Privacy Policy Notice Addressed to Online Readers of Mainstream Weekly in view of European data privacy regulations (GDPR)

Dear Online Readers of Mainstream Weekly,

We write to publicly notify you in view of the new European data privacy laws (GDPR) regulations] that have come into force on the 25th of May 2018 (Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, repealed on 25 May 2018 by Regulation (EU) 2016/679).

Many of our readers browse the Mainstream website from servers located in the European region. We want to assure our readers that we respect your privacy.

As a matter of policy, we do not keep any electronic information on our website users for unsolicited use. Our content management system allows us basic statistics on users visiting our website. Every month we delete our user stats so no information on users generated via ’cookies’ is kept by us.

We have no advertising on our magazine website and have no arrangements with any external entity to monitor user data; moreover maintaining statistics on users is an additional burden as it increases our web hosting space costs for us. Users are advised to disable cookies on their web browser and disallow any requests from our website host server to keep ’cookies’ from your browser that leave a trace of your visit to our site or any other.

best wishes

Editor, Mainstream