Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 17, 2026
Curiosity Query respects your privacy and is committed to explaining clearly how information is collected, used, stored, and shared when you visit CuriosityQuery.org.
Curiosity Query is an independently operated general-audience educational website based in Illinois, United States. In this Privacy Policy, “Curiosity Query,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the operator of CuriosityQuery.org.
By accessing or using the website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect information in the following ways.
Information You Provide
At this time, the primary information visitors may voluntarily provide is an email address through our newsletter signup form.
Newsletter email addresses are currently stored through WordPress and Elementor Submissions.
We may also receive information when you communicate with us by email. This may include:
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Your name
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Your email address
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The contents of your message
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Any information or files you voluntarily provide
Please do not provide sensitive personal information through the newsletter form or by email unless it is necessary for your request.
Contributor Information
People who submit articles, photographs, illustrations, research, or other content for possible publication may provide:
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A name or preferred attribution
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An email address
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A biography
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A website or social-media profile
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Submitted content and related correspondence
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Payment, tax, or administrative information if compensation becomes available
We use this information to communicate with contributors, review submissions, publish approved content, provide proper credit, maintain publication records, and administer compensation when applicable.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit CuriosityQuery.org, certain information may be collected automatically by the website, our hosting provider, analytics services, security tools, and advertising services.
This information may include:
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Internet Protocol address
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Browser type and version
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Device type
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Operating system
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Approximate geographic location
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Referring website or page
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Pages viewed
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Links or features used
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Date and time of visits
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Time spent on pages
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Cookie and device identifiers
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Website performance and diagnostic data
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Security, fraud-prevention, and spam-detection information
We generally use this information in aggregated or pseudonymous form to operate, secure, understand, and improve the website.
2. How We Use Information
We may use collected information to:
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Operate and maintain CuriosityQuery.org
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Provide educational articles, factoids, and website content
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Send newsletters, factoids, site updates, and related announcements
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Respond to questions and privacy requests
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Understand website traffic and visitor interaction
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Improve website performance, design, accessibility, and content
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Prevent spam, fraud, automated submissions, and security threats
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Evaluate and publish contributor submissions
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Attribute content to contributors
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Administer contributor relationships or compensation
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Display and measure advertising
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Comply with applicable laws and legal obligations
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Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
We do not use newsletter email addresses for purposes unrelated to Curiosity Query communications.
3. Newsletter and Email Communications
Visitors may voluntarily subscribe to receive factoids, new articles, website updates, and related Curiosity Query announcements.
Newsletter email addresses are currently stored inside WordPress through Elementor Submissions. Curiosity Query has not yet selected a separate email-delivery platform. If a third-party email platform is used in the future, that provider may process subscriber information on our behalf, and this Privacy Policy will be updated when appropriate.
Subscribers may unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in newsletter emails or by contacting us at:
We intend to retain newsletter email addresses until the subscriber unsubscribes, requests deletion, or the newsletter service is discontinued.
Unsubscribing from promotional messages may not prevent us from sending a necessary response to a privacy request or another non-promotional communication initiated by you.
4. Cookies and Similar Technologies
CuriosityQuery.org and its service providers may use cookies, tags, pixels, local storage, scripts, web beacons, and similar technologies.
These technologies may be used for:
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Essential website operation
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Security and spam prevention
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Remembering privacy choices
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Measuring website traffic
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Understanding visitor engagement
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Diagnosing technical problems
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Measuring advertising performance
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Limiting repeated advertisements
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Preventing advertising fraud
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Providing personalized or non-personalized advertising where permitted
Cookies may be placed directly by Curiosity Query or by third parties that provide services to the website.
Managing Cookies
Where required, visitors may use the website’s Google consent banner to accept, reject, or manage certain nonessential cookies and data-processing choices.
Visitors may also control cookies through their browser settings. Blocking cookies may affect the availability or operation of certain website features.
Visitors who previously provided consent may use the website’s privacy or cookie-settings link, when available, to review or change their choices.
5. Google Analytics
Curiosity Query uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and interact with the website.
Google Analytics may collect information such as:
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Pages visited
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Session duration
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Approximate location
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Browser and device information
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Referring pages
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Website interactions
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Cookie or device identifiers
Google may process this information to provide analytics reports, maintain and improve its services, detect fraud and abuse, and perform other activities described in Google’s privacy documentation.
Curiosity Query uses analytics information to evaluate website performance, identify popular content, understand general traffic patterns, and improve the visitor experience.
Visitors may restrict analytics cookies through the website’s consent banner, browser settings, or applicable Google privacy controls.
6. Google AdSense and Advertising
Curiosity Query has applied to participate in Google AdSense. Advertising may not yet be active while the website remains under review.
If Google AdSense is approved and activated, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, Internet Protocol addresses, device identifiers, and similar technologies to:
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Display advertisements
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Measure advertising performance
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Limit how often an advertisement appears
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Detect invalid traffic, fraud, and abuse
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Provide personalized advertising where consent and applicable law permit
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Provide non-personalized or limited advertising
Non-personalized advertising may still use cookies or similar technologies for security, fraud prevention, frequency control, and aggregated reporting.
Google and its partners may use information about visits to CuriosityQuery.org and other websites to provide advertisements based on visitor interests where legally permitted.
Visitors may manage advertising preferences through the website’s consent banner and applicable Google advertising controls.
Curiosity Query does not sell or rent newsletter email addresses to advertisers. However, privacy laws in some jurisdictions may define certain advertising-related disclosures of online identifiers as a “sale,” “sharing,” or use for targeted advertising even when no money is exchanged directly for personal information. Where applicable, visitors may use the available privacy controls to opt out of those practices.
7. Google reCAPTCHA
Curiosity Query uses Google reCAPTCHA to help protect forms and the website from spam, abuse, and automated activity.
reCAPTCHA may analyze information about a visitor’s device and interaction with the website, including:
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Internet Protocol address
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Browser and device information
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Mouse movements or interaction patterns
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Referring pages
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Cookies
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Time spent on pages
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Other security and risk signals
Information processed through reCAPTCHA is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
8. Website Hosting and Server Logs
CuriosityQuery.org is hosted by IONOS.
IONOS may process technical information necessary to host, deliver, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot the website. This may include Internet Protocol addresses, request timestamps, browser information, server logs, error logs, and security information.
The processing and retention of information by IONOS are also governed by IONOS’s own privacy and data-processing practices.
9. WordPress and Elementor
CuriosityQuery.org is built using WordPress and Elementor.
Elementor Submissions currently stores newsletter email addresses within the website’s WordPress environment. WordPress, Elementor, installed plugins, and related technical services may process information necessary to operate forms, maintain website functionality, prevent abuse, or provide security.
We attempt to use plugins and services appropriate for the website’s needs and remove information or services that are no longer reasonably required.
10. How We Share Information
We may disclose information to the following categories of recipients:
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Website hosting and infrastructure providers
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Analytics providers
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Advertising and consent-management providers
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Spam-prevention and security providers
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WordPress and website-service providers
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Future newsletter-delivery providers
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Professional advisers when reasonably necessary
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Government authorities or other parties when required by law
Service providers may process information only as necessary to provide their services, subject to their own contracts, privacy practices, and legal obligations.
We may also disclose information when we reasonably believe it is necessary to:
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Comply with a law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or lawful request
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Protect the security and integrity of the website
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Investigate fraud, abuse, or unlawful activity
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Protect the rights, property, or safety of Curiosity Query, its visitors, contributors, or others
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Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims
If Curiosity Query is reorganized, transferred, sold, or incorporated into another organization, information associated with the website may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.
11. We Do Not Sell Subscriber Information
Curiosity Query does not sell or rent newsletter email addresses or contributor contact information.
As explained in the advertising section, third-party advertising services may process online identifiers and browsing activity. Some privacy laws may classify certain advertising disclosures as “sharing,” targeted advertising, or a sale even when Curiosity Query does not sell a subscriber list or directly receive money in exchange for personal information.
12. External Links and Embedded Content
CuriosityQuery.org may link to third-party websites, contributor websites, reference materials, social-media profiles, or other external resources.
In the future, articles may contain embedded videos, social-media posts, maps, audio, images, or other third-party content. Embedded content may behave as though the visitor accessed the third-party website directly.
Third parties may collect information, place cookies, track interactions, or process data according to their own privacy policies. Curiosity Query does not control and is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites or services.
Visitors should review the privacy policies of external services before providing information to them.
13. Children’s Privacy
CuriosityQuery.org is a general-audience educational website. It is not directed specifically to children under 13.
Children under 13 should not submit an email address or other personal information through the website without the involvement and permission of a parent or legal guardian.
Curiosity Query does not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate parental involvement or consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
A parent or legal guardian who believes a child has submitted personal information may contact:
14. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
In general:
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Newsletter email addresses are retained until the subscriber unsubscribes, requests deletion, or the newsletter ends.
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Emails and privacy correspondence may be retained as necessary to respond to requests and maintain appropriate records.
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Contributor information may be retained for publication, attribution, contractual, payment, tax, recordkeeping, or legal purposes.
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Analytics information is retained according to our Google Analytics settings and Google’s applicable practices.
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Hosting, security, and server logs may be retained according to operational needs and the hosting provider’s practices.
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Information may be retained longer when required by law, necessary for security, or needed to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
Information may be deleted, anonymized, or aggregated when it is no longer required.
15. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, loss, misuse, or disclosure.
These measures may include access controls, secure website connections, security monitoring, spam protection, software updates, backups, and limited access to stored information.
No website, database, email system, or internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Visitors provide information at their own risk.
16. International Visitors and Data Transfers
Curiosity Query is based in Illinois, United States.
If you access the website from another country, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or another country where our service providers operate. Data-protection laws in those countries may differ from the laws where you live.
Where applicable, we rely on one or more of the following legal grounds to process information:
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Your consent
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Performance of a service you requested
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Our legitimate interests in operating, securing, analyzing, and improving the website
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Compliance with legal obligations
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Establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims
Where consent is the legal basis, you may withdraw it at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
17. Privacy Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live and subject to applicable legal exceptions, you may have the right to:
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Request access to personal information associated with you
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Request correction of inaccurate information
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Request deletion of personal information
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Withdraw consent
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Object to or restrict certain processing
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Request a portable copy of certain information
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Opt out of targeted advertising
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Opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information
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Appeal a denied privacy request where applicable
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Submit a complaint to an appropriate privacy or data-protection authority
You may submit a privacy request by emailing:
Please include enough information for us to understand and respond to your request. We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests. We will use information provided for verification only to process and document the request.
Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law. We may request evidence of the agent’s authority and may ask the individual to confirm the request directly.
Curiosity Query will not unlawfully discriminate against visitors for exercising applicable privacy rights.
18. Email Choices
You may unsubscribe from Curiosity Query newsletters at any time by:
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Selecting the unsubscribe link in a newsletter email, or
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Contacting curiosityquery@gmail.com
We will process unsubscribe requests within the period required by applicable law.
19. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, services, data practices, legal obligations, advertising arrangements, contributor program, or third-party providers change.
The updated policy will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. Material changes may also be communicated through the website or by another reasonable method.
Visitors are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
20. Contact Curiosity Query
For questions, privacy requests, deletion requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, contact:
Curiosity Query
Illinois, United States
Email: curiosityquery@gmail.com
