SECTION 1: TERMS OF SERVICE AND LEGAL DISCLAIMER
Welcome to newcoldwar.org (the “Website”). By accessing, reading, or using this Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service. If you do not agree, please exit the Website immediately.
1. Journalistic and Informational Purposes Only (Not Advice)
All content published on this Website—including news dispatches, investigative articles, translations, political analyses, commentary, dossiers, and multimedia content—is provided strictly for educational, informational, and independent journalistic purposes.
No Professional or Legal Advice: Nothing on this Website or within our investigative updates constitutes military, legal, financial, economic, or policy advice. The analyses and historical critiques presented are intended exclusively to foster open public debate and independent research.
No Reliance: While the editorial team at The New Cold War strives for investigative accuracy and relies on verifiable source materials, we do not guarantee the absolute accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of all third-party reporting or translations. Your reliance on any information found on this Website is strictly at your own risk.
2. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable Canadian law, The New Cold War, newcoldwar.org, its editors, journalists, independent contributors, and operators shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or inability to access, this Website. This includes, but is not limited to, network restrictions, digital censorship, loss of data, system downtime, or errors and omissions in our published journalistic reports.
3. User-Generated Content, Comments, and Dispatches
If you post comments, submit investigative dispatches, or contribute opinion pieces to the Website:
You grant The New Cold War a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual license to display, translate, archive, and distribute your content across our digital channels.
You represent and warrant that your submissions do not infringe upon third-party copyrights, intellectual property, or personal privacy rights.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to monitor, edit, or delete any user content, comments, or submissions that we deem defamatory, unlawful, hateful, or otherwise inappropriate for a rigorous geopolitical discussion forum, without prior notice.
4. Third-Party Links and Media Feeds
Our news feeds, translations, and investigative archives frequently link to external independent media outlets, primary document databases, and geopolitical research groups. We do not endorse, control, or assume responsibility for the content, tracking technologies, or privacy practices of any third-party websites.
5. Governing Law
These Terms of Service shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any legal actions involving this journalistic platform must be brought exclusively in the courts located in Toronto, Ontario.
6. Modifications
We reserve the right to update, amend, or change these terms at any time without prior notice to adapt to shifting digital media regulations or web hosting protocols. Your continued use of the Website constitutes acceptance of the modified terms.
7. Security and Protection of Sources
We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal data, subscriber lists, and internally submitted dispatches against unauthorized access, disclosure, misuse, alteration, or destruction. However, given the heightened digital risks associated with independent geopolitical journalism, no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
SECTION 2: PRIVACY POLICY
Designed to comply with applicable privacy laws, including PIPEDA and GDPR where applicable
Effective Date: May 23, 2026
At The New Cold War, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information, in compliance with Canadian privacy laws (the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, or PIPEDA) and the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
1. Information We Collect
Voluntary Information: We collect your name, email address, and any optional credentials you provide only when you subscribe to our news dispatches, sign up for our briefing newsletter, submit an article pitch, or post a comment.
Automated Information: We automatically collect standard internet log data, including anonymised IP addresses, browser types, referring pages, and duration of site visits, via cookies and privacy-respecting analytics tools to optimize global server delivery.
2. Lawful Basis for Processing (GDPR)
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we process your personal data under the following legal bases:
Consent: When you explicitly give us permission (e.g., ticking a box to receive our daily or weekly email news alerts).
Legitimate Interests: To analyze global readership patterns, maintain server security, prevent coordinated spam or cyber-attacks, and distribute independent geopolitical reporting.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your information solely to:
Deliver our news briefings, article dispatches, and administrative notices.
Improve Website performance, mobile formatting, and user experience across different international regions.
Moderate public comment feeds and prevent malicious automated spam.
We will never sell, rent, or trade your personal information or subscriber email addresses to third parties or corporate data brokers.
4. Third-Party Services and Data Transfers
We may use third-party tools to handle our automated email distribution, manage site security, or process voluntary donations. Your data may be transferred to and stored on servers located outside of your home country (including Canada and the United States). We ensure all third-party infrastructure partners maintain rigorous data protection standards that respect press freedoms and digital privacy rights.
5. Your Data Protection Rights (Including GDPR Rights)
Depending on your location, you have the following rights regarding your data:
The Right to Access: You can request copies of the personal email and subscriber data we hold.
The Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct inaccurate subscriber details or biographical information.
The Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You can request that we delete your subscriber profile or remove your comments from our active public pages.
The Right to Restrict or Object to Processing: You can object to our processing of your data under certain conditions.
The Right to Data Portability: You can request that we transfer your subscriber data to another organization or directly to you.
We retain personal information only as long as necessary for the distribution, security, and historical archiving of our journalistic dispatches, unless a longer retention period is requested by the user or required by law.
6. Cookies
We use cookies to enhance your reading experience, remember your interface language preferences, and monitor aggregate site traffic. You can choose to reject cookies through your browser settings or via our website cookie banner.
7. Contact Us
To exercise any of your privacy rights, modify your newsletter subscription, or communicate with the editorial team, please contact us at [email protected].
SECTION 3: EXTERNAL LINKS & COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMERS
1. External Links Disclaimer
The Website (newcoldwar.org) contains links to external news agencies, investigative reports, mapping platforms, and policy archives that are not provided, maintained by, or in any way affiliated with The New Cold War. Please note that we do not guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of any information on these external platforms. Under no circumstances shall this platform be held liable for any loss or consequence caused by your reliance on information obtained through external links.
2. Copyright and Fair Dealing Notice
The New Cold War publishes independent journalism, news translations, and critical geopolitical analysis. Content on this site may frequently contain copyrighted material—such as news photographs, maps, video clips, or text excerpts from foreign media outlets—the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.
We make such material available entirely in a non-profit, educational, and journalistic capacity to advance the public understanding of international conflict, diplomacy, sanctions regimes, and anti-war movements. We believe this constitutes a “fair dealing” of any such copyrighted material as provided for under Section 29 of the Copyright Act of Canada (which explicitly protects the use of material for the purposes of news reporting, criticism, review, and research).
If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond fair dealing, you must obtain permission directly from the copyright owner.
If you are a copyright owner and believe your work has been translated or used inappropriately on this Website without proper attribution or legal context, please contact us immediately at [email protected] so we can promptly address your concerns.
