Effective date: November 11, 2026
This page describes what happens when you visit Mainsail News (mainsailnews.com and www.mainsailnews.com). It is a plain-English explanation of how the site works. It is not legal advice.
Mainsail News is a static news-headline site. We publish headlines and links to original reporting on other publishers’ websites. We do not host user accounts, comments, or a newsletter, and we do not collect sign-ups or other information through a form on this site.
The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Like most web hosts and content-delivery networks, Cloudflare processes technical information such as IP addresses and security or performance logs in order to deliver the site and help protect it from abuse. That processing is done by Cloudflare as the hosting provider, not in a Mainsail News account database.
We use, or may use, Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors use the site — for example, which pages are viewed and how people find their way here. Google Analytics uses first-party cookies, such as the _ga cookie, to distinguish visitors and measure engagement.
When Analytics is active, Google may collect information such as the pages you view, your approximate location derived from IP address, your device and browser type, the referring site or page, and engagement with the site. Google states that Google Analytics 4 does not log or store full IP addresses.
Analytics data is retained according to the retention settings in Google Analytics. For a standard Google Analytics 4 property, Google allows that data to be kept for 2 months or 14 months.
We do not use Google Signals or ads personalization from Analytics unless those features are enabled.
You can opt out of Google Analytics in your browser with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can also read Google’s privacy policy.
The site uses Google AdSense (publisher ID ca-pub-9832850087002434) to display ads. Google may use cookies and similar technologies to show personalized ads, limit how often you see an ad, and measure how ads perform.
You can learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services, and you can opt out of personalized ads, here:
The site loads fonts from Adobe Fonts (Typekit). When a page is displayed, your browser may request those fonts from Adobe, which can receive technical information such as your IP address in order to serve the files.
Headlines on Mainsail News link to other news sites. Those publishers have their own privacy policies and practices. This policy covers only Mainsail News, not the sites we link to.
This site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
We do not sell personal information for money. Under some state laws, including California’s CCPA/CPRA, certain personalized advertising can be treated as a “sale” or “share” of personal information. To opt out of personalized Google ads on this site — including a “Do Not Sell or Share” request related to those ads — use Google Ads Settings and the aboutads.info opt-out linked above. We do not maintain user accounts, so there is no login-based request portal.
If you visit from the EEA or the UK, companies such as Cloudflare, Google, and Adobe may process technical data as described above and in their own policies, which may include transferring data outside those regions. We do not operate user accounts or collect newsletter sign-ups. If you have a question about this page, use the contact below.
We may update this page from time to time. When we do, we will change the effective date at the top. Please read the current version when you visit.
Questions about this privacy policy: [email protected].
This page is for information about how the site works. It is not legal advice.