Freelance Writing Cafe takes your privacy seriously. Our Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) breaks down the ways we collect, store, use, and protect your information. By viewing and/or interacting with this website in any way, you agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
For purposes of this Agreement, “Site” refers to https://freelancewritingcafe.com. The terms “Freelance Writing Cafe,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Freelance Writing Cafe. “You” refers to you, as a user of the Site or the Service. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.
Who we are
We are Freelance Writing Cafe, a source of online training, resources, and community for freelance copywriters and content writers. Our website address is https://freelancewritingcafe.com.
Personal data we collect and why we collect it
When you visit and interact with this website, we may collect personally and non-personally identifiable information based on your activity. Data is stored and processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
We do not sell or trade personally identifiable information. We may share personally identifiable information with trusted third parties who assist us in operations, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to third parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
We reserve the right to release any information when we believe it appropriate to comply with the law, enforce site policies or protect rights, property, or safety.
☕️ Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized 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 here: https://automattic.com/privacy). After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
☕️ User profiles
If you register a profile on our website (a feature not currently available to all users) any information provided therein will be stored. All users can see, edit, or delete their information at any time (usernames cannot be changed). Website administrators can also see and edit this information.
☕️ Contact and Q&A forms
Contact and Q&A form submissions are submitted via embedded Google Forms. Submissions are stored indefinitely in our Google Drive database. We reserve the right to store, archive, and/or utilize all submissions, including feedback, questions, comments, and other documented engagement, to better serve our audience.
☕️ Feedback
We offer various forms to collect feedback from our audience. We may utilize submitted questions and comments to create content or begin discussions around a given topic. In such a case that your question or comment is utilized in this way, your comment may be paraphrased or edited for clarity, brevity, or any other reason, provided the edits do not misrepresent the intention of the original question or comment.
Your identity will always be kept anonymous unless we obtain permission to represent you visually or by name on freelancewritingcafe.com and on our social media channels.
☕️ Media
If you upload images to this website (a feature not currently available to all users), 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 this website.
Cookies
A cookie is a file containing a combination of letters and numbers that is communicated by a web server to a web browser. Once created, it is stored by the browser for varying lengths of time. When the browser requests a page from the server, the cookie is activated to customize the user’s experience.
Our website generates two types of cookies. Persistent cookies are stored by a browser until a set date, after which they expire. They can also be deleted by the user. Session cookies are automatically cleared at the end of the user session. Neither of these usually contain personally identifying information, but personal information stored on our website may be linked to cookies.
When leaving a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details the next time you leave a comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will activate a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will activate several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a 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 (a feature not currently available to all users), an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It will expire after one day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
By browsing our website in part or in full, you agree to engage with these pieces of embedded content. We work hard to verify trustworthy sources of content before embedding that content on any part of this site, however, we are not responsible for third-party websites altering, removing, or otherwise compromising the collection of cookies via content at any time.
Newsletter marketing
You may opt-in or opt-out of receiving email marketing from Freelance Writing Cafe at any time. We currently use Mailchimp for email marketing. You can review Mailchimp’s Privacy Policy for Contacts here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/#3._Privacy_for_Contacts.
To opt-in to receiving email marketing from us, you can visit this link or use one of the forms located on our website. We provide links to unsubscribe, you can follow the instructions provided by Mailchimp, which are delivered via email at the time your subscription of confirmed. We also provide an Unsubscribe link at the bottom of every marketing email we send.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
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.
Service partners
This website uses the following third-party service providers to process and store data. This is not an exhaustive list.
Mailchimp/The Rocket Science Group, LLC: Privacy Policy
SiteGround LLC: Privacy Policy
Google LLC: Privacy Policy
Teachable, Inc: Privacy Policy
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Freelance Writing Cafe reserves the right to change this policy and our Terms of Use at any time. We will notify you of significant changes to either of these agreements via email. All changes will take effect immediately upon appearing publically on this page. Please periodically check this page and our Terms of Use for updates.