This policy describes the website at https://thepestguide.com, published as The Pest Guide. For privacy questions or a request relating to your information, use our contact page.
Information involved in browsing
The site provides articles without accounts, subscriptions, comments, checkout, or an upload form. Cloudflare delivers the public website. Hosting and network services receive technical information such as the IP address, requested URL, browser information, and request time to deliver and protect the service. Their logging and retention depend on the service configuration. Cloudflare's own privacy policy, published on its website, describes its processing.
Traffic statistics
The site uses two statistics services. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts visits in aggregate (pages read, load speed, referring website, general browser and device type) without cookies. Google Analytics 4 measures how visitors use the site: pages viewed, time on page, approximate location derived from the IP address, device and browser, the website or search that referred you, and clicks such as product links. Google Analytics sets first-party cookies (such as _ga) to tell one visit from another, and Google processes this information under its own privacy policy. We use these statistics only to understand which pages are useful and to improve the guide; we do not use Google Analytics for advertising, and Google signals and ad personalization are not enabled. You can block these cookies in your browser or use Google's Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available from Google's website.
Search
Site search matches your query against a downloaded index in your browser. It is not sent to an external search engine. The query appears in the page URL and can therefore appear in browser history or hosting request logs. Please do not include private or sensitive information in a search.
Fonts and illustrations
Fonts and illustrations are hosted with the site. Loading a font does not send a request to Google Fonts.
Affiliate links
Some pages link to products on Amazon.com through our affiliate account. The link first passes through a short address on this site and then opens Amazon. Our site does not set a cookie for this. Once you are on Amazon, Amazon may use cookies to record that you arrived from The Pest Guide so a qualifying purchase can be credited to us; that processing follows Amazon's own privacy notice. We do not receive your name, address, or payment details. See our editorial policy for how products are chosen.
Email correspondence
If you email the publication, your address, message, and any material you choose to send are used to respond to the request, investigate a correction, or address a rights or privacy concern. Email service providers process that correspondence. Send only what is necessary for your request. Correspondence should be kept only as long as needed to address it and meet applicable recordkeeping obligations; you can ask about or request deletion of your correspondence using the contact channel.
Cookies, analytics, and advertising
The site does not serve advertising. The only cookies set while you read the guide are the Google Analytics statistics cookies described above. Hosting security features may use essential cookies depending on the Cloudflare configuration. See the cookie policy.
If Google advertising is enabled in a future version, third-party vendors including Google may use cookies based on prior visits to this or other sites. Google's advertising cookies allow Google and its partners to personalize ads across sites. Personalized-ad settings are available at Google My Ad Center (myadcenter.google.com); additional participating-vendor choices are available at YourAdChoices (optout.aboutads.info). Those advertising features are not active in this version. This policy and the applicable consent controls must be updated before such processing begins.
Your choices and requests
You can use browser controls to manage cookies and browsing history. Depending on your location and the information involved, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or object to processing of personal information. Explain your request through our contact page; proportionate verification may be needed to avoid disclosing information to the wrong person.
Children and sensitive information
This guide is intended for a general adult audience and does not offer accounts or services directed to children. Do not send sensitive medical information or information identifying children. If you believe such information has been sent to the publication, contact us to request its review or removal.
Policy changes
The dated policy on this page describes the current site features. New services or material changes to data practices require an updated policy and, where applicable, an appropriate choice or consent mechanism.