Effective Date: 2026
Texas News Express (“Website,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects the privacy of our readers, visitors, users, contributors, and advertisers. This Privacy Policy explains what information we may collect, how we may use it, and how we treat information connected to your use of this Website.
By accessing, browsing, or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, your sole remedy is to discontinue use of this Website.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect certain limited information to help this Website operate properly, improve performance, understand general visitor activity, prevent abuse, maintain security, and provide a better user experience.
This may include non-personally identifiable information such as:
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- General geographic region
- Referring website
- Pages viewed
- Time spent on the Website
- Search terms used to find or navigate the Website
- General usage and traffic data
- Technical logs
- IP-related security data
- Cookies or similar website functionality data
We do not intentionally collect personally identifiable information unless you voluntarily provide it to us.
2. Personally Identifiable Information
Personally identifiable information means information that can directly identify a specific person, such as a legal name, personal email address, home address, phone number, government identification number, or similar identifying information.
Texas News Express does not generally require users to provide personally identifiable information to read or browse the Website.
However, if you voluntarily contact us, submit a news tip, send an email, fill out a form, apply to advertise, request information, or otherwise communicate with us, you may choose to provide personally identifiable information. In that situation, we may receive and retain the information you voluntarily provide.
We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information from ordinary website visitors.
3. How We Use Information
We may use collected information for ordinary website operations, including:
- Operating and maintaining the Website
- Improving Website performance
- Understanding general reader activity
- Preventing spam, fraud, abuse, hacking, scraping, and security threats
- Troubleshooting technical issues
- Measuring traffic and audience engagement
- Improving content, layout, usability, and reader experience
- Responding to messages or inquiries voluntarily submitted to us
- Protecting our rights, property, Website, readers, and operations
We use this information to help our services operate smoother, safer, and more effectively.
4. No Current Sale, Trade, Barter, or Sharing of Data
Texas News Express does not currently sell, trade, barter, rent, or share collected user data with third parties for commercial purposes.
We do not currently provide user data to data brokers, marketing brokers, advertisers, political organizations, private companies, or unrelated third parties.
5. Possible Future Use of Non-Personally Identifiable Data
In the future, Texas News Express may use, disclose, share, license, transfer, or otherwise make available aggregated, anonymized, statistical, or non-personally identifiable data.
Any such future use will not include personally identifiable information. We will not knowingly sell, trade, barter, or share information that directly identifies you as an individual.
For example, we may use or share general statistical information such as total page views, general reader location by region, device type percentages, general audience trends, or article engagement data. This type of information is not intended to identify any specific person.
6. Third-Party Requests for Information
Texas News Express will refuse requests from private third parties seeking personally identifiable information about our users, readers, visitors, sources, or contributors, to the extent permitted by law.
If we receive a request, demand, subpoena, informal inquiry, private investigation request, data request, business request, or other third-party request for personally identifiable information, we will not voluntarily provide such information unless legally required to do so.
7. Court Orders and Legal Process
Texas News Express will only release personally identifiable information, if we have any, when required by a valid judicial court order, subpoena, warrant, or other lawful process issued by a court or legal authority with proper jurisdiction.
We reserve the right to object to, challenge, narrow, or seek clarification of any legal demand that we believe is improper, overly broad, unlawful, or not issued by a court or authority with proper jurisdiction.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy should be interpreted as a promise to possess or maintain personally identifiable information. In many cases, we may not have any personally identifiable information to provide.
8. Cookies and Similar Technologies
This Website may use cookies, analytics tools, server logs, embedded media tools, security tools, or similar technologies to help the Website function, measure traffic, prevent abuse, and improve user experience.
Cookies may help us understand how visitors use the Website, remember basic preferences, improve loading performance, and identify technical problems.
You may be able to disable cookies through your browser settings. Some Website features may not function properly if cookies are disabled.
9. Analytics and Technical Services
We may use third-party tools or service providers to assist with hosting, analytics, security, email delivery, spam prevention, content delivery, performance monitoring, or other technical operations.
These providers may process limited technical or non-personally identifiable data as necessary to perform services for the Website. We do not authorize these providers to sell personally identifiable information about our users.
10. News Tips, Emails, and Voluntary Communications
If you contact Texas News Express by email, form submission, social media, telephone, mail, or any other method, you understand that you are voluntarily providing the information contained in that communication.
We may use the information you provide to respond to you, evaluate a news tip, investigate a matter, verify information, conduct reporting, improve our coverage, or manage Website operations.
Submitting information to us does not create a confidential, fiduciary, attorney-client, journalist-source, or other special relationship unless expressly agreed in writing.
11. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect the Website and any information we may collect from unauthorized access, misuse, disruption, or disclosure.
However, no website, server, database, email system, internet transmission, or electronic storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. By using this Website, you understand and accept this risk.
12. Children’s Privacy
This Website is intended for general audiences and is not directed toward children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected such information, we may delete it.
13. Third-Party Links
This Website may contain links to third-party websites, advertisers, government records, social media platforms, embedded content, videos, maps, or other outside resources.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, policies, security, or conduct of third-party websites. Once you leave this Website, your use of any third-party website is governed by that website’s own terms and privacy policy.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update, modify, or revise this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes become effective when posted on this Website unless otherwise stated.
Your continued use of this Website after changes are posted means you accept the revised Privacy Policy.
15. Contact Information
Questions about this Privacy Policy may be directed to:
Texas News Express
Email: [Insert Email Address]
Website: [Insert Website URL]
16. Final Statement
Texas News Express may collect limited technical, usage, and operational information to help this Website function properly and improve our services. We do not intentionally collect personally identifiable information from ordinary website visitors, and we do not currently sell, trade, barter, or share collected user data.
If we ever use or share data in the future, it will not knowingly include personally identifiable information. If any third party requests personally identifiable information, we will refuse such requests unless required by a valid court order or lawful process issued by a court or legal authority with proper jurisdiction.
