Who we are

Our website address is: https://newsfromtheotherside.com.

Effective Date: 02/25/2025
Last Updated:  02/25/2025

Welcome to News from the Other Side (the “Website”). Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting any personal information you provide. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your data.

Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following types of information:

  • Personal Information: Name, email address, and other details when you subscribe, comment, or contact us.
  • Usage Data: IP addresses, browser type, pages visited, and time spent on the site for analytics and security purposes.
  • Cookies & Tracking Technologies: We use cookies to enhance user experience, analyze traffic, and personalize content.

Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following types of information:

  • Personal Information: Name, email address, and other details when you subscribe, comment, or contact us.
  • Usage Data: IP addresses, browser type, pages visited, and time spent on the site for analytics and security purposes.
  • Cookies & Tracking Technologies: We use cookies to enhance user experience, analyze traffic, and personalize content.

How We Use Your Information

We use collected data for the following purposes:

  • To operate and maintain the Website
  • To communicate with you (e.g., newsletters, updates, responses to inquiries)
  • To improve our Website, content, and user experience
  • To monitor analytics and security
  • To comply with legal obligations

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings or our Cookie Consent Banner.

For more details, see our [Cookie Policy] (link to a separate page or section).

How We Protect Your Data

We implement security measures to safeguard your personal information. However, no online transmission is 100% secure. We do our best to protect your data, but we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Third-Party Services & Links

We may use third-party services for analytics, payment processing, or embedded content. These third parties may collect data according to their own privacy policies. News from the Other Side is not responsible for external privacy practices.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

A journey commenced, starting cheerfully under a clear sky, and a tranquil sea.

They walked out onto the deck. All the buildings and smoke had vanished, and the ship was in a vast expanse of sea, fresh and clear yet faint in the morning light.

They had departed from the city lying in the mud. A very thin silhouette stretched on the horizon, barely strong enough to support the weight of a distant city, which still lay upon it. They were free from paths, free from people, and a shared sense of liberation filled them all.

The ship moved steadily through small waves that splashed her and then fizzled like sparkling water, leaving a little trail of bubbles and foam on each side. The dull October sky above was lightly veiled as if by smoke from a fire, and the air was refreshingly salty and brisk. Indeed, it was too chilly to stay still.

Mrs. Brown took her husband`s arm, and as they walked away, it was clear from the way her tilted cheek turned up to his that she had something private to share.