Effective Date May 26 2026

The Post Diary team respects your digital privacy. This document outlines the specific types of personal information we collect when you visit our website, how we manage that data, and your legal rights under current consumer protection standards.

1. Basic System Data Collection

When you browse our website, our servers automatically collect standard technical logs to keep our platform running safely. This data includes your network IP address, your browser type, your operating system, the referring pages that brought you to us, and the time of your visit. We use this data strictly to monitor server health and optimize loading speed.

2. Google AdSense Advertisement Compliance

The Post Diary is a commercial platform monetized through third party programmatic advertisements using Google AdSense. Google uses specific tracking systems including cookies to serve relevant ads to users based on their visits to our domain and other platforms across the internet.

• Google uses the DART cookie to serve personalized ads based on browsing history.
• You can choose to opt out of personalized tracking at any time by changing your preferences in your personal Google Ads Settings page.

3. Microsoft Clarity Behavior Analytics

We use Microsoft Clarity to analyze how readers interact with our articles. This tracking system captures behavioral metrics and visual interactions through anonymized heatmaps and session recordings. We use this information solely to improve our user interface, optimize page layout, and fix broken technical scripts.

4. Managed Guest Writer Accounts

We operate a manually reviewed publishing model. When external contributors send articles to our editorial team for consideration, we collect the personal details required to create a standard WordPress author profile. This includes names, contact email addresses, personal biographies, and social media links. We store this data securely on our backend to credit the correct writer. We never sell or share contributor email lists with external marketing brokers.

5. Reader Revenue Manager Integration

If you use the Google Reader Revenue Manager tool on our domain to sign up for updates, Google securely transfers your registered email address to our internal subscriber database. We use this list exclusively to send you notifications about new articles. This integration connects your Google identity to our site, which allows Google to personalize your content feed. You can remove your name from our email list instantly by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email we send.

6. Comments and Social Plugins

When visitors leave comments on our platform, we collect the data shown in the comments form along with the visitor IP address and browser user agent string to prevent automated spam.

• We use specific plugins including Heateor Social Comments, Fancy Facebook Comments, and native social sharing widgets.
• These integrations allow you to share content or use social logins via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
• These third party networks may track your IP address and place cookies in your browser according to their individual privacy corporate policies.

7. Media Uploads

If you are an approved contributor uploading images to our website, you must ensure that all media files are stripped of embedded location data including EXIF GPS tracking. Visitors to the website can potentially download images and extract location data from them.

8. Data Security and Retention

All collected data is stored securely in our private website database. We do not sell, rent, or trade your data with third parties except as required for core plugin functionalities or by explicit law. Comments and their underlying metadata are retained indefinitely to auto approve future replies.

9. Your Information Rights

You have the right to request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you or request the complete deletion of your personal records from our database. This does not include any data we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Contact Our Team

If you have questions about this privacy policy or wish to exercise your data removal rights, contact our administrative support desk directly.

Email help@thepostdiary.com