Effective Date: May 16, 2025
Pickleball Wiki (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website: https://pickleball-wiki.com.
Who We Are
Our website address is: https://pickleball-wiki.com. This site provides pickleball-related content including guides, product reviews, and affiliate recommendations.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string (a hash) created from your email address may be shared with the Gravatar service to check if you’re using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public next to your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract this data from uploaded images.
Cookies
We use cookies to enhance your experience:
- If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies. These last for one year.
- When visiting the login page, a temporary cookie is used to check if your browser accepts cookies—it contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
- When you log in, we set cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days, and screen option cookies last one year. Selecting “Remember Me” will keep you logged in for two weeks. Logging out will remove these cookies.
- When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser. It contains no personal data and simply notes the post ID of the article. It expires after one day.
Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves the same as if you visited that site directly. These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interactions—especially if you are logged into their services.
Data Sharing
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. We do not sell or share your personal data with third parties except where required by law or for essential website operations.
Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are stored indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and automatically approve follow-up comments without moderation.
If you register on our website (if applicable), we store the personal information you provide in your user profile. You can view, edit, or delete your information at any time (except your username). Site administrators can also access and modify this data.
Your Rights
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. You may also request that we erase your data. This excludes any data we are required to retain for legal, administrative, or security purposes.
Data Processing
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us here.
