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Cookie Policy

Last updated: October 15, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Times Media Service LLC uses cookies and similar technologies on World Daily Times at https://worlddailytimes.com. It should be read with our Privacy Notice.

Times Media Service LLC is the operator responsible for the practices described in this Policy.

Times Media Service LLC, 32 N Gould St., Suite R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States. Telephone: 307-655-1046. Email: privacy@timesmediaservice.com.

1. What cookies and similar technologies are

Cookies are small text files that a website or service stores on a browser or device. We also use or encounter similar technologies, including local storage, pixels, analytics tags, security scripts, service workers, consent strings, server-side consent identifiers, device or browser identifiers, browser push-subscription endpoints, and payment or newsletter technologies on provider-hosted pages.

Some technologies are necessary to deliver a service or protect the site. Others are optional. Where the law of your location requires consent, optional technologies run only after you consent. Elsewhere, analytics runs when you visit and you can opt out of optional technologies as described in this Policy.

2. Consent and Your Privacy Choices

European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland. A consent banner appears on your first visit. Its first layer provides Accept All, Reject All, and Manage Options with equal prominence. Before you make a choice, strictly necessary technologies are on and locked, and the functional or preferences, analytics, and advertising or marketing categories are off. Reject All leaves only strictly necessary technologies active. Before you choose, and after Reject All, Google Analytics 4 may send cookieless signals that contain no cookie, advertising identifier, or user identifier, which Google uses only to estimate aggregate site use.

All other locations, including the United States. No consent banner is shown. Strictly necessary and analytics technologies run when you visit. Every page links to Your Privacy Choices, where you can opt out of analytics and of the sale or sharing of personal data and targeted advertising. If you opt out of analytics, Google Analytics 4 sends only the cookieless signals described above.

We decide which experience to show from your approximate location, derived from your IP address when the page is requested. We do not store that location.

You can reopen Your Privacy Choices at any time to change or withdraw a choice. The browser-side consent record remains for 24 months before the site asks for consent again, unless an earlier change, withdrawal, browser action, or legal requirement causes the choice to be refreshed.

When you reject or withdraw an optional choice, the related optional processing stops and controllable optional cookies and browser identifiers are deleted immediately. This does not retrieve data already transmitted to a provider; that provider handles previously received data under its own retention practices and legal obligations.

3. Cookie and technology categories

Strictly necessary

These technologies are required to provide a feature you request, maintain a session, remember privacy choices, protect an account or the site, process an eligible transaction, or balance and deliver site traffic. They are on and locked in Manage Options because the relevant service cannot operate securely without them.

Examples include WordPress and WooCommerce session and account technologies, consent and privacy-choice storage, SiteGround security, Google reCAPTCHA v3 on protected account and comment pages, and Cloudflare Turnstile on the Contact page.

Functional or preferences

These optional technologies remember choices or enable a convenience that is not essential to the core service. They remain off until you enable the category. An example is an optional profile-image preference such as Gravatar after you select it.

Analytics

These technologies help us understand readership and site performance. Outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Google Analytics 4 runs when you visit. If you opt out of analytics through Your Privacy Choices, it sends only the cookieless signals described in Section 2. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, GA4 runs in full only after you enable analytics and until then sends only those cookieless signals. Separately, our anonymous audience measurement, described in Section 6, counts page views for every visitor without cookies or identifiers.

Advertising or marketing

These technologies support advertising on publications that show ads. Google AdSense runs on some publications, listed in Section 7. On those publications, Google and its partners may use cookies and similar technologies to serve, personalize, and measure ads. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Google’s consent message asks for your choice before ads are personalized. Elsewhere, ads may be personalized unless you opt out. Under some U.S. state laws this may be a “sale” or “sharing” of personal data or “targeted advertising”; see Section 9 of our Privacy Notice.

4. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track

We treat both a browser Global Privacy Control signal and a Do Not Track signal as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data and of targeted advertising. When we detect either signal, ads on our publications are not personalized for that browser. Neither signal turns off analytics; to do that, use Your Privacy Choices.

This treatment is separate from whether a particular signal creates a legal obligation in the jurisdiction where you live.

5. Consent records

Your browser stores a consent record for up to 24 months. We also keep a server-side log of consent and opt-out choices for 12 months in Times Media Service systems located in the United States.

The server-side log contains:

  • Your choices.
  • The date and time of each choice.
  • A pseudonymous consent identifier.
  • Whether you were shown the European consent banner.
  • The publication.
  • Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track status.

It does not contain your IP address or any value derived from it.

We use these records to apply your choices, demonstrate that a choice was recorded, troubleshoot consent behavior, and comply with applicable requirements.

6. Technologies used by the publication

WordPress and WooCommerce

WordPress uses strictly necessary technologies for reader authentication, account security, signed-in commenting, and site operation. WooCommerce uses strictly necessary technologies to maintain a checkout, apply account age restrictions, process eligible U.S.-only transactions, and connect the transaction to hosted payment pages.

A reader must be signed in to comment or complete a WooCommerce transaction. WooCommerce checkout is technically blocked when the account holder is known to be under 18.

SiteGround

SiteGround hosts the publication in the United States and processes web-access and security information needed to deliver and protect the site. Web-access and security logs are retained for up to 30 days. Security controls may temporarily block an IP address or browser, reject a login or comment, or temporarily lock an account.

Google reCAPTCHA v3

Google reCAPTCHA v3 loads only on protected account and comment pages. It runs on those pages before a visitor accepts optional cookies because we treat it as a strictly necessary security service. It processes device, browser, interaction, network, and risk information to identify automated abuse. An automated risk decision may reject the current login or comment.

Cloudflare Turnstile

Cloudflare Turnstile loads only on the publication’s Contact page. It runs on that page before a visitor accepts optional cookies because we treat it as a strictly necessary security service. It processes device, browser, network, and challenge information to check that a person, not an automated program, is sending the form, and usually does so without a visible challenge. An automated decision may stop the current Contact-form message from being sent.

Google Analytics 4

Outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Google Analytics 4 runs from your first page view unless you opt out. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, and for anyone who opts out of analytics, it sends only the cookieless signals described in Section 2 until analytics consent is given. User-level event data is retained for 14 months. Aggregate reports may remain available beyond that period.

Google Signals is disabled. Advertising personalization is disabled for all regions. The GA4 properties are not linked to Google Ads, AdSense, or another Google advertising product, and they do not receive a pseudonymous User-ID for signed-in readers.

Google AdSense

On publications listed in Section 7, Google AdSense serves ads. Google and its partners may set or read cookies and use device and browser information, IP address, and pages viewed to serve, limit the frequency of, personalize, and measure ads, and to detect fraud. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Google’s certified consent message records your choices under the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. Elsewhere, Google’s U.S. state privacy message offers an opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal data, and a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal is honored as that opt-out. Google’s use of this data is described in Google’s privacy policy.

Anonymous audience measurement

We count page views on our publications with our own measurement, hosted by Times Media Service in the United States. It sets no cookie, stores nothing on your device, and uses no identifier or fingerprint. Each page view adds one to an aggregate count for that page and day, together with the domain of the referring site, a device class (mobile, tablet, or desktop), and a region class (European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, or elsewhere). Your IP address is used only to deliver the request and to determine the region class, and is not stored. The counts cannot be linked to a person, to a browser, or across days or publications. Because it contains no personal data, it runs for every visitor, including visitors who have opted out of analytics. Aggregate counts are kept for 25 months.

Gravatar

The site requests a Gravatar from Automattic only after a signed-in reader selects Gravatar as a profile-image option. That request may send a hashed form of the reader’s email address along with technical request information to determine whether an image is available.

Browser push notifications

When you enable browser push, our self-hosted system stores a push-subscription endpoint and associated device or browser data until you withdraw the subscription or the endpoint expires. Delivery status, clicks or opens, failures, and expired-endpoint history are retained for 30 days.

You can disable push through reader-account notification settings, browser site-permission settings, or the publication push-settings control.

Mailchimp newsletter pages and messages

Newsletter signup occurs on a Mailchimp-hosted page, not in a form hosted on the publication site. Mailchimp applies its own technologies on its domain and provides links to the Times Media Service Privacy Notice and Mailchimp’s privacy information. Every subscriber uses double opt-in.

Mailchimp open and click tracking is enabled in newsletter messages. Subscriber-level engagement history is retained while the person is subscribed and removed when the contact is reduced to a minimal suppression record. The minimal suppression record is retained indefinitely to honor the opt-out.

Stripe, PayPal, Stripe Tax, and Printful

WooCommerce redirects an eligible customer to a Stripe- or PayPal-hosted payment page. Those providers apply their own necessary security, session, payment, and fraud-screening technologies on their domains. Stripe Tax calculates sales tax at checkout. Printful receives the order and shipping information needed to fulfill merchandise.

Times Media Service LLC does not receive or store a complete payment-card number or card security code. For a recurring subscription, WooCommerce stores only a Stripe or PayPal customer identifier and payment-token reference.

7. Current advertising status

Google AdSense is active on colusa.net and may be added to other publications; this list is updated when that happens. There are no Google advertising-product links in GA4, and GA4 advertising personalization is disabled for all regions.

For a signed-in reader known to be under 18, ads are not personalized. We will update this Policy and request consent again where required before activating a materially different advertising use.

8. Cookie and tracker inventory

The inventory below lists the technologies in use on Times Media Service publications, their category, provider, and duration. We review it when site features or providers change. If a new technology is optional, it is assigned to the appropriate optional category before it is allowed to run.

  • tms_privacy (Times Media Service). Strictly necessary. Stores your consent and privacy choices. Duration: 24 months.
  • WordPress sign-in cookies (WordPress): cookies whose names begin with wordpress_logged_in_, wordpress_sec_, or wp-settings-, plus wordpress_test_cookie. Strictly necessary. Sign-in, account security, and account preferences. Duration: session to 1 year.
  • WooCommerce cookies (WooCommerce): cookies whose names begin with wp_woocommerce_session_, plus woocommerce_cart_hash and woocommerce_items_in_cart. Strictly necessary. Cart and checkout. Duration: session to 2 days.
  • _GRECAPTCHA (Google reCAPTCHA v3). Strictly necessary. Abuse protection on account and comment pages. Duration: 6 months.
  • Turnstile challenge storage (Cloudflare). Strictly necessary. Abuse protection on the Contact page. Duration: session.
  • Push-subscription endpoint (Times Media Service). Functional. Browser push notifications you enable. Duration: until withdrawn or expired.
  • _ga and _ga_ followed by the property ID (Google Analytics 4). Analytics. Distinguishes browsers and sessions for aggregate reporting. Duration: 2 years.
  • __gads, __gpi, __eoi (Google AdSense, on the publications listed in Section 7). Advertising. Serves, limits, personalizes, and measures ads. Duration: 6 to 13 months.

Our anonymous audience measurement sets no cookie and stores nothing on your device.

9. Age-related controls and sign-out

Times Media Service publications are general-audience publications and are not directed primarily to children under 13. Account creation is blocked worldwide for a person who indicates an age under 13.

The consent flow does not ask a visitor without an account to provide a birth date or declare whether the visitor is under 18. For a signed-in reader whose account shows an age under 18, ads are not personalized. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal data of a consumer under 16.

Outside the United States, consent-based services are restricted to people age 16 or older. This rule is stated in policy but is not separately technically enforced beyond the account age controls described here.

When an under-18 reader signs out, the consent associated with that signed-in state is cleared. Optional cookies and browser identifiers already stored are deleted immediately where controllable.

10. How to manage technologies

You can manage cookies and related technologies in several ways:

  • Open Your Privacy Choices from any page to opt out of analytics or of the sale or sharing of personal data and targeted advertising, or to change a choice.
  • In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, use Reject All or Manage Options on the consent banner.
  • Enable Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data and targeted advertising.
  • Use browser controls to delete or block cookies and local storage.
  • Our anonymous audience measurement uses no cookies or identifiers and has no setting to turn off, because it holds no personal data.
  • Disable browser push through account settings, the publication push-settings control, or browser site-permission settings.

Blocking strictly necessary technologies through browser settings may prevent account, comment, security, consent, or checkout features from working. Deleting storage may cause the banner to ask for your choices again.

11. Other websites and provider-hosted pages

Mailchimp signup pages, Stripe and PayPal payment pages, and other linked services operate on separate domains. Their own privacy and cookie notices govern technologies placed on those domains. A choice made in Your Privacy Choices or the consent banner does not necessarily control a provider’s hosted page.

12. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy when site features, providers, scans, or legal requirements change. We will show a revised last-updated date. For a material change, we will also provide a prominent website notice and ask for consent again through our consent tools when required.

13. Contact us

Questions about this Cookie Policy or our consent controls may be sent to privacy@timesmediaservice.com.

You may also contact Times Media Service LLC, 32 N Gould St., Suite R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States, by telephone at 307-655-1046.