Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Our website address is: http://theguidingboy.com.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect and prevent spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture will be visible to the public alongside your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS) within the images. Visitors to the site can download and extract location data from images if available.

Cookies

We use cookies to improve your experience and facilitate site functionality. Below is a detailed breakdown:

  • Comments: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience and will last for one year.
  • Login Page: A temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and will be discarded when you close your browser.
  • Login Cookies: When you log in, we set up cookies to save your login information and display preferences:
  • Login cookies last for two days.
    • Screen display option cookies last for a year.
    • If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks.
    • Logging out will remove the login cookies.
  • Content Editing: When you edit or publish an article, a cookie is saved to indicate the post ID of the article. This cookie does not store personal data and expires after one day.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content behaves exactly as if you visited the external site directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the content, including tracking your interaction if you are logged into the external site.

Who We Share Your Data With

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email for security purposes.

How Long We Retain Your Data

  • Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This helps us automatically approve follow-up comments instead of holding them for moderation.
  • User Accounts: For registered users, we store personal information in their user profiles. Users can see, edit, or delete their information at any time (except usernames). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including data you have provided. You can also request that we delete any personal data we hold, excluding data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where Your Data is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Security and CAPTCHA Protection

To protect our site from spam and abuse, we use Cloudflare Tunnel for CAPTCHA services, which may collect and process your data, including IP addresses and browser information, to distinguish human users from bots. For more information on how Cloudflare handles this data, please refer to their privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.