Privacy Policy

Who We Are Welcome to US Story—your home for captivating personal narratives, real-life drama, and everyday lifestyle insights. Our website address is: https://usstory.zululion.com.

Comments When you share your thoughts in our comment section, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string to help filter out spam. An anonymized string (hash) generated from your email address may be sent to the Gravatar service to verify if you use it (you can check their privacy policy at https://automattic.com/privacy/). Once your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly displayed alongside your response.

Media If you upload images to US Story, please make sure they do not include embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to our site can download these images and extract any location details contained within them.

Cookies We use cookies to make your visits smoother and more personalized:

Comment Savings: If you leave a comment, you can choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you don’t need to re-type your details every time. These cookies last for one year.
Login Sessions: When you visit our login page, a temporary cookie is set to check if your browser accepts cookies; it holds no personal data and disappears when you close your browser. Logging in creates cookies to store your login info (valid for 2 days) and display preferences (valid for 1 year). Selecting “Remember Me” extends your login to 2 weeks. Logging out clears these login cookies immediately.
Content Publishing: If you edit or publish an article on our site, a temporary cookie storing only the post ID is saved in your browser and expires after 24 hours.

Embedded Content From Other Websites Articles on US Story may feature embedded media like videos, images, or social posts. Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if you visited those external sites directly. These third-party sites may gather data about you, use cookies, embed additional tracking tools, and track your interaction with that content—especially if you have an active account logged into their platform.

Who We Share Your Data With Your privacy is important to us. We do not sell your personal data. However, for security verification, if you request a password reset, your current IP address will be included in the reset email.

How Long We Retain Your Data

Comments: Any comments and their associated metadata are stored indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve your future comments automatically without keeping them in a moderation queue.
User Accounts: For users who register on US Story, we store the personal profile information provided. You can view, edit, or delete your information at any time (except changing your username). Website administrators also have access to view and edit this information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data If you have an account on US Story or have left comments, you can request an exported copy of the personal data we hold about you. You can also request that we erase all personal data we have stored. This excludes any data we are required to retain for legal, security, or administrative reasons.

Where Your Data Is Sent To keep our community safe and friendly, visitor comments are routinely processed through an automated spam detection service.