Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 24 August 2023

www.vagrantwriter.com is the website for writer and artist Paul Pratt. The site features a portfolio containing the collected works of Paul Pratt. The web address is www.vagrantwriter.com. The website is owned by Scientific Romance, Inc., the production imprint of Paul Pratt, which can be found at www.scientificromance.net. You can contact Scientific Romance by e-mailing wonder@scientificromance.net if you have any questions about either site or this privacy policy.

This website is managed using WordPress, a content management and publishing system found at www.wordpress.org. You can reference their website for specific information about the software as well as read up on their privacy policy practices to get details on how WordPress functions and handles your data.

Paul Pratt, Vagrant Writer, and Scientific Romance have not, to their knowledge, altered the function of this software package that allows it to operate or collect information in any manner other than that which is necessary to make it function properly as detailed below.

When visiting and viewing the website as an unregistered user our site will automatically collect data on how users visit this site, such as your IP address, general location (which continent you are located on), browser, browser language, operating system, device identifiers, and cookies. This information can be used to identify your device for anonymous activity information and analytics, however, none of your personal information is captured or stored as an unregistered user.

This website uses cookies to enhance functionality. You may disable cookies in your web browser, but this may limit your ability to access www.vagrantwriter.com

If you wish to leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies (becoming a registered user). 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.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

If you leave a comment without creating an account, 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.

When you register to use our website services, such as commenting, we will ask for your name, username, and e-mail address. 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.

www.vagrantwriter.com does NOT gather your sensative personal information, such as your social security number, driver’s license number, race, ethnicity, health metrics, poltiical ssociations, or details on your criminal background.

This website uses cookies to enhance functionality. You may disable cookies in your web browser, but this may limit your ability to access www.vagrantwriter.com.

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.

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.

If you’ve linked your registered account to a social media account, we also collect information given to us by the social media company. Depending on which social media network you utilize, this can include your username, name, e-mail address, friends list, and more. In addition demographic data is collected when users interact with this site using a social media account.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We only use your personal information to help you utilize the services available on www.vagrantwriter.com. This includes:

• Creating and maintaining an account
• Contacting you regarding responses to comments (you can opt-out of this in your profile)
• Evaluating usage analytics to improve engagement with this website

Your limited personal information will remain in our database for as long as you maintain an account with www.vagrantwriter.com. 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.

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.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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.

We do our best to keep your private information secure and safe. All of the data transmitted on our website is encrypted using a secure socket layer and is protected from being accessed by outside users. In our end we employ all methods to prevent breach into the the management software.

Our web host is reputable and diligently works to ensure your data is safe using all means at their disposal to the extent of our knowledge. We do not own this company and have no association with them outside of paying them to provide this website with hosting. Please visit www.siteground.com for further information. Please be aware that despite all possible efforts, data leaks and malicious attacks can happen. Please understand that while all parties do their best to protect your data, providing your personal information on the internet is at your own risk.

You can, of course, decline to disclose your personal information by not volunteering it into the fields when asked. However, failure to provide this website with the basic details listed above may limit your ability to utilize the features therein.