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Privacy policy
Effective September 28, 2026
Who we are
This policy explains how King Paulo Aquino (“we”) handles information on www.kpa.ph, including KPA.ph - Blog. Questions and requests can be sent to [email protected].
Information you give us
- Contact form: your name, email address, optional mobile number, and project details. They are delivered to us by email so we can reply.
- Blog comments: your display name and comment are published with the article. To verify commenters we use a one-time code sent to your email address, or sign-in with Google or Facebook, which shares your basic profile name and account ID with us.
- AI chat: messages you type are sent to Google's Gemini API to generate replies.
Information collected automatically
When you read a blog article we record a page view together with the page path, referring page, and browser user agent. Readers are counted with a random identifier stored in a first-party cookie; we store only a keyed hash of that identifier. Our hosting and security providers, including Cloudflare, process standard request data such as IP addresses to deliver and protect the site.
Cookies and browser storage
We use the following first-party cookies and browser storage:
| Name | Type and duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| kpa_blog_visitor | Cookie · 1 year | Counts unique blog readers with a random identifier. |
| kpa_blog_session | Cookie · 30 days | Keeps verified commenters signed in. |
| kpa_blog_oauth | Cookie · 10 minutes | Protects the Google or Facebook sign-in flow. |
| kpa_blog_admin | Cookie · 12 hours | Signs in the site owner to the publishing desk. |
| theme | Local storage | Remembers your light or dark theme choice. |
| kpa-blog-view:* | Session storage | Avoids counting the same article view twice in one visit. |
Advertising and embedded services may set their own cookies, as described below.
Advertising
We use Google AdSense to show ads. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You can opt out of personalized advertising in Google Ads Settings, and opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info. Learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services. Where the law requires consent, such as in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we ask for it through a consent message before personalized ads are shown.
Other third-party services
- Meta Pixel: some blog articles use Meta Pixel to measure visits. You can manage this in your Facebook ad preferences.
- YouTube: videos are embedded in privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). YouTube may set cookies when you play a video.
- Google and Facebook sign-in: used only when you choose them to verify a comment.
Retention and your rights
Contact messages are kept only as long as needed to respond and follow up. Comments stay published until they are removed, and you can ask us to remove yours. You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, consistent with the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 and other applicable laws, by emailing [email protected]. You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings.
Children
This site is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.
Changes to this policy
We will update this page when our practices change and revise the effective date above.