Privacy & Advertising Policy

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Who we are

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

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help 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

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

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

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will 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 is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

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

Advertising Policy

At HomeTweakz, our goal is to provide our readers with home improvement and architectural design resources that are useful, inspiring and honest.

We disclose all sponsorships and affiliate relationships clearly on our website and in our newsletters. Any paid or sponsored content will be labeled prominently as “Sponsored” to avoid confusion with our other editorial content.

Our advertising guidelines are:

Advertisements will not be disguised as content and will always be visually distinct from articles on the site.

No paid content, product reviews or recommendations will be published without proper disclosure of the affiliation or payment received.

Affiliate links and discounts shared in our newsletters or onsite may earn us commissions but will never influence our editorial recommendations or coverage.

Advertisers are prohibited from directly editing or altering any of our published content. All content creation and production remains under our full editorial control.

We reserve the right to refuse any advertising request at our discretion if it does not align with our brand values or is deemed inappropriate for our audience.

Transparency is very important to us in maintaining trust with our readers. Please feel free to contact us directly if you have any other questions about our advertising guidelines or partnership opportunities. Our goal is to provide our community with resources to feel informed and empowered as homeowners.

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