Privacy Policy

Disclosure & Privacy Policy

Welcome to Steeped In Footnotes. This page outlines how your personal information is collected, used, and protected, as well as general disclosures about the content on this site.

Disclosure Policy

  • No Sponsored Products or Sales: We do not sell products, run paid promotions, or participate in affiliate programs unless explicitly stated directly within a specific post.

  • Honest Opinions: Every single opinion expressed on this website is entirely genuine, unbiased, and strictly my own. Whether a bestseller completely blew me away or a hype-heavy movie flopped, you will always get my raw and candid thoughts.

 Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

2. What Personal Data We Collect & Why

  • Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form (such as your name, email address, and comment), along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.

  • 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 last for one year. You can easily disable/enable cookies in your own browser. We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

  • Contact Forms: If you send us a message through a contact form, we collect your name and email address strictly to reply to your inquiry. We do not use this information for marketing purposes.

3. Media & Third-Party Embeds

  • Embedded Content: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., movie trailers from YouTube, book trailers, images, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

  • These external sites may collect data about you, use cookies, or embed additional third-party tracking.

4. Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell, trade, or share your personal data with third parties or marketers. An automated spam detection service (such as Akismet) may check visitor comments.

5. How Long We Retain Your Data

  • Comments: 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.

6. What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have left comments on this site, 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.

7. How We Protect Your Data

We prioritize keeping your basic interactions safe by using standard web security protocols (such as HTTPS/SSL encryption) provided through our web host and standard WordPress security tools.

Contact Information

Please refer to the website’s contact page.

Last updated: July 2026