Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains the information Daily Core News receives through this website, how we use it, when it may be shared, and the choices available to readers.

Information you provide

We receive information when you contact us, submit a correction or story tip, post a comment, or communicate with the newsroom. Depending on the feature, this may include your name, email address, message, article URL, comment text, and any documents or links you choose to provide.

Do not send highly sensitive information through the standard contact or comment forms. These channels are not designed for confidential legal, medical, financial, or source-protection communications.

Information collected automatically

When you use the website, our systems may process browser and device details, requested pages, timestamps, referring pages, approximate network location, IP address, and security logs. Reader-interaction features may use a one-way visitor identifier derived from technical request information to reduce duplicate activity and abuse.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how readers find and use Daily Core News. Depending on your device, settings, location, and consent choices, Analytics may measure page views, sessions, referrals, interactions, approximate geographic area, browser type, device category, and related performance information. Google may process an IP address to provide and secure the service and derive information such as an approximate location.

Google Analytics commonly uses first-party cookies such as _ga and _ga_<measurement-id> to distinguish browsers and maintain session information. Their standard expiration may be up to two years, although browser settings, consent choices, and our Analytics configuration can shorten or prevent storage. Event-level and user-level data is retained according to the retention setting in our Google Analytics property.

Where consent is required, nonessential Analytics storage should be controlled by the consent options presented to the reader. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser or use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. Learn more in Google's Privacy Policy.

Google Search Console

We use Google Search Console to review search performance, indexing, crawling, and technical issues affecting this website in Google Search. Search Console reports may show aggregated search queries, impressions, clicks, positions, pages, countries, and device categories. Website ownership verification and Search Console reporting do not, by themselves, add an advertising or Analytics cookie to pages served by this application.

Google AdSense when activated

Daily Core News expects to use Google AdSense after the website is eligible and the service is activated. AdSense advertising is not currently active. Once enabled, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, device identifiers, IP addresses, page and ad interactions, and similar technologies to deliver, limit, personalize, measure, and protect ads, depending on your location and consent choices.

Before activating AdSense, we intend to implement the consent and privacy controls required for the regions in which ads are served, including a Google-certified consent management platform where Google requires one. Readers will be able to review applicable choices through the privacy message shown on the website. Learn more about how Google uses information for advertising and read our Advertising & Sponsorship Policy.

How we use information

• Deliver pages and operate website features.
• Respond to questions, tips, corrections, and rights requests.
• Review, moderate, and display reader comments.
• Measure readership, search visibility, and website performance.
• Detect spam, fraud, malicious activity, and technical problems.
• Support advertising after AdSense is activated and the required controls are in place.
• Comply with applicable law and protect readers, sources, and our rights.

Cookies and similar technologies

We use essential cookies for sessions, security, and form protection, and Google Analytics cookies for audience measurement where permitted. Advertising cookies or identifiers may be used only after AdSense is activated. Names, purposes, durations, and controls are described in our Cookie Policy.

When information may be shared

We may share information with providers that host, secure, maintain, measure, or deliver the website, including Google for Analytics and, when activated, AdSense. Providers process information under their own terms and privacy obligations. Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to valid legal process, investigate abuse, protect safety, or complete a business reorganization. We do not publish a commenter's email address.

Advertising, sale, and sharing choices

Daily Core News does not sell personal information for money. Some privacy laws may define personalized advertising or disclosure to advertising partners as a “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising.” When AdSense is activated, readers will receive the choices and notices required by applicable law. You may also submit a privacy or opt-out request through our Contact page.

Story tips and journalistic material

Submitting a tip does not create a confidential-source relationship. We consider source protection seriously, but ordinary web forms and email are not guaranteed to be anonymous or end-to-end encrypted. Contact the newsroom before sending sensitive records so an appropriate communication method can be discussed.

Retention

We retain information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose collected, including newsroom records, moderation, security, analytics, legal compliance, and dispute resolution. Retention periods vary by the type of record, our configured provider settings, and operational need. Google Analytics event-level and user-level retention is governed by the setting selected for our Analytics property; other aggregate reports may remain available for longer.

Data security and international processing

We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect information. No website, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure. Google and other providers may process information in countries other than the country where you live, subject to their privacy terms and applicable transfer safeguards.

Your privacy choices

Depending on where you live and the law that applies, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, or information about how personal data is used, and to opt out of certain advertising uses. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request, and lawful exceptions may apply. Browser controls can be used to delete or block cookies; available website consent controls can be used to change nonessential-cookie choices.

Children's privacy

Daily Core News is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. A parent or guardian who believes a child submitted such information may contact us to request review and deletion.

External websites

Articles may link to websites we do not control. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies. A link does not mean Daily Core News is responsible for the external site's data practices.

Policy changes

We may update this policy as the website, providers, advertising program, or legal requirements change. The “Last updated” date identifies the current version. We will provide appropriate notice when a material change requires it.

Contact us about privacy

Submit a privacy question, rights request, or advertising opt-out request through the Contact page using the Legal topic, or email contact@dailycorenews.com.