Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 11, 2026

Your privacy matters to me. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit True Northey, how that information may be used, and the choices you have regarding your information.

By using TrueNorthey.com, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

Information You Choose to Provide

You may choose to provide personal information when you:

  • Leave a comment on a blog post
  • Submit a message through the Contact page
  • Send a guest-post idea, collaboration request, book-review request, product-review request, or other submission
  • Participate in a giveaway, survey, promotion, or similar activity, if one is offered

The information you provide may include your name, email address, website, social-media information, message, submission, or other details you voluntarily share.

Please do not submit sensitive medical, financial, legal, or confidential information through public comments or the general contact form.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on True Northey, the website may collect the information entered into the comment form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser information. This information may be used for comment moderation, website security, and spam detection.

Comments may be held for approval before appearing publicly. Once approved, your name, comment, website link, and profile image may be visible to other visitors.

Anything you voluntarily include in a public comment may be viewed, copied, or shared by others. Please use care when deciding what information to post publicly.

Contact Forms and Submissions

When you contact True Northey through the website, the information you provide may be used to:

  • Respond to your message
  • Consider a guest post, interview, review, partnership, or collaboration
  • Communicate with you about a book, product, service, or project
  • Maintain appropriate records of the communication
  • Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, or security problems

Submitting a message, idea, story, book, product, or collaboration request does not guarantee publication, review, acceptance, coverage, or a response.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit True Northey, certain technical information may be collected automatically by the website, hosting provider, security tools, analytics services, or other website service providers.

This information may include:

  • Your IP address
  • Browser and device type
  • Operating system
  • Approximate geographic location
  • Referring website
  • Pages viewed
  • Links clicked
  • Date and time of your visit
  • General website usage and performance information

This information may be used to understand how visitors use the website, improve its content and performance, troubleshoot problems, and protect the website from spam, fraud, or misuse.

Cookies

True Northey and its service providers may use cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small files stored on your browser or device that help websites function, remember preferences, measure traffic, and understand how visitors interact with content.

Cookies may be used when you:

  • Leave a comment
  • Save your information for a future comment
  • View embedded videos, images, music, or social-media content
  • Use social-sharing features
  • Click an affiliate or advertising link
  • Visit pages measured by analytics tools

You can usually control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect how certain parts of the website function.

Analytics

True Northey may use analytics services, including Google Analytics, to better understand website traffic and visitor activity.

Analytics providers may collect information such as your device type, browser, approximate location, pages visited, referral source, and interactions with the website. This information may be used to evaluate traffic patterns, improve the website, and understand which content readers find helpful or interesting.

Analytics providers process information according to their own privacy policies and settings.

Embedded Content and Social Media

True Northey may include embedded videos, images, music, podcasts, social-media posts, sharing tools, or other content from third-party websites and services.

Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly. Those services may collect information, use cookies, track your interaction with the embedded content, or connect your activity to an account you have with that service.

True Northey does not control the privacy practices of outside websites or platforms. Please review their individual privacy policies for information about how they collect and use data.

Affiliate Links, Sponsored Content, and Advertising

True Northey may occasionally include affiliate links, sponsored content, advertising, gifted products, or collaborations with brands, authors, publishers, retailers, and other businesses.

When you click an affiliate or advertising link, the outside company may use cookies or similar technology to record that the visit or purchase came from True Northey. I may receive a commission or other compensation if you make a purchase through certain links.

Third-party advertisers, affiliate programs, retailers, and other companies may collect information according to their own privacy policies. True Northey does not control how those companies collect, store, or process information.

Affiliate, gifted, sponsored, and paid relationships will be disclosed within the relevant content when appropriate.

How Information May Be Used

Information collected through True Northey may be used to:

  • Operate, maintain, and improve the website
  • Respond to messages, comments, and requests
  • Moderate comments and prevent spam
  • Consider guest posts, reviews, partnerships, and collaborations
  • Understand website traffic and reader interests
  • Protect the website and its visitors
  • Maintain appropriate records
  • Comply with legal obligations
  • Enforce the website’s terms and policies

I do not sell or rent the personal information you submit directly through the True Northey contact form or comments.

How Information May Be Shared

Information may be shared with trusted service providers when reasonably necessary to operate and protect the website. These may include website hosting, security, spam prevention, analytics, forms, backups, and other technical services.

Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to:

  • Comply with a law, court order, or lawful request
  • Protect the rights, safety, security, or property of True Northey or others
  • Investigate fraud, spam, abuse, or misuse
  • Complete a transfer of website ownership or assets

Private contact-form messages and email addresses will not intentionally be published unless permission has been given or disclosure is legally required.

How Long Information May Be Kept

Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the website, respond to communications, maintain records, prevent abuse, comply with legal obligations, or resolve disputes.

Comments and related information may be retained so future comments can be recognized and moderated appropriately.

Contact-form messages and collaboration records may be retained when reasonably needed for communication, business records, security, or legal purposes.

Information that is no longer reasonably needed may be deleted, anonymized, or securely disposed of.

Your Privacy Choices

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information you have directly submitted through True Northey.

Depending on where you live, you may also have additional privacy rights regarding your personal information. Certain requests may be limited when information must be retained for security, legal, recordkeeping, freedom-of-expression, or other lawful purposes.

To submit a privacy request, please use the Contact page on TrueNorthey.com and write Privacy Request in your message.

I may need to verify that the request relates to you before making changes or releasing information.

Data Security

Reasonable steps are taken to protect information associated with True Northey. However, no website, contact form, email account, storage system, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Please use care when deciding what personal information to submit online.

Third-Party Websites

True Northey may contain links to websites, products, services, or resources operated by other people or companies.

True Northey is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, accuracy, or policies of third-party websites. Visiting an outside website or providing information to another company is done at your own discretion and is governed by that company’s policies.

Children’s Privacy

True Northey is intended for a general adult audience and is not directed toward children under the age of 13.

I do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child under 13 has submitted personal information through the website, please use the Contact page so the information can be reviewed and removed where appropriate.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated as True Northey grows, adds new features, changes service providers, or adjusts its website practices.

The “Last updated” date at the top of this page will be changed when meaningful updates are made.

Contact

For questions about this Privacy Policy or how information is handled through True Northey, please use the Contact page on this website.