Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://writerswrite.co.za

Please click here to read more about what we do: About Writers Write

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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 anonymised 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.

Courses

If you sign up for a course…

At checkout, we will collect your name, email address, username, and password. This information is used to setup your account for our site. If you are redirected to an offsite payment gateway to complete your payment, we may store this information in a temporary session variable to setup your account when you return to our site.

When logged in, we use cookies to track some of your activity on our site including logins, visits, and page views.

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 collect your email address in order to:

1. Subscribe you to our Daily Writing Links
2. Send information, respond to enquiries, and/or other requests or questions
3. Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.

We agree to:

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

If you would like to unsubscribe from receiving emails, you can email us at news@writerswrite.co.za with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. We will remove you from all mailing lists.

Cookies

Our website requires cookies to operate. They allow us to use things like social media plugins and to allow you to use our online courses.

Cookies are also use for analytic purposes to tell us, for example, when the busiest time for our website is.

Be aware that some cookies are necessary for the operation of the site however you can opt out of allowing Google Analytics if it concerns you.

Cookies store some information in your browser, your login details for example. 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.

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.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our site. You can opt-out of tracking.

Google Ads

Google’s advertising requirements may use your Google user profile to target their adverts at you. This is beyond our control. You can edit your profile settings in your google account.

Manage the ads you see with Ad Settings or with Your Online Choices.

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data with anybody. We use certain third party services. Please follow the links to read their Privacy Policies.

Payment processors: We have no access to your credit card information. Payments are processed through PayPal and iVeri. They are not processed on this site. Please make sure you are familiar with their Privacy Policies

Shop: We use Woocommerce

Newsletter: We send emails via Mailchimp.

Social Media Platforms: If you sign-up or login using a social media platform you grant them access to your information. You can manage this from within the social media platform. We use the Ultimate Social Media PLUS.

Wordfence: Keeps our site safe.

Book Sales: We are an Amazon affiliate. Please check their privacy policy.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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. But you data is checked by us in person and not sent anywhere.

General

Your contact information

If you sign up for an online course, we store your username and e-mail address on our server.

How we protect your data

Your data is stored on our secure server. We have taken a number of precaution to protect your data. Such as not storing any data that could be used to impersonate you. We do not record any data used while making payments other than your name and what you were buying.

Our server is kept up-to-date and protected by our IT team as well as third party security partners.

What third parties we receive data from

We receive no data other than what you give us you and data recorded by Google Analitics.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We believe that all decisions about data should be made by a person not a computer and as such we do not use automated profiling. All decisions regarding behaviour are reviewed by us manually.

Advertising Privacy Statement

Advertising.

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

AdThrive uses standard and widely-available tools for the placement and serving of ads, including those provided by Google, Inc. and its affiliates. We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, AdThrive, Google and our other advertising partners will track your behaviour on our website and on other websites across the Internet using cookies.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.  Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

By using this Site, you consent to the use of such cookies and the sharing of data captured by such cookies with AdThrive, Google, and our other third party partners. You can view, delete, or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained.

For European Economic Area Residents

If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws you have the rights, among other things, to access your personal data, have us erase it, and/or restrict its further processing.  If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by us or AdThrive related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at news@writerswrite.co.za and contact AdThrive at info@adthrive.com. If you wish to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which of those partners track your behavior using cookies, click the ad preferences link at the bottom of the site. (Available in the EU.)

For California Residents

California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, the sharing of your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.”  You have the right to request from us the categories of personal information that we have shared and the categories of third parties to whom the information was provided. To make such a request, please contact us at info@adthrive.com. To be clear we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand side platforms.