Effective Date: November 2025
Website: https://pagesandprose.com

At Pages and Prose, your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we protect it, and your rights regarding your personal data.

1. Who We Are

Pages and Prose is a book-focused website offering reviews, recommendations, and literary content.

Website URL: https://pagesandprose.com
Contact Email: contact@pagesandprose.com

2. Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect:

  • Data shown in the comments form
  • Visitor’s IP address
  • Browser user agent string (used for spam detection)

An anonymized string generated from your email may be sent to the Gravatar service. Their Privacy Policy is available here:
https://automattic.com/privacy

Once your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes visible to the public.

3. Media Uploads

If you upload images to the website, avoid images containing embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors may download and extract this information.

4. Cookies

We use cookies to improve your browsing experience, including:

Comment Cookies

If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website. These cookies last for one year.

Login Cookies

  • A temporary cookie is set to test if your browser accepts cookies.
  • Login cookies last two days.
  • Screen preferences cookies last one year.
  • “Remember Me” extends login to two weeks.
  • Logging out removes login cookies.

Editing Cookies

When editing or publishing an article, an additional cookie stores the post ID for one day.

5. Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images).
This content behaves exactly as if you visited the third-party site directly.

These websites may:

  • Collect data about you
  • Use cookies
  • Track your interaction with their content
  • Detect whether you are logged into their service

6. Advertising Cookies (Google AdSense)

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website or others.

Google uses advertising cookies to:

  • Show relevant, interest-based ads
  • Limit how often ads are shown
  • Measure and improve advertising performance
  • Detect fraud and abuse

Personalized Advertising

Google may use your data to provide personalized ads.

You can opt out of personalized ads by visiting:
🔗 https://www.google.com/settings/ads

You may also opt out of personalized advertising from third-party vendors at:
🔗 https://www.aboutads.info

Third-Party Ad Networks

Other ad partners may use cookies and tracking technologies for ad delivery, personalization, and performance measurement.
Each partner operates under its own privacy policy.

7. Analytics & Third-Party Tools

We may use services such as:

  • Google Analytics
  • Anti-spam tools (e.g., Akismet or similar)
  • Hosting analytics offered by our hosting provider

These tools may collect anonymized browsing information for analytics and site improvement.

8. Who We Share Your Data With

We do not sell or trade your personal information.

We may share limited data with:

  • Spam detection services
  • Analytics providers
  • Advertising partners (e.g., Google AdSense)

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

9. Data Retention

Comments

We retain comments and metadata indefinitely to recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically.

Registered Users

We store personal information provided in user profiles.
Users may edit or delete their information at any time (except usernames).
Administrators can also edit this information.

10. Your Data Rights

If you have an account or have left comments, you may request:

  • A copy of the personal data we hold
  • Deletion of your personal data

Requests can be made at:
📧 contact@pagesandprose.com

This does not include data we must keep for legal or security reasons.

11. Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Data may also be processed or stored in countries outside your own, depending on our service providers (e.g., hosting, analytics, advertising networks).

12. Children’s Privacy

Pages and Prose is not intended for children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect data from children.
If you believe a child has provided personal information, contact us immediately.

13. Policy Updates

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements.

The latest version will always be available on this page.

14. Contact Us

For privacy questions or data requests:

📧 Email: contact@pagesandprose.com
🌐 Website: https://pagesandprose.com