Who we are
Privacy Policy for Self Publishing Nerd
Our website address is: http://www.selfpublishingnerd.com.
If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at contact@selfpublishingnerd.com.
At www.selfpublishingnerd.com, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information that is received and collected by www.selfpublishingnerd.com and how it is used.
Log Files
Like many other Web sites, www.selfpublishingnerd.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Cookies and Web Beacons
www.selfpublishingnerd.com does not use cookies; however, our ad partners and affiliate partners do use cookies. See below for more information.
DoubleClick DART Cookie
.:: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on www.selfpublishingnerd.com.
.:: Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to www.selfpublishingnerd.com 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 at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
This website also uses Google’s remarketing code. This means that Third party vendors, including Google, show our ads (and those of our partner websites), on sites on the internet. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website. Basically, this means a cookie is placed in your browser when you visit certain pages of this website. That cookie tells Google which of our ads (for this website, and those of our partner websites) to display to you, the user, as you visit other sites on the internet.
Again, you may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s advertising opt-out page.
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include …….
Google Adsense
Skimlinks
Amazon: Amazon Affiliate
Self Publishing Nerd is a member of the Amazon Affiliates program. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. “www.selfpublishingnerd.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”
Skimlinks acts in a similar fashion as the Amazon Affiliate program, however, Skimlinks provides access to many affiliate partners, including Amazon.
Avangate Affiliate Network acts in a similar fashion as Amazon Services. See below for more information.
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in the advertisements and links that appear on www.selfpublishingnerd.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
www.selfpublishingnerd.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. www.selfpublishingnerd.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
If you sign up for our newsletter, we will collect your name and email address. We will never share it with anyone else. Your privacy is always 100% safe and is kept confidential with us.
Comments
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.
Media
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.
Contact forms
We keep your name and email address confidential at all times.
Cookies
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.
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 two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to keep track of visitors to this site. It collects no personal information about you, but it will disclose your country of origin, the keywords you used to find our site, and what pages you visited on our site.
Who we share your data with
We keep your name and email address confidential at all times.
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.
Your contact information
We keep your name and email address confidential at all times.
How we protect your data
We share your personal information with no one.