Privacy policy
The Review is read, not signed up to. Nobody needs an account to open a story, and we keep very little about the people who do. What follows sets out that little, and the say each reader has over it.
Who is responsible
The Manhattan Business Review is published by its editor, Tobias Hutchins, who is answerable for the personal information described here. Letters on any privacy matter go to editor@tmbusinessnyc.org.
What we keep
Letters to the editor. A reader who writes in with news, a correction or a question gives us a name, an email address and whatever the message holds. We keep that correspondence so the editor can answer and, where a story is concerned, follow the matter through.
Server logs. Our host records the ordinary details of each request for a page, such as the IP address, the browser and the address asked for. Those records exist to keep the site running and safe from abuse.
The Review runs no analytics and no advertising, has no comment section and no subscriber list, and has never sold or traded a reader's details.
People we write to
The Review sometimes emails people named as contacts in company press releases or public listings to tell them their news has been covered. It may also invite news, a Q&A or an article. Their details come from the release or listing itself, published by the person or their organization.
This policy sets out what the Review keeps about these contacts: their name, work email address, organization and the link to the story concerned. Questions about these details can go to editor@tmbusinessnyc.org. If a contact replies with the word "remove", the Review stops writing to them.
On what basis
Correspondence is kept on the basis of our legitimate interest in replying to readers and getting the record right. The server logs rest on the same footing: a publication has a fair need to keep its pages online and protected.
For how long
Letters are held for up to two years from the most recent message in the exchange and are then deleted, except where a correction or a story under discussion remains unresolved. Our host keeps its request logs for a short period only, then discards them.
Who handles it on our behalf
Vercel hosts the Review's pages and keeps the request logs described above.
Google Workspace, arranged for us through Zapmail, runs the editor's mailbox, so letters to the editor are delivered and stored there.
Both companies may process this information in the United States. Each relies on the safeguards United Kingdom data protection law recognizes for transfers of that kind.
Your rights
Any reader may ask what the Review holds about them and receive a copy, including one in a form they can take to another service. A reader may also have details corrected or erased, ask us to restrict their use, or object to it. Send the request to editor@tmbusinessnyc.org; the editor replies within one month.
A reader who remains dissatisfied may take the matter to the UK Information Commissioner's Office, through ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint or by telephone on 0303 123 1113. We would ask for the chance to settle it first.
Cookies are covered on their own page: see the cookie policy.
Revisions
Should this policy be revised, the new text will appear here in place of the old. Last updated 13 October 2026.