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Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 08, 2026

Privacy Policy for spotting.top

Last updated: June 2026

At spotting.top, accessible from https://spotting.top, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by spotting.top and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

Information We Collect

Personal Information You Provide

When you interact with spotting.top, we may ask you to provide certain personally identifiable information. This occurs in the following situations:

  • Contact Forms: When you use our contact form to reach out to us, we collect your name and email address so we can respond to your inquiry.
  • Comments: When you leave a comment on one of our historical articles, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit spotting.top, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including:

  • Your IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Pages you view on our site
  • Time and date of your visit
  • Time spent on each page
  • Referring website addresses

This information is collected using cookies and similar tracking technologies. We use this data for basic analytics purposes to understand how our readers engage with our historical content and to improve your experience on our blog.

Cookies

Like many websites, spotting.top uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. We use the following types of cookies:

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Analytics Cookies

We use basic analytics tools to understand how visitors interact with our historical articles. These cookies collect information about which pages are visited most often, how users navigate our site, and whether users encounter error messages. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Comment Cookie

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.

Managing Cookies

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. However, if you disable cookies, some features of our site may not function properly. You can learn more about managing cookies at the help section of your browser.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in the following ways:

  • To respond to your inquiries submitted through our contact forms
  • To display comments on our historical articles
  • To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities on our blog
  • To improve our content and user experience
  • To detect and prevent spam and abusive behavior

How We Protect Your Information

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information. These measures include secure servers, encrypted connections (SSL), and regular security audits. However, please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it:

  • Comments: Comments and their 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.
  • Contact Form Submissions: We retain contact form submissions for a reasonable period for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
  • Analytics Data: Analytics data is retained for a period of 26 months before being automatically deleted.

Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:

  • Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data that we hold.
  • Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate.
  • Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we delete your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email or mailing address below.

Third-Party Services

We may use third-party services for basic analytics and comment spam detection. These third parties have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information. We do not share personal information with third parties for their own marketing purposes.

Children's Privacy

spotting.top is a blog about history and is intended for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect any personal identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that your child 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.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this document. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, please contact us:

Thank you for visiting spotting.top and for your interest in history.