Privacy Policy
AquacultureFarm.org is a reference site, and you can read all of it without giving us your name or email. This policy covers the small amount of data that still changes hands when you visit AquacultureFarm.org, write to us, or click a product link.
Anything unclear? Ask at contact@aquaculturefarm.org.
Effective date: 10/09/2026 Last updated: 10/09/2026
Who is responsible for your data
CHT Aquaculture Farming operates the site and decides how its data is handled. Where this policy says “we,” “us,” or “our,” it means CHT Aquaculture Farming.
Send any privacy question to contact@aquaculturefarm.org.
The short list
- No accounts, logins, or paywalls
- No selling or renting of personal data
- No advertising profiles and no cross-site ad tracking
- Server logs and analytics, each deleted on a fixed schedule
- Retailer cookies only after you click a product link
Data that reaches us when you browse
Server logs. Like any web server, ours writes a line for every page it serves. That line holds your IP address, your browser, the page, the page you came from, and the time. Those records keep the site working and help block attacks or heavy scraping.
Analytics. Our analytics tool counts visits. It shows which guides draw readers, which links bring them in, and the point where most stop reading. We study patterns across all readers, never one person’s path.
Data you hand us
Emails. A message to us arrives with your email address and everything you wrote. We use both to answer you.
Comments. Where a guide allows comments, posting one sends us your comment along with whatever name and email you enter. We keep the email address private.
Newsletter. There’s no newsletter today. If one launches, subscriber addresses will be used for sending it and nothing else, and every issue will carry a one-click unsubscribe link.
Farm details we don’t ask for
Nothing on the site asks where your farm is, which species you raise, how many fish you stock, or who buys your harvest. If you mention any of that in an email, it’s used to answer that email and nothing more.
We never request your phone number or postal address. No payments pass through the site, so no card details ever reach us.
Cookies on this site
Three kinds of cookies may be set when you visit.
Functional cookies remember small choices, like a notice you closed, and carry nothing that identifies you.
Analytics cookies let our analytics tool tell a returning visit from a new one, so we can see which guides people come back to.
Retailer cookies arrive only after you click a product link. The retailer sets them to credit the referral, and its own privacy policy governs them.
No cookie on this site follows you around the web to target ads.
Turning cookies off
Your browser settings can block or delete cookies at any time. Turning off functional cookies may undo a small convenience, such as a dismissed notice coming back. Turning off the other two leaves every guide fully readable.
Outside services we use
A handful of outside services help run the site. Each one sees only the data its job requires.
| Service | Data it handles | Purpose |
| Hosting company | Server logs with IP addresses | Delivering pages to your browser |
| Analytics service | Visit data, with IP addresses shortened | Counting which guides are read |
| Amazon | A referral cookie after you click a product link | Paying commissions on purchases |
| Email service | Your email address and message | Receiving and answering mail |
| Google Fonts | Your IP address as the heading font loads | Loading the Bricolage Grotesque heading font |
Each of these companies follows its own privacy policy. This table gets a new row whenever we add a service.
We release information to police or regulators only when a law obliges us to.
Retention schedule
Server logs: deleted after 90 days.
Analytics: deleted after 26 months. That’s long enough to compare the same month across two years. It matters here, since pond and hatchery questions rise and fall with the seasons.
Emails: kept while your message is being handled, and erased no later than 24 months after it arrives.
Comments: kept while they’re published, and removed whenever the author asks.
What you can ask for
Readers anywhere can ask us to:
- Show what we hold about them
- Send a copy
- Fix errors in it
- Erase it
- Leave them out of analytics
Put “Privacy request” in the subject line and send it to contact@aquaculturefarm.org. We answer within 30 days and charge nothing. To protect you, we may first check that the request comes from the owner of the email address.
For readers in the EEA and UK
Two legal grounds apply. Our legitimate interest in running a secure, working site covers server logs and analytics. Your consent covers non-essential cookies wherever the law requires consent.
If you think we’ve mishandled your data, you can complain to your national data protection authority. We’d ask for a chance to put it right first. Where a service we use stores data outside your country, it relies on approved safeguards for international transfers, standard contractual clauses being one example.
For readers in California
Personal information collected here is never sold, and it isn’t shared for what California law calls cross-context behavioral advertising. California residents have the right to learn what we hold, to have it corrected, and to have it deleted. Exercising them won’t affect how we deal with you. Requests go to the same address.
Young readers
AquacultureFarm.org is written for adult readers, not for children under 13, and it doesn’t knowingly gather personal information from anyone that young.
Students working on FFA, 4-H, or classroom aquaponics projects are welcome to read and cite the guides. Should a child under 13 email us personal details, a parent or guardian can ask us to erase them, and we will.
Other websites
Our guides link out to agencies, universities, manufacturers, and retailers. Once you follow one of those links, that site’s privacy policy applies, not this one.
Keeping data safe
Every page loads over HTTPS, which encrypts the connection from your browser to our server. Only the people who run the site can reach its systems, and those accounts are password protected.
No setup is immune to attack. If a breach ever affects readers’ data, we’ll notify the people affected without delay.
Do Not Track signals
Some browsers offer a Do Not Track setting, but there’s no common standard for honoring it, so this site doesn’t act on it. Cookie controls in your browser do the job more reliably.
Updates to this policy
If we revise this policy, the dates at the top will change. A bigger change also gets a notice on the site. If you keep using the site after an update, the revised policy applies to you.
Contact
Privacy questions: contact@aquaculturefarm.org
Operated by: CHT Aquaculture Farming
