Privacy Policy for TerraTome

Last Updated: September 20, 2025.

1. Introduction
Welcome to TerraTome. We are committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about how we handle your information.

This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect, why we collect it, and what we do with it when you use our blog and our suite of free online tools. By using our website, you consent to the data practices described in this policy.

2. Information We Collect
We collect information to provide and improve our services, and to communicate with you. The types of data we collect include:

• Information You Provide Directly: This includes your name, email address, and website URL when you voluntarily sign up for our newsletter, leave a comment on a blog post, or contact us via a form.

• Automatically Collected Information:

  • Log Data: When you visit our site, our servers automatically record information (“log data”), including your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, referring web page, pages visited, and the date and time of your visit.

  • Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies to track activity on our site and hold certain information. See our “Cookies” section for more details.

• Data from Our Free Tools: Data you input into our free online tools (e.g., text, parameters, or files) is processed in your browser in real-time to provide the tool’s functionality. This input data is not stored on our servers unless explicitly stated for a specific tool. We may collect anonymous, aggregated usage data to understand tool performance.

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

• Anonymity: 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.

  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.

3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To Provide and Maintain Our Services: To operate our blog, deliver the functionality of our free tools, and manage user accounts and comments.

• To Communicate With You: To send you newsletters (if you opted in), respond to your comments and inquiries, and send administrative information (e.g., policy updates).

• For Spam Detection: To identify and prevent comment spam.

• To Analyze and Improve: To understand how our services are used (e.g., through Google Analytics) so we can improve their quality, develop new features, and enhance the user experience.

• For Marketing and Advertising: To display relevant advertisements through our ad partners and to measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

4. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using your information depends on the context in which we collect it. We typically rely on the following bases:

• Your Consent: For example, when you sign up for our newsletter or accept cookies via our banner.

• Performance of a Contract: To provide you with the services you request, like running a tool for you or facilitating comments.

• Legitimate Interests: For purposes like spam detection, analytics, security, and marketing, where our interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.

5. How We Share Your Information
We do not sell your personal information. We may share your data with third-party service providers only to help us operate our website and provide our services under our instructions.

These parties include:

• Analytics Providers: Such as Google Analytics to help us understand our website traffic. Link to Google’s Policy.

• Advertising Partners: Such as ad networks (e.g., Google AdSense) to serve you relevant ads. Link to Google AdSense Policy.

• Email Marketing Services: Such as Mailchimp to manage our newsletter subscriptions. Link to Mailchimp’s Policy.

• Spam Detection Services: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

• Affiliate Networks: We participate in affiliate marketing (e.g., Amazon Associates). If you click on an affiliate link, the partner may use cookies to track the visit for commission purposes. We disclose this in accordance with FTC guidelines.

• Gravatar: An anonymized hash of your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to display your profile picture with a comment.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

6. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

• Comments: 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.

• User Accounts: 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.

• Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. These emails are not retained longer than necessary for audit purposes.

7. Your Data Protection Rights
You have certain rights regarding your personal information. We will respond to all requests in accordance with applicable law.

• Access & Portability: You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.

• Correction: You can request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete data about you.

• Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You can 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.

• Objection & Restriction: You can object to our processing of your data or request that we suspend processing.

• Opt-Out of Marketing: You can unsubscribe from our marketing emails at any time by using the “unsubscribe” link in every email.

• CCPA/CPRA: We do not sell your personal information. California residents have additional rights to know, correct, and delete personal information.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at: support@terratome.com

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and hold certain information.

• Types of Cookies We Use:

  • Essential Cookies: Necessary for the operation of our website and tools.

  • Analytics/Performance Cookies: Help us understand how visitors interact with the website.

  • Functionality Cookies: Enable enhanced functionality and personalization. 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.

  • Advertising/Targeting Cookies: Used to deliver ads relevant to you and to track ad campaign performance.

• Specific Cookie Uses:

  • If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies which 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 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.

You can manage your cookie preferences through our Cookie Consent Banner when you first visit our site. You can also instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

9. 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.

10. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include internal reviews of our data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures.

However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

11. Children’s Privacy
Our service is not intended for use by children under the age of 13 (or 16 in the EEA). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children.

If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

12. Affiliate Links Disclosure
Our blog posts may contain affiliate links (e.g., for Amazon Associates). If you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

These third-party sites have their own independent privacy policies, and we have no responsibility or liability for their content or activities.

13. 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.

We will also strive to provide a more prominent notice, such as an email to our subscribers, for any material changes.

14. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data, or your rights, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Email: support@terratome.com