DSK Guide (“we”, “our”, or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed when you visit our website at https://dskguide.com (the “Site”).
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://dskguide.com.
DSK Guide provides practical, hands-on technical troubleshooting guides, home lab infrastructure tutorials, fleet maintenance tips, and outdoor equipment solutions.
2. Information We Collect and How We Use It
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. Upon approval of your comment, your profile picture becomes visible to the public within the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from images on the site.
Cookies
- Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies last for one year.
- Login & Admin Cookies: If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set 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, cookies are set to preserve login information and screen display options.
- Editing Cookies: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie indicating the post ID will be stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and expires after one day.
3. Google AdSense & Third-Party Advertising (Crucial)
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites on the Internet.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting aboutads.info.
4. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, interactive diagrams, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same manner as if the visitor has visited the external website directly.
These external websites may collect data about you, utilize cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions with the embedded content, including tracking your interactions if you have an account and are logged into that platform.
5. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so that follow-up comments can be recognized and approved automatically instead of being held in a moderation queue.
For registered users (if any), we store the personal information provided in user profiles. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also view and edit that information.
6. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data provided to us. You can also request the erasure of any personal data we hold. This does not apply to data retained for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
7. Contact Information
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or data protection inquiries, please contact us via our official website: https://dskguide.com.