This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used by our website. PII, in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to understand how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your PII.
I am an author and the purpose of this site is to share information about my works. My website addresses are: http://maggiesims.com and http://maggiesimsauthor.com (both of which point to the same actual website, this one you’re reading now).
NA: We don’t collect or display user comments.
NA: We don’t collect or display user uploads.
NA: We do not track your usage and we do not use any analytics.
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 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.
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.
We don’t share your data. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. If you subscribe to our newsletter, your name (as you entered it) and email address will be used to send you the newsletter.
For users that register on our website (if any), we store the name and email address they provided until they request to unsubscribe. The name and email address are deleted when the user unsubscribes. And only Website administrators can see these names and email addresses.
We don’t store any personal information beyond your name and email address for newsletter subscriptions. If you want your name and email address deleted just unsubscribe.
If you fill out our contact form, you will be prompted to confirm you’re not a spammer by an anti-spam detection service called Captcha. Please see their site for their privacy policy. http://www.captcha.net/ Your contact request will be sent to us as an email message and won’t be stored in any database on this website. The contact email message may be retained indefinitely.
Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require a person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting personally identifiable information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals with whom it is being shared, and to comply with this policy. – See more here.
According to CalOPPA we agree to the following:
Users can visit our site anonymously
Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page, or as a minimum on the first significant page after entering our website.
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’, and can be easily be found on the page specified above.
Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page.
Users are able to change their personal information:
By unsubscribing
By emailing us to unsubscribe
By logging in to their account
We honor do not track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
We do not allow behavioral tracking
We do not specifically market to children under 13.
In compliance with the Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
We will notify the users via email within 7 business days
We will notify the users via in site notification within 7 business days
The CAN-SPAM Act is a US law that sets the rules for commercial email. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003
We collect your email address in order to:
Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred
In accordance with the CAN SPAM Act, we agree to the following:
we won’t use false, or misleading subjects or email addresses
we will reasonably identify a message as an advertisement
we will include a physical address for you to contact us
we will monitor third party email marketing services for compliance if we use one
we will honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly
we will allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can follow the instructions at the bottom of each email.
Maggie Sims LLC
12600 Hill Country Blvd. Ste R-130 #129
Austin, TX, USA 78738