This policy applies to everyone who uses Shehab News Agency's online services — this site in its Arabic and English editions, its newsletter and its breaking-news alerts. It explains what information we collect, how we use it and the choices you have. By using our services you agree to it; if you do not, please do not use them.
1Information you give us
- Newsletter: your email address, used only to send you the newsletter. Every issue carries a link to unsubscribe.
- Contact page: your name, email address, subject and message, so the editorial team can reply to you and verify any story or tip you send.
2Information collected automatically
- Our servers record technical data such as your IP address, your browser type and the pages requested, to keep the site running and secure.
- We count how often each item is read, in aggregate, to rank the most-read stories. These counts are not linked to who you are.
3Breaking-news alerts
If you press «Alert me to breaking news», your browser gives us an address to deliver notifications to, and we record the edition you chose. We use it only to send breaking alerts, and you can turn them off at any time from the same button or in your browser's settings.
4Preferences kept on your device
The site remembers some of your choices in your browser, such as your edition and the stories you save to read later. «Saved stories» stay on your device alone and are never sent to the agency.
5Third-party services
Parts of the site use services run by others: measurement tools such as Google Analytics and Hotjar, advertising such as Google AdSense, and videos and posts embedded from YouTube, Facebook, X and Telegram. These services may set their own cookies and collect data under their own privacy policies.
6How we use and share information
We use information only to run the site and its services, to reply to you, to verify what you send us and to improve our coverage. We do not sell personal information or share it for marketing. We share it only with technical providers who help run the site, as far as that requires, or where the law obliges us to.
7Security and retention
We protect the information we hold with reasonable technical and organisational measures, and keep it only as long as its purpose requires: a newsletter address until you unsubscribe, a message for as long as its follow-up needs.
8Your choices
- Unsubscribe from the newsletter through the link in any issue.
- Turn breaking alerts off on the site or in your browser.
- Block or delete cookies in your browser; the site keeps working without them.
- Write to us through the Contact page to ask what we hold about you, or to have it corrected or deleted.
9Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time; the date of the latest update appears at the top of this page. Continuing to use our services after an update means you accept it.
10Contact
For any question about this policy, write to us through the Contact page.