Last Updated: August 10, 2026
Crimes of the Week (“Crimes of the Week,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects the privacy of visitors to crimesoftheweek.com (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit the Site, how that information may be used, and the choices available to you.
By using the Site, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We May Collect
We may collect information in several ways when you use the Site.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit Crimes of the Week, our website, hosting provider, security services, analytics providers, advertising partners, or other service providers may automatically collect certain technical information.
This information may include:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address
- Browser type and version
- Device type
- Operating system
- Referring website or page
- Pages viewed on Crimes of the Week
- Date and time of visits
- Approximate geographic location derived from an IP address
- Information about how visitors interact with the Site
- Cookie identifiers and similar technical information
This information may be used to operate the Site, analyze traffic, improve performance, protect the Site from abuse or unauthorized activity, understand how visitors use the Site, and support advertising and measurement services.
Information You Provide Voluntarily
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when contacting Crimes of the Week or otherwise communicating with us.
This information may include your name, email address, the contents of your message, and any other information you choose to provide.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for your request.
2. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Crimes of the Week and third-party service providers may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies.
Cookies are small files or pieces of information stored on or associated with your device. They may be used for purposes including:
- Maintaining website functionality
- Remembering preferences
- Measuring website traffic
- Understanding visitor behavior
- Improving Site performance
- Preventing fraud or abuse
- Measuring advertising performance
- Delivering advertisements
- Personalizing advertising where permitted
Your browser may allow you to block, delete, or restrict cookies. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of some portions of the Site.
Where required by applicable law, Crimes of the Week may request your consent before using certain cookies or similar technologies.
3. Google AdSense and Advertising
Crimes of the Week may use Google AdSense and other third-party advertising services to display advertisements.
Third-party advertising vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user’s previous visits to Crimes of the Week or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies allows Google and its advertising partners to serve advertisements to users based on visits to this Site and/or other websites.
Advertising providers may collect or receive information from your browser or device through cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, advertising identifiers, and similar technologies for purposes such as:
- Selecting and displaying advertisements
- Measuring advertisement performance
- Limiting how often an advertisement is displayed
- Detecting invalid traffic or fraud
- Producing aggregated advertising statistics
- Personalizing advertisements where permitted by law and user choice
Users may manage or opt out of personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings.
Users may also be able to opt out of personalized advertising from participating third-party advertising companies through recognized industry advertising-choice programs.
Opting out of personalized advertising does not necessarily mean that you will stop seeing advertisements. Instead, advertisements may be selected using non-personalized factors such as the content of the page, general location, or other contextual information.
4. Google Services
Crimes of the Week may use services provided by Google for purposes including advertising, website operation, security, analytics, measurement, and related functionality.
When Google services are used on a website, certain information may be transmitted to Google. This may include information such as your IP address, browser or device information, pages visited, interactions with the Site, and cookies or similar identifiers.
Google processes information according to its own privacy policies and terms.
Visitors who want additional information about Google’s data practices should review Google’s Privacy Policy, Google’s information about cookies, and How Google Uses Information From Sites or Apps That Use Its Services.
5. Consent for Visitors in the EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
For visitors located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, or other jurisdictions requiring consent, Crimes of the Week may use a consent-management platform to obtain and communicate visitor choices concerning cookies, advertising technologies, and the collection or use of personal information.
Where legally required, advertising cookies or other technologies requiring consent will be used according to the consent choices provided through the Site’s consent-management system.
Visitors may be able to change or withdraw applicable consent choices through the privacy or consent controls displayed on the Site.
6. Analytics and Website Measurement
We may use analytics and measurement technologies to understand how visitors use Crimes of the Week.
These services may collect information such as pages viewed, approximate location, browser type, device type, referring pages, visit duration, interactions with website features, and similar usage information.
We use this information to understand Site traffic, identify technical problems, improve navigation, evaluate content performance, and improve the overall visitor experience.
Analytics providers may use cookies or similar technologies according to their own privacy policies.
7. Hosting, Security, and Technical Services
Crimes of the Week uses third-party hosting, security, content-management, caching, email, and other technical service providers to operate the Site.
These providers may process limited technical information where necessary to provide their services, maintain website functionality, protect against malicious activity, prevent fraud, diagnose technical issues, or comply with applicable legal obligations.
8. Comments and User-Submitted Content
Public commenting is currently disabled on Crimes of the Week.
If commenting, reader submissions, or other interactive features are enabled in the future, information submitted through those features may be collected and processed as necessary to operate those services, prevent spam, moderate content, and protect the Site.
Any information voluntarily posted in a publicly visible area of the Site should be considered public information.
9. Embedded Content
Articles on Crimes of the Week may include embedded content from third-party websites, including videos, images, maps, social-media posts, documents, or other media.
Embedded content from another website may behave in substantially the same way as if you visited that third-party website directly.
Those third parties may collect information about you, use cookies or similar technologies, monitor your interaction with the embedded material, or associate your interaction with an account you maintain with that service.
Crimes of the Week does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites or embedded services.
10. External Links
Crimes of the Week articles frequently link to external sources, including law-enforcement agencies, government agencies, courts, prosecutors, news organizations, and other websites.
When you follow a link to another website, that website’s privacy practices and terms apply.
Crimes of the Week is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, availability, or content of third-party websites.
11. News Reporting and Publicly Available Information
Crimes of the Week is a crime-news publication. Articles may report information obtained from publicly available or lawfully obtained sources, including law-enforcement releases, court records, prosecutor statements, government records, public databases, official statements, and news reports.
Information appearing in editorial news content is separate from information collected from visitors through their use of the Site.
Requests involving factual errors or corrections to published editorial content should be submitted using the contact information provided below or through the Site’s applicable corrections process.
12. How We May Use Information
Information collected through the Site may be used to:
- Operate and maintain Crimes of the Week
- Provide requested website functionality
- Respond to communications
- Improve Site content and usability
- Analyze traffic and performance
- Diagnose technical problems
- Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, and unauthorized activity
- Protect the security of the Site
- Display and measure advertisements
- Comply with applicable laws
- Enforce our policies and Terms of Service
- Protect the rights, safety, and property of Crimes of the Week, our visitors, or others
13. When Information May Be Shared
We may share information with service providers when reasonably necessary to operate the Site.
These providers may include hosting companies, security providers, analytics providers, advertising providers, technical service providers, and other companies that perform services on our behalf.
Information may also be disclosed when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:
- Comply with applicable law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other legal process
- Respond to lawful requests from government or law-enforcement authorities
- Investigate fraud, security incidents, abuse, or violations of our policies
- Protect the rights, property, or safety of Crimes of the Week, our visitors, or others
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
We may also disclose aggregated or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify an individual.
14. Data Retention
We retain information for only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including operating the Site, maintaining security, resolving disputes, complying with legal obligations, and maintaining appropriate business records.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
Editorial news content and public-record information contained in published articles may be retained as part of the Site’s historical news archive.
15. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live, applicable law may provide you with certain privacy rights.
These rights may include the ability to request:
- Access to certain personal information
- Correction of inaccurate personal information
- Deletion of certain personal information
- Information concerning how personal information is used or disclosed
- Withdrawal of consent where processing is based on consent
- Restrictions on certain processing
- Opt-out from certain forms of targeted or personalized advertising where applicable
Not every right applies in every jurisdiction or circumstance.
We may need to verify a request before responding. Certain information may also be exempt from deletion or other requests where retention or publication is permitted or required by law, including information maintained for legitimate news-reporting, archival, security, legal, or public-interest purposes.
Advertising and cookie choices may also be available through the Site’s consent-management controls, your browser settings, Google Ads Settings, or applicable industry advertising-choice services.
16. Children’s Privacy
Crimes of the Week is a general-audience news website and is not directed toward children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly solicit personal information directly from children under 13.
If we become aware that personal information has been knowingly collected directly from a child under 13 in circumstances requiring parental consent, we will take appropriate steps to address the information in accordance with applicable law.
17. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information associated with the Site.
However, no website, network, database, or electronic transmission method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security.
18. Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers provide a “Do Not Track” signal or similar privacy preference.
Because there is not a single universally adopted method for responding to all browser-based privacy signals, the Site’s response may depend on applicable law, available technology, and the services operating on the Site.
Where applicable law requires recognition of a particular opt-out preference mechanism, we will endeavor to honor that requirement.
19. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our website, advertising services, technology, business practices, or legal requirements.
When this Privacy Policy is materially updated, the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page will be revised.
Visitors are encouraged to review this page periodically.
20. Contact Us
Questions about this Privacy Policy, privacy requests, or other privacy-related concerns may be directed to:
Crimes of the Week
Website: crimesoftheweek.com
Email: admin@crimesoftheweek.com
For requests involving factual corrections to a published article, please identify the article and provide sufficient information or supporting documentation for the request to be evaluated.