Privacy policy
of You-Can-Teach-Writing.com

Your privacy is important. This privacy policy outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use You-Can-Teach-Writing.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

You-Can-Teach-Writing.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness, and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our Web site.

Personal information we collect

At You-Can-Teach-Writing.com, our policy is if you don’t volunteer information, we don’t collect it.

Personal information is information that personally identifies you, such as your name, email address or billing information, or other data which can be reasonably linked to such information.

We collect relevant personal information from you, (such as your name, email address, your teaching assignment) if you request information from us, participate in a contest, or sign up for our ezine, Writing Points.

The subscriber profile information requested after you have signed up for our Writing Points ezine is not associated with your name or email address. You are not required to provide the information in order to receive Writing Points.

What we do with your information

We review your information internally. Once we review information, we either discard it or store it in our files. We use personal information received from any visitor only for internal purposes. We do not sell personal information or provide it to third parties.

If you’ve asked for information, we respond to you at the address you supply. We also use your comments to improve the content of our Web site.

If you volunteer a comment about the site, the comment may be used as a visitor comment that identifies you only by your first name.

Use of cookies and web beacons

We may use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the site’s pages, or register with any of our site's services, a cookie enables You-Can-Teach-Writing.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

A web beacon (also referred to as web bug) is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single Web site or collection of sites. Web beacons are commonly used by sites that hire third-party services to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on the pages of a web site.

When you visit our website, you may find ads from third party vendors, such as Google. In the course of serving those ads, those third party vendors use cookies and web beacons to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement.

These companies may use information that is not personally identifiable to provide you with ads in which they think you will be interested. They do not collect information that would identify you personally, such as your name, address, email address, or telephone number.

We do not provide any personally identifiable information you give us to third parties for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information on our web site.

Google, which is one of the third party vendors whose ads you may see on this site, uses the DoubleClick DART cookie to enable it to provide advertisements about goods and services that may interest you. If you would like more information about this practice or to opt out of the use of the DART cookie, click here to visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

You can set your web browsers to accept or reject cookies or notify you when a cookie is being sent. You can use privacy software to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions shouldn't cause a problem with our site.

Google Analytics is used here

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

Google provides a way for you to opt out of having your website visit information sent to Google Analytics. Learn more about the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on here.

Use of IP Address for IP geolocation

Every computer and device connected to the Internet has a number called an Internet protocol (IP) address. This website, like all other websites, have access to IP addresses for visitors to their sites.

These numbers are usually assigned in country-based blocks, which means an IP address can often be used to identify the country, state, and even the city from which a computer is connecting to the Internet.

We use Google Analytics to collect the IP address of website visitors in order give us a sense of where in the world our visitors come from. We do not get visitor-specific data from Google Analytics.

Children's online privacy protection act

This Web site is directed to adults; it is not directed to children under the age of 13. We operate our site in compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and will not knowingly collect or use personal information from anyone under 13 years of age.

Non-personal information

In some cases, we may collect information about you that is not personally identifiable. We use such information that does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. The information collected is used solely for internal review. We don’t share it with other organizations for commercial purposes.

Release of information

If You-Can-Teach-Writing.com is sold, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our Web site of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make of us.

How to correct or remove information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personal information. If you have submitted personal information through our Web site and would like that information deleted from our records or would like to update or correct that information, please use our contact form.

Updates and effective date

You-Can-Teach-Writing.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that our privacy practices have changed and provide a link to the new privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to terms

If you do not agree to the You-Can-Teach-Writing.com Privacy Policy as posted here on this Web site, please do not use this site or any services offered by this site.

Your use of this site indicates acceptance of this privacy policy.

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact us.