Privacy Policy for The Self-Hosting Hub
Effective Date: July 20, 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to The Self Hosting Hub. We understand that privacy online is important to users of our Site, especially when conducting business. This statement governs our privacy policies with respect to those users of the Site (“Visitors”) who visit and make use of the various services offered by [Your Blog Name].
2. Information We Collect
We collect information from you in two ways: information you voluntarily provide and information that is automatically collected.
- Information You Voluntarily Provide:
- Comments: When you leave a comment, we collect your name, email address, and IP address.
- Newsletter: If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address.
- Contact Forms: When you contact us through a contact form, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your message.
- Information Collected Automatically:
- Cookies and Analytics: Like most websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to track user activity. This includes your IP address, browser type, pages you have visited on our Site, and the time and date of your visit. We use this information to analyze trends and improve our Site. We use [e.g., Google Analytics] for this purpose.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Operate and maintain our website.
- Respond to your comments and inquiries.
- Send you our newsletter if you have subscribed.
- Improve our content and user experience through analytics.
- [Add if applicable: Display relevant advertising through partners like Google AdSense.]
4. Cookies
Cookies are small data files stored on your browser by the Site. We use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience. You can prevent the setting of cookies by using a corresponding setting on your internet browser.
5. Third-Party Services
We may share your information with third parties that support our website.
- Analytics: We use Google Analytics to track website usage. You can review their privacy policy here: Google’s Privacy & Terms and Safeguarding your data.
- Advertising: Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
6. 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.
You have certain rights with respect to your personal data:
7. Your Data Rights
You have certain rights with respect to your personal data:
- You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails.
- You may request access to the personal data we have about you.
- You may request that we amend or erase your personal data.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected].
8. Children’s Information
We do not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If you believe that your child has provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
9. Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Effective Date” and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible.
10. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at [email protected].