Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Harsh Explorer (“we”, “us”) handles information when you visit harshexplorer.com. We keep data collection to a minimum and never sell your information.

Information we collect

• Comments & community posts: the name and email you enter (your email is never shown publicly), plus your message.
• Contact & newsletter forms: your name, email and message, so we can reply or send updates.
• Reader blog submissions: the name, email, story and any photos you choose to upload.
• Usage data: anonymous statistics (pages viewed, device, approximate location) via analytics cookies.

How we use it

To publish and moderate comments and stories, reply to your messages, send the newsletter (only if you subscribed), and understand which content is useful so we can improve the site. We do not use your data for any other purpose.

Third-party services

We use a few trusted services that may process limited data on our behalf:

• Google Analytics & Search Console — anonymous traffic statistics.
• FormSubmit — delivers contact & newsletter messages to our email.
• Supabase — stores community questions and answers.
• Hostinger — website hosting.

Cookies

We use essential cookies for the site to function and analytics cookies to measure traffic. You can disable cookies in your browser settings at any time.

Your choices

You can ask us to access, correct or delete any personal information you’ve shared, or unsubscribe from the newsletter, by emailing us. Comments and submissions can be removed on request.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email Harshexplorer9@gmail.com. We may update this policy from time to time; the latest version will always be on this page.