Your privacy is important to me. It is The Rambling Librarian’s policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information I may collect about you, including across the website, https://www.ramblinglibrarian.com, and other sites I might own and operate.
This policy is effective as of 12 September 2022 and was last updated on 12 September 2022.
Information I Collect
Information I collect includes both information you knowingly and actively provide when using or participating in any of my services and promotions, and any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing the products and services.
Log Data
When you visit this website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, other details about your visit, and technical details that occur in conjunction with any errors you may encounter.
Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.
Personal Information
We may ask for personal information which may include one or more of the following:
- Name
Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information
We only collect and use your personal information when we have a legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.
Collection and Use of Information
I may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on the website:
- Sign up to receive updates from me via email or social media channels
- Leave a comment
- Use a mobile device or web browser to access content
- Contact me via email, social media, or on any similar technologies
- When you mention me on social media
When visitors leave comments on the site I 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.
Please be aware that I may combine information collected about you with general information or research data I receive from other trusted sources.
Security of Your Personal Information
When I collect and process personal information, and while I retain this information, I will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.
Although I will do my best to protect the personal information you provide, I advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. I will comply with laws applicable to me in respect of any data breach.
You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of my services.
How Long I Keep Your Personal Information
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on my website (if any), personal information they provide is also stored in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If necessary, your personal information may be retained for compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.
Children’s Privacy
I do not aim any of my products or services directly at children under the age of 13, and do not knowingly collect personal information about children under 13.
Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
I may disclose personal information to:
- a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of our company
- third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, for example, IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, advertisers, or analytics platforms
- employees, contractors, and/or related entities
- existing or potential agents or business partners
- sponsors or promoters of any competition, sweepstakes, or promotion I run
- courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights
- third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist me in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you
- third parties to collect and process data
International Transfers of Personal Information
The personal information I collect is stored and/or processed where my partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities. Please be aware that the locations to which I store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If I transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) I will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) I will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.
Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information
You always retain the right to withhold personal information, with the understanding that your experience of the website may be affected. I will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. If you do provide personal information you understand that I will collect, hold, use and disclose it in accordance with this privacy policy. You retain the right to request details of any personal information I hold about you.
If I receive personal information about you from a third party, I will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
If you have previously agreed to use your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time. You will be provided with the ability to unsubscribe from my email database or opt-out of communications. Please be aware I may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.
If you believe that any information held about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. Reasonable steps will be taken to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.
If you believe that I have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact me using the details below and provide me with full details of the alleged breach. I will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of the investigation and the steps that will be taken to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.
Use of Cookies
“Cookies” are used to collect information about you and your activity across this site. A cookie is a small piece of data that the website stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so I can understand how you use my site. This helps me serve you content based on preferences you have specified.
If you leave a comment on the site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Limits of This Policy
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Changes to This Policy
At my discretion, I may change this privacy policy to reflect updates to business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If I decide to change this privacy policy, I will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy.
If required by law, I will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information.
Contact Me
For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact me using the following details:
Nicole Brewer
nicole@ramblinglibrarian.com