Privacy Policy

At The Startup Story, your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website.

1. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://thestartupstory.co

2. 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 help detect spam.

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

3. Media

If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from such images.

4. Cookies

We use cookies for user experience and basic functionality:

• If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies. These last for one year.
• A temporary cookie is set on the login page to check if your browser accepts cookies.
• Login cookies last for two days. Screen option cookies last for one year. If “Remember Me” is selected, login will persist for two weeks.
• If you log out, login cookies are removed.
• If you edit or publish an article, a cookie with the post ID will be stored for one day.

5. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Such content behaves the same way as if the visitor had visited the source website. These external sites may collect your data, use cookies, and track your interaction.

6. Data Sharing

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

7. Data Retention

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.

For registered users, we store the personal information they provide in their profile. Users can edit or delete this information at any time (except for their username). Website administrators can also access and modify this data.

8. Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold, or request deletion of your data. This excludes data we are required to keep for legal or security purposes.

9. Where Your Data Is Sent

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

10. Contact Us

For any questions about your privacy or data, please contact us.