Your privacy is important. This page outlines the types of personal information received and collected when you use BettisonCopywriting.com, as well as some of the steps taken to safeguard information.
We strive to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all operations.
Personal Information
Any personal information collected from the visitors of this site is done so solely on a voluntary basis. This information is not shared with an outside party and is not stored in the site’s files. None of your personal information will ever be sold for profit.
We collect names and email addresses via a voluntary sign up form in order to keep you informed about new releases and sales. We also collect data about what device you use for reading books.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
The Use of Cookies and Web Beacons
We use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to specific page. For example, if you personalize the sites pages, or register with any of our site’s services, a cookie enables the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your Web browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
A web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single website or collection of sites. They are also referred to as web bugs and are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a web site.
This blog may serve third party advertisements that use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served on my blog to ascertain how many times you’ve seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information on this blog.
Browsers can be set to accept or reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent. Privacy software can be used to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions shouldn’t cause a problem with our site, should you so choose.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
This blog is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.
Non-Personal Information
In some cases, this blog may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use his information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review and not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes.
Release of Information
If BettisonCopywriting.com is sold, the information obtained from you through your voluntary participation in this blog may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through this blog of that change in control and practices, and I will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of us.
How You Can Correct or Remove Information
I provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of my commitment to protect your personal information. If you have submitted personal information through our website and would like that information deleted from my records or would like to update or correct that information, please use my Contact me page.
Updates and Effective Date
BettisonCopywriting.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.
Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to BettisonCopywriting.com Privacy Policy as posted here on this blog, please do not use this blog or any services offered by this blog.
The owner of this blog receives monetary compensation from the companies and links featured on this site.
Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this privacy policy.