Privacy Policy

Disclaimer

Information provided on The Tattered Spine book blog is for general and entertainment purposes only.  As this is a personal blog, all blog content is the writer’s, Parker Dawn, own opinion and given in good faith.  Books chosen for review are by writer’s choice only; various genres will be presented with no monetary compensation from a book author received.   Writer may accept suggestions, but it will ultimately be writer’s choice weather a book will be reviewed and published on the blog.  All personal opinions presented by invited guest writers are again the personal opinion of guest writer and for general and entertainment purposes only.   We understand that readers of The Tattered Spine may not always agree with the opinions presented; however, we do ask that readers remain respectful in their comments/responses to the blog. 

Not all material received by authors or vendors requesting reviews can be addressed.  All effort will be made to alert author/vendor of review status; however, we cannot promise such contact or status will be given.  As The Tattered Spine is a personal effort, we reserve the right to publish content on an ‘as able’ schedule, not promising specific weekly or monthly content. 

Contact and comments are welcome from readers of the blog; we do request all responses or comments be presented in a positive and respectful light.  The Tattered Spine respects differences of opinions as long as hateful or hurtful content is not included.  Advertisement space is not offered at this time.  However, if this portion of our policy changes, update of that change will be approached here, in the Disclaimer space of the blog.

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

Please 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

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.

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.

Where we send your data

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