Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2026

RecyclerDaily ("we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect, how we use it, your rights, and how to contact us. It applies to all visitors and subscribers of recyclerdaily.com.

1. Who We Are

RecyclerDaily is an industry news publication covering recycling, e-waste, and sustainability. For privacy enquiries, contact us at [email protected].

2. What Information We Collect

We collect the following categories of personal information:

Information you provide directly:

Email address — when you subscribe to our newsletter, contact us, or register an advertiser account.
Name — optionally provided when contacting us, or required when registering an advertiser account.
Company name and phone number — collected when you register as an advertiser or book an ad campaign.
Account credentials — email address and a securely hashed password if you register for an account.
Message content — any information you include in contact form submissions.
Banner creative materials — image URLs, click-through URLs, and alt text submitted as part of an advertising campaign.

Information collected automatically:

IP address and approximate location (country/region level)
Browser type, version, and operating system
Pages visited, time spent, and referral source
Device type and screen resolution

3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

If you are located in the UK or European Economic Area, we process your personal data under the following legal bases:

Consent — for newsletter subscriptions and non-essential cookies. You may withdraw consent at any time.
Legitimate interests — for analytics, site security, and fraud prevention, where these interests are not overridden by your rights.
Contract performance — to provide services you have requested, such as account access.
Legal obligation — where we are required to process data to comply with applicable law.

4. How We Use Your Information

To send our weekly newsletter and editorial updates you have subscribed to.
To respond to your enquiries and support requests.
To operate and improve the content, performance, and user experience of the site.
To detect and prevent fraudulent or abusive activity.
To analyse how our content is used and what topics our audience values most.
To manage advertising campaigns booked through our self-service portal, including processing banner creatives, assigning queue positions, and tracking campaign performance.
To send transactional emails to advertisers regarding campaign status, banner approval or rejection, and account activity.
To compile aggregated impression and click statistics reported to advertisers for their own campaigns only.
To comply with legal and regulatory obligations.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes.

5. Cookies and Tracking

We use cookies and similar technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy for full details. In summary:

Essential cookies — required for login sessions and site functionality.
Analytics cookies — to understand how visitors use our site.
Ad impression cookies — short-lived cookies (1 hour) used to prevent counting the same ad impression more than once per visitor. These cookies do not identify you personally and are not used for cross-site tracking or profiling.

You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings.

6. Third-Party Service Providers

We share limited personal data with trusted third-party providers who assist in operating our site:

Resend — email delivery service. Your email address is shared solely to deliver newsletters and transactional emails. Resend operates under its own privacy policy and data processing agreement.
Hosting provider — our site is hosted on a VPS server. Server logs may contain IP addresses for security and diagnostic purposes.

We do not share your data with any third parties for advertising or profiling purposes.

7. International Data Transfers

Our service providers may process data outside the UK or EEA. Where this occurs, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the relevant authority, to protect your personal data.

8. Data Retention

Newsletter subscribers — retained until you unsubscribe, then deleted within 30 days.
Account data — retained while your account is active. Deleted within 30 days of an account deletion request.
Advertiser campaign data — retained for the duration of the campaign and up to 24 months afterwards for billing and reporting purposes.
Ad impression and click records — retained for up to 24 months for reporting and performance analysis.
IP-based dedup records — hashed IP addresses used for impression and click deduplication are retained for up to 7 days, after which they are automatically purged.
Contact form submissions — retained for up to 12 months for correspondence purposes.
Server logs — retained for up to 90 days for security purposes.

9. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

Under GDPR (UK & EU residents):

Right of access — request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to rectification — request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
Right to erasure — request deletion of your personal data ("right to be forgotten").
Right to restrict processing — request that we limit how we use your data.
Right to data portability — receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
Right to object — object to processing based on legitimate interests.
Right to withdraw consent — where processing is based on consent, withdraw it at any time.

Under CCPA (California residents):

Right to know what personal information we collect, use, and disclose.
Right to request deletion of your personal information.
Right to opt out of the sale of personal information. (We do not sell personal information.)
Right to non-discrimination for exercising your privacy rights.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days (GDPR) or 45 days (CCPA).

10. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data, including encrypted data transmission (HTTPS), hashed password storage, and restricted access to personal data. No method of transmission over the internet is entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. Children's Privacy

Our site is intended for business professionals and is not directed at children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will delete it promptly.

12. Complaints

If you are in the UK, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk. If you are in the EU, you may contact your local data protection authority. We encourage you to contact us first so we can address your concern directly.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be communicated to newsletter subscribers by email. The updated date at the top of this page will always reflect the most recent revision. Your continued use of the site after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

14. Contact Us

For any privacy-related questions or to exercise your rights, please contact us at:
[email protected]