Last updated: October 2026
NailHandbook is a nail guide site run by one person. I collect the smallest amount of data I can while still answering the messages people send me. Comments are off, I run no analytics, and the site shows no ads. This page tells you exactly what gets collected, who touches it, and how to make it go away. The short version: I am not building a profile of you, and I am not selling anything about you. The longer version is below because that is how these pages are supposed to work.
What NailHandbook collects and why
Three things trigger collection on this site, and nothing happens unless one of them does.
- Analytics. There is none. I do not log your visits or run any measurement tool, and no analytics cookie is set. The host keeps ordinary server logs, and that is all. This page will be updated before any analytics, advertising or mail service is added.
The general rule underneath all of this: a small independent site is allowed to collect what it needs to function, and for NailHandbook that is one thing — the messages you send through the contact form. No comments, no traffic numbers. Nothing exotic.
Cookies and advertising
This site sets no cookies — none of its own and none from a third party. With comments off, no analytics and no ads, there is nothing setting one.
NailHandbook runs no advertising and no analytics, so there are no ad or measurement cookies to opt out of. You can still block or delete cookies in your browser whenever you want.
Third parties that process data for this site
NailHandbook does not run its own servers. One outside provider handles the plumbing — the host — and it processes data under its own privacy terms. There is no analytics, advertising or mail provider. Some pages load an avatar from Gravatar, the only other outside domain called. I do not hand your data to anyone beyond what running the site requires.
How to have your data removed
You can ask me to access, correct, or delete data tied to you. Send the request through the contact form and tell me what you want done. Whether a given right applies, and how far it goes, depends on where you live and is subject to conditions and exceptions under applicable law, so I may need to verify who you are or explain why some data has to stay (for example, records I am required to keep). I will not pretend a request erases something everywhere the instant you send it, because that is not how the internet works.
Data security
I use reasonable safeguards to protect the data this site handles, and I lean on providers who do the same. That said, no method of transmission over the internet or storage is completely secure, so I am not going to promise perfect protection that nobody can actually deliver.
Children’s privacy
NailHandbook is not directed at children under 13, and I do not knowingly collect data from them. If you are a parent or guardian and think your child gave me information, send a note through the contact form and I will delete it.
How long data is kept
There are no comments and no analytics or advertising data to keep. The newsletter has been withdrawn, and the addresses I had collected for it were deleted from the site on October 12, 2026. When you ask for deletion and it applies, I remove what I hold.
Newsletter and unsubscribing
Changes to this page
If practices change, I update this page and change the date at the top. There is no other date to watch and no separate archive to hunt down. Check back here if you want the current version.
How to contact us
Questions about any of this, or a privacy request, go through the contact form. That is the channel for reaching NailHandbook about privacy.
I pass your IP address to an outside service (country.is) when you do something that sends data in — send the contact form or run a search — so I can tell which country the request comes from. It returns only the country; I keep that country code for a day, under a fingerprint of the address rather than the address itself. From outside the countries the site serves, those actions are declined: the form says so, and a search just returns you to the homepage. This check never happens when you simply read a page or an article.