Privacy Policy and Disclaimer

Welcome to paperbacktomes.

This Privacy Policy governs your visit to paperbacktomes.wordpress.com, and explains how the Site collects, safeguards and discloses information that results from your use of the Site.

This Site is operated and governed by laws applicable in India. If you are located outside India, your personal data will be transferred to India.

By using this Site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Definition

COOKIES are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

Privacy

What personal data is collected and why it’s collected

This Site collects your personal information, which is any information that exclusively identifies you, such as your name, email address, and location information, IP address.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the Site the date shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection are collected.

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.

Where we send your data

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

Media

If you upload images to the Site, 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.

Cookies

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.

If you have an account and you log in to this Site, it 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.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this Site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, 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

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 this Site (if any), it also stores 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 administrator can also see and edit that information.

The Site may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

What rights you have over your data

If you 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 this site holds about you. This does not include any data the site is obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Changes

This Privacy Policy is subject to change. The changes will be notified on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact me.

Date: 29/10/2021

Disclaimer

This is my personal blog. I’m not an expert or a professional writer. I run this blog by myself. All opinions and thoughts expressed here on this blog are my own. They are my subjective opinions and are not intended to harm anyone.

Content Validity: My opinions or ideas are temporary. I might change them after a certain time; whatever ideas/thoughts I publish might be relevant today but might not be relevant to the past or the future. So remember that these are my current thoughts.

Photographs and Graphics: I use Canva to create my blog graphics. All infographics– headers, edited images, etc.- used are created using Canva. Sometimes, I may use pictures from Unsplash too. I use Gifs from GIPHY.

Font: Honest Darling, ButterFly, Sylvia, Falnella and Samantha from DaFont

I use book cover images and book blurbs from Goodreads.

Credits: Writing isn’t an easy job so whatever I write in this blog is my own. If you’re using my works/articles, then you have to mention my name as the source.