Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

Our website address is https://tvmountinghumor.com . TV Mounting Humor is a Handy Oak Press publication featuring fictional cartoons, educational guides, and professional-help resources.

In this policy, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the operator of this website. For privacy questions or requests, use our Contact page.

2. Information We Collect

Information collected depends on how you use the website and which features are available.

• Information you provide: your name, email address, message, subscription preferences, comments, and files you choose to submit.
• Technical information: IP address, browser and device information, requested pages, referring pages, timestamps, error records, and security-related activity.
• Interaction information: page views, link clicks, video interactions, and similar usage information when analytics or embedded services are enabled.

Please do not submit payment-card details, passwords, government identification numbers, medical information, or other sensitive information through general forms.

3. How Information Is Used

We use information as relevant to:

• Operate, maintain, and secure the website.
• Respond to messages and privacy requests.
• Deliver subscriptions that you request.
• Manage comments and accounts where available.
• Understand readership and improve content.
• Detect spam, abuse, and technical problems.
• Meet legal obligations, maintain necessary records, and establish or defend legal claims.

Submitting a general inquiry does not by itself subscribe you to marketing messages.

4. Contact Forms and Subscriptions

When you use an available form, we receive the information entered in its fields and any attachments. Form tools may also process submission times, IP addresses, and browser information for delivery, troubleshooting, and spam prevention.

Submissions may be stored in WordPress, delivered to the website administrator, or processed through the form and email services used for that feature. A form submission is not automatically public.

If you subscribe, we use your email address and preferences to deliver the updates you request. Delivery services may process delivery status and, where enabled, message opens and link clicks.

You can unsubscribe using the link supplied in subscription emails or request assistance through our Contact page. We may retain a limited suppression record to honor an unsubscribe request.

5. Comments

If comments are enabled and you leave a comment, WordPress collects the information shown in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.

If Gravatar is enabled, an anonymized string generated from your email address, also called a hash, may be provided to that service to check whether you use it. Hashing does not necessarily make information anonymous for every purpose.

After approval, your comment, display name, and associated profile picture may be publicly visible. Avoid including private information in a comment. See Automattic's Privacy Policy for information about Gravatar.

6. Media and Uploaded Files

If uploads are available, remove embedded location data, such as EXIF GPS coordinates, before submitting images. Images may also contain identifying details about your home, possessions, or other people.

Visitors who can access a publicly posted image may download it and extract metadata that remains in the file. Do not assume that uploading software will remove that information.

Submit only material you have permission to share. Files submitted privately through a contact form are handled as correspondence, subject to the service providers and retention practices described in this policy.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small files stored by your browser. WordPress and enabled services may use cookies or similar browser storage for authentication, preferences, security, analytics, and embedded content.

WordPress Cookies

• If you leave a comment, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. Standard WordPress comment cookies generally last one year.
• Visiting the login page may set a temporary cookie to test whether your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal information and is discarded when the browser session ends.
• When you log in, standard login cookies generally last two days, and screen-preference cookies generally last one year. Selecting “Remember Me” generally extends the login period to two weeks. Logging out removes the login cookies.
• If you edit or publish an article, WordPress may store a cookie identifying the edited post. This normally expires after one day.

These are standard WordPress durations. Plugins, security settings, and service configurations can change cookie behavior. Login and editing cookies generally concern account users rather than ordinary readers.

Your Cookie Choices

You can manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking necessary cookies may affect login or other functions. Where a cookie preference tool is provided, you can use it to manage the categories it controls.

Browser controls do not necessarily prevent every form of data collection. Where applicable law requires consent for optional technologies, those technologies require appropriate consent controls; this policy is not itself a consent mechanism.

8. Google Analytics

We may enable Google Analytics to understand which pages readers visit and how the website is used. When enabled, it may process browser and device information, referral information, page interactions, approximate location, and identifiers stored in cookies or similar technologies.

Google states that Google Analytics 4 does not log or store individual IP addresses. This does not mean that analytics operates without processing personal information or that the website's hosting logs cannot contain IP addresses.

Collection and retention depend on the Analytics configuration and applicable consent settings. Learn more through Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from sites that use its services .

Google also offers an Analytics opt-out browser add-on for supported browsers. It does not control unrelated logging or every third-party technology.

9. YouTube and Other Embedded Content

Pages may include embedded videos, images, or other content supplied by external services. Loading or interacting with an embed can connect your browser to the provider.

Providers may receive your IP address, browser information, the referring page, and interaction information. They may use cookies or similar technologies and may associate interactions with an account if you are logged in to their service.

YouTube videos are subject to Google's Privacy Policy . Where privacy-enhanced embedding is used, it changes certain data uses but should not be understood as a promise that no information is transmitted to Google.

You can choose not to play embedded content. Depending on how an embed is configured, information may still be transmitted when the player loads, before playback begins.

10. Who Receives Information

Information may be processed by providers supporting hosting, website delivery, backups, security, spam detection, forms, email delivery, analytics, and embedded media. Hostinger supplies hosting services for this website.

Access by administrators and service providers depends on their role and the services used. Public comments and publicly posted uploads can be viewed by other visitors.

If you request a password reset for an account, your IP address may be included in the reset email. Comments and form submissions may be checked by automated spam-detection services.

Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with law or valid legal process, investigate abuse, protect people or systems, or establish or defend legal claims.

If the publication or relevant assets are transferred, associated information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law and required notices.

11. External Websites and Advertising

Links to Handyman Co-op and other websites take you to services with their own privacy practices. Information you submit there is governed by the relevant service's privacy policy.

Following a link does not itself authorize us to forward a private inquiry or subscription to an installer. External services may receive ordinary referral and technical information when you visit them.

We do not currently operate a display-advertising program on this website. Embedded services, including YouTube, may display advertisements under their own practices.

Before adding materially different advertising or data-sharing practices, we will update the applicable disclosures and provide choices or obtain consent where required.

12. How Long Information Is Retained

Retention depends on the information, its purpose, service settings, security needs, and applicable legal obligations.

• Correspondence and forms: retained as needed to handle the inquiry, maintain relevant records, and address disputes or legal obligations.
• Subscriptions: retained while the subscription is active, with limited records retained afterward where needed to honor preferences or legal requirements.
• Comments: WordPress normally retains approved comments and metadata indefinitely unless removed. This supports moderation and recognition of follow-up comments.
• Accounts: profile information is stored while the account remains in use and afterward where retention is necessary or legally required.
• Technical and analytics records: retained according to hosting, security, analytics, and backup configurations.

Deleted information may remain in backups until those backups are overwritten or expire. Access to retained information remains subject to its continuing purpose and applicable requirements.

13. Your Choices and Privacy Rights

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to request access, a copy, correction, deletion, or portability of personal information, or to object to or restrict certain processing. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw that consent.

If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an export of personal data associated with you and request deletion. Legal, administrative, or security requirements may permit or require retention of certain records.

Registered users may generally review and edit profile information through available account controls, except their username. Account deletion can be requested through the Contact page. Administrators can access and manage account records.

To make a request, visit our Contact page and identify the request as a privacy matter. Include enough information to locate the relevant record, but do not send sensitive identification documents unless a secure verification process is specifically arranged.

We may need to verify identity or authority before acting. Requests are handled subject to applicable law, its deadlines, and lawful exceptions. Where available, you may submit an appeal through the same channel or complain to the appropriate privacy regulator.

This policy does not limit non-waivable privacy rights. Rights concerning sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or recognized opt-out signals apply where the relevant law and processing activities require them.

14. International Processing

Website providers may process information in the United States or other countries where they operate. Privacy laws may differ from those in your location.

Where applicable data-protection law requires a lawful basis, processing must rest on an applicable basis such as consent, responding to a requested service, legitimate interests subject to required balancing, or legal obligations. Where required, international transfers must use appropriate safeguards.

Visiting the website is not treated as blanket consent to every use of personal information or to an otherwise unlawful international transfer.

15. Children's Privacy

This publication is intended for a general adult audience. We do not knowingly solicit personal information from children under 13.

If you believe a child has provided personal information through this website, notify us through the Contact page so the matter can be reviewed and appropriate action taken.

16. Security

Personal information requires safeguards appropriate to its nature and the risks involved. No website, email system, or storage service can guarantee absolute security.

Protect account credentials and avoid submitting unnecessary private information, particularly in comments, photographs, or free-text forms.

17. Policy Updates

We may revise this policy as features, providers, or legal requirements change. The date at the top identifies the latest revision. Material changes will receive additional notice or consent where required by law.

Updating this policy does not itself authorize a new use of previously collected information where further notice or consent is required.