Privacy and terms
What we collect
- A random visitor ID in a first-party cookie, so we can count unique readers, remember which stories you marked useful, and stop duplicate votes. It is not linked to your name.
- Reading signals for each story: that it was opened, roughly how long it was read while on screen, how far you scrolled, and whether you shared or liked it. The newsroom uses these totals to decide what to cover.
- What you send us: comments, questions, story ideas, and the name and email you enter. Emails are never shown publicly.
- Tips: what you tell us, any photo or video you upload, and the name and contact details you give (stored encrypted). Uploads stay private unless an editor clears them for a story; rejected tips’ uploads are deleted. We never publish a tipster’s name or contact details.
- Searches made on this site, without your identity, to understand what readers want covered.
- A one-way hash of your IP address to stop spam and abuse. We don’t store the address itself.
Advertising
Ads on CashIn Now are served by Laidback Machine (https://lbmads.com/), which may set its own cookies to count impressions and clicks and to prevent fraud. See Laidback Machine’s terms for details.
The CashIn Now widget on other sites
When a site shows CashIn Now’s story cards, the embed sets no cookies. To avoid repeating a story, it keeps one random ID in that site’s own browser storage — not when the browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track. It reads that page’s title, description and headings (and the visitor’s search, if the site shares it) to pick matching stories, and never reads forms or what visitors type. We count a story as seen when half of it is on screen for a second, and count clicks through a link that goes straight on to the story. We keep those counts by day, by site and by story; we don’t build profiles of people. Guidelines for sites.
Payments
Tips and memberships are processed by Square. We never see your card number. We keep the amount, email, Square payment ID and the reference code you used.
Tips and uploads
By sending a file you confirm you have the right to share it, that it shows no one’s address or personal details, doesn’t identify injured people or minors, and contains nothing you aren’t allowed to share (and that you didn’t take it somewhere closed or off-limits), and that CashIn may publish it (with our watermark for video) if an editor uses your tip. We don’t pay for tips.
Corrections
If you believe a CashIn Now piece is wrong — a name, a number, a date, a quote, an attribution — email now@cashinnews.com — an editor reviews every request, and corrections are noted at the top of the story.
AI-generated content
CashIn Now’s own pieces and all answers in “Ask the newsroom” are produced by AI and labeled, written only from stories CashIn’s newsrooms published; the stories themselves belong to those newsrooms, which list their own sources and corrections. AI can still make mistakes — check the linked stories before relying on anything, and email now@cashinnews.com to report a problem. Nothing on this site is legal, financial or medical advice. If you’re asked to remove information about yourself, or see something that puts someone at risk, email us and an editor will act quickly.
Comments
By posting, you confirm you wrote it and give us permission to display it. We remove spam, harassment, threats, personal information about others and illegal content. Moderation is assisted by AI and reviewed by editors.
Contact
Golden Era Holdings LLC — now@cashinnews.com