Privacy Policy

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ShadabChow.com respects reader privacy and aims to be transparent about how information may be collected, used, shared, and protected when you visit the site, submit information, contact us, subscribe, support the site, or interact with site features.

This Privacy Policy explains how information may be handled by ShadabChow.com and by service providers that help operate the site.

This policy is written for a publisher website that may use Shopify, Google advertising services, newsletter tools, push notification tools, reader-support tools, analytics tools, spam-prevention tools, embedded media, and other common website services.

Who operates this site

ShadabChow.com is an independent publishing platform led by Shadab Chow.

The site covers breaking news, crime, corruption, public accountability, exclusive footage, developing stories, and commentary.

Information you provide directly

You may choose to provide information when you:

Contact the site
Submit a tip
Send a correction request
Subscribe to a newsletter
Request advertising or sponsorship information
Submit documents, links, photos, videos, or other materials
Use a contact form or comment/tip-related form
Support the site through a third-party service

Information you provide may include:

Name
Email address
Phone number
Message content
Story tips
Uploaded or linked materials
Public records or documents
Social media handles
Organization name
Advertising inquiry details
Technical information connected to your submission

Do not submit sensitive personal information unless it is necessary and you have the legal right to provide it.

Tips and source information

If you submit a tip, the information you provide may be reviewed, stored, verified, rejected, archived, or used for reporting.

Submitting a tip does not guarantee confidentiality, publication, payment, response, or legal protection.

If your tip involves sensitive information, legal risk, retaliation risk, workplace risk, immigration risk, or personal safety concerns, consider whether ordinary web forms or email are appropriate before submitting.

Do not submit illegal material, hacked material, stolen private records, passwords, bank account numbers, Social Security numbers, private medical records, non-consensual intimate material, or exploitative material involving minors.

Information collected automatically

When you visit the site, some information may be collected automatically by the website, hosting provider, Shopify, analytics tools, advertising partners, security tools, embedded media providers, or other service providers.

This may include:

IP address
Browser type
Device type
Operating system
Pages visited
Referring pages
Approximate location based on IP address
Date and time of visit
Interactions with pages or links
Cookie identifiers
Advertising identifiers
Device-specific information
Diagnostic and performance information

This information may be used for site operation, analytics, security, advertising, fraud prevention, performance monitoring, and user experience improvement.

Cookies and similar technologies

ShadabChow.com and its service providers may use cookies, pixels, local storage, tags, web beacons, scripts, and similar technologies.

These technologies may be used to:

Keep the site working
Remember preferences
Measure site performance
Analyze traffic
Prevent spam or abuse
Support newsletter or notification tools
Measure advertising
Serve or personalize ads where permitted
Limit repeated ads
Understand how readers use the site

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect how some site features work.

Google advertising and AdSense

ShadabChow.com may use Google AdSense or other Google advertising services.

Google and its partners may use cookies, device identifiers, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies to serve ads, measure ad performance, limit repeated ads, detect invalid activity, and support advertising systems.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this site and/or other sites on the internet, where permitted.

You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites and apps that use Google services by visiting Google’s public privacy resources.

You may be able to opt out of personalized advertising through Google’s ad settings or other industry opt-out tools.

AdSense compliance and invalid activity

Readers should not click, view, refresh, or interact with ads in order to support the site, help a story, influence a correction, receive a reward, or benefit anyone.

Ad interactions must come from genuine user interest.

ShadabChow.com does not offer payment, rewards, benefits, or editorial favors in exchange for ad clicks, ad views, ad searches, or ad interactions.

Age and child-directed content

ShadabChow.com is intended as a general-audience publisher site. It is not directed to children under 13.

The site may cover crime, public safety, corruption, sensitive footage, allegations, and other public-interest topics that may not be appropriate for young children.

If a parent or guardian believes a child has provided personal information through the site, they may contact the site to request review or deletion where appropriate and legally required.

Google and other advertising providers may apply age-related protections or restrictions where required by law, policy, account settings, or ad request settings.

Teen and sensitive-content advertising

Some content may involve sensitive subjects such as violence, crime, injury, legal allegations, or disturbing events.

Advertising may be limited, restricted, or unavailable on certain pages depending on advertising policies, content sensitivity, user protections, age-related rules, advertiser demand, and platform review.

The site may use content warnings, viewer-discretion notices, and editorial context where appropriate.

Shopify

This site is built on Shopify’s platform and theme system.

Shopify may process information necessary to operate the site, including technical information, page interactions, forms, cookies, analytics, and other data connected to Shopify services.

If commerce, accounts, forms, or other Shopify-powered features are active, Shopify may process additional information needed to provide those services.

Brevo

ShadabChow.com may use Brevo or similar email/newsletter tools to manage email subscriptions, communications, and related analytics.

If you subscribe or submit your email, your information may be processed by the email service provider for purposes such as sending emails, managing lists, tracking deliverability, recording consent or unsubscribes, and measuring engagement.

You can unsubscribe from marketing emails using the unsubscribe link in those emails where available.

PushOwl

ShadabChow.com may use PushOwl or similar push notification tools.

If you opt in to browser notifications, the notification provider may process information needed to deliver notifications, manage consent, and measure notification performance.

You can disable browser push notifications through your browser or device settings.

Buy Me a Coffee

ShadabChow.com may use Buy Me a Coffee or similar reader-support tools.

If you choose to support the site through Buy Me a Coffee, that transaction and related information may be processed by Buy Me a Coffee and its payment providers under their own policies.

Do not use donations, support tools, or payment features to request ad clicks, editorial favors, guaranteed coverage, article removal, or correction outcomes.

Embedded media and third-party content

Articles may include embedded videos, social media posts, maps, images, documents, or other third-party content.

Embedded content may behave as if you visited the third-party site directly. Third parties may collect data, use cookies, track interactions, or apply their own privacy policies.

Examples may include video platforms, social platforms, document viewers, map providers, or other public-content tools.

Analytics and performance tools

The site may use analytics or performance tools to understand traffic, page performance, referrals, device types, user behavior, and site errors.

Analytics data may be aggregated or pseudonymous, but it may still involve identifiers such as cookies, IP addresses, or device information.

Spam, security, and fraud prevention

The site may use tools to detect spam, abuse, bots, malicious activity, invalid traffic, form abuse, security threats, or policy violations.

Information may be used to protect the site, readers, advertisers, service providers, and publishing systems.

How information may be used

Information may be used to:

Operate and maintain the site
Respond to messages
Review tips
Investigate corrections
Publish or verify reporting
Send newsletters or notifications
Improve content and user experience
Analyze traffic
Serve or measure ads
Prevent fraud, spam, abuse, and invalid activity
Comply with legal obligations
Enforce site terms and policies

How information may be shared

Information may be shared with:

Service providers that operate the site
Hosting and platform providers
Email/newsletter providers
Push notification providers
Advertising and analytics providers
Payment or reader-support providers
Security, spam-prevention, or fraud-prevention providers
Legal, compliance, or safety advisors where appropriate
Authorities when legally required or necessary to protect safety, rights, or the public interest

The site does not sell personal information to advertisers as a simple mailing list. Advertising partners may process data through cookies, identifiers, and related technologies as described in this policy and their own policies.

Public information and publication

If you submit information for reporting, some information may become part of published coverage if it is newsworthy, verifiable, lawful, and editorially appropriate.

Do not submit information you do not want reviewed for possible publication.

If the site publishes submitted material, it may edit, crop, quote, summarize, blur, redact, contextualize, or withhold portions for editorial, safety, privacy, or legal reasons.

Data retention

Information may be retained for as long as reasonably needed for site operation, reporting, legal review, corrections, dispute handling, security, analytics, compliance, or business purposes.

Tip submissions and correction requests may be retained even if they are not published.

Your choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, or other privacy-related actions.

You can also:

Unsubscribe from emails
Disable push notifications
Change browser cookie settings
Use browser privacy tools
Use Google ad settings or industry opt-out tools where available
Avoid submitting sensitive information through forms

California, U.S. state, EEA, UK, and other regional rights

Privacy rights vary by location.

If you are in a jurisdiction with specific privacy rights, you may contact the site to make a privacy request. The site may need information to verify your request.

The site will respond as required by applicable law.

Security

No website, email system, form, or online submission method is perfectly secure.

ShadabChow.com uses reasonable efforts to operate the site responsibly, but cannot guarantee that information submitted through the site will be fully secure, anonymous, confidential, or protected from unauthorized access.

External links

The site may link to external websites.

ShadabChow.com is not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, or policies of third-party websites.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time.

When updates are made, the effective date may be changed. Continued use of the site after changes means you accept the updated policy.

Contact about privacy

For privacy questions or requests, use the Contact page.