Privacy Policy
I’m Clare Solomon and I own this website – https://puzzlesforwriters.co.uk.
Website
My website, puzzlesforwriters.co.uk, collects non-identifiable information, such as the number of visitors each day, for the purpose of letting me understand how people use my site and what posts are the most popular.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site I 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.
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.
Affiliated Social Links
I also have pages that people may choose to follow at Facebook, Goodreads and Amazon. These companies have their own privacy policies that people can read to check how their data is collected, stored and used. Queries about these policies can be made to these companies.
Your Rights
You have the right to access your personal data and know how it is used; request that I update or correct your personal data; or request that your personal data be deleted.
If you have any concerns about how your data is collected, stored or used, please let me know by e-mailing me at any time at clare.solomon@puzzlesforwriters.co.uk.