Privacy Policy
Sona News is operated from France. This policy explains what reader data we may process, why we process it, how long we keep it, and how readers can exercise privacy rights.
Who is responsible
Sona News is the publication responsible for this website and for the reader data described in this policy. For privacy questions, email [email protected] with the subject “Privacy request”.
Data we process
- Website delivery and security data, such as IP address, user agent, request URL, timestamps, error logs, and security events processed by hosting, CDN, firewall, and analytics providers.
- Newsletter data, such as email address, consent text, signup timestamp, source URL, status, and unsubscribe token when a reader subscribes.
- Article feedback data, such as article slug, vote, optional reason or comment, source page, locale, hashed IP address, and user agent when a reader uses feedback controls.
- Preference data stored in the browser, such as language preference, privacy choices, and quiz progress if quiz features are used.
- Aggregate analytics data, such as page views, referrers, countries, devices, and performance signals. Sona currently keeps measurement minimal and proportionate.
- Advertising delivery, measurement, anti-fraud, and personalization data if advertising tags are enabled in the future and where consent is required.
- Messages sent to Sona News email addresses, including the sender address, content, attachments, and metadata needed to reply.
Why we process data
- To deliver, secure, monitor, and improve the website.
- To remember reader choices, including language and privacy preferences.
- To provide newsletters and manage unsubscribe requests when readers opt in.
- To evaluate article usefulness and correct editorial problems.
- To respond to reader, legal, privacy, correction, advertising, or press enquiries.
- To comply with legal duties and protect the rights, security, and integrity of Sona News and its readers.
Legal bases for EEA, UK, and Swiss readers
- Consent, where readers opt in to newsletters or optional cookies, analytics, advertising, or personalization.
- Legitimate interests, where processing is needed for security, fraud prevention, service delivery, aggregate measurement, editorial quality, and routine business communication.
- Legal obligation, where a law or valid legal process requires retention or disclosure.
- Contract or pre-contractual steps, where a reader or commercial contact asks us to provide information or services.
Sharing and service providers
Sona News may use hosting, CDN, firewall, analytics, email, newsletter, form, advertising, and operational providers to run the publication. These providers process data only as needed to provide their services, comply with law, secure systems, measure performance, or deliver advertising if enabled.
Sona News does not sell reader contact details. If advertising is enabled later, ad partners may process technical and advertising signals according to their own policies and consent requirements.
Retention
- Newsletter data is kept until unsubscribe, deletion request, or cleanup of inactive records.
- Consent records are kept while needed to prove and manage preferences.
- Security and server logs are kept for a limited operational period unless needed to investigate abuse, fraud, errors, or legal requests.
- Article feedback is kept as long as useful for editorial quality and abuse prevention.
- Email correspondence is kept as long as needed to respond, maintain records, or protect legal rights.
Reader rights
Depending on location, readers may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or receive a copy of personal data. Readers may also withdraw consent for optional processing. Email [email protected] with enough information to identify the request.
EEA readers may have the right to lodge a complaint with their local data protection authority. In France, the authority is the CNIL.
Children
Sona News is a general news publication and is not directed to children. We do not knowingly request personal data from children through the site.
International transfers
Service providers may process data in countries outside a reader location. Where required, Sona News expects providers to rely on appropriate transfer safeguards or lawful mechanisms.
Updated 8 July 2026