Your privacy, in plain words.

You can read everything on the Asian Times without an account and without telling us who you are. We don't run advertising trackers, we don't build profiles of readers, and we don't sell personal data — to anyone, ever.

The rest of this policy explains the small amount of information that is involved in running a website, and what you can do about it.

The Asian Times (“we”, “us”) publishes this website and is responsible for the personal data described here. You can reach us about anything in this policy at privacy@asiantimes.org.

When you browse. Like every website, our hosting provider receives technical information needed to deliver pages: your IP address, browser type, the page requested and the time. This is kept in server logs for security and reliability, not to identify you.

When you choose newsletters. The newsletters you pick and the email address you enter are currently stored only in your own browser. They aren't sent to us until newsletter delivery opens; we will update this policy, and ask you to confirm, before that happens.

When you write to us. Our contact forms open your own email app with a message ready to send. If you send it, we receive what you choose to include — usually your name, email address and message.

What we don't collect. We don't use analytics or advertising cookies, fingerprinting, or third-party tracking pixels.

• To deliver the website and keep it secure and working.
• To reply to your messages, tips and correction requests.
• To send the newsletters you ask for, once delivery opens.
• To meet legal obligations, such as responding to lawful requests.

Where data-protection law requires a legal basis, we rely on our legitimate interests in running a secure website and answering correspondence, on your consent for newsletters (which you can withdraw at any time), and on legal obligation where the law requires us to keep or disclose information.

Live prices are fetched by our servers from the Colombo Stock Exchange and Yahoo Finance and then served to you from our own site. Your browser never contacts those providers directly, so they receive no information about you.

We share personal data only with the service providers who help us run the site — our hosting and email providers — under contracts that limit their use of it to providing that service. We will share information with authorities only where the law requires it, and we resist requests that would expose confidential journalistic sources.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict or object to how we use it, to receive a copy in a portable format, and to withdraw consent.

To exercise any of these rights, write to privacy@asiantimes.org. We'll respond within 30 days. You also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.

Our team and service providers work across several countries, so your data may be processed outside the country where you live. Where that happens, we use appropriate safeguards required by law, such as standard contractual clauses.

The Asian Times is written for adults. We don't knowingly collect personal data from children under 16.

The site is served only over encrypted connections, access to our systems is limited to the people who need it, and we keep the data we hold to a minimum — the best protection for information is not collecting it.

When we change this policy we'll update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use information you've already given us, we'll tell you before it takes effect. See also our cookie policy and terms of use.