The privacy of your personal information is important to SolomonTimes.com (STO). Read here what kind of information we are collecting and how we are using them.
Collection of Information
STO is collecting different information while you are surfing SolomonTimes.com. This includes:
- IP address
- Geographical Location
- Browser and OS details
- Encountered errors
- Pages visited
- Buttons clicked
Use of information
STO is collecting information for the following reasons:
- Improve SolomonTimes.com:
Only if we monitor our visitors during their visit on SolomonTimes.com we will know what services users appreciate, which services are unclear and where errors occur. - Prevent abuse:
A growing number of websites are being attacked or abused by malicious visitors. Monitoring our users will help us to address this issue more efficiently.
Comments from our Facebook page
Every article we publish is also posted on our Facebook page, facebook.com/solomontimes. Readers comment there, and we show those comments under the article on SolomonTimes.com so that readers of the website can follow the discussion. For this we read, through Meta's Pages API and with the permission of our own page, the public comments under our own posts:
- the text of the comment and of its replies, when it was written, and how many likes it has
- the name of the commenter as shown on Facebook and the identifier Facebook gives us for that person on our page
- whether a photo, GIF or sticker is attached (we show a link to it on Facebook, not the picture itself)
- how many likes, shares and comments our post has
We keep a copy of these comments for each article on our servers and show them exactly as posted, newest first, with the commenter's name. We do not show profile pictures, do not link to anybody's profile, and do not use the comments for anything else: not to build profiles of readers, not for advertising, and we do not pass them on to anyone. The copy is refreshed from Facebook: whatever is edited, deleted or hidden on Facebook is changed or removed on SolomonTimes.com within a minute, and by a daily check at the latest. Comments hidden by Facebook or by our page are never shown. Our page is moderated on Facebook, where Meta's own Privacy Policy applies to what you post there.
Removing or correcting your information
To remove a comment of yours from SolomonTimes.com, delete or hide it on Facebook — it disappears from the website with the next refresh. You can also write to support@solomontimes.com and we will remove it, as we will correct or delete any other personal information we hold about you when you ask.
Third parties
STO does not give third parties access your personal information unless:
- You give us the consent
- If bound by law
SolomonTimes.com runs on Amazon Web Services, which hosts the website and the copies of the comments described above on our behalf.
Security
SolomonTimes.com is secured with both hardware (several firewalls, alarm systems) and software (password protection and encryption).
Last updated 21 September 2026.