Privacy Policy

We collect information you choose to send us, such as your name, email address, phone number, story tips, letters, photos, advertising inquiries, and other details included in messages to Cedar Grove Gazette.

Our website may also receive basic technical information, such as browser type, device information, pages visited, referral URLs, and approximate location derived from IP address. This information helps us maintain, secure, and improve the site.

We use information to respond to readers and advertisers, evaluate story ideas, prepare and publish local journalism, manage advertising placements, maintain website operations, and protect against misuse of our services.

If you submit a news tip, letter, photograph, quote, correction, event notice, or similar material, we may contact you to verify details or request permission and context before publication.

Information submitted for publication may appear in print, online, social media posts, newsletters, archives, or related editorial products. Published material may remain publicly available after publication.

We may also report on information from public records, public meetings, official notices, public events, interviews, and other sources commonly used in journalism.

We do not sell personal information. We may share information with service providers that help operate the website, manage email, produce the newspaper, host content, provide analytics, or support advertising operations.

We may disclose information when required by law, to protect our rights and safety, to investigate abuse, or as part of a business transfer involving the publication.

Our site may use third-party services, including hosting providers, analytics tools, embedded content, font providers, email services, and links to external websites. Those services may process information under their own privacy policies.

Cedar Grove Gazette is not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites linked from our pages or advertisements.

You may contact us to update your contact information, ask a privacy question, request that we stop using your information for non-editorial communications, or request a correction to information you previously provided.

Editorial decisions, public-interest reporting, legal obligations, archival records, and published materials may limit what we can remove or change.

Our website is intended for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without appropriate consent. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us.

For privacy questions, email news@cedargrovegazette.com. For advertising-related privacy questions, email ads@cedargrovegazette.com.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with a new effective date.