Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 29, 2026

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") explains how Quincy News, LLC ("Quincy News", "we", "us" or "our") collects, stores, uses, and discloses personal data about you, how we use it, how and when it may be shared, the rights and choices you have with respect to your personal data, how we communicate with you and how you can make requests or submit inquiries to us about your personal data.

1. About Us

Quincy News is a global financial newswire serving subscribers across major markets.

2. What Does This Policy Cover

This Policy applies to personal data we collect both online and offline, including personal data we collect through our website, quincy.news and any successor site (the "Site"), in connection with any of our mobile applications and other products and services we provide you that reference this Policy (together with the Site, the "Services"), and any other interactions you may have with us including at or through conferences, events, visits to our offices, electronic newsletters or communications.

In this Policy, "personal data" means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with or reasonably can be used to identify an individual or household and other data that is linked to personal data or is otherwise defined as "personal data," "personal information," or "personally identifiable information" by applicable laws.

This Policy governs Quincy News's collection and use of your information in connection with the Services, including when you access third-party content available through the Services. It does not apply to data collected directly by third parties through their own tracking mechanisms embedded in such content, or to the practices of third-party websites that you access through links in the Service. Those third parties' collection and use of your information is governed by their own privacy policies.

3. How Is This Policy Updated

We may modify this Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will revise the "Last Updated" date at the top of the Policy on our Site and use reasonable efforts to provide you additional notification, such as by sending you an email notification. We encourage you to review this Policy each time you visit our Site or use our Services to stay informed of our privacy practices and the choices available to you.

4. Information We Collect

The personal data we collect about you depends on how you interact with us or use our Services. We describe below the categories of personal data we collect and the sources of this information.

4.1. Information You Provide to Us

We collect personal data from you when you use our Services, including purchasing a subscription, accessing our customer portal, sending us an email, filling out a form, responding to a survey or job posting, interacting with us on social media, or otherwise communicating with us.

Types of personal data we may collect include:

• Contact information such as your first and last name, job title, email address, telephone number, and mailing address;
• Government-issued identification such as social security number, driver's license, or state-issued identification number;
• Job application and employment information such as employment history, medical, health and disability information, passport information, and emergency contact information;
• Basic information such as the company you work for;
• General location information such as city and state of access location and county of residence;
• Subscription information such as the plan(s) you purchase, usage information you provide during checkout, and subscription status;
• Financial information such as your income, assets, liabilities, or other financial account details;
• Communications with us including through meetings with our representatives, visits to our offices, presentations by us, website forms, and contact with our service;
• Social and community content such as posts, photos, videos, or audio files that you may provide through our social media pages and our community pages; and
• Any additional information that you choose to provide.

Payment information. All subscription payment processing is handled by Stripe, Inc. ("Stripe"). Payment information you provide is transmitted directly to and processed by Stripe, which also provides risk evaluation and identity verification services. We do not store full payment card numbers on our systems.

In some cases, we may also collect information you provide about others. We will use this information to fulfill your requests and will not send communications to your contacts unrelated to your requests unless they separately create an account, engage with us or consent to receive communications from us.

4.2. Information Collected Automatically When You Interact With Us

We and our service providers may automatically log personal data about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with the Services, such as:

• Device information. We may collect information about your device(s) such as Internet Protocol ("IP") addresses, browser type and version, domain names, access times, log information, error messages, device type, unique device identifiers, operating system, information about your use of the Site, data regarding network connected hardware and other technical information such as protocol status and sub-status, bytes sent and received and server information.
• Transaction information. We may collect information when you conduct transactions through our Site or otherwise purchase Services from us.
• Authentication information. We may collect your IP address and user-agent when you provide us with your email address to request access to the Services.
• API key and credential information. We may collect your API key name, token prefix, creation time, revocation time, and last-used time.
• Pseudonymous identifiers. We may collect pseudonymous identifiers such as unique cookie and device identifiers, mobile device identifiers, other identifiers derived from email address, or phone numbers, or your device information.
• Usage data. In connection with your use of the Service, we collect operational data including but not limited to access logs, feature engagement, query patterns, performance metrics, and session frequency ("Usage Data"). Usage Data is used to operate, maintain, and improve the Service, monitor compliance, fulfill third-party obligations, and verify license compliance. We do not disclose Usage Data to third parties except: (a) in aggregated or anonymized form that cannot reasonably identify you; (b) to third parties as required by applicable provider terms; or (c) to our affiliates and service providers who need access to provide or improve the Service, subject to confidentiality obligations.
• Information collected by cookies and other tracking technologies. Please see our cookie policy in the section "Cookies and Other Information Collection Tools" for more details.
• Marketing and preferences information. We may collect information about your preferences for receiving communications from us, your responses to surveys, promotions, or offers, and your interactions with our marketing materials.
• Geolocation information. We may automatically collect approximate or precise location data from your device or IP address, depending on your device and app settings.
• Log and diagnostic information. We may automatically collect technical logs and diagnostic data, such as error reports, crash dumps, performance data, and information about how the Services are functioning.
• Security data. We may collect information such as error logs, authentication data, and information used by our payment processors to detect and prevent fraud.

4.3. Information We Collect From Other Sources

We may also collect personal data about you from other sources, including publicly available databases, and combine that with information we collect through the Services. For example, we may use cookies, tracking pixels or similar technologies to conduct analytics of our Site. We may also receive information from service providers about your purchase and subscription status, such as confirmation that a payment succeeded or failed, and identifiers associated with your customer account and subscription, such as your payment card's brand and last four digits.

We may use information from LinkedIn to update information about you in our contact database. In addition, as part of our due diligence practices, we may collect personal data about you from records databases, including civil and criminal court records, government sanctions lists, business filings, and public media articles.

4.4. Information We Infer or Derive

We may derive information or draw inferences about you based on the personal data we collect or have otherwise received about you. For example, we may infer your approximate location based on your IP address, or that you are interested in participating in an event based on your browsing behavior on our Site.

5. How We Use Your Personal Data

Depending on how you interact with us and the Services you or your organization utilize, we use your personal data:

• Provide and improve products and services. To provide, activate, operate, maintain, develop, enhance, improve, support, troubleshoot, and manage our Services and your accounts on our Services, monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities, and to perform services requested by you;
• Respond to you. To provide Services support and respond to your requests, inquiries, comments and concerns;
• Provide service communications. Notify you about changes, updates, billing notices, and other announcements related to our Services and send you technical notices, updates, or security alerts;
• Manage subscriptions. To create and manage subscriptions you purchase, send receipts and invoices, and provide access to billing management features;
• Issue and manage API credentials. Generate, display, rotate, revoke, and monitor API keys and related usage to provide access to our real-time services;
• Personalize your experience. To customize our product offerings and present you with tailored content and recommendations;
• Employment purposes. To communicate with you about job postings and other opportunities that may interest you, assess job applications, and make hiring decisions;
• Events and offers. To facilitate events, contests, promotions and sweepstakes, and process and deliver entries, rewards, and prizes;
• Safety and security. For safety and security, including to detect and protect against fraud or illegal activities, security incidents, and harm to rights, property or safety of Quincy News, users of our Services or others;
• Advertising and marketing. To provide you with advertising, promotional messages and other information about products, events and services of ours, our affiliates and third parties;
• Research and development. To conduct research and development and develop new products and services;
• Corporate transactions. To process personal data in the context of a merger, consolidation, reorganization, sale of our assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company, or other corporate transactions;
• Comply with legal and financial obligations. To comply with our legal and financial obligations (including complying with court orders, discovery requests, subpoenas and other legal obligations), resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and exercise our legal rights;
• Maintain legally required records. Where required by applicable law;
• Your consent. To process your personal data in accordance with your consent or when you intentionally direct or instruct us to do so; and
• Other notified purposes. To carry out any other purpose conveyed to you at the time the information was collected.

6. Disclosure of Personal Data

We may disclose your personal data as follows or as otherwise described in this Policy:

• Affiliates and subsidiaries. We disclose your personal data to our affiliates and other organizations under common control for the purposes described in this Policy;
• Third parties you intentionally interact with. We disclose your personal data to third parties when you use our Services to intentionally interact with those third parties or direct us to interact with those third parties;
• Vendors and service providers. We disclose your personal data to our vendors and service providers to perform the functions for which we engage them, such as email providers, payment processors, cloud hosting, analytics, customer support, and security providers;
• Corporate transactions. We disclose your personal data as part of, in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of our assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company, or other corporate transactions;
• Analytics providers. We disclose personal data to our analytics partners, such as Fathom Analytics;
• Professional advisors. We disclose your personal data to our professional advisors like our lawyers, accountants, financial, insurance and other advisors in connection with the management of all or a part of our business or operations;
• Aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified. We disclose aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you;
• Law enforcement and individuals involved in legal proceedings. We disclose your personal data when we believe doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law or legal process or other legal reasons;
• With your consent or direction. We disclose personal data with your consent or at your direction.

7. How We Protect Your Personal Data

We implement commercially reasonable physical, technical and procedural measures to help protect personal data from unauthorized access or use; however, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure or private. If you have questions about the security of personal data we collect, please contact us using the information provided below.

8. Cookies and Other Information Collection Tools

What are cookies? A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website or use an online service. When you visit the website or use the online service again, the cookie allows that website or online service to recognize your browser or device. Cookies may store unique identifiers, user preferences and other information.

The type of cookies we may use include:

• Necessary cookies. These cookies are strictly necessary to make our Services function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the Site.
• Functional cookies. Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the Site on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
• Performance cookies. Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the Site which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
• Analytics cookies. Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the Site. These cookies help provide information on metrics, the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
• Advertisement cookies. Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
• Duration of cookies. We may use "session cookies" or "persistent cookies." Session cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser or once your session ends. Persistent cookies remain on your device for much longer or until you or your browser erases them.

Why do we use them? We and our business partners use cookies to collect information about you so we can provide the experiences you request, recognize your visit, track your interactions, improve your experience and detect and prevent fraud. We may use cookies provided by third-party partners such as analytics providers, customer relationship management platforms, or payment processors.

How do I control cookies? You can limit online tracking by blocking cookies in your browser, using privacy plug-ins or browsers, using advertising industry opt-out tools, or using platform opt-outs. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies, including cookies used for interest-based advertising.

Note that because these opt-out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use.

Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers can be configured to send "Do Not Track" signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to "Do Not Track" or similar signals. To find out more about "Do Not Track," please visit allaboutdnt.com.

Where required by applicable law, we obtain your consent prior to placing or using optional cookies that are not (i) strictly necessary to provide the Site or the Services e.g., necessary cookies; or (ii) for the purpose of facilitating a communication. Where we rely on your consent to place optional cookies, we store your consent preference using a persistent cookie on your device, valid for up to 12 months, so that you are not asked to repeat your choice on each visit. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you will be asked for your consent earlier if you change devices or browser, or you travel to another country. You may change or withdraw your consent preferences at any time by clicking the 'Cookie Settings' link in the footer of our website. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

9. Social Media and Other Third-Party Provider Links and Services

Third-party content in the Service. The Service may display or load content sourced from third-parties, including news wires, social media platforms, financial data sources, and other content partners. When such content loads in your browser, those third parties may independently collect data about your device and interaction with their content, including through cookies, pixels, and similar tracking technologies. This collection is governed by each provider's own privacy policy, not this Policy or our cookie consent mechanism. We apply standard referrer controls (such as rel="noopener noreferrer") to outbound links; however, some providers may still receive limited information such as your IP address or browser details through their embeds or redirect mechanisms, and we cannot guarantee the absence of tracking, fingerprinting, or other data collection by third parties.

Third-party partners. Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party services in our Services or links to other websites. The privacy practices of these third-parties will be governed by the parties' own privacy notices. We are not responsible for the security or privacy of any information collected by these third parties. You should review the privacy notices or policies applicable to these third-party products and/or services. We have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked websites or the services they provide.

Social media. Some aspects of the Site may allow you to interact with social media services such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok or X (formerly known as Twitter), Bluesky, and Truth Social, and with content distribution services including PRNewswire, GlobeNewswire, Business Wire, and Accesswire. By using these interfaces, you will allow us to access information about you from those social media services, including information and other content that you submit to those social media services. For a description on how such social media services and other third-party platforms, plug-ins, integrations, and applications handle your information, please refer to their respective privacy policies and terms of use, which may permit you to modify your privacy settings with that service or platform.

10. Retention of Personal Data

We will retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which this data was collected and for the business purposes explained in this Policy.

Even after we stop providing Services directly to you, and even if you close your account, we may retain your personal data to the extent permitted by applicable law:

• to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
• to protect against fraudulent or abusive activity on our Service;
• to exercise, establish or defend legal claims.

In cases where we keep personal data, we do so in accordance with any limitation periods and records retention obligations that are imposed by applicable law.

11. Your Privacy Rights and Choices

Consistent with applicable law, you may exercise the rights described in this section. Please note that the rights may vary depending on your country or state of residence. Please see the Region-Specific Terms section below. To exercise your data protection rights please contact us as listed below.

While it is our policy to respect the rights of individuals, please be aware that your exercise of these rights is subject to certain exemptions and exceptions, and some of these rights might be limited where we are required or permitted by law to continue processing your personal data.

12. Children's Privacy

Our Services are not directed to children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect, sell, or share personal data from children under 18. If you believe that we have inadvertently collected personal data from a child under 18, please contact us at the information below so that we may delete the data.

13. International Data Transfers

We may process and store your personal data in the United States and other countries which may have less-protective data protection laws than the region in which you are situated. Please note that this processing, including storage, may involve cross-border transfers of your personal data. In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests from officials (such as law enforcement or security authorities).

Where applicable law requires a data transfer mechanism, we use one or more of the following:

• Transfers to certain countries or recipients recognized as having an adequate level of protection for personal data under applicable law;
• EU Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission and the UK International Data Transfer Addendum issued by the Information Commissioner's Office;
• Other legal methods available to us under applicable law.

14. Contact Us

For questions or concerns regarding this Policy or to exercise your rights as identified herein, you may contact us directly using the information below.

For US: Quincy News, LLC, McKay Brothers, LLC and Quincy Data, LLC, 2355 Broadway Suite 206, Oakland, CA 94612 — email: privacy@mckay-brothers.com — Phone: 1-888-510-1381

For outside the US: McKay Brothers International SA, 1 Avenue Saint Paul, 1223 Cologny, Switzerland — email: privacy@mckay-brothers.com

For the EEA: Decyben SAS, 23 Avenue Jean Moulin, 75014 Paris, France — email: privacy@mckay-brothers.com

15. Region-Specific Terms

15.1. Additional Information for Residents of the EEA, UK and Switzerland

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area ("EEA"), Switzerland or the United Kingdom, you may have certain rights and protections under applicable law regarding the processing of your personal data. In the event of a conflict between the rest of our Policy, this Additional Information for Residents of the EEA, UK and Switzerland notice will prevail as to data subjects and their rights under the applicable privacy law.

Legal basis of processing. Regulations require data processors to have a legal basis to process personally identifiable information. We rely on the following legal bases to process your information:

• Processing on the basis of performance of a contract: where your information is necessary to enter into or perform our contract with you or the organization you represent;
• Processing data on the basis of consent: where you have given us consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose. When processing is based on consent, you have the right to revoke such consent at any time;
• Processing data on the basis of our legitimate interests: where we use your information to achieve a legitimate interest, including providing, improving and maintaining our Services, communicating with our current and prospective customers, suppliers and partners, managing our relationships with our customers, vendors and partners, sharing your personal data with our affiliates as well as service providers and vendors, and developing new Services; and
• Processing data because we have a legal obligation to do so: we process your personal data when it is necessary for us to defend a claim or resolve a dispute or when we need to use your personal data to comply with our legal obligations, including payment of taxes, responding to law enforcement agencies and other governmental bodies (when required by applicable law), retaining business records required to be retained under applicable law, and complying with court orders and other legal process, or where we are required to create and retain records of specific transactional consents under applicable consumer law.

If you have a concern about our processing of personal data that we are not able to resolve, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data privacy authority where you reside.

• For individuals in the EEA: edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
• For individuals in Switzerland: edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/the-fdpic/contact.html
• For individuals in the UK: ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/

15.2. Additional Information for Residents of the United States

If you are a "consumer" (or analogous term) as defined under applicable state privacy laws in the United States, you may have certain rights and protections under applicable law regarding the processing of your personal data. In the event of a conflict with the rest of our Policy, this Additional Information for Residents of the United States notice will prevail as to consumers and their rights under the applicable U.S. state privacy laws.

We do not sell your personal data for monetary consideration. With respect to sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes: where we use advertisement or targeting cookies, those services may constitute sharing under applicable state law. We have configured applicable services to limit such processing and we honor opt-out requests. We do not use or disclose "sensitive personal information" for the purposes of inferring any characteristics about you or for any purposes that would require a user to exercise a right to limit according to California law.