Effective Date: 15th June, 2025
Last Updated: 12th August, 2025
Rowlandnews (“we,” “our,” or “us”) operates the website https://rowlandnews.com. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your data, as well as your rights under applicable privacy laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
1. Data Collection
We collect both personal and non-personal information from visitors to our website:
- Personal Information:
- Email address (when you subscribe to our newsletter or fill out forms)
- Non-Personal Information:
- IP address
- Browser type and version
- Device information
- Location data (approximate, based on IP)
- Pages visited, time spent on site, and referring URLs (collected via analytics tools)
How We Collect This Data:
- Newsletter subscription forms
- Contact forms
- Comment submissions
- Automated tools such as Google Analytics and Google Search Console
2. Cookies
Our website uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience and to serve relevant advertisements.
- Analytics Cookies: Used to understand how visitors interact with our website.
- Advertising Cookies: Used by Google AdSense and other vendors to display personalized ads based on your previous visits to our site or other websites.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites.
You can choose to disable cookies through your browser settings, but some parts of our site may not function properly without them.
3. Third-Party Services
We use the following third-party services to operate and improve our website:
- Google Analytics – Tracks website usage to help us understand visitor behavior.
- Google AdSense – Displays advertisements and uses cookies for personalized ad targeting.
- Mailchimp – Manages our email newsletter subscriptions and sends communications.
- Google Search Console – Monitors site performance and search indexing.
These services may collect data in accordance with their own privacy policies. We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to outside parties.
4. User Rights
Under GDPR (for EU residents) and CCPA (for California residents), you have the right to:
- Access the personal data we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
- Request deletion of your personal data
- Object to the processing of your personal data for certain purposes (such as marketing)
- Request data portability (receive your data in a machine-readable format)
How to Exercise Your Rights:
You may contact us via our Contact Form to make any privacy-related requests. We will respond within the time frame required by applicable law.
5. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law.
6. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this page periodically for any changes.
7. Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through our Contact Form.
