Effective Date: May 11, 2026
The Cozy Study (“company”, “I”, “we” or “us”) is dedicated to respecting the privacy of your personal information, and this privacy policy describes what information is collected from you on thecozystudy.com (hereinafter the “website”) and how it is used. The term “you” refers to anyone who uses, visits and/or views the website.
By visiting and using the website, you accept and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. Your continued use of the website after posting of any changes to our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates. You must not access or use the website if you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
When you visit the website or interact with our services (such as contacting us via our contact form), we may collect your name and email address.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device and allow us to recognise your device and remember certain information.
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect non-personally identifiable information such as your IP address, browser type, referring pages, and the dates/times of your visits. This helps us understand how users use the website so we can improve the experience.
This site uses Google services that may set cookies to measure traffic and serve ads. These will only load after consent is granted via the cookie banner. You can disable cookies in your browser settings at any time.
Third-Party Services
We may also allow the following third-party service providers to use cookies on our Website:
- Google Analytics – to understand traffic and usage trends
- Google AdSense – to display ads
These providers may use cookies and web beacons to serve ads, track effectiveness and collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites. For more information about how Google uses data, visit:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
2. How We Use Your Information
Your personal information are not shared with any third party affilates or business partners. They remain on the website and used for the purpose of this website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
3. What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
4. Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
5. Contact
For any questions or comments regarding the Privacy Policy, please contact us at contact@thecozystudy.com.