Last updated: September 3, 2026
DigitalNights Media (“DigitalNights,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit digitalnightsmedia.com, how we use it, and the choices available to you.
Information we collect
Information you provide
- Contact forms: If you contact us, we collect the name, email address, subject, and message you provide. Contact Form 7 sends the submission to our administrative email inbox. We do not intentionally maintain a separate WordPress database of contact-form submissions, although correspondence may remain in our email system as needed to respond and maintain appropriate records.
- Comments: If you leave a comment, we may collect the information entered in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user-agent information for security and spam detection. An anonymized hash derived from your email address may be sent to Gravatar to determine whether you use that service. If your comment is approved, your Gravatar profile image may appear publicly beside it.
- Accounts: If user registration is offered, account and profile information is collected to administer the account.
Information collected automatically
When you visit the site, our systems and service providers may automatically process technical and usage information such as your IP address, browser and device type, operating system, referring page, pages viewed, approximate geographic region, session information, and the date and time of your visit.
How we use information
- Operate, secure, maintain, and improve the website.
- Respond to questions, story tips, correction requests, and other messages.
- Moderate comments and prevent spam, fraud, abuse, and security threats.
- Understand readership, traffic, and site performance.
- Display and measure advertising, where advertising is enabled.
- Comply with legal obligations and protect our rights and users.
Cookies and similar technologies
DigitalNights Media and its service providers may use cookies and similar technologies. These can include essential cookies required for site administration and security, preference cookies used to remember choices, analytics cookies used to understand site usage, and advertising cookies used when advertising is enabled.
If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. WordPress also uses temporary and administrative cookies for login, display preferences, and publishing functions. Most visitors can control or delete cookies through their browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect site functionality.
Google Analytics and Site Kit
We use Google Site Kit and Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the website. Google Analytics may collect information such as user and session counts, pages viewed, approximate location, and browser or device information. This information helps us measure readership and improve the site. Learn more about how Google processes information from sites that use its services at Google’s partner-sites information page and review Google’s Privacy Policy.
Google AdSense and advertising
DigitalNights Media may use Google AdSense and other advertising partners. When advertising is active, third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on your visits to this website and other websites. Google’s advertising cookies allow Google and its partners to personalize and measure advertising.
You can manage personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. Where required by applicable law, visitors will be offered consent choices before non-essential advertising or analytics technologies are used.
Spam protection and Gravatar
We use services provided by Automattic, including Akismet, to help detect spam and abusive submissions. Information associated with comments or forms may be processed for this purpose. Gravatar may receive an anonymized hash derived from a commenter’s email address. For details, review Automattic’s Privacy Policy.
Embedded content and external links
Articles may contain embedded videos, images, social posts, or other content from third-party websites. Embedded content behaves as though you visited the third-party site directly. Those providers may collect information, use cookies, and track your interaction under their own privacy policies. External websites linked from DigitalNights Media are also governed by their own policies.
How information is shared
We do not sell your personal information. Information may be shared with service providers that help us host, secure, analyze, and operate the website; with advertising providers when advertising is enabled; when required by law or a valid legal process; or when reasonably necessary to protect DigitalNights Media, our readers, or the public.
Some service providers may process information outside Canada, including in the United States. Information processed in another country may be subject to that country’s laws and lawful access requirements.
Data retention
We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including responding to messages, maintaining editorial or business records, protecting the site, and meeting legal obligations. Approved comments and their metadata may be retained indefinitely so follow-up comments can be recognized and moderated. Analytics and advertising information is retained according to the settings and policies of the applicable provider.
Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical safeguards appropriate to the information we handle. No internet transmission or storage system is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. Please do not submit passwords, payment details, or other highly sensitive information through the contact form.
Your privacy choices and rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to ask whether we hold personal information about you, request access to it, ask that inaccurate information be corrected, or request deletion where legally available. You may also withdraw consent to certain uses, subject to legal or operational limitations.
To make a privacy request or ask a question about our practices, use our Contact page. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.
Children’s privacy
DigitalNights Media is intended for a general audience and is not designed to knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the site, please contact us so we can review and address it.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, technology, advertising practices, or legal obligations change. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page identifies the most recent revision.
Contact us
Questions, access requests, correction requests, or complaints about privacy can be submitted through the DigitalNights Media Contact page.