Privacy Policy - The English Investor

Last Updated: December 5, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to The English Investor (“we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal information when you visit our website (the “Site”) and interact with our content.

This policy is issued on behalf of, who is the Data Controller responsible for your personal data.

Contact Details:

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us: theenglishinvestor@theenglishinvestor.com.

2. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped as follows:

Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username, or similar identifier (if you comment or subscribe).

Contact Data: Includes email address.

Technical Data: Includes Internet Protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.

Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, products, and services (e.g., pages viewed, time spent on pages, clickstream data).

Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.

3. How Is Your Personal Data Collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct Interactions: You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

Subscribe to our newsletter or publications;

Post a comment on our blog posts;

Request marketing to be sent to you; or

Give us feedback or contact us.

Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies (e.g., via affiliate networks).

Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties as set out below:

Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google Analytics 4 (based outside the UK).

Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment, and delivery services such as Amazon Associates (based outside the UK).

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Purpose/Activity Type of Data Lawful Basis for Processing
To register you as a new subscriber (Newsletter) Identity, Contact Consent (Article 6(1)(a)). You have the right to withdraw consent at any time by clicking “unsubscribe”.
To manage our relationship with you (Notifying of changes to terms/policy) Identity, Contact Legal Obligation (Article 6(1)(c)).
To administer and protect our business and this website (troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data) Identity, Contact, Technical Legitimate Interests (Article 6(1)(f)) (Necessary for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud).
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising Identity, Contact, Usage, Technical Consent (for the setting of cookies) or Legitimate Interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business).
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences Technical, Usage Consent (We request your explicit consent via our Cookie Banner before Analytics cookies are activated).
To attribute affiliate sales (Amazon Associates) Technical, Usage Legitimate Interests (Commercial necessity to attribute sales) subject to Consent for the initial tracking cookie.

Purpose/Activity	Type of Data	Lawful Basis for Processing
To register you as a new subscriber (Newsletter)	Identity, Contact	Consent (Article 6(1)(a)). You have the right to withdraw consent at any time by clicking “unsubscribe”.
To manage our relationship with you (Notifying of changes to terms/policy)	Identity, Contact	Legal Obligation (Article 6(1)(c)).
To administer and protect our business and this website (troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data)	Identity, Contact, Technical	Legitimate Interests (Article 6(1)(f)) (Necessary for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud).
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising	Identity, Contact, Usage, Technical	Consent (for the setting of cookies) or Legitimate Interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business).
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences	Technical, Usage	Consent (We request your explicit consent via our Cookie Banner before Analytics cookies are activated).
To attribute affiliate sales (Amazon Associates)	Technical, Usage	Legitimate Interests (Commercial necessity to attribute sales) subject to Consent for the initial tracking cookie.

5. Cookies and Affiliate Disclosure

Cookies: Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. We use a Consent Management Platform to allow you to manage your preferences. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, but if you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

6. International Transfers

We may share your personal data within the group of companies and external third parties who may be based outside the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA). Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework: We may transfer personal data to certain service providers in the United States (such as Google LLC for analytics ) who are certified under the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The UK Government has determined that this framework provides an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the UK to certified US organizations.

Standard Contractual Clauses / IDTA: Where a provider is not certified under the Data Privacy Framework, we may use specific contracts approved by the UK Government (the International Data Transfer Agreement or “IDTA”) which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK.

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the UK.

7. Financial Disclaimer and Regulatory Status

The content provided on The English Investor is for informational and educational purposes only. It does not constitute professional financial advice, investment advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any security.

No Advice: We are not authorized or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to provide investment advice. You should always conduct your own research (“DYOR”) and consult with a qualified financial advisor before making any investment decisions.

Risk Warning: Investing involves risk, including the loss of principal. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Data Usage: We do not use your personal data to assess your financial suitability or to target you with high-risk investment promotions that may be deemed inappropriate under the FCA’s consumer duty principles.

8. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Analytics Data: We have configured Google Analytics 4 to retain user-level data for as long as needed, after which it is automatically deleted.

Marketing Data: We retain your email address for newsletter distribution until you unsubscribe. Once you unsubscribe, your data is moved to a “suppression list” to ensure we do not contact you again, in compliance with PECR.

Comments: Comments and their associated metadata are retained indefinitely. This is to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

9. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You have the right to:

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”).

Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.

Request erasure of your personal data (“Right to be Forgotten”). Note that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the absolute right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

Request restriction of processing of your personal data.

Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.

Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at theenglishinvestor@theenglishinvestor.com. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

10. Notice to US Residents

Do Not Track: We honor Do Not Track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

CCPA/CPRA: If you are a resident of California, you have the right to request:

The categories of personal information we collected about you.

The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.

Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.

The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.

The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.

Deletion of your personal information.

We do not sell your personal information for monetary value. However, the use of certain advertising cookies (like Google Analytics) may be considered a “sale” or “share” of personal information under California law. You may opt-out of this by using our Cookie Preferences tool or by enabling Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals on your browser.

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