Legal
Privacy Policy
Draft architecture — pending review and approval by U.S. legal counsel before the paid subscription service goes live. This policy must correspond exactly to the site's real technical configuration. Nothing below asserts a practice or processor that has been verified as implemented; bracketed fields are to be completed from the live configuration before publication.
Information collected from readers and subscribers
[ to be completed: categories of personal information actually collected at registration, subscription and sign-in, and the purpose of each ]
Payment processing
Payment card details are handled by the payment processor, not stored by Diplomatique™. [ to be completed: confirmed payment processor, the identifiers stored by Diplomatique™, and the processor's own privacy terms ]
Email addresses and communications
[ to be completed: email service provider, the communications sent (editions, Flash Briefs, service messages), and the lawful basis for each ]
Website analytics
[ to be completed: analytics platform in use, the data it collects, and whether it is configured to collect identifiers ]
Account information
[ to be completed: what the subscriber account stores, how it is accessed, and how a subscriber may correct or delete it ]
Third-party processors
[ to be completed: the full list of processors (hosting, database and authentication, payments, email, analytics) and the information each receives ]
Retention
[ to be completed: retention periods for subscriber records, billing records and communications, and the deletion process ]
Security
[ to be completed: technical and organisational measures actually in place, described without overstatement ]
Your rights
[ to be completed: rights available to readers under the applicable US state and other privacy regimes, and how to exercise them ]
International readers
Diplomatique™ is read internationally. [ to be completed: UK/EU position, transfer mechanism and any UK/EU representative, if applicable ]
Marketing preferences
[ to be completed: how subscribers set preferences and unsubscribe, and which messages are service messages that continue regardless ]
Contact
Privacy enquiries may be sent through Contact Diplomatique™. [ to be completed: data controller name, postal address and privacy contact address ]