Privacy Policy

Plain-English summary

This page explains what data All About Wildlife collects when you visit the site, what we do with it, and how to opt out. We’ve tried to keep it readable. If anything here is unclear, please contact us and we’ll explain it like a human.

  • We don’t sell your personal data, ever.
  • We use cookies for analytics, advertising, and to keep the site working.
  • We use a small number of third-party services — Google Analytics, an advertising partner, social embeds — that may set their own cookies.
  • You can opt out of advertising cookies and analytics at any time.
  • If you contact us via the form or email, we keep your message so we can reply.

Who we are

“All About Wildlife” refers to the website at https://www.allaboutwildlife.com/. The site has been operating since 2009. The current operator is the editorial team behind the magazine; the contact route for any privacy question is the form on our contact page.

What we collect, and why

1. Things every web server sees

Every web server logs basic information about every request: your IP address, the page you asked for, the time, the user-agent of your browser, and the page that referred you. Our hosting provider keeps these logs for a limited time (typically 30–90 days) for the purpose of debugging, security, and abuse prevention. We do not actively read these logs except in response to a problem.

2. Cookies set by us

We set a small number of first-party cookies for things like remembering your cookie-consent choice and (if you ever leave a comment) auto-filling your details next time. None of these cookies track you across other sites.

3. Cookies set by third parties

The third-party services we use — and the cookies they set — are listed here so you can audit them:

  • Google Analytics 4 — measures how readers find and use the site. We have IP anonymisation enabled. Google’s privacy policy.
  • Advertising partners — display advertising on some pages. These partners may use cookies to serve and measure ads. We use industry-standard consent tools to obtain permission first where required.
  • YouTube and other social embeds — when a post embeds a YouTube clip or a tweet, the embedded service can set cookies. We use the privacy-friendly variants (e.g., youtube-nocookie.com) where they exist.

4. Information you give us directly

If you submit a contact form, send us an email, or leave a comment, we receive whatever you typed in plus your email address. We use that information solely to reply to you and to maintain a record of the conversation. We do not add contact-form submitters to a marketing list.

What we do not do

  • We do not sell, rent, or otherwise transfer your personal data to brokers.
  • We do not run profiling against children (the site is general-audience, but we do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 13).
  • We do not use AI training on our reader data.

Affiliate links and sponsored content

Some pages on this site contain affiliate links — meaning we may earn a commission if you click through and buy something. Where this is the case it’s flagged at the top of the post in a disclosure. Affiliate links use cookies set by the affiliate network (typically Amazon or a comparable retailer) so that the merchant can attribute the sale to us. The cookie expires according to the affiliate network’s policy, usually 24 hours to 30 days.

We don’t take “sponsored content” in the form of paid editorial. If a post is sponsored — which is rare — it will say so at the top of the article.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

  • Request a copy of the data we hold about you;
  • Ask us to correct or delete it;
  • Opt out of analytics, advertising, or both;
  • Lodge a complaint with your local data-protection authority.

To exercise any of these, email us through the contact form. We aim to respond within 30 days. We will not charge for a reasonable request.

Cookie consent

If you’re in a region (UK, EEA, California, parts of Australia) where prior consent is required before we set non-essential cookies, you’ll see a consent banner on your first visit. You can withdraw consent at any time by clearing the cookie or visiting the consent settings link in our footer. Refusing consent doesn’t stop you from reading the site — only the analytics and advertising tracking.

Security

The site is served over HTTPS with a modern TLS configuration. We apply security headers (HSTS, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy and others) and disable common attack vectors like XML-RPC. We do not store payment details on this site and we do not run any feature that requires you to give us a password.

Changes to this policy

We will update this page when we change something material — for example, when we add a new analytics service or change advertising partners. Changes are noted at the bottom of the page with the date.

Contact

For any privacy question — access requests, opt-outs, complaints — please use our contact form. The privacy contact is reviewed by the same editorial team that runs the rest of the site, so a real person will read what you send.

Last updated: 2026-05-09. Earlier revision history available on request.

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