Effective date: July 7, 2026
Alienated Media publishes articles, research notes, commentary, and speculative fiction about UFOs, UAP, aerospace mysteries, folklore, and related culture. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit the site, contact us, or interact with advertising and analytics services.
Information We Collect
We do not require reader accounts and we do not operate public comment profiles. We may collect information you choose to submit through the contact form, including your name, email address, topic, subject, message, and any links or details you include.
Like most websites, our hosting, security, analytics, and advertising systems may process technical information such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages viewed, referring pages, approximate location, cookie identifiers, and timestamps. This information helps operate the site, measure traffic, protect against abuse, and support advertising.
Cookies, Advertising, and Google Services
Alienated Media may use Google AdSense and related Google advertising services. Google and other third-party vendors may use cookies, device identifiers, or similar technologies to serve ads, limit ad repetition, measure ad performance, detect fraud, and personalize advertising where permitted.
Google may use information from your visits to this and other sites to provide ads. You can learn how Google uses information from sites and apps that use its services at Google's partner sites policy. You can also review Google's advertising technology information at Google Advertising.
You can manage personalized ads through Google My Ad Center. You may also use industry opt-out tools such as YourAdChoices and the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page. Browser settings may also allow you to block or delete cookies.
Analytics
Alienated Media may use Google Analytics or similar tools to understand aggregate site usage. Analytics tools may use cookies or similar technologies to measure pages viewed, traffic sources, device type, and engagement. You can learn about the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Consent and Regional Privacy Choices
If you are in a region that requires consent for cookies, personalized advertising, or analytics, applicable consent controls may be shown by Google, a Google-certified consent management platform, or another consent tool. Your choices may affect whether ads are personalized or limited.
Depending on your location, you may have rights to request access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, or an opt out from certain targeted advertising, sale, or sharing activities. To make a privacy request, contact us at firstcontact@alienatemedia.com.
Interactive Tool
If you use Chat With An Alien, your question may be used to match site archive links and return a scripted in-character response. Do not submit private, confidential, sensitive, or emergency information. Replies are for entertainment and navigation support and should be checked against linked articles, source documents, and primary sources.
Newsletter and Sighting Reports
If you join Fresh Signals, we may collect your email address, optional name, signup source, and timestamp so we can manage the list. If you submit a sighting report, we may collect the details you provide, optional contact information, media links, review checkboxes, and operational metadata needed to protect the site from abuse.
Sighting reports are reviewed before any editorial use. Do not submit private, confidential, unlawful, or emergency information. If we quote or summarize a reader report, we aim to avoid publishing sensitive personal information without permission.
Contact Form Messages
Messages submitted through the contact form are used to review corrections, tips, partnership requests, site issues, and other reader notes. We may reply using the email address you provide. We do not sell contact form submissions.
External Links and Share Buttons
Articles may link to third-party websites, source documents, social networks, and services. Share buttons may open third-party platforms such as X, Facebook, Reddit, or your email client. Those services have their own privacy policies and may collect information when you visit or use them.
Data Retention and Security
We keep contact form messages and operational records only as long as reasonably needed for editorial, legal, security, and business purposes. No method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, but we use reputable hosting and security providers to help protect the site.
Children's Privacy
Alienated Media is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child submitted personal information, contact us so we can review and delete it where appropriate.
Policy Updates
We may update this Privacy Policy as the site, advertising services, or legal requirements change. The effective date above indicates the latest version.