Newsletter Subscribe

How AI sees humanity: where are we heading, and are we doing it well?

Privacy policy

Last updated: 16 October 2026.

This policy explains what personal data Vocemundi (vocemundi.com) collects, why, and what rights you have. The data controller is Vocemundi Ltd (registered in England and Wales, No. 17524182; registered office: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom; registered with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office as a data controller, registration No. ZC276148). Contact: [email protected].

What we collect

  • Reading the site: we measure audience with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which does not use cookies and does not identify individual readers. It records aggregated data such as pages viewed, country, device type and referring site.
  • Newsletter and membership: if you subscribe, we store your email address (and your name, if you give it) to send you the newsletter and let you comment. You can unsubscribe at any time from any email or your account.
  • Comments: if you comment, your comment and display name are published. Comments may be checked by automated filters for spam and abuse.
  • Emails you send us: we keep your message and address to answer you and, for corrections and tips, to follow up.
  • Questions you send us (Ask the world): we store your question, its language and the country you choose to give. Your email is optional and is used only to tell you when we answer that question; it is deleted right after we notify you or after 90 days, whichever comes first. To limit abuse we keep a one-way hash of your IP address (never the address itself) for up to 90 days. The anti-spam check is Cloudflare Turnstile. If we answer your question we may quote it in the story, never with your name or email.

What we do not do

We do not sell personal data. We do not build advertising profiles of our readers. We do not use tracking cookies for analytics.

Some pages and newsletters may include partner (affiliate) links, always labelled "Partner link". If you click one, the partner or its affiliate network may record that your visit came from Vocemundi, so that a commission can be attributed to us if you buy something. That recording happens on the partner's site, under its own privacy policy, only after you click. Vocemundi does not place third-party tracking on its own pages and receives no personal data about you from partners, only aggregated figures. Partners have no influence on our coverage.

Reader line and WhatsApp

If you call our reader line or write to us on WhatsApp (+44 7401 095574), Vera, our AI assistant, answers. To do so we process your phone number, your message or a recording and transcript of the call, through our providers Twilio and ElevenLabs (phone) and Meta (WhatsApp). We use them only to answer you and to pass your message to the newsroom, and we delete them after 12 months unless a correction or complaint requires keeping them longer.

Service providers

Our site is served through Cloudflare (security, delivery and analytics). Newsletters are sent through an email delivery provider. These providers process data only on our behalf. If we enable advertising (for example Google AdSense), the advertising provider may use cookies; in that case we will ask for your consent where the law requires it and update this policy before doing so.

How long we keep data

Subscriber data is kept while your subscription is active and deleted after you unsubscribe, except where the law requires otherwise. Emails are kept for as long as needed to handle your request.

Your rights

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data, and object to its processing, by writing to [email protected]. These rights are recognised by the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 and, for readers in the European Union, by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You may also lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) or, in the EU, with your data protection authority.

Changes

We will publish any change to this policy on this page, with its date.