Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 2026

Your privacy matters to us, and this policy is written to be read — not to be endured. It explains, in plain language, what personal information Media Events Radar collects, why we collect it, how we use and protect it, who we share it with, and the choices and rights you have. We have deliberately kept it free of unnecessary jargon so that you can understand exactly what happens to your data.

1. Who we are

Media Events Radar (the “Service”, “we”, “us” or “our”) is a professional tool that gathers upcoming public events for selected countries from their domestic media and presents them on a calendar, with optional email briefings and the ability to save events to a personal calendar. It is built for journalists, newsrooms, researchers, analysts and travellers who need to know, ahead of time, what is about to happen in a given country.

For the purposes of applicable data protection law, the data controller responsible for your personal information is Media Events Radar. If you have any question about this policy or about how your data is handled, you can reach us at any time at [email protected].

2. The information we collect

We collect only what we genuinely need to run the Service and to give you the features you ask for. We group it here by how it reaches us.

Information you provide to us

• Account information — the email address you register with and a password. Your password is never stored in readable form: we keep only a one-way, cryptographically protected version of it that cannot be reversed back into your original password.
• Your preferences — the countries and topics you follow, the events you save to your personal calendars, and the settings for your email briefings (such as the days, times and time zone you choose).
• Messages you send us — if you contact us for support or by email, we keep your message and contact details so that we can reply and, where relevant, improve the Service.

Information we receive automatically

• Technical and usage data — like most websites, our servers keep standard logs (for example your IP address, browser type and the pages requested). We use these to operate the Service, keep it available and secure, prevent abuse and diagnose problems.
• Cookies — we use a small number of cookies to keep you signed in and to remember your interface preferences. We do not use advertising, profiling or cross-site tracking cookies. With your consent, we also use a simple analytics tool (Google Analytics) to understand, in aggregate, how the Service is used; you can accept or decline this from the cookie banner, and no analytics cookies are set unless you accept. Full details are in our Cookies Policy.

Information from connecting Google Calendar (optional)

• If, and only if, you choose to connect your Google Calendar, we store an authorisation token issued by Google and the email address of the connected Google account. This lets us add to your calendar the events you select, and remove them if you change your mind. We request the minimum permission required to create and delete events; we do not read, import or analyse the contents of your existing calendar. You can disconnect at any time from your account, which deletes the stored authorisation and stops any further access.

Payment information

• If you subscribe to a paid plan, we keep your subscription status and a customer identifier issued by our payment provider. Card numbers and payment details are entered directly with the payment provider and are never stored on our servers — we never see or hold them.

3. Why we use your information, and our legal bases

We only use your personal information for clear, limited purposes, and always with a lawful basis for doing so. Depending on your jurisdiction, the legal bases we rely on are the following:

• To create and manage your account and provide the calendar and its features — because it is necessary to perform our contract with you.
• To send the email briefings you have set up — on the basis of your request and consent, which you can change or withdraw at any time from your account.
• To add events to your Google Calendar, where you have connected it — on the basis of your explicit consent, which you can withdraw at any time by disconnecting.
• To process subscriptions, payments and cancellations — because it is necessary to perform our contract and to comply with our accounting and tax obligations.
• To keep the Service secure, prevent fraud and abuse, ensure availability and improve reliability — on the basis of our legitimate interests in running a safe and dependable service, balanced against your rights.
• To respond to your enquiries and provide support — on the basis of our legitimate interest in assisting you, or to take steps at your request.

We do not use your personal information for purposes that are incompatible with those described above, and we do not sell it.

4. The events shown on the Service

The events you see on the calendar are drawn from publicly available media — news agencies, newspapers and public channels — and describe public happenings such as ceremonies, official visits, elections, strikes, matches, holidays and the like. This editorial content is about public events; it is not your personal data and is not used to build a profile of you. Where an event has a place attached, its location may be looked up through a mapping service to show it on the map; no personal data of yours is involved in that lookup.

Event entries may link to the original source articles, which are operated by third parties. Once you follow such a link you leave our Service, and the privacy practices of those websites are their own; we are not responsible for their content or their handling of your data.

5. Email you receive from us

We send two kinds of email. Service (transactional) emails — such as account confirmation, password resets and important notices about your subscription — are part of providing the Service and are necessary for it to function. Briefings and event alerts are sent only because you set them up: you decide the countries, topics and schedule, and you can adjust or switch them off at any moment from your account. We do not send unsolicited marketing.

6. Who we share your information with

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it except as described here. To run the Service we rely on a small number of trusted providers (“processors”), who may only process your data on our instructions and for the purposes we set:

• Payment provider — to process subscriptions, payments, invoices and cancellations securely.
• Email delivery provider — to deliver your briefings and account emails.
• Hosting and content-delivery infrastructure (including networks that serve parts of the interface and fonts) — which may receive your IP address as an ordinary part of delivering web pages to your browser.
• Mapping service — used on our side to resolve the location of public events for the map.
• Analytics provider (Google Analytics) — only if you consent to analytics: to help us understand, in aggregate, how the Service is used so that we can improve it. If you decline, no analytics data is collected.
• Google (Google Calendar) — only if you connect your Google account. When you add an event to your Google Calendar, we send that event's details (its title, date, place and description) to Google in order to create or remove it in your calendar. Google processes this information under its own privacy policy.

Media Events Radar's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements. In particular, information obtained through Google Calendar is used solely to provide and improve the calendar-sync feature you request, is not transferred to others except as needed to provide that feature or as required by law, is never used for advertising, and is not read by humans except with your consent or where necessary for security or to comply with the law.

We may also disclose information if we are legally required to do so, to protect our rights or the safety of others, or in connection with a merger, acquisition or reorganisation — in which case we will take steps to ensure your information remains protected.

7. International data transfers

Some of our providers may store or process information in countries other than your own, whose data protection laws may differ. Where personal information is transferred internationally, we take appropriate steps to ensure it remains protected — for example by relying on providers that offer suitable safeguards, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or an equivalent recognised mechanism.

8. How long we keep your information

We keep personal information only for as long as it is needed for the purposes described in this policy:

• Account and preference data — for as long as your account remains open. If you close or ask us to delete your account, we remove your personal data, except for the limited information we are legally required to keep.
• Billing records — retained for the period required by applicable accounting and tax law.
• Technical logs and backups — kept for a limited period and then deleted or overwritten in the ordinary course.
• Google Calendar authorisation — kept only while your Google connection is active, and deleted as soon as you disconnect.

9. Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights over your personal information:

• to access the personal data we hold about you and receive a copy of it;
• to have inaccurate data corrected and incomplete data completed;
• to have your data deleted in certain circumstances (the “right to be forgotten”);
• to restrict or object to certain processing, including processing based on our legitimate interests;
• to data portability — to receive certain data in a structured, commonly used format;
• to withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on consent, without affecting processing carried out before you withdrew it.

You can exercise many of these choices directly from your account — updating your preferences, turning briefings on or off, disconnecting Google Calendar, or requesting deletion. For any other request, simply write to us at [email protected] and we will respond within the time frame required by law. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority, though we would appreciate the chance to resolve any concern with you first.

10. Automated decisions and profiling

We do not make decisions about you that produce legal or similarly significant effects based solely on automated processing of your personal data, and we do not build advertising or behavioural profiles of you. The tools we use to organise and present public events operate on public editorial content, not on your personal information.

11. How we protect your information

We take the security of your information seriously and apply appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect it against loss, misuse and unauthorised access — including encryption of data in transit, strong one-way protection of passwords, restricted and audited administrative access, and safeguards against abuse. No system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, but we work continuously to keep your information safe and to respond promptly should an issue ever arise.

12. Children's privacy

The Service is intended for professional and adult use. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 16. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will delete it.

13. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the Service, in our practices, or in the law. When we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, let you know. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

14. How to contact us

If you have any question, request or concern about this Privacy Policy or about how your personal information is handled, please contact us at [email protected]. We are always happy to help.