Privacy Policy Statement
Effective date: April 28, 2023
This is the web site of SCIFIFANTASIES.COM.
Our website address is https://www.scififantasies.com.
We can be reached by e-mail through the contact page.
Terms of Use
Use of this site indicates an implicit acceptance of the following policies and terms of use.
Privacy
Your privacy is important to us. We do not capture personal information about visitors to our site, unless voluntarily submitted through e-mail, electronic forms or other interactive options that may become available to our users in the future.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
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.
Cookies
Cookies are simple text files stored by your web browser and are used to enhance functionality and your browsing experience.
Cookies are commonly used to increase an application’s functionality. Many cookies are only stored temporarily. You have the ability to refuse a cookie or delete a cookie file from your computer using many widely available methods.
Many of our pages have links to online stores that use cookies because it is necessary for maintaining individual shopping carts and check-out. If you use our links to go to these shopping sites, you should set your browser to accept cookies.
If you leave 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 again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set 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 also set up 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.
Advertising Cookies
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. You can also opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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 profile. 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.
What 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.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Outside Links
SCIFIFANTASIES.COM uses links to other web sites in an effort to assist visitors in locating information on topics that might be of interest to them. SCIFIFANTASIES.COM cannot attest to the accuracy of information provided by linked sites. SCIFIFANTASIES.COM cannot attest to the privacy policies of linked sites. If you have concerns about your privacy at any of these linked sites, please read the individual privacy policies of those sites.
General
Despite all our efforts to be accurate, these pages may contain errors. We present this information to you with a good-faith representation that the information it contains is generally reliable. Information on this site should not be relied upon for legal purposes.
Problems with any forms, web pages or broken links should be reported to the webmaster. Please be specific as to the nature of the problem.
We have attempted to make our site compatible in all major browsers. However, there are instances in which problems may occur. In order to avoid browser compatibility problems, we recommend that you use the newest available browsers to browse our site. Please report any accessibility problems to the webmaster.
Consent
Use of our website is denoted as your implicit consent of all provisions of this policy. For questions regarding this policy, please contact the webmaster.