Effective date: September 9, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Earthshinejournal collects, uses, and protects information when you visit earthshinejournal.com, submit a form, leave a comment, or otherwise interact with the website.
Information you provide
We may receive information you voluntarily provide, such as your name, email address, message, comment, or correction request. Please do not submit sensitive personal or financial information.
Information collected automatically
The website and its service providers may process technical information such as IP address, browser and device type, approximate location, referring page, requested URLs, timestamps, cookie identifiers, and interactions with the website. This information may be used for security, diagnostics, performance, and audience measurement.
Cookies and similar technologies
WordPress, security and caching tools, embedded media, analytics services, and advertising services may use cookies or similar technologies such as device identifiers and local storage.
Cookies on this website fall into three broad groups:
- Strictly necessary: required for the website to load, stay secure, and remember essential preferences. These include anti-spam protection on our contact form.
- Analytics: used to understand aggregated traffic and improve content.
- Advertising: used to serve, limit, and measure advertisements. See the Advertising section below.
Analytics
Earthshinejournal uses Google services connected through Site Kit, which currently include Google Analytics and Google Search Console. Analytics helps us understand aggregated traffic patterns and improve what we publish. It is not used to identify individual readers by name.
Advertising
We are preparing to display third-party advertising on Earthshinejournal, including Google AdSense. No third-party advertising is being served at the effective date of this policy. This section describes how advertising will operate once it is enabled, and it will be reviewed again at that point.
When advertising is active:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies, device identifiers, and similar technologies to serve and measure advertisements based on your prior visits to this website and to other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve advertisements to you based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
- Advertising may be personalized or non-personalized, depending on your location, the choices you make, and the law that applies to you. Non-personalized advertising still uses cookies or identifiers for purposes such as frequency capping, aggregated reporting, and fraud prevention.
- Advertising partners may process technical information such as IP address, device and browser characteristics, and interactions with an advertisement.
- We do not provide advertising partners with your name, email address, or the contents of messages you send us.
You can review and change how Google personalizes advertising to you through Google Ad Settings. Google explains how it uses information from sites that use its services at How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. You can also find opt-out tools for participating advertising vendors at YourAdChoices, Network Advertising Initiative and, in Europe, Your Online Choices.
Your consent choices
Where the law requires consent before non-essential cookies are used, including analytics and advertising cookies, those cookies should not be set until you have given consent, and you should be able to withdraw consent as easily as you gave it. Earthshinejournal is putting a consent mechanism in place for visitors in those regions, and it will be active before third-party advertising is enabled on the website. Your browser settings also let you block or delete cookies, though doing so may affect how parts of the website work.
Comments, forms, and embedded content
Comments and contact forms may retain the submitted fields and technical anti-spam information. Our contact form uses a challenge service to filter automated submissions. Articles may contain embedded content from other websites, such as videos, maps, or social posts. Those providers may collect data under their own privacy policies as if you had visited them directly.
How information is used and shared
- To operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the website.
- To respond to messages, corrections, and privacy requests.
- To measure content performance and understand audiences.
- To serve and measure advertising once advertising is enabled.
- To prevent spam, abuse, fraud, or security incidents.
- To comply with legal duties or protect legitimate rights.
We do not sell personal information for money. Information may be processed by hosting, analytics, form, anti-spam, email, advertising, and other service providers as necessary to supply their services. It may also be disclosed when legally required.
Retention, security, and your choices
Information is retained only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described above, subject to legal, security, and backup requirements. Reasonable safeguards are used, but no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, or obtain a copy of personal information. You may also be able to withdraw consent or complain to a privacy regulator. Use our Contact page to make a request. We may need to verify your identity before acting on it.
Children and policy changes
The website is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children below the age requiring parental consent in their location. We may update this policy when the website or legal requirements change, and the effective date above will be revised when we do.