Privacy Policy

Who We Are

Pine’s Pen is a sole proprietorship freelance writing service. For any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, you can email [email protected].

Cookies

If you leave a comment or contact request 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 or contact request. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our 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.

Comment and Contact Requests

When visitors leave comments or contact requests on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments or contact request form and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

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.

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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Your data is never sold to third parties for marketing purposes. Your data may be shared with certain third parties that provide necessary services to this website for the sole purpose of maintenance of this website and analytics to improve this website.

These third-parties include BlueHost by newfold digital (you can find their privacy policy here: https://newfold.com/privacy-center) and Google Analytics (you can find their privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites).

How long we retain your data

If you submit a contact request, any provided information and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can fulfill the request, provide a more personalized experience for returning customers, and maintain communication with potential customers.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments or contact requests, 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 by emailing [email protected]. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.