Last updated: 14 September 2026
1. Overview and Core Principles
Globdot is committed to journalistic integrity and reader privacy. We believe in transparent, accountable reporting and minimal data collection. We do not sell your personal information to third parties. Any data gathered is strictly used to deliver high-quality news coverage, maintain site performance, ensure infrastructure security, and sustain our independent newsroom through legitimate advertising.
2. Information We Collect
When you access Globdot, certain non-personally identifiable technical information is collected automatically:
- Server Log Data: Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and timestamps.
- Device and Usage Information: Screen resolution, language settings, and rough geographic location (country or regional level).
- Voluntary Communications: When you send email correspondence, news tips, or editorial feedback to our newsroom, we retain your email address solely to respond to your inquiry.
3. Cookies, Web Beacons, and Advertising Technologies
Globdot may use cookies and similar technologies to maintain site functionality, understand readership, and display advertising. Where consent is legally required, optional advertising or analytics storage will not be enabled until the visitor has made a choice.
Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising Vendors
If advertising is enabled, we may work with third-party advertising partners, including Google AdSense. In that case, the following disclosures apply:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites across the Internet.
- Google's use of advertising cookies (including the DoubleClick / DART cookie) enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to Globdot and/or other sites on the Internet.
- These advertising partners may automatically receive your IP address and use cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and personalize the advertising content you see.
- Globdot has no access to or control over cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
How to Opt Out of Personalized Advertising
You have complete control over personalized advertising. You may opt out of personalized ads at any time using the following industry resources:
- Google Ad Settings: You can opt out of personalized advertising from Google by visiting Google Ads Settings (google.com/settings/ads).
- Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): You may opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting aboutads.info/choices.
- European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA): Visitors in Europe can opt out via youronlinechoices.eu.
- Browser Cookie Controls: You can configure your browser to reject all cookies or alert you when a cookie is placed.
4. How We Use Information
The technical information collected is used solely for the following legitimate purposes:
- Ensuring fast, reliable page delivery and broadsheet typography rendering across global servers.
- Monitoring traffic volume, trending coverage areas, and reader engagement metrics.
- Detecting, preventing, and mitigating DDoS attacks, spam, and unauthorized server access.
- Serving standard digital advertising that funds our journalists and field dispatches.
5. Data Protection Rights (GDPR & CCPA)
Regardless of where you reside, Globdot respects international data protection principles, including the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA):
- Right to Access: You have the right to request confirmation of whether we process any personal information concerning you.
- Right to Deletion: You may request the deletion of any personal data we hold (e.g., editorial email records).
- Non-Discrimination: We will never discriminate against any reader for exercising their privacy rights.
- No Sale of Personal Data: Globdot does not sell, rent, or trade reader personal data under any circumstances.
6. Children's Online Privacy Protection (COPPA)
Protecting the privacy of young children is paramount. Globdot does not knowingly collect or solicit any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that a child has provided personal information to our newsroom, please contact us immediately, and we will promptly delete such records.
7. External Links & Third-Party Services
Our reporting frequently includes links to external sources, research papers, official government releases, and primary documents. Globdot is not responsible for the privacy policies or content of external websites. We encourage readers to review the privacy notices of any third-party sites they visit.
8. Editorial Standards & Newsroom Governance
For details on how our journalists verify information, handle confidential sources, and correct errors, please read our Editorial Standards and our Corrections Policy.
9. Contact the Newsroom
If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, cookie practices, or wish to exercise your data rights, please contact our data governance desk:
Email: [email protected]
Editorial: [email protected]