Please read our privacy policy carefully. Continued use of this site indicates acceptance.
Who we are
We are Ely Writers, and our website address is https://elywriters.pandammonium.org/.
Comments
If you leave a comment on the site, we will collect the data shown in the comments form along with your IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised 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 at:
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 extrat any location data from images on the website.
Please make sure you control the copyright of any media that you upload to the website to avoid copyright infringement or violation. Uploading media to this website does not change the copyright.
Projects and articles
Please make sure you control the copyright of any written work, whether fiction, non-fiction, poetry or prose, that you publish on the website to avoid copyright infringement or violation. Uploading written work to this website does not change the copyright.
We will require your name and email address to publish your project or article. An anonymised 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 at:
Your name and email address will be stored for as long as you have at least one article or project on the site.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on this site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you don’t have to fill in your details againif you leave another comment. These cookies will last one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set up a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies or not. This cookie contains no personal data and will be discarded when you close your browser.
If you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen choices. Login cookies last for two days and screen options cookies last for one 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.
If you edit or publish an article when logged in, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data; it indicates the post ID of the article you just edited or published. It expires after one day.
Contact form
Google reCAPTCHA v3 is used for spam detection. Any data you enter on the contact form on this site may be collected and sent to Google in accordance with Google’s privacy policy:
Embedded content from other sites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you had visited the other website.
These websites may:
- collect data about you
- use cookies
- embed additional third-party tracking
- monitor your interaction with that embedded content
- track your interaction with that embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Current embedded sources
- Google Maps:
- Google Fonts:
- The Google Fonts used on this website are stored locally (i.e. on this server), so Google does not have to be contacted when the fonts are used. Nevertheless, here’s the Google Fonts privacy policy:
- Font Awesome:
- The Font Awesome fonts used on this website are stored locally (i.e. on this server), so Font Awesome does not have to be contacted when the fonts are used, except when used by a third party. Here’s the Font Awesome privacy policy:
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so that we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
If you register on the website, we will store the personal information your provide in your user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time. Site administrators can also see and edit that information. Usernames cannot be changed once created, even by site administrators.
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 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 that we unpublish any of your projects and articles at any time.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Other third-party privacy policies
The following privacy policies are relevant to this website:
- Automattic:
- WordPress:
- Akismet:
- Gravatar:
- Jetpack:
Any third-party WordPress plugins used must adhere to WordPress’s privacy rules:
Links to certain social media sites are provided on this website. Here are the relevant privacy policies for each: