Privacy Policy
Effective Date: May 22, 2026
The Immigrant News (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is deeply committed to protecting the privacy and safety of our audience, readers, and sources—especially given the sensitive nature of immigration reporting. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, protect, and disclose information when you visit www.theimmigrantnews.com.
1. Information We Collect
- Voluntary Information: We collect personal information that you explicitly choose to provide, such as your name, email address, or billing information when you subscribe to our newsletter, make a donation, comment on articles, or participate in forums.
- Automated Information: When you access our site, we automatically collect certain technical data through cookies and server logs. This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and details about your interaction with our articles to help optimize user experience.
- Tip and Source Submissions: Any communication sent via secure tip channels is subject to extreme confidentiality protocols, as outlined in our Standards & Ethics and Submit a Tip policies.
2. How We Use Your Information We use the collected information to maintain our website operations, distribute requested newsletters, process contributions, analyze reader engagement metrics, protect against fraudulent activity, and comply with legally mandated obligations.
3. Cookies and Third-Party Analytics We utilize cookies to understand audience preferences. Third-party services, such as Google Analytics, help us map demographic trends without identifying individual users. You may choose to disable cookies in your personal browser settings, though doing so might affect certain site features.
4. Information Sharing and Disclosure We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal data to third parties. We may share anonymized aggregate data with advertisers or non-profit partners for funding metrics. We will only disclose personal data if required to do so by a formal, valid legal warrant, which we reserve the right to contest if it compromises journalistic privilege or source confidentiality.
5. Data Security We implement industry-standard administrative and technological security protocols (including SSL encryption) to protect your data. However, no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed as 100% secure.