Privacy policy

Last updated 10 November 2026.

Who we are

MrScandal (mrscandal.com) is published by SIA Stoaa Health, registration number 40203751807, Baznīcas iela 30 - 13, Jūrmala, LV-2015, Latvia. We are the controller for any personal data this site handles. Contact: legal@mrscandal.com, or see the contact page.

What we collect from readers

Nothing, unless you agree to analytics. No ads run on the site yet (see Advertising for what changes when they do), there are no tracking pixels and no social-media embeds, and we do not ask you to sign in or leave your email.

Analytics, only if you agree

On your first visit we ask whether we may count your visit. If you press Reject, or ignore the question, Google Analytics is never loaded and no analytics cookies are set.

If you press Accept, the site loads Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics 4, provided by Google Ireland Limited. They set first-party cookies (named _ga and _ga_*, kept for up to two years unless you clear them) and send us aggregated statistics: which pages you open, how far you read a story, which links, quizzes, games and follow buttons you use, roughly where you are (country and city, from your IP address, which Google does not store for us), and your device, browser and screen size. We use this only to see which stories and features are worth more of our time. We do not use analytics for advertising, we have switched off Google's advertising features in it, and we never combine it with your name or email.

The legal basis is your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)). Google acts as our processor under its data processing terms; data may be processed in the United States under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. We keep event-level data for 14 months.

You can change your mind at any time: open cookie settings (also in the footer of every page). Rejecting after you accepted stops collection from the next page load; you can also delete the cookies in your browser.

Advertising

We are setting up advertising with Google AdSense, a service of Google Ireland Limited; it is how the site will pay for itself. Until ads are switched on, no Google ad code runs on mrscandal.com and no advertising cookies are set. Once they are, this is how it works. No advertiser will choose, buy, review or approve a story.

  • Cookies from Google and other ad companies. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet. Cookies and similar identifiers are also used to limit how often you see the same ad, to measure ads and to detect fraud.
  • Other ad companies. Ad companies other than Google may bid through Google's systems to show an ad here. Where the law requires your consent, they are named in the consent message, under its list of vendors (partners), before any of them can use your data.
  • What Google receives. Your IP address, cookie and device identifiers, the page you are reading, your browser and device, and roughly where you are. For personalised ads Google acts as an independent controller of that data under its own privacy policy. Google explains how it uses information from sites like this one at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and lists its advertising cookies and how long they last at policies.google.com/technologies/ads. Data may be processed in the United States under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
  • In the EU, the EEA, the UK and Switzerland. Ads use cookies or your data only after you make a choice in Google's consent message, a Google-certified consent tool built on the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework. If you refuse storage on your device, Google can only show limited ads, which use no cookies or device identifiers for advertising. If you allow storage but refuse personalisation, ads are not based on your interests, though cookies are still used to cap how often an ad repeats, for aggregated ad reporting and to fight fraud. The legal basis is your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)); you can change it at any time from the privacy and cookie settings link the consent tool places on every page.
  • In US states with a consumer privacy law (such as California, Colorado, Connecticut and Virginia), showing you personalised ads can count as "selling" or "sharing" personal information. Where your state gives you that right, the site shows a "Do not sell or share my personal information" link; using it tells Google to restrict how it uses your data for ads on this site.
  • Opting out of personalised ads anywhere. You can opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. You can opt out of other vendors' use of cookies for personalised advertising at www.aboutads.info/choices, and in Europe at www.youronlinechoices.eu. Blocking or deleting cookies in your browser also works; you will still see ads, but they will be less relevant.

The site is written for adults. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them.

Your browser remembers a few choices locally on your own device: light or dark mode, your answer to the analytics question and whether you have seen the follow-us card. They are never sent to us.

What our hosting provider sees

The site is served by Cloudflare, Inc. As with any website, Cloudflare processes your IP address, browser type and the pages requested in order to deliver the site and protect it from attacks. We do not use that data to profile readers. Cloudflare acts as our processor; its own terms are at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.

If you write to us

If you email us, for example to ask for a correction, we keep your message and address only to answer it and to keep a record of the correction. You can ask us to delete it once the matter is closed.

People we write about

Our stories are about public figures and companies and are built from court records, regulator filings, official statements and people's own public words. If you are named in a story and want a correction, a response added or information about what we hold, write to legal@mrscandal.com. Our corrections policy sets out how fast we act.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask for access to, correction of, or deletion of personal data we hold about you, and you can object to how we use it. You can also complain to the Latvian Data State Inspectorate (Datu valsts inspekcija, dvi.gov.lv). Readers in US states with a consumer privacy law have the rights that law gives them, including the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for targeted ads; write to legal@mrscandal.com and we will answer within the time the law sets.

Changes

When we change how analytics or advertising work on the site, we update this page first and change the date at the top.