David Lender Author Privacy Policy

DLENDERAUTHOR.COM

PRIVACY POLICY

Contact information, Owner

We only have access to information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you–via our blog or newsletter sign-up forms online or given in person. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about events, promotions, or news, or changes to this privacy policy.

Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can contact us via the email address given on our website to review data we have about you, change data about you, delete data about you, or express concerns about our use of data about you.

How Data is Collected

The data collected is by active consent that is received separately from all other requests, and it is not made with a condition to receive other products or services. It was either given through the newsletter or blog sign-up form online, or when the user consented to be added through a newsletter sign-up form.

Cookies
We use “cookies” on this site to track visits for Google Analytics. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

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Analytics

Facebook Ads conversion tracking and Google Analytics to monitor traffic flow, and page interest. Data Used: Cookies and Usage Data.

Blog Commenting

Comments
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are 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 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 may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Blog Comment system is managed directly by the owner.

Personal Data: email address, first name, last name and website

Interaction with third parties

MailChimp widget

Personal Data: email address, first name and last name.

Mailing address not required and only if user chooses to provide: address, billing address, city, company name, country, email address, first name, last name

Email addresses are used to managing contacts and send messages

Interaction with external social networks and platforms

Facebook Like button and social widgets, LinkedIn button and social widgets, Twitter Tweet button and social widgets, Pinterest “Pin it” button and social widgets, Instagram button and social widgets.

Platform services and hosting

WordPress.com: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

Hosting: BlueHost.com.

No goods or services

The Personal Data collected is not used to provide the user with services or to sell goods.