Privacy Policy

Who We Are Welcome to New Story—your go-to destination for fresh perspectives, engaging personal tales, and trending lifestyle news. Our website address is: https://newstory.zululion.com.

Comments When you leave a comment on New Story, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection. An anonymized string (hash) generated from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to verify if you use it (their privacy policy can be viewed at https://automattic.com/privacy/). Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture becomes visible to the public alongside your words.

Media If you upload images to New Story, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to our site can easily download and extract location information attached to images published on the platform.

Cookies We utilize cookies to streamline your site experience:

Comment Preferences: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies. This convenience saves you from re-entering your details for future comments. These cookies last for one year.
Authentication: Visiting our login page generates a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies; this contains no personal data and disappears when you close your browser. Logging in sets up cookies to store your credentials (lasting 2 days) and display options (lasting 1 year). Selecting “Remember Me” keeps you logged in for 2 weeks. Logging out clears these cookies immediately.
Content Editing: Editing or publishing an article saves an extra cookie in your browser storing only the post ID. It expires after 24 hours.

Embedded Content From Other Websites Articles on New Story may feature embedded media (such as videos, images, or articles). Embedded content from third-party websites functions in the exact same manner as if you visited those platforms directly. These external sites may gather data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content—especially if you have an account and are logged into their website.

Who We Share Your Data With We prioritize your privacy. However, for security and verification purposes, requesting a password reset will include your current IP address in the reset email.

How Long We Retain Your Data

Comments: Any comments and their associated metadata are kept indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
User Accounts: For users registering on New Story, we store the personal information provided in their user profiles. You can view, edit, or delete your personal data at any time (with the exception of your username). Site administrators also have access to view and edit this information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data If you hold an account on New Story or have left comments, you can request an exported file containing the personal data we hold about you. You may also request that we erase any personal data on file. This excludes data we are required to retain for legal, security, or administrative reasons.

Where Your Data Is Sent To maintain a clean and safe platform, visitor comments are automatically filtered through an automated spam detection service.