Effective Date: July 19, 2025
Last Updated: July 19, 2025

Welcome to DMK News Bot (dmknewsbot.io). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you interact with our website, blog platform, and related services.

1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of personal data:
– Name
– Email address
– Website (optional, provided via comment forms)
– IP address (collected indirectly through interactions)
– Wallet address (for bloggers who voluntarily add this to receive tips or payments)
– Profile images (uploaded by users)

2. How We Collect Information
We collect information through:
– Newsletter sign-up forms
– Comments on blog posts
– User registration and login forms
– Blogger profiles with tipping features
– Profile customization by users (e.g., uploading images)

3. How We Use Information
Your information is used for the following purposes:
– To send weekly digests and email updates
– For promotional and email marketing campaigns
– For security, logging, and analytics purposes
– To facilitate tipping features and crypto-based payments to monetized blogger accounts
– To personalize user profiles and enhance public engagement

4. Third-Party Integrations
We currently integrate with the following APIs:
– OpenAI: Used to summarize and rewrite news articles
– Unsplash: Used to fetch images for auto-generated content
Additional services may be added in the future to improve platform functionality.

5. News Aggregation and AI Processing
Our platform functions as a news aggregator. We fetch news content using RSS feeds from publicly available sources and post excerpts. We use AI (OpenAI API) to automatically summarize and rewrite headlines, improving readability and user experience.

6. User Accounts and Profiles
Bloggers and readers can create user accounts. Bloggers can add a profile picture, bio, social media links, and wallet address (for receiving tips). Readers can follow bloggers and engage with posts like on a regular social platform.

7. Data Sharing
We do not share your personal information — including wallet addresses and uploaded images — with any third-party services or advertisers.

8. Data Retention
We retain data such as comments, profiles, and email subscriptions long-term to support the growth of our platform. Wallet addresses and user-uploaded images are stored securely unless removed by the user.

9. User Rights
Users can delete their accounts at any time through their profile settings. While we do not currently provide direct access to view stored personal data, users can unsubscribe from emails at any time.

10. Cookies
We use cookies in to enhance user experience and support services like Google Ads & Google Analytics.

11. Children’s Privacy
Our platform is intended for users who are 13 years or older (or 16 in some regions). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children below this age.

12. Contact
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, feel free to contact us:

Email: contact@dmknewsbot.io
Telegram: https://t.me/dmknewsbotCN