Effective Date: October 14, 2026
Website: https://hippshelp.com (“Hipps Help”, “we”, “us”, or “our”)
At Hipps Help, accessible from https://hippshelp.com, the privacy of our visitors is of paramount importance to us. This Privacy Policy document outlines the types of personal information that is received, collected, and recorded by Hipps Help and how we use it.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://hippshelp.com. Hipps Help provides practical, field-tested property maintenance guides, tool recommendations, and DIY repair workflows.
2. Information We Collect and How We Use It
Google Analytics 4 (Website Telemetry)
We use Google Analytics 4 to track and analyze website traffic, visitor interactions, and overall performance. Google Analytics collects information sent by your browser, including:
- Your device’s IP address (anonymized/masked).
- Browser type, device model, and operating system.
- Referring URLs, pages visited, time spent on pages, and navigation paths.
This data is used solely to monitor site performance, understand reader interests, and optimize tutorial delivery. Google processes this data in accordance with their privacy policy. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to verify usage. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is visible to the public alongside your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract location data from images hosted on the site.
3. Cookies
- Comment Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience so you do not need to re-enter your details for future comments. These cookies persist for one year.
- Session & Account Cookies: If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies; it contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. Logged-in sessions establish cookies to save credentials and screen display preferences.
- Analytics Cookies: Google Analytics uses cookies to distinguish unique users and throttle request rates.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. Detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found on the browsers’ respective websites.
4. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (such as YouTube videos, diagrams, or social media pins). Embedded content from third-party websites behaves in the exact same manner as if the visitor visited the source site directly.
These external services may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, especially if you have an active account and are logged into that third-party service.
5. Affiliate and Third-Party Links
Hipps Help participates in affiliate marketing programs. If you click on an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.
When you click an outbound link to a merchant or hardware provider, third-party cookies or tracking tags may be set by that affiliate network to track referrals for sales attribution. We do not control or access the information collected by external vendors.
6. Data Retention
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically rather than holding them in a moderation queue.
For registered users (if any), we store the personal information provided in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except username changes). Website administrators can also view and edit that information.
7. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you provided. You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold. This does not include data we are required to preserve for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
8. Contact Information
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to request data deletion, contact us directly at:
Website: https://hippshelp.com