Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Who We Are My Writerly Self is a personal website run by Karen Eastland, focusing on creative writing and storytelling.

Data Collection and Usage

• Comments: We collect the data shown in comment forms, as well as your IP address and browser user agent string, to help with spam detection. If using the Gravatar service, an anonymised hash of your email may be shared to display your profile picture.

• Media: If you upload images, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS) to prevent other visitors from extracting location data.

• Cookies: When you leave a comment, you can opt-in to save your name, email, and website in cookies for convenience. Cookies for login and article editing are also used to enhance your experience.

• Embedded Content: Articles on this site may contain embedded content (e.g., videos, images). Embedded content from other websites may collect data, use cookies, and include third-party tracking.

Data Sharing Visitor comments may be processed through an automated spam detection service.

Data Retention Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely to recognize follow-up comments. Registered users' information is stored in their user profiles and can be edited or deleted at any time.

Your Rights Over Your Data You can request an exported file of your personal data or request its erasure, excluding data kept for legal purposes.