Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 30, 2026 · Last updated: July 30, 2026

1. Who we are

Country Rebel is operated by The Real Market Investors, Inc., d/b/a Country Rebel. In this policy, “we,” “us,” and “our” mean that company, and “you” means anyone who visits countryrebel.com or subscribes to our email newsletter.

You can reach us about anything in this policy at:

• Email: privacy@countryrebel.com
• Mail: The Real Market Investors, Inc., d/b/a Country Rebel, 1012 Norman Harris Rd, Ashland City, TN 37015

2. What this policy covers

This policy covers countryrebel.com and our email newsletter. It does not cover other websites we link to, or the social media platforms where we also publish. Once you leave our site, the privacy policy of whoever you land on applies instead of ours.

3. Information we collect

3.1 Information you give us directly

• Your email address, when you subscribe to our newsletter.
• Your name, email address, and message, when you use a contact form.
• Your name, email address, and the text of your comment, if you comment on an article.
• Anything you choose to send us when you submit a video, a photo, a story tip, or other content.
• Information you provide if you enter a giveaway or contest, or contact us about advertising.

3.2 Information collected automatically when you visit

• Your IP address, and the approximate city or region it suggests you are in.
• Your device type, operating system, browser type and version, screen size, and language setting.
• Which pages you viewed, how long you stayed, how far you scrolled, what you clicked, and which site or app sent you to us.
• The date and time of your visit.
• Identifiers stored in cookies, in your browser’s local storage, and in similar technologies.

3.3 Information we receive from others

• Our advertising partners and analytics providers may give us grouped or inferred information, such as broad interest categories or estimated audience demographics. This is not information that identifies you by name.
• Social media platforms give us aggregate data about how our pages perform there.
• Our email provider tells us whether a message was delivered, opened, or clicked.

4. Why we collect it

• To publish and run the site. Serving pages, loading images and video, keeping things fast, and fixing what breaks.
• To pay for the site. Country Rebel is free to read because advertising pays for it. Advertising partners use some of the information above to select and measure the ads you see.
• To understand what readers want. Which stories get read, which do not, and how people arrive.
• To send the newsletter you asked for, and to see whether it is any good.
• To answer you when you contact us, submit content, or report a correction.
• To keep the site secure and to detect fraud, abuse, and automated attacks.
• To meet legal obligations and to enforce our Terms of Use.

5. Advertising on this site

Country Rebel is supported by advertising. Our main advertising partner is Raptive.

CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, see Raptive’s advertising privacy statement (opens in a new tab).

Raptive works with a large number of advertising technology companies on our behalf, including Google. Those companies may set cookies and read identifiers in order to decide which ad to show you, to limit how often you see the same ad, and to measure whether an ad worked. Some of them build a profile of your interests over time and across different websites. That practice is called cross context behavioral advertising, or interest based advertising.

Identity based advertising. Our advertising stack also supports identity resolution, including LiveRamp’s Authenticated Traffic Solution. Where an email address is available, it can be converted into a pseudonymous identifier and used to recognise the same person across sites and devices, so that advertising can be targeted and measured without relying on third party cookies. We do not hand your email address to advertisers in readable form. If you switch on a browser privacy signal such as Global Privacy Control, this identity matching is suppressed.

We also run an inline concert and events widget supplied by Bandsintown, which loads separately from Raptive and follows its own privacy practices (opens in a new tab).

Your options for advertising specifically:

• Use the privacy choices link in our footer to opt out of the sale or sharing of your information by our advertising partner and the advertising technology companies it works with. Depending on where you are reading from, it is labelled Your Privacy Choices or Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. We show it to readers in the states that grant this right; if you do not see it and you believe you are entitled to opt out, email privacy@countryrebel.com and we will pass your request to our advertising partner and confirm back to you what was done.
• The measurement tools described in sections 6 and 6a, including the Meta pixel and Google Ads, are not currently controlled by that footer link. You can control them through Meta’s privacy controls (opens in a new tab) and Google’s ad settings (opens in a new tab). You can also email privacy@countryrebel.com and we will act on anything we hold about you ourselves, but we cannot switch off Meta’s or Google’s own collection on your behalf, which is why we point you at their controls.
• Turn on the Global Privacy Control setting in your browser or extension. Our advertising partner treats that signal as an opt out request, and it also suppresses the identity matching described above.
• Opt out across many companies at once at the DAA opt out tool (opens in a new tab) and the NAI opt out tool (opens in a new tab).
• Turn off personalised Google advertising in Google’s ad settings (opens in a new tab).

Opting out does not remove ads. It means the ads you see are chosen without using a profile of your interests.

6. Analytics and measurement

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the site is used in aggregate. It is loaded through Google Tag Manager, which is the tool we use to manage the measurement code on our pages. Google’s practices are described at Google’s privacy policy (opens in a new tab), and you can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data with the browser add on at the Google Analytics opt out add on (opens in a new tab).

Google Tag Manager also runs a small component called Conversion Linker, which stores information about how you arrived at the site in a first party cookie so that a visit which began with a Google ad can be attributed correctly. It is used for measurement, not to build a profile of you.

We use Chartbeat to see in real time which stories are being read, so our editors know what is resonating while it is still happening.

We use Comscore, an independent audience measurement service. Comscore counts and describes our audience so that our reach can be reported on a comparable basis across publishers. Comscore’s practices are described at Comscore’s privacy policy (opens in a new tab), and it offers its own opt out there.

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics for basic traffic and performance measurement. It is designed not to use cookies or fingerprinting.

None of these tools tells us your name.

6a. Advertising and social media pixels

Separately from the analytics tools above, our pages load a Meta pixel (Facebook). Unlike an embedded post or video, this pixel does not wait for you to click anything. It records that a browser loaded a page on our site, together with the identifiers described in section 3.2, and reports that to Meta. Meta may match it to a Facebook or Instagram account and use it to measure and target advertising, including advertising for Country Rebel shown elsewhere.

You can control how Meta uses this information in the Meta Privacy Center (opens in a new tab).

We also run Google Ads conversion and audience tags, which let us measure the advertising we buy and build audiences for it. You can turn off personalised Google advertising in your Google ad settings (opens in a new tab).

Our pages also load an ad block recovery service, which detects whether the advertising on a page is being blocked. If the page cannot load normally, that service may send the address of the page you were reading to its provider, store information in your browser, and show you a message about the problem.

7. Email

If you subscribe to our newsletter we collect your email address, the date you subscribed, and afterwards whether our messages were delivered, opened, and clicked. We use that to send you the newsletter and to make it better.

Every email we send includes a working unsubscribe link and our physical mailing address, as federal law requires. Unsubscribing takes effect promptly and always within ten business days. You can also unsubscribe by emailing privacy@countryrebel.com.

When you unsubscribe we keep your email address on a suppression list. That is not us continuing to hold your data for marketing. It is the only reliable way to make sure we never email you again by accident.

8. Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small files stored by your browser. We and our partners use them, along with local storage and similar technologies, in four broad categories.

You can clear or block cookies in your browser settings, though blocking all of them will break parts of most websites, including ours. We do not currently show a cookie consent banner. Our readers are almost entirely in the United States, where the advertising we run does not require one.

9. Who we share information with

We do not sell your personal information for money. We share it with the following categories of recipients, and only for the purposes described.

10. How long we keep information

We keep personal information only as long as we need it for the purpose we collected it for, or as long as the law requires. In practice:

11. Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the rights below. Whatever state you live in, you can send us any of these requests and we will consider it in good faith, because maintaining separate tiers of privacy by geography is not something we want to do. Where a right is granted to you by your state’s law, we honour it as that law requires.

• Know and access. Ask what personal information we hold about you and get a copy.
• Correct. Ask us to fix information that is wrong.
• Delete. Ask us to delete what we hold about you.
• Portability. Get your information in a format you can take elsewhere.
• Opt out of targeted advertising and of the sale or sharing of your personal information.
• Opt out of profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects. We do not do this, but the right exists.
• Non discrimination. We will not degrade the site, charge you, or withhold content because you exercised a privacy right.

How to make a request

Email privacy@countryrebel.com and tell us what you want. To opt out of advertising specifically, the fastest route is the Your Privacy Choices link in our footer, or the Global Privacy Control setting in your browser.

We will confirm we received your request and respond within 45 days. If it is complicated we may take another 45 days, and we will tell you if that happens. There is no charge.

Before we hand over or delete information we need to be reasonably sure you are who you say you are. Usually that means replying from the email address the information is attached to. We will not ask you for more information than we need to check.

You can use an authorized agent to make a request for you. We will ask for proof that you gave them permission.

Two practical limits. You can make an access or disclosure request twice in any twelve month period. And unless your state’s law requires us to go back further, our answer about what we hold or who we shared it with covers the twelve months before we received your request. Where a longer period is required and it is reasonably possible for us, we will go back further. Neither limit applies to a deletion request, a correction, or an opt out, which you can exercise at any time and as often as you like.

If we say no

If we decline your request you can appeal by replying to our decision and saying you want it reviewed. Your appeal gets a fresh review, not a re-run of the first decision, and we will respond within 45 days explaining the outcome. If you are still not satisfied you can complain to your state attorney general.

12. Notice for California residents

This section is required by the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act.

Categories we have collected in the past 12 months: identifiers (including IP address, email address, and cookie identifiers); internet and network activity (browsing and interaction with our site and emails); approximate geolocation derived from IP address; commercial information in the limited sense of what content you engaged with; and inferences drawn from the above, such as broad interest categories used for advertising.

Where it comes from: directly from you, automatically from your device, and from our advertising and analytics partners.

Why we collect it: the purposes listed in section 4.

Categories we disclosed for a business purpose in the past 12 months: identifiers, internet and network activity, approximate geolocation, and inferences, to the recipients listed in section 9.

Sale and sharing: we do not sell personal information for money. We do share identifiers, internet and network activity, approximate geolocation, and inferences with advertising partners for cross context behavioral advertising, which California treats as sharing and some other states treat as a sale. You can opt out at any time.

Sensitive personal information: we do not ask for, and do not intentionally collect, Social Security numbers, financial account details, precise geolocation, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, health information, or the contents of your private communications. Please do not send them to us. If something sensitive does reach us anyway, for example a personal detail in a message, we use it only to handle that submission or answer you, and we do not use it to infer anything about you. One warning worth taking seriously: photographs and videos often carry hidden location data recording exactly where they were taken. We do not promise to strip it, and if we publish your file that data may travel with it. Please remove location metadata yourself before sending us anything you would not want to publish your location alongside. We do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you, so the right to limit its use does not apply here.

Minors: we do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16 years old.

Retention: see the table in section 10.

How to opt out: use the privacy choices link in our footer, or send a Global Privacy Control signal from your browser. When you opt out through the link, we confirm it on screen. A Global Privacy Control signal is also passed to our advertising partner as an opt out automatically, without you having to do anything else. As above, it does not reach the two pixels we load ourselves.

Shine the Light: we do not share personal information with third parties for those parties’ own direct marketing purposes.

13. Notice for residents of other states

Comprehensive privacy laws are now in force in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Others take effect after this policy was written, and this list is accurate as at the date at the top of this page rather than a promise to keep it current.

Rather than sort readers by state, we use the single request process in section 11 for everyone, and where your state’s law grants you a right we honour it as that law requires. Two state specific points are worth stating plainly:

• Maryland residents. Maryland prohibits selling sensitive data outright and prohibits targeted advertising to anyone we know or should know is under 18. We do not knowingly do either. As section 15 explains, we have no age gate and cannot verify a reader’s age, so this is a commitment about what we knowingly do rather than a guarantee about every reader.
• Texas and Nebraska residents. These laws apply to businesses of any size, so nothing about our scale changes the rights you have here.

Nevada residents may tell us not to sell covered information by emailing privacy@countryrebel.com. As stated above, we do not sell it.

14. Opt out preference signals

Some browsers and extensions can send an automatic signal telling every site you visit that you do not consent to the sale or sharing of your information. The main one is the Global Privacy Control. Our advertising partner treats it as a valid opt out for the browser that sent it, without asking you to do anything else, and the identity matching described in section 9 is suppressed. It does not reach the Meta pixel or the Google Ads tag described in section 6a, because we load those ourselves and they are outside our advertising partner’s consent system. To limit those two, use the Meta and Google controls linked in section 6a. Because the signal is tied to a browser rather than to you, you would need to enable it on each browser and device you use.

15. Children

Country Rebel is a general audience site. It is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has given us information, email privacy@countryrebel.com and we will delete it.

This site is written for a general adult audience. We do not ask for anyone’s age and we have no way to tell how old a reader is, so we cannot promise that no teenager’s data ever reaches an advertising partner. What we can say is that we never knowingly do it: we do not sell or share the personal information of anyone we know to be under 16, and we do not knowingly use anyone under 18’s data for targeted advertising. If you tell us a reader is under 16, we will stop selling or sharing any information we can identify as theirs, and pass the request to our advertising partner. If you tell us a reader is under 18, we will not knowingly use information we can identify as theirs for targeted advertising, will remove them from any audience list we control where that is reasonably possible, and will pass the request on. Being honest about the limit: the Meta pixel and Google Ads tag described in section 6a load in the reader’s browser, and we cannot switch them off for one particular person from our end. Blocking those requires the browser, Meta, or Google controls in section 6a.

16. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the information we hold, including encrypted connections, access controls, and managed hosting. No website can promise perfect security, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What we can promise is that we do not collect more than we need in the first place.

17. Readers outside the United States

We operate from the United States and the information we collect is stored and processed here. Privacy laws in the United States differ from those where you live.

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, this site is not directed at you and we do not show a consent banner, so we process your information on the basis of our legitimate interest in operating and funding a free publication. If you would rather we did not, email privacy@countryrebel.com. We deliberately do not point you at the privacy choices link in our footer, because that link implements a United States framework and is not the right route for an objection under European law. You have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, and port your information, and to object to processing. Where we ever rely on your consent for something, you can withdraw it at any time, though at present we do not ask for consent on this site. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority. Email privacy@countryrebel.com to exercise any of these.

18. Other websites

We link to other sites and we embed content from platforms including YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X. Embedded content can let that platform collect information about you under its own policy, not ours, and some of it does so as soon as the page loads rather than waiting for you to click. We do not control what they do. This is separate from the Meta pixel described in section 6a, which runs on our pages whether or not any post is embedded.

19. Changes to this policy

When we change this policy we update the “last updated” date at the top. If a change materially affects your rights we will say so prominently on the site before it takes effect. We keep this page under annual review.

20. Contact us

Questions, requests, or complaints about privacy go to privacy@countryrebel.com, or by mail to The Real Market Investors, Inc., d/b/a Country Rebel, 1012 Norman Harris Rd, Ashland City, TN 37015.

See also our Terms of Use, our Editorial Policy, and our Contact page.