Privacy

Who is responsible

Weekly Market Reports is published by WeeklyMarketReport LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. It decides how the data described here is used.

You reach us about anything in this notice at mail@weeklymarketreport.com. The publisher's details are on the Imprint.

When you visit without an account

You can read the public pages without telling us who you are.

• Delivery of the pages. The site is hosted on Google's Firebase and Google Cloud. As on every website, the host receives your IP address and your browser's details in order to send you the pages, and keeps technical logs of this.
• Protection against automated abuse. Before a sign-in or a request to our servers, Google reCAPTCHA Enterprise checks that the request comes from a real browser. For that, Google receives technical details of your browser and device.
• Settings in your browser. The site keeps a few settings in your browser's own storage: your answer to the banner, your reading settings (theme, text size, font), the price currency, and which pages of the site tour you have seen. They stay in your browser and are not sent to us.
• Arriving through a partner's link. If you come through a link from one of our partners, we record the partner's code, the page you landed on and the time. Your browser keeps this for 90 days, together with a random device number, so that the partner can be credited if you subscribe. We use your IP address for a moment to stop repeated clicks; we store only a scrambled value of it, for at most two days.
• Arriving through one of our Google ads. A visitor who clicks our ad may get two hours of full access without signing up. To check that the click is genuine and new, we send the click ID from the ad to Google Ads and keep a scrambled value of it. Access runs on a session without a name or an email address.
• Errors. If a page fails, the error message, the address of the page and the type of browser are sent to our error log. This report carries no account number.

Measurement and advertising

Two Google tools can run on the site. One of them needs your consent; the other does not ask.

• Google Analytics counts visits, so that we see which reports are read and how readers find us. It loads only after you press Accept in the banner. If you press Reject, or press nothing, it does not load. If you change your mind later, "Privacy settings" at the foot of every page shows the banner again; on Reject we stop the collection and remove the Analytics cookies. We have set Analytics so that it is not used for advertising.
• Google Ads tag. A tag from our Google Ads account loads on every page for every visitor, whatever was chosen in the banner. It tells Google that a page of this site was opened, so that Google can count what our ads bring. Google can also use it to show our ads again to people who have visited the site. Google may set cookies for this and combines the data with what it knows about your browser or your Google account, under Google's own privacy policy. You can limit this in Google's ad settings or with your browser's settings.

We place no other advertising or tracking tools on the site, and we show no third-party ads.

Your account

To create an account we need an email address and a way to sign in.

• Sign-in. You can sign in with an email address and a password, or with an account at Google, Apple, Microsoft, X or LinkedIn. Companies with a team licence can use their own company sign-in.
• What we receive from Google and the other sign-in services. When you choose one of them, it gives us your name, your email address and, where you have one, your profile picture. We use these only to create and show your account. We do not read anything else from that account, and we do not pass this data on.
• What we keep. Your email address, your name and picture, the times and method of your last ten sign-ins, your plan and what gives you access (a subscription, a trial, an invitation), and your email and reading settings. Passwords are kept by Google's sign-in service in protected form; we never see them.
• Two-step sign-in. If you switch it on, the link to your authenticator app is kept by the sign-in service.
• A record of changes. Actions on your account, such as a change of email address, an export or a deletion, are written to a log with their time, so that we can trace mistakes and misuse.
• Staff access. The people who run the site can see your account details, your plan, your payments and how many reports you opened per week, in order to help you and to keep the service running.

Payments

Payments are taken by Stripe. Your card details go to Stripe and never reach our servers.

When you subscribe or buy a report, we send Stripe your email address and an account number, and Stripe asks you for the card, the billing address and, for companies, a tax number. Stripe uses this to take the payment, work out the tax and issue the invoice, under Stripe's privacy policy.

We keep: your Stripe customer number, the state of your subscription, the plan, amounts and currency, the invoice numbers and the links to your invoices, and which single reports you bought. We also keep a scrambled value of the card's fingerprint, only to notice when a partner and a subscriber they referred use the same card. We do not keep your card number, your billing address or your tax number.

Emails

We send emails from mail@weeklymarketreport.com through Google's mail service.

• Emails about your account and payments are always sent: the confirmation of your address, a password reset, payment problems, and the end of a subscription or trial.
• Emails about new issues and corrections are optional. Each of them has an unsubscribe link, and you can switch them on and off in the member area.
• No tracking. Our emails contain no images, no tracking pixels and no redirect links. We do not record whether you open an email or what you click in it.
• What we keep. A list of the emails we sent you. The content and the address are removed from that list after 90 days. If an address bounces, or you unsubscribe, we keep a scrambled value of the address so that we do not write to it again.

What you read

When you are signed in, the site remembers your reading so that it can take you back to the same place.

We keep, with your account: how far you read in each report, the reports you saved, and the topics you follow. We also count how many reports an account opens per day, to notice automated copying; these counts are deleted after seven days. If you report an error in a report, we keep your note with the place it refers to.

What you type into the search box is not stored.

When you write to us or send us your work

We keep what you send us, to answer you and to give you credit.

• Contact form. Your name, email address, organisation and message, and for a team enquiry the number of seats. The enquiry is stored and sent to our mailbox.
• Contributed work. Your name, email address, the link and title of your work and your note. If a report draws on your work, the Sources of that report show your name, the title, the link and a short description. Your email address is never shown. Your name, the title and your note are also passed to our own research database, which runs on a server we operate ourselves.

Teams, trials and terminal users

Some features need a little more.

• Team licences. We keep the organisation's name, the billing email address and, for each seat, the name, email address and role of its member. An invitation to a team is kept with the invited address until it is used or expires.
• Trial links. A trial we offer you is tied to the email address it was sent to, so that only you can use it.
• Bloomberg and LSEG users. If you claim the status of a terminal user, we keep the terminal or work address you give us and send a code to it, to confirm that it is yours.

Partners

If you join our partner programme, we keep what the agreement and the payments need.

• Your profile: name, channel, your partner code and your commission rate.
• The agreement: the terms you agreed to, the name you typed as your signature, the time, and the IP address and browser from which you signed, as evidence of the signature.
• Payout details: the account holder and either the bank account or the PayPal address you want to be paid to. Payouts are made by hand.

Partners see how many clicks, sign-ups and subscriptions their link brought, and their commissions. They never see names, email addresses or anything else about the readers they referred.

Who receives your data

We use two companies to run the site, and we do not sell personal data to anyone.

• Google hosts the site and its database, runs the sign-in and the protection against automated abuse, sends our emails, and provides Google Analytics and Google Ads as described above.
• Stripe takes the payments.
• The sign-in service you choose (Google, Apple, Microsoft, X or LinkedIn) learns that you signed in to this site.

Beyond these, we pass personal data on only if the law requires it.

Where your data is kept

The site's servers are in the United States.

Google and Stripe may also process data in other countries where they operate. If you use the site from outside the United States, your data is therefore transferred to the United States.

How long we keep it

We keep data for as long as the purpose needs it, and these are the periods built into the site.

• Your account, reading progress, saved reports and follows: until you delete your account.
• An account whose email address was never confirmed: deleted after 30 days.
• Content and address of the emails we sent: 90 days.
• Daily reading counts: 7 days.
• A partner link remembered in your browser: 90 days.
• Scrambled values used to stop repeated clicks: up to 2 days.
• Contact enquiries and contributed work: until we delete them; ask us and we delete yours.
• The record of changes to accounts: kept, as evidence of what was done.
• Partner agreements: kept, as evidence of the agreement.

Payment and invoice records are kept after an account is deleted, because business records must be kept.

Your choices

Most of what you may want to do, you can do yourself.

• Analytics: "Privacy settings" at the foot of every page changes your choice at any time.
• Emails: every optional email has an unsubscribe link, and the member area has the same switches.
• A copy of your data: the member area gives you an export of your account, your subscription, your settings, your reading and the list of emails we sent you.
• Deleting your account: you can delete it in the member area once no subscription is running. This removes your profile, your settings, your reading progress, your saved reports, your follows and your sign-in.
• Anything else: write to mail@weeklymarketreport.com to see, correct or delete data we hold about you, or to object to a use.

Depending on where you live, the law may give you further rights over your data, including the right to complain to your data protection authority.

Changes to this notice

If we change how we use data, we change this notice and the date at its top.