Behind the Portrait

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Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 23, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Behind the Portrait (“we”, “us”, “our”) may collect, use, store, disclose, and protect information when you visit https://www.behindtheportrait.com/, subscribe to our newsletter, submit a comment, or otherwise interact with the site. The site publishes fictional AI-generated stories for entertainment purposes.

1. Who we are and how to contact us

Behind the Portrait is an independent digital publishing website.
For privacy-related questions or requests, please contact: newsletter@behindtheportrait.com

2. Information we may collect

Depending on how you use the site, we may collect the following categories of information:

  • Technical and usage data, such as IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, pages viewed, referral source, date and time of access, approximate location data derived from IP, and security or performance logs.
  • Newsletter data, such as your email address, subscription status, confirmation or unsubscribe status, and technical data necessary to manage the newsletter.
  • Comments and communications data, such as your name, email address, website URL if provided, comment content, message content, IP address, and browser user agent.
  • Cookie and preference data, such as cookie identifiers, consent choices, analytics identifiers, and similar technologies, depending on the services enabled on the site.

3. How we use information

We may use information to:

  • operate, maintain, protect, and improve the site;
  • send the newsletter requested by the user;
  • manage subscriptions, confirmations, and unsubscribe requests;
  • moderate comments and prevent spam, abuse, or unauthorized activity;
  • measure traffic and understand general use of the site;
  • display, manage, or measure advertising, if advertising services are enabled on the site;
  • comply with legal obligations and protect our rights, users, systems, or content.

4. Legal bases for processing

Depending on the circumstances, processing may be based on:

  • consent, for example for newsletter subscriptions and, where required, non-essential cookies or similar technologies;
  • legitimate interests, for example site security, abuse prevention, comment moderation, technical operation, and, where permitted, analytics;
  • legal obligations, where processing is necessary to comply with law or valid legal requests.

5. Newsletter and MailPoet

We use MailPoet and the MailPoet Sending Service to manage newsletter subscriptions and send email communications. When you subscribe, we may process your email address and the technical or administrative data related to your subscription.

Depending on site configuration, a confirmation step may be required before a subscription becomes active. Every marketing email includes an unsubscribe link. We may keep limited information necessary to honor unsubscribe requests and, where required, to demonstrate consent.

6. Cookies, analytics, advertising, and third-party services

The site may use cookies and similar technologies. Some cookies are necessary for core functionality, security, caching, consent management, spam prevention, and technical performance.

Depending on the actual configuration of the site, additional cookies or identifiers may be used by:

  • Google Analytics or similar measurement tools, if enabled;
  • advertising providers, including Google AdSense or other advertising partners, if advertising is active;
  • Cloudflare or similar security, network, or content delivery services;
  • MailPoet;
  • WordPress features;
  • social sharing buttons or other third-party tools, if present.

Where required by law, non-essential cookies and similar technologies are used only after user consent. Your choices may be managed through the cookie banner or a similar settings tool made available on the site.

If advertising services are enabled, third parties may place and read cookies on your browser or use web beacons, pixels, SDKs, IP addresses, or similar technologies to collect information as a result of ad serving on the site. More details are provided in our Cookie Policy.

7. Comments and user-submitted content

If you leave a comment, we may process the data necessary to display, moderate, administer, and protect the comments area and to reduce spam or abuse. Comments may remain publicly visible unless removed. We reserve the right to moderate, edit, or remove comments that violate the law, third-party rights, or site rules.

8. Sharing of information

We do not sell personal data. We may share information with service providers, technical partners, or vendors that support hosting, infrastructure, analytics, email delivery, advertising, security, spam prevention, moderation, or site operation.

We may also disclose information where required by law or where reasonably necessary to protect our rights, users, systems, content, or the proper operation of the site.

9. International transfers

Some service providers may process data in countries other than the country of the user. Where required, we rely on appropriate contractual, technical, or organizational safeguards.

10. Data retention

We keep information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

  • Newsletter data may be retained while a subscription remains active and for a reasonable period afterward for compliance, suppression, security, or record-keeping purposes.
  • Comment data may be retained while the comment remains published or as needed for moderation, security, and dispute handling.
  • Technical logs, analytics data, and cookie-related data may be retained for the period necessary for security, site operation, analytics, and legal compliance.

11. Your rights

Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, portability, or withdrawal of consent. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority.

To exercise your rights, please contact: newsletter@behindtheportrait.com

12. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure.

13. Children

The site is not directed specifically to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children through the newsletter or comments features.

14. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy at any time. The most current version will appear on this page together with the updated date.