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Privacy Policy

HollywoodLANews.com has third-party companies serve ads when you visit. Google may use information (not including your name, address, email or phone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by Google, click here.

Use of Personal Information

Personal information submitted to HollywoodLANews.com through an inquiry or submission will be handled in a professional manner and will not be shared with or sold to marketing companies. Your name and email address will not be used for any other purpose but to contact you in response to a request.

For the death notices, we use information provided to the public by government coroners and medical examiners. Coroner case information is public record and is in fact subject to disclosure by the California Public Records Act.

Regarding arrest records, Californians have the right under the state Public Records Act and the California Constitution to access public information maintained by local and state government agencies, including police departments.

Megan’s Law permits the public to obtain information on sex offenders.

As a rule, we do not take down information that is publicly available elsewhere.

Use of Cookies

The HollywoodLANews.com website use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the HollywoodLANews.com services or websites you visit.

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it.

Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site.

Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page.

Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page.

Amazon Affiliate Disclosure

This website is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.

Advertising contributes to the funding of operation and maintenance costs of this site and does not constitute an endorsement of any product. Please contact the advertiser directly for details concerning any product or offer.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

HollywoodLANews.com will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect company and customer feedback. HollywoodLANews.com encourages you to periodically review this Policy to be informed of how HollywoodLANews.com is protecting your information.

Contact Information

HollywoodLANews.com welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that HollywoodLANews.com has not adhered to this Policy, please contact HollywoodLANews.com using this form. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.