Privacy policy

Your privacy is important to us

Last updated: October 18, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to Castlopedia. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Note: The castle information and data displayed on our website may not be accurate, complete, or up-to-date. We provide this information for general purposes and recommend verifying details independently.

2. Information we collect

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you:

  • Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
  • Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website and services.
  • Contribution Data: includes castle information, images, corrections, and updates you submit to our platform.

We use your personal data to provide and improve our service, process contributions, and ensure security. This includes maintaining the platform and moderating content.

3. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.

4. Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

5. Your legal rights

You have rights under data protection laws, including access, correction, erasure, and objection to processing of your personal data. Contact us to exercise these rights.

6. Cookies

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to ensure proper functionality, enhance your browsing experience, and analyze site traffic. When you first visit our site, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner where you can choose which categories of cookies you wish to accept.

Cookie categories

Necessary (always active)

Necessary cookies are required to enable basic site functionality, such as secure login or managing consent settings. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

Functional

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing content on social media, collecting feedback, or supporting third-party features.

Analytical

Analytical cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the website. They provide information about visitor count, bounce rate, traffic sources, and more. We use Google Analytics to collect this data.

Advertising

Advertising cookies are used to deliver personalized advertisements based on the pages you visited and to analyze the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. We use Google AdSense for this purpose.

Personalization

Personalization cookies allow us to remember your preferences and display personalized content tailored to your choices.

Managing your consent

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by using the cookie consent banner. You may also configure your browser settings to block or delete cookies, though this may affect certain features of our website.

Google Consent Mode

We use Google Consent Mode to communicate your cookie preferences to Google services such as Google Analytics and Google AdSense. This ensures that Google tags respect your choices regarding advertising, analytics, and personalization cookies.

7. Third-party services

We use Cloudflare Turnstile for bot protection, OpenStreetMap for maps, and an email service for notifications. These services may collect data as per their privacy policies.

8. Contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us: