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Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 15, 2026

Times Media Service LLC publishes World Daily Times. This Privacy Notice explains how Times Media Service LLC collects, uses, discloses, and retains personal data when you use https://worlddailytimes.com, create an account, comment, join a newsletter, enable browser notifications, submit editorial material, contact us, or complete an eligible transaction.

This Notice applies to the current services described below. It does not describe advertising services that have not been activated.

1. Who is responsible for your personal data

Times Media Service LLC is the operator of World Daily Times and the controller responsible for the personal data covered by this Notice.

Times Media Service LLC, 32 N Gould St., Suite R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States. Telephone: 307-655-1046. Privacy inquiries and requests: privacy@timesmediaservice.com. Data Protection Officer and appeals: dpo@timesmediaservice.com.

2. Scope and availability of our services

This Notice applies across the Times Media Service publication fleet, including World Daily Times. Readers worldwide may use our free services, including reading articles, creating eligible reader accounts, commenting, joining newsletters, and enabling browser push notifications.

Paid subscriptions, donations, and merchandise transactions are available only in the United States. An account is required for every transaction.

Other websites and services have their own privacy practices. When a link or checkout redirects you to another provider’s hosted page, review that provider’s notice as well.

3. Personal data we collect

The personal data we collect depends on how you interact with us.

Reader accounts

When you create or use a reader account, we collect your full name, email address, username, password credential, exact date of birth, chosen display name, and any optional profile information you provide. We also store account-security information such as the current last-login timestamp, login IP address, failed-login history, and device or browser information.

An exact date of birth is required at registration. It is stored only in the reader’s WordPress account and is used to apply age rules. We do not request a birth date from visitors who are not creating or using an account.

Account registration requires agreement to both the Terms and this Privacy Notice.

Comments and reactions

You must be signed in to submit a comment. We process the comment or reaction, your account ID or email address, and the submission timestamp. Other visitors can see only your chosen display name with public comments. Reader ratings and reactions are visible only to the reader who submitted them.

Newsletters

Newsletter registration takes place on a Mailchimp-hosted signup page linked from the publication. Mailchimp uses double opt-in for every subscriber. We process your email address, subscription status, consent information, and newsletter engagement information. Open and click tracking is enabled.

Browser push notifications

If you enable browser notifications, our self-hosted push system stores a push-subscription endpoint and associated device or browser information. It also records delivery status, notification clicks or opens, delivery failures, and expired endpoints.

Paid subscriptions, donations, and merchandise

For an eligible transaction, WooCommerce records your full name, email address, telephone number, billing address, shipping address when merchandise must be delivered, order, subscription, or donation details, IP address, and browser user-agent. For recurring payments, it may store a Stripe or PayPal customer identifier and a payment-token reference.

Stripe and PayPal redirect you to their hosted payment pages. Times Media Service LLC does not receive or store your complete payment-card number or card security code.

Checkout requires agreement to both the Terms and this Privacy Notice.

Editorial submissions and communications

We collect the material and contact details you choose to provide when you send a letter to the editor, story pitch, news tip, correction request, ordinary inquiry, or support request. Anonymous news tips are accepted. Verified SecureDrop instructions are available at https://worlddailytimes.com/secure-drop/.

If we publish a letter to the editor, we normally show the writer’s chosen display name or pseudonym. We do not publish a writer’s email address, telephone number, or private address without separate, explicit consent.

The publication’s Contact form asks for your name, email address, the subject of your message (for example, a news tip or a correction request), the message, and an optional story link. Times Media Service LLC’s newsroom system receives the message and stores it with the publication it was sent from, the time, your browser’s user-agent, and a salted, one-way hash of your IP address. We use that hash to limit how many messages can be sent from one connection; we do not store your IP address with the message. When our staff reply, the reply goes by email to the address you provide.

Privacy-rights requests

When you submit a formal privacy-rights request, we collect the request, related correspondence, and identity-verification status. Stripe Identity performs the standard verification described in Section 13.

Data collected automatically

When you visit or use the site, our systems and providers may automatically process IP address, date and time, requested pages, referral information, device and browser information, security events, and similar technical information.

SiteGround processes web-access and security logs to protect and deliver the site. Google reCAPTCHA v3 processes risk signals only on protected account and comment pages. Cloudflare Turnstile processes device, browser, network, and challenge signals only on the Contact page, and our newsroom system sends Cloudflare the resulting one-time token and your IP address to confirm that a person sent the form. Stripe and PayPal process fraud signals for transactions. Our consent tools record consent and opt-out choices and related consent metadata. Google Analytics 4 processes analytics data as described in Section 6, and our anonymous audience measurement counts page views without cookies or identifiers.

4. Where personal data comes from

We obtain personal data from the following sources:

  • Directly from you: information you submit through accounts, comments, newsletters, push settings, editorial channels, support, transactions, and privacy requests.
  • From your device or browser: technical, security, consent, analytics, and push-subscription information produced when you use the site.
  • From transaction providers: payment result, fraud-screening result, customer identifier, and token reference from Stripe or PayPal; sales-tax information from Stripe Tax; and fulfillment status from Printful.
  • From security providers: the result of Cloudflare Turnstile’s check when you send the Contact form.
  • From identity verification: a verification result from Stripe Identity. Authorized Times Media Service personnel can access only the result, not the identity document, selfie, or database-check details.
  • From optional profile services: a Gravatar image from Automattic only after you select Gravatar.

5. Why we use personal data and our legal bases

The legal basis depends on the service, your location, and the applicable law.

Provide accounts and free reader services

We use account, comment, reaction, newsletter, and push data to provide features you request, administer your account, authenticate you, and deliver communications. Depending on the context, we rely on performance of a contract or steps requested before a contract, consent, and our legitimate interests in operating reader services.

Communicate with you

We use contact details and correspondence to answer questions, send requested newsletters or notifications, process corrections, and administer editorial submissions. Depending on the communication, we rely on consent, performance of a contract, legitimate interests, and editorial or public-interest purposes.

Process U.S. transactions

We use customer, order, payment-reference, tax, and shipping data to process paid subscriptions, donations, and merchandise purchases; prevent fraud; deliver orders; keep business records; and resolve disputes. We rely on performance of a contract, legal obligations, and legitimate interests in secure transactions and recordkeeping.

Protect the site, accounts, and transactions

We use login history, IP and device information, reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare Turnstile signals, the hashed IP address that limits repeated Contact-form messages, hosting-security events, and provider fraud-screening results to prevent abuse, protect accounts, investigate incidents, and enforce our terms. We rely on legitimate interests, contract necessity, and legal obligations where applicable.

Measure site use

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand readership and improve our publications. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Google Analytics 4 sets cookies and collects full measurement only after analytics consent, and consent is our legal basis for it. Before consent, it receives only the cookieless signals without identifiers described in the Cookie Policy, and we rely on our legitimate interest in measuring and improving our journalism for those signals. Elsewhere, we rely on our legitimate interest in measuring and improving our journalism, and you can opt out through Your Privacy Choices. GA4 advertising features are disabled, and we do not use a pseudonymous User-ID for signed-in readers. We also keep anonymous, aggregate page-view counts that contain no personal data and involve no cookie or identifier, described in the Cookie Policy; they are kept for 25 months.

Record privacy choices and handle rights

We process consent records, Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track status, privacy requests, verification status, and related correspondence to honor choices, demonstrate compliance, and protect personal data from unauthorized disclosure. We rely on consent where applicable, legal obligations, and legitimate interests in secure request handling.

Conduct journalism and maintain editorial records

We process letters, pitches, tips, SecureDrop communications, correction records, and related material for newsgathering, editorial review, publication decisions, record integrity, and the public interest. Depending on applicable law, we rely on legitimate interests, freedom of expression and information, journalism-related provisions, consent where appropriate, and legal obligations.

Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

We may use relevant records to respond to lawful demands, enforce agreements, resolve disputes, and establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. We rely on legal obligations and legitimate interests.

6. Cookies, consent, and privacy signals

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, a consent banner with Accept All, Reject All, and Manage Options of equal prominence appears on your first visit, and optional technologies stay off until you choose. Elsewhere, no banner is shown, Google Analytics 4 runs when you visit, and every page links to Your Privacy Choices, where you can opt out.

We treat 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; neither turns off analytics. This treatment is separate from whether a signal creates a legal obligation in a particular jurisdiction.

Before consent in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, and after an analytics opt-out anywhere, Google Analytics 4 sends only cookieless signals without identifiers. We also count page views anonymously, without cookies or identifiers. For more detail, see the Cookie Policy.

7. What other people can see

  • Other visitors can see only the display name you choose for your reader profile or public comments.
  • Reader ratings and reactions are visible only to the reader who submitted them.
  • A published letter normally shows the writer’s chosen display name or pseudonym.
  • A letter writer’s email address, telephone number, and private address are never published without separate, explicit consent.
  • Donor names, donation amounts, and other donation details remain private.
  • Published comments and reactions remain part of the publication record. When the related account is deleted, the retained content remains and linked identity is anonymized.

8. When we disclose personal data

We disclose only the information reasonably needed for the relevant service.

  • SiteGround: hosts publication servers and databases in the United States, processes web-access and security logs, and provides SMTP delivery for account verification, password-reset, purchase, and administrative messages, and for our email replies to messages sent through the Contact form.
  • Google: provides reCAPTCHA v3 for protected account and comment pages, Google Analytics 4 as described in Section 6, and, on publications that show ads, Google AdSense.
  • Cloudflare: provides Turnstile on the Contact page to check for automated abuse, and receives the check’s token and your IP address when our newsroom system confirms the check.
  • Vercel: hosts, in the United States, the newsroom system that receives messages sent through the Contact form, our anonymous audience counts, and the consent and opt-out log.
  • Supabase: stores, in the United States, Contact-form messages, our replies, and the related records for the newsroom system, our anonymous audience counts, and the consent and opt-out log.
  • Mailchimp: hosts newsletter signup, manages double opt-in and suppression records, sends newsletters, and measures opens and clicks.
  • Stripe and PayPal: host payment pages, process payments and recurring token references, and perform transaction fraud screening.
  • Stripe Tax: calculates sales tax during WooCommerce checkout.
  • Printful: receives the order and shipping details needed to fulfill merchandise orders.
  • Stripe Identity: verifies identity for formal privacy-rights requests and returns a verification result.
  • Automattic: provides Gravatar only after the reader selects it.
  • SecureDrop: provides the secure channel described on the publication’s verified instructions page.
  • Professional advisers, authorities, and other lawful recipients: receive data when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect rights or safety, investigate wrongdoing, complete a corporate transaction, or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Access by authorized Times Media Service employees and contractors is limited to personnel in the United States. Our internal AI tools do not receive reader, subscriber, customer, commenter, or confidential-source personal data.

Article pages do not currently use third-party social-media, video, or map embeds.

9. Advertising and sale or sharing of personal data

Times Media Service LLC does not sell personal data for money. On publications that show Google AdSense ads, Google and its partners may collect cookie identifiers, device and browser information, IP address, and pages viewed to serve personalized ads. Under some U.S. state laws this may be a “sale” or “sharing” of personal data or “targeted advertising.” You can opt out through Your Privacy Choices or Google’s privacy message on that publication, or by enabling Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track.

Google Analytics 4 advertising personalization is disabled for all regions. The GA4 properties have no links to Google Ads or another Google advertising product, and they do not receive a User-ID for signed-in readers.

If our advertising practices change, we will update this Notice and the Cookie Policy and obtain consent or provide choices where required before activating the changed practice.

10. International data transfers

Publication servers and databases, and the newsroom system that receives Contact-form messages, are located in the United States. Readers may access free services globally, so personal data may be transferred to and processed in the United States and in other countries where a service provider operates.

For major vendors, Times Media Service LLC has accepted data-processing terms that include applicable European Union Standard Contractual Clauses and United Kingdom transfer safeguards. We also use access controls and other appropriate safeguards. Laws in the destination country may differ from those where you live.

11. How long we retain personal data

We retain personal data only for the periods described below or longer when necessary for a legal hold, dispute, security investigation, or other binding legal requirement.

  • Reader accounts: until you delete the account or the account is automatically deleted after 24 months of inactivity. Account backups may persist for up to 90 additional days.
  • Login-security history: detailed login IP, failed-login, device, and browser history is retained until the account is deleted. The current last-login timestamp remains part of the active account record.
  • Comments and reactions: retained indefinitely as part of the publication record. When the related account is deleted, linked identity is anonymized while the retained content remains.
  • Letters, story pitches, news tips, SecureDrop submissions, and source communications: retained indefinitely as editorial records.
  • Correction requests and resulting correspondence, other than Contact-form messages: retained for 12 months after the matter is closed.
  • Ordinary inquiries and support emails, other than Contact-form messages: retained for 12 months after the matter is resolved.
  • Contact-form messages, replies, and related newsroom records: we do not currently have a scheduled deletion process; these records remain in the newsroom system after they are handled or closed.
  • Mailchimp engagement history: retained while the person remains subscribed and removed when the contact is reduced to a minimal suppression record.
  • Mailchimp suppression record: the minimal record is retained indefinitely to honor the opt-out.
  • Browser-push endpoint and associated device or browser data: retained until you withdraw the subscription or the endpoint expires.
  • Browser-push delivery and engagement history: retained for 30 days.
  • Browser-side consent record: retained for 24 months before consent is requested again.
  • Server-side consent and opt-out log: retained for 12 months in Times Media Service systems in the United States.
  • Anonymous aggregate page-view counts: retained for 25 months.
  • Google Analytics 4 user-level event data: retained for 14 months. Aggregate reports may remain available beyond that period.
  • SiteGround web-access and security logs: retained for up to 30 days.
  • WooCommerce order, subscription, donation, billing, and tax records: retained for 3 years after the transaction or customer relationship ends.
  • Closed privacy-rights cases: the request, identity-verification status, and related correspondence are retained for 12 months after closure.
  • Stripe Identity verification session: we request redaction from Stripe Identity when the privacy request is closed.

12. Your choices

You can control your personal data in several ways.

  • Account: update eligible account details or delete an ordinary reader account through account settings.
  • Comments and profile: choose the display name shown publicly and manage eligible profile information while signed in.
  • Newsletter: use the unsubscribe link in any newsletter. Mailchimp then retains only the minimum suppression record needed to honor your opt-out.
  • Browser push: disable notifications through reader-account notification settings, browser site-permission settings, or the publication push-settings control.
  • Analytics and advertising: open Your Privacy Choices from any page. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, use Reject All or Manage Options on the consent banner.
  • Browser signals: enable Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data and targeted advertising. Analytics continues unless you opt out of it in Your Privacy Choices.
  • Gravatar: do not select Gravatar, or change the profile-image choice in account settings.
  • Account deletion: use self-service deletion in account settings for an ordinary reader account.

13. Privacy rights and identity verification

Depending on where you live and the law that applies, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to processing of your personal data; receive a portable copy; withdraw consent; opt out of certain uses; appeal a denied request; or complain to a regulator. These rights are not absolute, and journalism, freedom of expression, security, recordkeeping, legal claims, and other exemptions may apply.

You may also opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal data and of targeted advertising at any time, without verifying your identity, through Your Privacy Choices or a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal.

To submit a formal privacy-rights request, email privacy@timesmediaservice.com. We will respond within the deadline required by the law that applies to the request. To appeal a denial, email the Data Protection Officer at dpo@timesmediaservice.com.

Our standard process refers every formal privacy-rights request to Stripe Identity to help prevent unauthorized disclosure or deletion, unless the Data Protection Officer approves the alternative described below. The standard checks are a government-issued identity document, a selfie and facial match, and a name and address database check. Authorized Times Media Service personnel can access only the verification result, and our case file retains only verification status. We request redaction of the Stripe Identity verification session when the request is closed.

If you cannot or do not wish to use facial verification, contact the Data Protection Officer. The DPO will determine an alternative verification method case by case, taking account of the request and the risk of disclosing or deleting data belonging to another person.

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data-protection or privacy regulator where you live.

14. Automated security and fraud decisions

Some security and fraud controls make automated decisions that can significantly affect access to an account, a site function, or a transaction.

  • Google reCAPTCHA v3 can reject the current login or comment based on automated risk signals.
  • Cloudflare Turnstile can stop the current Contact-form message when its automated check fails.
  • SiteGround security can reject the current login or comment, temporarily block an IP address or browser, or temporarily lock a reader account.
  • Stripe or PayPal fraud screening can restrict or reject a transaction.

For a Stripe or PayPal transaction decision, request human review or appeal directly to the relevant payment provider through its support or dispute process. Times Media Service LLC does not provide a manual review route for a reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, or SiteGround website-access block. If the Contact-form check stops your message, you can reload the page and send it again, or use another contact method listed on the Contact page. You may still contact us about the underlying account or exercise any applicable legal right concerning an automated decision.

15. Children and age rules

Times Media Service publications are general-audience publications and are not directed primarily to children under 13.

  • Reader accounts: the minimum age is 13. An exact date of birth is required at registration, and account creation is technically blocked worldwide for a person who indicates an age under 13.
  • Consent-based services outside the United States: where we rely on the user’s own consent, the service is restricted to people 16 or older. This international 16-and-over restriction is currently stated as a policy rule and is not separately technically enforced beyond the account age controls described here.
  • Paid subscriptions, donations, and merchandise: the minimum age is 18. An account is required, and WooCommerce checkout is technically blocked for an account holder known to be under 18.
  • Signed-out visitors: the consent flow does not request a birth date or ask a signed-out visitor to declare whether they are under 18.

Account and consent registration flows apply age-based controls to a signed-in reader. If a signed-in reader is known to be under 18, ads shown to that reader are not personalized. At sign-out, consent is cleared and optional cookies and browser identifiers already stored are deleted immediately where controllable.

16. Security

We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal data. These include access restrictions, authentication controls, security logging, hosted payment and identity-verification pages, consent controls, backups, and vendor safeguards.

No system can be guaranteed completely secure. Protect your password, use a secure device, and contact us if you believe your account or personal data has been compromised.

17. Changes to this Notice

We may update this Notice when our services, vendors, practices, or legal obligations 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.

18. Contact us

Questions, ordinary privacy inquiries, and formal privacy-rights requests may be sent to privacy@timesmediaservice.com.

Appeals and Data Protection Officer inquiries may be sent to dpo@timesmediaservice.com.

You may also write to Times Media Service LLC, 32 N Gould St., Suite R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States.