Newsletter: If you sign up to receive the Explore and Observe Newsletter, you provide your email address, which is used solely for the delivery of the newsletter to your inbox. You can always unsubscribe by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any newsletter
Communications: If you contact me via email, either by writing to me directly or by replying to the automated email newsletter, I will receive your email address and any other information you choose to provide.
Usage Information: Explore and Observe lives on the publishing platform WordPress, which includes a statistical analytics feature to help publishers understand how their readers use their websites. This means that anonymized information of the pages Explore and Observe readers visit and the times of those visits are represented in these statistics. WordPress may add other features to their analytics at any time, which will be available to me as a publisher.
What we do with your information: I use your information solely to communicate with you if you have opted in to receive the newsletter and to better understand how you use the site in order to improve it. I don’t share your information with any “third parties,” though it does live — securely — within the external services that deliver the email newsletter.
Data Transfers: Because Explore and Observe is based in the United States, if you visit the website from another country, your data may be transferred to the United States and other countries that may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided information.
Data Security: I do everything I can to make Brain Pickings and your information as secure as possible. However, this is the Internet — no security measures can be 100% secure for reasons far beyond any one person’s intent and control. I too, along with my entire website and any data related to it, can be on the receiving end of some cyberattack at any given moment. But let’s not think such grim thoughts.
Sharing Information with Third Parties: Explore and Observe does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Explore and Observe may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email, or provide customer support.. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Explore and Observe, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Explore and Observe may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Explore and Observe or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property if Explore and Observe; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety users of Explore and Observe, or the public.
Automatically Collected Information : Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Explore and Observe. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Explore and Observe website.
Links: This website contains links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Children Under Thirteen: Explore and Observe does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If your are under the age of 13, you must ask you parent or guardian for permission to use this site.
Changes to this Statement: Explore and Observe reserves the right to change this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a notice on our site, and/ore by updating the information on this page. Your continued use of the site and/or services available through this site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgement of the modified privacy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by the policy.