USPatriotNews.com

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 10, 2026

USPatriotNews.com (“we,” “us,” “our,” or the “Site”) is committed to protecting the privacy of our visitors and readers. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at https://uspatriotnews.com, including any subdomains, mobile versions, or related services (collectively, the “Site”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using the Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Site.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information in several ways when you visit or interact with USPatriotNews.com. The types of information we collect include both information you provide to us directly and information collected automatically through your use of the Site.

1.1 Information You Provide Voluntarily

We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

  • Subscribe to our newsletter or email updates
  • Submit a comment on an article or blog post
  • Contact us via email, a contact form, or other communication channels
  • Participate in surveys, contests, or promotions
  • Create an account or register on the Site
  • Submit a tip or story suggestion

This information may include your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, and any other information you choose to provide in your communications with us.

1.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit USPatriotNews.com, we automatically collect certain information about your device, browsing activity, and interaction with our Site. This includes:

  • Device Information: Your device type, operating system, browser type and version, screen resolution, device identifiers, and language preferences.
  • Log Data: Your Internet Protocol (IP) address, access times, pages viewed, referring URL, the links you click, and other actions you take on the Site.
  • Browsing Data: Information about how you navigate through the Site, including pages visited, time spent on each page, scroll depth, and the order of pages viewed during a session.
  • Location Data: Approximate geographic location based on your IP address, including your city, state, and country.
  • Interaction Data: Information about your interactions with our content, including articles read, links clicked, videos watched, and social sharing activity.

1.3 Information from Third Parties

We may receive information about you from third-party sources, including social media platforms (when you interact with our content on those platforms), advertising partners, analytics providers, and data brokers. We may combine this information with other data we collect about you.

2. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

USPatriotNews.com uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information, personalize your experience, and deliver targeted advertising. A “cookie” is a small data file stored on your device when you visit a website.

2.1 Types of Cookies We Use

  • Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary for the Site to function properly. They enable core features such as page navigation, access to secure areas, and basic site functionality. The Site cannot function properly without these cookies, and they cannot be disabled.
  • Analytics Cookies: We use analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with our Site. These cookies help us measure traffic, identify popular content, and improve the user experience. We use the following analytics services:
    • Clicky Web Analytics: Clicky provides real-time web analytics, tracking page views, visitors, and user behavior on the Site. For more information, visit Clicky’s Terms of Service.
    • Google Analytics: Google Analytics uses cookies to collect data about site traffic and user interactions. The data collected is aggregated and anonymized. For more information, visit Google’s Privacy Policy. You may opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on.
  • Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests. They also help limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Advertising cookies are placed by third-party advertising networks with our permission.
  • Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the Site to remember choices you make (such as your preferred language or region) and provide enhanced, personalized features.
  • Social Media Cookies: These cookies are set by social media services (such as Facebook, Twitter/X, and others) that we have integrated into the Site, enabling you to share our content with your social networks.

2.2 Managing Cookies

Most web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences through browser settings. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, delete cookies, or alert you when a cookie is being set. Please note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the Site and limit your ability to use certain features. For more information about cookies and how to manage them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

2.3 Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (DNT) signal. Because there is no universally accepted standard for how to respond to DNT signals, USPatriotNews.com does not currently respond to DNT signals. However, you may opt out of certain tracking as described in this Privacy Policy.

3. How We Use Your Information

USPatriotNews.com uses the information we collect for the following purposes:

  • Site Operation and Improvement: To operate, maintain, and improve the Site, including content delivery, site performance, and user experience optimization.
  • Analytics and Research: To analyze usage trends, track user engagement, measure the effectiveness of our content, and conduct research to improve our editorial offerings.
  • Advertising and Monetization: To display relevant advertisements, measure ad performance, and support the free content we provide through advertising revenue.
  • Communications: To send you newsletters, editorial updates, promotional materials, and other communications you have opted into receiving. You may opt out of marketing communications at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions in any email or by contacting us directly.
  • Personalization: To personalize your experience on the Site, including tailoring content recommendations and displaying relevant articles based on your browsing history and interests.
  • Security and Fraud Prevention: To detect, prevent, and address security incidents, fraud, spam, and other malicious or unauthorized activity on the Site.
  • Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests.

4. Third-Party Services

USPatriotNews.com works with various third-party services that may collect, use, or share your information. These third parties have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review.

4.1 Advertising Networks

We partner with third-party advertising networks to display advertisements on the Site. These networks may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activity across websites in order to deliver targeted advertising. Our advertising partners may include, but are not limited to, Google AdSense, Mediavine, Ezoic, and other programmatic advertising platforms.

4.2 Analytics Providers

We use third-party analytics services, including Clicky and Google Analytics, to help us understand how visitors use the Site. These services collect information about your interactions with the Site using cookies and other tracking technologies.

4.3 Social Media Embeds

Our articles may include embedded content from social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube, Instagram, and others. When you view a page with embedded social media content, those platforms may collect information about your visit, including your IP address, browser information, and cookies. Your interaction with embedded content is governed by the respective platform’s privacy policy.

4.4 Email Service Providers

We use third-party email service providers to manage our newsletter subscriptions and email communications. When you subscribe to our newsletter, your email address and related information will be shared with our email service provider for the purpose of delivering email communications.

4.5 Content Delivery Networks

We may use content delivery networks (CDNs) and hosting providers to deliver content efficiently and securely. These providers may collect technical information such as IP addresses and request headers as part of their services.

5. Your Privacy Rights

5.1 California Residents – CCPA/CPRA

If you are a California resident, you have specific rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). These rights include:

  • Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources from which your personal information was collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal information, and the categories of third parties with whom we share your personal information.
  • Right to Delete: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law.
  • Right to Correct: You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
  • Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing: You have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information. To exercise this right, please visit our Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information page.
  • Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: If we collect sensitive personal information, you have the right to limit how we use and disclose it.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.

To submit a verifiable consumer request, please contact us at privacy@uspatriotnews.com. We will respond to your request within 45 days, as required by law.

5.2 Other U.S. State Privacy Laws

A growing number of U.S. states have enacted comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. If you are a resident of any of the following states, you may have additional privacy rights under your state’s applicable law:

  • Virginia – Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)
  • Colorado – Colorado Privacy Act (CPA)
  • Connecticut – Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA)
  • Utah – Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA)
  • Texas – Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA)
  • Oregon – Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA)
  • Montana – Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA)
  • Tennessee – Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA)
  • Iowa – Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act (ICDPA)
  • Indiana – Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act (INCDPA)
  • Delaware – Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA)
  • New Hampshire – New Hampshire Privacy Act (NHPA)
  • New Jersey – New Jersey Data Privacy Act (NJDPA)
  • Nebraska – Nebraska Data Privacy Act (NDPA)
  • Kentucky – Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (KCDPA)
  • Maryland – Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA)
  • Minnesota – Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA)
  • Rhode Island – Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (RIDTPPA)
  • Vermont – Vermont Data Privacy Act (VDPA)
  • Wisconsin – Wisconsin Data Privacy Law

These state laws generally grant residents rights similar to those described above under the CCPA/CPRA, including rights to access, delete, correct, and opt out of the sale of personal data, as well as the right to opt out of targeted advertising and profiling. The specific rights and obligations vary by state. If you are a resident of one of these states and wish to exercise your rights, please contact us at privacy@uspatriotnews.com, and we will process your request in accordance with applicable law.

5.3 GDPR Rights for International Visitors

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom (UK), or Switzerland, you have rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable local data protection laws. These rights include:

  • Right of Access: You have the right to obtain confirmation of whether we process your personal data and to access a copy of that data.
  • Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
  • Right to Erasure (“Right to Be Forgotten”): You have the right to request deletion of your personal data under certain circumstances.
  • Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data in certain situations.
  • Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit that data to another controller.
  • Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes or when processing is based on our legitimate interests.
  • Right to Withdraw Consent: Where processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
  • Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority.

The legal bases for our processing of your personal data include: your consent, the performance of a contract, compliance with legal obligations, and our legitimate interests (such as operating and improving the Site, providing advertising-supported content, and ensuring site security).

To exercise any of your GDPR rights, please contact us at privacy@uspatriotnews.com.

6. Children’s Privacy (COPPA)

USPatriotNews.com is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Our Site is intended for a general audience of adults. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete that information as promptly as possible. If you believe that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately at privacy@uspatriotnews.com so that we can take appropriate action.

For users between the ages of 13 and 18, we encourage parents and guardians to monitor and guide their children’s online activity and to help enforce this Privacy Policy.

7. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. The criteria we use to determine retention periods include:

  • The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide services to you (for example, for as long as you are subscribed to our newsletter or have an active account)
  • Whether there is a legal or regulatory obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records for a specified period)
  • Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations)

When your personal information is no longer needed for any of these purposes, we will securely delete or anonymize it in accordance with our data retention practices and applicable law.

8. Data Security

We implement commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational security measures designed to protect the personal information we collect and store from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include, but are not limited to:

  • Encryption of data transmitted via SSL/TLS protocols
  • Secure server infrastructure and firewalls
  • Regular security assessments and vulnerability testing
  • Access controls limiting employee and contractor access to personal information
  • Employee training on data privacy and security best practices

However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. You use the Site and provide information to us at your own risk.

9. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Under the CCPA/CPRA and similar state privacy laws, you have the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information. The use of third-party advertising cookies and similar tracking technologies on our Site may constitute a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under these laws.

To exercise your right to opt out, please visit our Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information page, where you can manage your preferences and submit your opt-out request.

You may also submit a request by contacting us at privacy@uspatriotnews.com.

10. International Data Transfers

USPatriotNews.com is based in the United States, and your information will be processed and stored in the United States. If you are accessing the Site from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in a country where privacy laws may not provide the same level of protection as those in your jurisdiction. By using the Site, you consent to the transfer of your information to the United States and the processing of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

11. Links to Third-Party Websites

The Site may contain links to third-party websites, services, or applications that are not owned or controlled by USPatriotNews.com. This Privacy Policy applies only to our Site. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party websites or services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of every website you visit.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information. Your continued use of the Site after any changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the updated terms.

If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that significantly affect how we handle your personal information, we will provide prominent notice on the Site or notify you by other means (such as email) prior to the changes taking effect.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

USPatriotNews.com
Email: privacy@uspatriotnews.com

We will do our best to respond to your inquiry within a reasonable time frame and in accordance with applicable law.