Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2026

1. Introduction & Who We Are

Welcome to PeopleOnTheNews (legally referred to as “Peopleon The News,” and in this policy as “PeopleOnTheNews,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). PeopleOnTheNews operates the website located at https://peopleonthenews.com (the “Site”), a celebrity and influencer news publication that covers entertainment personalities, social media creators, pop culture, and related stories for a global readership.

We take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, how we use it, how and when we share it, and the rights and choices you have regarding that information. It applies to all visitors and users of the Site, whether you are located in the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, or elsewhere in the world.

Because our audience is global, this policy is designed to comply with applicable data protection laws, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the United Kingdom GDPR (“UK GDPR”), and the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (together, the “CCPA”).

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, you can contact us at info@peopleonthenews.com or through our Contact page. For the purposes of the GDPR, PeopleOnTheNews is the “data controller” responsible for your personal information.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information in a few different ways: information you provide to us directly, information we collect automatically when you use the Site, and information collected through cookies and similar technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

You may choose to provide certain personal information when you interact with the Site, for example when you:

• Subscribe to our newsletter or email updates (typically your email address, and optionally your name);
• Complete a contact form, submit a news tip, or otherwise reach out to us (such as your name, email address, and the content of your message);
• Leave a comment on an article, where comments are enabled (such as your name, email address, website, and the comment text);
• Participate in a survey, contest, giveaway, or promotion that we may run from time to time.

You are not legally required to provide this information, but if you choose not to, you may not be able to use certain features of the Site, such as receiving our newsletter.

Information We Collect Automatically

When you visit the Site, certain information is collected automatically by our servers and by third-party services we use. This information may include:

• Your Internet Protocol (IP) address;
• Your browser type and version;
• Your device type, operating system, and screen settings;
• The pages you view on the Site and the time and date of your visit;
• The referring URL (the website or source you came from);
• The links you click, how long you stay on a page, and other usage and interaction data;
• Approximate geographic location derived from your IP address.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We and our third-party partners use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and similar tracking technologies to operate the Site, understand how it is used, and serve relevant advertising. For a full explanation of the cookies we use and how to manage them, please see our Cookie Policy.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To operate and deliver the Site — displaying articles, images, and features, and ensuring the Site functions correctly across devices;
• To send communications you request — such as our newsletter, email updates, and responses to your inquiries;
• To improve our content and services — analyzing which stories and topics are popular so we can produce better, more relevant journalism;
• To display advertising — including personalized and non-personalized ads served through Google AdSense and other advertising partners;
• To measure performance — using analytics tools to understand traffic, audience engagement, and Site performance;
• To maintain security and prevent abuse — detecting, investigating, and preventing fraudulent, malicious, or unauthorized activity, including spam;
• To comply with our legal obligations — responding to lawful requests and enforcing our terms.

Where the GDPR applies, we rely on the following legal bases for processing: your consent (for example, for non-essential cookies and marketing emails); the performance of a contract (for example, delivering a newsletter you subscribed to); our legitimate interests (such as understanding our audience, securing the Site, and operating our business), provided those interests are not overridden by your rights; and compliance with a legal obligation.

4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. We use several categories of cookies and similar technologies:

• Essential (Strictly Necessary) cookies — required for the Site to function properly, such as remembering your cookie consent choices and maintaining security. These cannot be switched off in our systems.
• Analytics and performance cookies — used to understand how visitors interact with the Site, including which pages are visited most often. We primarily use Google Analytics for this purpose (see Section 6).
• Advertising and targeting cookies — set by us and by our advertising partners, including Google AdSense, to deliver advertisements that may be relevant to you, to limit the number of times you see an ad, and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. These cookies may track your browsing activity across different websites.

You can control non-essential cookies through our cookie consent banner and through your browser settings. For detailed, browser-by-browser instructions and a full list of cookie categories, please read our Cookie Policy.

5. Advertising and Third-Party Vendors

PeopleOnTheNews is supported by advertising. We use third-party advertising companies, including Google AdSense, to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies allow us to keep our content free to read.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Site. Google’s use of advertising cookies — including the DART cookie — enables Google and its partners to serve ads to you based on your prior visits to PeopleOnTheNews and/or other sites on the Internet. In other words, the DART cookie and similar advertising cookies allow Google and its partners to show you advertisements based on your visits to this Site and other sites across the web.

You have choices about how this information is used:

• You may opt out of personalized advertising by Google by visiting Google Ads Settings (https://www.google.com/settings/ads). If you opt out, you may still see ads, but they will be less tailored to you.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising from many third-party vendors and ad networks by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page at https://www.aboutads.info/choices and, in Europe, the Your Online Choices page at https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.

In addition to Google, we may work with other advertising networks and partners. These third-party ad networks may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to collect information about your activity on the Site and other websites in order to provide targeted advertising and measure its performance. We do not control these third-party technologies, and their use of cookies and data is governed by their own privacy policies, not this one. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party advertising partners to understand their practices and the choices they offer.

Affiliate links. Some articles on the Site may contain affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you. Where we use affiliate links, we aim to disclose this clearly, and our use of such links does not influence our editorial coverage.

6. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, to help us understand how visitors use the Site. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect information such as the pages you visit, how long you spend on the Site, the approximate location derived from your IP address, and the type of device and browser you use. This information is aggregated and helps us improve our content and user experience.

We have configured Google Analytics to retain user and event data for a limited period in accordance with Google’s data retention controls, after which it is automatically deleted. Google may also process this data in accordance with its own privacy policy.

If you would like to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can also manage analytics cookies through our cookie consent banner.

7. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell your personal information for money. We may share information in the following limited circumstances:

• Service providers — we share information with trusted third parties who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, email and newsletter delivery, analytics (Google Analytics), and advertising (Google AdSense and other ad partners). These providers may only use the information to provide services to us.
• Legal requirements — we may disclose information if required to do so by law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, or where necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our users or the public.
• Business transfers — if PeopleOnTheNews is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to this Privacy Policy.
• With your consent — we may share information for any other purpose disclosed to you at the time we collect it or with your direction.

Please note that some sharing of information with advertising partners through cookies (as described in Section 5) may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under certain laws, including the CCPA. See Section 10 for your rights and choices.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. For example:

• Newsletter subscriptions are retained until you unsubscribe;
• Contact form and inquiry messages are retained for as long as needed to respond to and resolve your request, and for a reasonable period thereafter;
• Analytics data is retained according to the retention period configured in Google Analytics;
• Comments remain associated with the article unless you request their removal.

When we no longer need your personal information, we will delete or anonymize it in a secure manner.

9. Your Rights Under GDPR

If you are located in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you have the following rights under the GDPR and UK GDPR in relation to your personal information:

• Right of access — to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
• Right to rectification — to request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete information;
• Right to erasure — to request that we delete your personal information (the “right to be forgotten”), subject to certain exceptions;
• Right to restriction of processing — to request that we limit how we use your information in certain circumstances;
• Right to data portability — to receive your information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, and to have it transmitted to another controller where technically feasible;
• Right to object — to object to our processing of your information based on legitimate interests, and to object to direct marketing at any time;
• Right to withdraw consent — where we rely on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal;
• Right to lodge a complaint — you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office).

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@peopleonthenews.com. We will respond within the timeframes required by applicable law and may need to verify your identity before acting on your request.

10. Your Rights Under CCPA

If you are a California resident, the CCPA provides you with the following rights regarding your personal information:

• Right to know — to request that we disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources of that information, the purposes for collecting it, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it;
• Right to delete — to request that we delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions;
• Right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information — to direct us not to “sell” or “share” your personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA, including for cross-context behavioral advertising. You can exercise this right through our cookie consent banner and the opt-out links provided in Section 5;
• Right to non-discrimination — we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights, such as by denying you services or providing a different level of quality.

To exercise your CCPA rights, please contact us at info@peopleonthenews.com. You may use an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, and we may take steps to verify your identity before responding.

11. Children’s Privacy

The Site is intended for a general, adult audience and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 (or under 16 in jurisdictions where that is the applicable minimum age, such as parts of the European Union), in line with the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and the GDPR.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at info@peopleonthenews.com and we will take steps to delete that information promptly.

12. Data Security

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. These measures include the use of secure (HTTPS) connections, access controls, and reliance on reputable service providers. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. You share information with us at your own risk and are responsible for keeping any account credentials confidential.

13. International Data Transfers

PeopleOnTheNews serves a global audience, and the information we collect may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in countries other than the one in which you reside, including the United States, where our service providers (such as Google) may operate. These countries may have data protection laws that differ from those in your jurisdiction.

Where we transfer personal information out of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we take steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place, such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or reliance on providers that participate in recognized data transfer frameworks, so that your information receives an adequate level of protection.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make material changes, we will revise the “Last updated” date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, provide a more prominent notice. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information. Your continued use of the Site after any changes take effect constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal information, please contact us:

• By email: info@peopleonthenews.com
• Through our website: Contact page

For more information about the cookies we use and how to manage them, please also see our Cookie Policy.