Who we are-
The Winged Pen is a group of bloggers who provide content appropriate for writers and readers. Our website address is: https://thewingedpen.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it-
During a visitor’s interaction with our blog, we may collect personal information such as the visitor’s name, email address, and personal account preferences (when it is provided by the user) and technical data, such as information about cookies and the visitor’s IP address. This information is not shared with third parties with the exception of the plugins that are utilized by this blog such as Jetpack, Akismet, Playbuzz, Wordfence, and WP Super Cache. Click on each link to read the privacy policy for those plugins.
We have links to our social media accounts for this blog. Click on these links for Twitter’s privacy policy and Facebook’s.
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. 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.
Contact forms
We use a Jetpack plug in. To understand what information Jetpack may collect, please refer to their privacy policy.
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.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use a Jetpack plug in. To understand what information Jetpack may collect, please refer to their privacy policy.
Akismet Anti-SPAM
Akismet collects information about visitors who comment on our site. The information they collect typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Who we share your data with-
We share data with the following plugins to facilitate the operation of this blog: Jetpack, Akismet, Playbuzz, Wordfence, and WP Super Cache.
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.
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 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 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 we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
If you have a privacy-related concern, you may contact us at info@thewingedpen.com.