This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. PII is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect, or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.
What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our website?
We collect information from you when you register on our site, add comments on our site, subscribe to new posts, fill out a form, or enter any information on our site, as appropriate. You may be asked to enter your name, email address, or other details to help you with your experience. The provided information may be checked through an automated spam detection service and may be retained indefinitely.
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 with 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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you decide to register for an account (or access your account) through an authentication service (such as Google Accounts), we may collect information from these third-party services, consistent with your privacy settings in your account with the relevant authentication service.
How do we use your information?
We do not share personal information with third parties, nor do we store any information about your visit to our website other than to analyze and optimize your content and reading experience through the use of cookies and local storage. You can turn off the use of cookies and local storage at any time by changing your specific browser settings.
Third-party disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information.
Advertising
We also use Google AdSense advertising on our website. Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google Ads policies. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users.
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google, use first-party cookies (such as Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) 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.
Opting out: Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to them using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add-on.
We also display ads from other advertising platforms on our site, which may use cookies to serve ads.
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.
This privacy policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on November 21, 2023. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.