Privacy Policy
What this page is
TL TALK RADIO is free to read and paid for by advertising, which means data about your visit passes through more hands than any of us would prefer. This page says whose hands, what they receive, and how you stop most of it. We have tried to write it in plain language rather than the dialect these documents usually arrive in.
You do not have to give us anything to read a story. There is no account, no registration wall, and no email address demanded before you can see the news. Most of what is collected is not a dossier about you, it is a record of requests and pages, a distinction that matters rather less to advertising technology than it should.
What we collect
Log data arrives whether anyone asks for it or not. Our host and content delivery network record the IP address making a request, the browser it reports, the page you wanted, where you arrived from, and the time. That is simply how a web server works, and it is how we tell a genuine traffic surge on a big story from a script hammering the site.
On top of that sit analytics, an email address if you subscribe to a newsletter, a name and address if you leave a comment, and whatever you choose to put in a message to us. Advertising is the noisy part. The ad server and the exchanges bidding on our space set their own identifiers, cap how often a given advertisement reaches you, and, where you have consented, select advertisements from a profile built elsewhere. We run no device fingerprinting and never ask for your precise location.
Why we process it, and on what basis
The purposes are short to list. Serve the site and keep it standing when a big story multiplies our traffic in minutes. Count readers, because knowing which stories are read is how a small desk decides what to cover next. Send newsletters people asked for. Moderate comments, catch abuse and invalid ad traffic, sell and serve advertising, and keep the records the law requires us to keep.
Under the GDPR and its UK equivalent, consent covers analytics, advertising and newsletters, and withdrawing it costs you no articles. Legitimate interest covers server logs, security and aggregate measurement, because a site that cannot see its own traffic cannot stay up. Legal obligation covers the narrow remainder. Nothing here feeds an automated decision about a person, because we do not make decisions about people. We publish stories.
Who else receives it, and where it goes
We list recipients by category, because the specific companies change and a list frozen in prose is stale within a quarter: our host and delivery network, our analytics provider, the ad server and the programmatic exchanges with their downstream partners, our newsletter service, the infrastructure behind comments, and, rarely, an adviser or an authority acting on a valid legal order.
Real-time bidding fires a request at many companies at once, and we will not pretend we can name every one from memory. The consent manager holds the list that is actually current. Your email address is not sold, swapped or rented, and our sources are never identified to anyone. Those providers run servers in several countries, so your data is processed outside the country you are sitting in. Where data covered by European or UK law moves somewhere without an adequacy finding, the transfer runs on standard contractual clauses or another approved mechanism. No legal instrument makes a foreign server local, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling something.
Cookies, and the banner
Strictly necessary cookies keep the site working and remember your consent choice. Analytics, preferences and advertising wait for consent where the law requires it, and refusing them breaks nothing you came here to read. The categories, who sets them, how long they last and how to change your answer are set out at length in our cookie policy. If you clicked through the banner in a hurry, the consent manager reopens from the footer link on every page.
Your rights in the EU, the UK and comparable regimes
You can ask for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct, delete or restrict it, object to processing we run on legitimate interest, withdraw a consent, and take what you gave us in a portable form. You can complain to your data protection authority without coming to us first. Write to support@tltalkradio.org with PRIVACY at the front of the subject line, and we answer within a month.
One limit, stated plainly. Where a request is really an attempt to erase or rewrite published journalism, data protection law in most places carves out journalism, and we treat the matter as a question of accuracy instead. If a story is wrong about you, that is a correction, and our corrections policy says what happens next.
California readers
If you are in California you can know what we collect and disclose, have it corrected or deleted, opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising, limit the use of sensitive personal information, and be treated no worse for exercising any of it. We take no money for handing over anyone’s personal information, but serving behaviourally targeted advertising still counts as sharing under the statute, so we treat it that way rather than argue about wording. Use the Do Not Sell or Share control in our consent manager, and we also honour the Global Privacy Control signal.
Retention and children
Server and delivery logs are held for about thirty days, then discarded or reduced to counts with no identifier attached. Event-level analytics is capped at fourteen months. A newsletter address stays until you unsubscribe. This is a general news site for adults. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under thirteen. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child has given us something, write with PRIVACY in the subject and we will delete it and confirm.
Changes, and where to write
When this policy changes in a way that affects you, the date below moves, a note sits at the top of the page for a while, and where the law requires fresh consent we ask again rather than treat an old click as permanent. The rules governing your use of the site are separate and live in our terms of service. Everything here routes to support@tltalkradio.org, and other ways to reach us are on our contact page.
Last updated: August 2026
