This California Privacy Notice supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies solely to California residents. It is provided pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, and applicable regulations.
Faytuks Network is an independent OSINT-focused news organization. This Notice explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and otherwise process personal information relating to California residents, and it describes the rights California residents may have under California law. California rules require businesses subject to the law to describe the categories of personal information collected, sources, purposes, categories of recipients, retention information, consumer rights, and how requests can be submitted. The regulations also address disclosures relating to opt-out preference signals and related California-specific rights.
1. Categories of Personal Information We Collect
In the preceding 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal information from California residents:
Identifiers
Such as IP address, online identifiers, device identifiers, and other similar identifiers associated with your browser or device.
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information
Such as browsing activity on our website, pages viewed, referring pages, interactions with content, approximate session details, and analytics or advertising-related events.
Commercial Information
Such as records relating to your interactions with our website, including support-related interactions if you choose to follow links to third-party platforms.
Geolocation Data
Such as approximate location inferred from your IP address or device.
Audio, Electronic, Visual, or Similar Information
Such as files, media, or other content you voluntarily submit through comments, messages, or similar communications, if those features are enabled.
Sensitive Personal Information
We do not intentionally collect or use sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about California residents. To the extent sensitive personal information is incidentally collected, we use it only as permitted by applicable law and for limited operational purposes. California law distinguishes between personal information generally and sensitive personal information, and gives California residents a right to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information in some circumstances.
2. Sources of Personal Information
We may collect personal information from the following categories of sources:
- Directly from you, such as when you submit a comment, send us an email, or otherwise contact us
- Automatically from your browser, device, or interactions with the website
- From analytics, advertising, and similar service providers
- From hosting, infrastructure, security, and content delivery providers
- From social media, video, mapping, and other third-party services when you interact with embedded content
3. Why We Collect and Use Personal Information
We may collect, use, retain, and disclose personal information for the following business or commercial purposes:
- To operate, maintain, secure, and improve our website and publishing systems
- To publish news, analysis, and related editorial content
- To understand site traffic, engagement, and audience behavior
- To serve or support advertising and measure ad performance
- To detect, prevent, and investigate spam, fraud, abuse, security incidents, and other misuse
- To moderate comments and enforce our Terms of Service
- To respond to messages, inquiries, legal requests, and complaints
- To comply with legal obligations and protect our rights, users, contributors, and services
- To support embedded media, social posts, maps, videos, and similar third-party functionality
California law requires disclosure of the business or commercial purposes for which personal information is collected, used, disclosed, sold, or shared.
4. Disclosure of Personal Information
In the preceding 12 months, we may have disclosed the following categories of personal information to service providers, contractors, or other third parties for business or commercial purposes:
- Identifiers
- Internet or other electronic network activity information
- Approximate geolocation data
- Commercial information
- User-submitted content and communications, where applicable
We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients:
- Hosting, infrastructure, security, and content delivery providers
- Website analytics providers
- Advertising and monetization providers
- Comment management or spam prevention providers
- Embedded content and social media platforms
- Professional advisors, law enforcement, regulators, or governmental entities when required or appropriate
5. Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
We do not knowingly sell personal information for money.
However, California law broadly defines the terms “sell” and “share.” In the preceding 12 months, we may have shared the following categories of personal information with analytics, advertising, or similar partners in a manner that may be considered “sharing” under California law:
- Identifiers
- Internet or other electronic network activity information
- Approximate geolocation data
We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.
Under California law, consumers have the right to opt out of the sale of personal information and the sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
6. Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the purposes for which it was collected or processed, including the purposes described in this Notice, or as otherwise permitted or required by law.
Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected. We determine how long to retain personal information based on criteria such as:
- The nature and sensitivity of the information
- The purpose for which the information was collected and used
- Whether the information is needed for security, moderation, debugging, or recordkeeping
- Whether we are required to retain the information by law, contract, or legitimate operational need
- Whether retention is reasonably necessary to protect against fraud, abuse, legal claims, or enforcement matters
Examples may include:
- Analytics and technical logs retained for a limited period for audience measurement, performance, and security
- Comment and moderation records retained as needed to maintain site integrity and enforce site policies
- Communications retained as reasonably necessary to respond to the matter and maintain appropriate records
California rules require disclosure of retention periods, or if that is not possible, the criteria used to determine retention periods.
7. Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you may have the following rights, subject to exceptions and limitations under California law:
Right to Know
You may request that we disclose:
- The categories of personal information we collected about you
- The categories of sources from which that information was collected
- The business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling, sharing, or disclosing that information
- The categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information
- The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you
Right to Delete
You may request that we delete personal information we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Correct
You may request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
Right to Opt Out of Sale or Sharing
You may request that we stop selling or sharing your personal information, as those terms are defined by California law.
Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information
If we use or disclose sensitive personal information beyond certain permitted purposes, you may have the right to request that we limit that use or disclosure. At this time, we do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about consumers.
Right to Non-Discrimination / Non-Retaliation
We will not discriminate or retaliate against you for exercising your California privacy rights.
The CPPA’s public guidance summarizes these California rights as including the rights to know, delete, correct, opt out, and limit certain uses of sensitive personal information.
8. How to Exercise Your Rights
To submit a California privacy rights request, you may contact us at:
Email: faytuksnetwork@gmail.com
Please state that your request is a California Privacy Request and describe your request with enough detail for us to understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests, such as requests to know, correct, or delete personal information. Verification may require us to match information you provide against information we maintain, or to request additional information reasonably necessary to confirm your identity. We will use any information collected for verification only for verification and request-handling purposes.
If we cannot verify your identity to the degree required by law, we may deny the request or process it only to the extent permitted by law.
9. Authorized Agents
California residents may designate an authorized agent to make certain requests on their behalf.
If you use an authorized agent, we may require:
- Proof that the agent has your signed permission or other valid authority under California law
- Verification of the agent’s identity
- Separate verification from you directly, where permitted or required by law
We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit sufficient proof of authority.
California regulations address the use of authorized agents and verification procedures for consumer requests.
10. Opt-Out Preference Signals
Where required by California law, we will process recognized opt-out preference signals in a frictionless manner where applicable. A recognized opt-out preference signal will be treated as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for the browser and device associated with that signal and, where applicable, for any associated account where we can reasonably do so.
California regulations require businesses that sell or share personal information to describe how they process opt-out preference signals.
11. Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, and Embedded Content
Our website may use third-party advertising, analytics, and embedded content services, including services that provide advertising, audience measurement, maps, videos, social media embeds, and related functionality.
These third parties may collect personal information directly from your browser or device when you interact with our website or embedded content, subject to their own privacy practices. Depending on the circumstances, these practices may involve cookies, pixels, local storage, SDKs, and similar technologies that collect identifiers, network activity information, approximate geolocation, and interaction data for analytics, content delivery, security, or advertising-related purposes.
Because California law defines “sharing” broadly, certain disclosures to advertising or analytics partners may be considered sharing even where no money is exchanged. For that reason, California residents may use any available Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link, consent or cookie controls we make available, or a recognized opt-out preference signal, where applicable. California law defines “sharing” in connection with cross-context behavioral advertising, which is why many publishers using ad tech disclose this possibility conservatively.
12. Children Under 16
Our website is not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.
13. Changes to This California Privacy Notice
We may update this California Privacy Notice from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
California regulations require businesses to state when the privacy policy was last updated.
14. Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this California Privacy Notice or our privacy practices, contact us at:
Faytuks Network
Email: faytuksnetwork@gmail.com