Privacy, Terms, Policies, and Contact
Effective Date: June 26, 2026
Last Updated: June 26, 2026
Welcome to 111Things.com. This page explains our privacy practices, terms of use, cookie and browser storage practices, comment policy, newsletter policy, AI policy, correction policy, copyright policy, and other important site policies.
111Things.com is operated by Doyjo.
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By using 111Things.com, you agree to these Privacy, Terms & Policies. If you do not agree, please do not use the site.
Quick Summary
111Things.com is a local news, weather, time, public-interest information, and interactive AI-assisted news site.
Here is the plain-English version:
- We do not currently offer user accounts, paid memberships, paid subscriptions, purchases, or fees.
- We do not currently run display ads, sponsored posts, affiliate links, paid placements, or advertising-based tracking.
- We use browser storage, such as cookies or local storage, to remember visitor preferences, including selected local weather and time settings, comment-related preferences, and similar site features.
- If you leave a comment, we collect the comment, the name and email address you provide, technical information related to the comment, and information needed to notify you about replies or comment updates.
- If you subscribe to our newsletter, Jetpack, a service operated by Automattic, processes the subscription and sends email notifications for new posts.
- We use basic analytics, including Google Analytics and Jetpack analytics, to understand site traffic and improve the site.
- We use security and anti-spam tools, including Imunify360, CleanTalk, and other security or spam-prevention plugins.
- We use OpenAI API tools to assist with research, source-checking, fact-checking, writing, editing, summarizing, and interactive AI responses.
- AI-assisted content may be incomplete, outdated, or wrong. It should be used as a starting point, not as a final authority.
- Do not submit private, confidential, legally sensitive, medical, financial, emergency, or personal information through comments, AI questions, or email unless you understand the risks.
Privacy Policy
1. Information We Collect
We collect information in a few ways.
Information You Provide
You may provide information when you:
- Leave a comment.
- Subscribe to the newsletter.
- Ask a question through an AI-assisted feature.
- Email us.
- Request a correction.
- Report a copyright, privacy, accessibility, or site issue.
This information may include your name, email address, comment text, question, message, location mentioned in your request, article URL, correction details, and any other information you choose to provide.
Comment Information
When you leave a comment on 111Things.com, we may collect and store:
- The comment you submit.
- The name you provide.
- The email address you provide.
- The article or page where the comment was posted.
- The date and time of the comment.
- Your IP address.
- Browser and user-agent information.
- Comment moderation status.
- Reply-notification or comment-update preferences.
Your name and comment may be shown publicly if your comment is approved and published. Your email address is not intended to be displayed publicly, but it may be used for comment notifications, reply notifications, moderation, spam prevention, and site administration.
A cookie or similar browser storage may remember comment-related information so the site can recognize which comments are yours, show pending comments to you, or make it easier for you to participate in future comment discussions.
Newsletter Information
111Things.com uses Jetpack Newsletter to allow readers to subscribe to new-post email notifications.
If you subscribe, Jetpack and Automattic may process subscription information such as your email address, subscription status, subscription date, country, acquisition source, email delivery information, open rate, click rate, and related newsletter data.
We may be able to view and manage subscriber information through Jetpack’s subscriber tools. We do not currently send separate manual newsletters. Newsletter emails are used for new post notifications and related site updates.
You can unsubscribe using the unsubscribe or subscription-management link included in newsletter emails, or by contacting us at localnews@111things.com.
Local Weather, Time, and Location Preferences
111Things.com includes local weather and time features.
If you choose a weather or time location, such as Sheboygan, WI, the site may store that choice in your browser so weather and time can remain consistent as you move around the site.
If you clear that preference, the site may instead show weather or time based on the location mentioned on the page you are viewing.
These preferences are intended to improve your local experience. They are not intended to create a user account or paid profile.
Analytics Information
We use basic analytics tools, including Google Analytics and Jetpack analytics, to understand how visitors use the site.
Analytics tools may collect or process information such as:
- Pages viewed.
- Referring pages.
- Approximate location.
- Browser type.
- Device type.
- Operating system.
- Time and date of visit.
- Site interactions.
- IP address.
- Cookie identifiers or analytics identifiers.
We use this information to understand site performance, improve articles and features, fix technical problems, and learn which local news and weather pages are useful to readers.
We do not currently use analytics for display advertising, sponsored posts, affiliate links, paid placements, or paid products.
Security and Anti-Spam Information
We use security and anti-spam tools, including Imunify360, CleanTalk, and other security or spam-prevention plugins.
These tools may process information such as:
- IP address.
- Browser and user-agent information.
- Comment content.
- Submission timing.
- Spam signals.
- Request patterns.
- Failed login or suspicious access attempts.
- Server logs.
- Malware or abuse indicators.
- Other technical information needed to protect the site.
We use these tools to detect spam, block bots, prevent abuse, protect the site, reduce malicious traffic, and keep comments and site features usable.
AI Question and Interaction Information
111Things.com uses OpenAI API tools to assist with news research, source-checking, fact-checking, writing, editing, summarizing, and interactive AI responses.
If you use an AI-assisted feature, the question you ask, related page context, location context, prompt content, and generated response may be processed by our systems and by OpenAI API services.
Do not submit confidential, private, legally sensitive, medical, financial, personal, emergency, or privileged information into AI-assisted features.
AI-assisted responses are designed to help readers understand local news and public-interest topics more deeply, but they may be incomplete, outdated, or incorrect.
2. How We Use Information
We may use collected information to:
- Operate and improve 111Things.com.
- Show local news, weather, and time features.
- Remember visitor preferences.
- Publish, moderate, and manage comments.
- Send comment replies or comment update notifications.
- Send newsletter notifications through Jetpack.
- Respond to emails, correction requests, and policy questions.
- Analyze site traffic and performance.
- Detect spam, bots, malware, abuse, and security threats.
- Improve article quality, readability, neutrality, sourcing, and usefulness.
- Support AI-assisted news research and reader questions.
- Enforce these policies.
- Comply with legal obligations.
- Protect the rights, safety, and security of 111Things.com, readers, sources, and the public.
3. Cookies and Browser Storage
111Things.com may use cookies, local storage, analytics identifiers, and similar browser technologies.
We use them for purposes such as:
- Remembering your selected weather or time location.
- Remembering comment-related preferences.
- Showing you your own pending or submitted comments.
- Remembering newsletter or comment subscription choices.
- Measuring basic site traffic and performance.
- Protecting the site from spam, bots, and abuse.
- Keeping the site reliable and usable.
We do not currently use browser storage for display ads, sponsored posts, affiliate links, paid placements, or paid products.
You can clear or block cookies and local storage through your browser settings. If you do, some site features may not work as expected, including local weather preferences, comment recognition, newsletter/comment subscription indicators, and analytics opt-outs where available.
4. Third-Party Services
111Things.com uses third-party services that help us operate the site. These may include:
- Jetpack and Automattic for newsletter, comments, subscriptions, and analytics-related features.
- Google Analytics for basic traffic measurement.
- OpenAI API services for AI-assisted news research and interactive responses.
- Imunify360 for real-time security monitoring.
- CleanTalk for anti-spam protection.
- Hosting, server, caching, backup, and security providers.
- Other WordPress plugins or technical services needed to operate, secure, and improve the site.
These providers may process information according to their own privacy policies, contracts, and technical requirements.
We do not control every technical detail of how third-party providers process information. We choose services intended to help operate, secure, and improve the site.
5. How We Share Information
We do not sell personal information for money.
We may share information in these situations:
Service Providers
We may share information with service providers that help us operate, secure, analyze, or improve the site, including newsletter, analytics, AI, hosting, security, spam-prevention, and technical-service providers.
Public Comments
If you submit a comment and it is approved, the comment and the display name you provide may be visible publicly.
Legal, Safety, and Security Reasons
We may disclose information if we believe it is reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with law, subpoena, court order, or legal process.
- Respond to law enforcement or regulators.
- Protect the safety, rights, or security of readers, sources, the public, or 111Things.com.
- Investigate spam, malware, fraud, abuse, or security incidents.
- Enforce these policies.
Business Transfers
If 111Things.com or related assets are sold, transferred, merged, reorganized, or assigned, information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
6. Advertising, Sponsorship, Affiliate Links, and Fees
111Things.com does not currently offer:
- User accounts.
- Paid memberships.
- Paid subscriptions.
- Purchases.
- Fees.
- Display ads.
- Sponsored posts.
- Affiliate links.
- Paid placements.
If that changes, we will update this page.
7. Data Retention
We keep information for as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy.
For example:
- Comments may remain on the site unless removed or moderated.
- Comment metadata may be kept for moderation, spam prevention, security, and site administration.
- Newsletter subscription data may remain active until you unsubscribe or request removal.
- Analytics data may be kept according to the settings of Google Analytics, Jetpack, and our site configuration.
- Security logs may be kept as needed to protect the site and investigate abuse.
- Emails and correction requests may be kept for administrative, editorial, legal, or security purposes.
- AI-related prompts and outputs may be stored or logged by our systems or service providers as needed to provide, improve, monitor, and secure the service.
We may retain some information longer if required for legal, security, editorial, dispute-resolution, or compliance reasons.
8. Your Choices
You may:
- Clear cookies and local storage through your browser.
- Change or clear your selected weather or time location where the feature allows.
- Unsubscribe from newsletter emails using the link in the email.
- Request removal from the newsletter by emailing localnews@111things.com.
- Request correction or deletion of certain personal information by emailing us.
- Ask us to review a published comment associated with your email address.
- Request a correction to an article or page.
We may need information to verify your request before taking action.
Some information may not be removable if we need to keep it for security, legal, editorial, moderation, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, or public-interest reasons.
9. Children’s Privacy
111Things.com is not intended for children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, contact localnews@111things.com and we will review the request.
10. International Visitors
111Things.com is operated from the United States.
If you access the site from outside the United States, your information may be processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.
Those countries may have privacy laws different from those where you live.
Terms of Use
11. Acceptance of Terms
By using 111Things.com, you agree to these Privacy, Terms & Policies.
We may update this page from time to time. Continued use of the site after changes are posted means you accept the updated version.
12. Informational Use Only
111Things.com provides local news, weather, time, public-interest information, source-based summaries, AI-assisted explanations, and related interactive features.
The site is for general information only.
Nothing on 111Things.com is legal, medical, financial, insurance, tax, investment, real estate, emergency, or professional advice.
Before acting on information from the site, verify important details with original sources, official agencies, qualified professionals, or appropriate authorities.
13. No Emergency Use
Do not rely on 111Things.com for emergencies.
For emergencies, call 911 or the appropriate emergency number.
For urgent weather alerts, public safety notices, evacuation orders, school closings, road closures, legal deadlines, medical issues, financial decisions, or official government actions, check official sources directly.
14. Accuracy and Availability
We work to provide useful, timely, and accurate information, but we do not guarantee that every article, weather display, time display, source summary, AI response, comment, or page is complete, current, or error-free.
Local events, public records, agency notices, weather conditions, roads, business hours, government decisions, and public-safety information can change quickly.
We may update, edit, remove, reorganize, archive, or correct content at any time.
15. AI-Assisted Content Policy
111Things.com uses AI tools to help check news, compare sources, fact-check claims, draft stories, edit stories, summarize information, and provide interactive explanations.
Our goal is to present neutral, useful, fact-based information.
AI-assisted content may still contain mistakes. AI systems can misunderstand sources, miss context, overlook updates, repeat source errors, or produce incorrect summaries.
Readers should treat AI-assisted answers as a starting point for understanding a topic, not as a final authority.
Do not rely on AI responses for legal, medical, financial, emergency, safety, or other high-stakes decisions.
16. Editorial and Corrections Policy
111Things.com aims to provide clear, useful, neutral, fact-based local news and public-interest information.
We may rely on public records, official sources, public agency information, news sources, local context, weather sources, data sources, user comments, and AI-assisted research.
If you believe something on the site is inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, or misleading, email:
Please include:
- The page URL.
- The statement you believe is wrong.
- The correction you are requesting.
- A source or explanation supporting the correction.
- Your contact information.
We may correct, update, clarify, annotate, or decline a request based on our editorial judgment.
We do not guarantee that every correction request will result in a change.
17. Comment Policy
Readers may be able to leave comments on 111Things.com.
By submitting a comment, you agree that:
- You are responsible for what you submit.
- Your comment may be reviewed before or after publication.
- Your display name and comment may be visible publicly.
- Your email address may be used for moderation, notifications, reply updates, and spam prevention.
- Your comment may be removed, edited, rejected, or held for moderation.
Do not submit comments that are:
- False or misleading.
- Defamatory.
- Threatening or harassing.
- Hateful or discriminatory.
- Obscene or sexually explicit.
- Spam or promotional.
- Invasive of privacy.
- Designed to dox, stalk, or intimidate someone.
- Malware, phishing, or malicious code.
- Illegal or encouraging illegal conduct.
- Infringing on copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other rights.
We may remove comments at our discretion.
We are not required to publish, host, store, respond to, or preserve any comment.
18. License for Comments and Submissions
If you submit a comment, correction, message, or other content to 111Things.com, you grant 111Things.com a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, publish, display, edit, excerpt, archive, and distribute that content in connection with the site and related editorial or administrative purposes.
You represent that you have the right to submit the content and that it does not violate any law or third-party right.
19. Prohibited Uses
You agree not to use 111Things.com to:
- Violate any law or regulation.
- Harass, threaten, defame, or abuse others.
- Submit spam, malware, phishing attempts, or malicious code.
- Attempt to bypass security systems.
- Scrape, crawl, copy, or extract large portions of the site without permission.
- Overload, disrupt, or interfere with the site.
- Impersonate another person, organization, official, or source.
- Submit false or misleading information.
- Collect personal information about others.
- Use AI features for unlawful, harmful, deceptive, or abusive purposes.
- Use site content as the sole basis for high-stakes decisions.
- Remove copyright, attribution, disclaimers, or source references.
- Misrepresent your relationship with 111Things.com or Doyjo.
We may block, restrict, or report activity that violates these terms.
20. Intellectual Property
The text, design, layout, branding, software, summaries, compilations, databases, graphics, logos, and other materials on 111Things.com are owned by us, licensed to us, or used under applicable law.
You may read, share, and link to public pages for personal, informational, and non-commercial use.
You may not copy, republish, sell, scrape, syndicate, train models on, build a competing database from, or commercially exploit substantial portions of the site without written permission, except where allowed by law.
Brief excerpts with credit and a link to the original page are generally acceptable for commentary, criticism, search indexing, social sharing, and fair use.
21. Third-Party Links and Sources
111Things.com may link to third-party websites, public sources, government records, weather sources, articles, maps, documents, videos, tools, or other resources.
Third-party links are provided for context and convenience. We do not control third-party websites and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, privacy practices, security, or availability.
A link does not necessarily mean we endorse the source, claim, product, service, business, agency, or opinion.
22. Weather, Time, Travel, and Safety Information
Weather, time, travel, traffic, road, event, utility, and public-safety information can change quickly.
111Things.com may display or summarize weather and time information based on page context, selected location, browser preferences, public sources, or third-party data.
We do not guarantee real-time accuracy.
For urgent weather, road, emergency, travel, school, utility, or safety decisions, check official sources directly.
23. Public Records and Local Information
111Things.com may report on public records, public meetings, public notices, government actions, business records, legal records, weather data, and other public-interest information.
Public records and local data may be incomplete, delayed, corrected, sealed, appealed, updated, or misunderstood.
If you believe public-record or local information on the site is inaccurate or creates a privacy concern, contact localnews@111things.com with the page URL and details.
We may review requests to correct, update, redact, de-index, anonymize, or remove content. We balance such requests against accuracy, public interest, newsworthiness, editorial independence, source integrity, and legal rights.
24. Copyright Policy
We respect copyright.
If you believe content on 111Things.com infringes your copyright, email localnews@111things.com with the subject line Copyright Notice.
Please include:
- Your name and contact information.
- Identification of the copyrighted work.
- The URL or description of the allegedly infringing material.
- A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, agent, or law.
- A statement that the information in your notice is accurate.
- A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act for the owner.
- Your physical or electronic signature.
We may remove or disable access to content when appropriate.
If content you submitted was removed and you believe it was removed by mistake, you may send a counter-notice with legally required information.
25. Accessibility Policy
We want 111Things.com to be usable by as many readers as possible.
If you experience an accessibility issue, email localnews@111things.com.
Please include:
- The page URL.
- The problem you experienced.
- Your browser and device, if relevant.
- Any assistive technology used, if relevant.
- Your preferred contact method.
We will review accessibility reports and make reasonable efforts to improve access.
26. No Warranties
111Things.com is provided “as is” and “as available.”
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, reliability, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.
We do not guarantee that the site will be uninterrupted, secure, virus-free, current, or error-free.
27. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, 111Things.com, Doyjo, and their owners, operators, employees, contractors, service providers, affiliates, and partners will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, or lost-profit damages arising from or related to your use of the site.
This includes damages related to errors, omissions, delays, outages, inaccurate content, AI responses, comments, weather information, analytics, third-party links, public records, security incidents, or service interruptions.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations, so some of these limits may not apply to you.
28. Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless 111Things.com, Doyjo, and their owners, operators, employees, contractors, service providers, affiliates, and partners from claims, damages, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorney fees, arising from:
- Your use of the site.
- Your comments or submissions.
- Your violation of these policies.
- Your violation of law.
- Your infringement of third-party rights.
- Your misuse of site content, data, AI responses, or site features.
29. Governing Law
These Privacy, Terms & Policies are governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, unless applicable law requires otherwise.
Any disputes will be handled in the state or federal courts located in Wisconsin, unless applicable law requires a different venue.
30. Changes to This Page
We may update this Privacy, Terms & Policies page from time to time.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date above.
Changes take effect when posted unless a different date is stated.
Your continued use of 111Things.com after changes are posted means you accept the updated version.
31. Contact
For privacy requests, corrections, copyright notices, accessibility issues, comment questions, or questions about these policies, contact:
Please include the relevant URL, your contact information, and a clear description of your request.