Effective date: October 21, 2026
1. Scope and contact
This policy explains how information is handled through unjustly-accused.com, published as Unjustly Accused. For a privacy question or request, use our editorial contact form and begin the message with “Privacy.”
2. Information you provide
Our contact and story-submission form collects the message you enter and any optional name or email address you provide. Newsletter forms collect an email address. Comments, where enabled, may collect the details entered into the comment form. Do not include confidential case records or sensitive identification information in these forms.
We use editorial submissions to assess information, consider coverage, review correction requests, and respond when a contact address is supplied. Newsletter subscriptions are used to send the updates requested. You may request removal from the mailing list through the contact form or an unsubscribe option provided in an email.
3. Technical information and service providers
The website and its service providers may process IP addresses, browser and device information, pages visited, timestamps, referring pages, and interactions. An IP address can be personal information. This information supports site delivery, security, spam prevention, usage measurement, and advertising.
The site uses WordPress, Gravity Forms for submission forms, tagDiv Opt-In Builder for newsletter collection, and CleanTalk for spam prevention. Hosting and other technical providers may process information needed to operate these services. Spam screening may involve checking submitted information and technical signals with CleanTalk. See CleanTalk’s privacy information.
4. Google Analytics and cookies
The site uses Google Analytics through Site Kit to measure visits and interactions. Google and other providers may use cookies or similar technologies. Cookies can store identifiers or preferences on your device. Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services and review Google’s Privacy Policy.
You can manage cookies through your browser and use the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on where supported. Browser cookie controls do not necessarily stop every form of data processing.
5. Google advertising
This site has integrated Google AdSense code. Ad availability depends on Google’s approval and serving decisions. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites.
Google’s advertising cookies enable Google and its partners to serve ads based on visits to this site and other sites on the Internet. Users can manage or opt out of personalized Google advertising through Google’s Ads Settings. Information about opting out of some third-party vendors’ personalized advertising is available at AboutAds choices.
Privacy and cookie choices
We use Google’s Privacy & messaging service to provide European consent choices and US state privacy opt-outs. When the European message is displayed, you can choose Consent, Do not consent, or Manage options. Google interprets those choices for advertising and analytics storage through consent mode. Privacy and cookie settings lets you revisit European consent choices when the Google control is available.
In supported US states, Google’s “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link provides an opt-out from the sale or sharing of personal information for advertising. These choices apply to the browser and device you use. Clearing cookies or changing browsers may require you to make your choice again. If a privacy control is unavailable, you can use the Google advertising and analytics opt-out links above or send a privacy request through our contact form.
6. Source identity and confidentiality
You may leave the name and email fields blank. That does not make a submission technically anonymous: hosting, security, and form systems may process technical information such as an IP address. An ordinary website form is not a dedicated whistleblower submission system.
If you need confidential treatment, describe that concern without sending sensitive records in the initial message. Do not assume a confidentiality agreement has been established merely by submitting a form. We cannot promise absolute confidentiality, anonymity, or immunity from lawful disclosure requirements.
7. Disclosure, retention, and security
Information may be processed by providers supporting hosting, forms, security, analytics, email, and advertising. Information may also need to be disclosed to comply with applicable law or to address abuse and security issues. Public comments and information deliberately published in articles can be viewed and copied by others.
Retention depends on the purpose of the information, editorial needs, provider practices, and legal obligations. You can request access, correction, or deletion through our contact form. A request may require verification and may be subject to exceptions, including legal requirements and legitimate editorial recordkeeping. No transmission or storage method is completely secure.
8. Your choices and requests
Depending on your location, applicable law may provide rights concerning access, correction, deletion, or certain uses of personal information. Send a concise description of your request through the contact form. Do not send identity documents through the form. You can also control cookies in your browser and use the Google advertising and analytics choices linked above.
9. Other websites and policy changes
Links and embedded content may lead to services with their own privacy practices. Review those services’ policies when using them. Changes to this policy will appear on this page with an updated effective date.