Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 9, 2026

Mizushi Novels (hereinafter referred to as “Mizushi Novels”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy of our users. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website mizushinovels.com. By using our website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

1. Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including:

A. Personal Data You Provide to Us

• Account Information: When you register for an account, we collect your username, email address, and password.

• Profile Information: You may choose to provide additional information in your user profile, such as a display name, biography, and avatar.

• Contact Information: When you contact us via email or our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and any other information you voluntarily provide.

• Comments: When you leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string.

B. Automatically Collected Information

• Cookies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are small text files stored on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our site.

• Usage Data: We may also collect information on how the website is accessed and used. This may include your browser type, browser version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.

• IP Address & Hostname: We log IP addresses and hostnames for statistical and security reasons.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain our website.

• To manage your registration as a user.

• To send you emails (via MailerSend), including notifications about your account, updates, and other requested information.

• To moderate comments and prevent spam.

• To analyze and improve our website’s performance and user experience.

• To comply with legal obligations.

3. Cookies

We use cookies to enhance your experience. The cookies we use include:

Managing Cookies

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically find these settings in the “Options” or “Preferences” menu of your browser. Please note that disabling cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our website.

4. Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services to operate our website:

• WordPress & Jetpack: For core website functionality and spam protection.
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• MailerSend: To send transactional and notification emails. Your email address is shared with MailerSend solely for this purpose.
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• Cloudflare: For security and performance optimization.
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• Google Analytics: For analyzing website traffic and user behavior. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking using the Google Analytics Opt-Out tool.
  Privacy Policy: Google Privacy

Ultimate Member

We use the Ultimate Member plugin to manage user registration, login, and profiles. The plugin collects personal data through its forms for these purposes.

Data We Collect and Retain

When you register for an account, we collect your username, email address, and any other information you choose to provide in your profile. This information is retained indefinitely in our website’s database until you request its deletion or your account is removed.

User Rights and Account Deletion

We respect your right to control your data. You have the following options:

• Delete Your Account: You may delete your own account at any time via the “Delete Account” tab on your account page. This feature is enabled on our site.

• Automatic Data Deletion: When you delete your account, or if an administrator removes your account, all your comments will be automatically deleted from the site. This ensures your data is fully removed.

• Admin Removal: If an administrator removes your account from the dashboard, your comments will also be deleted automatically.

Data Exports and Erasures

You may also request an export of your personal data or a full erasure of your account using the built-in WordPress data exporter and eraser tools. If you have questions about this process, please contact us at [email protected].

Third-Party Data Sharing

By default, Ultimate Member does not send any user data outside of your site. Mizushi Novels does not share Ultimate Member user data with any third-party services, including Mailchimp or other marketing platforms.

5. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

6. Data Retention

• Comments: Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely for automatic approval of follow-up comments.

• Registered Users: User profile information is retained indefinitely unless you request deletion.

• Contact Form Submissions: We retain messages sent via our contact form for a reasonable period for customer service purposes.

• Analytics: Analytics data is retained for the period set by the analytics provider (e.g., Google Analytics).

7. Your Data Protection Rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right to Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.

• Right to Rectification: You can request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.

• Right to Erasure: You can request deletion of your personal data (subject to legal obligations).

• Right to Restrict Processing: You can request restriction of how we process your data.

• Right to Object: You can object to our processing of your data.

• Right to Data Portability: You can request a machine-readable copy of your data.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected].

8. Children’s Privacy

Mizushi Novels does not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 13. We make reasonable efforts to prevent someone who is underage from joining as a member and will close any account found to belong to a child under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete that information as quickly as possible.

9. Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal data, including encryption, access control procedures, firewalls, and physical security. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

10. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to and maintained on servers located outside your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top. We encourage you to review this policy periodically for any changes.

12. Contact Us

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

• Email: [email protected]