Last Updated: August 26, 2026
Newsgaged Privacy Policy
How we handle personal data, optional analytics, external media, and your privacy choices.
How we handle personal data, optional analytics, external media, and your privacy choices.
Newsgaged respects your privacy. This policy explains what information may be processed when you use newsgaged.com, which optional technologies we use, and how you can control them.
This policy applies to visitors of newsgaged.com and its first-party pages and tools. For privacy questions or requests, contact us at info@newsgaged.com or through our Contact Us page.
Newsgaged uses a prior-consent model for optional analytics and external embeds. Optional providers are not loaded until you make an affirmative choice. Rejecting optional categories does not prevent you from reading Newsgaged; blocked external embeds are replaced with a privacy placeholder.
You can make a choice on the first consent layer using Accept all, Reject all, or Manage preferences. You can later reopen the same controls using Cookie settings in the footer. Optional categories are off by default in the preference panel.
Your cookie-consent record is stored locally in your browser for up to 180 days. We may ask again sooner if the consent model or provider set changes materially. You can withdraw or change your choice at any time.
Some first-party browser storage is used only for functions you request or for core site operation. Depending on how you use the site, this can include:
| Storage | Purpose | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
newsgaged-cookie-consent | Remembers your privacy choices and their expiry date | Up to 180 days |
theme | Remembers your light/dark appearance choice | Until changed or cleared |
likedComments | Remembers comments you have already liked on this browser | Until cleared |
ng-clarity-survey-* | Remembers that you submitted an on-page editorial clarity survey | Until cleared |
The name “clarity survey” above refers to Newsgaged's own article-feedback feature and is not Microsoft Clarity analytics.
Strictly necessary storage does not require consent where the applicable electronic-communications rules allow the storage because it is necessary to provide a service or function the user has requested.
Analytics is optional. If you do not consent, the analytics scripts listed below are not mounted or executed by Newsgaged.
If you enable Analytics, Newsgaged may load Google Analytics to measure page visits, navigation and aggregate site usage. Google Analytics can use first-party identifiers such as _ga and related cookies and may process technical information such as page URL, browser/device information and approximate location derived from network data.
We use a basic-consent approach: the Google Analytics tag is blocked until analytics permission is granted. We do not intentionally use the pre-consent “cookieless ping” form of advanced consent mode.
If you enable Analytics, Newsgaged may load Microsoft Clarity for interaction analytics, including features such as heatmaps and session-replay analysis. Clarity is not loaded before analytics permission is granted. After permission, Newsgaged sends Clarity an analytics-storage consent signal while keeping advertising storage denied.
If you later withdraw analytics permission, Newsgaged sends a denial signal when possible, removes accessible first-party analytics cookies, and reloads the page so the analytics scripts are no longer present.
If you enable Analytics, Newsgaged may load Vercel Web Analytics for aggregate page-view and traffic statistics. Vercel describes this service as cookieless and based on short-lived, anonymized visitor hashing. We nevertheless keep it behind the same optional analytics permission as a conservative privacy choice.
Vercel Web Analytics privacy and compliance information
When Analytics is enabled, Newsgaged may record aggregate product events such as page views, scroll-depth milestones, active-time measurements and interactions with selected feedback features. Our first-party analytics helper also checks the stored analytics choice before sending an event.
External media is a separate optional category. It covers embeds that need to connect your browser directly to another provider, currently including TradingView, YouTube and Vimeo.
Before this category is enabled, Newsgaged renders a local privacy placeholder instead of the third-party script or iframe. This prevents the embed from contacting that provider through the component before your choice.
If you enable External media, the provider can receive normal connection data such as your IP address, browser/device information, referring page and request metadata, and it may use cookies or similar storage according to its own terms and privacy rules. You can enable this category globally in Cookie settings or explicitly from a blocked embed placeholder.
Where YouTube video embeds are used, Newsgaged uses the youtube-nocookie.com privacy-enhanced embed host after permission is granted.
Provider information:
The Newsgaged newsletter is optional and uses a double opt-in process. Entering an email address by itself does not activate the newsletter.
On the signup form, the marketing-consent checkbox is off by default. The current consent wording is:
I agree to receive the Newsgaged newsletter by email, including editorial digests, new articles, guides, tool updates and occasional Newsgaged announcements. I can unsubscribe at any time.
After you submit the form, we send a transactional confirmation email. Your newsletter status remains pending and we do not treat the address as part of the marketing audience until the confirmation link is used. The confirmation link expires after 24 hours.
To demonstrate what was agreed to, our newsletter record can include:
We do not need to store browser fingerprints or detailed behavioural profiles to prove newsletter consent.
When newsletter email delivery is enabled, Newsgaged uses Resend to deliver confirmation and newsletter messages. The information needed to send the message, including the recipient email address and email content, is transmitted to Resend. Resend states that customer data is stored in the United States and that EEA transfers are covered by its Data Processing Addendum, EU Standard Contractual Clauses and its participation in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
The confirmation email is transactional: its purpose is only to verify the subscription request. It does not activate marketing by itself.
Every marketing/newsletter email sent through Newsgaged's newsletter mailer includes a visible unsubscribe link. The mailer also includes standard List-Unsubscribe and one-click unsubscribe headers so compatible email clients can expose their own unsubscribe control.
When you unsubscribe, newsletter marketing stops and the address is added to a suppression record. We retain the minimum suppression information needed to prevent the address from being accidentally re-added to marketing sends and to demonstrate that the withdrawal or objection was respected. Suppression information is not used to send marketing.
If you later decide to subscribe again, the suppression remains in force until you make a fresh signup request and complete a new double opt-in confirmation. A new request alone does not silently reactivate marketing.
For ordinary newsletter signups we rely on your consent. You can withdraw that consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal. Where a minimal suppression record must remain after withdrawal, it is kept only for compliance and opt-out enforcement rather than marketing.
Newsgaged maintains a separate formal process for statutory correction, reply and preservation-notice filings under Slovenian media law. This process is distinct from ordinary editorial feedback.
If you use the electronic Formal Correction & Reply Request portal, we process information needed to receive, assess, evidence and administer the filing. Depending on the case, this can include:
The electronic portal stores only a hash of the private claimant access token rather than the plaintext token. The signed filing itself is not public. Access to the detailed case record and signed document is restricted to the statutory/editorial administration workflow. A published statutory correction or reply may necessarily identify the affected/requesting person and the publication to which the notice relates, as required by the applicable media-law publication rules.
This information is processed to administer statutory media-law rights, comply with legal obligations applying to the publisher and responsible editor, preserve material required by law, establish what was received and published, and establish, exercise or defend legal claims where necessary. Depending on the processing step, the legal basis can include compliance with a legal obligation under Article 6(1)(c) GDPR and legitimate interests in establishing, exercising or defending legal claims under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Where information falling within a special category of personal data is strictly necessary for legal claims, the applicable Article 9 GDPR exception may also be relevant.
Do not include unrelated personal data or sensitive information in a filing. If supporting evidence contains information about other people, submit only what is genuinely necessary for the statutory request.
Newsgaged schedules a retention review for a formal media-rights case after five years. That date is a review point, not an automatic deletion date. Article 69 ZMed-1 can require preservation of the challenged publication through the period in which a correction may be requested and, where a request or court case exists, through the relevant claim or court-proceeding period. Case material may therefore be retained longer where the statutory preservation duty, ongoing proceedings, limitation periods, legal claims or another legal obligation requires it.
A data-erasure request does not automatically override information that Newsgaged must retain to comply with law or establish, exercise or defend legal claims. We will assess GDPR requests against those obligations on a case-by-case basis.
The electronic filing route asks you to agree to receive case communications at the email address supplied and through the private case-status record. When transactional email is operational, Newsgaged may use Resend to deliver receipt, pre-publication or reasoned-decision notices. The Resend transfer information in the Newsletter section above also applies to those transactional case emails. If electronic mail delivery is unavailable, the responsible editor's workflow requires documented delivery evidence before a rejection or accepted-publication notice can be finalised through the administrative API.
For optional browser storage and comparable terminal access, Newsgaged requests prior consent in line with the applicable Slovenian electronic-communications rules. Where the resulting processing involves personal data, our basis for the optional analytics described above is your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.
Consent must be voluntary, informed, specific and expressed by a clear affirmative action. We do not treat continued browsing, scrolling, browser defaults or silence as consent.
For newsletter and direct-marketing email, Newsgaged requests explicit prior consent and only activates the marketing audience after double opt-in confirmation. We do not use the existing-customer soft-opt-in exception as the default basis for ordinary newsletter signups.
Even when optional analytics and external media are rejected, the web infrastructure necessarily processes limited technical information to deliver and secure pages, such as request time, requested URL, network and security information, and server logs. This processing is operational rather than an attempt to recreate analytics consent through another channel.
If you voluntarily use a form, comments, newsletter subscription, feedback feature, formal media-rights process or another interactive service, we process the information you submit in order to provide that feature or administer the applicable legal process. Please do not include unnecessary sensitive information in free-text fields or supporting material.
Depending on the feature and your choices, information may be used to:
We do not sell personal information. We may use infrastructure and service providers that process data on our behalf or provide a service you explicitly enable. The optional providers are identified above so you can make a category-level choice before they load. Newsletter and statutory-case email delivery are described separately above because they are requested or legally administered through their respective workflows rather than through the cookie-consent layer.
Information may also be disclosed where required by law, to courts or competent authorities where legally required, or where reasonably necessary to establish, exercise or defend the legal rights of Newsgaged, its users or others.
Some providers named in this policy operate internationally and may process data outside Slovenia or the European Economic Area. Their privacy documentation describes the safeguards and transfer mechanisms they use. Optional analytics/media providers do not receive a connection from the consent-gated components until the relevant permission is enabled. Newsletter and statutory-case email delivery may involve the international processing described above after the relevant email is requested or required for the case workflow.
We retain information only for as long as needed for the relevant purpose or legal obligation. The browser cookie-consent record lasts for up to 180 days. Other first-party functional storage remains until the associated choice is changed, the browser data is cleared, or the feature no longer needs it.
Newsletter confirmation links expire after 24 hours. Confirmed newsletter records are retained while the subscription remains active and as needed to demonstrate consent. After unsubscribe, the marketing audience status is disabled and a minimal suppression record may be retained as long as reasonably necessary to prevent future marketing to an opted-out address and demonstrate compliance.
Formal statutory media-rights cases follow the evidence-preservation approach described above: a five-year retention review point, with longer retention where required by ZMed-1 preservation duties, litigation, legal claims or another applicable legal obligation.
Third-party analytics retention depends on the provider configuration and service rules. We periodically review those settings and aim to keep retention proportionate to the measurement purpose.
Where GDPR applies to personal data concerning you, you may have rights to:
These rights can be subject to statutory exceptions or limitations. In particular, deletion or objection does not require Newsgaged to erase evidence that must lawfully be preserved for a statutory media-rights case, court proceeding or the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
For Slovenia, the supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner of the Republic of Slovenia (Informacijski pooblaščenec). See ip-rs.si. Rules on unsolicited electronic communications under ZEKom-2 are supervised by the Agency for Communication Networks and Services of the Republic of Slovenia (AKOS).
For cookies and optional on-site technologies, use Cookie settings in the footer at any time. Changing a previously allowed category to off takes effect for future loading and processing through Newsgaged's consent layer. When Analytics is withdrawn after its scripts have already loaded, the site reloads into a clean state where those analytics components are absent.
For newsletter marketing, use the Unsubscribe link in any newsletter/marketing email or the unsubscribe control exposed by a compatible email client. Withdrawal is recorded immediately in Newsgaged's suppression system for future sends.
Clearing site storage in your browser will also remove the saved cookie-consent record, causing Newsgaged to ask for your cookie choices again. It does not remove a newsletter subscription because email consent is recorded server-side and is managed through the newsletter unsubscribe mechanism. It also does not delete a statutory media-rights case, which is administered separately under the legal bases and retention duties described above.
Newsgaged is not directed at children under 16 and does not knowingly seek to collect children's personal data through optional analytics or newsletter marketing.
We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect information. Confirmation tokens are stored in hashed form in the newsletter database. Formal media-rights claimant access tokens are also stored only as hashes; signed filings and detailed case records are not exposed through the public case-status response. No internet service can guarantee absolute security.
We may update this policy when our services, providers or legal obligations change. Material changes to the cookie-consent categories or provider set may cause the site to request your cookie consent again. Material changes to the purposes covered by newsletter consent require an appropriate new consent rather than silently expanding an older consent record.
Email info@newsgaged.com or use our Contact Us page.