Effective date: May 18, 2026

The Chesterfield Valley Post is a local news publication serving Chesterfield, Wildwood, Eureka, and west St. Louis County. This policy explains what information may be collected when you visit our site, contact us, send a news tip, subscribe to updates, or interact with advertising and other services on the site.

Information We Collect

We may collect information you choose to provide, such as your name, email address, news tips, corrections, event submissions, photos, documents, or messages sent to the newsroom.

We may also collect standard technical information about visits to the site, including browser type, device type, IP address, pages viewed, referral source, and approximate location derived from technical data. This helps us maintain the site, understand readership, prevent abuse, and improve coverage.

Cookies and Advertising

The Chesterfield Valley Post may use cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies for site functionality, analytics, security, and advertising.

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visits to this site and other sites on the internet.

Readers may visit Google Ads Settings to opt out of personalized advertising, or visit AboutAds.info for additional opt-out choices.

How We Use Information

We use information to operate and secure the site, respond to reader messages, review tips and corrections, send requested updates, understand which coverage is useful to readers, comply with legal obligations, and support advertising or sponsorship operations.

How Information Is Shared

We may share information with service providers that help operate the site, send email, host media, measure audience activity, protect against spam or abuse, or serve advertising. We may also disclose information when required by law, to protect our rights, or to investigate misuse of the site.

We do not sell reader email addresses to third parties.

Reader Submissions

If you send us a news tip, photo, correction, document, or event notice, we may use the information to evaluate, verify, report, edit, and publish coverage. Please do not send confidential information unless you are comfortable with the risk of electronic communication.

Children

The Chesterfield Valley Post is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Your Choices

You may contact us to request that we update or delete personal information you have provided directly to us, subject to legal, editorial, security, and operational limitations. You can also adjust cookie and advertising settings in your browser and through the advertising opt-out links above.

Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. The effective date above will reflect the latest version.

Contact

Questions about this policy may be sent to social@surroundsoundnews.com.