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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