Privacy Policy

Last updated: 4 August 2026

Summary

We collect very little, we sell nothing, and most of what we do collect is the boring technical kind that keeps a website standing.

This summary is here for convenience. Where it and the full policy differ, the full policy governs.

Who we are

I am Feroza Kashif. My husband and I are maintaining CamperishTrails.com site. It is a camping and RV blog for beginners. To learn more visit our about us page.

This page explains what information the site handles, why, and what say you have in it. You may also want to read our terms & conditions.

What you give us directly

Comments

Our articles now have a comments section. When you post a comment, we store what you submit: the name you type, your email address, your website if you give one, the comment itself, and the time you posted it. WordPress also records the IP address and browser identification string of the device that posted it, which is used for spam prevention and moderation.

Your comment and the name attached to it are public. Your email address is not published, but WordPress sends it to Gravatar to look up a profile picture if you have one associated with that address. If you would rather not have your address sent to Gravatar at all, use an address you don’t mind sharing.

Underneath the comment form there’s an optional checkbox that saves your name, email and website in your own browser so you don’t have to retype them next time. If you tick it, that stores cookies on your device. You can clear them from your browser settings at any time.

If you email us

We receive whatever you send: your name, email address and the message. We use your email address only to reply to you. We won’t add you to anything, because we have no newsletter and no mailing list.

What’s collected automatically

Like nearly every website, CamperishTrails relies on a few standard tools.

Server and security logs

Our hosting provider and our DNS and content-delivery providers automatically record basic technical details of every request: IP address, date and time, pages requested, referring page, browser, device type and similar information. This is standard web plumbing and it’s how a site gets served and kept secure.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 and Google Search Console, connected through the Site Kit plugin, to understand in aggregate which guides people find useful, how they found them, and where readers give up halfway. This is what tells us which articles are working and which ones need rewriting. Google processes this data on our behalf. You can read how Google handles information from sites that use its services at google.com/policies/privacy/partners, and you can opt out of Google Analytics entirely using Google’s browser add-on.

Spam filtering

We use Akismet to filter comment spam. It receives the comment content along with the commenter’s name, email address, IP address and browser identification string, in order to judge whether a comment is spam. The provider also uses this data to improve its spam-detection service generally. Their privacy policy governs what they do with it.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file a site stores in your browser so things work smoothly and visits can be counted. You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings at any time. The cookies on this site fall into three groups: those strictly necessary for the site to run safely, the comment-form convenience cookie you opt into, and analytics cookies.

Embedded content from other sites

We don’t currently embed third-party content, what what happens automatically by WordPress (e.g. Gravatar profile picture). If we add embeds in future, such as a video or an official document viewer, that content behaves as though you had visited the other site directly. We don’t control it, their privacy policies govern it rather than ours, and we’ll update this section before we add any.

How long we keep things

Emails you send us stay in our inbox as long as they’re useful for the conversation, then get archived or deleted. Comments stay live as long as the article they’re attached to is live, unless the comment is removed by us due to moderation. Analytics data is retained per tool’s standard settings. Server logs are kept according to our hosting provider’s standard retention period.

What we don’t do

We don’t sell, rent or trade your personal information.
We don’t run advertising or affiliate links. If that ever changes, we’ll say so here and on the affected articles.
We don’t have a newsletter or subscriber list.
We don’t try to identify individual readers or build behavioral profiles.
We don’t knowingly collect information from children.

Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live, privacy laws may give you rights over your personal information, including asking what we hold about you, asking us to correct it, or asking us to delete it. Formal frameworks aside, our working policy is simpler: contact us with any request about your own information, and we’ll honor it wherever we reasonably can. You can also block cookies in your browser, or use Google’s analytics opt-out linked above.