Hi, Ricardo Lopez here. thebaconing.com is a plain reading blog about MMO play. There are no accounts and no shop, so this page is short on drama and long on specifics.
What actually lands on my server
- Contact form messages, with whatever name and email you type.
- Newsletter sign-ups, which hold an email address and nothing else.
- Normal server logs (IP and user agent), kept for abuse control only and wiped after fourteen days, leaving just abuse flags with times.
I do not buy lists, run ad trackers across sites or fingerprint browsers. I also never paste reader mail into outside AI tools or train anything on it.
Links to shops
Some posts, such as my WoW Forever boost note on the home page, point to game shops. Those shops run their own checkout and their own rules. Once you click, I am out of the picture.
Cookies and counts
- A consent cookie remembers your banner choice for six months.
- A cache cookie from my host speeds up repeat visits for a day.
- A newsletter confirmation token expires after two days if unused.
My dashboard shows page views per post and referring hosts, never profiles of people. Comment profiling is off, and I never keep exact location, voice or face data. Every quarter I recheck plugin settings and drop anything that tracks too much. Each year I recheck embeds and remove video frames that add cookies.
What I do with your messages
I use them to run the blog: replying, sending letters you asked for, correcting guides with route data you share and checking logs to fight spam. I do not sell addresses or swap lists with boost shops or gold sellers. Data leaves my hands only when the law compels me with a valid request, or when my host needs log lines to stop an attack. Reader tips are quoted without names.
How I store things
Backups sit on EU servers. Only my admin login and my host panel can open them, and mail archives are encrypted. I change passwords after any contractor job, log plugin changes privately with reasons and dates, and note consent times for newsletter sign-ups with opt-outs beside them.
Young readers
The guides are written for adult players. Sign-up attempts that suggest someone under thirteen get ignored.
Your requests
Write from the address you want me to look up and I will send a copy of what I hold within 30 days. I fix wrong names. If you ask for erasure, I delete contact history and newsletter rows except a suppression hash that stops later mailings. I confirm each step in plain text, date every answer and file a copy as proof. Regulator questions get the same treatment.
Reach me at info@thebaconing.com; replies come from that same box.
Updates
Changes appear on this page with a date. If a plugin swap changes cookie behavior, I will list old and new settings side by side.