Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://stopdoordrafts.com.

StopDoorDrafts is a blog that publishes product reviews, buying guides, and recommendations related to Home Improvement, Furniture, Lawn & Garden, and Pet Products.

Affiliate Disclosure:
StopDoorDrafts.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. This means that when you click certain links on our website and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you.

Comments

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

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here:
https://automattic.com/privacy/

After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to improve user experience and help the site function properly.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These cookies are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie may be set to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we may set up several cookies to save your login information and display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for one year.

Additionally, our website may use cookies from third-party services such as analytics providers and affiliate programs (including Amazon) to track clicks and improve the performance of our product recommendations.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, images, articles, or product listings.

Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited those websites directly. These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that content.

For example, when you click an Amazon affiliate link, Amazon may collect information such as cookies or referral data to track purchases made through affiliate links.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information.

However, certain data may be processed by trusted third-party services used by the website, such as:

  • Spam detection services

  • Website hosting providers

  • Analytics tools

  • Affiliate programs (such as Amazon Associates)

If you request a password reset, your IP address may be included in the reset email.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website (if any), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except the username). Website administrators can also see 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 any data you have provided.

You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you, except for 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 to protect the website from spam and malicious activity.