Privacy Policy

Who we are

This is the website of Rodolfo A. Cartas‘, the author of the Childhood Forgotten.

Your privacy is very important to us. We have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, provide the service you have requested, or protect our rights.

Owner Contact Information: Rodolfo A. Cartas

Comments

The website was created to keep of you up-to-date with the latest news about our book(s). We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required while subscribing to our email or contact list, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Identifiable personal information may include, but is not limited to, your name and email address.

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

Cookies and other identifiers consist of portions of code installed in the browser that assist the Owner in providing the services according to the purposes described. Some of the purposes for which Cookies are installed may also require the User’s consent. Where the installation of Cookies is based on consent, such consent can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.

Since the installation of third-party cookies and other tracking systems through the services used within this website cannot be technically controlled by the Owner, any specific references to Cookies and tracking systems installed by third parties are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, the user is kindly requested to consult the privacy policy for the respective third-party services listed in this document.

Embedded content from other websites

Web pages on this site and blog email updates may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) and contact details of third parties or links to third party websites. Some of the webpages of the website also contain embedded objects such as YouTube videos and Instagram photographs. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. Contacting those third parties or clicking on those links or using the embedded objects may allow third parties to collect or share personal data about you and use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content. We do not control these third-parties and are not responsible for their privacy statements or processing activities.

We will not process your personal data unless we have a legal basis to do so under data protection law and we will not process your personal data in a way you would not expect. Below we set this out in detail, showing you what we do with your personal data and why:

Analytics: We use website analytics to find out things such as the number and geolocation of visitors to the different webpages of the website. This data is aggregated and processed in such a way which does not identify anyone and therefore is not considered to be personal data in law. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of this application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. Click here to see Google’s Privacy Policy.
Blog Email Updates: When you subscribe to the blog mailing list you are consenting to receiving updates from the blog. You can unsubscribe from the blog at any time by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of any blog email update or by contacting the owner.
Email Enquiries: When you send an email about the website, blog or this privacy notice, this is your consent for us to consider and respond to your enquiry We retain your email address for as long as you are a subscriber.

We use WPform as the email delivery provider which we use to collect and store the email addresses of subscribers to the blog and to deliver the blog updates to your email inboxes. Click here to see WPform’s Privacy Policy.

We may also share your personal data with other third parties where required by law or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so

Interaction with external social networks and platforms: Facebook Like button and social widgets, Pinterest “Pin it” button/widgets and Twitter Tweet button/social widget have their own Privacy Policies. We do not control these third-parties and are not responsible for their privacy statements or processing activities.
Plugin: Really Simple SSL and Really Simple SSL add-ons do not process any personal identifiable information, so the GDPR does not apply to these plugins or usage of these plugins on your website. You can find our privacy policy here.
Plugin: Akismet. This plugin is an anti-spam service. You can find their privacy policy here.
Plugin: Smush does not interact with end users on your website. The only input option Smush has is to a newsletter subscription for site admins only. Smush sends images to the WPMU DEV servers to optimize them for web use. This includes the transfer of EXIF data. The EXIF data will either be stripped or returned as it is. It is not stored on the WPMU DEV servers. Smush uses the Stackpath Content Delivery Network (CDN). Stackpath may store web log information of site visitors, including IPs, UA, referrer, Location and ISP info of site visitors for 7 days. Files and images served by the CDN may be stored and served from countries other than your own. Stackpath’s privacy policy can be found here. Smush uses a third-party email service (Drip) to send informational emails to the site administrator. The administrator’s email address is sent to Drip and a cookie is set by the service. Only administrator information is collected by Drip.

Who we share your data with

We only share your personal data as an essential part of being able to maintain the website and the blog, as set out in this privacy notice.

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.

There are various ways to manage data related preferences and to provide and withdraw consent, where relevant:

Users can manage preferences related to data from directly within their own device settings, for example, by preventing the use or storage of data.
Additionally, whenever the use of data is based on consent, users can provide or withdraw such consent by setting their preferences within the cookie notice or by updating such preferences accordingly via the relevant consent-preferences widget, if available.
It is also possible, via relevant browser or device features, to delete previously stored data, including those used to remember the user’s initial consent.
Other data in the browser’s local memory may be cleared by deleting the browsing history.
With regard to any third-party data, users can manage their preferences and withdraw their consent via the related opt-out link (where provided), by using the means indicated in the third party’s privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.

The Owner thus recommends that users make use of their own national resources in addition to the information provided in this document.

What rights you have over your data

Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
Request the restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data, for example if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
Request the transfer of your personal data to another party.

If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal data, object to the processing of your personal data, or other requests, please contact us.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal data.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, please contact the Owner.