We are Wolf Street Corp and publish a finance, business, and economics website. Our website address is: https://wolfstreet.com. Our website is free, you can read our reports for free, there is no paywall, and you do not need to sign in to read our reports. We don’t sell you any goods or services. But Wolf Street Corp is a business that must have revenues to survive and provide these reports, and these revenues come from donations by our readers and from advertising. Most of the advertising revenues come from our advertising partners, such as Google AdSense, that automatically place their ads on our website.

For our detailed cookie policy and opt-out preferences page, please visit: https://wolfstreet.com/opt-out-preferences/

Here on this page, we provide a summary of what data we collect and who actually collects this data and retains it. We also provide some other important privacy items, plus some tips and links on how to strengthen the privacy of your browser.

What personal data we collect, why we collect it, and who actually sees it and has it.

This site partners with advertising services, primarily Google AdSense, website traffic analytics service Google Analytics, website security services, cloud-based firewalls, and other services that use cookies and other technologies to gather user information for various purposes, including: serving personalized ads; collecting website traffic data; securing and protecting the website from hackers, DNS attacks, and spammers; providing essential functions of the website; etc.

Our partners collect your personal data automatically on our website through their code that we installed on our website. We do not see, store, or have access to your personal data that is obtained automatically by these third-party services, and they do not share your personal data with us.

Advertising cookies & other technologies: Our advertising partners show you ads on our website that are delivered directly from their platform and ad exchange to your browser. The ads do not reside on our server, and we have no idea what ads our advertising partners, primarily AdSense, are showing you. And we do not see or retain your personal data they collect.

This is how it works at the most basic level: When you click on our URL, your browser gets in contact with our server and downloads the instructions on how to render the page, along with our text and images. The instructions tell your browser for example: render this text, “Privacy Statement,” as H1 headline in the font Arial, font size 18 pixels, with this line height and put around it these margins, padding, and spacing. Your browser likely has Arial installed as one of the default fonts and uses it for the headline. If it does not have Arial installed, it’s instructed to go to Google Fonts and get the font from there. It then renders the headline in Arial with font size of 18 pixels. Every text element of the page that you see is constructed that way by your browser. It also downloads our images, such as our charts, from our server and places them as per instructions.

The browser also gets the instructions from us to load an ad. The instructions come with a script of our advertising partner, such as Google AdSense, that we’ve installed on our website. Via the script, your browser interacts with Google’s ad platform AdSense, which begins an exchange of data, including your profile and unique ID stored in your browser in form of cookies and other technologies based on your prior browsing of the internet. The AdSense ad exchange then starts a bidding process among advertisers wanting to show you an ad on our website. AdSense then sends the winning ad, along with tracking code, cookies, and other technologies to your browser, and your browser renders the ad, and you see it.

The process of rendering our page from a set of instructions can take a couple of seconds. You see the delay. Loading the ads takes a little longer, and they lag the rest of the page, due to the bidding process at AdSense. This bidding process is very fast, but not instant. The processes with other advertising partners that we may have from time to time operate in a similar manner.

This process between your browser and our advertising partners bypasses our server, and we don’t see, get, or retain the data, we don’t know what ad you were shown, what data was collected, what cookies and other technologies the process put in your browser, and how you reacted to the ad. Our server only initiates it by giving your browser instructions what to do.

So, when our advertising partners place the ads, as instructed by us, in your browser, our advertising partners use cookies and other technologies that enable them to gain insights into the campaign results and into your behavior on our website. They place cookies and other technologies with a unique ID on your device that enable them to track your browsing behavior on our website and across the internet to serve personalized ads. We do not see or retain your personal data they collect.

You have the right to opt out of sharing your personal data with our advertising partners. You can opt out here: https://wolfstreet.com/opt-out-preferences/

Statistics cookies & other technologies: Our website partners with Google Analytics, which measures and analyzes our web traffic and provides essential analytical data that help us manage the site, for example, pageviews and visitors per day, or per 30 minutes, page views by country or city, etc. The Google Analytics code we placed on our site enables Google Analytics to collect your personal data via cookies and other technologies to track your browsing behavior on our website and across the internet.

We do not see or retain your personal data it collects. You have the right to opt out of sharing your personal data that is used for website analytics here: https://wolfstreet.com/opt-out-preferences/

Other services: We partner with other services that are essential to the functioning of our website and its security, and that place cookies and other technologies on your device. They’re listed here: https://wolfstreet.com/opt-out-preferences/

Your personal data that we do see and retain:

Our website runs on WordPress, which also uses cookies and other technologies that are essential for the site to function properly. We see and retain your public IP address, including in our firewall services.

Comments: When you post comments on the site, we collect the data you put into the comments form, and also your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. The data is saved in cookies on your browser for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. Your comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

If you post comments, your data is shared with WordPress (Jetpack), whose comments platform we use, and WordPress does not share this information with anyone.

The comment and its metadata on our site are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Wolf Street Tip: To avoid revealing your name to the public, you’re encouraged to sign in with an alias. For further privacy, you can use a fake email address to sign in. To enable easy repeat commenting, this site recognizes you by your email address (fake email is ok).

Email Updates: When you sign up for our email updates, we collect the email address you enter into the signup box. For you to receive the email updates, the email address must be functional. We do not ask for a name. The service provider of the email system is WordPress. Signing up for the email service establishes an account with WordPress or adds to your existing account at WordPress.

Consent & opt-out management data.

Our website uses the Privacy Suite for WordPress by Complianz to collect and record Browser and Device-based Consent to provide you the detailed privacy policy and opt-out preferences. For this functionality, your IP address is anonymized and stored in our database set up by Complianz. This service does not process any personally identifiable information and does not share any data with the service provider. For more information, see the Complianz Privacy Statement.

Embedded content from other websites.

Articles on this site may occasionally include embedded content (primarily, YouTube videos). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you were visiting the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

But we do not have access to this personal data, and it is not retained on our site. It is obtained by the third party, via the third-party content embedded on our site.

Links to other websites.

This site uses links to government websites, news media sites, data providers, and many others. These links are essential in blogging to source the data or the quoted text, among other reasons. If you click on any of these links, it will take you to that website (third-party website). We have no control over these third-party websites. They have their own privacy practices and policies.

Improving your privacy in your browser.

Our website responds to and supports the Do Not Track (DNT) header request field. If you turn DNT on in your browser, those preferences are communicated to our website in the HTTP request header, which will prevent our advertising partners from tracking your browsing behavior.

You can disable third-party cookies in your browser (recommended), and this site will still function perfectly well. This will block some of the cookies from our partners (the “third parties”) to be placed into your browser. But if you disable all cookies in your browser, including first-party cookies, our website will lose some functionality, including commenting.

It is generally recommended that you tighten up the security and privacy settings in your browser, and that you delete your entire browsing history periodically, such as every day, or every time you close your browser.

For more information on how to block cookies or manage them in other ways in your browser, please see: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/

Many other websites use Google Analytics, and opting out on our website alone doesn’t stop Google Analytics from obtaining your personal data on other websites that you visit. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking for all websites by adding an opt-out add-on from Google Analytics to your browser. See https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Where we send your data.

This site is hosted on a dedicated server in the United States, and backups are also in the United States, and all data that we control is kept on this server and at our backup locations. Data that is sent to third parties is hosted by those third parties, and we have no control over them.

How we protect your data on our site.

We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorized access to personal data. Our security measures are regularly reviewed. This ensures that access to the data is protected.

This site is encrypted and has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. The security measures we use consist of, but are not limited to Vulnerability Detection, TLS / SSL, and recommended site hardening features, server-based and cloud-based.

Contacting us

If you have privacy concerns, you can contact us at: [email protected]