Privacy Policy for Zen Poetica

Introduction:

Welcome to Zen Poetica, located in Pulaski, Virginia, USA. Specializing in Jueju 绝句 and Haiku 俳句 poetry, along with accompanying art, we are committed to respecting the privacy of our community. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, protect, and handle your personal information on our website: https://zenpoetica.com.

Information We Collect:

• Comments: When you leave comments on Zen Poetica, we collect the data shown in the comments form, your IP address, and browser user agent string to aid spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. Following comment approval, your profile picture is publicly visible in the context of your comment.
• Media: If you upload images to the website, we advise against including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Other visitors can download and extract location data from images on the site.
• Cookies: Zen Poetica uses cookies to enhance your experience. These include cookies set when you leave a comment to save your name, email address, and website, cookies for log-in purposes, and cookies to manage screen display choices.
• Embedded Content: Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Such content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor has visited the other website, which may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with embedded content.

Use of Your Information:

We use your information to improve your experience on our site, to identify and communicate with you, to respond to your requests/inquiries, to service your purchase orders, and for other customer service purposes.

Sharing Your Information:

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information except for providing services you have requested, with your permission, or for legal reasons. This does not include website hosting partners and others who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users.

Your Data Rights:

You have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us.

Data Retention:

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to provide you with our services and as described in our Privacy Policy.

Security:

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. We take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

Changes to This Privacy Policy:

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

Contact Us:

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail at privacypolicy@zenpoetica.com or by mail using the details provided below:

Zen Poetica

Pulaski, Virginia, USA