PRIVACY POLICY - YK Content

Your privacy is critically important to us. At YKDeliberate, we have a few fundamental principles:

We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information on your website is shared publicly (or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.
We help protect you from overreaching government demands for your personal information.
We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.

Who We Are and What This Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we collect about you when you use:

Our website

Below we explain how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so–for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you.

We collect information in three ways: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us. The amount and type of information depends on the context and how we use the information. Here are some examples:

Basic User Information: We ask for basic information from you in the beginning.
Content Information
Credentials: Depending on the Services you use, you may provide us with credentials for your website (like SSH, FTP, and SFTP username and password).
Communications with us: You may also provide us information when you sign up for a newsletter.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

Log Information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services.
Usage Information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. For example, we collect information about the actions that site administrators and users perform on a site using our ykdeliberate.com or Jetpack services–in other words, who did what, when and to what thing on a site. We use this information to, for example, provide our services to you, as well as get insights on how people use our content.
Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our site from certain geographic regions. We may also collect information about your precise location via our mobile apps if you allow us to do so through your mobile device operating system’s permissions.
Stored Information
Interactions with Other Users’ Sites
Information from Cookies & Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. YKDeliberate uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences to our site, as well as track and understand email campaign effectiveness.

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We may get information, such as a mailing address, from third party services about individuals who are not yet our users.

How and Why We Use Information

Purposes for Using Information

We use information about you as mentioned above and for the purposes listed below:

To provide you with content.
To further develop and improve our site.
To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with our site, which helps us improve it and make them easier to use;
To better understand user retention and attrition.
To monitor and prevent any problems with our site, protect the security of it.
To communicate with you, for example through an email, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date on YKDeliberate news (which you can unsubscribe from at any time); and
To personalize your experience using our site, provide content recommendations.

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:

(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you.

(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or

(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person;

Sharing Information

How We Share Information

We do not sell our users’ private personal information.

We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:

Legal and Regulatory Requirements: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request. For more information on how we respond to requests for information about ykwriting.com user.
To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of YKDeliberate.
With Your Consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with third parties with which you authorize us to do so.
Aggregated or De-Identified Information: We may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify you.

Information Shared Publicly

Information that you choose to make public is disclosed publicly.

That means, of course, that information like your public profile, posts, and your “Likes” and comments on other websites, are all available to others–and we hope you get a lot of views!

Public information may be indexed by search engines or used by third parties. Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when we no longer need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it — which are described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information — and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.

For example, we keep the web server logs that record information about a visitor to website, such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 30 days.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

Opt-Out of Marketing Communications.
Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies: At this time, YKDeliberate does not respond to “do not track” signals. However, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using YKDeliberate’s website.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (AKA the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

Request access to your personal data;
Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
Request portability of your personal data.

EU individuals also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

How to Reach Us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in the Your Rights section above, please contact us.

Other Things You Should Know

Transferring Information

You can ask us for more information about the steps we take to protect your personal information when transferring it from the EU.

Ads and Analytics Services Provided by Others

Ads appearing on site may be delivered by advertising networks. Other parties may also provide analytics services via the site. These ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about your use of our site. These technologies allow these third parties to recognize your device to compile information about you or others who use your device. This information allows us to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content. Please note this Privacy Policy only covers the collection of information by YKDeliberate and does not cover the collection of information by any third party advertisers or analytics providers.

Although most changes are likely to be minor, YKDeliberate may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your further use of the site after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy. Disclaimer: Content featured on ykwriting.com and associated websites do does not represent thoughts of any other third Party, be it a commercial or non-commercial body.

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