Privacy Policy

JewishPoetry.net PRIVACY POLICY

JewishPoetry.net (the “Company”) is committed to maintaining robust privacy protections for its users.  Our Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is designed to help you understand how we collect, use and safeguard the information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Service.

For purposes of this Agreement, “Site” refers to the Company’s website, which can be accessed at www.jewishpoetry.net.

“Service” refers to the Company’s services accessed via the Site, in which users can read poetry, submit poetry for publication consideration, enter a poetry contest, view links to other poetry websites, and participate in other unique poetry-related projects.. 

The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the Company.

“You” refers to you, as a user of our Site or our Service. 

By accessing our Site or our Service, you accept our Privacy Policy , and you consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

I.               INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We do not automatically collect any information personal or otherwise via cookies or any other method automatically, unless the user fills in a form to add their email to our email list.

We do not use cookies or any other method to automatically store any info from website visitors.

 

Ia.             GOOGLE USER DATA

Although we have certain API’s which connect through Google, we do not collect, store or use any user’s Google data, and our Google API usage is exclusively used to connect our online forms (such as our contest entry form) with Google Spread Sheets so we can easily manage the info users fill out on our entry form. Any info you enter is used exclusively to administer your contest entry and not for any other purpose.

 

II.             HOW WE USE AND SHARE INFORMATION

Personal Information:

Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share for marketing purposes your Personal Information with third parties without your consent. For example, if you enter our contest and earn a prize, we will pass your address on to our sponsor assigned to send you that prize.

In general, the Personal Information you provide to us is used to help us communicate with you. For example, we use Personal Information to contact users in response to questions, solicit feedback from users, provide technical support, and inform users about promotional offers.

We will not otherwise share Personal Information with outside parties iat all.

Non-Personal Information

We do not collect any non-personal information using any method whatsoever.

III.           HOW WE PROTECT INFORMATION

We implement security measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access. Your account is protected by your account password and we urge you to take steps to keep your personal information safe by not disclosing your password and by logging out of your account after each use. We further protect your information from potential security breaches by implementing certain technological security measures including encryption, firewalls and secure socket layer technology. However, these measures do not guarantee that your information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of such firewalls and secure server software. By using our Service, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.

IV.           YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING THE USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You have the right at any time to prevent us from contacting you for marketing purposes.  When we send a promotional communication to a user, the user can opt out of further promotional communications by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in each promotional e-mail. You can also indicate that you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us in the [list location of opt-out page, i.e. “Settings” section] of the Site. Please note that notwithstanding the promotional preferences you indicate by either unsubscribing or opting out using the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email we send, we may continue to send you administrative emails.

V.             LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

As part of the Service, we may provide links to or compatibility with other websites or applications. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by those websites or the information or content they contain. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us through the Site and the Service. Therefore, this Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of a third party website accessed by selecting a link on our Site or via our Service. To the extent that you access or use the Service through or on another website or application, then the privacy policy of that other website or application will apply to your access or use of that site or application. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of other websites before proceeding to use them.

VI.           CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

The Company reserves the right to change this policy and our Terms of Service at any time.  We will update the privacy policy on this page and change the date below to indicate changes have been made. Since users to not have accounts on our website, we do not send separate notification of such changes.

VII.         CONTACT US

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the practices of this Site, please contact us by sending an email to info at jewishpoetry.net

Last Updated: This Privacy Policy was last updated on February 21, 2022.