Privacy Policy

This policy explains what information News7t (“we”, “us”) collects when you use this website, how we use it, and the choices you have. By using the site you agree to this policy.

Information we collect

• Information you give us: your name and email address if you create an account, subscribe to our newsletter, or send a message through the contact form.
• Account security data: passwords are stored only as one-way cryptographic hashes; we cannot read them.
• Story view counts: to know how many people read each story we count visits without cookies and without storing your IP address. Your browser details are combined into an anonymous code that changes every day, so it cannot be used to follow you from one day to the next.
• Usage data: like most websites, our servers and our analytics and advertising partners may record technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device, pages visited and the time of your visit.

Cookies and similar technologies

• Essential: a sign-in cookie that keeps you logged in (only if you have an account), and a browser setting that remembers your light/dark theme choice.
• Analytics and advertising: we use, or may use, services such as Google Analytics and Google AdSense. These services use cookies and similar technologies to measure traffic and to show advertisements, including personalised advertisements based on your visits to this and other websites.

You can control cookies in your browser settings. Google explains how it uses data from sites that use its services and how you can manage ad personalisation at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and at adssettings.google.com.

How we use information

• to run the website, keep it secure and prevent abuse;
• to send you the newsletter if you subscribed (you can ask us to remove you at any time);
• to reply to messages you send us;
• to understand how the site is used and to improve it; and
• to show advertising that helps pay for our journalism.

Sharing

We do not sell your personal information. We share information only with service providers who help us operate the site (for example hosting, analytics and advertising providers), when required by law, or to protect the safety and rights of our users and the site.

Retention and your rights

We keep account, newsletter and message data for as long as needed for the purposes above. You may ask us to access, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you, or to unsubscribe you from the newsletter, by contacting us through the contact page.

If you are in India, you have rights under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, including the right to access information about the personal data we process, to ask for it to be corrected or erased, to withdraw consent, and to have a grievance dealt with. Raise any of these through the contact page with the subject “Privacy”; we aim to respond within 15 days. For more detail on cookies see our Cookie Policy; for complaints about stories see our Editorial and Corrections Policy.

Children

This website is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

External links

Our stories may link to other websites. We are not responsible for their content or privacy practices.

Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. The “last updated” date above shows when it last changed.