Privacy Policy
Last updated: May 30, 2026
This Privacy Notice for A17News ("we," "us," or "our") describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your personal information when you use our services ("Services"), including when you:
- Visit our website at www.a17news.com or any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice
- Read AI news bulletins on our feed
- Engage with us in other related ways, including contacting us by email
Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have questions, please contact us at [email protected].
Summary of key points
What personal information do we process? We collect very little. We do not operate public user accounts. When you visit the site, our infrastructure provider automatically records standard server-access log data and privacy-oriented, aggregated web analytics (such as pages viewed and general device or browser characteristics). We do not use this information to identify you personally, build advertising profiles, or sell your data.
Do we process any sensitive personal information? No. We do not process sensitive personal information.
Do we collect any information from third parties? No. We do not collect any information from third parties.
Do we use cookies or tracking technologies? We do not use advertising cookies, cross-site trackers, or marketing pixels. We use privacy-oriented web analytics on the public site to understand aggregate traffic and improve the service. That analytics is designed to avoid identifying individual visitors and does not follow you across other websites.
How do we keep your information safe? Our hosting provider maintains industry-standard security infrastructure. Because we collect almost no personal data, your exposure is minimal.
What are your rights? Regardless of where you are located, you can contact us to ask what data we hold, request its deletion, or raise any concern. Because we hold virtually no personal data about readers, most requests will have nothing to act upon.
Table of contents
- What information do we collect?
- How do we process your information?
- When and with whom do we share your personal information?
- What is our stance on third-party websites?
- Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
- How long do we keep your information?
- How do we keep your information safe?
- Do we collect information from minors?
- Your privacy rights
- Controls for Do-Not-Track features
- Do we make updates to this notice?
- How can you contact us about this notice?
1. What information do we collect?
In short: We collect almost no personal information. There are no public sign-up forms or user accounts on A17News.
Information automatically collected
When you visit the site, our infrastructure provider automatically records standard server-access log data and privacy-oriented web analytics. This information does not reveal your specific identity (such as your name or email address) and is used to operate, secure, and improve our Services. It may include:
- IP address (in server logs; analytics uses privacy-preserving handling)
- Browser user-agent string (browser type and version, operating system)
- The URL or page path requested and HTTP status code returned
- Timestamp of the request
- Aggregated analytics data, such as page views, referring site (if any), and coarse geographic region derived from connection metadata
Analytics data is collected in aggregate to help us understand how the site is used. We do not use analytics to identify you individually, and we do not sell analytics data to third parties.
Sensitive information: We do not process sensitive personal information.
Information from third parties: We do not collect any information from third parties.
2. How do we process your information?
In short: We process the minimal data described above to operate, secure, and improve our Services, including understanding aggregate site usage.
We do not use any information for advertising, marketing profiling, or retargeting. We do not sell your data. We do not share it with advertisers or use it to build behavioural profiles across other sites.
The legal basis for processing this minimal data is our legitimate interest in operating a secure and functioning website. We do not process personal data for any other purpose.
3. When and with whom do we share your personal information?
In short: We do not share personal information with third parties, except as described below.
- Hosting and analytics infrastructure: Our hosting and analytics provider processes server log data and privacy-oriented web analytics as part of operating the service. This is governed by their own privacy policy and data processing terms.
- Business transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will provide notice before any such transfer.
- Legal requirements: We may disclose information if required to do so by law or in response to valid legal requests (such as a court order or government request).
We have not disclosed, sold, or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve months, and we will not do so in the future.
4. What is our stance on third-party websites?
In short: We are not responsible for the safety or privacy practices of any third-party sites we link to.
Every bulletin on A17News links to an external source. These third-party websites, services, and applications have their own privacy policies. We do not make any guarantee regarding those third parties and will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by your use of them. Once you leave our site, this Privacy Notice no longer applies. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
5. Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
In short: We do not use advertising cookies or cross-site tracking on the public site. We use privacy-oriented web analytics to measure aggregate traffic.
We do not use advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, or similar marketing technologies when you browse A17News. We use privacy-oriented web analytics provided through our hosting infrastructure to collect aggregated page-view and usage statistics. This analytics is intended to help us understand how the site performs and is not used to identify you personally or track you across other websites.
If you sign in to a restricted area of the site, separate authentication cookies may apply for that session only; those are not used for advertising or public-site analytics.
6. How long do we keep your information?
In short: We keep server log data only for as long as our hosting provider retains it for operational purposes.
Because we collect very little personal data ourselves, there is little for us to retain directly. Server access logs and aggregated analytics are subject to our infrastructure provider's retention policies. We do not maintain separate, long-term profiles of individual readers beyond what is automatically processed for operations and aggregate reporting.
7. How do we keep your information safe?
In short: We rely on enterprise-grade hosting infrastructure and apply industry-standard security controls on every response.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the minimal information we process. The site is served exclusively over HTTPS. However, no electronic transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. You should access the Services only from a secure environment.
8. Do we collect information from minors?
In short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 13.
A17News is a general-audience news feed and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children under 13 years of age. Because we collect no personal information from any reader, we have no mechanism to identify the age of visitors. If you believe a child under 13 has contacted us directly by email, please notify us at [email protected] and we will delete any such communication promptly.
9. Your privacy rights
In short: Because we hold virtually no personal data about readers, there is very little to act upon. But you can always contact us with any privacy concern.
Regardless of where you are located, you may contact us to:
- Ask what data (if any) we hold about you
- Request correction or deletion of any data we hold
- Object to any processing we carry out
Email [email protected] and we will respond within 30 days. Because we collect almost no personal data, the honest answer to most access requests will be that we hold nothing beyond what our hosting provider logs automatically.
10. Controls for Do-Not-Track features
Most web browsers include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") setting. We do not engage in cross-site advertising tracking or behavioural profiling. Our web analytics is limited to privacy-oriented, aggregate measurement on this site. No uniform technical standard for honoring DNT signals has been finalized; if one is adopted that we are required to follow, we will update this notice accordingly.
11. Do we make updates to this notice?
In short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws or if our data practices change. The updated version will be indicated by a revised "Last updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this notice periodically.
12. How can you contact us about this notice?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, email us at [email protected].