Privacy Policy

Information you choose to provide

• Contact-form messages may include your name, email address, town or organization, subject, and message.
• Community notices and event submissions may include contact information, dates, locations, and details submitted for review.
• Photo submissions may include the image, your name, email address, location, caption, and your chosen public credit.

Contact information is kept private unless a form clearly asks you to provide information for public display.

How information is used

• To respond to questions, corrections, source suggestions, and technical reports
• To review and moderate community submissions before publication
• To document corrections, prevent abuse, and maintain the reliability of the site
• To communicate about advertising or sponsorship when requested

Chemung Now does not sell contact information to advertisers.

Storage and security

Private submission records and email settings are stored outside the public website directory with restricted access. Reasonable technical measures are used to protect them, but no internet service can guarantee absolute security.

Basic web-server logs may record technical information such as an IP address, browser type, requested page, and time of access for security and troubleshooting.

Location and device permissions

Features such as “Near Me” or transit lookup may request browser location permission. Location access occurs only after you choose to use the feature and approve the browser prompt. The browser will show and control that permission.

Third-party services

Maps, webcams, weather layers, source links, and other embedded or linked services may be provided by outside organizations. Those services have their own privacy policies and may receive standard connection information when opened or loaded.

Website analytics

Chemung Now may use privacy-conscious website analytics after launch to understand overall use and improve the site. If enabled, analytics may process pages viewed, approximate region, device and browser information, referring source, and interactions such as incident-card openings, advertising interest, and successful contact-form submissions.

Chemung Now does not send contact-form names, email addresses, message contents, exact browser location, or scanner audio to analytics services.

Advertising and cookies

Chemung Now may use Google AdSense to display advertising. Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, device and browser information, and activity on this and other websites to deliver, personalize, and measure ads. Depending on your location and consent choices, ads may be personalized or non-personalized.

You can manage Google ad personalization through Google Ads Settings and learn more in Google’s advertising privacy information. Where required, visitors will be offered consent or opt-out choices. Chemung Now does not provide contact-form names, email addresses, message contents, or Scanner audio to Google for advertising targeting.

Push notifications

If you choose to enable browser push notifications, Chemung Now uses OneSignal to create and manage the browser subscription needed to deliver alerts. OneSignal may process device and browser information, a push subscription identifier, notification permission status, and the two optional topic preferences you select: Scanner Incidents and School Closings & Delays.

No email address or phone number is required for browser push. Essential local alerts are included with every active subscription. You can turn notifications off from the notification preferences page or through your browser settings.

Questions or requests

To ask about a message or submission, request a correction, or raise a privacy concern, use the contact page or email info@ChemungNow.com.

Last updated October 17, 2026.