Canyons News respects your privacy. We do not collect personal information from visitors simply because they browse our website.

We collect information only when you voluntarily provide it by:

  • Completing and submitting a form.
  • Submitting a news tip.
  • Sending us an email.

This Privacy Policy explains how we handle that information.

Information You Provide

The information we receive depends on what you choose to submit. It may include:

  • Your name.
  • Your email address or telephone number.
  • The contents of your message or news tip.
  • Documents, photographs, videos, or other files you provide.
  • Any other information you voluntarily include.

Please do not send highly sensitive or confidential information through an ordinary form or email unless you understand the risks of electronic communication or have first arranged a secure method of communication with us.

How We Use Information

We may use information you provide to:

  • Respond to your message or request.
  • Review, verify, and investigate a news tip.
  • Contact you for additional information.
  • Evaluate submitted content.
  • Make corrections or address concerns.
  • Conduct reporting and other journalistic activities.
  • Protect the safety, security, and legal rights of Canyons News and others.
  • Comply with applicable legal obligations.

Submitting information does not guarantee that Canyons News will respond to, investigate, or publish it.

News Tips and Sources

Information submitted as a news tip may be reviewed and used for journalistic purposes, including investigation, verification, reporting, editing, and publication.

Canyons News will handle requests for confidentiality according to its journalistic standards. However, submitting a tip does not automatically create a confidential-source relationship. Any promise of confidentiality must be expressly agreed to by an authorized Canyons News editor or journalist.

Ordinary email and website forms may not be appropriate for highly sensitive communications.

How We Share Information

Canyons News does not sell or rent the personal information you provide.

We may disclose information:

  • To Canyons News staff members, editors, advisers, or service providers who need it for an authorized purpose.
  • With your consent or at your direction.
  • When reasonably necessary to investigate or report a story, subject to our journalistic standards and any express confidentiality agreement.
  • When required by law, court order, or valid legal process.
  • When reasonably necessary to protect someone’s safety or defend the rights and security of Canyons News or others.

Service providers that help deliver forms or email may process information on our behalf.

Publication of Submitted Material

If you submit a letter, comment, photograph, video, quotation, or other material for publication, we may publish that material along with your name or other identifying information when you have authorized us to do so or when otherwise permitted by law.

Contact information provided only so we can communicate with you will not ordinarily be published without your permission.

Data Retention

We retain submitted information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was provided, for journalistic recordkeeping, or to meet legal, security, and institutional requirements.

News tips, reporting materials, published submissions, and related communications may be retained as part of our journalistic or historical records.

Data Security

We use reasonable measures intended to protect the information submitted to us. However, no website, form, email system, or storage method is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted electronically.

Children’s Privacy

Our website is intended for a general audience. Children should obtain permission from a parent or guardian before submitting personal information.

If you believe a child has submitted personal information inappropriately, contact us so we can review the situation.

Your Choices

You may contact us to ask about personal information you previously submitted or to request its correction or deletion.

We will consider requests in accordance with applicable law. We may need to retain information for legal, security, recordkeeping, freedom-of-expression, or journalistic purposes. A request does not necessarily require us to delete or alter published journalism, reporting notes, source materials, or historical archives.

External Links

Our website may link to websites operated by other organizations. Canyons News does not control those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. You should review the privacy policy of any external website you visit.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy if our practices, services, or legal obligations change. Any revised policy will be posted with an updated revision date.