Privacy notice
Last updated 25 September 2026
NewzWyre is a division of Chronic Internet LLC. NewzWyre runs a media-intelligence database of journalists, creators and outlets. Chronic Internet LLC, P.O. Box 510072, Kealia, HI 96751, USA. Chronic Internet LLC is the controller of the personal data described here. This notice covers people whose details we collect from public sources — mainly journalists, editors, podcasters and other creators — which is the information Article 14 of the EU and UK GDPR requires when data is not obtained from you directly.
What we collect
Only professional, role-related details: your name; your job title and beat or subject area; the outlet or channel you work for; a work email address; public social-media profile handles; the URL and date of your most recent published piece; your platform handle and audience size where a platform publishes it; the industry category we file you under; the exact page we found each detail on and when we retrieved it. We do not collect home addresses, phone numbers, personal photos, or sensitive categories of data.
Some email addresses in our database were inferred from an outlet's address pattern (for example first.last@outlet.com) rather than published. They are labelled as inferred, kept separate from published addresses, and are never used to send email until they have been checked.
Where it comes from
Publicly accessible sources only: outlet websites (mastheads, staff and author pages, bylines) collected by our crawler, NewzWyreBot; public RSS feeds; public platform directories and APIs (YouTube, Spotify, Twitch, GitHub, Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, Podcast Index, SoundCloud, Substack); and Wikidata's public list of news outlets.
Why we use it, and the legal basis
We use these details to let communications teams send relevant, role-appropriate pitches, press releases and story ideas to the people who cover their subject. That includes Chronic Internet's own divisions (NewzWyre, Monas Financial, Monas Media Group, NewsAnarchist, PostNewz and Svents) and NewzWyre subscribers.
The legal basis is legitimate interests (GDPR Article 6(1)(f)). We have a written legitimate-interests assessment for this processing. Our interest is making professional media outreach relevant; we limit it to details people publish in a professional capacity, to contact that matches their published beat, and to low volumes, and we honour every objection immediately.
Who receives it
Chronic Internet's divisions listed above and NewzWyre subscribers. Our service providers process it on our behalf: Cloudflare (hosting, database, crawling infrastructure) and Brevo (email delivery). We do not sell it to data brokers.
Where it is stored
Our systems are operated from the United States. If you are in the EU, UK or elsewhere outside the US, your details are processed in the United States.
How long we keep it
We keep a record while it still describes a role you publish, or until you ask us to delete it or opt out. Opt-outs are kept permanently, as a suppression entry, so that we never contact you again.
Your rights
You can object to this processing at any time, and we will stop. You can also ask for access to, correction of, or deletion of your record, or ask us to restrict how we use it. You may complain to your data-protection authority (in the UK, the ICO; in the EU, the authority in your country). Every email we send also carries a one-click unsubscribe link.
We use automated tools, including AI models, to read public pages and pull out the details above. We do not make any decision about you that has a legal or similarly significant effect.
Opt out or make a request
Postal requests: Chronic Internet LLC (NewzWyre privacy), P.O. Box 510072, Kealia, HI 96751, USA.