Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 15, 2026
Montreal Jewish News respects the privacy of its readers, contributors, advertisers, sources, and users. This Privacy Policy explains how Montreal Jewish News collects, uses, stores, and protects personal information when you visit MontrealJewishNews.com, use a Montreal Jewish News mobile application, subscribe to our services, communicate with us, submit information, or otherwise interact with Montreal Jewish News.
This policy applies to the Montreal Jewish News website, mobile applications, newsletters, digital services, and other online services operated by Montreal Jewish News.
1. Information We Collect
Montreal Jewish News may collect personal information that you provide directly to us, including your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, and any information you voluntarily provide when contacting us.
We may collect information when you:
• Subscribe to a newsletter or notification service
• Contact Montreal Jewish News
• Submit a news tip, photograph, video, document, letter, comment, or other material
• Participate in a survey, contest, promotion, or event
• Communicate with our editorial staff
• Purchase advertising or other services
• Create an account, if account services are offered
• Use the Montreal Jewish News website or mobile application
If you contact Montreal Jewish News as a confidential news source, additional protections may apply to information provided in the course of our journalistic activities.
2. Information Collected Automatically
When you visit our website or use our mobile application, certain technical information may be collected automatically. This may include:
• Internet Protocol address
• Browser type and version
• Device type and operating system
• General geographic information derived from your Internet connection
• Pages or articles viewed
• Date and time of visits
• Referring websites or links
• Interaction with advertisements, notifications, or site features
• App usage and performance information
• Diagnostic and crash information
This information may be collected through cookies, analytics services, server logs, software development kits, and similar technologies.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Montreal Jewish News may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember user preferences, understand how visitors use the site, measure readership, improve performance, and support advertising.
Some cookies may be necessary for the website to function properly. Other cookies may be used for analytics, personalization, or advertising.
Third-party services used by Montreal Jewish News may also place or access cookies subject to their own privacy policies.
Users may be able to disable or delete cookies through their browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the operation or functionality of parts of the website.
Where required by applicable law, Montreal Jewish News will obtain consent before using technologies that require consent.
4. Analytics
Montreal Jewish News may use third-party analytics providers to understand website and application traffic, readership, device usage, visitor behaviour, and general audience trends.
Analytics information may include information about the pages visited, time spent on the site, approximate location, device type, referring source, and interactions with site features.
We use this information to improve our journalism, website, mobile applications, services, and reader experience.
5. Advertising
Montreal Jewish News may display advertising supplied directly by advertisers or through third-party advertising platforms.
Advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies to measure advertising performance and, depending on the provider and your consent choices, may use information about browsing activity to provide relevant advertising.
Montreal Jewish News does not sell its reader mailing lists or personal contact information to advertisers.
Advertisers and third-party advertising platforms may have their own privacy policies and data practices. Montreal Jewish News is not responsible for the privacy practices of independent third parties.
6. Newsletters and Notifications
If you subscribe to an email newsletter, breaking news alert, mobile push notification, or similar service, Montreal Jewish News will use the information necessary to provide that service.
You may unsubscribe from marketing or newsletter emails by using the unsubscribe link contained in the message.
Mobile push notifications may normally be disabled through the notification settings on your device or within the Montreal Jewish News application where such settings are available.
Important administrative, security, or service-related communications may still be sent where necessary.
7. News Tips, Sources, and Submissions
Information submitted to Montreal Jewish News for journalistic purposes may be reviewed, investigated, stored, verified, and used in connection with news gathering and publication.
Submitting information does not guarantee that it will be published.
If you require confidentiality, you should clearly advise Montreal Jewish News when communicating with our editorial staff. Montreal Jewish News takes the protection of confidential journalistic sources seriously.
Information provided for journalistic purposes may be subject to legal rules and protections that differ from information collected for ordinary commercial purposes.
8. How We Use Personal Information
Montreal Jewish News may use personal information to:
• Operate and maintain our website and mobile applications
• Deliver newsletters, alerts, and notifications
• Respond to questions, requests, or correspondence
• Review news tips and submissions
• Conduct journalistic activities
• Manage advertising and business relationships
• Administer contests, promotions, or surveys
• Detect fraud, abuse, security threats, or technical problems
• Improve our website, applications, journalism, and services
• Understand audience trends and website performance
• Comply with applicable laws and legal obligations
• Protect the rights, safety, security, and property of Montreal Jewish News, our readers, and others
We will not use personal information for purposes that are materially different from those for which it was collected unless permitted by law or appropriate consent has been obtained.
9. Disclosure of Information
Montreal Jewish News may share personal information with service providers that assist us in operating our business and digital services. These may include:
• Website hosting providers
• Email and newsletter providers
• Mobile application providers
• Analytics providers
• Advertising and marketing platforms
• Cloud storage and technology providers
• Payment processors
• Security and fraud-prevention providers
• Professional advisers
These providers may only receive information reasonably necessary to perform services on our behalf and are subject to their own legal and contractual obligations.
Montreal Jewish News may also disclose information where required or permitted by law, including in response to valid legal proceedings, court orders, government requirements, or situations involving security, fraud, or the protection of legal rights.
Montreal Jewish News does not sell personal information in the ordinary meaning of selling names, email addresses, or contact lists to third parties.
10. Third-Party Links
Articles and other content published by Montreal Jewish News may contain links to external websites, social networks, video services, advertisers, organizations, or other third parties.
Montreal Jewish News does not control those websites or their privacy practices. Once you leave a Montreal Jewish News service, the privacy policy of the third-party service applies.
11. Social Media
Montreal Jewish News maintains accounts on various social media platforms. Information that you provide to or through those platforms is also governed by the privacy practices and terms of the applicable social media company.
Interactions with Montreal Jewish News through social media may be visible publicly depending on your account settings and the platform involved.
12. Mobile Applications
A Montreal Jewish News mobile application may request access to certain device features when needed to provide specific functions.
These may include notification permissions, network access, or other device permissions.
Where a feature requires permission from your device, you may generally enable or disable that permission through your device settings.
Montreal Jewish News does not access device information or features that are not reasonably required for the operation of the application or a feature you choose to use.
13. Information Stored Outside Quebec or Canada
Some technology and service providers used by Montreal Jewish News may process or store information outside Quebec or outside Canada.
When personal information is transferred to a service provider in another jurisdiction, it may become subject to the laws of that jurisdiction.
Montreal Jewish News takes reasonable steps to select reputable service providers and to protect personal information under its control when third parties process information on its behalf.
14. Retention of Personal Information
Montreal Jewish News retains personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, for legitimate journalistic or business requirements, or as required by law.
Information that is no longer required may be deleted, destroyed, or anonymized where appropriate.
Published journalistic material may remain permanently available as part of the historical and editorial record of Montreal Jewish News.
15. Security
Montreal Jewish News uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction.
No website, mobile application, database, email system, or Internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Users should therefore exercise reasonable care when transmitting sensitive information electronically.
16. Privacy Incidents
If Montreal Jewish News becomes aware of a privacy or security incident involving personal information, we will investigate the incident and take appropriate measures.
Where required by applicable law, Montreal Jewish News will notify affected individuals and the appropriate privacy authorities.
17. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on applicable law and the circumstances, you may have the right to request access to personal information Montreal Jewish News holds about you and to request correction of inaccurate information.
You may also have rights concerning consent, deletion, portability, or the use of certain automated technologies where those rights are provided by applicable law.
Certain rights may be limited where information is held for journalistic purposes or where another legal exception applies.
Requests concerning personal information may be directed to the Montreal Jewish News Privacy Officer.
18. Children
Montreal Jewish News is a general news publication and its digital services are not specifically directed toward young children.
We do not knowingly seek to collect unnecessary personal information from children. Where consent from a parent or guardian is required by applicable law, Montreal Jewish News will take reasonable steps to obtain that consent.
19. Privacy Officer
Responsibility for compliance with applicable privacy requirements rests with the person designated by Montreal Jewish News as its Privacy Officer.
Privacy Officer
Montreal Jewish News
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Email: info@montrealjewishnews.com
Questions, concerns, complaints, and requests relating to personal information or this Privacy Policy should be directed to the Privacy Officer.
20. Complaints
If you have a concern about the way Montreal Jewish News has collected, used, disclosed, retained, or protected your personal information, you may contact our Privacy Officer.
We will review privacy complaints and respond within a reasonable period.
You may also have the right to contact the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, or another applicable privacy authority.
21. Changes to This Privacy Policy
Montreal Jewish News may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our services, technology, business practices, or legal requirements.
The current version will be posted on MontrealJewishNews.com with its effective date.
Where required by law, Montreal Jewish News will provide appropriate notice of material changes to this Privacy Policy.
22. Consent
By providing personal information to Montreal Jewish News, you acknowledge the collection, use, and disclosure of that information as described in this Privacy Policy, subject to the consent requirements and other rights provided under applicable law.
Where consent is required, you may withdraw that consent subject to legal or contractual restrictions and reasonable notice.
23. Contact
Questions about this Privacy Policy or Montreal Jewish News privacy practices may be directed to:
Montreal Jewish News
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Email: info@montrealjewishnews.com
Website: MontrealJewishNews.com
