In December 2024 / January 2025, the Sphere News website was transferred from being hosted by Carrd, to being hosted by WordPress.org / Hostinger. This Privacy Policy has been updated to reflect this change.
Sphere News is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website, or enter our competitions and surveys.
What data does the Sphere News website collect?
Sphere News does not collect any personal data from you when you visit our website.
We collect very limited, non-personally-identifiable analytics, such as your device type (mobile/tablet/desktop) and model, your browser, operating system, and approximate geographical data such as your state and country.
How do you protect visitors’ IP addresses?
IP addresses of visitors are anonymized by masking the last segment of their IP addresses before any processing or storage occurs. We also apply a secure, irreversible hashing process to IP addresses, transforming them into unique, non-reversible strings. This method of pseudonymization protects user privacy by preventing the possibility of tracing the hash back to the original IP address.
Does Sphere News store cookies?
The Sphere News site does not knowingly use any cookies.
Unlike many analytics solutions that rely on cookies to track users across a website, WP Statistics employs a method of counting unique visitors that does not involve the use of cookies.
How does Sphere News use the data it collects?
As we do not collect personal data directly from this website, we also do not use or share it.
However, non-personally-identifiable analytics are used to measure website performance.
What data is collected from contact forms, competitions and surveys?
From time to time, Sphere News may have contact forms open, or carry out competitions or surveys. If you submit a contact form, enter a competition, or participate in a survey, we may collect personal information that you directly choose to provide to us. This may include your name or nickname, age bracket, or contact information (such as your email address, social media handles or Discord username).
Information collected from contact forms, competition entries, or survey participation are used only for the purposes of allowing people to contact us, and running the competition or survey. By submitting a contact form, or entering a competition or survey, you consent to us attempting to contact you through the contact method/s you have provided, for these purposes.
Third-Party Data Collection
Sphere News is built on the “WordPress.org” platform and hosted by “Hostinger”. “WordPress.org” and “Hostinger” may collect certain information from you in accordance with their own privacy policies. Please refer to WordPress privacy policy and Hostinger privacy policy for more details on their data collection and usage practices.
We also use additional administrative tools including Google Forms, Discord, Canva, and My Crossword Maker, through which data you directly submit to us may be transferred for the purposes outlined above.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, playable crosswords, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Information may be shared with additional third parties where we are required to do so by law.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Sphere News reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting a notice of what has changed at the top of this page, and the date it took effect.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to request deletion of any personal data we store about you, please contact us at wraith (at) wraithstation (dot com).
