Privacy

Cambodia Monitor is the data controller for this site. Reading most of the site needs no account. Signing in with Google is needed for the optional "Ask" feature and for the Professional subscription. When you use Ask, we store your Google account email and the questions you ask and the answers you receive, so your conversation can be restored later. "Start over" deletes your stored conversation.

Payments are processed by Paddle.com, our Merchant of Record. Paddle collects your card and billing details directly; we never see or store card numbers. We keep only your subscription status, plan, billing period and Paddle customer/subscription IDs to give you access.

Your questions, together with relevant stored news stories, are sent to an AI model provider through Lovable's AI service to produce an answer. They are not used for advertising.

Professional access requests: your name, work email, organization, role and message, used only to reply to your request. Only authorized editors and the owner can read them.

Reader tips and reports: the story you submit, plus the optional name and contact you give. If an editor publishes a tip, only the story, location and the name you chose are shown — never your contact details.

Contact forms store your name, email, topic, page reference and message; authorized staff review them and receive an email notification. Partner accounts also store organization details, submissions and payout records. Identity documents are private and available only for authorized onboarding review.

Your language choice (English or Khmer), light/dark theme and your watchlist are saved in your own browser (local storage). Referral and campaign information may also be retained to attribute visits and sign-ups. Clearing your browser data removes saved preferences and referral information.

To limit spam and abuse, forms and the Business view counter store a one-way scrambled fingerprint of your network address rather than the address itself. A hash reduces exposure but is not a guarantee of anonymity; it is used to enforce limits and measure visits.

We count how often each Business group (province or company) is opened, as anonymous daily totals. These totals are not linked to any person.

Microsoft Clarity session recording is disabled while consent arrangements are unverified. We retain limited first-party daily visit, referral, readership and conversion statistics. Existing performance measurements collect page timing without an IP address or visitor identifier. We do not sell personal data.

We keep form submissions for as long as needed to handle them and run the site. Spam-limit records are removed according to their purpose; contact and inquiry fingerprints remain with stored submissions until those records are removed. You can ask us to delete information you sent through the contact form.

Like any website, our hosting provider processes technical request data (such as IP address, browser type and the page requested) to deliver pages, keep the service secure and diagnose errors. We do not use this to build profiles of visitors, and we do not sell data.

Map tiles are loaded from OpenStreetMap-based tile servers when you open the map. Links to original sources open the publisher's own website, which has its own privacy practices.

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