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Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is written for www.kmgreads.blogspot.com. This policy explains how the owner of this website (the “Owner”) collects, manages and protects your personally identifiable information (“Personal Data”) data while you browse or use this website.

1. Your Personal Data collected via www.kmgreads.blogspot.com (the “Website”)

The Owner will only collect Personal Data where you choose to interact on the Website in the following ways:
  • When you sign up for the RSS feed and/or newsletter
  • When you enter contests, giveaways and promotions (first name, last name, email address, and if you win, your mailing address)
  • When you use the Contact Form (name, email address, any personal data you provide in the  Message box)

The Owner will use your Personal Data to:
  • send you updates on blog posts, book news and giveaways
  • respond to your questions, comments and requests
  • administer a contest, giveaway and/or promotion
The data collected is by active consent that is received separately from all other requests, and it is not made with a condition to receive other products or services.

2. Retention periods for use of your Personal Data

The Owner will use and store your Personal Data only for as long as necessary, bearing in mind the uses of your Personal Data as described in this privacy policy. The Owner will review the stored Personal Data at regular intervals and permanently delete or anonymize any Personal Data which is no longer necessary.

The Owner use Google Analytics on this Website. Information collected by Google Analytics is stored for 14 months (by Google) and then deleted.

3. Sharing of your Personal Data

The Owner will not sell or trade your Personal Data to outside parties.

4. Cookies

This Website uses “cookies” to track visits for Google Analytics. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help improve access to the site and identify repeat visitors to the Website. Cookies can also enable the tracking and targeting of interests of users to enhance the experience on the Website. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on the Website.

This Website uses Google Analytics, which automatically collects certain information when you visit the Website – such as the type of browser and operating system you are using, your location and the domain name of your Internet service provider. This information is not linked with any Personal Data.

5. Site Commenting

If you leave a comment on this Website, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.

When visitors leave comments on the site, the collected data includes the information shown in the comments form (name, email address and website URL), and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

6. Links, affiliate tracking & commissions

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that the Owner is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. The Owner encourages users to be aware when they leave this Website and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Any ad links and affiliate links on this site are clearly identified as such and are served through the Website’s advertising partners (Good Adsense). Clicking on any ad and/or links may track your actions by using a cookie saved to your device. Your actions are usually recorded as a referral from this Website by this cookie. The Owner might earn a very small commission from the advertiser or advertising partner, at no cost to you, whether you make a purchase on their linked website or not.

7. Children

This Website is aimed at adults, and the Owner does not knowingly collect any Personal Data relating to children under the age of 13 years old. If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide this Website with any of your Personal Data, including your email address.

8. Contact the Owner

If you would like to:
  • see what Personal Data the Owner holds about you (if any), including why the Owner is holding it and who it could be disclosed to;
  • ask the Owner to change/correct your Personal Data;
  • ask the Owner to delete your Personal Data;
please fill the Contact page with proper heading.

This policy is effective as of January1, 2020. The Owner regularly reviews this Policy and therefore this Privacy Policy may change from time to time.

ADS & AFFILIATE POLICY

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by Kangkan Moni Gayan. For questions about this blog, please contact me.

PRODUCT REVIEWS

I am sometimes sent books and book-related items to review. I do not receive any other monetary compensation to review the product (other than the free product) and will disclose the free item(s) at the beginning of the post.

All of my opinions presented in product reviews on this site are my own and have not been reviewed by any third-party companies before publication. I only accept products to be reviewed if I believe that they are relevant to this site and would be of value to my readers.

SPONSORED POSTS

If a post is financially sponsored by a company, I will disclose that at the beginning of the post. Again, I only accept sponsored posts by companies/products that I believe are relevant to this site and would be of value to my readers. If it’s not something I would normally recommend, I will not accept a sponsored post for it.

ADVERTISING

I run Google Adsense on this site and all ads will be identified as such.

This policy is valid from January 1, 2020.

Blog Comments Policy

The owner of this blog reserves the right to edit or delete any comments submitted to this blog without notice due to:
  • Comments deemed to be spam or questionable spam
  • Comments including profanity
  • Comments containing language or concepts that could be deemed offensive
  • Comments that attack a person individually
This privacy policy statement may change in the future with or without notice. You should read this privacy policy on this page and any future updates.

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