South Valley Ledger

South Valley Ledger is an automated local news page covering Herriman · Bluffdale · South Jordan · Riverton · Draper. It has no reader accounts, no logins, no comments and no newsletter. The about page explains how the journalism is produced; this page is about what happens to information when you read it.

There is no account to create and nothing to sign into. The paper keeps no database of readers, no profile of what you have read, and no list to mail. The one way information reaches us deliberately is if you write to the corrections address in the footer, and then we have only what you chose to send.

We do not sell, rent or trade reader information, because we do not have any. There is no reader information to sell.

Three Google services run here. They are third-party scripts: they set their own cookies in your browser and report what they collect to Google, not to us. We name them, with their public identifiers, because a reader should not have to open the page source to find out:

• Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-H5369NDWWX) counts visits and which pages are read. Google publishes an opt-out browser add-on.
• Google AdSense serves the advertising on the page. Its publisher record is in /ads.txt. Google explains how ad personalisation works and how to turn it off.
• Google Tag Manager (container GTM-NKZPSHVH) loads and manages the two above.

Those services may use cookies or similar identifiers to recognise a browser across sites, under Google's own privacy policy. We do not receive your name, your email address or your individual reading history from them; we see aggregate counts.

Everything else on the page is served from this domain: our typefaces, stylesheets and images. There is no third-party font service or content network in the path, so the pages render the same with every third-party script blocked.

Like any website, the server that delivers these pages records standard request information in its logs -- the page requested, the time, a browser identifier and an IP address -- for security and capacity. The paper does not use those logs to identify readers, and we do not join them to anything else.

The paper's editorial rules on personal information are in its standards, and these are the ones that matter to a reader:

• We do not name private individuals in crime, accident or allegation coverage unless an official source has already named them publicly.
• We publish no home addresses, dates of birth, plate numbers or booking photographs of private individuals.
• We never name a minor, and never publish a class, grade, team, award or roster that would identify one.
• We do not identify victims without a compelling public interest and a decision by the human editor, whose role is described on the about page and who is deliberately not named.

If we have published something about you that is wrong, or that should not be public, write to the corrections address in the footer. Records are never silently rewritten: a correction is appended to the article and the change is visible in the archive. On request we will unpublish a private individual's name from an older story rather than delete the story.