MarketUK.uk is operated by Marketline Digital Media Ltd., a private limited company registered in England and Wales (company number 16938427) with its registered office at 30 Moorgate, 6th Floor, London EC2R 6DA, United Kingdom. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect your personal data when you interact with our digital publication, in compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. Marketline Digital Media Ltd. is the data controller for the purposes of data protection law.
What personal data we collect
We collect personal data in the following ways:
- Email correspondence – If you contact us via our contact forms or email addresses such as contact@marketuk.uk, we will retain your email address, name and message content to respond to your enquiry.
- Newsletter subscriptions – When you sign up via our newsletter page, we collect your email address and any preferences you provide. We use a third-party email service provider to manage subscriptions.
- Technical and analytics data – We automatically collect anonymised data about your device, browser type, operating system, IP address, pages visited, time spent and referring URLs through analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics). This helps us improve our content and user experience.
- Advertising and affiliate tracking cookies – We use cookies and similar technologies for behavioural advertising and to track conversions from affiliate links, including those for financial products such as mortgages, insurance and savings accounts. These cookies may collect information about your browsing behaviour. For full details, please see our Cookie Policy.
Purposes and lawful bases for processing
We process your personal data for the following purposes and under the corresponding lawful bases:
- To respond to your enquiries and manage correspondence – Legitimate interest in operating our publication and providing reader support.
- To send newsletters and updates – Consent (which you may withdraw at any time via the unsubscribe link in each email).
- To analyse site usage and improve our content – Legitimate interest in developing our editorial offering and understanding our audience.
- To serve relevant advertisements and track affiliate conversions – Consent (via cookie consent banner). Affiliate revenue helps fund our journalism.
- To comply with legal obligations – For example, maintaining records for tax or regulatory purposes.
Data retention
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected. Email correspondence is retained for up to 24 months after the last communication. Newsletter subscriber data is kept until you unsubscribe. Analytics data is kept in aggregated form for up to 26 months. Cookie-related data is retained as described in our Cookie Policy. We delete or anonymise data when it is no longer needed.
Sharing your personal data
We do not sell your personal data to third parties. We share data only with trusted processors who act on our instructions and under strict contractual obligations. These include:
- Email service providers (for newsletters)
- Analytics providers
- Hosting and infrastructure providers
- Advertising and affiliate networks (for cookie-based tracking)
All processors are located within the UK or EU, or in jurisdictions with adequacy decisions from the UK government. We require them to implement appropriate security measures.
Your rights under UK GDPR
As a data subject, you have the following rights:
- Right of access – Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to rectification – Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Right to erasure – Request deletion of your personal data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing.
- Right to restriction of processing – Limit how we use your data in certain circumstances.
- Right to data portability – Receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
- Right to object – Object to processing based on legitimate interests, including direct marketing (e.g. newsletters).
To exercise any of these rights, please email us at privacy@marketuk.uk. We will respond within one month. If you are unsatisfied, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority, at https://ico.org.uk/.
Data Protection Officer
We do not have a formally appointed Data Protection Officer. For all privacy-related queries, please contact our editorial team via privacy@marketuk.uk or by post at Marketline Digital Media Ltd., 30 Moorgate, 6th Floor, London EC2R 6DA, United Kingdom.
Source confidentiality and tip-offs
We take source protection seriously. If you wish to provide information confidentially, please read our Tip Us page for guidance on secure communication. We will never share your identity or contact details without your explicit consent, except where required by law.
Business and PR contact handling
If you are a business or public relations professional contacting us for commercial purposes, we may retain your name, organisation, email address and phone number to facilitate partnership discussions, press releases or media enquiries. We process this data under legitimate interest. Your details will be kept for the duration of the relationship and for a reasonable period after, unless you request earlier erasure.
Contact us
For any questions about this Privacy Policy or to exercise your rights, please email privacy@marketuk.uk. Alternatively, you can write to us at the registered office address above. For general editorial enquiries, see our Contact page. For more information about how we operate, please review our About Us page, Editorial Policy and Financial Content Disclaimer.