FurryGuides

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how FurryGuides.com ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and protects your information when you visit the site.

Effective Date: July 26, 2026

Information We Collect

We collect basic, aggregated information about visits to the site: pages viewed, referring site, browser and device type, and approximate location based on IP. This information is not tied to your name or any account. We do not run user accounts or store passwords.

If you contact us through our forms or by email, we receive the message you sent and any contact details you provided. We use this only to reply to you and to prevent spam.

Categories of Information

Set out by category, rather than by the particular systems we happen to use, the information involved in running this site falls into the following groups:

  • Information you choose to give us. The content of a message you send, the name or handle you sign it with, an email address if you want a reply, and anything else you type into a form or attach to an email.
  • Device and connection information. Standard technical details your browser reports when it requests a page, such as browser and operating system type, screen and language settings, and the network address the request came from.
  • Usage information. Which pages were viewed, in what order, for how long, and which site referred you.
  • Approximate location. A country or region inferred from a network address. We do not ask for, and do not store, precise satellite location.
  • Security and anti-abuse signals. Technical indicators used to tell a person apart from an automated script, to enforce rate limits, and to investigate spam or abuse of our forms and tools.

We are deliberately describing these as categories. Publishing an exact inventory of every signal our anti-spam and anti-abuse measures rely on would tell the people abusing them precisely what to defeat, which is why no site publishes that list. What we will commit to is the use: this information exists so we can answer you, keep the site standing, and keep automated abuse out. It is not used for advertising, it is not sold, it is not rented, and it is not used to build a marketing profile of you. If you would rather send us nothing beyond a message, email us directly at [email protected] rather than using a form, and write to us at any time to ask what we hold about you.

Tools and Uploads

The utilities under our Tools section, including the sticker converters, the background remover, the image cropper, the badge maker, the colour advisor, and the furry detector, run inside your own browser. Images and files you open in them are processed on your own device. They are not uploaded to us, not stored by us, and not seen by us. When you close the tab, they are gone.

The one exception is deliberate and requires you to act. If you press the share button in the Furry Detector, we store a short code and the encoded result of that quiz so the link you share keeps working for about 180 days. That record holds a quiz result and nothing else: no name, no email, no image, and no account.

Cookies and Analytics

We use a privacy-respecting analytics service to understand which pages are useful and where the site is broken. This may involve setting a small identifier in your browser. We do not sell this information, do not run advertising networks against it, and do not build advertising profiles.

Most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies through their settings, and the site remains usable if you do. We honour the Global Privacy Control signal where your browser sends one. We do not currently respond to Do Not Track headers, because there is still no agreed standard for what a site should do when it receives one.

Service Providers

Running a site of this size means relying on contracted third party service providers. We use them in the following categories, and we keep the number of them as small as we practically can:

  • Website hosting and content delivery
  • Site analytics and performance measurement
  • Secure storage for messages sent to us
  • Spam filtering, rate limiting, and abuse prevention
  • Affiliate link handling and commission tracking

Each is bound by contract to process information only on our instructions and only for the purpose we engaged them for. None of them is authorised to sell your information, to rent it, or to use it for their own marketing. We review these arrangements periodically and change providers when a better or more private option exists.

Separately, and as set out in our Affiliate Disclosure, we take part in the Amazon Associates programme. Once you follow an affiliate link and arrive on a retailer's own website, you are their visitor, their privacy policy governs what happens next, and we have no visibility into what you browse or buy beyond an anonymous record that a commission occurred.

International Transfers

FurryGuides is published by Main Media LLC, which is the data controller for the purposes of this policy and can be reached in writing at 30 N Gould St, Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States. Because we operate from the United States and our providers are largely United States based, visiting from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or elsewhere means your information is transferred to and processed in the United States. Where required, we rely on Standard Contractual Clauses or an equivalent safeguard offered by the provider handling the data.

How Long We Keep Data

We hold information only as long as it is useful for the purpose it was collected for, or as long as the law requires:

  • Analytics records are aggregated and retained on a rolling basis, typically no more than 24 months.
  • Messages you send us, and anything submitted alongside them, are kept for up to 24 months so we can follow up on a conversation and recognise repeat abuse, then deleted.
  • Furry Detector share codes expire automatically after roughly 180 days.
  • Routine server access records are short lived and normally rotate within 30 days.
  • Anything we are required to keep for legal, tax, or dispute reasons is held for as long as that requirement lasts and no longer.

Ask us to delete something sooner and we will, unless we are genuinely required to keep it, in which case we will tell you that and tell you why.

Security

The whole site is served over an encrypted connection. Anything you send through a form is encrypted before it leaves your browser, so it is not readable in transit. Stored messages sit behind access controls, and only the small number of people who actually run FurryGuides can reach them.

One structural point works in your favour here. This site has no visitor accounts, no visitor logins, and no visitor passwords. There is no password database to steal, no session to hijack, and no payment details on our side to lose, because we never take payment on this site. That removes the categories of breach that cause most of the harm elsewhere.

Even so, no method of transmission or storage is perfectly secure, and anyone who promises you otherwise is overselling. We cannot guarantee absolute security. What we can commit to is this: if a breach happens and it puts your information at real risk, we will tell the affected people and any authority we are required to notify, we will say what happened rather than issue a vague statement, and we will say what we changed so it does not happen twice.

When We Disclose Information

Beyond the service providers described above, we disclose information only when we believe in good faith that we must: to comply with a law, subpoena, or court order; to enforce our Terms of Service; to investigate fraud, spam, or a security incident; or to protect the rights and safety of our readers, the wider community, or ourselves. If FurryGuides is ever sold or merged, data may transfer to the new operator, who would remain bound by this policy until it is replaced with notice to you.

Third Parties

The site links to external websites and may embed third-party content such as videos or social media posts. Those services have their own privacy policies, which apply when you interact with them. Affiliate links may set cookies for commission tracking. See our Affiliate Disclosure.

Photographs, Handles, and Community Content

Parts of this site describe conventions, events, makers, artists, and the wider fandom. To do that we draw on material that people have already published in public: posts on social platforms, convention websites and announcements, press coverage, public galleries, and photographs shared under public hashtags. Where we show such material we aim to credit the person who made it and to link back to where it came from.

Public does not mean unlimited, and we do not treat it that way. We apply filters to keep the site all ages and safe for work, we exclude adult and fetish material, and we exclude accounts and content that fall outside what this site is for. We do not attempt to identify anyone behind a fursona, we do not publish legal names alongside fandom handles, and we do not compile profiles of individuals.

Removal Requests

If a photograph of you, your fursuit, your artwork, or your handle appears on this site and you want it removed, write to us and we will remove it, provided the material is actually yours. This route exists for the person in the photograph, the artist who drew the artwork, or the owner of the handle. It does not exist for third parties trying to scrub coverage of somebody else, and we do not action anonymous demands.

So that we remove the right thing for the right person, tell us:

  • The page address and enough detail to identify the exact item
  • Your connection to it, in plain words. That you are the person shown, that you took the photograph, that you drew the artwork, or that the handle is yours
  • A confirmation that the above is true and that you are entitled to make the request
  • What you actually want done, from the options below
  • Remove this specific photograph or quotation
  • Remove everything associated with my handle across the whole site
  • Keep it, but fix the credit, the spelling, or the link back to me
  • Keep it, but never show anything of mine again in future

Where we have reasonable doubt about who is asking, we will ask you to confirm your identity before we act, usually by writing from the account the material is connected to or by posting a confirmation from that account. We keep this proportionate and we will not demand identity documents, because asking a member of this community to send government identification to have their own photograph taken down would be a worse outcome than the problem it solves.

Once we are satisfied the request is genuine we act, normally within a few days and faster where the material is sensitive. We can apply a standing block so your material does not reappear as the site grows. If you are asking on behalf of somebody who cannot ask for themselves, such as a minor shown in a photograph, say what your relationship is and we will still act. Where a photograph shows a child, we will normally remove it first and ask questions afterwards.

Genuine requests are never a burden and we would rather hear from you than not. What this section is guarding against is somebody with no connection to the material using a removal request to erase accurate, sourced reporting, or to take down another person's photograph without their knowledge.

Requests go to [email protected]. Put "Removal Request" in the subject line so it is not missed.

What We Do Not Do

  • We do not sell, rent, or share personal information with marketers.
  • We do not run third-party behavioral ad networks.
  • We do not knowingly collect data from children under 13.

Your Rights

You may ask us what information we hold about you, request deletion, or ask us to stop processing your data. Email [email protected] and we will respond within a reasonable time. California residents: we do not "sell" or "share" personal information as defined under the CCPA/CPRA.

If You Are in the EEA or the UK

Under the GDPR and UK GDPR you have the right to access your data, correct it, erase it, restrict or object to how we process it, and receive a copy in a portable format. Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time without affecting what we did beforehand. The legal bases we rely on are:

  • Legitimate interests for analytics, spam and abuse prevention, and keeping the site working.
  • Consent for any non-essential cookie or identifier, which you can revoke through your browser.
  • Legitimate interests for replying to a message you chose to send us.
  • Legal obligation where we must retain or disclose something.

You also have the right to complain to your national data protection authority. We would appreciate the chance to fix the problem first.

If You Are in California or Another US State

In the past 12 months we have collected the categories of identifiers, internet activity, geolocation inferred from IP, and the contents of messages you send us, all as described above. We have not sold or shared personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising, and we do not process it for targeted advertising or profiling that produces legal effects. You may request access, correction, or deletion, and we will not discriminate against you for asking. Residents of states with comparable laws have equivalent rights and may use the same contact address.

Automated Decisions

We do not make decisions about you by automated means that produce legal or similarly significant effects. Our spam scoring only affects whether a message reaches our inbox, and you can always reach us by email instead.

Children

FurryGuides is intended for general audiences. If you believe a child under 13 has sent us information, email us and we will delete it.

Changes

We may update this policy from time to time. Material changes will be reflected by a new Effective Date above.

Contact

Questions or data requests: [email protected]. Email reaches us fastest and is the best route for anything about your data. Put "Privacy Request" in the subject line and tell us what you would like us to do. We may ask a question or two to confirm the request came from you, and we aim to answer within 30 days.