Privacy Policy Disclosure


Privacy Policy Disclosure

This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you about what personally identifiable information (PII) this website collects and what may be done with that PII.

Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
You may provide PII in order to post comments and as part of comments on the blog. You should be aware that anything you post and any PII you disclose in blog comments will be available for others to see, via the internet, around the world. (E.g., name of your pet, children, favorite movie, et.al.)

Please do not disclose to me the PII of any other person without that person’s consent.

This site is directed to adults and not directed to children under the age of 13. I ask that minors not submit any PII.

I will take reasonable technical precautions to prevent the loss, misused or alteration of your PII. I will not provide your email address or any other PII to any other person, other than (i) to MailChimp or other providers which assist me in sending newsletters and emails, or (ii) if required to be disclosed by law or in connection with any actual or threatened legal proceeding.

Mailing List
At your election, you may provide your email address to subscribe to receive my newsletter and other emails. If at any time you would like me to remove your PII from my database, please email me directly at maxinedouglasauthor@gmail.com. You may unsubscribe from my mailing list by clicking on the unsubscribe link(s) on any newsletter.

The information you provide when you join my mailing list will never be sold or shared with anyone. I typically send out 12-20 newsletters a year, where I tell you about new books, sales, giveaways, and give you advance previews of book covers and content from upcoming releases.

Tracking cookies on my website
You are not required to provide personally identifiable information (PII) to visit and browse my website. If you’re logged onto Facebook when you visit certain pages on my site, a tracking pixel generated by Facebook may remember you as a visitor to http://maxinedouglasauthor.blogspot.com/ and/or http://maxinedouglasnewsletter.blogspot.com/ and you may see ads for my books on Facebook from time to time. I do not personally track users after they visit my site or provide data to third-party users.

However, the server for this website and other analytics software hosted on this website may collect data about your visit, your computer’s IP address, browser type, operating system, geographic location, referral source, pages visited, and other “analytics” data.

I may review this data from time to time to understand how my website is used so that I can improve it for users. I do not currently provide that data to any third parties, but may in the future release it to publishers or agents interested in my work as a demonstration of my newsletter subscription and/or reader following.

Blog
I reserve the right to remove any comments from the blog if I find them offensive, defamatory, obscene, abusive, vulgar, or in any way inappropriate.

Links
My website and blog may include hyperlinks to other websites. I have no control over and am not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other websites and blogs.

Affiliate Links
When you click on buy links to Amazon, iBooks, Nook, Playster, Books2Read, B&N, GoogleBooks, GooglePlay, Audible, Overdrive, Kobo, etc., you may be clicking on an affiliate link. Those links use a tracking cookie that pays the author a few cents on any book purchase. These are not permanent tracking cookies and usually, expire within 24-48 hours.

Use of information from my website
You may copy and quote from my website and blog without limitation, so long as you provide attribution to me and a link back to my site.

I may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting an updated version on my blog.



Updated: May 16, 2018

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