Privacy Policy
Last Updated: October 29, 2026
At FactPhilia, accessible at https://factphilia.com/, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share information when you visit our website, read our articles, leave comments, or interact with our services.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://factphilia.com/
FactPhilia publishes informational content about facts, science, history, space, and other interesting topics.
For privacy-related questions or requests, please contact us at:
Email: supportfactphilia@gmail.com
2. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
- Information you provide: Name, email address, website address, comments, and other information you voluntarily submit through our website.
- Technical information: IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, and related technical details.
- Usage information: Pages visited, referring websites, approximate geographic information, and interactions with our website, where collected by our analytics, advertising, hosting, or security services.
We use this information to operate our website, moderate comments, prevent spam, understand website traffic, improve our content, display advertisements, and maintain website security.
3. Comments
When visitors leave comments on FactPhilia, we collect the information displayed in the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent string to help detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address, also known as a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you use it.
Gravatar’s Privacy Policy is available at:
After your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible publicly alongside your comment.
Please avoid including sensitive personal information in comments because comments and associated profile information may be visible to other visitors.
4. Media
If you upload images to our website, avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data, such as EXIF GPS information.
Visitors may be able to download images and extract any location data stored in them.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
FactPhilia uses cookies and similar technologies to support website functionality, remember preferences, measure website performance, and provide advertising services.
Cookies may be used for the following purposes:
- Essential website functions: To support security and website functionality.
- Comments and preferences: To remember information you enter when commenting, where supported.
- Analytics: To understand how visitors access and use our website.
- Advertising: To deliver advertisements, measure advertising performance, limit repeated advertisements, and, depending on applicable settings, personalize ads.
Cookie names, purposes, and expiration periods may vary depending on the service.
You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Where required by applicable law, we will provide appropriate consent and preference controls for non-essential cookies.
6. Google Analytics and Google Site Kit
FactPhilia uses Google Analytics through Google Site Kit to understand website traffic and improve the visitor experience.
Google Analytics may collect information such as:
- Pages visited and interactions with website content.
- Approximate location derived from technical information.
- Browser, device, and operating system information.
- Referring websites and traffic sources.
- Usage and event data, depending on our configuration.
Google Site Kit is a WordPress integration that helps connect Google services to our website. The information collected depends on the Google services connected and their settings.
Google may process information in accordance with its own privacy policies.
Learn more about how Google uses information from websites that use its services:
Google Partner Sites Privacy Information
7. Google AdSense and Advertising Cookies
FactPhilia uses Google AdSense to display advertisements.
Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar technologies to serve advertisements, measure ad performance, prevent fraud, limit repeated ads, and, depending on user and publisher settings, display personalized or non-personalized advertisements.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use information from visits to this website and other websites to provide advertising services, subject to their policies and applicable requirements.
You can learn more about Google advertising cookies here:
Google AdSense Advertising and Cookies
You can review how Google uses information from partner websites here:
Google Partner Sites Privacy Information
You can manage Google’s personalized advertising settings here:
You may also be able to control advertising cookies through your browser settings and any consent or privacy controls made available on our website.
8. Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on FactPhilia may contain embedded content, including videos, images, or articles from other websites.
Embedded content from third-party websites may behave as if you visited those websites directly. Those providers may collect information, use cookies, include tracking technologies, or monitor your interactions according to their own policies.
We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of third-party websites whose embedded content you access.
9. Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell personal information as a standalone data product. However, information may be processed or shared with service providers where necessary to operate and improve our website.
Depending on the services enabled, these providers may include:
- Google Analytics and Google Site Kit-connected services.
- Google AdSense and relevant advertising partners.
- Website hosting and infrastructure providers.
- Spam detection and security services, including services used to review comments.
- Technical providers that help maintain website functionality.
We may also disclose information when required by law or when reasonably necessary to protect our website, users, or legal rights.
Third-party services process information under their applicable policies and terms.
10. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely to help us recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.
If user registration is enabled, personal information provided in user profiles may be retained for as long as necessary for account administration and other relevant purposes.
Technical, analytics, advertising, and security data may be retained according to the settings and retention policies of the relevant service providers.
We may retain information for longer when required or permitted by applicable law.
11. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to request access to personal information we hold about you, request correction or deletion, or exercise other available privacy rights.
If you have left comments or have an account on our website, you may request an export of relevant personal information or request its deletion, subject to applicable exceptions.
Some information may need to be retained for legal, administrative, security, or other lawful purposes.
To make a privacy-related request, contact us at:
Email: supportfactphilia@gmail.com
We will review and respond to valid requests in accordance with applicable requirements.
12. Data Security
We take reasonable steps to protect information processed through our website against unauthorized access, misuse, loss, or alteration.
However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
13. Children’s Privacy
FactPhilia is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children in violation of applicable law.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us inappropriately, please contact us so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.
14. Where Your Data Is Processed
Information may be processed by our hosting, analytics, advertising, and security service providers in locations outside your country, depending on the services used.
Visitor comments may be checked through automated spam detection services.
Where applicable, we take steps to address relevant legal requirements for the processing and transfer of personal information.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, services, or applicable requirements change.
Any revised version will be published on this page with an updated date. We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, or wish to make a privacy-related request, please contact us:
Website: https://factphilia.com/
Email: supportfactphilia@gmail.com
We will review and respond to privacy-related enquiries in accordance with applicable requirements.