Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Saigon Sentinel (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website (saigonsentinel.com).

2. Log Files

Like many other websites, Saigon Sentinel makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

3. Email Subscriptions

When you subscribe to our email digest, we collect your email address and your stated language and frequency preferences. We use this information to send you news digests on the schedule you select (daily, weekly, or monthly).

How we may use your email address:

• To deliver the Saigon Sentinel news digest on your chosen schedule.
• To send you service-related messages (e.g., changes to this policy or our service).
• In the future, to send you marketing and advertising communications from Saigon Sentinel, including sponsored content, promotional partnerships, and advertising offers that we believe may be of interest to you. We will always provide a clear way to opt out of marketing emails.
• We may share your email address with trusted third-party advertising and marketing partners to serve you relevant offers, subject to their privacy policies. We do not sell your email address to unaffiliated third parties.

Unsubscribing: Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link. Clicking it will immediately stop all future emails from Saigon Sentinel to that address. You may also contact us at [email protected] to request removal.

When we send newsletter emails, delivery is handled by a third-party email service provider acting on our behalf. Your email address is shared with that provider only for the purpose of sending the emails you have subscribed to, and is handled in accordance with the provider’s own privacy policy.

4. Cookies

We use first-party cookies to remember your preferences (language, dark mode, text size) and to record that you have acknowledged our cookie consent and AI disclaimer notices. These preference cookies do not track you across other websites and are not used for advertising profiling.

5. Advertising & Third-Party Vendors

Saigon Sentinel displays advertising to support our work. We work with third-party advertising vendors and networks — which may include Google (including Google AdSense), Adsterra, Ezoic, Media.net, and their advertising partners — to serve ads on this site.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your browsing history. These third parties may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, the pages you visit, and interaction with ads.

You can opt out of personalized advertising:

• Google’s personalized ads: adssettings.google.com and Google’s advertising technologies page.
• Many third-party vendors (US): optout.aboutads.info (Digital Advertising Alliance).
• European users: youronlinechoices.eu.

We do not control the cookies set by these third parties. Please review each vendor’s own privacy policy for details on how they handle your data.

6. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at policies.google.com/privacy.

7. Children’s Privacy

Saigon Sentinel is a general-audience news publication and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in the relevant jurisdiction). If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at [email protected] and we will delete it.

8. Your Rights & International Visitors

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, or delete the personal information we hold about you, or to object to certain processing. To exercise any of these rights, email [email protected].

Saigon Sentinel is operated from the United States. If you access the site from outside the US, you understand that your information may be processed in the United States, where data-protection laws may differ from those in your country.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by updating the “Last updated” date at the top of this page, and your continued use of the site after any change constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

10. Data Retention

We retain your email address and subscription preferences for as long as your subscription is active. If you unsubscribe, your record is marked inactive and retained for up to 12 months for internal analytics, after which it is deleted. You may request immediate deletion by emailing [email protected].

11. Contact Us

For any questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal information, contact us at [email protected]. See also our Terms of Use.

12. Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms. By subscribing to our email digest, you additionally consent to the collection and use of your email address as described in Section 3 above, including potential future use for marketing and advertising communications.