This Privacy Policy, the manner in which The Ugly Writers collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User”) of the uglywriters.com / theuglywriters.com website (“Site”).
Update: GDPR
This segment is designed to inform users about what personally identifiable information (PII) this website collects and what may be done with that PII.
Users are not required to submit any PII to use this website. However, the server for 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. The Site may review that data from time to time to understand how the website is used and to improve the website for users.
The Ugly Writers do not track users after their visit.
At your election, you may provide your email address to subscribe to the site and/or receive my newsletter and other emails,. Users may provide PII in order to post comments and as part of comments on the blog. Users should be aware that anything you post and any PII they disclose in blog comments will be available for others to see, via the internet, around the world.
If at any time a user would like to remove their PII from the TUW database, please email us directly at privacy@uglywriters.com. Users may unsubscribe from the blog and mailing list by visiting MailChimp directly or by clicking on the unsubscribe link on any newsletter. Please do not disclose to TUW 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 18. I ask that minors not submit any PII. This site complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and does not permit registration by, and will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from, anyone under 18 years of age.
TUW will take reasonable technical precautions to prevent the loss, misused or alteration of your PII. The site will not provide user’s email address nor any other PII to any other person, other than (i) to MailChimp or another provider which assists TUW in sending newsletters and emails, or (ii) if required to be disclosed by law or in connection with any actual or threatened legal proceeding.
The Ugly Writers reserve the right to remove any comments from the blog if we find them offensive, defamatory, obscene, abusive, vulgar, or in any way inappropriate.
The site includes hyperlinks to other websites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other websites and blogs.
Users may copy and quote from the website without limitation, so long as the user provides attribution to the site and the author and a link back to the site.
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What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog, website or app?
When subscribing or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address or other details to help you with your experience.
When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you subscribe to a newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form or enter information on our site.
(a) AUTOMATIC COLLECTION. Our servers automatically recognize visitors’ domain names and IP addresses (the number assigned to computers on the Internet). No personal information about you is revealed in this process. The Site may also gather anonymous “traffic data” that does not personally identify you, but that may be helpful for marketing purposes or for improving the services we offer.
(b) COOKIES. From time to time, we may use the standard “cookies” feature of major browser applications that allows us to store a small piece of data on your computer about your visit to our Site. Cookies help us learn which areas of our Site are useful and which areas need improvement through programs including, but not limited to, Google Analytics. We may also use cookies from third party social sites and programs including, but not limited to, Facebook, Google Plus and Twitter. You can choose to disable cookies through your browser or independent programs available online. However, if you choose to disable this function, your experience at our Site may be diminished as some features may not work as they were intended.
(c) SPONSORS AND ADVERTISERS. We may decide to accept sponsorship and advertisements on the Site. Should this occur, you should assume said sponsors and advertisers will be given access to the impressions and click data on their marketing pieces. Your personally identifiable information will never be revealed to them by us.
How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you register, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
• To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
• To improve our website in order to better serve you.
• To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
• To ask for ratings and reviews of services or products
• To follow up with them after correspondence (live chat, email or phone inquiries)
How do we protect your information?
The Site has security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information that we obtain from you, but we make no assurances about our ability to prevent any such loss to you or to any third party arising out of any such loss, misuse, or alteration.
We only provide articles and information. We will never ask for credit card numbers. We use a self-hosted WordPress site and all security measures are provided and managed by SiteGrounds.
Do we use ‘cookies’?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We use cookies to:
• Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
• Keep track of advertisements.
• Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since every browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you turn cookies off, some features will be disabled. It won’t affect the user’s experience that makes your site experience more efficient and may not function properly.
Third-party disclosure
We will never sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information.
Third-party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
We have implemented the following:
• MailChimp subscription system
• Google Display Network Impression Reporting
• Demographics and Interests Reporting
We, along with third-party vendors use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.