Privacy Policy Welcome to The Newsz (https://thenewsz.com). We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you visit our website.
1. Information We Collect
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help detect spam.
- Gravatar: An anonymised string created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. Your profile picture, if linked to Gravatar, may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
- Media: If you upload images to our website, please ensure they do not contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS), as visitors can download and extract location data from images on the website.
- Cookies: We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year. Temporary cookies are set on the login page to determine if your browser accepts cookies. Login cookies last two days, and screen options cookies last a year. An additional cookie is saved in your browser when you edit or publish an article, indicating the post ID of the article you just edited.
- Embedded Content: Articles on our website may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles) from other websites. Embedded content behaves similarly to if you visited the other website and may collect data about you, use cookies, and track your interaction with the embedded content.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information collected to improve our website, personalize
your experience, and prevent spam. Your information may also be used for administrative and legal purposes.
3. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. For registered users (if any), we store personal information provided in user profiles. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information anytime, except for usernames, which cannot be changed.
4. Your Rights
If you have an account on our website or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, or request the erasure of your personal data, except where we are required to retain it for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
5. Third-Party Services
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 24th April 2024.
