This page contains the privacy and cookie-related policy for this website, https://swapnawrites.com.
Briefly:
- We do not ask you for any personal data to use this site (name, address, etc.) The only data we gather is related to the way you use the site. We keep personal data collection to a minimum and only collect data to make user experience better. Wherever feasible, this data is anonymized.
- We do not do any profiling for any targeted advertisements. No data is shared with any third party for advertising. No visitor data is used for any commercial purpose.
- Comments are sometimes enabled for new posts, or may have been posted in the past. The data collected is only the typical data any such comments interface typically involves, and the cookies etc. regarding these are explained below.
- The site has some embedded content (like videos) where third party entities may create cookies and collect data like they would if you had visited those sites directly. Data may be gathered by these third parties when you are logged on to some social media account and do shares and likes on our site. We have no control on how these third party service providers may use the data or change their approach; you will have to see their privacy policies.
More details are shared below, along with ways you can opt out. Note that some such opting out may restrict how you can use the site.
Data used for analyzing site performance (Analytics)
Google Analytics is used to understand how visitors use the site. Google analytics is an extremely common way of analyzing site visitor data to improve sites. Analytics can show what pages you view within this site, how you arrived at this site and some basic information about your computer. We use this data to see how to improve content and navigation on the site. Analytics data is NOT used for any individual behavior profiling or for any targeted advertising.
The IP data is anonymized for Google Analytics . Because of this anonymizing, we do not know who you are; just that somebody visited the site. Read the Google Analytics privacy page.
Google Analytics uses cookies. If you wish, you can opt out of analytics: See how to opt out using a browser add-on. Also, you can always delete any existing cookies in any browser (some resources for this are given below).
Data related to comments that visitors may leave
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.
If you leave a comment on our 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.
Comments are checked through an automated spam detection service (Akismet).
If you have left comments in the past, and have some concerns about the data we may have because of that, please contact us.
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Embedded content from other websites
Pages 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 those other websites. 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.
Social media sharing and “likes” may also create cookies by the third party social media you are logged into. These third parties may use such data for their own targeting. You will need to check their privacy policies to see how they create, retain, and use data. If you are a user of these services, you have already consented to their privacy policies to continue to use the products. For example, persons with Google accounts (probably almost everyone) would have seen: Google Privacy & Terms (This, incidentally, includes Youtube). Similar detailed material is available for Facebook and other such very commonly used services/ accounts.
Some additional cookies
Site navigation and functionality is partly provided using the Jetpack plugin (owned by Automattic). Here are some cookies used for the features this site uses .(See documentation at https://jetpack.com/support/for-your-privacy-policy/ ) .
- Sharing button for Email (bottom of page): Jetpack uses the following information: sharing party’s name and email address, IP address and user agent (for spam checking), and email body/content. This content is checked for spam using Akismet (also owned by Automattic).
- Subscriptions: The comment form allows commentators to subscribe for updates to the comment page or to the blog. Data that may be used is: subscriber’s email address, ID of the post or comment, some basic server data including the HTTP request headers, IP address, URI. This server data is used only to monitor and to prevent abuse and spam. Functionality cookies are set for a duration of 347 days and only use the email id and name.
A cookie is also maintained to store the fact that you have already seen our notice about cookies. This is the “This site uses cookies” notice displayed in the footer when you first visit any page on our site, and is maintained for 365 days before the notice is displayed again. (Of course, you can delete the cookie using browser options, as you can delete any other cookies, too).
Some general resources
If you want to understand more about cookies and how you can use browser features to prevent storing cookies, or how you can delete existing cookies, see sites like aboutcookies.org or aboutcookies.org.uk. You can also see the browser settings/ options to see what is available. Deleting cookies is quite easy.