Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 27, 2026
Eastern Kentucky Mugshots & News (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates easternkymugshots.com. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit or interact with our website, how that information may be used, and the choices available to you.
By using this website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We May Collect
Information You Provide
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when you contact us, submit information, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with the website. This may include your name, email address, and the contents of your communication.
Please do not submit sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for your request.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our website, hosting provider, analytics services, advertising providers, or other service providers.
This information may include:
IP address
Browser type and version
Device type
Operating system
Referring website or page
Pages viewed
Approximate geographic location derived from an IP address
Date and time of visits
Website interaction and performance information
Cookies, pixels, and similar technologies
We may use this information to operate, secure, analyze, maintain, and improve the website and to understand how visitors use our content.
2. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Eastern Kentucky Mugshots & News and third-party service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies.
These technologies may be used to:
Maintain website functionality
Measure website traffic and audience activity
Understand how visitors interact with the website
Detect abuse or security threats
Measure advertising performance
Deliver or personalize advertising where permitted
You can generally control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect the functionality of certain website features.
3. Advertising
Eastern Kentucky Mugshots & News may display advertisements from local businesses and other direct advertising partners.
Our direct advertising partners do not use third-party cookies through their advertisements displayed on our website. These advertisements generally consist of images, text, business information, and/or links to the advertiser’s website or social-media presence.
If you choose to click an advertisement or visit an advertiser’s website, you leave Eastern Kentucky Mugshots & News and become subject to that website’s own privacy practices and policies. We do not control the privacy practices, cookies, tracking technologies, or data collection practices of websites operated by advertisers or other third parties.
Eastern Kentucky Mugshots & News may collect general information about advertisement performance, such as page views, impressions, or clicks, for reporting and business purposes.
4. Analytics and Third-Party Services
We may use third-party analytics, advertising, hosting, security, content-delivery, social-media, and website-management services.
These providers may receive technical information necessary to provide their services. Their collection and use of information are also governed by their respective privacy policies and terms.
Links to third-party websites, social-media platforms, advertisers, or other external services are provided for convenience. Eastern Kentucky Mugshots & News is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, availability, or content of third-party websites or services.
5. Public Records and News Content
Eastern Kentucky Mugshots & News is a news and public-information website. Our published content may contain information obtained from law-enforcement agencies, detention centers, court records, government agencies, public records, press releases, publicly available sources, or other newsworthy sources.
Information appearing in a public record or news article is different from information collected from you merely because you visit our website.
Published information may include names, photographs, booking information, arrest information, charges, court-related information, agency information, and other information contained in or derived from public records or news sources.
An arrest, criminal charge, or booking does not establish guilt. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Requests concerning published content, corrections, or records showing that a charge has been dismissed, expunged, or otherwise resolved may be submitted through our website’s contact method. Any request will be reviewed based on the circumstances, available documentation, applicable law, and our editorial policies.
Nothing in this Privacy Policy guarantees the removal, alteration, or suppression of lawfully published news or public-record information.
6. How We May Use Information
Information collected through the website may be used to:
Operate and maintain the website
Respond to communications and inquiries
Analyze website traffic and performance
Improve our website and content
Provide and measure advertising
Detect spam, fraud, abuse, or security threats
Troubleshoot technical problems
Protect our website, visitors, and business interests
Comply with legal obligations
Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
We may also use aggregated or de-identified information for statistical, operational, or business purposes.
7. Disclosure of Information
We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:
Website hosting and technology providers
Analytics and advertising providers
Contractors or service providers performing services on our behalf
Protect the security or integrity of the website
Investigate suspected fraud, abuse, or unlawful activity
Comply with a subpoena, court order, legal process, or other lawful governmental request
Protect our legal rights or the rights and safety of others
Complete a business transfer, restructuring, merger, acquisition, or sale of assets
We do not represent that information collected by independent third-party services is controlled exclusively by Eastern Kentucky Mugshots & News.
8. Data Retention
We may retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including operational, security, recordkeeping, legal, and dispute-resolution purposes.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and why it was collected.
Published news articles and public-record information may be retained as part of our news archives and are not necessarily subject to the same retention practices as information collected from website visitors.
9. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect information under our control.
However, no website, electronic transmission, or data-storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or stored through the website.
10. Children’s Privacy
Eastern Kentucky Mugshots & News is intended for a general audience and is not directed toward children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 through website registrations or similar services. If we learn that personal information from a child under 13 has been collected in circumstances requiring parental consent, we may take appropriate steps to delete it.
11. Privacy Rights and Requests
Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have certain rights concerning personal information collected about you through your interaction with our website.
These rights may be subject to exceptions, including exceptions or protections applicable to journalism, news gathering, public records, freedom of expression, legal obligations, and information that is publicly available.
To make a privacy-related request, contact us using the contact method provided on easternkymugshots.com. We may request information reasonably necessary to verify your identity and process the request.
12. Do Not Track and Browser Controls
Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” signals or other privacy controls. Because there is not necessarily a uniform industry standard governing every such signal, our website and third-party services may respond differently depending on the technology involved.
Visitors can also use browser settings, cookie controls, and applicable third-party opt-out mechanisms to manage certain forms of tracking.
13. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy as our website, services, technology, advertising practices, or legal obligations change.
When material changes are made, the updated Privacy Policy will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.
Your continued use of the website following an update means that the current Privacy Policy will apply to your subsequent use of the website.
14. Contact Us
Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy may be submitted through the contact information or contact method provided on:
Eastern Kentucky Mugshots & News
easternkymugshots.com
When contacting us about a privacy matter, please provide enough information for us to identify and respond to your request.
One important point: a privacy policy should match what the site actually does. If easternkymugshots.com uses Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Meta Pixel, Google reCAPTCHA, or another specific tracking/advertising service, I would add service-specific language and the appropriate opt-out/privacy disclosures rather than leaving those provisions generic.