Privacy Policy www.theturnpikescrolls.com (Version 2.0)
My name is Douglas J. Snyder. My website is www.theturnpikescrolls.com (“my website”). I am a fiction writer. I use my website to showcase some of my fiction works. My website restricts access to samples of my fiction works. To request access to samples, you usually have to contact me through my website to request a password.
This privacy policy outlines the types of personal information I may receive or collect when you use my website. It also apprises you of some of the methods used to safeguard information. If you cannot agree to this privacy policy, please do not provide your personal information on my website. If you do provide your personal information, your doing so means that you agree with this privacy policy, the terms and conditions herein. Thank you for taking the time to visit.
I. Collection of Personal Information.
A. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable, such as your name, address, email address, or phone number. My website may use cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience and to learn about how you use my website. A “cookie” is a small file containing a string of characters that uniquely identifies your browser. While most browsers accept cookies by default, you can manually set your browser to refuse all cookies, accept cookies from specific websites, or highlight when a cookie is sent to your browser. My website or its servers may also automatically record information when you visit it. For example, it may automatically record the URL that directed you to my website, your IP address, browser type and the date and time of your visit. If you do not agree to accept cookies from my website, some or all of the content might not be available to you.
II. How My Website Uses Your Information
A. My website uses a dialog box to receive your name and email address. Your name and your email address are used by my website to receive requests for passwords. Passwords, when provided, grant access to samples of my fiction works in a variety of formats.
B. My website may use your name and email address to update you on my new fiction samples as they become available.
C. I may use your name and email address to contact you for the purposes of asking for your feedback on the restricted-access samples of fiction works made available to you on my website.
D. Your information may be aggregated with the information of others that also use my website. If this is done, it is on a non-identifiable basis.
III. Policy On Sharing Your Information.
A. I will not sell, rent or lease your personal information to others. I may share personal information with persons or companies working on my behalf. For example, I may share the limited amount of personal information I collect with an actual or prospective publisher of my work. Additionally, I may provide descriptive statistics or aggregated data to companies working on my behalf if I can do so on a non-identifiable basis. Finally, I work with providers that help design and operate my website. I may share personal information I collect through my website with them.
B. There is a very good chance that I will disclose personal information under the following circumstances. I may have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of personal information is reasonably necessary to: (1) satisfy and applicable law, regulation, legal process or legitimate governmental request, (2) detect, prevent, or otherwise address suspected fraud, security or technical issues, (3) enforce any applicable terms of use, including investigation of potential violations of my website’s terms of use, or (4) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of myself, my website, the users of my website, its providers, my or my provider’s employees and agents, or the general public, as required or permitted by law.
IV. Sites Covered By This Privacy Policy
A. My website may, from time to time, link to third-party websites for your convenience and to provide easy access to additional useful information. Should you select such a link, you will leave my website. I do not control those sites or their privacy practices, which may be different from the privacy practices on my website. Any personal data you choose to provide to, or that is collected by, such third parties, is not in any way covered by this privacy policy. I suggest that you read over the linked website’s privacy policy before providing any personal information there. A link to another website from my website does not, in any way, constitute an endorsement or representation about the value, quality or usefulness of anything found on that third-party website that my website happened to provide a link to.
V. Information Security
A. With the assistance of my business agent and the providers I work with, I keep your personal information using the same reasonable measures I use to protect my own email address, name, and similar information under similar circumstances.
VI. Changes To This Policy
A. I reserve the right to update this privacy policy at any time. Please check the link to the privacy policy on my website from time to time. Check the date on the privacy policy as the date will change with any and all updates.
VII. Contacting Me
A. You may contact me through my website.
B. You may also contact me at the following address: P.O. Box 7734, Houston, TX 77270.
VIII. Posting Date & Update History
1. Version 2.0 posted on my website on 30 March 2022.
