Who we are
At TheAuthorityWriter.com, we value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of information we collect, how we use it, and the steps we take to ensure your information is secure.
Information We Collect
When you register on our site, we collect the following information:
- User Name
- Email Address
- Telephone Number
This information is collected solely for the purposes of user registration, communication, and providing our services to you.
Payment Information
For payments, we use Stripe, a third-party payment processing service. As a result, we do not collect or store any credit card information or billing addresses on our site. All payment transactions are handled securely through Stripe’s platform. Please refer to Stripe’s Privacy Policy for information on how they handle your payment data.
How We Use Your Information
The information we collect is used for the following purposes:
- To manage user accounts and provide customer support
- To communicate with you regarding your account or our services
- To send you important information, such as updates, service announcements, or other administrative messages
- To improve our website and services based on user feedback and interaction
We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Data Security
We take the security of your personal information seriously. We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include encryption, secure servers, and limited access to personal information by authorised personnel only.
Your Rights
You have the following rights concerning your personal information:
- Access: You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you.
- Correction: You have the right to request corrections to any inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete your personal information, subject to legal or regulatory obligations that may require us to retain certain data.
- Opt-out: You can opt out of receiving certain communications from us, such as marketing emails.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected].
Cookies and Tracking
Our website may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience and gather information about how you use our site. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device. You can choose to disable cookies in your browser settings, but this may affect your ability to use certain features of our site.
This site utilizes caching to facilitate a faster response time and a better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. Except for when it’s necessary to contact the cache plugin vendor for technical support, all cache files are temporary and never accessible by outside parties. The site administrator sets the date on which cache files expire, but if it’s necessary, the admin can easily delete them before their scheduled expiration. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily. Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make significant changes, we will notify you via email or through a prominent notice on our website. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, please contact us at [email protected].
Thank you for trusting TheAuthorityWriter.com with your personal information. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy.
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. Website visitors can download and extract any location data from images if available.
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 you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, 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 set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last 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 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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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 who register on our website, 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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
