
their personal information, which could include:

 * The right to access the personal information we process about you;
 * The right to request the deletion of your personal information;
 * The right to request the correction of your personal information;
 * The right to opt out of targeted advertising and profiling;
 * The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.

You can opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information by clicking
the ‘Do Not Sell or Share my Personal Information’ link in the footer of the
website. Or, where your personal information is included in one of our
Directories, you can email us.privacy@ft.com to exercise your right to opt-out.

In addition, residents of some States also have the right to lodge a complaint
with its designated Supervisory Authority. Please refer to guidance provided by
your relevant Supervisory Authority for further information.

We take the privacy of all of our customers seriously, regardless of location;
where we do not fall into scope for a particular State’s privacy law, we still
protect customer data in line with this policy.


PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT

This section is intended for California residents and supplements the above. 

RIGHTS FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as
amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, (CCPA) may provide you with
additional rights regarding the use of your personal information. These rights
include: 

 * The right to access the personal information we process about you;
 * The right to know what personal information is collected about you, whether
   any information is sold or disclosed, and to whom; 
 * The right to request the deletion of your personal information;
 * The right to request the correction of your personal information;
 * The right to opt-out from the sale and sharing of your personal information;
 * The right to opt out of automated decision-making and profiling;
 * The right to not be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights
   above.
 * You also have the right to limit the processing of your sensitive personal
   data, for some purposes; we do not use sensitive personal data for any of
   these purposes.

You can exercise any applicable rights by emailing ccpa.privacy@ft.com or
contacting Customer Care. You may be required to submit proof of your identity
and/or address, if we are unable to confirm your identity or cannot verify that
you are a California resident. We endeavor to respond to a verifiable
consumer request within 45 days. You may also designate an authorised agent to
make a request on your behalf, subject to proof of identity and authorisation. 

SUMMARY OF CONSUMERS’ PERSONAL INFORMATION WE HAVE COLLECTED IN THE PRECEDING 12
MONTHS

Categories of Personal Information (as defined by California law) Sources of
Information Business Purpose Commercial Purpose Identifiers: real name, alias or
account name; contact information including email or postal address and
telephone number; unique personal identifiers including online identifier and IP
address.

Directly from you: as part of the account information you provide when you sign
up to our services, or when you enquire about our products or services.
Information we obtain: including information from partners, service providers or
public sources.

Providing Services: including fulfilment of orders; running our events;
providing customer services; verifying customer information; maintaining
accounts and auditing interactions with customers.
Advertising: short term use of personal information for the customisation of ads
to make the advertising on our sites more relevant.
Security: including detecting security incidents and debugging.
Quality Assurance: including internal research for technological development and
maintaining the quality of our products and services.
Legal: including monitoring compliance with our policies and terms and
communicating product changes.
Operational Purposes: other operational purposes, such as recruitment.

Marketing: including sales and promoting products and services.
Advertising: allowing third parties who advertise with us to measure the
effectiveness of their ads.
Directories: including the building and ongoing upkeep of directories.
Competitions: including administering prize draws and competitions.

Sensitive Personal Information: account log-in, financial account, debit card,
or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code,
password, or credentials allowing access to an account; precise geolocation;
racial and ethnic origin; health; sexual orientation. Directly from you: as part
of the account information you provide when you sign up to our services, or
information collected from completion of our research surveys.

Providing Services: including fulfilment of orders; running our events;
verifying customer information; maintaining accounts.

Quality Assurance: including internal research for technological development and
maintaining the quality of our products and services. Customer Research:
including research surveys and interviews. Characteristics: protected
classifications under California or federal law, including gender and age.

Directly from you: as part of the account information you provide when you sign
up to our services.
Inferred by us: from data we hold about you.

Advertising: short term use of personal information for the customisation of ads
to make the advertising on our sites more relevant.
Quality Assurance: including maintaining the quality of our products and
services.

Competitions: including administering prize draws and competitions. Commercial
information: including purchase history and transactions; financial details and
payment information. Directly from you: as part of the account information you
provide when you sign up to our services.

Providing Services: including fulfilment of orders; providing customer services;
verifying customer information; accounting purposes and conducting audits.
Security: including detecting security incidents and debugging.
Quality Assurance: including internal research for technological development and
maintaining the quality of our products and services.
Legal: including monitoring compliance with our policies and terms.

Not applicable. Professional or employment related information: including job
title; industry; company.

Directly from you: as part of the account information you provide when you sign
up to our services.
Information we obtain: including information from partners, service providers or
public sources.

Advertising: short term use of personal information for the customisation of ads
to make the advertising on our sites more relevant.
Quality Assurance: including maintaining the quality of our products and
services.
Operational Purposes: other operational purposes, such as recruitment.

Directories: including the building and ongoing upkeep of directories.

Internet/other electronic network activity: online identifiers including device
and IP address; geolocation and online behaviour including interest data,
interactions with advertisements and recordings of the actions you take on some
of our websites. Indirectly from you: for example through cookies or similar
technology when you are using our websites.

Advertising: short term use of personal information for the customisation of ads
to make the advertising on our sites more relevant.
Quality Assurance: including maintaining the quality of our products and
services.

Advertising: allowing third parties who advertise with us to measure the
effectiveness of their ads. Audiovisual: audio, electronic, visual and similar
information (such as images, videos or call recordings). Directly from you: when
you enquire about our products or services, or contact us about your account.

Providing Services: including providing customer services; verifying customer
information; maintaining accounts and auditing interactions with consumers.
Quality Assurance: including internal research for technological development and
maintaining the quality of our products and services.

Not applicable. Inferences: drawn from any of the personal information listed
above to create a profile or summary about you (for example, an individual’s
preferences or characteristics). Inferred by us: from data we hold about you.

Advertising: short term use of personal information for the customisation of ads
to make the advertising on our sites more relevant.
Quality Assurance: including maintaining the quality of our products and
services.

Marketing: including sales and promoting products and services.




SERVICE PROVIDERS

As described in our Privacy Policy above, we share your personal information
with third parties for business purposes. Commonly, these include service
providers who help to support our business operations and improve our products. 

We also use service providers to serve you with advertisements that we believe
are relevant to you. These third parties are permitted to process your personal
information only for the purposes of providing services to the FT; this may
include the use of their own cookies or similar technologies to collect your
personal information (IP address or other unique identifier) as part of
providing their services to FT. 

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Our Advertising

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as
amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, (CCPA) also provides you with a
right to opt-out of the sale and sharing of your personal information. The
definitions of 'sell' and 'share' are extremely broad under the CCPA, and may
include sharing certain pieces of information with our advertising partners,
such as cookie identifiers, geolocation and interactions with advertisements,
for the purposes of showing you advertising that is relevant to your interests. 

You can choose to block sharing of this data with advertisers. This means that
we turn off  some types of advertising based on information you have given us
and your use of our Sites, ensuring that our advertising partners do not receive
this data. By opting out, you will stop receiving adverts that are targeted
specifically to you; however, you will still see the same number of adverts on
our Sites. 

You can opt out using the ‘Do Not Sell or Share My Info’ link located in the
footer of the website you are using, if that website shows the types of
advertising described above. Alternatively, you can request this by emailing
ccpa.privacy@ft.com, or by using a designated opt out preference signal. 

fDi Markets

fDi Markets is an online database that tracks and profiles companies investing
overseas and uses this information to understand the trends in FDI on a global
basis.  As part of the research process, we identify publicly available details
of key individuals who are linked to either project activities or listed as a
company contact.

If your contact details have been included in the database, you will have
received an email from us containing instructions on how to opt-out, which you
can do by calling us on +44 (0)20 7775 6667, or by emailing
fDiIntelligence+ccpa@ft.com.

More Information

For more information on how we use your personal information and who we share
your personal information with, please see our Privacy Policy above or contact
ccpa.privacy@ft.com. 


CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This policy was reviewed on 10/06/2024 and last updated on 13/11/24.

Any changes we may make to this privacy policy will be posted on this page. If
changes are significant, we may choose to notify you by email or to clearly
indicate on our home page that the policy has been updated. 

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