Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how stnews.live (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects your personal information when you visit our website, subscribe to our newsletter, use our services, or interact with us in any way. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data transparently.

1. Information We Collect

Information you provide directly: When you subscribe to our newsletter, create an account, submit a contact form, post a comment, or communicate with us, you may provide your name, email address, and message content. If you subscribe to a premium service, our payment processor collects billing information on our behalf.

Information collected automatically: When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain technical information through cookies and similar technologies, including your IP address (anonymized where required by law), browser type and version, operating system, referring URL, pages visited and time spent on each page, and approximate geographic location (city/country level).

Cookies and tracking: We use strictly necessary cookies for site functionality, analytics cookies (Google Analytics with IP anonymization enabled) to understand how visitors use our site, and advertising cookies from our ad partners to serve relevant advertisements. You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings or our cookie consent banner.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use your information to deliver and improve our content and services, send newsletters and editorial updates you have opted into, respond to inquiries and support requests, analyze site traffic and reader behavior to improve our editorial product, display relevant advertising, comply with legal obligations, and detect and prevent fraudulent or abusive activity.

3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)

For visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA) and United Kingdom, we process personal data under the following legal bases: consent (for newsletters, non-essential cookies), legitimate interest (for analytics, security, content improvement), contract (for premium subscriptions and services), and legal obligation (for tax records, regulatory compliance).

4. Information Sharing

We do not sell your personal information. We may share information with service providers who process data on our behalf (hosting, email delivery, analytics, payment processing), advertising partners in accordance with your cookie preferences, law enforcement or regulatory authorities when required by law or valid legal process, and a successor entity in the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets.

All third-party service providers are contractually required to protect your data and may only process it for the purposes we specify.

5. Data Retention

We retain personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy. Newsletter subscriber data is retained until you unsubscribe. Website analytics data is retained for 26 months in anonymized form. Contact form submissions are retained for 12 months. Account data is retained for the life of the account plus 30 days after deletion. We may retain certain data longer if required by law.

6. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, correct inaccurate data, request deletion of your data, restrict or object to processing, data portability (receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format), and withdraw consent at any time (for consent-based processing).

To exercise any of these rights, email privacy@stnews.live with your request. We will respond within 30 days (or sooner where required by applicable law).

7. International Data Transfers

Our servers are located in the United States. If you access our site from outside the United States, your data may be transferred to and processed in the United States. For EEA and UK visitors, we rely on Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission to safeguard data transfers.

8. Data Security

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your data, including encryption in transit (TLS/SSL) and at rest, access controls and authentication, regular security audits and vulnerability assessments, and employee training on data protection. However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Children’s Privacy

Our services are not directed to individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe we have inadvertently collected data from a child, please contact us immediately at privacy@stnews.live and we will delete the information promptly.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will post a notice on our website and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

11. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, contact our Data Protection team at privacy@stnews.live.