Privacy Policy

Last updated: 23-Aug-2026

Hollywood Pulses (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates hollywoodpulses.com (the “Site”), an entertainment news and commentary blog covering film, television, and celebrity culture. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect from visitors, how we use it, and the choices available to you — including specific rights for visitors in the European Economic Area (EEA) under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and for California residents under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

By using this Site, you agree to the collection and use of information as described in this policy.

1. Information We Collect

Comments

When you leave a comment, we collect the data shown in the comment form, along with your IP address and browser user agent string, to help detect spam.

An anonymized string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture may be visible to the public alongside your comment.

Contact Form

When you use our contact form, we collect the information you submit — typically your name, email address, and message. We use this information solely to respond to your inquiry, tip, or pitch. We do not add contact-form submissions to any mailing list.

Newsletter Signup

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address (and any other information the signup form requests) in order to send you updates from Hollywood Pulses. We use a third-party email service provider to store your information and deliver these emails; that provider processes your data on our behalf and under its own privacy and security practices. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link included in every email we send, or by contacting us directly.

Cookies

If you leave a comment, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience on future comments. These last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies; it contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we also set cookies to save your login information and screen display choices — login cookies last two days, screen options cookies last a year.

Cookie Consent

We use a cookie consent tool to ask for your permission before non-essential cookies (such as analytics and advertising cookies) are set on your device. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time using the cookie preferences link available on the Site, typically found in the footer.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics (or a similar analytics service) to understand how visitors use the Site — which articles are read, how people navigate, and general traffic trends. This may involve cookies and the collection of information such as your IP address (which may be truncated/anonymized), browser type, device type, approximate location, and pages visited. This data is used in aggregate to improve the Site and is not used to personally identify you. You can learn more about how Google handles this data at https://policies.google.com/privacy, and you can opt out of Google Analytics tracking using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Advertising (Google AdSense)

We use Google AdSense to display advertising on the Site. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies (including the DoubleClick cookie) to serve ads based on your prior visits to this Site and other websites on the internet. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visit to this Site and/or other sites.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You may also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page or the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, trailers, or social media posts). Embedded content behaves exactly as if you had visited the other website directly, and that website may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content — including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information described above to:

  • Operate, maintain, and improve the Site
  • Respond to comments, messages, and inquiries
  • Send newsletter updates to subscribers who opt in
  • Understand how visitors use the Site through analytics
  • Serve and measure advertising through Google AdSense
  • Detect and prevent spam, fraud, or abuse

3. How Long We Retain Your Data

Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and auto-approve follow-up comments rather than holding them in moderation. Contact form submissions are retained only as long as necessary to resolve your inquiry. Newsletter data is retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion. Analytics data is retained per Google Analytics’ standard retention settings.

4. Your Rights (GDPR — EEA Visitors)

If you are located in the EEA, you have the right to:

  • Access the personal data we hold about you
  • Rectify inaccurate personal data
  • Erase your personal data (“right to be forgotten”)
  • Restrict or object to certain processing
  • Data portability — receive your data in a portable format
  • Withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent (e.g., cookies, newsletter)

Our legal basis for processing includes your consent (cookies, newsletter), our legitimate interests (site security, spam prevention, analytics), and, where applicable, performance of a request you’ve made (responding to your contact form message).

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details in Section 8.

5. Your Rights (CCPA/CPRA — California Residents)

If you are a California resident, you have the right to:

  • Know what personal information we collect, use, and disclose
  • Delete personal information we hold about you, subject to certain exceptions
  • Correct inaccurate personal information
  • Opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information

Because we use Google AdSense, some data (such as cookie identifiers) shared with advertising partners may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information under the CCPA’s broad definitions, even though no money changes hands. You can opt out via the advertising opt-out links in Section 1 (“Advertising”), and your browser may also support the Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, which we honor where technically supported by our cookie consent tool.

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of California residents under 16 years of age without opt-in consent.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details in Section 8. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

6. Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam-detection service. Analytics and advertising data is processed by Google, and newsletter data is processed by our email service provider — both of which may process data outside your home country. Where required, these transfers rely on the provider’s own compliance mechanisms (such as Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers out of the EEA).

7. Children’s Privacy

This Site is not directed at children under 13 (or under 16 where a higher threshold applies, such as certain EU member states), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under that age.

8. Contact Us

For any questions about this Privacy Policy, or to exercise your data rights under GDPR or CCPA, contact us at:

Email: hello@hollywoodpulses.com Website: hollywoodpulses.com

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.