Privacy policy

INTEL FOCUS LTD

Effective date: 24.03.2026
Last updated: 24.03.2026

1. Who we are

The data controller for this website is INTEL FOCUS LTD, a company incorporated in England and Wales under company number 17112681, with its registered office at 27 Old Gloucester Street, London, United Kingdom, WC1N 3AX.

INTEL FOCUS LTD is a media and research organisation engaged in open-source intelligence, investigative journalism, media literacy, and strategic communications.

For all data protection enquiries, please contact us at: info@intelfocus.org.

References in this policy to “we”, “us”, or “our” are references to INTEL FOCUS LTD.

2. Scope of this policy

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect personal data in connection with your use of our website and any services, communications, or enquiries conducted through it. It applies to all visitors to our website, individuals who contact us, and anyone who subscribes to or requests materials from us.

This policy does not apply to third-party websites, platforms, or services to which our website may link. We encourage you to read the privacy notices of any third-party services you access through our website.

We are committed to processing personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”), the Data Protection Act 2018, and, where applicable, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (“PECR”).

3. Personal data we collect

Depending on how you interact with our website, we may collect and process the following categories of personal data:

3.1 Information you provide directly

Your name and email address, where you contact us via a contact form or by email.
Any information contained in messages you send to us.
Contact details and areas of interest, where you subscribe to a newsletter or request updates from us, if such a service is offered.
Information provided in connection with volunteer, collaboration, or contributor enquiries, where applicable.

3.2 Information collected automatically

Technical data, including your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, pages visited, and time spent on pages.
Cookie and similar tracking data, as further described in Section 7 below.

We do not knowingly collect special category personal data (such as health, ethnicity, or political opinions) through our website.

4. How we collect personal data

We collect personal data through the following means:

Directly from you, when you complete a contact form, send us an email, or subscribe to any service or publication we offer.
Automatically, through cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.
From our website hosting provider and analytics services, which may collect technical and usage data as described above.

5. How and why we use personal data

We use the personal data we collect for the following purposes:

To respond to enquiries, messages, or requests submitted through the website or by email.
To administer and improve our website, including monitoring performance and fixing technical issues.
To send newsletters, updates, or publications, where you have subscribed to receive them.
To process volunteer, collaboration, or contributor enquiries, where applicable.
To comply with our legal obligations.
To protect the security of our website and prevent fraud or misuse.
To carry out analytics and understand how our website is used, in order to improve our content and services.

We will not use your personal data for automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects without your explicit consent.

6. Lawful bases for processing

Under the UK GDPR, we are required to identify a lawful basis for each processing activity. We rely on the following lawful bases:

Legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) UK GDPR): for responding to enquiries, administering and improving our website, ensuring security, and carrying out analytics. We have carried out a balancing assessment and are satisfied that our legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.
Consent (Article 6(1)(a) UK GDPR): where you have actively opted in to receive newsletters or marketing communications. You may withdraw consent at any time by contacting us at info@intelfocus.org or by following any unsubscribe link in communications we send.
Legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c) UK GDPR): where processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
Contract (Article 6(1)(b) UK GDPR): where processing is necessary to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract, or to perform a contract to which you are a party, where applicable.

7. Cookies and similar technologies

Our website may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to distinguish you from other users and to improve your browsing experience. Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website.

7.1 Types of cookies we may use

Strictly necessary cookies: required for the operation of our website. These cannot be switched off.
Analytical or performance cookies: allow us to recognise and count visitors, and to understand how visitors navigate the website. This helps us improve the way the website works.
Functionality cookies: used to recognise you when you return to our website, where applicable.

Where cookies are not strictly necessary for the operation of the website, we will seek your consent before placing them on your device, in accordance with PECR.

You may configure your browser to refuse cookies or to delete them after visiting our website. Please note that some functionality may be affected if you do so. For information on how to manage cookies, please refer to your browser’s help documentation.

Where we use third-party services that set their own cookies (for example, analytics providers or embedded content), those third parties are responsible for the cookies they set. Further information on those cookies is available in the relevant third party’s privacy or cookies notice.

8. Sharing personal data

We do not sell, rent, or trade personal data. We may share personal data in the following limited circumstances:

Service providers: we may share personal data with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, sending communications, or providing related services (such as web hosting or email delivery platforms). These providers are contractually required to process personal data only on our instructions and in accordance with applicable data protection law.
Legal obligations: we may disclose personal data where required to do so by law, by a court order, or by a regulatory or government authority.
Protection of rights: we may disclose personal data where necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of INTEL FOCUS LTD, our users, or others.

We will not share personal data with third parties for their own marketing purposes without your consent.

9. International data transfers

We aim to keep personal data within the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area wherever possible. Where a service provider or third party processes personal data outside the UK or EEA, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with the UK GDPR, such as the use of the UK’s International Data Transfer Agreement (“IDTA”) or transfers to countries that benefit from an adequacy decision issued by the UK Government.

Further information regarding the safeguards applicable to any such transfers is available on request by contacting us at info@intelfocus.org.

10. Data retention

We retain personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or as required or permitted by applicable law.

In practice, this means:

Contact form and email enquiries: we retain correspondence for as long as is reasonably necessary to respond to and resolve the relevant enquiry, and for a reasonable period thereafter for administrative purposes.
Newsletter subscriptions: we retain your contact details for as long as you remain subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we will remove your details from active mailing lists promptly, subject to any legal obligation to retain records.
Technical and analytics data: we retain such data for a limited period, generally in anonymised or aggregated form after that period, in accordance with the terms of any relevant third-party analytics service.

When personal data is no longer required, we will delete or anonymise it in a secure manner.

11. Data security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, alteration, or disclosure. These measures are reviewed and updated as necessary.

Where we use third-party platforms to host our website or manage communications, we take reasonable steps to satisfy ourselves that those providers maintain appropriate security standards.

Transmission of information over the internet is not completely secure. While we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to our website. Any transmission is at your own risk.

12. Your rights

Under the UK GDPR, you have the following rights in respect of your personal data:

Right of access: you may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to rectification: you may ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
Right to erasure: you may ask us to delete your personal data in certain circumstances.
Right to restriction of processing: you may ask us to restrict the way we process your personal data in certain circumstances.
Right to data portability: you may request that we transfer personal data you have provided to us to a third party, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, where this is technically feasible and where the processing is based on consent or contract.
Right to object: you may object to processing based on our legitimate interests, including profiling for direct marketing purposes.
Right to withdraw consent: where processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out prior to withdrawal.
Rights related to automated decision-making: you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing that produces legal or similarly significant effects, where applicable.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@intelfocus.org. We will respond within one calendar month of receiving your request, as required under the UK GDPR. We will not charge a fee for handling your request in ordinary circumstances.

We may need to verify your identity before processing a rights request. We will keep the verification process as straightforward as possible.

13. Complaints

If you have concerns about the way we handle your personal data and are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), which is the supervisory authority for data protection in the United Kingdom.

ICO contact details:

Website: www.ico.org.uk
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Post: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

We would, however, welcome the opportunity to address your concerns before you approach the ICO. Please contact us in the first instance at info@intelfocus.org.

14. Children’s privacy

Our website is not directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If you believe that we have inadvertently collected personal data relating to a child, please contact us at info@intelfocus.org and we will take appropriate steps to delete that information promptly.

Where our website contains content that may be accessed by minors, we encourage parents and guardians to monitor their children’s internet use.

15. Third-party links and services

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, or embedded content (such as videos, maps, or social media feeds). These third-party services are operated by independent organisations and have their own privacy policies, for which we accept no responsibility.

We encourage you to review the privacy notices of any third-party services you access through our website, as their practices may differ from ours.

The inclusion of a link to a third-party website does not constitute our endorsement of that website or its operators.

16. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, legal requirements, or the services we provide. Any material changes will be indicated by an updated “Last updated” date at the top of this document.

We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Where changes are significant, we may notify you by email or by a prominent notice on our website, where appropriate.

Your continued use of our website after any changes to this policy constitutes your acknowledgement of the updated terms.

17. Contact us

All data protection enquiries, rights requests, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy should be addressed to: