Privacy Policy

The Scarlet Cords understands your concerns about privacy and is committed to protecting your privacy through compliance with this notice.

Information Collection

The Scarlet Cords does not actively collect any information that identifies you personally, such as your name, address, telephone number or email address, other than a domain name and Internet Protocol (IP) address unless provided by you through your contact with our website. The domain name and IP address reveal nothing personal about you other than the IP address from which you have accessed our site. We may also collect information about the type of Internet browser you are using, operating system, what brought you to our site, as well as which of our website’s pages you have accessed.

We receive non-personal data through cookies, log files and third-party analytics when you access our site.

Cookies

Cookies are stored information on a user’s computer or device that are tied to information about the user and used to provide smoother navigation throughout the site, such as to store a saved password; to identify user trends, such as page views; and for other internal purposes, such as to assess the effectiveness of the site. You have the option of setting your computer to disable cookies or to alert you when cookies are being uses. If you choose to disable cookies, please be aware that portions of the site may not function property.

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.

Log Files

Log files store information such as a user’s IP, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp and number of clicks. Like most websites, the site uses log files to analyze trends, administer the site and track users’ movement on the site in the aggregate.

Third Party Analytics

Third Party Analytics are provided by automated devices and applications, such as Google Analytics and Google Analytics Advertising Features, to evaluate the use of our services. We use these tools to gather non-personal data about users to help us improve our services and user experiences. These analytics providers may use cookies and other technologies to perform their services and may combine the information they collect about you on our sites with other information they have collected for they own purposes. These policy does not cover such uses of data by third parties.

Protecting Children

This site is not intended for children under 13 years of age. The Scarlet Cords does not knowingly collect or use any information about individuals who are 13 years of age or younger. If you are under 13, do no use or provide any information on this site or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, telephone number, email address or any screen or user name you may use.

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 anonymized 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.

External Links

There are external links to other websites throughout the site. 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.

Please note that The Scarlet Cords is not responsible for the privacy policies of those other websites and hereby disclaims any liability or responsibility in connection with such linked websites.

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.

Disclosure of Information

We do not share your personal information with any third parties without your consent except as follows: to comply with the law or to protect the safety of our user or others; or with service providers performing services on our behalf. Any service providers employed by us will have access to your personal information solely to the stent necessary to enable them to perform services on our behalf and will be contractually prohibited from using the personal information for any other purpose.

Acceptance of privacy policy terms

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of information as specified above. If we make changes to our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes on this page.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and The Scarlet Cords privacy practices, contact us at scarlet@thescarletcords.com.

This policy is effective as of April 19, 2020.