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Art, videos, images, & graphics disclaimer
All of the logo variations for Cross World Reads so far were created by Gale include elements from Cosmic Stories Studio (bought with a Commercial License) and Canva’s collection of graphics (all Open Source). They are under Gale’s ownership and cannot be used or repurposed without explicit permission.
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- Goodreads
- Storygraph
- Author’s Website
- Media Kits
- YouTube
More Details on Privacy Policy & Practices
*Adapted from Genesis Child Theme’s Default Privacy Policy
ABOUT PERSONAL DATA
Certain forms on Cross World Reads might ask you to provide the following identifiable information: Name, Email Address, and [WordPress] Website. This data will be collected if you complete the following actions:
- Leave a comment on Cross World Reads posts and additional content
- Submit a message on the Contact form
ABOUT COMMENTS
When visitors leave comments on the site, Cross World Reads collects the data shown in the comments form, 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.
ABOUT UPLOADED MEDIA FILES
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 & OTHER TRACKING METHODS
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 visit the login page, 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.
In order to ensure that your cookies are disabled, you may reference these guides for Google Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
This will only be true if Cross World Reads is managed by multiple contributors: 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, among others). 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.
Cross World Reads and its contributors do not have access to or control over behavior of embedded content from other websites.
WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH?
If you request a password reset when logging in to your WordPress account, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
HOW LONG DO 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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
WHAT RIGHTS DO YOU HAVE OVER YOUR DATA?
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
WHERE IS YOUR DATA SENT?
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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By using this website, you hereby consent to these policies and agree to the terms set by these policies. Depending on the development of this blog, Gale Cross reserves the right to update or make any changes to these policies without notice.