Last updated: November 2026
This privacy policy explains what information Tradeshows.FYI (tradeshows.fyi) collects when you visit, how it is used, and the choices you have.
Information We Collect
Information collected automatically. Like most websites, the site’s servers and security tools record technical information when you visit, such as your IP address, browser type, device, pages viewed, and the date and time of your visit. This information is used to run, secure, and improve the site.
Analytics. The site uses Google Analytics to understand how visitors use it, such as which pages are read and how visitors arrive. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies. You can learn how Google uses this data at How Google uses information from sites that use its services, and you can opt out with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
Information you provide. If you leave a comment, subscribe to a newsletter, or contact us, we collect the information you choose to provide, such as your name and email address.
Cookies
Cookies are small files stored in your browser. Tradeshows.FYI uses cookies for analytics, site performance, security, and, where shown, advertising. Most browsers let you block or delete cookies in their settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how the site works.
Advertising
The site may display ads from third-party vendors, including Google. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet. You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings or www.aboutads.info. See the advertising and affiliate disclosure for how the site earns money.
Comments
When you leave a comment, the site collects the information in the comment form along with your IP address and browser details to help detect spam. An anonymized string created from your email address may be checked against the Gravatar service to display your profile picture. Gravatar’s privacy policy is available at automattic.com/privacy.
Embedded Content and Links
Guides may include embedded content, such as videos or images, and links to other websites. Embedded content behaves as if you visited the other website directly, and that website may collect data about you. Linked websites have their own privacy policies.
How Information Is Used
- To operate, maintain, and secure the website
- To understand which guides are useful and improve them
- To respond to messages and send newsletters you sign up for
- To show advertising, where ads are displayed
Tradeshows.FYI does not sell your personal information.
Sharing
Information may be shared with service providers that help run the site, such as hosting, security, analytics, email, and advertising providers, and when required by law.
Data Retention
Comments and their metadata are kept indefinitely so follow-up comments can be approved automatically. Newsletter subscribers can unsubscribe at any time using the link in each email. Other information is kept only as long as needed for the purposes above.
Your Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we hold about you, and to opt out of certain uses. To make a request, use the contact page.
Children’s Privacy
Tradeshows.FYI is written for business audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
Changes to This Policy
This policy may be updated from time to time. The date at the top shows when it was last revised.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent through the contact page.
