Privacy Policy

Copyright

This website and its content is, unless explicitly stated otherwise, copyright of Victoria Pearson – © Victoria Pearson [2019]. All rights reserved.

Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:

  • you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only
  • you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal, non-commercial use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material

You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.

Disclaimer

The stories, flash fiction, microfiction and poetry on this website are fictional, and any resemblance to actual persons (living or dead), businesses, events, locales or incidents is entirely coincidental.

Opinions expressed on this site do not reflect the ideas, ideologies, or points of view of any organization we are potentially affiliated with at this time or in the future.

Non Fiction posts on this blog should be read as the personal opinions of the author only, and not be used in lieu of legal, medical or, indeed, life advice. The information on this site is authentic to the best of our knowledge, and as such, it is prone to errors and absence of some key information. This site is generated for entertainment and informative purposes, and should not be perceived as professional advice in regards to health or finances, or any other field. Always consult a qualified professional. Readers should not rely on the information supplied in posts of all types on this site, and if they do, they do so at their own risk.

The author accepts no liability for loss of life, limb, earnings or possessions in the event that the reader follows the advice or example of characters within the fiction on this site. If you copy a character and end up summoning a dragon, well, that’s your problem. Don’t say you weren’t warned.

Through this website you are able to link to other websites which are not under the control of victoriapearson.co.uk. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.

This site and all of its content, including comment sections, may be removed without prior notice.

Financial transparency

This site does not currently run paid advertising posts or publish any sponsored content. If we ever do, we will make that clear in the post in question.

We do occasionally receive free copies of books in exchange for honest reviews. If those are posted here, the post will clearly state the items were given free or discounted in exchange for review.

Even if items are received free or discounted in exchange for reviews, all reviews and opinions of the book or product in question will be given without favour, as if the product or content was purchased at full price.

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.

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

Our contact forms do not: track users by stealth, write any user personal data to the database, send any data to external servers, or use cookies.

Information sent through the contact form (your name, email address, and in some cases website URL) will only be used to answer your query, process your order, or follow up your comments, and won’t be passed to third parties, stored, or used for any purpose you haven’t explicitly consented to.

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 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.

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 just 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.

This site uses PayPal button to allow donations. This is also embedded content and is not under the control of victoriapearson.co.uk. Users should refer to PayPal’s own privacy policy to learn how they store and process your personal data.

Analytics

We use a GDPR compliant version of WP Statistics (V12.4.0) to build an idea of who our audience is and hopefully deliver better content. WP Statistics doesn’t collect, store or send any personal data, or use cookies, and it anonymises your IP address. Anonymised information collected includes, but is not limited to, browser type, page response times, length of visits to pages, page interaction information and methods used to browse away from pages. This information is regularly purged.

We will never (and will not allow any third party) use any analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. The Web Analytics vendors do not associate your IP address with any other data held by them. Neither we nor the web analytics Vendors will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user, unless express consent is given to follow up with a user interaction. 

Firstborn child clause

On this website we don’t ask for your firstborn child, your immortal soul, or even your eternal fealty, loyalty and recognition that Victoria Pearson is High Queen, outranking all others, and that you agree to fight alongside her in case of alien invasion, zombie rising, or dragon attack. Which is just as well really, because you’d probably not notice it here. This is one of the reasons you should always read the terms and conditions.

Who we share your data with

We don’t share your personal data with any third parties. Embedded content from other websites, including social media and websites linked in posts and pages have their own privacy policies and data protection policies and should be checked separately as they aren’t covered by the terms of this 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. Administrators will not use your information for any purpose you have not explicitly consented to unless we are obliged to for legal or security purposes.

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.

Your contact information

Your contact information will only be used for purposes you have explicitly consented to, for example to complete a transaction, process a comment or respond to an email sent via the contact form. Your contact information will not be stored or used for marketing purposes unless you explicitly opt in through, for example, an email sign up form.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.

Bottom Line

We take all reasonable steps possible to ensure your data is protected. We will never sell, rent, hire, lease or give your information away. We will only use personal information you have shared with us for the purposes you have explicitly consented to.

If you want to opt out of cookies at any time, you can refuse them via the cookie bar on this website, or on your computer’s browser. You can request that your data to be erased at any time.

This privacy policy is subject to change without notice. If you have any questions, please contact us.

If you’ve actually read this far, well done, and thank you. This wasn’t fun to write, and I’m sure it’s less fun to read. Here, have a cookie.

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