Dear Readers and Listeners,

We’ve updated our privacy and cookie policies as well as term of use to align with new data regulations which give your data better protection. The updates we’ve made are designed to make it clearer about how we collect, store and use your personal information, as well as your rights relating to your data.

The security of your data is important to us. We are committed to ensuring that your personal information is both respected and protected.

Kind regards,

FORESIGHT Climate & Energy
Informed journalism. Expert analysis.

Privacy policy

FORESIGHT Climate & Energy provides premium insight, news and analysis to a growing audience of global decision makers. A central mission of FORESIGHT is our commitment to upholding the highest standards of data protection for our readers. This privacy policy applies to all websites and web applications which link to this policy and are published by FORESIGHT Climate & Energy (“Sites”). 

If you wish to amend any of the personal information that we hold about you, or update your marketing preferences, you can do so at any time through your account or by contacting our data department. If you have any queries about how we use your personal information, please contact our data department at data@foresightmedia.com.

Information we collect

This section details the information we may collect about you. We explain why, and how, we use it in later sections.

Account information

If you decide to create an account or enquire about one of our products or services, we’ll ask you to provide us with some specific information, for example:

• Basic personal details — such as name, title and date of birth
• Personal contact details — such as home address, delivery address, home phone number, mobile phone number, and email address
• Work details — such as job title, department, company name, company address, work email address and office phone number
• Log in details — such as username and password
• Payment details — such as your bank account and payment card information.

You are free to request that we delete your account at any time. If you wish to do so, please contact our data department at data@foresightmedia.com.

If you decide to create an account or enquire about one of our products or services, we’ll ask you to provide us with some specific information, for example:

Additional information

On occasion, we will ask you to voluntarily provide additional information, for example:

• Your opinion of our products and services
• Your preferences, including newsletters

Information we obtain from partners and public sources

In some circumstances, we collect information about you from our partners or from publicly available websites to help us better understand our audience and enhance the relevance of our content. For example, in some cases we may obtain the contact details of potential speakers for FORESIGHT Climate & Energy events or seminars from public websites.

Information we obtain through cookies and similar tools

We use cookies (and similar technologies) and analytics tools across our Sites to collect information about you. This information can be used to improve the performance of the site, make advertising more relevant and enhance your user experience. We provide detailed information about cookies and similar technologies within our cookie policy; examples include:

• Your usage — we use cookies to understand how our customers use our Sites and interact with our communications and journalism. This helps us to identify usability issues and improve the assistance we can provide to users and is also used for aggregated and statistical reporting purposes.
• Your device — we use cookies to understand what type of device you are using to show you the best version of the site.
• Your engagement with advertisements — we use cookies to understand what advertisements you have been shown, or clicked on, to bill our advertising partners, and to present you with advertisements that are more relevant to you.

• Your location — we use cookies to be able to display the version of the site that is most relevant to your location. For example, if you log in to foresightmedia.com from the US, you may be shown a US version of the site.

  If you wish to manage your cookies, please follow the instructions in the “How to manage cookies” section within our cookie policy.

Lawful basis for processing

We only process personal information where we have a lawful basis for doing so, such as the following:

• User consent — This is where you have given us explicit permission to process personal information  for a given purpose. For example, if you complete one of our general enquiry forms, we would ask for your consent if we wanted to use your personal information for any other purpose. You have the right to withdraw this consent at any time. You can manage your preferences within your account or by contacting customer services at customerhelp@foresightmedia.com.
• Legitimate business purposes — This is where we have a legitimate interest, as a business, to process personal information. For example, where we are aware of copyright infringements on our Site, it is in our legitimate interests as a business to identify those responsible. We take due care to balance our interests against your right to privacy.
• Contractual necessity — This is where we have to process personal information to meet our contractual obligations. For example, if you are a print subscriber, we would need to process your delivery address to fulfil your subscription.
• Legal obligation — This is where we have to process personal information in order to comply with the law. For example, we process and retain customer invoice information to comply with financial regulations.

How we use your personal information

We collect personal information for seven main reasons:

1. To provide our service — We require some of your basic personal information so our services work as you would expect, for example, delivering the print journal to your correct address, providing access to our digital content, notifying you of changes to our services and dealing with customer services queries. We may record customer calls for monitoring and training purposes.
2. To improve and maintain performance — In order to provide you with the best possible user experience, we need to make sure that our products and services work as they should. Using personal information helps us understand how our readers use our Sites so we can make improvements. This includes testing proposed developments on our Sites, reaching out to our customers with market research surveys and hosting subscriber focus groups.
3. To bill our customers — We, along with our authorised payments processors, securely process your payment information to take payments, give refunds and to detect and prevent fraudulent activity. We will also update your payment information in the event that a payment is unsuccessful. You can manage your payment information at any time by contacting customer services. If your subscription is provided by your employer or educational institution under a group subscription, we will report how active you are for the purposes of billing.
4. To monitor compliance with our policies and terms — We monitor for breaches of our terms of use and copyright policies. For example, we reserve the right to inform the subscription holder if, through use of a group subscription, you are using our content in breach of the terms of use or copyright policies of our Sites. We also monitor activity on our Sites to detect and prevent invalid or fraudulent traffic.
5. To personalise our products and services — We may improve your experience of our products and services by personalising parts of our Sites and apps with the information you give us and what we learn about you. This includes showing you articles you may be interested in and recommending emails you may wish to sign up to. Where our Sites have such functionality, you can manage elements of personalisation in your account.
6. To communicate product changes and offers — We want you to get the most out of our products and services, including showcasing our latest content and newsletters. We may contact you with carefully-curated FORESIGHT Climate & Energy offers and promotions, exclusive event invitations and feature announ cements. You are able to change your preferences at any time through your account or by contacting customer services. We also personalise our communications for strategic purposes. For example, we might offer group subscriptions to portfolio managers.
7. For the purpose of advertising — We rely on advertising revenue in part to support our award-winning journalism. We need to process your information to understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant personalised advertising. We may use the information you give us and the information we collect about you to serve you with the most appropriate advertisements. You can manage your advertising settings for the Sites that carry out this activity in your account or by contacting our customer service. 

Who we share your personal information with

We disclose personal information to facilitate the running of our business or to provide specific services you have requested. Commonly, we will disclose information to:

• Service providers — We engage service providers who help to support our business and improve our products. These service providers include, for example, fulfilment providers for delivery of our digital content and ma rketing; customer service agencies; hosts, organisers and sponsors of our events; organisations that host our Sites or databases; and providers of online surveys. We also work with a number of distribution partners to deliver subscriptions. W e have contracts in place with these data processors and they can only use your personal information under our instruction. For example, if you have a print subscription with us, we will disclose your information (address, contact details) to our distribution partners to facilitate delivery of the print journal.
• Advertisers — We, and our advertising partners, use cookies to collect personal information and serve you with advertisements that we believe are relevant to you and your interests. There is more specific information about our advertising partners and data sharing in our cookie policy.
• Institutional customers — If your subscription is provided by your employer or educational institution under a group subscription or trial, we may provide your employer or educational institution with information about your level of activity on the site for the purposes of billing. This information is provided at a high level and your employer cannot track exactly what articles you have rea d. We may also provide current or prospective institutional clients with activity information about individual subscribers who registered using that entity’s corporate email address. We will always contact individual subscribers before doing so, and will respect any requests not to share this information.
• Social media providers — Information will be shared with social media platforms where you log in to our Sites via a social media account, or use components on our Sites provided by social media platforms (e.g. the “Facebook Recommend” function). We also share the information of our subscribers with social media partners for the following reasons:
  • To prevent existing subscribers from being targeted with subscription offerings on social media platforms;
  • To create lookalike audiences for the purposes of targeted advertising on social media platforms
  • To encourage users to get the most out of their subscription.
• Other users — Our Sites are publicly accessible and anyone around the world who accesses our Sites will be able to see anything you post, such as comments about an article. We encourage you to use a pseudonym when commenting on our Sites if you do not wish to be identifiable to other readers.
• Legal processes and successors in title — We may also disclose your information to comply with applicable laws, court orders or other valid legal processes, and to enforce or apply our terms of use, any subscription agreement, or any of our other rights. We may transfer or disclose your personal information to any entity which takes over or acquires the relevant FORESIGHT Climate & Energy business. We also share aggregated, non-identifiable information with third parties. Before sharing this information, we ensure that it cannot identify you as an individual. For example, we regularly release information about the size and growth of our audiences.

How long we retain your personal information

We retain the majority of your personal information for as long as your account is active and therefore open; this allows you to continue accessing our content, products and services.

If you become inactive and are not a subscriber, we may delete elements of the information associated with your account. We will normally warn you if your access is going to be withdrawn and give you the opportunity to retain your account.

Where we don’t need to keep all of your information in full, we will obfuscate or aggregate it, for example, web activity logs and survey responses. This is to ensure that we do not retain your information for any longer than is necessary.

A summary of how long your personal information is retained can be found below:

It is sometimes necessary for us to keep your personal information for longer periods of time, for example:

• If there is a statutory requirement to retain it
• If we require the information for legal reasons or there is a legitimate business need for us to retain it
• To ensure we do not contact you if you have asked us not to.

Your rights

Under data protection laws, you have rights as an individual in relation to the personal data we hold about you. These rights include:

• The right to object to direct marketing — your pre ferences, including in relation to direct marketing, can be found in your account or by contacting customer services;
• The right to access the personal data that we process about you;
• The right to request the deletion of your personal data;
• The right to request the rectification of your personal data — you can manage some of this information in your account.

You can exercise these rights through your account or by contacting customer services via customerhelp@foresightmedia.com.

Where this privacy policy applies

Personal information is collected by FORESIGHT Climate & Energy on behalf of the publisher First Purple Publishing.

Our Sites are not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not intentionally collect or use any information from children.

Our Sites contain links to third party websites which are not subject to this privacy policy. We are not responsible for their content, use of personal information, or security practices.

If you have a query in regards to the processing of your personal information, please contact our data department directly at data@foresightmedia.com.

Data responsible and contact details

FORESIGHT Climate & Energy – C/O First Purple Publishing
Registered Office: C/O First Purple Publishing, Noerrebrogade 45C, 2200 Copenhagen V, Denmark
Registered Number /CVR: 33776403
data@foresightmedia.com. 

Changes to this privacy policy

This policy is effective from 24 May 2018.

Any changes we may make to this privacy policy will be posted on this page. If changes are significant, we may choose to notify you by email or to clearly indicate on our home page that the policy has been updated.

Cookie policy

FORESIGHT Climate & Energy uses cookies to keep our sites reliable, secure and personalised. When you accept cookies, this helps make the site better by remembering your preferences, customising content or ads, and enhancing your experience of our premium insight, news and analysis.

This cookie policy applies to all websites and web applications which link to this policy and are published by FORESIGHT Climate & Energy (“Sites”).

This policy should be read alongside our privacy policy, which explains how we use personal information.

If you have any queries about the way we use your personal information or cookies, please contact our data department at data@foresightmedia.com.

If you wish to manage your cookies, please follow the instructions in the “How to manage cookies” section below.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files which a website may place on your computer or device when you visit a site. The cookie will help the website, or another website, to recognise your device the next time you visit. Web beacons, pixels or other similar files can also do the same thing. We use the term “cookies” in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.

Cookies serve many functions. For example, they can help us to remember your username and preferences, analyse how well our Sites are performing, or allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.

The majority of websites use cookies to collect and retain personal information about their visitors. Most cookies collect general information, such as how visitors arrive at and use our Sites, the device they are using, their internet protocol address (IP address), what pages they are viewing and their approximate location (for example, we would be able to recognise that you are visiting our Sites from New York).

Purpose of cookies

We group our cookies into the below categories.

Operating our Sites

Some cookies are essential for the operation of our Sites. This includes cookies for the following purposes:

• Access — we use these cookies to identify subscribers and ensure access to subscription only pages, including premium access.
• Billing — if your subscription is provided by your employer or educational institution under a group subscription, we use cookies for the purposes of measuring activity and billing.
• Performance — we use these cookies to monitor Site performance. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to track error messages, and to determine improvements to our Sites.
• Functionality — we use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences. For example, we use functionality cookies to provide you with enhanced services, such as allowing you to watch a video online or comment on a blog.
• Analytics — we use cookies to help us understand our audience and the success of advertising campaigns. For example, we count articles views to present ‘Most Read’ content. We also use analytics cookies to keep track of how many advertising impressions have been served for a campaign and to manage the frequency at which you see the same adverts.
• Fraud prevention — we use cookies to monitor and prevent suspicious activity and fraudulent traffic

Personalisation

We use cookies to improve your experience of our products by personalising our Sites. For example, we help you to find new content and recommend email alerts based on the topics you read. Where our Sites have such functionality, you can manage elements of personalisation in your account.

Advertising

We may use cookies to serve you with advertisements that we believe are relevant to you and your interests. You may see these advertisements on our Si tes and on other sites that you visit. For example, if you read a number of articles on electric cars, you may see more car advertisements as we have inferred that you are interested in this topic. You may also see advertisements for our products and services on other websites if you have previously visited our Sites.

For our Sites that offer behaviourally or demographically targeted advertising, you will have the opportunity to turn this off in your account or by contacting customer services.

Third party cookies on our Sites

We also use third party cookies on our Sites that fall into the categories above (“third party cookies”) for the following reasons:

• to help us monitor traffic on our Sites (like many companies, we use Google Analytics to do this);
• to identify fraudulent or non-human traffic
• to assist with market research
• to improve Site functionality
• to monitor compliance with our terms and conditions and copyright policy.

We may also use third party cookies for the purpose of programmatic advertising. This is where we might sell digital advertising space through the use of automated technology via the following select partners:

• Google Doubleclick (AdX)

• TrustX (US readers only)

• Smart Ad server

These third party cookies are used within programmatic for measurement and attribution, and management of frequency. They may also be used for personalisation of advertisements based on data you have shared with third parties, to the extent that you have consented to this.

Advertisers sometimes use their own cookies to measure performance and to identify fraudulent or non-human traffic. To the extent that you have given them your consent to do so, advertisers may also provide you with targeted advertising based on their data. For example, advertisers may use a profile they have built either on their own site or on sites that you have previously visited to present you with more relevant advertisements during your visit to foresightmedia.com.  

Our standard advertising terms and conditions do not permit our advertisers to drop their own cookies for profiling or retargeting without your consent.

Use of pixels in emails

Our emails often contain a single, campaign-unique “web beacon pixel” to tell us whether, and how many times, our emails are opened and verify any clicks through to links or advertisements within the email. We use this information for purposes including:

• Determining which of our emails are more interesting to users
• Determining users’ activity and engagement with our products and services
• Informing our advertisers (in aggregate) how many users have clicked on their advertisements.

The pixel will be deleted when you delete the email. If you do not wish the pixel to be downloaded to your device, you should select to receive emails from us in plain text rather than HTML via your email provider settings.

How to manage cookies

If you wish to manage your cookies, then please follow the instructions below. Please remember that if you choose to disable cookies, certain sections of our Sites may not work properly.

On some of our Sites, we work with a data management platform called Google ad platform. You can opt out of behaviourally targeted advertising cookies on foresightmedia.com by going to:

www.google.com/settings/ads

We may also allow third parties to target you based on data you have provided to them, to the extent that you have consented to this. For more information, please visit:

To opt out, please visit:

www.aboutads.info/choices for US

By opting out of these types of cookies on each browser and device you use, you will stop receiving advertisements that are targeted specifically to you on our Sites; however you will still see the same number of advertisements, which may include “contextual” advertisements that are not targeted based on your personal information.

You can also manage your cookies via your browser settings. For more information, please visit your browser’s help page. Here are guides for some of the most popular browsers:

• How to delete cookies in Microsoft Internet Explorer
• How to delete cookies in Mozilla Firefox browser
• How to delete cookies in Google Chrome browser

More information

Further information about our data processing can be found in our privacy policy. If you have any queries regarding this Cookie Policy, please contact our data department at data@foresightmedia.com.

Changes to this cookie policy

This policy is effective from 24 May 2018.

Any changes we may make to this cookie policy will be posted on this page. If changes are significant, we may choose to notify you by email or to clearly indicate on our home page that the policy has been updated.

Terms of use

By accessing the website at www.foresightmedia.com (“the Site”) or by otherwise accessing any content found on the Site or by using any digital application edition of FORESIGHT Climate & Energy (“FORESIGHT”), you are entering into an agreement with FORESIGHT and agree to the terms that follow (the “Terms”). The Site is owned and operated by FORESIGHT.

In order to ensure that both we and our customers are properly equipped to meet the demands of the latest EU personal data regulation (GDPR), we have integrated these demands into our Legal & privacy section.

Intellectual property

The contents and design of the Site, any Digital Application and any material e-mailed to you or otherwise supplied to you in conjunction with the Site and/or a Digital Application (such contents, design and materials being collectively referred to as “FORESIGHT Content”), is copyright of FORESIGHT and its licensors. You may not use or reproduce or allow anyone to use or reproduce any trade marks (such as the “FORESIGHT” name and logo or other trade names appearing on the Site or any Digital Application) for any reason without written permission from FORESIGHT. The software that operates the Site and all Digital Applications is proprietary software and you may not use it except as expressly allowed under these Terms. You may not copy, reverse engineer, modify or otherwise deal with the software.

Use of FORESIGHT content

All FORESIGHT content is strictly for personal, non-commercial use only.

You may retrieve and display FORESIGHT Content from the Site on a computer screen or mobile device, print individual pages on paper (but not photocopy them) and store such pages in electronic form on your computer or mobile device for your personal, non-commercial use. You may use Digital Applications only on devices for which they were intended, for your personal, non-commercial use and on no more than five separate devices. Except as expressly permitted above, you may not reproduce, modify or in any way commercially exploit any FORESIGHT Content. In particular, but without limiting the general application of the restrictions in the previous sentence, you may not do any of the following without prior written permission from FORESIGHT:

• reproduce or store in or transmit to any other website, newsgroup, mailing list, electronic bulletin board, server or other storage device connected to a network or regularly or systematically store in electronic or print form, all or any part of FORESIGHT Content; or
• modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit all or any part of FORESIGHT Content (including as part of any library, archive or similar service) without the prior written consent of FORESIGHT; or
• remove the copyright or trade mark notice from any copies of FORESIGHT Content made under these Terms.

Any use of FORESIGHT Content not specifically permitted above is expressly prohibited.

Registration, passwords and responsibilities
You are responsible for keeping your information and passwords up to date and confidential.

Certain areas or features of the Site and/or Digital Applications may only be open to registered users. You are solely responsible for the confidentiality and use of and access to FORESIGHT Content and the Site and/or Digital Applications using your user name and/or password. You agree to immediately notify FORESIGHT if you become aware of the loss, theft or unauthorised use of any password, user ID or e-mail address or of any FORESIGHT Content. You will provide FORESIGHT with accurate, complete registration information and inform FORESIGHT of any changes to such information. For the purpose of confirming your compliance with these Terms, FORESIGHT reserves the right to monitor and record activity on the Site and Digital Applications, including access to FORESIGHT Content.

Each registration and subscription is for the personal use of the registered user or subscriber only. You may not share your log-in details or password with any other person. You may not share or transfer your subscription.

Subscription and cancellation

Subscriptions

FORESIGHT offers different types of subscriptions (“Subscriptions”) including access to Digital Applications and the Site (“Digital Subscriptions”) and print and digital bundles. FORESIGHT reserves the right to vary the amount of content and types of service that it makes available to different categories of users at any time.

FORESIGHT will try to process your Subscription promptly but does not guarantee that your Subscription will be activated by any specified time. By submitting your payment and other subscription details, you are making an offer to us to buy a Subscription. Your offer will only be accepted by us when we have successfully verified your payment and contact details.

Renewal

Unless specifically stated in any Subscription offer when you place your Subscription order with us, if you choose an auto-renew payment option, including direct debit, you agree that at the end of the initial subscription period (and of each renewal period thereafter), your Subscription will automatically renew for the same subscription period at the then prevailing renewal rate, which may be changed from time to time. If you do not choose an auto-renew payment option, we will contact you at the end of the initial subscription period with an offer to renew your subscription at the then prevailing renewal rate, which may be changed from time to time. You may cancel your Subscription at any time as set out below.

Subsequent term will automatically continue at €499.

Cancellation

Unless specifically stated in any Subscription offer when you place your Subscription order, you have the right to cancel your Subscription at any time. 

How to cancel

You may notify us of your wish to cancel your subscription by contacting our customer service centre email customerhelp@foresightmedia.com. When cancelling your subscription with us, please have the following information ready: 

• Which subscription pack you would like to cancel
• Your name and address

Can I get a refund if I cancel?

If you cancel within 14 days of the start of your subscription, we will refund any payments received from you using the same method of payment that you used to purchase your subscription.  You will not be entitled to a refund of your initial payment if you cancel after the first 14 days of the start of your subscription.

Anything else I should know?

If you would like to cancel and it has been more than 14 days since the start of your subscription, you can do so by following the cancellation instructions above, however you must contact us at least 15 days before your next billing date, otherwise you will be required to make your next bill payment and your subscription will continue until the end of the next billing period. 

If you would like to cancel within 14 days of the start of your subscription, you may email customerhelp@foresightmedia.com from your registered email address, telling us you’d like to cancel or including the completed form below and we will contact you regarding your request. These additional cancellation options are only available to subscribers who would like to cancel within 14 days of their subscription start date.

• To: Customer services, FORESIGHT
• Tel no:
• I hereby give notice that I cancel my Subscription contract
• Purchased on: [insert date of Subscription]
• Customer Reference Number: [insert your Customer reference number]
• Your full name:
• Your address:
• Date:
• Reason for cancelling (optional):

Please note that if you cancel your subscription within the first 14 days, your access to our services will stop and you will be required to forfeit any subscription benefits that you have received, including sign-up offers, vouchers or any other benefits connected to your subscription. If you have any questions about what cancelling your subscription means for you, please contact us at customerhelp@foresightmedia.com.

Force majeure

FORESIGHT will not be held responsible for circumstances beyond its control.

FORESIGHT, its affiliates and its information providers will not be liable or deemed to be in default for any delay or failure in performance or interruption of the delivery of FORESIGHT Content that may result directly or indirectly from any cause or circumstance beyond its or their reasonable control, including but not limited to failure of electronic or mechanical equipment or communication lines, telephone or other interconnect problems, computer viruses, unauthorised access, theft, operator errors, severe weather, earthquakes or natural disasters, strikes or other labour problems, wars, or governmental restrictions.