Commitment to privacy
We know that you care how information about you is used and shared. To better protect your privacy, MitchellWay.com provides this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy and Notice explains this website’s online information practice. By visiting www.MitchellWay.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice (Policy).
What personal data MitchellWay.com collects and why
How MitchellWay.com uses information
MitchellWay.com collects anonymous information and information you choose to provide. MitchellWay.com does not share information with outside parties. However, MitchellWay.com may disclose any information collected by this website when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on MitchellWay.com or its owner.
All information collected by MitchellWay.com is retained and used in accordance with existing laws, rules, regulations, and other policies.
When you supply information about yourself for a specific purpose, MitchellWay.com uses the information for only that purpose (such as to provide the service or information you have requested).
Should any material changes be made to the ways in which MitchellWay.com uses personally identifiable information, MitchellWay.com will take commercially reasonable measures to obtain e-mail consent from you. MitchellWay.com will also post the changes to our use of personally identifiable information on our site at least 30 days prior to a change.
Links and embedded content
This website may contain links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are entering another site. In addition, articles and pages 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. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these websites as their privacy policies may differ from ours.
Email links
MitchellWay.com uses e-mail links and contact forms located on this site to allow you to contact us directly via e-mail. We use the information provided in your e-mail to respond to your questions or comments. MitchellWay.com may also store your comments for future reference. Likewise, when you contact MitchellWay.com via a social network profile affiliated with Paul Martin (Marty) Mitchell or via email, the information you provide will be used to respond to your inquiry or comment.
Email communications
MitchellWay.com publishes e-newsletters, including a feed of our blog sent via email, that are each sent periodically to persons on a listserv. The e-newsletters are distributed by email, although back issues may (at times) also be viewed online. You may at any time subscribe to, or unsubscribe from, our email listserv by emailing: contact@mitchellway.com. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on this website, MitchellWay.com collects 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.
If you upload images to MitchellWay.com via comments, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to MitchellWay.com can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so MitchellWay.com can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Visitor comments are also checked through an automated spam detection service.
How does this website use cookies?
If you leave a comment on MitchellWay.com, 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. In addition, if you login to leave a comment using a third-party service, this website and/or the login service will use cookies to determine if you have already logged in. This site also uses cookies in an attempt to determine if displaying an email signup form is relevant. These are the only types of cookie used on this website.
What anonymous information is collected on this website?
Anonymous information is collected for every visitor to this site. This includes pages viewed, date and time, browser type and any other information Jetpack for WordPress, Google Analytics, and similar services collect. IP numbers are not stored, but may be temporarily used to determine domain type and in some cases, geographic region. MitchellWay.com does not make any association between this anonymous information and a visitor’s identity. This information is collected for the purpose of seeing how MitchellWay.com can best serve all the visitors to this website.
Automatic information
When you visit MitchellWay.com, servers make a log of basic information corresponding to the sites and pages you have visited. This information is stored primarily to track the effectiveness of MitchellWay.com and individual sections and pages within the website.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Changing business practices and circumstances may require that MitchellWay.com make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be reflected on this website. MitchellWay.com reserves the right to modify its website and/or this Privacy Policy at any time and users are deemed to be apprised of and bound by any such modifications.
Other Related Information
This website contains satire and inspirational stories, both of which are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. The mention of brands, organizations, or companies does not necessarily imply endorsement by MitchellWay.com or its owner; neither does it imply endorsement by said brands, organizations, or companies of MitchellWay.com or its owner.