🔒 Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 30, 2025

Welcome to Tehama Times, where your privacy is taken almost as seriously as our opinion about bad coffee. Here’s everything you didn’t ask for but legally need to know about how we treat your data like royalty—or at least a decent Airbnb guest.

🧑‍💻 Who We Are

We’re just a humble website at https://tehamatimes.com. Not the FBI. Not the Illuminati. Just folks running a local news-ish operation with mild caffeine dependency and a WordPress site.

💬 Comments

When you leave a comment, we collect whatever you type, plus your IP and browser info—so we can tell the difference between a real human and a spam-bot trying to sell NFTs.

We also check if you have a Gravatar so your delightful face appears next to your opinion. Their privacy policy is here: automattic.com/privacy. They’re not creepy. Probably.

🖼️ Media

If you upload images, please don’t include secret GPS coordinates. Unless, of course, you want the whole internet to know where your backyard gnome lives. Our site doesn’t strip that info—because we’re too busy writing headlines, not code.

🍪 Cookies (Sadly, Not Chocolate Chip)

• Leave a comment? We’ll save your name, email, and site info in a cookie. It lasts a year. Like that jar of pickles in your fridge.
• Visit the login page? We set a test cookie. It’s temporary and utterly flavorless.
• Log in? Expect a flurry of cookies. Login cookies last 2 days. Screen settings cookies last a year. Hit “Remember Me”? You’ll be remembered for 2 glorious weeks.
• Edit or post an article? One cookie stores your post ID for 24 hours. No drama, no calories.

📺 Embedded Content

Our articles might embed stuff like YouTube videos, tweets, or content from some sketchy third-party you forgot you followed. They act lik