Last updated: September 24, 2026
IONTB LLC operates iontb.com, a Tampa Bay news and public-safety website. This page explains information collected through this website, how cookies and similar technologies are used, and the choices available to you. Separate notices may apply to linked apps, scanner services, and other websites.
Information collected through the website
When you browse, our website and service providers may receive your IP address, browser and device information, pages viewed, referring website, and the date and time of your visit. Cookies and similar technologies may associate visits or interactions with a browser or device.
When you contact us, submit a news tip, upload photos or video, create an account, or use a form, we receive the information you provide, such as your name, email address, message, and uploaded files. We use this information to respond, review submissions, provide requested services, operate the website, and protect against spam, fraud, and abuse. Material you submit for news coverage may be considered for publication; please review the instructions on the submission form and avoid including unnecessary sensitive information.
Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files stored by your browser. Local storage, pixels, and similar technologies can also remember settings, support site features, measure usage, or help deliver advertising. Some are set by IONTB; others are set by providers whose services are embedded on the page. What is stored depends on the page, your choices, your browser settings, and whether you are signed in.
- Site operation and security: WordPress and security services may use cookies to maintain sign-in sessions, remember settings, and help prevent abuse. Administrator and account cookies are different from those used during an ordinary visit.
- Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand website traffic and how visitors use our pages. Google Tag Manager helps deliver website tags.
- Advertising: We use Google AdSense. Advertising cookies and identifiers may support ad delivery, personalization, fraud prevention, and measurement.
- Optional features and embedded services: Donation forms, payment services, push notifications, videos, maps, and social content may use their own cookies or browser storage.
Some cookies expire when you close your browser; others remain until they expire or you delete them. You can inspect individual cookies and their expiration dates through your browser’s site-data controls. Providers may change cookie names and durations over time.
Google advertising and analytics
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website or other websites. Google’s advertising cookies allow Google and its partners to deliver ads based on visits to IONTB and other sites. Other advertising vendors may also use cookies and similar technologies when participating in ad delivery.
You can manage personalized Google advertising through Google Ads Settings. You can also learn about participating advertising companies and available opt-outs at YourAdChoices. Opting out of personalization does not necessarily remove advertising or prevent all measurement.
Learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services and review Google’s Privacy Policy. Google also offers an Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
Donations, payments, notifications, and embedded content
Donation forms are provided through Donorbox and may involve payment services such as Stripe or PayPal. These providers process information needed to handle a donation or payment and may use cookies or device information for functionality and fraud prevention. See Donorbox’s Privacy Policy and the privacy information shown by your selected payment provider.
We use OneSignal for browser push notifications. If you subscribe, OneSignal processes subscription and device information to deliver notifications. You can turn off IONTB notifications in your browser’s site permissions. See OneSignal’s privacy information.
Embedded videos, maps, social posts, and other third-party content may send your IP address and browser information to their providers, set cookies, and record interactions, including in connection with an account you hold with that provider. Google reCAPTCHA may be used to protect forms against abuse. External sites and services have their own privacy policies.
Your privacy and cookie choices
- Consent and advertising choices: Where a consent or privacy-choice message is displayed, use its controls to accept, decline, or manage the choices offered. Where available, use the site’s privacy settings or “Do not sell or share my personal information” link to revisit advertising choices.
- Browser controls: You can view, delete, or block cookies and other site data in your browser. Blocking some storage may affect sign-in, donation forms, or other features. Deleting data may also reset saved privacy choices.
- Advertising and analytics: Use the Google and YourAdChoices links above for additional provider-specific controls. Choices may need to be repeated on each browser or device.
- Notifications: Change IONTB’s notification permission in your browser to stop browser push notifications.
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, or a copy of personal information, or to object to or opt out of certain processing, including targeted advertising or the sale or sharing of personal information. Advertising disclosures can qualify as “sale” or “sharing” under some laws even when no money is exchanged for the information. Contact us using the details below to make a request. We may need to verify your identity, and legal exceptions may apply, including to news reporting and records needed for legal or security purposes.
Service providers, retention, and security
Website hosting, security, backup, communications, analytics, advertising, and payment providers may process information as part of delivering their services. Information may be processed in the United States or other countries where those providers operate.
Retention depends on the information and its purpose. Published news and related records, account information, correspondence, transaction records, logs, and backups can have different retention periods. Contact us to ask about information relating to you or to request deletion, subject to applicable obligations and exceptions.
We use safeguards to protect the website and information, but no internet transmission or storage system is completely secure.
Changes and contact
We will update the date on this page when this notice changes. For material changes, we will provide a prominent notice on the website or notify affected users as appropriate.
For privacy questions or requests, contact IONTB LLC at [email protected] and include “Privacy request” in the subject line.
