This Privacy Notice (also Privacy Policy) is to notify visitors of CensoredNews.com (“the website”) about the types of information collected and recorded and how this information may be used.
This Privacy Notice applies only to online activities and is valid for visitors to the website with regards to the information shared and/or collected, and is not applicable to any information shared and/or collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using the website, you hereby consent to this Privacy Notice and agree to its terms.
Information Collected
Any personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, should be made clear to you at the point you are asked to provide it. If you are uncertain or have questions about information you are asked to provide, do not hesitate to contact us directly via the following email address:
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
How we use your information
Information collected may be used in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain the website
- Improve, personalize, and expand the website
- Understand and analyze how visitors use the website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide updates and other information relating to the website, or for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Detect and prevent fraud
Log Files
Log files of web traffic served to CensoredNews.com are collected by the website’s web-hosting service provider by default. All hosting companies do this as a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information. CensoredNews.com generally has no need to access these logs but may do so when necessary to monitor and combat abuse of the website.
Cookies and Web Beacons
As with nearly all websites, CensoredNews.com uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information may be used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing the website content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
CensoredNews.com utilizes the service of Clicky (Clicky.com) for the purpose of tracking and analyzing visitor traffic to the website using cookies. By default, Clicky does not log any “personal data” or “personally identifiable information” of visitors to the website. This means all IP addresses are anonymized, and global opt out cookies are honored. Thus CensoredNews.com does not actually collect or store any information about you through it’s use of Clicky.
The one exception is a tracking cookie containing a randomly generated Unique ID (“UID”). This cookie does not identify who a visitor actually is or reveal anything else about them. Nonetheless, the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), as well as the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), consider a UID to be “personal data” as defined by their own documents. However, per Article 6 of the GDPR, this cookie does not require a visitor’s direct consent as it is well within the “legitimate interests” of any web site to know how many unique visitors they have, which is best accomplished with a UID cookie. The CCPA is an opt-out law, so UID cookies are allowed by default.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options, however disabling cookies may interfere with the website’s appearance and functionality, or otherwise limit your use and enjoyment of the website. More detailed information about cookie management can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
Currently there are no third-party advertisers on the website. If CensoredNews.com decides to accept advertisers in the future this page may be updated to include a list of those advertisers.
Note that this Privacy Notice does not apply to advertisers or their respective websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information, which may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain data collection.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks may use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on CensoredNews.com or may appear there in the future, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that CensoredNews.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Personal Data Collection Requests
If you would like to request that CensoredNews.com disclose to you any personal data or personally identifiable information that may have been collected during your use of the website, or would like to request that such information be erased/deleted, you may notify us by email and we will respond as soon as possible. However, as has already been stated, any data collected through the use of cookies via the Clicky service is already anonymized, therefore we will almost certainly not know anything about you, unless of course you decide to email us. (Sort of a Catch-22 there)
Newsletter
Subscription service to the CensoredNews.com newsletter, including the top 5 daily and weekly stories, is provided by AWeber (AWeber.com). Your subscription is voluntary and you may unsubscribe at any time. When you subscribe, you submit your email address, and in some cases a name (whatever name you decide to give us), for the purpose of receiving updates and notifications from the website through email. You may view AWeber’s email privacy policy here.
CensoredNews.com will never share, rent, lease, sell or otherwise hand over your email address and/or name to any other parties under any circumstances. The sole exception to this may arise if there are other men or women dressed in costumes pointing guns or other deadly weapons at us, or are otherwise threatening our life, liberty or property by decree of specially adorned pieces of paper with magic scribbles stating they have the right to do so if we fail to comply with their whims. And even then, we will most likely not comply).
Data Storage and Protection
CensoredNews.com does not store any of the (already anonymized) data collected through Clicky or AWeber. Any and all data is stored through their respective services. The sole exception to this is that we may store an off-site backup file of the CensoredNews.com email subscriber list. Such a backup will always be stored on a fully encrypted medium, and all reasonable measures will be taken to secure said data against loss or breach.
Children’s Information
The content of CensoredNews.com has not been age-restricted for children. CensoredNews.com imports content directly from other websites without moderation and can make no guarantee about whether the content served by those sites is appropriate for children at all times. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
CensoredNews.com does not knowingly collect any Personally Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, you may contact us and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.