The Oklahoma Post LLC is a for-profit limited liability company. What follows governs how this site works, what we do with your information, what you may do with our work, and how to reach somebody when any of that goes wrong.
Effective Sept. 9, 2026. Updated Oct. 7, 2026.
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The three agreements
These are long enough to need their own pages.
Privacy Policy What we collect when you visit the site or subscribe, what we do with it, who else sees it, and how to ask us to delete it. Terms and Conditions The terms you agree to by using the site. Acceptable use, our content and yours, and what a court record does and does not establish. Subscription and Advertising Sales Agreement The terms that apply when money changes hands. Memberships, advertising buys, broadcast sponsorships and sponsored coverage.Reprints and permissions
The short answer for most people who ask is yes. We would rather this work travel than sit still. But we want to be asked, because we need to know where our work ends up, because some of the photographs are not ours to give away, and because part of this site is open only to members.
You do not need to ask to do these- Link to anything on this site, from anywhere, including a commercial site. Linking to a members-only article is fine. It is the link we mind about, not the wall.
- Quote a short passage with credit and a link back to the original story.
- Share a story on social media using the normal share tools.
- Print a copy for yourself, your lawyer, your classroom, or a filing.
- Republish a full story, or most of one, anywhere else.
- Use one of our photographs outside this site.
- Reprint anything in a publication that is sold, or in advertising or promotional material.
- Include our work in a newsletter, aggregator or feed that you monetize.
Usually yes, at no charge, for nonprofits, schools, libraries, legal aid organizations, tribal programs, government agencies and other news outlets, on three conditions: run it unaltered, credit us, and link to the original. Commercial republishing and syndication are a separate conversation and may involve a fee.
Members-only articlesArticles tagged Featured, and articles that have moved into the member archive, are not covered by the usual yes. Republishing one outside the wall gives away what members paid for. Ask and we will often still say yes, but it is a separate decision and we make it deliberately rather than by default.
Public records are publicCourt filings, orders, agenda packets and records responses we publish are public documents. We do not claim copyright in them and you do not need our permission to use them. What we do claim is our own reporting, our writing, our photographs, and the work of assembling and reading those documents.
How to credit usOriginally published by The Oklahoma Post. Written by [writer’s name]. Reprinted with permission.
Online, the credit line should link to the original story. Do not present our work as your own reporting, and do not put your own byline on it.
PhotographsPhotographs are handled separately from text, always. Some are ours, some are licensed under terms we cannot pass along, and some belong to the person who took them and are used here with their permission. Permission to reprint a story is never automatically permission to reprint the photograph that ran with it. Ask about the image specifically.
Machine learning and data miningPermission to republish does not include permission to use our work to train, fine-tune or evaluate machine learning models, or to build a dataset, index or corpus for that purpose. That requires separate written agreement.
The other directionWe apply the same rule to ourselves. When we build on reporting somebody else did first, we say whose it was and we link to it. If you think we have used your work without proper credit, tell us and we will correct it.
Permission requests go through the contact form to the publisher desk. Tell us what you want to use, where it will appear, and whether money is involved. Most answers come back the same week.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep, so that it can recognize the browser later. Some are necessary for a site to work at all. Others exist to count visitors or to make embedded content from other companies function. This section says which ones are here and what they are for.
NecessarySet by WordPress and by our hosting. These keep you logged in if you have an account, remember what you chose in the cookie banner so we do not ask again on every page, and protect forms against abuse. The site does not work without them and they cannot be switched off here.
AnalyticsWe count how many people read a story, which stories they read, roughly where in the world they are, and whether they arrived from search or from Facebook. We look at this in aggregate. We are not trying to identify you and we do not attempt to.
NewsletterThe newsletter signup form is served by our email provider and may set a cookie so the form does not reappear after you have used it. Subscribing puts your email address in our newsletter list and nowhere else.
Embedded contentWhen a story includes a Facebook post, a document viewer or a video player, that content is delivered by the company that hosts it and can set its own cookies once it loads. Those cookies are governed by that company’s policies rather than ours.
What is not hereThere is no programmatic advertising on this site, so there are no auction or ad-exchange cookies, no retargeting pixels placed for advertisers, and no data broker tags. Every advertisement here was sold directly to a business by a person. We do not sell personal information to anybody, and we do not sell sensitive personal information under any circumstances.
Changing your mindThe cookie banner records your choice the first time you visit. You can reopen it and change that choice at any time using the cookie settings control on this site. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings, and your browser or an extension may send a global privacy signal, which we honor. Blocking necessary cookies may stop parts of the site from working.
ChangesIf we add a tool that sets a new cookie, this section gets updated and the effective date at the top of this page changes with it.
Accessibility
A news site is not worth much if part of the public cannot read it, and the people most likely to need our reporting are often the people least well served by the web. We build this site to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, version 2.1, at Level AA, which is the standard most widely used in the United States, and we are working toward version 2.2 at the same level.
What that means in practice- Photographs carry alternative text describing what is in them.
- Text meets contrast requirements against its background, and the site can be enlarged without breaking.
- Everything that can be clicked can also be reached with a keyboard, with a visible indicator of where you are.
- Headings are structured in order so a screen reader can move through a story.
- Links say where they go rather than saying “click here.”
- Video carries captions.
We would rather name these than claim they do not exist.
- Older photographs in the archive may be missing alternative text. We add it as we find it.
- Live broadcasts do not have real-time captions. Replays get captions afterward.
- Some embedded players and social media posts come from other companies and we do not control how accessible they are.
- Court filings and agency records we publish arrive as scanned PDFs and are frequently untagged and unsearchable. That is how the courts produced them. Ask and we will get you the contents another way.
Tell us. Say what page you were on, what you were trying to do, and what device or assistive technology you were using if you know. We will fix it if we can and tell you honestly if we cannot.
We will also read a story to you over the phone, send you a plain text version, or get you the information another way. There is no form to fill out and no reason you need to give.
Use the contact form and choose the publisher desk.
ReviewWe review the site against this standard once a year and after any significant redesign.
Elsewhere
How we source and verify, how errors get corrected, and what interests the publisher holds that a reader should weigh. Read the standards.
Who owns this and who works here on About and Meet the Team. Where the money comes from on Advertise and Subscriptions.
Errors go through the contact form to the corrections desk, with the headline, the date and the passage at issue. Every request gets a real answer.
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