Privacy Policy

At Better Home Review, your privacy is important to us. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our site, interact with our content, or leave comments.

Who we are

Our website, Better Home Review, is a blog dedicated to reviewing home improvement, furniture, lawn & garden, and pet products. We participate in the Amazon Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by linking to Amazon.com. This means we may earn commissions from qualifying purchases made through our affiliate links.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent to help detect spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible publicly in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract location data from images.

Cookies

We use cookies to improve your experience:

When you leave a comment, you may opt-in to save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last one year.
On our login page, we set a temporary cookie to check if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Login cookies last two days, screen options cookies last one year, and “Remember Me” login cookies last two weeks. Logging out removes these cookies.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is saved in your browser to indicate the post ID of the article you edited. This expires after one day.

Affiliate Disclosure

As part of the Amazon Associates Program, Better Home Review earns from qualifying purchases. All product links may generate a small commission at no extra cost to you. This helps support the website and allows us to continue providing honest and detailed reviews.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content behaves exactly as if you visited the other website.

These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including if you have an account and are logged in.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address is included in the reset email.

We do not sell your data. Data may be shared with service providers who help run our website, prevent spam, or support analytics.

How long we retain your data

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to allow automatic approval of follow-up comments.
Registered users’ personal information is stored in their profile. Users can edit or delete their personal information at any time (except the username). Administrators can also view and edit this information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account or have left comments on this site, you can request:

An exported file of all personal data we hold about you.
Erasure of your personal data (except data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes).

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact Information

For questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us at