Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 24th May 2018

Who owns this website

This is the personal website of author M. W. Craven.

The website address is: https://www.mwcraven.com.

What personal data is collected on this website and why it’s collected

Contact forms

The contact form on this website collects your name and email address to allow M. W. Craven to correspond with you via email. This data is not stored on the website database or shared with any third parties.

Cookies

This website uses cookies as listed below. You can turn off these cookies at anytime by modifying your Internet browser’s cookie settings.

Google Analytics

Like many websites, this site uses Google Analytics to track user interaction. This data is used to determine the number of visitors to the site and helps to improve the experience of our website users.

Although Google Analytics records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us.

The Google Analytics tracking code on this website will anonymise your IP address as soon as technically feasible by removing the part of your address. This will happen before storage and processing begins, meaning your full IP address is never written to the disk.

Twitter

This website loads cookies from Twitter to enable the display an functionality of a feed widget. Further information can be found on Twitter’s cookies policy here.

Embedded content from other websites

This site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, social media feeds etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the you have 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.

Who we share your data with

This website uses Google Analytics to track user behaviour. This data may be accessed by Google, their privacy policy can be found here.

How long we retain your data

If you subscribe for updates your name and email address are retained indefinitely. This is so we can continue to send you a notification email each time a new news article is published.

What rights you have over your data

If you subscribe for updates, you can request to receive a copy 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. You can request a copy of your data or request that your data be erased by sending a message using this contact form. You can also unsubscribe from receiving updates at any time by using the link in the notification email you receive from this website. If you unsubscribe your data will then be erased from the database.

Additional information

How we protect your data

This website uses best practices to ensure that any personal data is as secure as possible. This website is secured usingSHA-2 and 2048-bit encryption via a domain verified SSL Certificate.