Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 12, 2026
Finding True Masculinity respects the privacy of its visitors, community members, subscribers, and customers. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you use ftmblog.website, why it is collected, how it may be shared, and the choices available to you.
1. Who We Are
Finding True Masculinity is an independent website providing educational resources, articles, community discussion, and products for trans men, transmasculine people, and others who use the site.
The website is operated by Frank Hammond.
For privacy questions or requests, contact:
2. Information We Collect
The information collected depends on how you interact with the website.
Information you provide directly
You may voluntarily provide information when you:
- contact Finding True Masculinity
- subscribe to the email list
- create an account
- participate in the forum
- leave a blog comment
- place an order
- submit feedback
- upload content or profile information
Depending on the feature being used, this may include your name, chosen name, pronouns, email address, username, shipping or billing address, phone number, message content, forum posts, replies, profile information, order details, and other information you choose to provide.
Finding True Masculinity does not require visitors to disclose their medical history, transition status, gender identity details, or other sensitive personal information simply to browse the website.
If you voluntarily include sensitive information in a forum post, comment, contact message, or other submission, that information will be processed as necessary to provide the feature you chose to use.
3. Website Accounts and wpForo Community
Finding True Masculinity uses wpForo to operate its community forums.
When you create or use a forum account, information may include:
- username and display name
- email address
- account and profile information
- forum topics, posts, and replies
- registration and activity information
- IP address and browser/device information used for security, moderation, and spam prevention
Forum posts and profile information that you choose to make public may be visible to other visitors and may appear in search engines.
Do not post information publicly that you do not want others to see.
wpForo also provides privacy tools that can support account access, correction, export, and erasure requests. wpForo
4. Comments
When visitors leave comments, the website may collect the information entered into the comment form along with technical information such as the visitor’s IP address and browser user-agent information for security and spam detection.
An anonymized version of an email address may be sent to Gravatar to determine whether a profile image is associated with that address.
Comments may also be processed through automated anti-spam services such as Akismet.
5. Email List and Hustle
Finding True Masculinity uses Hustle to collect voluntary email newsletter signups.
Currently, newsletter addresses are collected through Hustle rather than Mailchimp.
If you subscribe, the website may store:
- your email address
- the date or time you subscribed
- the signup form or source associated with the subscription
- other information you voluntarily enter into the signup form
Hustle allows subscriber information to be stored locally in the site’s WordPress database. WPMU DEV
Your email address will be used to send Finding True Masculinity news, new resources, articles, community information, site updates, and occasional shop information.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time.
Finding True Masculinity does not sell newsletter email addresses.
6. Shop, WooCommerce, and Orders
Finding True Masculinity uses WooCommerce to operate its online shop.
When you place an order, information necessary to complete the transaction may include:
- name
- billing address
- shipping address
- email address
- phone number, when required
- products purchased
- order amount
- shipping method
- transaction and payment-status information
- account information, if you create an account
WooCommerce stores customer, cart, checkout, and order information needed to operate the shop and fulfill transactions. The WooCommerce Developer Blog
Payment information is processed through the payment service presented during checkout. That provider’s own privacy policy and terms also apply to payment processing.
7. Printful Order Fulfillment
Some Finding True Masculinity products are produced or fulfilled through Printful.
When Printful fulfillment is required, Finding True Masculinity may provide Printful with information necessary to manufacture and deliver an order, including information such as:
- customer name
- email address
- phone number when needed
- shipping address
- products ordered
- other information necessary for fulfillment
Printful describes this information as merchant end-customer data and processes it on behalf of the merchant in order to provide fulfillment services. Printful
Printful may fulfill orders from different facilities depending on product availability, shipping destination, and operational requirements. Printful Help Center
8. Google Analytics and MonsterInsights
Finding True Masculinity uses Google Analytics, implemented through MonsterInsights, to understand how visitors use the website.
Analytics information may include:
- pages viewed
- links or features used
- referring websites
- browser and device information
- approximate geographic information
- IP address
- session and interaction information
- cookies or similar identifiers
Google explains that websites using Google Analytics may send information including the page URL and IP address to Google and may use cookies or similar technologies. Google Policies
Analytics information is used to understand traffic, improve content, identify technical problems, and evaluate how visitors interact with the site.
9. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Finding True Masculinity and its service providers may use cookies, local storage, pixels, and similar technologies.
These technologies may be used for:
- keeping users logged in
- saving account preferences
- maintaining shopping carts and checkout sessions
- operating WooCommerce
- remembering forum sessions
- preventing spam and abuse
- remembering whether a visitor dismissed a popup
- measuring website traffic
- understanding visitor behavior
- advertising and ad measurement, if enabled
You can usually block or delete cookies using your browser settings. Doing so may cause some website features to function incorrectly.
10. Advertising and Google AdSense
Finding True Masculinity may use Google AdSense or other advertising services.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies or similar technologies to serve and measure advertisements based on a visitor’s activity on this website or other websites.
Google’s advertising cookies may allow Google and its partners to show advertisements based on visits to this and other websites. Visitors can control personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings.
Google may also use IP addresses, cookies, identifiers, page URLs, and related information for advertising, measurement, fraud prevention, and other purposes described in Google’s policies. Google Help
Finding True Masculinity does not intentionally use information that a visitor provides about gender identity, transition status, medical history, mental health, sexual health, or other sensitive subjects to create personalized advertising profiles.
Google’s publisher policies restrict the use of sensitive information for personalized advertising. Google Help
11. Affiliate Links
Some articles or resource pages may contain affiliate links.
If you click an affiliate link, you will be taken to a third-party website. That company may use cookies, referral identifiers, or similar technologies to identify that Finding True Masculinity referred the visit or sale.
Finding True Masculinity may receive a commission from qualifying purchases without increasing the price you pay.
Once you leave this website, the privacy practices of the third-party website apply.
12. Contact Forms and Direct Communication
If you contact Finding True Masculinity through a website form or email, the information you provide is used to respond to your request and manage the communication.
This may include your name, pronouns if voluntarily provided, email address, message, and any other information you choose to include.
Please avoid sending highly sensitive medical, financial, identity, or security information unless it is necessary for your request.
13. Media Uploads
If you are permitted to upload images or files, avoid uploading photographs containing embedded GPS or precise location information.
Other visitors may be able to download publicly accessible media and extract metadata contained within those files.
14. Embedded Content and Third-Party Links
Pages may include embedded videos, images, social-media content, or other material from third-party websites.
Embedded content may behave as if you visited the third-party website directly. Those services may collect information, use cookies, or record your interaction according to their own privacy policies.
Finding True Masculinity is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites operated by other organizations.
15. How We Use Information
Information may be used to:
- operate and maintain the website
- provide forum and account functionality
- moderate community content
- respond to questions and requests
- process and fulfill orders
- provide customer service
- send requested newsletter communications
- prevent fraud, spam, abuse, and security threats
- understand website traffic and performance
- improve articles, resources, products, and site usability
- comply with legal, accounting, tax, or regulatory obligations
- display and measure advertising where applicable
16. Who We Share Information With
Finding True Masculinity does not sell personal information.
Information may be shared when necessary with service providers that help operate the website or deliver services requested by users, including categories such as:
- WooCommerce and ecommerce services
- Printful for applicable order fulfillment
- payment processors
- Google Analytics and related analytics services
- hosting and website infrastructure providers
- spam-prevention and security services
- email and newsletter software
- forum software
- advertising providers, if advertising is enabled
Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to a lawful request, protect the website or its users, investigate fraud or abuse, or enforce website policies.
17. How Long We Retain Information
Retention depends on the type of information and why it was collected.
In general:
- Orders and transaction records may be retained as necessary for customer service, accounting, taxation, fraud prevention, and legal obligations.
- Forum posts and replies may remain available as part of community discussions unless removed through moderation or an applicable privacy request.
- User accounts may be retained while active and deleted or anonymized where appropriate following a valid request.
- Newsletter information may be retained until you unsubscribe or request deletion.
- Comments and associated metadata may be retained to manage discussion and spam detection.
- Analytics information is retained according to the settings and policies of the analytics services used.
- Contact correspondence may be retained as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the inquiry or maintain appropriate business records.
Some information may need to be retained longer when required for legal, tax, fraud-prevention, security, or administrative purposes.
18. Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the ability to request:
- access to information held about you
- correction of inaccurate information
- deletion of certain personal information
- an export of information you have provided
- withdrawal of consent where processing relies on consent
- restriction or objection to certain processing
- unsubscribe from marketing communications
Not every request can be fulfilled in every circumstance. For example, certain order or transaction records may need to be retained for legal, accounting, security, or tax purposes.
To make a privacy request, contact:
19. Security
Reasonable technical and administrative measures are used to protect the website and information stored through it.
However, no website, database, transmission method, or online service can guarantee absolute security.
Users are responsible for protecting their account passwords and should contact Finding True Masculinity if they believe their account has been compromised.
20. International Processing
Some service providers used by Finding True Masculinity operate servers, offices, or fulfillment facilities in multiple countries.
As a result, information may be processed outside the country or state where you live. Service providers are responsible for handling information according to their applicable privacy commitments and legal obligations.
21. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated as Finding True Masculinity adds or removes features, vendors, advertising systems, community tools, or other services.
The date at the top of this page will be updated when material changes are made.
22. Contact
For privacy questions, requests, or concerns:
Finding True Masculinity
Email: frank@ftmblog.website