Who We Are
Welcome to Bonfire Country (https://bonfirecountry.com). We are a country music blog dedicated to sharing news, reviews, playlists, festival guides, and artist spotlights with our readers. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our website.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Newsletter Subscriptions
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address to send you updates about country music news, new blog posts, and exclusive content. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email we send you.
Analytics
We use analytics services to understand how visitors interact with our website. These services may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, referring/exit pages, and the dates and times of your visits. This data is used to analyze trends, administer the site, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
Advertising
We may display advertisements on our website through third-party advertising networks, including Google AdSense. These networks may use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings (https://www.google.com/settings/ads).
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 with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. If you subscribe to our newsletter, we retain your email address until you unsubscribe.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have left comments on this site or subscribed to our newsletter, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Newsletter subscriber data may be stored with our email service provider. Analytics data is processed by our analytics provider.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact us through our Contact page at https://bonfirecountry.com/contact/.
Last updated: February 13, 2026