Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

At PhoneNews.com, we respect your privacy. Really, we do. So, here are some simple things that we’re outlining to make clear how we do that.

1) We won’t sell your email. Nobody outside of PhoneNews.com and its web site(s) will buy your email. If we ever change that (which isn’t likely), we’ll send you an email to let you know and opt-out.

2) We use internet cookies. This are feature-enrichments aimed at making your experience on PhoneNews.com better. These help you stay logged in between visits to the forums, or posting comments on the news. Generally, we do not use these for tracking purposes.

If we do, we do so on the aggregate level, we do not monitor individual users, nor do we internally link cookies to users except by our software to deliver the enhancements described above.

3) Confidentiality. It’s an important part of our news coverage. If you request in an email (or any form of message) that you want the communication to be treated as confidential… we will do everything within reason and our power to keep it confidential. We must abide by federal and state law, however, such laws also generally protect the information you send to us, as we are a member of the media.

Basically, what the above means is that you can be confident that what you send to us with confidentiality… will stay confidential.

4) Emails to you. By registering to our forums or other online functions, your email address may be used internally to send you a newsletter, or other announcements. We offer an opt-out option at the bottom of these newsletters. So, if you don’t want to receive these, just opt-out on the first newsletter we send to you.

We strive to make sure that people who do not want to receive email from us, don’t. Also, be sure to change your email settings in the respective parts of the site (for example, the forums).

5) Advertisers. Many of our advertisers also use tracking cookies. Their privacy policies differ, and unfortunately, we cannot list all the advertisers that we use. However, major online advertisers generally offer opt-out cookies which disable monitoring. Please consider reviewing your internet cookies, or disabling cookies on your browser if you object to this.

In addition, PhoneNews.com has an internal ad server which uses cookie technology. We follow the same standards in Point 2 of this privacy policy in regards to our advertisement cookies… as we do to our own cookies.