Privacy policy

This policy explains what information REALNEWS HUB (realnewshub.blog) collects when you read the site, how advertising works here, and the choices you have.

What we collect

• You don't need an account to read REALNEWS HUB, and we don't ask for your name. We only hold your email address if you sign up for a newsletter (see below).
• Like any website, our servers keep standard technical logs (such as IP address, browser type and pages requested) to run and secure the site.
• We count how many times each sponsored ad is shown and clicked, and how many times each Shop product is clicked. These counts are totals and are not linked to you.
• Your light/dark theme choice and recent searches are stored only in your own browser.

Audience measurement

To see which stories people read, we run our own privacy-friendly measurement, with no cookies and nothing stored in your browser. For each page view we record the page, when it was viewed, roughly how long it was on screen, the kind of site you came from (for example a search engine or social network), your country and whether you use a phone, tablet or computer.

We don't store your IP address. To count visitors, we turn your IP address and browser type into a one-way code that changes every day, so we can tell that a page was read by the same visitor on the same day but cannot identify you or follow you from one day to the next. The results are only used as totals, and none of it is shared with advertisers. Country is worked out from the IP address when the page is requested, using IP2Location LITE data available from lite.ip2location.com.

Newsletters and breaking news alerts

If you sign up for a newsletter or breaking news alerts, we store your email address, the newsletters you chose, where on the site you signed up and when. We use it only to send you those emails. We never sell it or share it with advertisers.

We first send you a message asking you to confirm, and we don't email you anything else until you do. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link; after you unsubscribe we keep only a record that you did, so we don't email you by mistake. To have your address deleted completely, contact us.

Browser notifications

If you turn on breaking news notifications, your browser gives us a push address and keys issued by its maker (for example Google, Mozilla, Apple or Microsoft). We store only those, to send you breaking news alerts; they don't identify you, and we never share them. Turn notifications off on our Newsletters page or in your browser's site settings, and we delete the address. We also delete it if the browser's push service reports it no longer exists.

Advertising and cookies

We use Google AdSense to show ads. Google and its partners use cookies to serve ads based on your visits to this and other websites. You can learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and how ads work at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

You can turn off personalised advertising at google.com/settings/ads, or opt out of third-party vendors' use of cookies at aboutads.info/choices.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, the UK and Switzerland are asked for consent through Google's certified consent message before personalised ads or advertising cookies are used, and can change their choice at any time from that message.

Affiliate links

Some ads, marked Sponsored, are affiliate links. When you click one, the advertiser or affiliate network may set its own cookies to record the referral, under its own privacy policy. If you buy something, we may earn a commission.

We are part of affiliate programmes run through Impact (impact.com), including Bluehost's. Impact's tracking script runs on our pages: it records page impressions and turns links to partner brands into tracked links, using its own cookies, so a purchase can be credited to us. See Impact's privacy policy.

We also take part in the CJ (Commission Junction) affiliate network. Some of our links to shops and services lead through CJ, which records the click so the shop can credit us. CJ and its advertisers may set their own cookies when you click such a link. See CJ's privacy policy. Affiliate links never influence which stories we cover or what we write.

Products in our Shop are affiliate links too. A click goes through our own address first, which counts it (using the same daily-changing code described under Audience measurement, kept for no more than two days) and adds our tracking ID before sending you to the shop. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases; Amazon may set its own cookies when you follow one of our links to it, under Amazon's privacy notice.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct or delete personal data about you. Because we don't hold accounts, most requests concern newsletter sign-ups, server logs or advertising cookies; contact us and we will help. Our data deletion page explains how to have your data removed, including Facebook and Instagram data.

Contact

Questions about this policy: info@realnewshub.blog.