PRIVACY POLICY

(Updated 5/24/18)

Christina Deptulski owns and operates https://www.teacher-librarian-forlife.com (“Website”). This privacy statement applies to our collection, use, and sharing of personal information we receive from visitors and users of this website.

We use personal information solely for the purpose of providing and improving this Website. By using the Website, you agree to this privacy policy, including the collection and use of information in accordance with this privacy statement. If you disagree with any aspect of this privacy policy, please discontinue use of this Website.

1. INFORMATION COLLECTION, USE, AND SHARING

While using the Website, you may provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information includes any of the following: your first and last name and your email address.

Like many other sites, we collect information that your browser sends when you visit our Website (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (“IP address”), browser information, Internet Service Provider (“ISP”) information, the pages of our Website that you visit, time spent on those pages and other statistics. We may also use third-party services such as Google Analytics to collect, monitor and analyze Log Data.

“Cookies” are files with small amounts of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Like many other websites, we use cookies to collect information solely for the purposes of analysis of content performance.

This website includes advertisement and those advertisers may collect, use, store and disclose data and information collected from visitors, including information related to your demographic information. Our affiliate partners include Amazon Affiliates, ShopHer Media (coupons & promotions for United States Residents), CJ Affiliates, Skimlinks, Grammarly®, Bluehost, and/or ShareaSale. Each of these advertising partners has their own privacy policy for their site, which you can review at each of their sites.

You can turn off the use of cookies at any time in your browser’s settings. Please refer to the help section of your browser for instructions on how to do this. If you choose to disable cookies, this may affect your ability to access or use some portions of our Website.

2. PERSONAL INFORMATION USE AND SHARING

Except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy, we do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share your Personal Information with third parties without your consent. We may share Personal Information with vendor service providers of this Website, such as the servers for our email communications (Mail Chimp). Those vendors use your Personal Information only at our direction and in accordance with this policy.

In general, any Personal Information that you provide to us is used solely to help us communicate with you. For example, we use Personal Information to contact Website visitors in response to questions, solicit feedback and share promotional offers. See Section 4 for more information regarding our email marketing.

3. INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE

When you leave a comment (using Replyable) on this website, you are giving implied consent for this comment and your information to appear on our website. In leaving a comment, your name and email address will not be shared with any third party. We may use your email address solely to respond to your comment. However, we are not liable or responsible for the actions of other individuals and the unauthorized use of such information that you voluntarily share.

We have public social media accounts and social sharing options on our website. If you choose to interact on social media (Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, and GoodReads) with us or our accounts, you are advised that any interactions on those accounts are publicly available.

4. EMAIL MARKETING

If you choose to opt into our email newsletter, you will occasionally receive emails regarding updates to this website or newsletters. You may opt out of our email newsletter at any time. Our email newsletter is managed through an email list management provider (Mail Chimp) and opting out of one of our email lists may not necessarily remove you from all emails.

If you correspond with us via email (Gmail & Zoho), we may retain the email messages and correspondence, but will not share this information with any third party.

5. SECURITY

We make every attempt to keep your Personal Information secure, but we realize that no transmission over the internet is 100% secure. We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, but we cannot guarantee absolute security. By using this Website, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.

6. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

This Website includes links to other websites. Once you leave our website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our Website’s Terms and Conditions.

When you click on links on our Website, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

7. UPDATES

This Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.

8. COMMENTS

When visitors leave comments on the site using (Replyable) 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.

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.

9) ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics. Read their policy here.

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.

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.

Visitors & comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

This site is only meant for anyone 18 years or older.

Copyright for This Website

© [Christina D.] and [The Blog for Teacher, Readers, and Life], [2017-2020]. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Small excerpts (ex. two sentences) and links may be used for non-commercial use, provided that full and clear credit is given to [Christina teacher-reader-forlife.com] and [The Blog for Teachers, Readers, and Life] with appropriate and specific direction and links to the original content. You may not modify or adapt the original content, and this use will not defame, or injure any party on this site and/or this blog.

Any comments and/or images that are not Christina are owned by the person that wrote them. Please seek out the individuals that originally created these works for copyright permission. I will usually provide the name and description of the images with links to the original images. Please go to the original websites/sources.

You may not use any spider, robots, scrapers, any malware and/or and viruses etc..

Comments

Comments are the property of the people that wrote them. I would like this blog to be a place where everyone feels comfortable expressing their thoughts and ideas about various books and themes on this blog in a respectful manner. Harassment or bullying in any form will not be tolerated, and I reserve the right not to post certain comments. Please keep your comments mindful. The whole world can view this blog.

Comments should not contain any spam, including, but not limited to mass mailings, chain letters, solicitations, political campaigns etc. You may not impersonate anyone else or provide a false email. You may not use any spider, robots, scrapers, any malware and/or and viruses etc..

Images Used on This Site

Quite a few of the photographs were taken by me (Christina teacher-reader-forlife.com). Many of the images on my site are from the talented photographers and artists at Pixabay. I used images that are in the commercial use and no attribution catagory, and images that are in the Public Domain from the New York Library. There are links to the original images. Please go directly to the original source if you plan to use them, and follow the terms of use. My images are cited with Christina teacher-librarian-forlife.com in this blog, but they are protected under the copyright policy previously mentioned at the beginning of this page.