Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

My Local Press collects information you provide directly to us, such as when you create an account, publish content, or contact us for support.

• Account information — Name, email address
• Content — Stories, classifieds, and other content you create
• Location data — With your permission, to show local content. We collect three types of location information: Your Area (determined automatically, approximate), GPS coordinates (opt-in, precise), and Primary Contributing Location (manually set in your profile)
• Usage data — How you interact with our platform

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide services — Maintain and improve the platform
• Show local content — Display location-based news and information. Location drives your local feed content and is used to distribute advertising revenue by geography
• Process payments — Handle transactions and send related information
• Support — Respond to your questions and provide assistance

Information Sharing

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information. We share information only in these limited cases:

• With your consent — when you explicitly agree
• Legal compliance — when required by law or legal process
• Safety — to protect rights, property, or safety
• Service providers — with trusted vendors who help us operate the platform, such as cloud hosting and storage, payment processing, email delivery, SMS verification, analytics, and AI services.

Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

GPS coordinates are truncated to 2 decimal places (~1.1km precision), providing city-level accuracy without revealing your exact position. Exact coordinates are never displayed publicly to other users.

Artificial Intelligence

My Local Press includes optional AI-powered features, such as our writing assistant for journalists, which use Anthropic's Claude.

Data Retention

We keep your account information and content for as long as your account is active. When you delete your account, we permanently remove your profile, content, messages, and reading relationships within 30 days, except where we're required by law to keep specific records (for example, payment records for tax compliance). Backups are overwritten on a rolling basis.

Your Privacy Rights

You can review and update your profile and content, or permanently delete your account, in Settings. For anything else, email hi@mylocalpress.com.

California residents. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, you have the right to know the categories of personal information we collect (account information, content you publish, location, usage data, technical identifiers), the sources (you, your device, our service providers), the business purposes (operating the platform, processing payments, account security, AI features), and the categories of third parties we share with (service providers, as described above). We do not sell personal information and do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

EU, UK, and EEA residents. You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection under the GDPR. We process your information to provide the services you signed up for, to operate and secure the platform, and with your consent where applicable (for example, precise location). Some of our service providers are based in the United States; we use Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent legal mechanisms for those transfers.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics and Google Search Console to understand website traffic and improve our search presence. These tools collect anonymous, aggregated data about how visitors use our website. They are not used to track individual users or activity within the mobile apps.

Children Under 13

My Local Press is not intended for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact hi@mylocalpress.com and we'll delete it.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the effective date.