Privacy Policy

Vanhub News is an independent digital newsroom published by Vines Management Group, a company registered in British Columbia, Canada. Our principal place of business is Vancouver, BC, Canada.

For the purposes of applicable privacy law, Vines Management Group is the data controller for personal information collected through vanhubnews.com (the “Site”).

Questions about this policy: privacy@vanhubnews.com

Information you provide directly:

• Newsletter signup — email address and optional display name when you subscribe to our editorial digest.
• Contact & corrections forms — name, email address, and message content when you submit an inquiry, story tip, or correction request.
• Research desk chat — text of queries submitted through our on-site research assistant. Queries are not linked to your identity unless you provide it.

Information collected automatically:

• Log data — IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referring URL, pages viewed, and timestamps. Retained for 30 days for security and fraud prevention, then aggregated and anonymised.
• Usage data — page-level analytics (page views, session duration, scroll depth) collected through first-party analytics. Used solely for editorial decision-making. Not sold or shared with third parties for marketing.
• Advertising data — cookies and identifiers placed by Google AdSense and its partners to serve interest-based advertising. See Section 6 for full disclosure.
• Cookies — described in detail in Section 5.

We collect information through:

• Direct submission via forms (newsletter, contact, corrections).
• Automatic server-side logging of HTTP requests to our servers.
• First-party JavaScript analytics embedded in the Site’s page templates.
• Third-party advertising technology operated by Google (see Section 6).
• Cookies stored in your browser (see Section 5).

We use collected information to:

• Operate, maintain, and secure the Vanhub News website.
• Send editorial newsletters and digests to subscribers who have explicitly opted in.
• Respond to inquiries, tips, corrections, partnership requests, and reader feedback.
• Understand which editorial beats and article formats best serve our readers (aggregate-level analytics only).
• Detect, prevent, and mitigate fraud, spam, and abusive automation.
• Comply with applicable law, enforce our Terms of Service, and respond to lawful requests from regulators or law enforcement.

We do not sell your personal information, use it for profiling unrelated to the Site, or allow third parties to fingerprint readers across unrelated sites for their own commercial purposes.

We use cookies and similar browser-side storage technologies. The following categories are in use:

Managing cookies: You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling strictly-necessary cookies may impair Site functionality. Disabling advertising cookies will result in non-personalised ads rather than no ads. See allaboutcookies.org for browser-specific instructions.

Vanhub News is partly supported by display advertising delivered through Google AdSense (Google LLC, Mountain View, CA, USA). This section constitutes our full AdSense and interest-based advertising disclosure.

Specifically:

• Google uses the DoubleClick cookie (and similar identifiers) to serve personalised advertisements to users who have previously visited the Site.
• Google’s advertising partners may combine Site-visit data with data from other sources to serve you ads elsewhere on the Internet.
• Vanhub News has enabled Google’s interest-based advertising features. You can review and adjust which categories of interests Google uses at Google My Ad Center.

Opt-out options:

• Google Ads Settings: google.com/settings/ads — opt out of personalised ads from Google across all sites.
• NAI Opt-out (US): optout.networkadvertising.org — opt out of multiple third-party ad networks simultaneously.
• Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA): aboutads.info/choices
• Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada (DAAC): youradchoices.ca

Choosing to opt out will result in non-personalised ads — you will still see advertisements, but they will not be tailored to your browsing history.

For information about Google’s data practices, see the Google Privacy Policy.

We share personal information only with the following categories of recipients, and only to the extent necessary to operate the Site:

• Hosting & infrastructure — Vercel Inc. (USA) for web hosting and CDN; Supabase Inc. (USA) for our encrypted database. Both are covered by standard contractual clauses for cross-border transfers.
• Email delivery — transactional email providers (USA) under data processing agreements, used solely to send newsletters and reply to contact-form submissions.
• Advertising — Google LLC (USA) via AdSense, as described in Section 6.
• Legal obligations — we will disclose information when required by a Canadian court of competent jurisdiction, a valid subpoena, or where necessary to prevent imminent harm.

We never sell reader data, newsletter subscriber lists, or any personally identifiable information to advertisers, data brokers, or any other third party for commercial purposes.

• Server logs — retained for 30 days, then aggregated and anonymised.
• Newsletter subscriber records — retained until you unsubscribe. Unsubscribing removes your email from all future sends within 5 business days.
• Contact/corrections submissions — retained for 24 months to support editorial record-keeping, then deleted.
• Chat query logs — retained in anonymised, session-only form; not linked to your identity and not stored after your session ends.
• Advertising cookies — governed by Google’s retention policies (up to 2 years). See Section 6.

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the following rights:

To exercise any right, email privacy@vanhubnews.com with your full name, the right you wish to exercise, and enough context to verify your identity. We respond within 30 days (15 business days for CCPA requests).

Vanhub News is intended for adult readers (18+). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 (or 16 where applicable under GDPR/provincial law). If we become aware that a child has submitted personal information, we will delete it promptly. Contact privacy@vanhubnews.com if you believe a child’s information has been collected.

Vanhub News is based in Canada. Our infrastructure providers are primarily located in the United States. By using the Site, you acknowledge that your information may be transferred to, processed in, and stored in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from your jurisdiction.

We rely on standard contractual clauses and equivalent legal mechanisms with all US-based data processors to ensure adequate protection for any cross-border transfers.

We implement industry-standard technical and organisational security measures including:

• TLS encryption for all data in transit (HTTPS enforced site-wide).
• Encryption at rest for all database records (AES-256).
• Role-based access control limiting who can access reader data.
• Regular dependency security audits and patch cycles.

No method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. If you discover a security vulnerability, please report it responsibly to security@vanhubnews.com.

We will post any material changes to this policy on this page and update the “Last updated” date. For material changes involving new data categories or new third-party sharing, we will additionally notify newsletter subscribers by email at least 14 days before the change takes effect.

Continued use of the Site after a policy change constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

Mailing address:
Vanhub News / Vines Management Group
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

For disputes that cannot be resolved directly, Canadian readers may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.