Privacy Policy

Effective October 21, 2018.

Welcome to vagivens.com.  My goal is to provide a fun website — tell a few stories, share a few memes, hopefully even sell a few books.

I value your privacy and will not share any collected personal information with third-parties, nor will I store information collected about your visit to my blog for use other than to analyze content performance through the use of cookies, which you can turn off at any time by modifying your Internet browser’s settings.

Here’s a quick rundown of the policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data on my site and the choices you have associated with that data. By continuing to browse, and through submission of your personal data, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection And Use

Several different types of information are collected:

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

Throughout the site, you may be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information includes:

  • Email address (for subscribing to newsletters or contacting me)
  • First and Last Name (for contacting me)
  • Cookies and Usage Data (for website analytics)

Usage Data

Information on how the website is accessed and used may also be collected. This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages on this site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookies Data

Cookies and similar tracking technologies are used to track the activity on the site and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze my website.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

Examples of Cookies:

  • Session Cookies. Session Cookies are used to operate the site.
  • Preference Cookies. Preference Cookies are used to remember your preferences and various settings.
  • Security Cookies. Security Cookies are used for security purposes.

Use of Data

Collected data is used for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain a user-friendly website
  • To provide you with the means of contacting me or subscribing to newsletters
  • To provide analysis or valuable information to assist with site improvement
  • To monitor and provide statistics on how the site is used
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside of the United States and choose to provide personal information, please note that the data will be transferred to the United States and processed there.  Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Disclosure Of Data

Legal Requirements

I may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation and/or protect against legal liability.

Security Of Data

The security of your data is definitely important to me, but please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While I strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, I cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Service Providers

Third party companies and individuals may be employed to facilitate web service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on my behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist in analyzing how this site is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

  • Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Links To Other Sites

The are links to other sites that are not operated by me. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. Be sure to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.  I have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

I may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.  The “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy will also be updated.  Check back periodically to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.