Effective Date: July 16, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how MapleStory Universe Blog (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit and interact with our blog (the “Service”).
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Service, including:
Personal Information You Voluntarily Provide:
Contact Form Data: When you use our “Contact Us” page, we collect information you provide, such as your Name, Email Address, and the content of your Message. This information is used solely to respond to your inquiries.
Automatically Collected Information (Usage Data):
When you access our Service, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and Browse actions. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates/times of your visits. This data helps us understand how users interact with our blog and improve its functionality.
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
To Respond to Your Inquiries: We use the information provided through the contact form to address your questions, feedback, or error reports effectively.
To Maintain and Improve Our Service: We use usage data to understand traffic patterns, troubleshoot problems, and improve the content and usability of our blog.
To Monitor and Analyze Usage: We may use your information to track and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Service.
For Advertising (Google AdSense – Future Integration):
Once Google AdSense is integrated, Google, as a third-party vendor, will use cookies to serve ads on our Service. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties except in the following limited circumstances:
With Your Consent: We may share your information if you give us explicit permission to do so.
For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).
Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting providers or analytics services. These providers are bound by confidentiality agreements and are only permitted to use the information to perform the services we have requested.
Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
We implement reasonable security measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Our Service is not intended for anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Depending on your location, you may have the following data protection rights:
The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the email address below.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email: