Who We Are
Welcome to Off the Front Page, available at: https://offthefrontpage.com. We take your privacy seriously and are committed to maintaining transparency about how your data is collected, used, and protected.
This privacy policy outlines what personal data we collect, why we collect it, how long we keep it, and your rights over that information. By using our website, you agree to the practices described below.
We process personal data based on one or more of the following: your consent, the performance of a service you requested, compliance with legal obligations, or our legitimate interest in operating and securing the website.
Comments
When you leave a comment on our site, we collect the information you enter in the comment form—typically your name, email address, website (if provided), and the content of your comment. In addition, we collect your IP address and browser user agent string to help us detect and filter spam.
To personalize your experience, we may use the Gravatar service to display your profile image next to your comment. This is done by creating a hashed (anonymized) string from your email address and checking it against the Gravatar database. If you’re using a Gravatar account, your profile image will appear publicly once your comment is approved. You can view the Gravatar privacy policy at: https://automattic.com/privacy.
Media
If you choose to upload images to our website—for example, in the context of a user profile or post submission—we advise you to avoid uploading images that contain embedded location data (such as EXIF GPS coordinates). Other visitors to the website could potentially extract that information from the image file.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device to enhance your experience. We use cookies on this site for several purposes:
- Comment cookies: If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is optional and purely for convenience, allowing you to post future comments more easily. These cookies will remain for one year unless manually deleted.
- Login cookies: When you access your user account, temporary cookies are used to determine if your browser accepts cookies. Once logged in, we set cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. Login cookies expire after two days, but if you select “Remember Me,” your session will stay active for two weeks. Logging out deletes these cookies.
- Content editing cookies: If you create, edit, or publish an article, an additional cookie may be stored in your browser. This does not contain any personal data but records the post ID for reference. It expires after 24 hours.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Some articles or pages on this site may include embedded content such as YouTube videos, tweets, Instagram posts, or links to other third-party websites. Embedded content behaves in the same way as if you had visited the other website directly.
These third-party websites may collect personal data about you, use their own cookies, embed tracking technologies, and observe how you interact with their content—particularly if you have an account with them and are logged in at the time.
We have no control over these third-party websites and recommend reviewing their respective privacy policies to understand how your data is managed on their platforms.
Who We Share Your Data With
We do not sell or trade your personal data to third parties. However, in certain cases, we may share limited data for specific purposes:
- If you request a password reset, the IP address associated with your request will be included in the reset email for security verification.
- Your data may be shared with spam detection services (such as Akismet or similar tools) to prevent abuse of our commenting system.
We will only disclose information when necessary to comply with legal obligations, enforce our site policies, or protect our rights, safety, or property.
How Long We Retain Your Data
Comments and their associated metadata are retained indefinitely. This helps us recognize returning commenters and approve follow-up comments automatically, rather than holding them in moderation.
For users who register an account on our site (if applicable), we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Registered users can view, update, or delete their personal details at any time—except for their chosen username, which is permanent. Website administrators also have access to user profiles and may edit information as needed.
You may request access to or deletion of your personal data by contacting us at offthefrontpage@protonmail.com
Ezoic Services
This website uses the services of Ezoic Inc. (“Ezoic”), including to manage third-party interest-based advertising. Ezoic may employ a variety of technologies on this website, including tools to serve content, display advertisements and enable advertising to visitors of this website, which may utilize first and third-party cookies.
A cookie is a small text file sent to your device by a web server that enables the website to remember information about your browsing activity.
First-party cookies are created by the site you are visiting, while third-party cookies are set by domains other than the one you’re visiting. Ezoic and our partners may place third-party cookies, tags, beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to monitor interactions with advertisements and optimize ad targeting.
Please note that disabling cookies may limit access to certain content and features on the website, and rejecting cookies does not eliminate advertisements but will result in non-personalized advertising. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them here.
The following information may be collected, used, and stored in a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP address
- Operating system type and version
- Device type
- Language preferences
- Web browser type
- Email (in a hashed or encrypted form)
Ezoic and its partners may use this data in combination with information that has been independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements across various platforms and websites. Ezoic’s partners may also gather additional data, such as unique IDs, advertising IDs, geolocation data, usage data, device information, traffic data, referral sources, and interactions between users and websites or advertisements, to create audience segments for targeted advertising across different devices, browsers, and apps. You can find more information about interest-based advertising and how to manage them here.
You can view Ezoic’s privacy policy here, or for additional information about Ezoic’s advertising and other partners, you can view Ezoic’s advertising partners here.