Privacy notice

Who we are

GreenRose (greenrose.news) is published by Vakarėlio dvasia, MB, company code 305154208, Kalvarijų g. 57B-30, LT-09317 Vilnius, Lithuania. We are the controller of the personal data described here. For anything about your data, write to editor@greenrose.news.

What we collect and why

Visiting the website. When you open a page, our hosting provider processes your IP address and basic technical data (browser, time, page requested) so the page can be delivered and the site protected against attacks. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in running a secure website (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)). This site sets no cookies of its own, uses no analytics or advertising trackers, and loads its fonts from our own server.

Newsletter. When you subscribe, we keep your email address, the date you signed up, and basic delivery data (whether an email was delivered, opened or clicked). We use this only to send you GreenRose and to keep the list working. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)). You can unsubscribe at any time with the link in every email; this does not affect anything we did before you withdrew consent.

Messages to us. If you email us, for example with a tip, a complaint, a correction request or a reply to a request for comment, we keep your message and contact details to answer it and to keep a record of corrections and complaints. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering readers and keeping accurate records (Art. 6(1)(f)).

We do not sell your data, and we do not use it for advertising.

Who processes it for us

• Cloudflare, Inc. (USA) hosts this website and protects it. It acts as our processor under its data processing agreement. Transfers to the USA rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
• beehiiv, Inc. (USA) sends the newsletter and holds the subscriber list. It acts as our processor under a data processing agreement. Transfers to the USA are covered by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
• Zoho provides our email.

How long we keep it

• Website technical data: only as long as the hosting provider needs it to deliver and protect the site; we do not keep visitor logs ourselves.
• Newsletter data: while you are subscribed. After you unsubscribe, we keep only your email address on a suppression list so that you are not emailed again.
• Messages: as long as needed to deal with them, and up to 3 years for records of corrections and complaints.

Your rights

You have the right to access, correct or delete your data, to restrict or object to its use, to receive it in a portable format, and to withdraw consent at any time. To use any of these rights, email editor@greenrose.news. We answer within one month.

If you think we have handled your data wrongly, you can complain to the State Data Protection Inspectorate (Valstybinė duomenų apsaugos inspekcija), L. Sapiegos g. 17, LT-10312 Vilnius, vdai.lrv.lt.

Our journalism

When we report, we may handle personal data about people in the news. This is done for journalistic purposes under GDPR Art. 85 and Lithuanian law, which limit some of the rights above where they would conflict with freedom of expression and information. Anyone we write about can still contact us to request a correction or a reply; see our corrections policy and contact page.

Social media

We have pages on X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn, Bluesky and YouTube. When you use them, the platform’s own privacy policy applies.

Changes

If we change this notice, we update the date at the top of this page.