Your use of our site acts as your agreement with our cookie and privacy policy as stated. If you do not like or agree with this cookies policy or have any doubt about cookies or your privacy in any way you are requested not to use this site.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://koifishhelper.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

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 will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies…

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

What third parties we receive data from

Analytics 

Google analytics is set up and it will be to the least intrusive setting for our site. We will be unable to see where you live only the country and perhaps city if provided. Please read about Google Analytics. If you disagree with analytics or Google Console displaying general information about visits to the site than you can opt out, or choose not to use the site.

About: About Google Analytics

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Search Console

Google Search Console data which gives information to us allowing fixes to the website to continue providing quality content to users. Pages clicked, countries visited from, search queries used, dates clicked, and devices used are among the data used, nothing which identifies you in any way to us, other than as described above.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Google Adsense:

Ads may be placed by Google Adsense as a way of earning revenue by way of advertising in the future but not at this time.

Google uses cookies to advertise to you based on this website and other websites that you have visited so as to make them more relevant to you.

Information on Google Advertising and the cookies it sets

Amazon Associates:

Amazon Uses cookies to advertise to you based on this websites product reviews. You can read about Amazon.com cookies here 

and Amazon.ca cookies here

Opt out of Amazon Ads and Google Ads:

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. Opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info. You can opt out of Amazon and many other advertising sites at www.aboutads.info If you have any doubts about cookies 

How long we retain your data

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.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Will be kept in an email account if you contact us. If this is unacceptable to you then request at the end of your message for us to delete it.

Additional information

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Data collected by Google may be used as a way to identify trends in potential areas of content that we may decide to include on our site that may be of interest to viewers.

Affiliate Disclosure:

Currently a participant in the Amazon Associates Program:

Affiliate Disclosure: We are a member of Amazon Affiliates as a means to earning revenue for advertising products. “As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.” 

Minimum Age:

We do not intentionally market to any one under the age of 18. Use of this site is meant for those of legal age to make purchases in their country of origin. You must be at a minimum age of 18 or over to browse this site.