Privacy Policy for Protocol Coffee

Last Updated: January 26, 2026

1. Advertising and Google AdSense Disclosures

To comply with Google AdSense program policies and provide transparency regarding our advertising practices, we disclose the following:

• Third-Party Vendors: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to our website or other websites.
• Personalized Advertising: Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Opt-Out Options: You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
• Data Usage by Google: For detailed information on how Google manages data in its ad products, please visit How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

2. Information We Collect and Why

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection. An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it (Policy: https://automattic.com/privacy/).

Media

If you upload images to the website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract any location data from images hosted on the site.

Cookies

• User Experience: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name and email in cookies for convenience. These last for one year.
• Authentication: If you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
• Analytics: We use cookies to analyze site traffic and user behavior to improve our content.

3. Data Retention and Your Rights

• Retention: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to facilitate automatic approval of follow-up comments. For registered users, we store the personal information provided in their user profile.
• Your Rights: If you have an account or have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you or request the deletion of your personal data (excluding data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes).

4. Third-Party Links and Embedded Content

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor has visited the other website directly. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with that content.

5. California and International Privacy Rights

• CCPA/CPRA: We do not “sell” your personal information. We honor your right to request access to or deletion of your data.
• GDPR: For visitors from the EEA, we process data based on legitimate interests or consent as outlined above.

6. Contact Us

For any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

Email: info@protocolcoffee.com

Website: https://protocolcoffee.com