Last updated: 04-11-2026
This Privacy Policy explains how The News Mention handles personal information when you visit www.thenewsmention.com, contact us or use the features described below.
The website publishes articles, practical guides, checklists and downloadable resources covering technology, business and other subjects. This policy concerns information about website visitors and people who communicate with us.
1. Who is responsible for your information?
The News Mention is operated by [Full legal name of the individual or business operating the website], located at [Business address and country]. References to “we,” “us” and “our” in this policy mean that operator.
For privacy questions or requests, email amit@zestfulloutreach.com with the subject “Privacy Request.” You can also find our contact details on the Contact Us page.
2. Information you provide directly
When you email us, we receive the information included in your message. This can include your name, email address, organization, message content, attachments and related correspondence.
If you send a correction, permission request, complaint or business inquiry, we use the information needed to understand and respond to that request. Please avoid sending passwords, payment-card details, authentication secrets or unnecessary sensitive personal information.
Additional collection features: [List any active contact forms, public comments, newsletter subscriptions, contributor submissions or accounts. For each, identify the information collected and its purpose. If none are offered, state that clearly and remove inapplicable references.]
3. Technical information collected when you browse
Delivering a web page involves processing technical information such as an IP address and browser request. Depending on our hosting and security configuration, server records can also include the requested page, request time, browser information, referring page and error or security events.
Our technical logging: [Identify the hosting, content-delivery and security providers; confirm the information logged, purposes and retention periods.]
These records can support website delivery, troubleshooting, abuse prevention and security. They should not be interpreted as a complete record of what an individual does elsewhere online.
4. Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files stored in your browser. Other technologies, including local storage and tracking pixels, can also store information or communicate information about a visit.
Technologies used on this website: [Insert the verified cookie and tracking inventory, including provider, purpose, duration and whether each technology is essential, preference-related, analytical or advertising-related.]
You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some technologies can affect features that depend on them. Where consent is required for nonessential technologies, we will request it before using those technologies and provide an appropriate way to change your choice.
Website privacy controls: [Describe the actual cookie-preference control and how to reopen it. If the site uses only essential technologies, explain that after confirming the inventory.]
5. Analytics, advertising and affiliate measurement
Analytics: [Name any analytics services actually used, the information they receive, why it is processed, applicable retention settings and available visitor controls. If no analytics services are used, replace this field with that statement.]
Advertising: [Identify any advertising providers, whether advertising is personalized, the relevant data categories and opt-out or consent mechanisms. If no advertising technology is used, state that instead.]
Affiliate measurement: [Identify any affiliate networks or referral-tracking arrangements. Explain when clicking a commercial link sends information to another provider. If none are used, state that.]
A commercial disclosure explains a payment relationship; it does not replace a privacy explanation of the information collected or shared through that relationship.
6. External images, embedded content and links
Some author images are delivered from Gravatar. Loading an externally hosted image requires your browser to contact that provider, which can receive technical request information such as your IP address and browser details. The provider’s own privacy information explains its handling of those requests.
Other external content: [List any embedded video players, social posts, external fonts or other third-party content actually used, and explain whether it loads immediately or after a visitor choice.]
Our articles also link to other websites. An ordinary link takes you to a separate service when you choose to follow it. That service operates under its own privacy practices, which we do not control.
7. Downloads and practical resources
Requests to download our spreadsheets, templates and other files can generate the same kinds of technical records as other website requests.
Download process: [Confirm whether downloads are available directly or require a form, subscription or external file service. Identify any additional information collected.]
Editing a downloaded file locally does not, by itself, send its contents to us. If you email a completed resource to us or upload it through an enabled service, the information you submit will be processed through that communication channel.
8. How we use personal information
Depending on the interaction and the features confirmed above, we use personal information to:
- Deliver website pages and requested resources.
- Respond to messages, corrections, complaints and permission requests.
- Manage business correspondence and relationships you initiate.
- Maintain website security and investigate technical problems or misuse.
- Meet applicable obligations and establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
[Add any verified analytics, advertising, newsletter or other purposes. Remove purposes that do not apply.]
Where applicable law requires a lawful basis, we identify the relevant basis for the processing. This may include responding to a contractual request, legitimate interests that have been assessed against individual rights, legal obligations or consent where required.
Applicable lawful bases: [Confirm the purpose-by-purpose basis where required. Do not treat every basis listed above as applying automatically.]
9. Who receives personal information?
Information is disclosed to service providers where needed for the functions identified in this policy, such as hosting the website, delivering email or protecting the service. Their access should be appropriate to the work they perform.
Service-provider details: [Identify the actual providers or sufficiently specific recipient categories, the information involved and their processing purposes.]
We may also disclose relevant information when legally required, to professional advisers where necessary, or to address fraud, security incidents and legal claims. Any disclosure connected with a business transfer must follow applicable requirements and appropriate protections.
Sale, sharing and targeted advertising: [State the verified position, including whether advertising disclosures constitute a “sale,” “sharing” or targeted advertising under an applicable law. Where required, provide the actual opt-out method and explain recognition of legally required preference signals.]
10. Personal information and AI services
Publishing articles about AI does not establish whether personal information is processed through AI tools as part of operating this website.
Our operational AI use: [Confirm whether visitor messages, submissions, personal information or support requests are processed through AI services. If so, identify the relevant data, purpose, provider arrangements, retention and human review. If not, state the verified position.]
We will not treat a change to this policy alone as permission for a materially different use of previously collected personal information where notice, consent or another step is required.
11. How long we keep information
Retention depends on the purpose of collection, the need to resolve a request, applicable obligations and any justified legal or security requirement. Information should not be retained indefinitely merely because storage is available.
| Information category | Retention period or criterion |
|---|---|
| General correspondence | [Specify the period after resolution or last contact and any exceptions.] |
| Server and security logs | [Specify the configured period and incident-related exceptions.] |
| Public comments or submissions, if enabled | [Specify the publication and retention approach.] |
| Newsletter records, if collected | [Specify subscription, withdrawal and suppression-list retention.] |
| Analytics and advertising data, if collected | [Specify provider settings and relevant identifiers.] |
| Backups | [Specify the rotation period and how deletion is handled in backups.] |
12. International processing
[Identify the countries or regions where the operator and relevant providers process personal information. Explain applicable transfer safeguards where required, including how a visitor can request further information.]
International availability of the website does not mean the same privacy law or rights apply identically to every visitor.
13. Security
We use safeguards appropriate to the information and services involved. No website, transmission or storage method can be guaranteed completely secure.
Safeguards: [Confirm relevant measures, such as restricted administrative access, multifactor authentication, updates and secure connections. Do not claim controls that have not been implemented.]
14. Your choices and privacy rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion or a portable copy of certain information; object to or restrict processing; withdraw consent; or opt out of certain advertising-related processing.
Send requests to amit@zestfulloutreach.com. Describe your request and the interaction involved. We may need proportionate information to verify your identity, but please do not send identity documents unless we explain why they are necessary and provide an appropriate method.
Some requests are subject to exceptions, such as retaining information required by law or necessary for legal claims. We will respond within the period required by applicable law and explain relevant limitations.
Where applicable, you may complain to the privacy regulator responsible for your location. [Add any required jurisdiction-specific disclosures, regulator details, authorized-agent process and appeal procedure after confirming applicability.]
15. Children’s privacy
[Confirm the website’s intended audience and whether any features are directed to children or knowingly collect children’s information. Specify applicable age thresholds and handling procedures where required.]
If you believe a child has provided personal information through the website in circumstances requiring our attention, contact us with enough information to identify the interaction. Please avoid sending unnecessary information about the child.
16. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when our services, providers or data practices change. The date at the top identifies the latest published version. Where applicable law requires additional notice, consent or another action, we will take that step before implementing the relevant change.
17. Contact us
The News Mention
Address: 6592 N First St, Fresno, California 93710, United States
Email: amit@zestfulloutreach.com
Contact page: Contact Us