Copywriters Forum - Privacy policy

This privacy policy explains how “Copywriters Forum” uses any information collected during your visit with us.

Who we are:
Our website address is: https://www.copywritersforum.com

What personal data we collect and why we collect it:
Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing “Copywriters Forum” it will cause the phpBB software to create a number of cookies. Cookies are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer’s web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (“user-id”) and an anonymous session identifier (“session-id”). These small text files are automatically assigned to you by the platform. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within “Copywriters Forum” and is used to store which topics you have read during your session, thereby improving your user experience.

The second way we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to, posting in the forums, registering on “Copywriters Forum” (creating your account) and any contact information you choose to share within your profile or on the forums.

Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (your user name), a personal password used for logging into your account, and a valid email address (your email). Your information in your account at “Copywriters Forum” is protected by strong encryption and data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us. Any information beyond your user name, date of registration, and post count can be shown or hidden by you from within your personal user control panel (profile page). In all cases you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated emails from “Copywriters Forum”. These emails include things like private messages from other members and alert notices when someone replies to a post you have subscribe to.

Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account at “Copywriters Forum”, so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with “Copywriters Forum” ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the “I forgot my password” feature provided on the login page. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your email, then the platform will generate a new random password for you to reclaim your account.

Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitors IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

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 extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms
When you contact us we retain the information you provide so we can respond to your inquiry.

Analytics
We do not collect any personally identifiable information about you or your computer. For each visitor to our Web site, our Web server only recognizes certain information regarding your visit. (i.e. your IP address, your country of origin, the type of device you are using to view our site, and how long you visit any particular page). We only use the info to help us see which of our pages are considered most useful to our visitors, so we can improve the quality of what we provide you.

Who we share your data with
We are not Facebook – We will never rent, sell, share, or otherwise divulge any of your personal information with any third party advertisers. Occasionally someone may ask us to broadcast their offer to our members. Only after we check out the offer, and only if it is high quality and we believe it will be useful to you, we may send an email to make you aware of the offer. If this happens, the email will come directly from us, and the product owner will never receive any of your info from us (not even your email address). The only way the product owner will receive any of your info is if you personally respond to the offer and provide them with the info yourself.

Additional information
This page may be updated from time to time and it is your responsibility to check back and inform yourself of any changes to this page.