Privacy Policy

Overview

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, as used in US privacy law and information security, 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.

Who we are

Our website address is: SavvyAuthors.com You may email us at [email protected].

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments On Our Blog

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.

Contact forms

If you choose to contact us via our contact form, we will capture your name and email address which will be emailed to our support email address.

Cookies

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for 30 days. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded content from other websites

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Our Newsletter

If you choose to subscribe to our Newsletter, we will upload your email address to our email service, MailChimp. You can read their Privacy Policy here.

When you become a member of our forums

Our forums are built on Xenforo, a forum software that has recently released a version that is compliant with the provisions of the new EU privacy regulations, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Media uploaded to our forums

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.

Who we share your data with

At SavvyAuthors we have never and will never share your data with anyone. We do use a third-party tool, MailChimp to manage our Newsletter.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide 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.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

How we protect your data

Our site is checked on an ongoing manner for security issues and operates behind a firewall maintained by CloudFlare. Cloudflare does not receive any of your data but monitors all data transferred to ensure it is done safely and securely. Here is Cloudflare's Privacy Policy. We also have SSL certificate in place which helps ensure your data is transmitted both to and from us in a safe and secure manner. You have the option to activate ‘two-factor authentications’ in your account settings. This is a recommended step to take after registering, however, we reserve the right to make this mandatory at any future date.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In the event of a data breach, you will be notified on the website within seven days.

Payments to us

We use PayPal and Stripe as our payment processors. All payment transactions are handled over SSL connections. We do not keep any payment information on our site, however, you may choose to allow Stripe or PayPal to keep this information. If you choose to save payment information with Stripe, we will have access to this information.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

California Online Privacy Protection Act

According to CalOPPA we agree to the following:

How does our site handle do not track signals?

Does our site allow third-party behavioral tracking?

 


 COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

 


 Fair Information Practices

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

• We will notify the users via in-site notification within 7 business days
• We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.




CAN SPAM Act

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.


 We collect your email address in order to:

• Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
• Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.
• We may also send you additional information related to your product and/or service.
• Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.

To be in accordance with CANSPAM we agree to the following:

• NOT use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
• Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
• Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
• Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
• Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
• Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.


 If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at


 • Follow the instructions at the bottom of each email and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.  

Contacting Us

East Moline, IL, USA [email protected]