To provide local, national, and international news in real-time, we collect the following categories of information:

• Account Information: When you register, we collect your name, username, email address, password, and profile preferences.
• Content and Interactions: We collect the news, posts, media, comments, and private messages you transmit through the platform, as well as information generated through your inputs/prompts.
• Precise Geolocation Data: Since NOWA is an actual-time regional news application, with your explicit permission we collect precise GPS geolocation data from your mobile device to show you relevant local events and breaking updates in your area.
• Technical and Usage Data: IP addresses, device identifiers, browser types, operating systems, cookie data, and metadata associated with the files you upload.

We process your personal data for the following legitimate business purposes:

• To maintain, administer, optimize, and customize the NOWA platform features.
• To filter and deliver relevant regional news based on your location.
• To prevent fraud, detect malicious code, block automated bots, and preserve platform security under FIPA guidelines.
• Artificial Intelligence Optimization: To train and evaluate internal language algorithms and automated synthesis models used exclusively for checking regional trending news topics, unless you choose to opt-out.

Under Florida privacy frameworks, users who are residents of Florida are granted specific data choices:

• Right to Know and Access: You have the right to request confirmation regarding whether we process your data and to receive a clear copy of your personal data.
• Right to Correction: You may request that we rectify inaccurate or outdated information in your profile.
• Right to Deletion: You may request the absolute erasure of personal data collected during your interaction with the platform.
• Opt-Out of Sensitive Data Processing: Florida law protects “Sensitive Data,” which includes precise geolocation data. NOWA operates on an Opt-In basis for precise geolocation. You can revoke this permission and opt-out at any moment through your device settings or account privacy dashboard.
• No Sale of Data: NOWA does not sell, rent, or lease your personal identification information to third-party brokers or advertisers.

Consistent with Fla. Stat. § 501.171 (FIPA), NOWA implements commercial, technical, and administrative safeguards designed to secure electronic data containing personal information.

In the highly unlikely event of a verified cybersecurity data breach that compromises your sensitive personal information, NOWA will comply fully with Florida’s mandatory reporting timelines, notifying affected consumers and the Florida Department of Legal Affairs within thirty (30) days of breach determination, unless a law enforcement agency requests a formal delay.

NOWA is a news and current affairs forum intended strictly for audiences at least 13 years of age (or older). We do not knowingly collect, solicit, or maintain personal information from children under 13. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided personal data in violation of COPPA, we will permanently purge the account and its records from our servers immediately.

To exercise your rights to access, correct, delete, or opt-out of data processing, please submit a verified request to our compliance office:

• Compliance Department: Privacy Operations, NOWA
• Email Address: privacy@nowa.news
• Physical Address: 9531 NW 45th ST, Doral, FL 33178, United States.

We will review and respond to valid, verified privacy requests within forty-five (45) days from the date of receipt.