Last updated: July 2026
NailHandbook is a nail guide site run by one person. I collect the smallest amount of data I can get away with while still running comments, a newsletter, and enough analytics to know which guides actually help people. 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.
- Comments. If you leave a comment on a guide, the form takes whatever name you type and the comment text. Your browser also hands over your IP address and browser details, which is standard for spam filtering. If you never comment, none of this exists for you.
- Newsletter. If you sign up, I keep the email address you gave me plus the basic sign-up and open data the email tool records. That is it. I use it to send guides, not to resell to anybody.
- Analytics. When you read a page, analytics logs the visit. This may include identifiers like cookies and your IP address, processed under the analytics provider’s own policy. I do not treat this as anonymous, because honestly it is not fully anonymous, and I would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
The general rule underneath all of this: a small independent site is allowed to collect what it needs to function, and this is what NailHandbook needs to function. Comments, an email list, and traffic numbers. Nothing exotic.
Cookies and advertising
This site uses cookies. Some are basic (remembering your comment details so you do not retype them). Others come from third parties I have chosen to work with, mainly analytics and ads.
NailHandbook runs Google AdSense, and AdSense uses cookies to serve and measure ads, which can include ads based on your prior visits to this and other sites. Google Analytics uses cookies to measure traffic. You are not stuck with any of this. You can turn off personalized Google advertising at Google Ad Settings, opt out of a range of vendors at the DAA opt-out page and Your Online Choices, and block or delete cookies in your own browser settings whenever you want.
Third parties that process data for this site
NailHandbook does not run its own servers or send its own email from a basement. Outside providers handle the plumbing, and each one processes data under its own privacy terms. The providers involved cover hosting, analytics, advertising, and the newsletter and email delivery. I keep this to the services actually needed to run the site, and I do not hand your data to anyone beyond what those functions require.
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
Comments and their metadata stay as long as the comment is published, so follow-up replies make sense. Newsletter data stays while you are subscribed. Analytics and advertising data follow the retention periods set by those providers. When you ask for deletion and it applies, I remove what I can and pass along what the third parties control.
Newsletter and unsubscribing
Every newsletter email has an unsubscribe link, and there is one at the contact form too. Unsubscribing removes you from the mailing list, processed promptly. It means no more emails from me going forward. It is a removal from the list, not an instant wipe of every log everywhere, so give the systems a moment to catch up.
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.