Privacy, AI & Image Policy
Last Updated: October 9, 2026
Who We Are
Pest Sherpa is an educational website dedicated to helping homeowners better understand pests, pest identification, prevention, and pest management practices.
Our website address is: https://pestsherpa.org.
Pest Sherpa is designed to collect as little personal information as reasonably possible while providing educational content and visitor support.
Questions Submitted Through Ask the Sherpa
When visitors submit questions through the Ask the Sherpa feature, we collect the information provided in the submission form along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent information to help prevent spam, abuse, and fraudulent activity.
Submitted questions may be reviewed, edited, formatted, shortened, or otherwise modified for clarity, readability, privacy protection, or publication purposes.
We may choose to publish submitted questions and responses on Pest Sherpa as part of our educational content library.
By submitting a question, you grant Pest Sherpa permission to publish, edit, and archive your submission and any associated response for educational and informational purposes.
Please do not include sensitive personal, financial, medical, legal, or confidential information when submitting questions.
If you include your email address, we use it only to reply to your question. We never publish it, add it to a mailing list, or share it for marketing.
How Long We Retain Your Information
Questions submitted through the website, along with associated metadata, may be retained indefinitely.
Published questions and responses may remain available as part of the website’s educational archive unless removed or updated at our discretion.
Embedded Content From Other Websites
Articles on this website may include embedded content such as videos, images, maps, social media posts, or other media from third-party websites.
Embedded content behaves in the same manner as if you visited the originating website directly.
These third-party websites may collect data about you, use cookies, implement additional tracking technologies, and monitor your interactions with their content. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policies of any third-party services they interact with.
Analytics
Pest Sherpa uses Fathom Analytics, a privacy-focused analytics service.
Fathom Analytics does not use tracking cookies, does not collect personal information, and does not track visitors across websites. Analytics information is anonymized and aggregated to help us understand website performance and improve the visitor experience.
For more information, please visit: Fathom Analytics.
Cookies
Pest Sherpa does not use cookies for advertising or visitor tracking purposes.
Certain essential cookies may be used by website infrastructure, security systems, hosting providers, content delivery networks, or WordPress functionality. These cookies are used solely for website operation, security, performance, spam prevention, and related technical purposes.
Sale of Personal Information
Pest Sherpa does not sell, rent, trade, or share personal information with third parties for advertising, marketing, or commercial purposes.
Information submitted through the website is used solely for operating the website, responding to visitor inquiries, improving content, preventing spam and abuse, and maintaining website security.
Cloudflare
Pest Sherpa uses Cloudflare to provide DNS, security, content delivery, and performance services.
Cloudflare may process limited technical information, including IP addresses and related connection data, to provide these services.
Additional information is available at: Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
AI-Assisted Content
Pest Sherpa may use artificial intelligence tools to assist with research, drafting, organization, editing, formatting, content enhancement, image generation, and other publishing workflows.
All content is subject to human review and editorial oversight before publication.
Content provided on this website is intended for general educational and informational purposes. Visitors should not rely solely on website content when making pest identification, treatment, safety, legal, regulatory, or purchasing decisions.
Image & Illustration Policy
Pest Sherpa may publish original photography, licensed media, custom graphics, diagrams, illustrations, and AI-assisted visual content.
Custom illustrations published on this website are independently created educational graphics intended to communicate factual information in a visual format.
Identification characteristics, measurements, biological information, behavioral information, and other factual content may be researched from authoritative sources, including:
- University research and extension publications
- Government agencies
- Scientific resources and publications
- Industry organizations
- Professional pest management references
Illustrations are created as original works and are not intended to reproduce copyrighted photographs, artwork, diagrams, or other visual materials created by third parties.
References to external organizations, institutions, publications, or research sources are provided for informational purposes only. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, no affiliation, sponsorship, endorsement, approval, or partnership should be inferred.
Illustrations should be considered educational aids and not definitive identification tools. Actual pest appearance may vary based on species, life stage, geographic location, lighting conditions, image quality, and other factors.
Editorial Policy
Pest Sherpa strives to provide practical, accurate, and experience-based pest management information.
Content may be reviewed, edited, updated, or expanded by experienced pest management professionals, subject matter experts, editors, or contributors.
Information presented on this website is educational in nature and should not be considered a substitute for professional inspection, diagnosis, treatment recommendations, legal advice, or regulatory guidance.
Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor questions and other submissions may be processed through automated spam detection and security services.
Technical data may also be processed by website infrastructure providers, security services, content delivery networks, and hosting platforms as necessary to operate and protect the website.
Contact
If you have questions regarding this Privacy, AI & Image Policy, please contact us through the contact information provided on Pest Sherpa.