Privacy Policy
Last updated: 2026-05-25 · Effective date: 2026-05-25
Her Choice ("we", "us", "our") operates the website herchoice.org (the "Service"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your information when you visit our Service, and the rights and choices available to you with respect to your information.
By using our Service, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.
1. Information We Collect
1.1 Information You Provide Directly
- Newsletter signup: Email address and (optional) ZIP code
- Contact form / tip submissions: Name, email, message content, and any information you voluntarily include
- Press release submissions: Organization name, contact details, release content
- Sponsor / advertising inquiries: Name, email, company, message
1.2 Information Collected Automatically
- Log data: IP address, browser type and version, operating system, pages visited, referrer URL, request timestamp
- Cookies and similar technologies: First-party and third-party cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, local storage, and similar identifiers (see Section 3)
- Device and connection data: Device type, screen resolution, language preferences, time zone, approximate geographic location (derived from IP)
- Behavioral data: Pages viewed, links clicked, scroll depth, dwell time
1.3 Information from Third Parties
We may receive information about you from third-party services (e.g., social-login providers, ad networks, analytics partners) per their own privacy policies.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information described above for the following purposes (and on the legal bases identified below for EEA/UK readers):
- Provide and maintain the Service (legal basis: contract / legitimate interests)
- Deliver newsletters you subscribe to (legal basis: consent)
- Personalize content and recommendations (legal basis: legitimate interests)
- Serve advertising, including interest-based / behavioral advertising via our ad partners (legal basis: consent where required, otherwise legitimate interests)
- Measure ad effectiveness and analyze audience behavior (legal basis: consent where required, otherwise legitimate interests)
- Communicate with you about your inquiries, the Service, or material changes (legal basis: legitimate interests / contract)
- Detect, prevent, and respond to fraud, abuse, or security issues (legal basis: legitimate interests / legal obligation)
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Service (legal basis: legal obligation / legitimate interests)
3. Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies
We and our advertising partners use cookies and similar technologies (collectively, "cookies") to operate the Service, analyze usage, deliver advertising, and measure ad effectiveness. Cookies we use include:
- Strictly necessary cookies: Required for the Service to function (e.g., security, session state)
- Performance / analytics cookies: Help us understand how visitors use the Service (e.g., Cloudflare Web Analytics)
- Functional cookies: Remember your preferences (e.g., dismissed banners)
- Advertising cookies: Used by our ad partners to serve relevant ads, including interest-based / behavioral advertising, and to measure ad performance and frequency
You can control cookies through your browser settings (most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies entirely or by category). Blocking strictly-necessary cookies may break parts of the Service.
4. Advertising and Third-Party Ad Partners
We display advertising to support our journalism. Our advertising is delivered by third-party ad networks and exchanges that may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to serve ads tailored to your interests. These technologies may track your visits to our Service and other websites, build a profile of your inferred interests, and serve targeted ("interest-based") or non-targeted ("contextual") advertisements.
Our current and anticipated advertising partners include:
Our ad partners may collect: IP address, device identifiers, browser type and version, operating system, pages viewed, referrer URL, ad impressions and clicks, and approximate geographic location. They may use this information to serve interest-based ads on this Service and on other sites in their networks (cross-site / cross-device tracking), and to measure ad effectiveness.
Some partners participate in the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF) v2 and/or the IAB Global Privacy Platform (GPP). Where applicable, we surface the IAB consent string and Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal to those partners.
4.1 How to opt out of interest-based advertising
You can opt out of interest-based advertising from many ad networks at once through these industry tools:
5. Other Third-Party Services
Cloudflare
This Service is delivered via Cloudflare's content delivery network and DNS. Cloudflare may collect log data including IP addresses for security, performance, and abuse-prevention purposes. See Cloudflare's Privacy Policy.
Newsletter Provider
If you subscribe to our newsletter, your email address and any optional ZIP code may be processed by our email service provider (e.g., Beehiiv, Substack, MailerLite, or Constant Contact) per their privacy policies.
AI Crawler Licensing Partners
We may use third-party services (e.g., TollBit, Scalepost, Cloudflare AI Crawl Control) to monetize AI / large-language-model crawler access to our content. These services may log crawler user-agent strings, request paths, and request counts for billing and access control. They do not log information about individual human readers.
6. Sale and Sharing of Personal Information
We do not sell your personal information in the traditional sense. However, under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA / CPRA) and similar laws, the use of cookies for cross-context behavioral advertising may be considered a "sale" or "share" of personal information.
Your California (and similar-jurisdiction) opt-out rights:
7. Your Rights (GDPR / CPRA / Other Laws)
Depending on where you live, you may have the following rights with respect to your personal information:
- Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you
- Correction / rectification: Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data
- Deletion / erasure: Request deletion of your personal data
- Restriction: Request that we limit how we process your data
- Portability: Request your data in a structured, commonly-used, machine-readable format
- Objection: Object to certain processing (including direct marketing)
- Withdrawal of consent: Where processing relies on consent, withdraw it at any time
- Non-discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights
- Complaint: Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority
To exercise these rights, email editor@nexcom.media. We respond within 30 days (or 45 days for CCPA requests, with notice if we need more time).
8. Children's Privacy (COPPA)
Our Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at editor@nexcom.media and we will delete it.
9. Data Security
We use industry-standard security measures including HTTPS encryption in transit, secure cloud infrastructure (Cloudflare), and access controls. However, no method of transmission or storage over the Internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
10. Data Retention
- Newsletter subscribers: Retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion
- Contact form messages and inquiries: 12 months after last contact
- Server logs: 90 days
- Cookies: Per the duration set by each cookie (typically session to 13 months)
- Aggregated / anonymized analytics: Retained indefinitely
11. International Data Transfers
The Service is operated from the United States. If you access the Service from outside the U.S., your information will be transferred to and processed in the U.S. or other jurisdictions where our service providers operate. For transfers from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland, we rely on Standard Contractual Clauses or other lawful transfer mechanisms.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the revised version with an updated "Last updated" date. Material changes will be announced via prominent notice on the Service and (where appropriate) email to subscribers. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information:
14. Governing Law
This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the United States. Section-specific rights (e.g., GDPR rights, CCPA rights) are governed by the applicable jurisdiction. By using Her Choice, you consent to the collection and use of your information as described in this policy.