Nathalie’s Privacy Policy

nathaliefrias.net is an independent personal site operated by Nathalie Frias, CEHRS, CMAA, based in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The site publishes psychological fiction, personal essays, and blog content under the tagline Truth, Fiction, and Everything In Between.

For elder care advocacy resources, please visit silentvoiceselderadvocacy.org, which is operated separately.

For privacy-related questions, contact us at contact@nathaliefrias.net.

Email subscriptions. When you subscribe to nathaliefrias.net, we collect your email address. This is managed through Jetpack and WordPress.com. Your email is used solely to deliver content updates and newsletters. We do not sell or share your email address with third parties for marketing purposes.

Comments. When you leave a comment, we collect the name, email address, and website you provide, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string for spam detection. An anonymized string generated from your email address may be shared with Gravatar to display a profile image. After approval, your name and profile picture are visible publicly alongside your comment.

Contact form submissions. If you use the contact form, we collect the information you provide including your name, email address, and message content. This is used solely to respond to your inquiry.

Shop interactions. If you visit the shop links on this site, you are directed to Printify or Redbubble, which are third party platforms with their own privacy policies. nathaliefrias.net does not process payment information directly.

Media uploads. If you upload images to the site, we recommend avoiding images with embedded location data. Visitors can download and extract location data from images if present.

Comment cookies. If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last one year.

Session cookies. When you visit our login page, a temporary cookie checks if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Login cookies. If you log in, login cookies last two days and screen options cookies last one year. Selecting Remember Me extends login persistence to two weeks. Logging out removes all login cookies.

CookieYes. We use CookieYes to manage cookie consent. When you visit, a consent banner allows you to accept or decline non-essential cookies. Your preferences are saved and respected on future visits.

Analytics. This site uses Google Analytics to understand general traffic patterns. Analytics data is anonymized and aggregated. No personally identifiable information is passed to Google Analytics.

Articles on this site may include embedded content such as videos, audio players, or social media posts. Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited those websites directly. Those third party sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including if you are logged in to those platforms.

We do not sell your personal data. We do not share your data with advertisers or third party marketing services.

Spam detection. Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service.

Service providers. We use WordPress.com and Jetpack to operate this platform. These services process subscriber and visitor data under their own privacy policies. You can review Automattic’s privacy policy at automattic.com/privacy.

Legal requirements. We may disclose your information if required by law or in response to a valid legal request.

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.

Email subscriber data is retained for as long as you remain subscribed. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email we send.

Contact form submissions are retained only as long as necessary to respond to your inquiry and are not stored indefinitely.

You have the right to request an exported file of all personal data we hold about you. You also have the right to request that we erase any personal data we hold. This does not include data we are required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

If you are a subscriber, you can unsubscribe at any time using the link in every email we send. If you have left comments and wish to have them removed, please contact us directly.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Subscriber email data is processed through Jetpack and WordPress.com servers. nathaliefrias.net is operated from the United States and your data is processed and stored in the United States.