Privacy Policy

Automatically collected data: When you visit our site, we automatically collect IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, time on site, and device information via Google Analytics.

Advertising data: Google AdSense uses cookies and web beacons to serve personalized ads based on your visits to this and other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.

Contact information: When you contact us via our contact form, we collect your name and email address solely to respond to your inquiry.

EcoBriefNews uses the following types of cookies:

• Essential cookies: Required for the website to function properly.
• Analytics cookies: Google Analytics (anonymized IP) — helps us understand how visitors use our site.
• Advertising cookies: Google AdSense — used to serve relevant advertisements and measure their performance.

You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or optout.aboutads.info.

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this site.

For more information about how Google uses data when you use our site, please visit: How Google uses data.

• To operate and improve our website
• To analyze traffic and user behavior (Google Analytics)
• To display relevant advertisements (Google AdSense)
• To respond to your inquiries
• To comply with legal obligations

We do not sell your personal information. We share data only with:

• Google Analytics: For website analytics (data is anonymized)
• Google AdSense: For advertising services
• Vercel: Our hosting provider (see Vercel's privacy policy)

Depending on your state of residence, you may have the right to:

• Know what personal information we collect
• Request deletion of your personal information
• Opt out of the sale of personal information (we do not sell data)
• Non-discrimination for exercising your privacy rights

To exercise these rights, contact us at privacy@ecobriefnews.com.

EcoBriefNews is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (COPPA compliant).

Analytics data is retained for 26 months (Google Analytics default). Contact form data is deleted after we respond to your inquiry.

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. We will notify you of significant changes by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

For privacy-related questions: privacy@ecobriefnews.com