Privacy Policy & Data Processing Agreement

Effective Date: January 1, 2026

At Brand News 24 ("we", "our", or "us"), safeguarding the privacy, confidentiality, and security of our clients, authorized users, and public website visitors is our absolute highest priority. This comprehensive Privacy Policy meticulously details the exact mechanisms, protocols, and legal frameworks through which we collect, utilize, process, store, and protect your personal and corporate information when you access our website (brandnews24.net) or actively engage with our suite of press release distribution, corporate writing, and media outreach services. By actively interacting with our digital platform, creating an account, or submitting payment, you unequivocally consent to the data processing practices explicitly described within this legal document.

1. Comprehensive Information Collection Procedures

We systematically collect information in several distinct ways to seamlessly provide, analyze, and continually improve our digital distribution services. The specific categories and types of data we legally collect include:

Direct Personal Identification Data: When you register for a new client account, request a strategic PR consultation, or purchase a specialized distribution tier, we directly collect your full legal name, designated corporate email address, direct phone number, corporate job title, and registered company name.
Financial and Billing Information: For the processing of payments regarding our Professional and Enterprise tiers, we securely collect necessary billing details. However, please explicitly note that Brand News 24 does not ever store full credit card numbers or raw bank routing data on our internal servers; all financial transactions are securely routed through our PCI-DSS compliant third-party payment processing gateways (e.g., Stripe, PayPal), which utilize military-grade encryption protocols.
Submitted Content Data: We securely host and store the raw text of press releases, associated multimedia assets (high-resolution images, corporate videos, vector logos), executive quotes, and corporate boilerplate information you proactively submit to our editorial desk for distribution.
Automated Telemetry and Usage Data: As you navigate our various digital properties, our servers automatically collect vital technical telemetry. This routinely includes your masked IP address, browser type and version, operating system architecture, referring URLs, sequence of page views, and the exact cryptographic timestamps of your server requests, utilizing secure cookies and tracking pixels.

Dynamic Cookie Preference Center

We believe you should have absolute control over the automated data we collect. Use the interactive toggle switches below to manage your active cookie preferences on Brand News 24:

Essential Platform Cookies

Required for secure login, session management, and shopping cart functionality. Cannot be disabled.

Performance & Analytics Tracking

Allows us to anonymously measure page load speeds, traffic sources, and user navigation paths to improve site UI.

Marketing & Retargeting

Used to deliver relevant PR service advertisements to you on third-party platforms like LinkedIn and Google.

2. How We Strategically Utilize Your Information

The sensitive corporate and personal data we collect is absolutely never sold, rented, or leased to third-party data brokers under any circumstances. It is strictly and exclusively utilized to facilitate, execute, and enhance the specific services you have requested from the Brand News 24 platform. Specifically, we use your securely stored information to:

Algorithmically process, format to AP Style, and actively distribute your submitted press releases to our highly curated, global network of media outlets, financial terminals, and verified journalists.
Generate complex, white-labeled analytics reports demonstrating the exact SEO success, audience reach, and link-building impact of your PR campaigns.
Communicate critical account security updates, recurring billing notices, and direct editorial feedback regarding your draft submissions.
Continuously improve our website architecture, user interface, and API routing algorithms by analyzing aggregate, anonymized user behavior data over time.
Strictly comply with international legal obligations, resolve corporate disputes, and vigorously enforce our Terms of Service against malicious actors.

3. Third-Party Disclosure and Global Syndication Protocols

By the very fundamental nature of engaging a press release distribution service, the core content you submit to us (which often includes the names, quotes, and contact emails of media liaisons listed explicitly within the press release) is inherently intended for mass public consumption. When we successfully distribute your corporate news, this information is immediately syndicated across highly public news websites, financial data terminals, search engine indexes, and global RSS feeds. You should absolutely not include any proprietary trade secrets, confidential corporate strategies, or sensitive personal identifiable information (PII) in the body of a press release unless you fully intend for it to be permanently documented in the public domain.

Beyond the intentional, public syndication of your news content, we do not share your private account administration data (such as billing histories, password hashes, or private editorial communication) with any external third parties, except with deeply trusted service providers who directly assist us in operating our platform infrastructure (e.g., AWS cloud hosting providers, SendGrid email delivery services). All of these vendors are bound by exceptionally strict, legally binding confidentiality agreements and Data Processing Addendums (DPAs).

Understanding Your Regional Data Rights

Because we operate globally, we adhere to the strictest regional privacy laws. Select your jurisdiction below to view your specific rights regarding personal data management and deletion:

California Consumer Privacy Act

California residents maintain the explicit right to know precisely what personal information is being collected, the right to demand deletion of that information, and the absolute right to opt-out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information. (Brand News 24 does not sell your data).

Universal Baseline Protections

Regardless of your physical jurisdiction, Brand News 24 extends the core rights of data access, correction, and account deletion to all users worldwide. If you wish to terminate your account and wipe your non-public data, contact our DPO directly.

4. Enterprise-Grade Data Security and Retention Schedules

Brand News 24 employs highly advanced, enterprise-grade, industry-standard security protocols to vigorously protect your data against unauthorized access, malicious alteration, accidental disclosure, or catastrophic destruction. This comprehensive security posture includes end-to-end SSL/TLS 1.3 encryption for all data transmissions across our network, highly secure and redundant firewall configurations, DDoS mitigation shields, and strict, role-based access controls (RBAC) for our internal engineering and editorial staff. We retain your personal administration data and past press release archives in your dashboard history for exactly as long as your account remains active, or strictly as necessary to fulfill overarching legal, tax, and compliance auditing obligations.

5. Modifications and Contact Information

We actively reserve the right to periodically update, modify, or completely overhaul this Privacy Policy to accurately reflect crucial changes to our technical practices or shifting international legal requirements. We will proactively notify all active account holders of any material changes via a prominent notice deployed within your user dashboard or via a direct corporate email. To exercise any of your aforementioned privacy rights, or to submit a formal inquiry regarding our data handling procedures, please contact our designated Data Protection Officer (DPO) via encrypted email.