Privacy Policy

Last updated: 20 July 2026

NewsRU.ie («NewsRU.ie», «we», «us», or «our») respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.

This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, and shared when you visit NewsRU.ie, interact with our content, contact us, or use services available through our website.

NewsRU.ie is an Ireland-focused online news and information publication serving Russian-speaking readers in Ireland and other users interested in news, events, business, politics, property, lifestyle, and current affairs.

This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Cookie Policy and any cookie or privacy settings made available through our consent management platform.

1. Information We May Collect

Depending on how you use NewsRU.ie, we may collect or process the following categories of information.

Information you provide directly

You may provide personal information when you:

• contact us by email or through a contact form;
• submit information, feedback, or an enquiry;
• subscribe to a newsletter or other service, where available;
• participate in surveys, competitions, promotions, or similar activities.

This information may include your name, email address, and any other information you voluntarily provide.

Information collected automatically

When you visit NewsRU.ie, we and our technology partners may automatically collect certain technical and usage information, including:

• IP address;
• browser type and version;
• device type and operating system;
• approximate geographic location derived from an IP address;
• pages viewed and content interactions;
• referring and exit pages;
• date and time of visits;
• advertising identifiers and cookie identifiers;
• information about interactions with advertisements;
• consent and privacy preference signals.

Some of this information may constitute personal data under applicable data protection law.

2. How We Use Information

We may process information for purposes including:

• operating, maintaining, and securing NewsRU.ie;
• delivering news, articles, and other website functionality;
• understanding how visitors use our website;
• measuring website traffic and audience engagement;
• improving our content and user experience;
• measuring the performance of content and advertising;
• displaying contextual or personalised advertising, where permitted and where the required consent has been obtained;
• limiting the frequency with which advertisements are displayed;
• preventing fraud, abuse, invalid advertising traffic, and security threats;
• responding to enquiries and communications;
• complying with legal and regulatory obligations.

3. Advertising and Monetisation

NewsRU.ie is primarily supported by advertising.

We may work with third-party advertising, monetisation, recommendation, analytics, and technology providers that may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, device identifiers, IP addresses, and similar technologies.

These technologies may be used to:

• deliver advertisements;
• select contextual or personalised advertisements;
• provide content recommendations;
• measure advertising performance;
• measure reach and frequency;
• understand interactions with advertisements and content;
• prevent advertising fraud and invalid traffic;
• create aggregated reporting and analytics.

Depending on your location, personalised advertising and certain tracking technologies will only be used where we or our partners have obtained the consent required by applicable law.

If you do not consent to personalised advertising, you may still see advertisements. Those advertisements may be non-personalised or contextual and may be selected based on factors such as the content you are viewing, your general location, or other limited contextual information.

4. Google Advertising Services

NewsRU.ie may use advertising and monetisation services provided by Google, including services such as Google Ad Manager, Google AdSense, Google Ad Exchange (AdX), and related Google advertising technologies.

Google and advertising partners operating through Google’s advertising services may use cookies, device identifiers, IP addresses, and other technologies to deliver, measure, personalise, and protect advertising, subject to applicable law and your consent choices.

Depending on your consent and applicable law, these technologies may be used for purposes including:

• storing or accessing information on a device;
• selecting basic or personalised advertisements;
• creating or using profiles for personalised advertising;
• measuring advertising performance;
• understanding audiences;
• developing and improving services;
• preventing fraud and ensuring security.

Where required, NewsRU.ie uses a consent management mechanism to allow users to make choices regarding cookies, personal data processing, and personalised advertising.

More information about how Google uses information from websites and apps that use its services is available in Google’s privacy and advertising documentation.

5. Taboola

NewsRU.ie may use services provided by Taboola and its affiliated companies to display advertising, sponsored content, and personalised or contextual content recommendations.

When Taboola services are available on NewsRU.ie, Taboola may process certain information relating to your device and your interaction with our website and the Taboola network.

Depending on applicable law and your consent choices, this may include information such as:

• cookie and advertising identifiers;
• IP address;
• device and browser information;
• interactions with content and advertisements;
• browsing activity associated with Taboola services;
• approximate location information.

Taboola may use this information to provide content recommendations, advertising, measurement, analytics, fraud prevention, and related services.

Where consent is legally required for such processing, relevant technologies will be subject to the consent choices provided through our consent management platform.

Users can find further information about Taboola’s data practices and privacy choices in Taboola’s Privacy Policy.

6. Other Advertising and Technology Partners

In addition to Google and Taboola, NewsRU.ie may work with other advertising technology providers, demand partners, supply-side platforms, analytics providers, content recommendation services, and programmatic advertising partners.

The specific providers used may change over time as we optimise our advertising and technology infrastructure.

Where required by applicable law and advertising industry frameworks, information about participating advertising technology providers and their processing purposes may be made available through our Consent Management Platform (CMP).

Your consent choices made through the CMP apply according to the purposes, features, and vendors presented within that interface.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

NewsRU.ie and our partners may use cookies and similar technologies.

These may include:

Strictly necessary cookies

These technologies are required for essential website functionality, security, network management, consent management, or other services specifically requested by the user.

Where permitted by law, these technologies may operate without consent.

Analytics cookies

These technologies help us understand how visitors use NewsRU.ie, which pages are popular, how users navigate the website, and how we can improve our services.

Where required by applicable law, analytics cookies will only be activated after consent.

Advertising cookies

Advertising technologies may be used to deliver advertisements, measure advertising performance, control advertising frequency, prevent fraud, and, where you have consented, personalise advertising.

Personalisation and recommendation technologies

These technologies may be used by us or our partners to recommend content or advertisements based on interests or previous interactions, where permitted by law.

You can manage your choices through the cookie consent banner or the Privacy and Cookie Settings option available on NewsRU.ie.

You may withdraw or change your consent at any time through those settings. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

8. Consent Management

For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), and where applicable in other jurisdictions, NewsRU.ie may use a Consent Management Platform (CMP) to collect and communicate privacy choices.

The CMP may allow you to:

• accept or reject non-essential cookies;
• choose whether your personal data may be used for personalised advertising;
• review advertising and technology vendors;
• manage individual processing purposes;
• change or withdraw consent.

Where applicable, consent signals may be communicated to participating advertising technology providers through recognised industry frameworks, including the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF).

Your choices can be changed at any time by accessing Privacy and Cookie Settings on NewsRU.ie.

9. Legal Bases for Processing

Where the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies, we process personal data only where we have an appropriate legal basis.

Depending on the circumstances, these legal bases may include:

Consent — for example, where consent is required for advertising cookies, personalised advertising, analytics technologies, or similar processing.

Legitimate interests — where processing is necessary for our legitimate business interests or those of a third party, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms. This may include certain website security, fraud prevention, service improvement, and limited operational activities.

Contractual necessity — where processing is necessary to provide a service you have requested or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.

Legal obligation — where processing is necessary for us to comply with applicable law or regulatory requirements.

The legal basis applicable to individual advertising technology vendors may vary depending on the processing purpose and your privacy choices.

10. Sharing of Information

We may share or make information available to third parties where necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

These may include:

• advertising and monetisation partners;
• analytics providers;
• hosting and infrastructure providers;
• security and fraud-prevention providers;
• consent management providers;
• content recommendation platforms;
• professional advisers and service providers;
• regulators, courts, law enforcement authorities, or other parties where required by law.

Advertising technology providers may act as independent controllers, joint controllers, or processors depending on the circumstances and the specific processing activity.

We do not sell personal information in the ordinary meaning of selling personal details such as your name or email address for money.

However, certain privacy laws may define terms such as «sale», «sharing», or «targeted advertising» more broadly. Where such laws apply, we provide any privacy choices required by those laws.

11. International Data Transfers

Some of our service providers and advertising partners may process personal data outside Ireland or the European Economic Area.

Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA, appropriate safeguards will be used where required by law.

These may include:

• European Commission adequacy decisions;
• Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission;
• the EU-US Data Privacy Framework where applicable;
• other legally recognised transfer mechanisms.

12. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including legal, regulatory, accounting, security, and operational requirements.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the service provider involved.

Third-party advertising and technology providers may maintain their own data retention periods as described in their respective privacy policies.

13. Your Rights Under GDPR

If the GDPR applies to you, you may have the right to:

• request access to your personal data;
• request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data;
• request deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances;
• request restriction of processing;
• object to certain processing based on legitimate interests;
• object to direct marketing;
• request data portability where applicable;
• withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent;
• lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

These rights are subject to applicable legal conditions and exceptions.

If you are in Ireland, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Commission (DPC), Ireland’s supervisory authority for data protection.

14. Children’s Privacy

NewsRU.ie is a general-audience news and information website and is not intended specifically for children.

We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information directly from children through our website without an appropriate legal basis or consent where required.

Advertising and technology providers may apply additional restrictions to the processing of data relating to users who are known or reasonably believed to be children.

15. External Links

NewsRU.ie articles may contain links to third-party websites, social networks, advertisers, or other external services.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of third-party websites.

When you leave NewsRU.ie, you should review the privacy policies of the websites or services you visit.

16. Social Media

NewsRU.ie may maintain profiles and distribute content through third-party social media platforms.

If you interact with NewsRU.ie through a social media platform, the platform may process information about you under its own privacy policy.

NewsRU.ie does not control the data processing practices of those platforms.

17. Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect information under our control against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no method of transmitting or storing information online can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

18. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect:

• changes to our services;
• changes to advertising or technology partners;
• changes in applicable laws or regulatory guidance;
• changes to our data processing practices.

The latest version will always be published on this page with an updated «Last updated» date.

We encourage users to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

19. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, how personal data is processed in connection with NewsRU.ie, or if you wish to exercise your data protection rights, please contact us:

Email: legal@contenta.ai

Postal address:
Contenta AI LTD, Calder & Co, 30 Orange Street, London, United Kingdom, WC2H 7HF

Website: NewsRU.ie

For data protection complaints, individuals in Ireland also have the right to contact the Data Protection Commission (DPC), Ireland’s independent supervisory authority for data protection.

Who we are

Suggested text: Our website address is: https://newsru.ie.

Comments

Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

Suggested text: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are 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.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select «Remember Me», your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Suggested text: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

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

Who we share your data with

Suggested text: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.