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Privacy Statement

This statement describes what we actually do with personal information. Manhattan Standard is free to read, requires no account, and puts nothing behind a login, so for most readers the only personal information we hold is an email address you gave us for a briefing.

What we collect

  • Email addresses submitted to our newsletter forms, together with the briefings you asked for.
  • The IP address a newsletter submission came from, used to rate-limit the form against abuse.
  • Aggregate analytics about how pages are used, where analytics is enabled.
  • Anything you choose to send us — a tip, a correction, a press or commercial enquiry.

We do not ask for your name to read the site, we do not build reader profiles, and we do not require registration.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4, loaded once the page has finished loading so it never delays what you came to read. It tells us which pages are read and how people arrive, in aggregate. We also use PostHog, run by PostHog Inc. on its US cloud, which records page views, clicks and basic device and browser information so we can understand how the site is used; it does not record your session. Until you choose, both run without cookies: each page view reaches Google as a stand-alone event with a truncated IP address, and audience figures are estimated from those events rather than by following individual readers, while PostHog keeps its identifier in memory only and stores nothing on your device. Allowing analytics cookies on our cookie preferences page lets Google Analytics set its own cookies and PostHog keep its identifier in a cookie and local storage, so your visits count as one reader rather than several; declining keeps the cookieless mode and removes what PostHog stored, and a recognized browser opt-out signal does the same without you doing anything.

Newsletters

We use your address to send the briefings you asked for and for nothing else. We do not sell it, rent it, or pass it to advertisers. Every email carries an unsubscribe link that takes effect immediately.

Images and hosting

Article images are served from our content platform's CDN. Loading a page therefore involves a request to that CDN, which receives your IP address as any web request does.

How long we keep things

Newsletter addresses are kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them. Correspondence is kept as long as it is useful to the matter it concerns. Analytics data is aggregate and is retained according to each platform's own retention settings.

Your rights

  • Ask what personal information we hold about you.
  • Receive a copy of it.
  • Have inaccurate information corrected.
  • Have it deleted.
  • Object to, or opt out of, its use for targeted advertising.

Write to privacy@manhattanstandardmag.com from the address concerned, so we can confirm the request is yours. Our privacy choices page sets out the opt-out mechanisms; our cookie preferences page covers what is stored on your device. We do not treat anyone differently for exercising a right.

Children

This is a business publication written for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes

If we change this statement materially we will say so on this page rather than amending it quietly.

This statement describes what we do. If anything here does not match what you have experienced, tell us — that is a bug, and we want to know.