Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 7, 2026
The Mississippi Gazette respects the privacy of its readers. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit our website, how that information may be used, and the choices available to you.
Information You Provide
The Mississippi Gazette may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, including your name, email address, and the contents of messages submitted through our contact form.
We use this information to respond to inquiries, receive news tips and corrections, communicate with readers, and operate the publication.
Please do not submit confidential or sensitive personal information through our contact form.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit The Mississippi Gazette, certain information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, analytics services, advertising providers, and other technology providers.
This information may include your IP address, browser and device information, pages visited, referring pages, approximate location, date and time of access, and information about how you interact with the website.
We may use this information to operate and secure the website, understand readership and traffic, improve our coverage and website experience, measure performance, and detect fraud or abuse.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
The Mississippi Gazette and third-party service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, measure traffic and readership, analyze website performance, and support advertising.
You may be able to control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how some features of the website function.
Analytics
The Mississippi Gazette may use Google Analytics or similar analytics services to understand how readers use the website.
These services may collect information through cookies and other technologies, including information about pages viewed, interactions with the website, devices and browsers, and approximate geographic information.
Google provides additional information about how it processes information from websites and apps that use its services through its privacy documentation.
Advertising
The Mississippi Gazette may display advertising provided by Google AdSense and other advertising partners.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a reader’s previous visits to The Mississippi Gazette or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve advertisements based on visits to this website and other websites on the Internet.
Third-party advertising providers may also use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies in connection with advertisements displayed on the website.
Readers can manage Google’s personalized advertising through Google’s My Ad Center. Additional information about Google’s use of information from sites using its services is available through Google’s Privacy & Terms information for partner sites. These disclosures track Google’s current requirements for AdSense publishers. (Google Help)
Third-Party Services and Links
The Mississippi Gazette may contain links to third-party websites and may use services provided by third parties, including website hosting, analytics, advertising, embedded content, and other technology providers.
Those third parties may collect or process information according to their own privacy policies. The Mississippi Gazette is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party websites.
How We Use Information
Information collected through the website may be used to operate, maintain and improve The Mississippi Gazette; respond to messages and news tips; analyze readership and website performance; provide and measure advertising; protect the website against fraud, spam, security threats and abuse; and comply with applicable legal obligations.
We do not sell information that you directly provide to us through the contact form.
Data Retention
We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including operating the publication, responding to communications, maintaining security, resolving disputes, and complying with legal obligations.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the service involved.
Children’s Privacy
The Mississippi Gazette is a general-audience news publication and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through the website.
If we become aware that personal information from a child under 13 has been collected inappropriately, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
Your Privacy Choices
Depending on where you live, applicable law may provide you with rights concerning personal information, which may include rights to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain information.
You may also control cookies through your browser and use privacy controls made available by our advertising and analytics providers.
Where required by applicable law, The Mississippi Gazette or its service providers may provide additional mechanisms for managing consent or privacy preferences.
Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect information collected through the website. However, no website, electronic transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as The Mississippi Gazette develops, adds services, or changes the technologies used on the website.
When material changes are made, the effective date at the top of this page will be updated.
Contact
Questions about this Privacy Policy or privacy practices may be submitted through our Contact page.