Collin County Journal respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains, in general terms, how information may be collected, used, stored, and shared when you visit this website or affiliated publication properties, including The Princeton Journal, contact us, or submit information to us.
By using this website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Information You Choose to Provide
If you contact Collin County Journal by email or through any contact method provided on this site, you may choose to provide information such as your name, email address, message content, attachments, tips, records, or other submitted materials.
Depending on the feature you use on an affiliated publication, you may also provide account details, usernames, display names, newsletter signup information, community posts, uploaded files, support-related information, or anonymous posting information that remains internally tied to your account for moderation and accountability purposes.
We may use that information to:
- respond to your message or inquiry
- review tips, corrections, or submitted records
- communicate with you about your submission
- maintain records related to editorial, administrative, or legal matters
Information Collected Automatically
Like most websites, this site may automatically receive limited technical information from browsers, devices, and servers. This may include information such as IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring pages, approximate usage data, and general access logs.
This information may be used for site operations, security, troubleshooting, analytics, performance monitoring, and improvement of the website.
On affiliated publication properties that use advertising or richer community tools, automatically collected information may also support fraud prevention, moderation, advertising measurement, product improvement, and operational support.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
This website may use cookies or similar technologies for functionality, security, analytics, performance measurement, or user experience purposes.
You may be able to limit or disable cookies through your browser settings, although doing so may affect some site functions.
Analytics and Third-Party Services
This site may use third-party services for hosting, analytics, email, security, or related technical functions. Those services may collect or process information according to their own terms and privacy practices.
Affiliated publication properties may also rely on third-party services for advertising, account systems, database services, storage, moderation, newsletters, or payment checkout.
Collin County Journal does not control the privacy practices of third-party services or external websites that are not directly operated by us.
Email, Tips, and Submitted Materials
If you send us a tip, correction, email, document, or other material, we may review, retain, verify, and use that information for journalism, editorial review, research, administration, legal review, or recordkeeping, subject to applicable law.
Submission of information does not guarantee confidentiality, publication, response, or continued communication.
Sending information to Collin County Journal does not create an attorney-client, fiduciary, privileged, or other special legal relationship.
Public community uploads and attachments, where available on affiliated publications, are public by design and may be viewed, downloaded, quoted, screenshotted, or archived by others. Files can also contain metadata or identifying details. If anonymity matters to you, do not assume that anonymous posting removes metadata from uploaded files.
Accounts, Anonymous Posting, and Internal Accountability
If an affiliated publication allows account creation, community posts, comments, or anonymous posting, the public-facing identity shown to readers may differ from the internal records we retain for moderation, safety, abuse prevention, legal compliance, and accountability.
Anonymous posting does not mean the post is detached from the account internally.
Support, Contributions, and Payment Links
If you choose to support the reporting through a third-party payment provider, we may receive limited information associated with the completed contribution, such as contribution status, supporter name, or contact details made available by the payment processor.
We do not store full payment card information on this site. Payment providers operate under their own privacy practices and retention rules.
How Information May Be Shared
Collin County Journal does not sell personal information to third parties.
Information may be disclosed when reasonably necessary to:
- operate, maintain, or secure the website
- work with service providers supporting website or business functions
- comply with legal obligations, lawful requests, subpoenas, or court orders
- protect the rights, safety, property, operations, or integrity of Collin County Journal, its sources, readers, or others
- detect, investigate, or address fraud, abuse, security issues, or misuse of the website
Public Registry and Public-Record Display
Certain affiliated pages may display public registry data or other government-provided records for public-information or safety purposes. We may receive and display information drawn from public sources, but the official government source remains the authoritative record.
If you contact us about how such material appears on a site we operate, we may review the presentation of the information on our pages even when the underlying source record is maintained by a government agency.
Data Retention
We may retain communications, submissions, technical logs, and related records for as long as reasonably necessary for editorial, operational, legal, security, archival, or recordkeeping purposes.
Public posts, comments, uploads, and community attachments may remain visible until removed. Even after removal, copies may persist in logs, backups, archives, screenshots, or records maintained for legal or operational reasons.
Data Security
Reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures may be used to help protect information, but no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You should avoid sending highly sensitive personal, financial, medical, or legally privileged information unless you understand and accept the risks of electronic communication.
Children’s Privacy
This website is not directed to children under 13, and Collin County Journal does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 through this site.
Your Choices
You may choose not to provide personal information through this website. If you have contacted us and want to follow up on a privacy-related concern, you may email us using the contact information below.
Changes to This Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. Any revised version will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.
Contact
For privacy-related questions or general inquiries, contact:
support@collincountyjournal.com
tips@collincountyjournal.com
tpj@collincountyjournal.com
Effective date: April 18, 2026