Privacy Policy - 6200 Productions

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information 6200 Productions may collect through and/or in connection with the 6200 Productions website, www.6200productions.com (including, where applicable, its web feeds, if any), and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business, and how we may use and/or disclose that information. Please read this policy carefully. By accessing and/or using the 6200 Productions website and/or using our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services, you indicate your acceptance of the policy described below and of the Cookie Notice (which forms part of this Privacy Policy and is incorporated herein by reference; the Cookie Notice also constitutes the “cookie policy” for this website, for jurisdictions that specifically require such a policy).

Please note that your use of any third-party websites or services, including those linked from the 6200 Productions website and/or on which we may have accounts, is subject to those sites or services’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use, which may apply in addition to or instead of this Privacy Policy and/or the Terms of Use for the 6200 Productions website. The owner’s automotive website, Ate Up With Motor, has its own privacy policy, which is separate from this one. (Ate Up With Motor is a trademark of Aaron Severson dba Ate Up With Motor.) The owner’s personal website, aaronseverson.com, also has its own separate privacy policy.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This version of the Privacy Policy was last updated on and is effective Friday, January 12, 2024. If the last time you reviewed this policy was prior to that date, or if you received a notice indicating that the Privacy Policy has changed, you may want to jump directly to the “Recent Revisions” section at the bottom of this page, which summarizes recent changes in reverse order by date.

Variations in text style (e.g., different font weights, sizes, or colors) are used throughout this Privacy Policy to improve readability, but have no legal significance or effect.

IMPORTANT NOTE: While this policy is intended to encompass our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services as well as information pertaining to this website, in the event you make some separate written agreement with us pertaining to this website, our content, and/or our writing/editing/writing consulting business (e.g., a contract for professional services, an advertising or endorsement agreement, or a license agreement for the use of our content) that includes provisions pertaining to the use, disclosure, and/or retention of certain information related to such agreement and/or the subject(s) thereof (e.g., confidentiality or nondisclosure provisions, and/or stipulations to not disclose certain information prior to a specific date/time), the terms of that agreement shall, where applicable, take precedence over this Privacy Policy.

Who We Are

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, the words “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Aaron Severson dba (doing business as) 6200 Productions, the owner and operator of the www.6200productions.com website, a U.S. citizen based in Los Angeles, California, USA. We, along with our web host, DreamHost® (which also hosts the mail servers for our 6200productions.com email addresses; DreamHost is a registered trademark of DreamHost, LLC), and many of the other third-party vendors and service providers we use in connection with the 6200 Productions website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business, are located in the United States and are subject to U.S. law, which may differ from the laws of your area. For our contact information, see the “Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us” section toward the bottom of this page.

Credits and License for This Policy

Portions of this Privacy Policy were adapted from the Automattic Privacy Policy and from the Automattic Terms of Service for WordPress.com (both of which you can also find at their Legalmattic repository), which are both licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. Therefore, this Privacy Policy is also licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, as the terms of that license require. If you elect to use or further adapt this policy, please credit Automattic as well as us. We also strongly recommend that you note the effective date shown above and include that date in your attribution if it is reasonably practical to do so. Recent changes to this policy are summarized in the “Recent Revisions” section below; see the change log at the bottom of the Automattic policies linked above (or check their repository) for their revision history — both this policy and the Automattic policies have been modified many times! (Automattic, Legalmattic, and WordPress.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of Automattic (or Automattic’s licensors). WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries. 6200 Productions is not affiliated with or endorsed by Automattic or the WordPress Foundation in any way.)

Notice Regarding Children Under 18

The 6200 Productions website and our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services are not intended for or directed to children, and should not be accessed or used by children under 18 years of age. Except as otherwise required by law, if we receive any personal information through this website that we know or subsequently discover to be from a child under the age of 18 (e.g., a message to the site’s administrative email address, a Contact Form submission, or a comment), it is our policy to promptly delete such information or, if complete deletion is not possible, to take whatever steps we reasonably can to de-identify or anonymize that information.

If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that 6200 Productions may have collected personal information about your minor child, or if you wish to exercise your right to remove or delete such information, please contact us via any of the methods described in “Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us” below. You may also contact us via any of the methods described in that section to request and obtain removal or deletion of content or information you posted on this website while under the age of 18. (Please note that such removal or deletion does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information you posted on this website.)

Except as otherwise required by law, requests or inquiries pertaining to children under 18 should be submitted by a parent, legal guardian, or other authorized adult representative.

Definitions

To help simplify and clarify the rest of this policy, the following definitions will be used throughout this document:

User(s) and visitor(s): For the purposes of this policy, we use the terms “visitor” and “user” synonymously to mean any individual who accesses and/or uses this website. This policy assumes that you, the reader, are such a visitor/user. This policy sometimes also refers to administrative user(s) (or site administrator(s) — these terms are used synonymously), which refers to us and/or any other users we have specifically authorized to access and manage the website’s various administrative functions; see “Data Related to Administrative Users” below.
Personal information/personal data/personally identifying information/personally identifiable information: Different jurisdictions and different laws have different definitions of “personal information,” “personal data,” “personally identifying information,” and “personally identifiable information” (although this policy uses those terms synonymously), but in general, these terms describe any information that identifies and/or relates to a particular individual or “household” (another term that may have different legal definitions depending on the specific jurisdiction and law in question). Information that describes and/or could be linked to or associated with someone and/or their household can constitute personal information even if it doesn’t identify them by name. This policy also uses the term “potentially personally identifiable information” to describe information that might be individually identifiable in certain contexts (and/or in combination with certain other information); earlier versions of this policy called this “potentially personally identifying information,” which meant the same thing.
Gather and collect: This Privacy Policy uses the terms “gather” and “collect” synonymously.
Identifiers: “Identifiers” are pieces of personal information that specifically identify a particular individual, household, or device, such as (though not limited to) a real name or unique pseudonym, a postal mailing address, an email address, a Social Security number or other taxpayer identification number, a driver’s license or state ID card number, a passport number, a unique device ID number, or the unique advertising ID that many modern operating systems (for desktop computers as well as mobile devices) automatically transmit to the websites and/or apps you use (although the latter identifier can often be reset, removed, and/or disabled; for details, consult the documentation for your specific device and operating system). Some jurisdictions also consider IP addresses to be identifiers.
Protected classifications: Some pieces of personal information are characteristics of one or more classifications that are protected by civil rights law and/or nondiscrimination laws, e.g., race, religion, gender, medical condition, and/or disability.
IP address: An Internet Protocol (IP) address is the numerical address of any device capable of accessing the Internet. If you use several different Internet-capable devices, their individual IP addresses are typically all different (although if you have several devices connected to the same router or tethered together, they might share the same IP address so long as they remain connected or tethered). An IP address usually has an associated “hostname,” which is a type of domain name (defined below) that identifies a specific device connected to the Internet. A visitor/user’s hostname is typically a combination of their IP address and the name of a server, network node, or data center of the Internet service provider, mobile carrier, or other network provider that provides that IP address; mechanisms that collect and/or use visitor/user IP addresses generally also collect and/or use the associated hostnames, if any (although there are some exceptions). A given device’s IP address may change periodically (especially if the device is configured to use “dynamic” IP addresses assigned by the Internet service provider or mobile carrier, and/or if the device is used with several different Internet service providers/mobile carriers). It is possible to hide a device’s IP address and Internet service provider/mobile carrier by using a virtual private network (VPN) or proxy service; with such services, you first connect to a remote server provided by the VPN or proxy service and that server then connects to other Internet sites and/or resources. For the purposes of this policy, when we refer to IP addresses, we mean the IP address that actually connects to our website and/or services or that we otherwise receive, whether that is your device’s actual IP address or a proxy. (In many cases, we have no way to tell the difference.)
User agent information: A “user agent” is any software program, service, or system that allows a user to access and/or retrieve online content — for example, a web browser, an email client, or a web “crawler” of the kind used by search engines. User agents automatically reveal certain information about themselves — and therefore about the user — to any online resource they access, enabling that resource to deliver its content in a way the user agent can correctly handle. The information that may be revealed in this way naturally varies depending on the specific user agent involved. A web browser’s user agent information typically reveals, at a minimum, the browser type and version, the operating system in which the browser is running, and certain settings such as (though not limited to) preferred language and time zone; if you’re using a mobile browser, the user agent information may also reveal the specific type of mobile device you’re using. While it can constitute personal information in at least some jurisdictions, user agent information is not necessarily personally identifiable in and of itself, although it is sometimes possible to identify an individual user based on their specific combination of user agent and device characteristics, a technique called “browser fingerprinting.”
Domain name and/or hostname: A domain name is the name of an online resource such as (without limitation) an email server or a website; for example, “6200productions.com” is a domain name. A domain name is usually associated with one or more IP addresses. When you access an online resource by its domain name, your device first connects to a Domain Name System (DNS) server, which is an online directory that contains the IP addresses associated with domain names, to look up the appropriate IP address so your device can connect to it. Certain domain names, known as “hostnames,” identify specific devices connected to the Internet and/or other network(s). (Websites and online services may use multiple servers, sometimes located in different places, and thus may have multiple hostnames.) When you access the Internet, your hostname — which the websites and online services you visit and/or use can usually see — is typically a combination of your IP address and the name of a server, network node, or data center of the Internet service provider, mobile carrier, or other network provider you’re currently using. The ownership of an Internet domain name must be registered, and the current contact information of the registered owner(s) must be available to the public, although some registrars and registry services offer anonymizing or proxy services that limit the public visibility of that information while still enabling the public to contact a domain’s registered owner.
Embedded content: Most web pages consist of many different elements, including not only the code that makes up each page, but also various images, other media files, fonts, and scripts. For this website, most of those elements are hosted on and are served (i.e., loaded and run in your browser or other user agent) by web servers owned by our web host and/or its subprocessors; this policy describes such elements as “local,” “locally served,” or “locally hosted” content (these terms are used synonymously). Certain elements of the website, such as (without limitation) images, scripts, fonts, and/or video players, may be hosted on and served by servers and/or services not owned or operated by our web host or their subprocessors, such as (again without limitation) third-party hosted libraries or content delivery network (CDN) servers; this policy describes such elements as “embedded content.” Whenever you access a portion of this website that includes embedded content, the site instructs your browser (or other user agent, as applicable) to request and load that content from its respective provider(s). Some types of embedded content (e.g., fonts) may be cached (stored) on your device for faster loading; additionally, your browser (or other user agent) may store certain associated data (e.g., the date and time the embedded content was loaded and/or last updated). With most modern web browsers, this process is completely automatic, although it can sometimes be managed through the browser’s advanced settings and/or the use of browser add-ons.
Visitor activity: For purposes of this policy, “visitor activity” refers to any information we may collect about our visitors’ online activity and/or actions, whether on this website or elsewhere online, e.g., web pages they’ve visited, links they’ve clicked, and/or search terms they have looked for.
Malicious activity: We define “malicious activity” as any activity or action intended to harm, abuse, compromise, or disrupt the functions of this website, its data, our web host, our embedded content providers, our visitors/users, our system(s) and/or device(s), our business, us, and/or others, or defraud or attempt to defraud us, our service providers and/or vendors, our visitors/users, and/or anyone else. (We consider spamming to be a form of malicious activity.)
Errors and suspicious activity: For purposes of this policy, “errors” means any visitor activity that generates an error message of some kind, e.g., when some of the images or elements that should appear on a particular page fail to load. “Suspicious activity” means any activity and/or action(s) that could be a sign of malicious activity. Of course, not all suspicious activity is actually malicious; often, it results from a harmless mistake or a technical glitch beyond anyone’s reasonable control.
Names: Except as otherwise specified, where we refer to “names” in this policy, it includes both real names (first and/or last name(s), and in some cases middle name or middle initial) and pseudonyms/aliases. In general, we only require your full legal name in certain circumstances (e.g., for contracts and/or other legal matters). Otherwise, you are free to communicate with us using only a pseudonym or alias, although if you do so, we may have no way of associating those communications with information we may have about you under your real name and/or other pseudonyms or aliases. (Also, if your pseudonym or alias looks like a real name, we may have no way to know it isn’t one!)
Email address(es): Email is the main means by which we respond to visitor/user questions and inquiries, as well as how this website associates posted comments with the people who made them. Email is typically also our primary means of communicating with our professional writing/editing/writing consulting clients. For purposes of this policy, we assume that email addresses naturally include domain names even where we don’t expressly specify “domain names” in the list of information collected. (We may sometimes collect domain names that are not associated with a single email address.)
Email header information: All email messages include email headers (sometimes called “Internet headers”) that contain not only the sender and recipient email addresses, but also the IP addresses and/or hostnames of the mail servers that transmitted the message, routing information, security protocols, encryption information (if any), the mail client(s) used, and/or other technical details; in some cases, the headers may also include your IP address and/or hostname. (The precise details may vary depending on your email client and provider and how you’re connecting to the Internet.) Although email headers always include your email address, there are situations where we may have your email address, but not your email header information, usually because we have never actually exchanged any email messages with you.
Other contact information: This is a blanket term intended to encompass any type of contact information other than email addresses, e.g., someone’s telephone number(s) and/or postal mailing address(es), and/or any other identifier that allows a specific individual to be contacted either physically or online.
Images and/or other media: “Images” is hopefully self-explanatory; for purposes of this policy, “other media” (or “other media files”) is a blanket term intended to encompass any audio, visual, audiovisual, and/or multimedia content that is not an individual image, including, but not limited to, films and/or other videos, audio recordings, broadcasts and/or streams, comic books, presentations, and/or slide shows.
Other documents/materials: This includes any type of physical or electronic document and/or material, e.g., books, magazines, letters sent via postal mail, press releases, and/or clippings.
Metadata: Many types of data — particularly electronic data, documents, and communications — include and/or contain data that describes that data, often generically known as “metadata.” For example, the metadata of most electronic files typically includes (but is not necessarily limited to) data such as the filename, file size, type, creation date, and last modified date as well as technical details like bit rate and/or pixel dimensions. The information in telephone records (e.g., the phone numbers of the callers, the date and time of each call, the call durations) can also be considered metadata. (These are just a few examples.) While metadata is not necessarily personally identifiable, it can sometimes constitute personal information, particularly if it includes or can be associated with identifiers such as the name and/or contact information of a specific individual. (Note: “Metadata” is a registered trademark of Metadata LLC in the United States, although the word metadata has been in widespread use for years as a generic descriptive term for data about other data. We use the word metadata strictly in a generic descriptive sense; we are not affiliated in any way with Metadata LLC, and no affiliation or association with that company or its products or services is implied.)
Geolocation data: Geolocation data means information about an individual or household’s physical location and/or movements, such as (though not necessarily limited to) the fact that an individual is or was present in a particular geographical location or traveled between two or more geographical locations. We may receive geolocation data from you directly, e.g., when you tell us your location in a comment or other communication (or, obviously, if we meet or otherwise encounter you in person); if someone else directly or indirectly describes your location or movements to us; and/or if we (and/or our service providers, where applicable) determine, estimate, and/or infer your geographical location or movements based on other data (e.g., your IP address and/or hostname, the area code of your telephone number, and/or GPS coordinates in the metadata of your submitted images). Although some jurisdictions regard geolocation data as personal information, it doesn’t necessarily reveal where you live or work, and in some cases may not reflect your actual location at all, particularly if you use a VPN or proxy service.
Websites/URLs: “URL” (an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator) is the technical term for a web address. A website URL isn’t necessarily personally identifying, at least by itself, but the URLs of your social media profile(s), online resume/CV, and/or other such web page(s) would probably be considered personal information. (Those are just two obvious examples; there various possible scenarios in which a URL might contain and/or constitute personal information.) Where this policy refers to “websites/URLs” as a category of personal information, we mean URLs that may contain (or that link to) personally identifiable information about individuals or households.
Referring site: When your browser or other user agent connects to some online resource — e.g., when you click a link or access embedded content on a web page or in an email message — that online resource can generally see the website or other online location, if any, from which the request originated, which is known as the “referring site” or “referer” [sic — some sources use the correct spelling, referrer, although the actual name of the HTTP header that conveys this information is (mis)spelled “referer”]. If the referer is the results of a search query (for example, when you click on a link from search engine results), the online resource you access can typically see not only the referring site, but also the specific search terms you were looking for. (Some privacy-focused search engines claim to take steps to remove this referer information so the destination site can’t see it, but most popular search engines do not.)
Other personal information: This may include any information about an individual or household that could be considered personal information or personally identifiable information. As noted above, some jurisdictions now regard nearly any piece of data about an individual or household as “personal information,” from the career history of a public figure to the fact that a website visitor once owned a car of a particular model.
Special: This policy uses this term as a prefix in referring to certain types of information that call for special explanation because they aren’t easily categorized, overlap several different categories of personal information, and/or may or may not necessarily constitute personal information in all cases.
Administrative dashboard/backend: Like most modern websites, this site has both a publicly visible/publicly accessible (“front-end”) portion and a “backend” administrative area that includes various controls for managing the site and its content. The WordPress content management system, which this website uses, describes the administrative backend as the “dashboard,” so this policy uses “administrative backend” and “dashboard” synonymously. The administrative dashboard is not normally accessible to visitors other than authorized administrative users, and we take various measures to guard against unauthorized access to it. (WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries.)
Cookies and similar technologies: A cookie is a small text file — a string of information — that a website or online service places (or “sets” — these terms are used synonymously) in your browser (or other user agent) or device and that your browser, other user agent, or device then provides to that site or service when you access it. (It is sometimes also possible for a website or service to detect cookies set by other sites/services.) Cookies may be used in many different ways, but the most common uses are to save your settings or preferences, to manage logins, and to help identify specific users or devices for analytics and/or advertising purposes. Most cookies are specific to each browser (or other user agent) and device; if you access a website using multiple browsers (and/or other user agents) and/or multiple devices, the website may place cookies in each browser (and/or other user agent) on each device. A cookie set by the website or service you are currently visiting is called a “first-party” cookie, while cookies set by other services or domains (e.g., the cookies set when you access an embedded video player) are known as “third-party” cookies. Some websites and/or online services may also use similar technologies, e.g., storing information in your browser’s web storage and/or plugins. Data items stored in your browser (or other user agent) and/or on your device in such ways aren’t cookies in the usual sense, but they may perform similar functions and may be used instead of or in addition to cookies. Such technologies are often used to manage functional details, e.g., settings and preferences, but are sometimes also used to help websites and/or services identify you. Online services may also use “web beacons,” which are small code blocks or tiny image files (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “pixel tags”) that transmit certain information about you and your user agent (as defined above) to the service from which the web beacon is loaded. Web beacons (which are a form of embedded content) are sometimes also used instead of or in conjunction with cookies to identify users and track their behavior online. You can learn more about how cookies work and how you can manage or delete them in different browsers by visiting KnowCookies.com. You can find additional tools for controlling certain cookies and/or similar technologies used for behavioral advertising purposes (e.g., to show you personalized ads based on your online activity and/or interests) at YourAdChoices (for the U.S.), AdChoices in Canada (for Canada), or Your Online Choices (for the EU, Switzerland, and the UK). (We are not affiliated in any way with these websites or the organizations that run them, and offer these links purely for your information. The names of these websites, and/or other related names, terms, slogans, logos, and/or icons, may be (and/or may incorporate) trademarks or registered trademarks; such marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here strictly for purposes of identification.)

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

If you are located in a part of the world that is subject to data protection laws such as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, now sometimes called the EU GDPR to distinguish it from the similarly named regulations of other regions), the UK GDPR, or Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais (LGPD), our legal bases for collecting and processing your information are that:

The use is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract; and/or:
The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; and/or:
The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests and/or those of another person; and/or
The use is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests and/or those of a third party (e.g., to provide the functions of this website, to perform our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services, to conduct research related to our content and/or other creative endeavors, to create and/or publish or otherwise disseminate our content and/or other creative endeavors (and/or otherwise exercise our rights of free speech and freedom of expression), to promote and market our content and/or professional services, to safeguard this website and/or our business data, to better understand how (and how many) people access this website, to troubleshoot technical problems, to update and/or improve this website and/or our services, to comply with the laws and regulations that apply to us and our business, and/or to appropriately respond to your inquiries regarding our work and/or services); and/or:
You have given us your consent. (You have the right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.)

Because we are based in the United States, the information about you that we process if you use this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services may be used, stored, and/or accessed by individuals operating outside your home country and/or the European Economic Area, including us, people who work for us, and/or third-party data processors (including, though not limited to, our web host, which also hosts the mail servers for our 6200productions.com email addresses). This is required for the purposes described in “Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection” below.

You can ask for more information about the steps we take to protect your personal information when transferring it internationally by contacting us via any of the methods described in “Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us” below.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

The 6200 Productions website and/or its embedded content providers (see “Embedded Content” below) may use cookies and/or similar technologies (e.g., storing data in your browser’s web storage) for a variety of purposes. Some cookies and stored data may be placed automatically while others are only set when you perform certain actions or use certain site functions.

For more specific information about the categories of cookies that may be used on this website, what purposes they serve, how long they normally last, and your options for managing them, Cookie Notice page or click the “Access Your Privacy and Cookie Preferences” button below and review the summaries under “Cookie Settings”:

(You can also access this button via the Privacy Tools page.) As noted in the preamble above, the Cookie Notice forms part of this Privacy Policy and constitutes the “cookie policy” for this website, that specifically require such a policy.

While the cookie descriptions presented in the Cookie Notice and the ones listed in the Cookie Settings menu accessed through the “Access Your Privacy and Cookie Preferences” button are intended to be identical (save for minor variations in formatting and text style), in the event of any substantive discrepancy between those versions, the Cookie Notice version shall govern and control.

Third-party websites or services (including, without limitation, ones we may use in connection with this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services) may also use cookies and/or similar technologies. The use of cookies and/or similar technologies by third-party websites or services is subject to those sites or services’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use, and in most cases is outside of our control.

Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection

In each of the sections below, we indicate the categories of personal information we may collect and the categories of purposes for which we collect and use that information.

Those purposes may include:

Functionality: We use the information so that this website, or certain specific functions thereof, can work properly. For example (but without limitation), none of the pages or content on this website will load if the web server doesn’t have a valid IP address to which to transmit the necessary data.
Providing services: We use the information to perform some action(s) you have asked us to perform; respond to comments, inquiries, and/or other messages; provide services; and/or otherwise conduct the normal activities involved in running our business and/or offering our services. For example (but without limitation), we probably couldn’t send you a physical document without your mailing or delivery address.
Completing a transaction: We use the information to conduct or complete financial transactions, e.g., payments for our professional services.
Fulfilling a contractual obligation: We use the information to honor our obligations under our contractual agreements, whether with you, with some third party or parties, or both.
Legal compliance or audit: We use the information to ensure our compliance with applicable laws and/or regulations; so that we can demonstrate our legal and/or regulatory compliance to auditors or investigators if needed; and/or to otherwise comply with our legal obligations (e.g., to respond to subpoenas, court orders, and/or other official orders).
Research and publishing: We use the information in researching, creating, and/or publishing (and/or performing, broadcasting, exhibiting, and/or otherwise disseminating, as applicable) our content, our writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or our other creative endeavors, and/or to help us decide what content, work, and/or creative endeavors to create and/or publish (and/or perform, broadcast, exhibit, and/or otherwise disseminate) in the future.
Security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement: We use the information to help us safeguard this website (and/or its related services), its users/visitors, our data, our system(s) and/or device(s), our business, us, and/or others against malicious activity; protect our property, rights, security, and/or safety, and/or the property, rights, security, and/or safety of others and/or of the public at large; troubleshoot and/or resolve technical problems; and/or maintain and/or improve the quality and/or functionality of the site and/or our services.
Recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships: We use the information in recruiting/hiring employees, independent contractors, and/or interns; in entering or considering entering business partnerships and/or other professional relationships; in making other types of employment decisions and/or business decisions regarding professional relationships; in administering employment benefits; and/or in otherwise administering and/or conducting employment relationships, business partnerships, and/or other professional relationships.
Advertising or other commercial purposes: We use the information to help us promote, pitch, and/or advertise our content, services, and/or other creative endeavors; sell advertising on this website; otherwise monetize the site, our content, our writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or our other creative endeavors; and/or achieve some other commercial purpose(s).

(We haven’t listed “communicating with you” as a separate category in the above list because achieving any or all of the above-listed purposes may involve communicating with you and/or third parties; listing that separately seemed redundant as well as potentially confusing.)

In many cases, we may collect information for several purposes or potential purposes. Obviously, not every individual piece of information in a particular category will necessarily be used or even useful for a given purpose.

(Where the sections below list multiple purposes or potential purposes, separated by semicolons, the order does not signify any comparative priority or significance.)

In the sections below, certain categories of information are followed by a single asterisk (*), which indicates that we may collect such information in some circumstances and not in others. (For example, but without limitation, we generally don’t need your postal mailing address except for certain financial transactions and/or legal matters, or if you ask us to send you some physical letter or package, so we only collect mailing addresses from certain visitors, not from everyone.)

Keep in mind that the categories of information listed in each section below are just the types of information we may collect in the specific context(s) described in that section, which may or may not apply to you.

Please also note that while the listed categories are intended to encompass the types of personal information we typically collect in the specified contexts, we can’t anticipate every possible scenario. (For example, again without limitation, it would be difficult for us to list every category of information someone might conceivably send us in a comment or email communication!) For this reason, we have also listed “other personal information*” in many of these sections as a kind of catch-all category. Depending on the specific context and circumstances, the “other personal information*” category may encompass various different types or categories of personal information, such as, though not limited to, physical and/or digital signatures; physical characteristics and/or descriptions (e.g., how tall someone is or what they look like); education information (e.g., whether someone has a college degree and from what school); financial information (e.g., information about someone’s income, assets, benefits, liabilities, and/or taxes); medical information (e.g., whether someone has had and/or been vaccinated against certain diseases); insurance information (e.g., whether someone has health insurance); protected classifications (e.g., race, religion, national origin); commercial information (e.g., information about products and/or services someone uses); information about sleep and/or exercise habits (which some jurisdictions may consider biometric information); Internet or other electronic network information (e.g., if someone provides us with login credentials for their wireless network or online file sharing account); information about someone’s location and/or movements (e.g., information about a trip someone recently took), which some jurisdictions may consider geolocation data; professional or employment-related information (e.g., someone’s occupation and/or where they work); other types of personal information not easily categorized (e.g., information about someone’s pets); and/or inferences drawn from these and/or other types of personal information. This catch-all category may sometimes include information that is considered sensitive personal information in some jurisdictions (e.g., political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership, sexual orientation).

Additionally, please keep in mind that the categories listed in the “Categories of information collected” bullet points of the sections below, which are based on our “Definitions” above, may differ from the categories of personal information defined by law in certain jurisdictions, e.g., California. (To learn more about how the personal information we collect could be categorized under California law, see the “Categories of Personal Information Collected” subsection of the “CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice” section below.)

Ways We Collect Information

We may collect information about you in three ways: automatically through this website; if and when you provide information to us; and from other sources. Each of these three types of data collection, and our use of that information, will be further explained in the sections below.

Information We Collect Automatically

Certificate Authority Checks

Categories of information collected: IP addresses; domain names and/or hostnames; user agent information; visitor activity; geolocation data (estimated from IP addresses and/or hostnames, and/or inferred from other data)*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*
Purpose(s): Functionality; fulfilling a contractual obligation; legal compliance or audit; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement
Data retention: Typically less than seven days.

To allow visitors (and us!) to connect to the site securely (that is, via encrypted connections), this website uses domain validation (DV) certificates issued by the Let’s Encrypt® certificate authority (CA), a service provided by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group™. These certificates enable a web browser or other user agent to confirm that it has an SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security) connection to the correct domain, an important security measure. For a further explanation, see the Let’s Encrypt “How It Works” page.

When you access this website, your browser (or other user agent) may check whether the 6200 Productions certificate is valid by briefly connecting to the servers of the Let’s Encrypt certificate repository to perform an Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) check (sometimes called an OCSP request or an OCSP query — these terms are synonymous). This OCSP check provides those servers with your IP address and/or hostname and user agent information; for obvious reasons, it also informs those servers that you have accessed the 6200 Productions website. The Let’s Encrypt CA service may log and use such data as described in the Let’s Encrypt Privacy Policy. Any further questions about their use and/or retention of public repository log data should be directed to the certificate authority itself (e.g., via the contact information listed in their Privacy Policy), as it is outside of our control. (Internet Security Research Group and Let’s Encrypt are trademarks of Internet Security Research Group. All rights reserved.)

Most aspects of the setup, maintenance, and periodical renewals of our DV certificates are administered on our behalf by our web host, DreamHost®, which also provides technical support for any issues with those certificates. DreamHost also has administrative access to the certificates themselves, subject to the DreamHost Privacy Policy and General Terms of Service. (DreamHost is a registered trademark of DreamHost, LLC.)

Browser Tests

Categories of information collected: User agent information; special: browser technical capabilities and/or settings; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies
Purpose(s): Functionality; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement
Data retention: Your current visit or current session.

Each time you visit the 6200 Productions website, the site may perform certain automated tests using tools such as (but not necessarily limited to) the Modernizr plugin to determine the specific technical capabilities of your browser (or other user agent), allowing the website to adjust the presentation and functionality of the site appropriately. The site’s administrative login page (which is off-limits except to authorized administrative users) may perform similar tests, e.g., testing whether the user’s browser will allow the cookies required to log into the site’s administrative dashboard. The site may also show you specific messages or other content based on the results of such tests, e.g., displaying a warning notification that your current browser is incompatible with certain site features.

The results of some such tests (which generally don’t contain any personally identifying information) are stored only in your device’s memory, and only for the length of your current visit. If any such test results are stored in your browser (or other user agent), whether in cookies and/or using other technologies (e.g., in web storage), that data normally expires and is automatically removed at the end of your current session — that is, when you next close your browser (or other user agent).

If you’d like further technical information about the Modernizr plugin, please consult the Modernizr documentation. (Please note that we are not affiliated with the Modernizr development team in any way and offer this link purely for your information.)

Online Tracking

Categories of information collected: IP addresses; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information; visitor activity; errors and suspicious activity; geolocation data (estimated from IP addresses and/or hostnames, and/or inferred from other data); URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies; special: other identifiers*; special: other technical details (some of which might be potentially personally identifiable and/or constitute personal information in certain jurisdictions)*
Purpose(s): Fulfilling a contractual obligation [see below]; research and publishing; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement; advertising or other commercial purposes
Data retention: We initiated deletion of analytics data and reports on April 5, 2022, and confirmed that the data was no longer recoverable by us as of May 11, 2022; see below for more details.

If you previously visited the 6200 Productions website, you may have been asked for your consent to tracking by the Google Analytics service, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC.

The Google Analytics service uses cookies, device identifiers, and/or similar technologies to collect information about visitors to a website. The information collected in this way may include (but is not limited to) visitors’ IP addresses; their geographical locations (estimated based on their IP addresses and/or inferred from other data); their user agent information; certain other device, browser, and/or user agent details (e.g., certain privacy-related browser settings; the brands and/or models of visitors’ mobile devices; and/or the advertising identifier(s) and/or other unique identifiers of visitors’ smartphones, tablet computers, desktop computers, and/or other devices); the date, time, and length of each visit; other information about a visitor’s activity on the site; the referring site, if any; and/or related search terms and/or queries. (We did NOT enable the features that would have allowed the Google Analytics service to report user demographics (e.g., age or gender) or user interests, and we configured the service to partially anonymize the data it collected by automatically redacting a portion of each tracked visitor’s IP address. We also took steps to exclude the information of known administrative users (including us!) from the analytics data, e.g., by instructing the analytics service to filter out or otherwise ignore activity from certain specific IP addresses.)

As of April 5, 2022, we have DISCONTINUED our use of Google Analytics tracking on this website.

What Happens Now

No further data collection: As of April 5, 2022, we have disabled the code that allowed the Google Analytics service to collect information about site visitors on our behalf, effective immediately, and disabled the analytics consent banner. This means the analytics service will no longer collect data about your use of the 6200 Productions website, even if you previously consented to analytics tracking.
Persistent cookies: Although no additional data will be collected, the cookies previously set by the analytics service (and the cookies used to indicate whether or not you consented to tracking) may persist for two years or more from when they were originally set. You may wish to delete all of the cookies described in the “Google Analytics” and “Disable Google Analytics Tracking” sections of the Cookie Notice (or all 6200productions.com cookies) on all browsers or other user agents you use to access this website.
Data deletion: We initiated the deletion of the Google Analytics “property” for this website on April 5, 2022. As of May 11, 2022, the property and its data and reports have been removed from the service’s Trash Can and can no longer be recovered by us, although it may take up to two additional months for the deleted data to be fully purged from Google servers, depending on the timing of scheduled “deletion processes” on those servers (which is entirely outside of our control). It is our intention not to retain Google Analytics data or reports other than any historical data that may be contained in our past email (most or all of which is aggregate information — e.g., average monthly traffic or rankings of most-viewed articles during a specific period — rather than individual visitor data). We will also retain administrative notifications and other correspondence from Google relating to the service itself (e.g., regarding changes to the Terms of Service and/or the Data Processing Terms described below).
Third parties may continue to use Google Analytics tracking: For example, certain embedded content on this website (see “Embedded Content” below) may continue to use the Google Analytics service and/or other analytics services, which is outside of our control.

Further Information About the Google Analytics Service and Our Use of It

How the analytics data was compiled: The Google Analytics service used the data it collected (some of which the service made available to us only in aggregate form) to generate reports and aggregate statistics, e.g., how many visitors we received during a given period, how many visitors came from a particular geographical area, which web browsers and operating systems visitors used, what posts or pages were most often visited, and/or what other websites or search engines led visitors to the site. (These examples are just a sampling of the analytics data; the Google Analytics service offers a great variety of reports and insights, and offers various options for creating custom reports.) The individual user reports the analytics service made available to us didn’t identify tracked visitors by name or IP address, only by “Client ID,” a string of numbers stored in the analytics cookies in the visitor’s browser or other user agent. However, the user reports did include other information about each tracked visitor, such as, though not limited to, which posts or pages they visited at what times and for how long, whether they accessed the site directly or by clicking a link, and whether they used a desktop computer or a mobile device. (To learn more and see examples of the information contained in these user reports, see the Google Analytics “User Explorer” help page.) We did not disaggregate or attempt to disaggregate data the analytics service provided to us only in aggregate form.
How we used the Google Analytics data: We used the analytics service to better understand how many visitors the website had and how they used the site (for example, to determine which of our articles were the most popular); to help us sell advertising on the site (for example, to inform potential advertisers how many unique visitors the site had in an average month); for the purposes of helping us to sell the site itself, in the event we ever elected to do so; and for troubleshooting and/or service improvement purposes. We did NOT enable any Google Analytics Advertising Features, and we did not authorize Google to share or link our Google Analytics data with other Google products or services, or with any advertising service (provided by Google or otherwise).
Where the information was processed: Data the Google Analytics service collects may be processed and/or stored on servers owned by Google, its subsidiaries, and/or third-party subprocessors, which may be located in various regions (click here for a complete list of third-party subprocessors Google uses in connection with the Google Analytics service, including those subprocessors’ respective locations).
Data Processing Terms: We previously accepted the Google Ads Data Processing Terms, a data processing amendment to the Google Analytics Terms of Service that applies to the processing of personal data from areas subject to certain region-specific privacy and/or data protection laws (see the “Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws)” section below for more information about these privacy laws). Although we do not currently use any Google advertising services, Google also offers these Data Processing Terms to certain Google Analytics customers, as explained in the Google Analytics “Data Processing Terms” help page. These terms incorporate Standard Contractual Clauses pertaining to transfers of online advertising and measurement personal data out of the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and/or the UK. The terms also include a CCPA Service Provider Addendum pertaining to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) (discussed in greater detail in “Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA)” below) and a LGPD Processor Addendumpertaining to the Brazilian Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais (LGPD). Google has indicated that the terms will be further updated January 1, 2023, to reflect new state data protection laws in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah. These terms remain in effect.
To learn more about how Google may use information collected by the Google Analytics service, see their “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services” page, the “Information for Visitors of Sites and Apps Using Google Analytics” section of the Google Analytics “Safeguarding your data” help page, and the Google Privacy Policy. You may also wish to review their Google Business Data Responsibility site (in particular the section regarding restricted data processing), which provides additional information about how Google processes data from business users of certain Google products and services. For additional technical information about the cookies used by the analytics service, see their “Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites” page. (For your reference when reviewing the latter page, we did NOT use Google Analytics 4.)

Special Note: The reason we included “fulfilling a contractual obligation” among the potential purposes listed above was that the Google Analytics Terms of Service include various stipulations regarding permissible data collection (such as, though not limited to, a prohibition on sending what Google calls Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to the Google Analytics service), how we may configure and/or interact with the analytics service, and how we are permitted to use data the service collects. We also anticipated the possibility that we might be required to provide certain analytics data to advertisers and/or potential purchasers of the site — e.g., to report on trends in the average number of visitors per month — although in most cases, such obligations would have been fulfilled with aggregate data, not individual user information. The most likely exception would have been in the event we sold or transferred control of the site or its assets to a third party prior to discontinuing use of the analytics service, in which case the analytics data would likely have included among the assets sold or otherwise transferred. (We may also disclose analytics data — to the extent we retain such data — as otherwise described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below.)

If you have any questions or concerns, you can email us at admin (at) ateupwithmotor (dot) com or contact us via any of the other methods described in “Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us” below.

Separate from the Google Analytics service, we may also use Google Search Console tools and reports, which aid webmasters in analyzing and improving a website’s indexability and search performance. Unlike the Google Analytics service, Google Search Console tools and reports focus primarily on the website’s search performance rather than the characteristics or behavior of individual visitors, although some of the available reports may present certain aggregate user information — e.g., how many Google search engine users saw and clicked on links to this website from search results and/or which search queries led those users to the site. Such aggregate user information is based on Google search engine and search service usage data (the collection of which is outside of our control); since we did not authorize Google to share or link our analytics data with other Google products or services, the user information presented in Google Search Console reports is separate from the information the Google Analytics service collected about visitors to this website who consented to analytics tracking.

Other websites or online services, including ones to which we may link and/or on which we have accounts, may also use the Google Analytics service and/or other web analytics services and/or tools not specified here, which in most cases is outside of our control. See the applicable website or service’s privacy policy for more information.

(Google, Google Ads, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and other related marks and logos are trademarks of Google LLC.)

Website Server, Error, and Security Logs

Categories of information collected: IP addresses*; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information*; visitor activity; errors and suspicious activity*; names*; email addresses*; email header information*; geolocation data (estimated from IP addresses and/or hostnames, and/or inferred from other data)*; URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*; special: other identifiers*; special: other technical details (some of which might be potentially personally identifiable and/or constitute personal information in certain jurisdictions)*
Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; fulfilling a contractual obligation; legal compliance or audit; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement
Data retention: Varies, but typically no more than about 90 days, except for recent data captured in backups or specific data for which we have some ongoing need.

Like most websites, 6200 Productions maintains various logs (some of which we administer directly and some of which are administered by our web host) that may collect certain information (some of which may be considered personal information or potentially personally identifiable information in at least some jurisdictions) about each computer or other device that (as applicable, but without limitation) accesses the site and/or its content; uses certain site features; is redirected from an outdated link to a current one; generates an error (e.g., attempting to access a nonexistent page or file); logs into, otherwise accesses, or attempts to log into or otherwise access the administrative dashboard and/or other administrative resources or controls; generates or attempts to generate authentication codes for multi-factor authentication (which may be used for administrative logins and/or certain other site functions); attempts to interact with the site in any unusual or suspicious way (e.g., trying to access the site’s administrative dashboard without authorization or run an unauthorized script); and/or performs certain other actions. (These examples are a representative sampling, but not an exhaustive list; we may also use or add other logs not specified here, and not all logs are necessarily in use at any given time.)

The information these logs record may include (but is not necessarily limited to) the IP address, hostname, and/or user agent information of the applicable device (and sometimes the referring site, if any), which sometimes makes it possible to determine, estimate, and/or infer certain other information (e.g., geographical location and/or device type). In some cases, the logs may also record device identifiers (e.g., the advertising identifier(s) and/or other unique identifiers of a smartphone, tablet computer, desktop computer, or other device). Most such logs include the date and time each logged event took place; certain types of events may also be assigned unique ID numbers and/or other identifiers for reference purposes. Additionally, if a logged event or action involves or appears to involve any of this website’s administrative users, and/or involves or appears to involve credentials we create to allow specific users to access certain resources (e.g., login credentials for FTP folder(s) associated with this website), certain logs may also record the username(s), user ID number(s), and/or other identifiers associated with such administrative user(s) and/or credentials. All these logs are part of the routine operations of the website and its related systems and are not in any way connected to or associated with the analytics service described in the “Online Tracking” section above.

Most of the routine website log data we collect is retained on a rolling basis — that is, we customarily retain only the most recently collected data. Typically, website log data is retained for no more than about 30 days (and often only a fraction of that time) before being automatically overwritten by newer data or otherwise deleted. Some security audit log data recorded by the Sucuri Security plugin (further described in the “Security Scans” section below) — which is provided by GoDaddy Media Temple, Inc. d/b/a Sucuri, a subsidiary of Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC (Sucuri) — may be stored both locally and on remote servers controlled by Sucuri, and is normally retained for about 90 days. (Sucuri, Sucuri Security, Sucuri Security Inc., and Sucuri Inc. are trademarks of Sucuri Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. GoDaddy is a registered trademark of Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC.) Certain website logs and/or log reports that contain only aggregate data, anonymous information (e.g., hit counters), and/or data pertaining to administrative resources or controls that are normally off-limits except to authorized administrative users may be retained for longer periods. For example (but without limitation), logs showing the last access dates of certain resources, or showing which administrative user last edited a particular post, may remain unchanged until that resource is accessed or edited again, or until we manually delete the logs.

Naturally, we and/or our web host may retain certain specific information from the website’s logs for longer periods if it is still needed for ongoing security, troubleshooting, and/or service improvement purposes, and/or for legal reasons. For example, but without limitation, if the logs indicate that a specific IP address has been used in repeated attempts to attack this website, we may take steps to block that IP address or otherwise impede future malicious activity from it. Certain security-related log data (e.g., records our website security features compile of administrative logins and/or failed attempts to log in as an administrative user) may be retained indefinitely unless manually deleted.

Also, some recent log data may be captured in backups created by us and/or our web host, which in some cases may be retained for a year or more.

Certain events may trigger automated email alerts to the site administrator, notifying us of potential threats, errors, or the status of some automated operation. The alerts may include some or all of whatever data the logs recorded. Such email alerts may be scanned for suspected spam, malware, and/or other suspicious activity, as explained in the “Security Scans” section below. We may retain these email alerts for as long as we need the information they contain.

Please keep in mind that, because our web host, DreamHost®, controls the servers on which this website runs, they have full access to the site’s server access and server error logs. (Our access to those logs is read-only, so we cannot redact or remove any of that log data without the aid of our web host’s technical support staff, and we are not permitted to tamper or interfere with the normal functions of DreamHost servers or other systems.) In general, DreamHost has access to any data and/or files on any server or other system they control — except in cases where we have specially encrypted such file(s) and/or data — subject to the DreamHost Privacy Policy and/or, where applicable, the Customer Data Processing Addendum to their General Terms of Service. We may disclose additional data to them if we deem it appropriate for purposes such as troubleshooting and/or security. (DreamHost is a registered trademark of DreamHost, LLC.)

We may also disclose website log data as otherwise described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below.

Security Scans

Categories of information collected: IP addresses*; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information*; visitor activity*; errors and suspicious activity; names*; email addresses*; email header information*; other contact information (e.g., phone numbers)*; images and/or other media (including metadata)*; geolocation data (determined directly, estimated from IP addresses and/or hostnames, and/or inferred from other data)*; URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: visitor mobile phone types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; metadata*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*; special: other identifiers*; special: other technical details (some of which might be potentially personally identifiable and/or constitute personal information in certain jurisdictions)*; special: fingerprint data*
Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; fulfilling a contractual obligation [see below]; legal compliance or audit; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement
Data retention: Varies; potentially indefinite.

While no website, online service, Internet-accessible device, or data storage system can be 100 percent secure, we take reasonable measures to protect personal information we collect through and/or in connection with the 6200 Productions website and/or our professional writing/editing and writing consulting business from unauthorized or illegal access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.

We and our web host, DreamHost®, use a variety of security measures to protect this website and its data, including, but not limited to, scanning the site, site-related files, and/or the site database for malware and blocking suspicious and/or malicious activity. Some of these measures are purely automated, but in some cases, we may manually initiate additional security measures and/or request that our web host’s technical support staff take additional steps to investigate and/or block security threats and/or suspicious activity. (DreamHost is a registered trademark of DreamHost, LLC.)

Like the logs described in the “Website Server, Error, and Security Logs” section above, some of these security measures may collect certain information (some of which may be considered personal information or potentially personally identifiable information in at least some jurisdictions) about any device(s) and/or individual(s) involved in suspicious and/or malicious activity. For example (but without limitation), if an unauthorized visitor attempted to execute an unusual or suspicious server request on this website (which might indicate an intrusion or hacking attempt), one or more security measures might record that visitor’s IP address and/or hostname; their user agent information; and other details about their device and/or browser or other user agent along with details about the action(s) they attempted to perform. In some cases, the data recorded may also include device identifiers (e.g., the advertising identifier(s) and/or other unique identifiers of a smartphone, tablet computer, desktop computer, or other device). Certain events may be assigned unique ID numbers and/or other identifiers for reference purposes. If the activity in question involves or appears to involve any of this website’s administrative users, and/or involves or appears to involve credentials we create to allow specific users to access certain resources (e.g., the login credentials for certain 6200productions.com email address(es) and/or FTP folder(s)), the information collected may also include the username(s), user ID number(s), and/or other identifiers associated with such administrative user(s) and/or credentials. The specific information that our security measures may collect in connection with suspicious and/or malicious activity naturally varies depending on the context and the security measure(s) involved; there are too many possible scenarios to enumerate here.

Certain events may trigger automated email alerts to the site administrator, notifying us of potential security threats. These alerts may include some or all of the data described above. Such email alerts may also be scanned for suspected spam, malware, and/or other suspicious activity, as further explained below.

Among the security measures we may use on this website is the Sucuri Security plugin, provided by GoDaddy Media Temple, Inc. d/b/a Sucuri, a subsidiary of Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC (Sucuri), whose available features (not all of which are necessarily used on this website) include, but are not necessarily limited to, activity monitoring, notifications, security auditing tools, a security logging feature that allows certain security audit log data to be stored remotely to deter tampering, a remote scanning feature that can detect security vulnerabilities and some forms of malware and malicious activity involving this website, a remote firewall service intended to block certain forms of suspicious and/or malicious activity, a WordPress file integrity checker (which tests the files of this website’s WordPress installation by accessing a remote API service associated with the WordPress.org websites), and a blocklist-checking feature that warns if this website has been flagged for malicious activity by search engines and/or Internet security services (an obvious sign that a site may have been hacked and/or infected with malware). (A list of the features of the plugin (not all of which are necessarily used on this website) can be found in the “WordPress plugin & API Key” section of the Sucuri Security Terms of Service and the “Plugins” section of the Sucuri documentation.) Some data collected and/or processed by this plugin, the remote scanning feature, and/or other associated features and/or tools — which may sometimes include personal information such as (without limitation) IP addresses and/or hostnames that perform certain actions (e.g., adding or editing a post, updating or installing a plugin); the website domain name, username, and email address of an administrative user who generates an API key for communication with the remote service; and/or information contained in published comments and/or other published content — may be processed and/or stored by Sucuri as well as us and/or our web host; data processed and/or stored by Sucuri is subject to the Sucuri Security Privacy Policy, the Sucuri Cookie Policy (“Our Use of Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies”), and/or the Data Processing Addendum to their Terms of Service (which applies to personal data Sucuri services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws), as applicable. Certain plugin components may be served by the Cloudflare® content delivery network, which is subject to the Cloudflare Privacy Policy, the Cloudflare Data Processing Addendum (which applies to personal data Cloudflare services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws), and/or the Cloudflare Cookie Policy, as applicable. Communications with API servers, repositories, and/or content delivery networks associated with the WordPress.org websites are subject to the WordPress.org Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. Communications with any other third-party services are subject to the respective privacy policies of those services. (Sucuri, Sucuri Security, Sucuri Security Inc., and Sucuri Inc. are trademarks of Sucuri Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. GoDaddy is a registered trademark of Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC. Cloudflare is a trademark and/or registered trademark of Cloudflare, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries.)

Some other security measures we use on this website are provided by the free, open source version of the Solid Security Security plugin from SolidWP. While most of this plugin’s features operate locally (that is, on the same server this website runs on), certain features may transmit information (which may include, but is not necessarily limited to, personal information and/or potentially personally identifiable information about visitors involved in suspicious and/or malicious activity on this website) to SolidWP servers, and/or send and/or receive security-related information (which may also include personal information and/or potentially personally identifiable information about site visitors and/or other individuals) to and/or from external sources (for example, but without limitation, for the purposes of testing the files of this website’s WordPress installation via remote API services associated with the WordPress.org websites and/or operated by SolidWP or its parent company, and/or to generate a QR Code® (which this website’s administrative users may use to set up multi-factor authentication) by connecting to a remote API service operated by SolidWP or its parent company). Because SolidWP is now one of the StellarWP brands, part of the Liquid Web family of brands, the Solid Security plugin and related services are subject to the StellarWP Privacy Policy and/or, for the plugin’s security-related communications with other third parties, those entities’ respective privacy policies, such as (again without limitation) the WordPress.org Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. (Solid Security, SolidWP, StellarWP, and Liquid Web are trademarks of Liquid Web, LLC. WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries. QR Code is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED; DENSO and DENSO WAVE are registered trademarks of DENSO Corporation.)

We also use a variety of other tools and security measures to protect our device(s), software, and data. A representative sampling of providers of such tools and security measures is included among the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers that appear in the “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” section below. (Since the specific tools, devices, and security measures we use may change over time, those examples should not be regarded as an exhaustive list, and we don’t necessarily use all of those providers at any given time.)

In addition, our web host also hosts the email servers for many of our email addresses, and may use various measures to detect and/or prevent malicious activity and/or abuse involving those addresses and/or domains, including (though not necessarily limited to) scanning incoming, outgoing, and/or stored messages for suspected spam, malware, and/or other suspicious activity. Our Internet service provider(s), mobile carrier(s), and/or other applicable service provider(s) may also use their own security tools to detect and/or prevent suspected spam, malware, and/or other suspicious activity involving our account(s) and/or connections. (For example, but without limitation, our current mobile carrier sometimes warns us that certain incoming voice calls and/or text messages could be associated with a scam of some kind.)

Some of the security measures we use to protect our device(s) may collect additional personal information under certain circumstances. For example (but without limitation), security features we use for our smartphone(s) might automatically photograph anyone attempting unsuccessfully to unlock the device, scan the user’s fingerprint, and/or remotely track the device’s location to help us find or recover the device in the event of loss or theft.

As noted above, the tools, devices, and security measures we use may change over time, so we may also use and/or add other security measures that have other features not specified here.

(Naturally, malware scanning services and other security tools may also provide us with additional security-related information, e.g., “signatures” of known malware types. Much of this information is of a technical nature and is not personally identifiable, but it may sometimes include certain personal information; see the “Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes” section below.)

By their nature, some anti-malware scanners and other security tools routinely access almost any file or data on the systems or devices they protect. Since modern security tools sometimes incorporate web- or cloud-based scanning features, and/or may transmit samples of suspicious files or code to such services for analysis, this means a certain amount of personal information (e.g., names, contact information, and/or other personal details contained in scanned email messages or electronic documents) could be disclosed to the scanning service and/or other third parties in the course of a scan or security analysis. The likelihood and possible extent of such disclosure is difficult to predict or quantify, but it cannot be completely avoided without greatly compromising the security of our systems, devices, and data.

Special Note: We include “fulfilling a contractual obligation” among the potential purposes listed above for several reasons: First, our various contractual agreements may require us to take appropriate steps to secure our systems and/or data, obligations which the security measures described in this section help us to fulfill. Second, certain of the security scans and/or associated logs described in this section are operated and/or maintained by third parties (e.g., our web host and/or other service providers); in such cases, we may be contractually prohibited from interfering with the normal functions of those scans or with the data they collect. Third, the license agreements and/or terms of service for certain of our security tools may impose specific restrictions on our use of those tools and/or any associated data (e.g., prohibiting us from modifying the scanning functions of a malware detection application beyond what the application’s settings normally permit).

Our retention of data related to security scans and/or other security measures varies depending the tools involved, whether they are operated by us or a third party, and the context. As noted in the “Website Server, Error, and Security Logs” section above, any security audit log data remotely stored by Sucuri via the Sucuri Security plugin is normally retained for about 90 days, while most other website security log data is typically retained for no more than about 30 days, although we may retain certain information for longer periods if it is still needed for ongoing security, troubleshooting, and/or service improvement purposes; for legal reasons; and/or if it pertains to administrative resources or controls that are normally off-limits except to authorized administrative users. Security data for our devices (e.g., malware scan results, system error logs, logs of traffic blocked by a firewall) may in some cases be retained for at least as long as we own that device and/or use the applicable security tool(s). We also typically retain indefinitely any correspondence regarding specific security threats or problem, although we generally only retain automated email alerts for as long as we need the information they contain. The retention and use of security-related data by our web host, Internet service provider(s), mobile carrier(s), and/or other third-party service providers varies, and is generally outside of our control. (As noted in the “Website Server, Error, and Security Logs” section above, DreamHost services are subject to the DreamHost Privacy Policy and/or, where applicable, the Customer Data Processing Addendum to their General Terms of Service.)

We may disclose information from security scans and/or other security measures to third parties, and/or publicly disclose such information, if we need technical assistance and/or consider such disclosure appropriate for our security and/or the security of others (e.g., to notify our web host’s technical support if we identify malware that might threaten the integrity of their web or email servers). We may also disclose information from security scans and/or other security measures as otherwise described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below.

Embedded Content

Categories of information collected: IP addresses; domain names and/or hostnames; user agent information; visitor activity; errors and suspicious activity*; geolocation data (estimated from IP addresses and/or hostnames, and/or inferred from other data); special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: other identifiers*; special: other browser/user agent settings/configuration details/add-ons*
Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; fulfilling a contractual obligation [see below]; research and publishing; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement
Data retention: Varies depending on the specific content provider; in most cases, we do not have access to the data collected by embedded content providers, and its retention is generally outside of our control.

As explained in the “Definitions” section above, this policy defines embedded content as content hosted on and served by some server or service other than our web host and/or its subprocessors. If you access a portion of this website that contains embedded content, your browser (or other user agent) requests that content from the respective content provider(s), which enables those embedded content provider(s) to collect information about you. Such information is collected and processed by the applicable embedded content providers, not by us, and is subject to such providers’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use, which in most cases are outside of our control.

You should generally assume that the information an embedded content provider collects when you access their content through a website or online service includes, at a minimum, your IP address and/or hostname, your user agent information, which specific embedded content you accessed (and/or requested, since the request may be recorded even if the content fails to load for whatever reason), and the website or URL from which you accessed and/or requested the embedded content. (Some embedded content providers claim to remove or discard the latter information.) In some cases, embedded content providers can also detect and/or otherwise determine other information, such as (without limitation) your country and/or geographical location (typically — though not necessarily always — estimated based on your IP address and/or hostname); the presence of certain cookies (e.g., the ones placed on your device when you log into a particular third-party website or online service); certain of your settings (e.g., your time zone and/or preferred language settings); whether your browser is using certain add-ons (e.g., ad blocker extensions); and/or device identifiers (e.g., the advertising identifier(s) and/or other unique identifiers of a smartphone, tablet computer, desktop computer, or other device). If you interact with the embedded content in some way — for example, if you play an embedded video or click on an embedded payment button — the embedded content provider usually logs that activity as well.

Embedded content providers may collect personal information about your online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services; for example (but without limitation), an online video platform may add information about the embedded videos you watch on this website to information that platform has collected about videos you’ve watched on other websites and/or on the platform’s own website.

Some embedded content providers may also use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify you, and/or store information on your device that could be used for those purposes. For example (again without limitation), an embedded video player might place cookies on your device when the player loads; if you watch the video, portions of the content may also be stored (cached) in your browser to reduce playback interruptions, and certain associated information (e.g., your playback settings and/or how much of the video you’ve watch so far) may be saved in your browser’s web storage and/or plugins. Cookies and/or other information stored on your device in such ways are not necessarily personally identifying (and often have straightforward functional purposes), but some may be used to track you and/or to help identify you, and therefore may constitute potentially personally identifiable information.

The Cookie Notice includes more information about the cookies we know the specified embedded content providers have used in at least some instances. Please note that some cookies may be set only in certain circumstances, providers may periodically add new cookies not listed and/or retire ones listed in our Cookie Notice, and content providers not currently listed in the Cookie Notice might begin using cookies in connection with their embedded content (and/or may already do so in circumstances we have not yet recognized), all of which is outside of our control.

Embedded content providers may use various third-party service providers to provide and/or in connection with their content. For example (but without limitation), a video hosting platform might use one or more third-party analytics services to track how many people view an embedded video, use one or more third-party ad services to show advertisements during playback of that video, and/or subcontract certain related data processing functions to third-party subprocessors. Those third parties may gather personal information about you, use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify you, and/or store information on your device that could be used for those purposes, in the same ways as the embedded content provider(s) for whom such third parties provide their services. They may also collect personal information about your online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services. Because the use of such third-party services is highly variable, may change over time, isn’t necessarily disclosed to us, and in most cases is entirely outside of our control, we have not attempted to fully enumerate such service providers. Where we recognize an embedded content provider’s use of specific third-party service providers based on the presence of their cookies, we have listed such service providers in the Cookie Notice, although given the above caveats, that should not be considered an exhaustive list — again, too many factors are simply outside of our control.

Since embedded content on this website is served through secure (encrypted) connections, your browser (or other user agent) may also contact the embedded content provider’s certificate authority to check the validity of their encryption certificate. (The “Certificate Authority Checks” section above describes how these certificate checks work, although embedded content providers may use different certificate authorities than the one used by this website.)

In some cases, you may be able to hide or disable certain types of embedded content on this website (for example, by using options we may provide through the Privacy Tools, or through your web browser or browser add-ons). Disabling embedded content may prevent that content from functioning, but will generally also prevent it from gathering information about you, at least as long as the content remains disabled. Please note that this does not remove any data the embedded content previously collected about you or any cookies or potentially personally identifiable information it may have placed on your device. If you re-enable the embedded content, or if you visit the website using a different device, browser, or other user agent on which that content is not disabled, the embedded content provider may again be able to collect information about you.

Special Note: The reason we include “fulfilling a contractual obligation” among the potential purposes listed above is that the terms of service or terms of use for most embedded content providers typically prohibit us from modifying their embedded content or interfering with the normal function of their servers, which prevents us from (for example, but without limitation) removing tracking features or attempting to block or “spoof” information their servers would otherwise collect.

Third-party embedded content on 6200 Productions may include, but is not necessarily limited to:

Fonts from the Google Fonts API and/or scripts and/or other content from the Google Hosted Libraries, which are libraries of resources hosted on and served by a content distribution network (i.e., remote servers and data centers) operated by Google and/or its subprocessors, which may be located in the United States or elsewhere. The Google Fonts API does not place cookies on your device, but may collect certain information about your device and browser (or other user agent) (including, though not necessarily limited to, your IP address and/or hostname, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers) when you visit a page that uses one or more of those fonts, as well as recording which specific fonts your browser (or other user agent) requests and the website or URL from which your browser (or other user agent) requested and/or accessed that those fonts. The Google Fonts API may also store (cache) certain information, e.g., font data and stylesheet requests, in your browser or other user agent’s web storage for faster loading. To learn more about how the service works and how Google uses the information it collects, see the Google Fonts “Privacy and Data Collection” FAQ. The Google Hosted Libraries may use cookies and/or similar technologies and/or store potentially personally identifiable information on your device in addition to collecting certain information about your device and browser (or other user agent) (including, though not necessarily limited to, your IP address and/or hostname, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers) and which specific content your browser (or other user agent) requests and/or accesses. Google asserts that the Google Hosted Libraries systems remove referring site information from the request logs (so that the logs indicate which content your browser (or other user agent) requested, but not the websites or online services you were visiting when your browser (or other user agent) sent those requests). For more information, see the “What does using the Google Hosted Libraries mean for the privacy of my users?” section of the Google Hosted Libraries Terms of Service. To learn more about what information these services (and/or certain other Google services we may periodically use and/or offer, e.g., embedded maps served by the Google Maps mapping service) may collect and how Google may use that information, see their “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services” page and the Google Privacy Policy. To learn more about how Google uses cookies and/or other technologies that may collect and/or process personal information, see the “Technologies” section of their Google Privacy & Terms site. (Those pages do not currently discuss the storage of data in your browser (or other user agent) using technologies other than cookies, e.g., in web storage.) Google API services are also subject, where applicable, to their Google Controller-Controller Data Protection Terms, the CCPA Addendum, and/or the LGPD Controller Addendum, which supplement the Google APIs Terms of Service and apply to the processing of personal data that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws. (Google, Google Maps, and other related marks and logos are trademarks of Google LLC.)
Fonts, styles, scripts, icons, and/or other content served by the BootstrapCDN service, which is now powered by the open source jsDelivr project (which is designed, developed, and maintained by Prospect One and Dmitriy Akulov). As with any embedded content provider, this service presumably collects certain information about your device and browser (or other user agent) (e.g., your IP address and/or hostname, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers) when you access portions of the site containing content loaded from the BootstrapCDN service, as well as recording which specific content your browser (or other user agent) requests and/or accesses and the website or URL from which your browser (or other user agent) requested and/or accessed that content. To learn more about what data the service may collect and how that data may be used, see the jsDeliver Privacy Policy for cdn.jsdelivr.net. That policy states that the service does not use cookies, but may use various third-party service providers, a current list of which appears in the “Content Delivery” section of the Privacy Policy for cdn.jsdelivr.net; such third parties may collect and/or process data for and/or on behalf of the BootstrapCDN service and/or any other content delivery network powered by the jsDelivr project. (You should consult their privacy policy for further details, as the specific service providers the jsDelivr project uses may change periodically and is entirely outside of our control.)
Scripts and/or other content served by the jQuery® CDN, a content delivery network provided by the OpenJS Foundation® nonprofit organization and powered by StackPath, and/or the jQuery API service. As with any embedded content provider, those services presumably collect certain information about your device and browser (or other user agent) (e.g., your IP address and/or hostname, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers) when you access portions of the site that use content from the CDN and/or the API service, as well as recording which specific content your browser (or other user agent) requests and/or accesses and the website or URL from which your browser (or other user agent) requested and/or accessed that content. To learn more about what data these services may collect and how that data may be used, see the OpenJS Foundation Privacy Policy. The cookie policy links in that policy and the ones that appear on the CDN and API services’ respective home pages all currently point to the cookie policy of a different organization; it is unclear if this is intentional or an error, so we don’t know if the CDN and/or API services use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify you and/or store potentially personally identifiable information on your device. The CDN service is presumably also subject to the StackPath Privacy Statement and/or Data Processing Addendum (which applies to personal data StackPath services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws); you may also wish to consult the StackPath “GDPR” and “CCPA: California Privacy Rights” pages. (jQuery and OpenJS Foundation are trademarks or registered trademarks of the OpenJS Foundation in the United States and/or other countries. StackPath is a trademark of StackPath, LLC.)
Certain scripts, images, and/or other content served by the Cloudflare® CDN (content delivery network). To learn more about what data the Cloudflare services may collect from visitors to websites that use those services (whom Cloudflare policies generally describe as “end users”) and how that data may be used, see the “Cloudflare’s commitment to GDPR compliance” page, the Cloudflare Privacy Policy, the Cloudflare Data Processing Addendum (which applies to personal data Cloudflare services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws), and/or the Cloudflare Cookie Policy, as applicable. (Cloudflare is a trademark and/or registered trademark of Cloudflare, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions.)
Certain icons, fonts, and/or other content (whether on the administrative dashboard, the publicly visible/publicly accessible portions of the site, or both) served by the Font Awesome content delivery networks, which may collect certain information about your device and browser (or other user agent) (e.g., your IP address and/or hostname, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers), as well as recording which specific content your browser (or other user agent) requests and/or accesses and the website or URL from which your browser (or other user agent) requested and/or accessed that content. To learn more about what data the Font Awesome content delivery networks may collect and how that data may be used, see the Font Awesome Privacy Policy. (They do not currently appear to have a cookie policy, and their Privacy Policy does not discuss the use of cookies or similar technologies except in the context of the Font Awesome website.) Font Awesome may use Cloudflare® CDN services to provide the Font Awesome content delivery networks; see the Cloudflare Privacy Policy, the Cloudflare Data Processing Addendum (which applies to personal data Cloudflare services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws), and/or the Cloudflare Cookie Policy, as applicable, to learn more about how information collected by Cloudflare services may be used. (Font Awesome is a trademark of Fonticons, Inc. Cloudflare is a trademark and/or registered trademark of Cloudflare, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions.)
The payment or donation buttons that certain themes and/or plugins place on the administrative dashboard (not normally accessible to site visitors) incorporate content served by PayPal® services. Accessing a portion of the site containing such content may enable the PayPal services to collect certain information about your device and browser (or other user agent) (e.g., your IP address and/or hostname, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers) as well as recording which specific content your browser (or other user agent) requests and/or accesses and the website or URL from which your browser (or other user agent) requested and/or accessed that content. The embedded content may also use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify you and/or store potentially personally identifiable information on your device, and may be able to determine whether you are currently logged into a PayPal account. Naturally, if you use a PayPal button to initiate a payment or purchase, the PayPal services may collect various additional information pertaining to that transaction (e.g., payment information and login details for your PayPal account, if any), and will set additional cookies and/or store additional information on your device for that purpose. Additionally, PayPal may also use automated technologies (e.g., website crawling) to assess this website and collect publicly accessible or available data — which may include any publicly available personal information published on the site (e.g., in comments and/or other site content) — to ensure compliance with the PayPal User Agreement and to combat malicious or fraudulent activity. For more information about what data PayPal services may collect and how that data may be used, visit the “Legal Agreements for PayPal Services” page to review the PayPal Privacy Statement and Statement on Cookies and Tracking Technologies that apply in your location (the Statement on Cookies and Tracking Technologies that applies to each region is linked from within the applicable PayPal Privacy Statement). (Please note that the terms may differ depending on where you are.) See the “Financial Transactions Policy” section below to learn more about what information we may collect in connection with PayPal transactions involving 6200 Productions. (PayPal.com, PayPal, and all logos related to the PayPal services are either trademarks or registered trademarks of PayPal, Inc. or its licensors. In addition, all page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and scripts related to the PayPal services are service marks, trademarks, and/or trade dress of PayPal.)
Embedded video players (whether posted and/or otherwise displayed by us and/or displayed by certain themes and/or plugins on portions of the administrative dashboard, which is not normally visible or accessible to site visitors other than logged-in administrative users) for content hosted on the YouTube video platform, which is owned by Google LLC. The embedded video player may use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify you and/or store potentially personally identifiable information on your device as well as collecting certain information about your device and browser (or other user agent) (e.g., your IP address and/or hostname, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers), the website or URL through which you accessed the embedded player, the specific video(s) and/or other content loaded through that player, and potentially also other information (such as, without limitation, whether you are currently logged into a Google account). In some cases, embedded video players may also use your IP address and/or hostname, geographical location (typically but not always estimated from your IP address and/or hostname), and/or other information (e.g., whether you are currently logged into a Google account) to determine whether or not you can view a specific video — for example (but without limitation), if the video is age-restricted, unavailable in certain locales, password-protected, and/or only accessible from certain IP addresses. If you play a video through the embedded player, the video platform may also show you ads, and may use cookies and/or other information stored on your device (and/or other information the embedded player, the YouTube platform, and/or Google have collected about you) for that purpose. Naturally, the YouTube platform may also record your interactions with the embedded video player (e.g., any adjustments you make to the playback settings and/or if you pause playback), and may associate that activity with your YouTube history and/or other Google account data. To learn more about what information the YouTube platform and other Google services may collect through and/or in connection with embedded video players and how Google may use that information, see their “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services” page and the Google Privacy Policy. For additional information about how Google uses cookies and/or other technologies that may collect and/or process personal information, see the “Technologies” section of their Google Privacy & Terms site and the “Our advertising and measurement cookies” section of their Google Business Data Responsibility site, which includes a detailed list of cookies associated with Google advertising and measurement products. (Those pages do not currently discuss the storage of data in your browser (or other user agent) using technologies other than cookies, e.g., in web storage.) For more information about Google advertising, see the “Advertising” section of their Google Privacy & Terms site, which also discusses the use of cookies by Google advertising services. The “Product Controls” section of their Google Business Data Responsibility site offers additional information about sharing of data from the YouTube platform. (Google, YouTube, and other related marks and logos are trademarks of Google LLC.)
Embedded video players (whether posted and/or otherwise displayed by us and/or displayed by certain themes and/or plugins on portions of the administrative dashboard, which is not normally visible or accessible to site visitors) for content hosted on the Vimeo video platform. The embedded video player may use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify you and/or store potentially personally identifiable information on your device as well as collecting certain information about your device and browser (or other user agent) (e.g., your IP address and/or hostname, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers), the website or URL through which you accessed the embedded player, the specific video(s) and/or other content loaded through that player, and potentially also other information (such as, without limitation, whether you are currently logged into a Vimeo account). In some cases, embedded video players may also use your IP address and/or hostname, geographical location (typically but not always estimated from your IP address and/or hostname), and/or other information (e.g., whether you are currently logged into a Vimeo account) to determine whether or not you can view a specific video — for example (but without limitation), if the video is age-restricted, unavailable in certain locales, password-protected, and/or only accessible from certain IP addresses. If you play a video through the embedded player, the video platform may also show you ads, and may use cookies and/or other information stored on your device (and/or other information the embedded player and/or the Vimeo platform have collected about you) for that purpose. Naturally, the Vimeo platform may also record your interactions with the embedded video player (e.g., any adjustments you make to the playback settings and/or if you pause playback), and may associate that activity with other data about your use of Vimeo services (e.g., your Vimeo viewing history, if any). See the Vimeo Privacy Policy to learn more about what information the Vimeo platform collects and how that information may be used. For more information about the cookies and/or similar technologies the platform may use and how Vimeo users can control the use of third-party analytics and/or advertising cookies in connection with embedded Vimeo video players, see the Vimeo Cookie Policy. The “Vimeo Videos” section of the Cookie Notice for this website provides additional information about certain third-party advertising and/or analytics partners the Vimeo platform uses or has used, although this should not be regarded as an exhaustive list, since the specific partners that platform uses may change or vary, and are entirely outside of our control. (Vimeo and the Vimeo logos are trademarks of Vimeo.com, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.)
Certain backend (i.e., administrative dashboard) features (which are not normally visible or accessible to site visitors other than logged-in administrative users) served by the SEO firm Yoast BV, which provides one or more plugins we may use on the site. It appears that certain plugin components include embedded content served by Yoast that may collect certain data about the device and browser (or other user agent) of an administrative user who accesses such such content (e.g., their IP addresses and/or hostnames, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers), as well as presumably recording which specific content their browser requests and/or accesses and the website or URL from which their browser requested and/or accessed that content; we are uncertain to what extent (if any) that embedded content may also use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify administrative users and/or store potentially personally identifiable information on their devices. Our efforts to obtain more details from the developers proved unsuccessful, and we finally found a means to disable the applicable component entirely. See the Yoast Privacy Policy and their “Yoast and your privacy (GDPR)” page to learn more about how Yoast may use personal information they collect. Some versions of the Yoast SEO plugin have incorporated search tools and/or internal search integration features powered by the Algolia search platform, which we assume is subject to the Algolia Privacy Policy, their “Cookies” policy, and/or the Data Processing Addendum to the Algolia Terms of Service, as applicable. Some versions of the Yoast SEO plugin also incorporated optional functionality provided by Ryte GmbH, some of which may have been served remotely; we disabled the Ryte integration (which has since been removed), although it was enabled by default. Our efforts to determine what personal information (if any) the Ryte features collected were fruitless, although we assume any data that service did collect would be subject to the Ryte Privacy Policy. A subsequent Yoast SEO update also added an optional integration with tools provided by Semrush, an SEO and Internet marketing firm (which we have disabled, although as with the Ryte integration, the Semrush integration is turned on by default in current versions of the Yoast SEO plugin). We have so far been unable to determine what personal information (if any) the Semrush integration features may collect, although we assume any data those features do collect is subject to the Semrush Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and/or Data Processing Addendum, as applicable. A subsequent Yoast SEO plugin update added an optional integration with the Wincher rank tracker service, which assesses the keyword rankings of a website’s published content for SEO purposes. The nature of the integration (which we have disabled, and whose use would require a Wincher account we don’t currently have) makes it unlikely that it would collect personal information about site visitors (other than information already contained in the permalinks and/or metadata of the site’s published content, and of course data related to site administrators’ creation and/or use of a Wincher account in connection with the service), but any such data the Wincher service did collect would presumably be subject to the Wincher Privacy Policy. A subsequent plugin update added an optional integration with the WordProof timestamp service; we don’t currently use that integration on this website, but any personal information collected through the use of the WordProof integration would presumably be subject to the WordProof Privacy Statement. (Yoast is a trademark of Yoast BV, a Dutch limited liability company, registered both in the U.S. and in Europe. Algolia is a trademark of Algolia. Ryte is a trademark or registered trademark of Ryte GmbH. Semrush and SEMRush are trademarks or registered trademarks of Semrush Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All rights reserved. Wincher is a trademark of Wincher International AB. WordProof is a trademark of WordProof B.V. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.)
Blog feeds placed by certain themes and/or plugins on portions of the administrative dashboard (which is not normally visible or accessible to site visitors other than logged-in administrative users) via the FeedBurner services, which are web feed management services owned by Google LLC. If you access areas of the dashboard containing these blog feeds, the services may collect certain data about your device and browser (or other user agent) (including, though not necessarily limited to, your IP address and/or hostname, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers); likely records the website or URL through which you accessed the services; may use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify you and/or store potentially personally identifiable information on your device; can usually determine whether you are currently logged into a Google account; and may use various means to track your use of the services (e.g., which feeds you’ve viewed and which posts you last viewed on a particular feed). The FeedBurner services may also show you ads (the use of which is controlled by the respective publishers of content viewed through the feeds; some publishers do not include ads in their feeds, but others do), and may use cookies and/or other information stored on your device (and/or other information the services and/or Google have collected about you) for that purpose. Again, these feeds are normally only visible to (and thus can only collect information about) logged-in administrative users, not site visitors who are not logged into this website’s administrative dashboard. To learn more about what information the FeedBurner services and/or other associated Google services collect and how Google may use that information, see their “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services” page and the Google Privacy Policy. For additional information about how Google uses cookies and/or other technologies that may collect and/or process personal information, see the “Technologies” section of their Google Privacy & Terms site and the “Our advertising and measurement cookies” section of their Google Business Data Responsibility site, which includes a detailed list of cookies associated with Google advertising and measurement products. (Those pages do not currently discuss the storage of data in your browser (or other user agent) using technologies other than cookies, e.g., in web storage.) For more information about Google advertising, see the “Advertising” section of their Google Privacy & Terms site, which also discusses the use of cookies by Google advertising services. (Google, FeedBurner, and other related marks and logos are trademarks of Google LLC.)
Administrative dashboard menus that may load icons and/or other images from the Gravatar API via secure.gravatar.com. Although we have disabled support for user avatars, some administrative dashboard menus may still use them. The loading of such icons and/or other images allows the Gravatar service to collect certain data about the user’s device and browser (or other user agent) (e.g., their IP address and/or hostname, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers), and in some cases also their hashed email address, which the Gravatar service uses to check for a current Gravatar or WordPress.com account. The service presumably records which specific icons and/or other images the user’s browser (or other user agent) requests and/or accesses as well as the website or URL from which the browser (or other user agent) requested and/or accessed them, and may also use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify users and/or store potentially personally identifiable information on their devices. (We believe we have limited the Gravatar service to backend administrative pages not normally accessible to site visitors, and we are endeavoring to remove it there as well.) The Gravatar service — like the WordPress.com services, with which it’s now apparently being integrated — is a venture of Automattic and is subject to the Automattic Privacy Policy, the Automattic Cookie Policy, and the WordPress.com Terms of Service. (Automattic, Gravatar, WordPress.com, their respective logos, and all other graphics and logos used in connection with those services are trademarks or registered trademarks of Automattic (or Automattic’s licensors). WordPress and the WordPress logos are registered trademarks of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries.)
Some components of the Sucuri Security plugin described in the “Security Scans” section above are served remotely (and/or involve communication with a remote server) and thus qualify as embedded content. As noted in the “Security Scans” section above, the plugin and its associated services are provided by GoDaddy Media Temple, Inc. d/b/a Sucuri, a subsidiary of Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC (Sucuri). In the course of monitoring the site for possible malicious activity, the plugin may log and/or transmit to Sucuri certain personal information about visitors and/or logged-in administrative users who perform certain actions (e.g., adding or editing a post, updating or installing a plugin). Such information may include, but is not necessarily limited to, those users’ IP addresses and/or hostnames as well as the specific action(s) they performed. Embedded content incorporated into the plugin’s dashboard controls may also allow Sucuri to collect certain data about the device and browser (or other user agent) of an administrative user who accesses the plugin controls (e.g., the user’s IP address, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers) — and of course which specific content the user’s browser (or other user agent) accesses and/or requests — and/or may use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify such users and/or store potentially personally identifiable information on their devices. The Sucuri Security plugin and its various services are subject to the Sucuri Security Privacy Policy, the Sucuri Cookie Policy (“Our Use of Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies”), and/or the Data Processing Addendum to their Terms of Service (which applies to personal data Sucuri services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws), as applicable. Certain plugin components may be served by the Cloudflare® content delivery network described above, which is subject to the Cloudflare Privacy Policy, the Cloudflare Data Processing Addendum (which applies to personal data Cloudflare services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws), and the Cloudflare Cookie Policy. (Sucuri, Sucuri Security, Sucuri Security Inc., and Sucuri Inc. are trademarks of Sucuri Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. GoDaddy is a registered trademark of Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC. Cloudflare is a trademark and/or registered trademark of Cloudflare, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions.)
Images and/or other content from Creative Commons, such as (without limitation) the various logos, buttons, and/or icons associated with Creative Commons licenses and/or public domain dedications. Accessing a portion of the site that contains images and/or other embedded content hosted on and/or served by a website or online service operated by Creative Commons Corporation allows Creative Commons to collect certain information about your device and browser (or other user agent) (e.g., your IP address and/or hostname, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers) as well as which specific images and/or content your browser (or other user agent) requests and/or accesses and the website or URL from which your browser (or other user agent) requested and/or accessed the images and/or content; such embedded content may also use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify you and/or store potentially personally identifiable information on your device. Please note that this only applies to images and/or content hosted on and/or served by websites and/or online services operated by Creative Commons Corporation, not to Creative Commons images and/or content that is locally hosted on this website or that is hosted on and/or served by some other third-party website or online service not operated by Creative Commons. To learn more about what information Creative Commons may collect and how that information may be used, see the Creative Commons Privacy Policy and Creative Commons Cookies Notice. (Creative Commons, CC, the CC in a circle logo, CCPlus, CC+, the CC+ in a circle logo, CC0, all other Creative Commons license and public domain dedication marks, and their associated buttons and icons are trademarks or registered trademarks of Creative Commons.)
Certain content served by the WordPress.org websites and/or their associated API servers, content delivery networks (CDNs), and/or repositories, which may include domains such as (though not necessarily limited to) api.w.org, ps.w.org, s.w.org, and/or ts.w.org. This website periodically communicates with WordPress.org websites and/or associated API servers, content delivery networks (CDNs), and/or repositories to check for updates, announcements, warnings, and/or other information related to the WordPress content management system; to install, remove, and/or update plugins, themes, and/or other add-ons available through the WordPress.org websites; to serve certain elements of and/or content on the site’s administrative dashboard; and/or to check the integrity of the website’s WordPress files (which the site’s security features may do from time to time, as noted in the “Security Scans” section above). Any personal information collected through and/or in connection with such communications (which could include, without limitation, users’ IP addresses and/or hostnames, user agent information, and device identifiers, and in some cases might also involve the use of cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify users and/or store potentially personally identifiable information on their devices) is typically that of logged-in administrative users rather than site visitors. However, in some cases, certain images, scripts, and/or other content on the publicly visible/publicly accessible portions of this website may be also served by and/or otherwise loaded from the WordPress.org websites and/or their associated servers, CDNs, and/or repositories, which may allow the WordPress.org websites to also collect certain information about the devices and browsers (or other user agents) of visitors who are not logged-in administrators (e.g., their IP addresses and/or hostnames, user agent information, and possibly also device identifiers); record which specific content visitors’ browsers (or other user agents) request and/or access and the website or URL from which their browsers (or other user agents) requested and/or accessed that content; use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify visitors; and/or store potentially personally identifiable information on visitors’ devices. To learn more about how the WordPress.org websites use the information they collect, see the WordPress.org Privacy Policy; for more information about their use of cookies, see their Cookie Policy. (WordPress and the WordPress logos are registered trademarks of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries.)

Not all of the above embedded content is necessarily used on the site at any given time, and from time to time, we may post or otherwise use embedded content hosted on and served by other third-party websites or services not listed above — for example (but without limitation), an embedded player showing an externally hosted video or audio file, or an embedded map provided by some external mapping service. To learn more about what personal information such third-party websites or services may collect and how that information may be used, you should review those sites or services’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use.

Please note that the types of information embedded content providers may collect (and/or may place on your device) and the technologies they may use to identify and/or track users are constantly evolving in ways that are outside our control (and sometimes beyond our technical understanding). This means that our embedded content providers may also use and/or add other information-gathering and/or tracking technologies to their embedded content beyond what we can reasonably hope to describe or specify in this section. Additionally, some or all of our embedded content providers may use various subcontractors, subprocessors, vendors, subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or partners to process information related to their services, which is also outside of our control and generally beyond our reasonable ability to enumerate here.

6200 Productions does not have access to the data embedded content providers may collect about our visitors/users in the manner described in this section, nor do we usually have any control over those providers’ use or retention of that data. Some embedded content providers may use the information they collect about you through your access to or interaction with that content for a variety of commercial purposes, e.g., showing you advertising and/or providing information about your online habits to the provider’s clients and customers. The only way we could completely avoid the possibility of such commercial use would be to cease using or offering embedded content and the functionality it provides.

(Obviously, other websites or online services, including ones to which we may link and/or on which we have accounts, may also use embedded content, possibly including other types of content and/or content from providers not specified here, which in most cases is outside of our control. See those websites or services’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use for more information.)

Ads on 6200 Productions

Advertisements (including sponsored links), if any that appear on the publicly visible/publicly accessible portions of the 6200 Productions website are locally served — that is, the advertisement content is hosted on our website server along with our other site content rather than being served by some external provider. We do not permit our advertisers to use scripts, cookies, web beacons, or other such technologies to collect information about you through the publicly visible/publicly accessible portions of the 6200 Productions website. However, if you click on advertising links or otherwise patronize our advertisers’ businesses, those advertisers may collect and use information about you — and may collect personal information about your online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services — as described in their respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use, which is outside of our control. Such advertisers may also be able to tell that you clicked on an ad on this website.

The developers of some of the plugins, themes, and/or other add-ons we use on this website may sometimes display advertisements, donation boxes, or other commercial messages on portions of the site’s administrative dashboard, which is not normally visible or accessible to visitors other than logged-in administrative users. For example, the settings menu for a particular plugin might display an advertisement for a premium version of that plugin or for the developer’s other products or services. Such dashboard advertisements may set cookies and/or incorporate embedded content and/or other information-gathering mechanisms, which may collect information about administrative users who access that content (e.g., their IP addresses and/or hostnames, user agent information, and/or settings and/or add-ons) in the manner described in the “Embedded Content” section above; the providers of such advertising and/or embedded content may also collect personal information about administrative users’ online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services. The collection, use, and retention of such personal information is controlled by the applicable developers and/or their respective service providers and/or advertising partners and is typically outside of our control. Because these advertisements are usually not publicly visible or accessible, this information-gathering normally affects only site administrators, NOT other site visitors.

Subscribing via Web Feed (Atom and RSS)

Web feeds are a form of web syndication, using protocols such as the Atom Syndication Format or RSS to access online content. In essence, web feeds regularly check for updates on the linked site or resource and automatically display any new content in your feed management app or service (or, for web browser-based feed management add-ons, in a specific area of your browser), allowing you to easily keep track of new content on the linked site or resource. If we configure the 6200productions.com website to allow such web feed syndication, you may “subscribe” via web feed if you are equipped to do so, and the website may provide buttons and/or other tools to facilitate that “subscription” process. The content displayed through a web feed is the same content shown to other visitors to this website, just formatted and delivered in a somewhat different way to suit the technical parameters of the web feed.

If you “subscribe” in this manner, the connections your web feed management app or service makes to this website to check for and display updates will be automatically recorded in our website logs as described in the “Website Server, Error, and Security Logs” section above, just as if you visited the site directly. It is sometimes possible to determine from the log data if certain individual log entries pertain to a web feed user or to a visitor who directly accessed the site through their browser (and the log data may reveal the type of web feed involved, if any), but otherwise, the types of information we collect from web feed users and our use and retention of that information are generally the same as if you visit the site directly. We don’t receive notifications when someone subscribes or unsubscribes via web feed, nor do web feeds provide us with information such as your name or email address. (There are services that provide such information about subscribers, but we don’t currently use any of them in connection with this website.)

If the website content you view through a web feed contains any third-party embedded content (e.g., an embedded video player), the provider of that content may be able to collect personal information about you as described in the “Embedded Content” section above, just as if you were accessing that content by visiting this website directly.

Some third-party apps and services for managing web feeds may themselves use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify you, store potentially personally identifiable information on your device, and/or employ other means to monitor the content you access via web feed. The details are specific to the app or service involved, and are outside of our control.

Information You Provide to Us

Through your access to and/or use of this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services, you may provide us with personal information in a number of different ways, described in the sections below.

For obvious reasons, we can’t provide certain services or functionality if you don’t provide us with at least a certain amount of accurate information — for example, we can’t respond to your inquiries if we don’t have a valid email address or other contact information for you. We typically also need your real name and certain other personal information for financial transactions (see the “Financial Transactions Policy” section below), legal agreements, certain privacy-related requests, and other financial and/or legal matters (e.g., copyright notices). In some circumstances, we may be legally obligated to collect certain information from you (e.g., for tax reporting purposes, and/or if we hire or engage you to perform services for us — see “Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring or Business Partnerships” below).

Otherwise, you’re under no obligation to provide us with personal information beyond what we collect automatically.

Consents and Agreements

Categories of information collected: IP addresses*; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information*; visitor activity*; errors and suspicious activity*; names*; email addresses*; email header information*; other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses, and/or other online contact info)*; other documents/materials (including metadata)*; geolocation data (estimated from IP addresses and/or hostnames, and/or inferred from other data)*; URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: details of legal agreements (where applicable)*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*; special: other identifiers*
Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; completing a transaction; fulfilling a contractual obligation; legal compliance or audit; research and publishing; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement; recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships; advertising or other commercial purposes
Data retention: Depends on context, but potentially indefinite; see below.

When you use this website, certain functions thereof, and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services, you may be asked to give your consent for our collection and/or use of your personal information; save your privacy preferences (e.g., your cookie settings); and/or accept certain legal terms (e.g., the Terms of Use and/or agreements pertaining to services you engage us to perform for you). Our services and certain site functions and/or content may not be available unless you agree to the Privacy Policy and/or other applicable terms.

Certain consent and privacy preference settings may be stored in your browser (or other user agent) using cookies and/or similar technologies (see the “Cookies and Similar Technologies” section above). Other consents, agreements, and/or preferences may be recorded in the website database and/or other records, and may be associated with other information we have collected and/or that you provide to us (e.g., your comment(s) and/or form submission(s), and/or our records of work you engage us to perform). If you withdraw your consent(s), change your privacy preferences, and/or update or otherwise modify your consent(s) and/or agreement(s) (e.g., to indicate your acceptance of a revised version of this Privacy Policy), those changes may be stored and/or recorded in similar ways.

Where we compile records of user consents, agreements, and/or privacy preferences, those records are usually retained indefinitely unless a user requests deletion of their data (after which we may still retain certain records for audit and compliance purposes and/or for other legal reasons). However, we may periodically delete stored consents, agreements, and/or privacy preferences if they appear to have come from bots rather than human users, or, in some cases, if that information was recorded in connection with some plugin, service, or tool we no longer use (in which case the recorded information may no longer be usable).

Consents, agreements, and/or privacy preferences stored in your browser (or other user agent) using cookies and/or similar technologies are normally retained only for as long as the applicable cookies and/or stored information remain in your browser (or other user agent); if the cookies and/or stored information expire or are removed, you may be asked for your consent, agreement, and/or preferences again. (In general, we do not separately compile or maintain records of consents, agreements, or privacy preferences stored using cookies and/or similar technologies, although in some cases, if a logged-in administrative user indicates their consent(s), agreement(s), and/or preferences via cookies and/or similar technologies, such consent(s), agreement(s), and/or preferences may also be stored in the website database as part of the user’s profile. Additionally, if in addition to indicating your consent(s), agreement(s), and/or preferences via cookies and/or similar technologies, you ALSO enter into an agreement with us and/or indicate your specific consent(s) and/or preferences in some other way, such separate consent(s), agreement(s), and/or preferences may be retained as described above.) The Cookie Notice lists the normal durations of the cookies we use, although as the Cookie Notice explains, your actions and/or your browser (or other user agent) settings may affect how long cookies and/or stored information remain in your browser (or other user agent).

We may disclose saved consent and/or agreement data in connection with a related dispute or legal action, and/or as otherwise described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below. (Naturally, the ways we use and/or disclose may depend on the nature and purpose(s) of the specific consent(s) and/or agreement(s) in question.)

Comments

Categories of information collected: IP addresses; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information; visitor activity; errors and suspicious activity*; names; email addresses; email header information*; other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses, and/or other online contact info)*; images and/or other media (including metadata)*; other documents/materials (including metadata)*; geolocation data*; URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*; special: other identifiers*
Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; legal compliance or audit; research and publishing; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement; recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships
Data retention: Typically indefinite, although we promptly delete spam and/or abuse, comments the submitter asks us to delete or that we otherwise elect to delete, or comments on or in reply to a comment or other content that has been deleted. IP addresses and/or user agent information of published comments may be redacted after publication.

Note: Although the comment function includes a box for your name, you are perfectly free to comment using only a pseudonym. However, without a valid email address, we won’t be able to contact you with any questions about your comment and we may not be able to associate that comment with other personal information we possess about you.

Comments you submit to 6200 Productions are usually moderated, meaning they are not published until we approve them. Any comment you submit may also be subjected to certain automated tests for security purposes, to discourage spamming, and/or to filter out comments submitted by automated bots rather than human users. For example (but without limitation), if your IP address or hostname was previously used in spamming this website; if your IP address, hostname, and/or user agent appear on ban lists/blacklists we have collected; if your comment contains hyperlinks, common spam keywords (e.g., the names of certain well-known prescription pharmaceuticals), and/or suspicious code; and/or if you posted the comment using an automated script rather than the normal comment form, your comment may be flagged as spam or automatically deleted. Also, if your comment contains hyperlinks, certain types of HTML and/or other code, and/or special characters, they may be removed, whether automatically “stripped” prior to publication or manually deleted by us.

Each time a comment is submitted, the website automatically forwards that comment as an email notification to the site administrator so that we can review the comment and decide whether or not to approve and publish it. If the author of the post or page on which the comment was submitted is an administrative user other than the site administrator (or has an email address different from the primary site administration email address), the comment is also forwarded as an email notification to that author. As noted in “Security Scans” above, this means that any information in your comment may be scanned for suspected spam, malware, and/or other suspicious activity by us and/or our web host, Internet service provider(s), mobile carrier(s), and/or other applicable service provider(s).

We may publish and/or use your submitted comment(s) as described in the Comment Policy section of the Terms of Use. If your comment is approved and published, any information you entered in the “Name” and “Comment” fields (and/or the “Website” field, if we have enabled it) will become publicly visible. The email address you enter in the “Email” field will not be published with your comment, nor will your IP address or hostname, although any contact information you include in the “Comment” field may be, as may any images and/or other media files you include and the metadata of those files. (See the “Data in Submitted Images” section below.) If the site’s “Recent Comments” Widget(s) are enabled, your name/pseudonym and a link to your comment may also be visible on the home page and other areas of the website as well as the specific post or page you commented on; the contents of published comments may also appear in search results of the website’s search function and/or to users who have subscribed to this website’s web feeds (as described in “Subscribing via Web Feed (Atom and RSS)” above). If we have enabled the option that allows visitors to request email notifications of replies or follow-up comments, copies of your published comment may also be emailed to visitors who have requested such notifications. Once your comment is published, 6200 Productions cannot control and takes no responsibility for what third parties may do with any publicly visible personal information that comment contains!

As explained in the “Commenting” subsection of the Cookie Notice, when you submit a comment, you may have the option to save your name, email, and URL for use in future comments. Doing so places a set of cookies in your browser (or other user agent) to store that information. These cookies are specific to your current device and browser (or other user agent) — that is, they work only in the browser or other user agent in which you set them, and only on your current device — and normally expire in just under one year unless otherwise deleted. These cookies are not set at all unless you select the appropriate option when submitting a comment, and you can delete the cookies from your browser (or other user agent) at any time.

When you submit a comment, you may also have the option to request email notifications each time a reply and/or follow-up comment is posted. If you have previously requested such notifications and wish to stop receiving them, please contact us via email at admin (at) 6200productions (dot) com, via one of the other methods listed on the Contact page, or by leaving a comment elsewhere on the site asking us to disable the notifications or remove that comment.

If you submit a valid email address with your comment, we may respond to your comment by emailing you at that address in addition to or instead of publishing the comment, particularly if we have questions or need to clarify some aspect of your comment. For example (but without limitation), if you have submitted two very similar comments, we might email you to ask which one you prefer us to publish, and if your comment contains what appears to be particularly sensitive information, we typically try to double-check that you wish to publish that information before approving the comment.

From time to time, we may gather additional information about you in connection with your submitted comment(s). For example (but without limitation), we might look up your name in a search engine to help us better understand who you are and the context of your comment, and/or, where applicable, verify your identity. In many cases, such additional information comes from sources available to the public, but we may sometimes also seek additional nonpublic information about you, which may come from a variety of sources, depending on the specific context and circumstances. Naturally, if you offer corrections and/or clarifications of our content, we will also take steps to verify that information and, if we deem it appropriate, incorporate the factual substance of such correction(s) and/or clarification(s) into the applicable content (and/or make a note for our future reference).

Although the website automatically collects the IP address (and/or hostname) and user agent information of anyone who submits a comment (information we need for security and troubleshooting purposes and to help distinguish human users from automated “bots”), we typically redact that information after a comment is published. We retain the email address originally submitted with each comment (which is stored in the website database as part of that comment) in case we need to contact the person who submitted it with any questions or issues related to the comment; email addresses are also our primary means of associating comments with the people who submitted them in the event we receive a request to access, delete, and/or correct personal information.

If you would like to edit or remove any of your published comments, please let us know by leaving another comment or contacting us via one of the other methods listed above, specifying the comment(s) in question and explaining what you want us to do. (We may ask you to clarify or confirm your request before making the change or deletion, especially if we aren’t sure exactly what you want us to do or if we need to take additional steps to verify your identity.)

The deletion of a comment (whether at your request or at our discretion) typically also deletes its associated information, although we may retain that information if we still need it for some specific purpose (e.g., for security or troubleshooting, for legal reasons, or because it contains information pertaining to our content and/or research), and copies of the comment and its associated information may remain for a time in backups or archives created by us and/or our web host. Keep in mind that even if a previously published comment is deleted, any publicly visible information in that comment (and/or any image(s) or other media it may have included) may have been accessed and/or used by third parties prior to its removal, which is outside of our control.

Obviously, if you’ve left multiple comments and/or communicated with us in other ways, we may still retain your email address and/or other information in connection with your other comments/messages even if certain of your individual comments are deleted.

We may also disclose personal information we collect through and/or in connection with user comments as otherwise described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below.

Contact Forms

Categories of information collected: IP addresses; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information; visitor activity; errors and suspicious activity*; names; email addresses; email header information*; other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses, and/or other online contact info)*; images and/or other media (including metadata)*; other documents/materials (including metadata)*; geolocation data*; URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: details of legal agreements (where applicable)*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*; special: other identifiers*
Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; completing a transaction; fulfilling a contractual obligation; legal compliance or audit; research and publishing; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement; recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships; advertising or other commercial purposes
Data retention: Typically indefinite, although we promptly delete obvious spam and/or abuse, duplicates, blank or unreadable submissions, and/or any submission containing suspicious code and/or suspicious links. Form submission data we retain is normally removed from the website server(s) to local and/or offline storage after receipt (although in some cases it may be captured in routine database backup files created by us and/or our web host, which may remain on the server(s) for longer periods) and we may sometimes redact certain portions that we no longer need. We must retain privacy requests submitted via the California Privacy Request Form to the extent necessary to comply with applicable law and/or regulations. See also the “Additional Information About Data Retention” section below.

This section applies to messages you send us via the Contact Form and/or any other contact or feedback forms we may offer on the 6200 Productions website, including, though not limited to, privacy requests submitted via the California Privacy Request Form on the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page.

Special Note on Real Names vs. Pseudonyms/Aliases: We generally need your real name for financial transactions, communications that pertain to financial and/or legal matters, and certain privacy-related requests. For most other inquiries, you are free to submit forms using a pseudonym, although if you want us to reply, we do need a valid email address or other contact information. (If you enter a valid email address, the website will also automatically email you a copy of your submission for your records.)

This website may perform certain automated tests on form submissions in order to filter out submissions made by automated bots and discourage spamming and other malicious activity. For example (but without limitation), if your IP address or hostname was previously used in spamming this website; if your IP address, hostname, and/or user agent appear on ban lists/blacklists supplied by our security and/or anti-spam plugins; if your submission contains hyperlinks, common spam keywords (e.g., the names of certain well-known prescription pharmaceuticals), and/or suspicious code; if you submit the form using an automated script; if you incorrectly answer a captcha or math challenge; and/or if you fill in certain “honeypot” fields not intended to be completed by human users, your submission may be flagged as spam and/or automatically deleted. If your form submission contains HTML and/or other code, and/or special characters, they may be automatically removed. This automatic filtering is in addition to human moderation of form submissions; we routinely delete submissions that appear to be spam or contain suspicious code.

Because the website forwards new form submissions to us as email notifications, your submitted information may also be scanned for suspected spam, malware, and/or other suspicious activity, as described in the “Security Scans” section above.

When we receive your submission, we may gather additional information about you to help us better understand who you are and the context of your message, and/or, where applicable, verify your identity. For example (but without limitation), if your message contains a business offer or advertising inquiry, we might look up your company name and/or visit your website to learn more about the nature of your business. In many cases, such additional information comes from sources available to the public, but we may sometimes also seek additional nonpublic information about you, which may come from a variety of sources, depending on the specific context and circumstances.

If we reply to your submission, we will normally do so via the email address you submitted unless you indicate that you wish us to respond in some other way.

If you use the California Privacy Request Form on the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page to submit a request to exercise your privacy rights under California law (see “Your California Privacy Rights” below for more information about these rights), or if you submit a California privacy request on behalf of someone else, we will contact you to discuss the next steps involved in processing your request, which may require us to verify your identity. (You can find more information about the verification requirements in the “Identity Verification Requirements” section of the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page.)

For contact or feedback form submissions OTHER than California Privacy Request Forms, we may publish your message or portions of it under the following circumstances:

If your message includes corrections, clarifications, and/or suggestions pertaining to our content, our writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or our other creative endeavors, we may incorporate the factual substance of your corrections, clarifications, and/or suggestions into the applicable content, work, or creative endeavor(s) (e.g., to correct or clarify factual or typographical errors you identified).
If your message provides significant assistance with the management of this website, our services, our content, our other creative endeavors, and/or some related matter(s), we may elect to publicly acknowledge and/or thank you by name or applicable pseudonym, unless you ask us not to or we reasonably surmise that you prefer not to be acknowledged or identified.
If your message includes questions and/or comments about us, our business, and/or this website, or pertains to a technical problem with the site, and unless you specifically request otherwise, we may publish excerpts of your question or report on the 6200 Productions website to publicly respond to your question(s) and/or comment(s), and/or to support other users with similar concerns. We will redact any information that appears to be personally identifying other than your name or pseudonym (unless you ask or authorize us to include other personally identifying information). If we have published your inquiry in this manner and you wish us to amend or further redact it (for example, to remove your name and substitute a pseudonym), we will make a reasonable effort to accommodate your request provided that it does not infringe upon the rights of others or attempt to impersonate some other individual or organization. If you wish us to completely unpublish a message you submitted that we have published or excerpted in this way, please let us know and we will endeavor to do so (to the extent we reasonably can) at our earliest opportunity.
In the event your message identifies a technical problem that we are unable to fix, we may publish or otherwise communicate the substance of your reported issue (but NOT your name or other personal information) on this website, on our associated social media accounts, in other public forums (e.g., the WordPress.org support forums), and/or to other third parties to help us troubleshoot and/or resolve the problem you identified. (WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries.)
If you ask or authorize us to publish your message (or some portion of it), we may do so as we deem appropriate.

Please note that once a message (or some portion of it) has been published, 6200 Productions cannot control and takes no responsibility for what third parties may do with any personal information the published message may contain.

We may disclose information related to California privacy requests to the extent required and/or otherwise permitted by applicable law and/or regulations for compliance purposes; to comply with a legal obligation (e.g., to respond to a subpoena or other court order); and/or to publish aggregate information about requests we receive, as described in “Reports and Aggregate Statistics” below.

Otherwise, we may disclose information we collect through and/or in connection with form submissions as described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below.

Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests

Categories of information collected: IP addresses*; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information*; visitor activity*; errors and suspicious activity*; names; email addresses*; email header information*; other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses, and/or other online contact info)*; images and/or other media (including metadata)*; other documents/materials (including metadata)*; geolocation data*; URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*; special: other identifiers*; special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*
Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; completing a transaction; fulfilling a contractual obligation; legal compliance or audit; research and publishing; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement; recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships; advertising or other commercial purposes
Data retention: Varies, but potentially indefinite; see “Additional Information About Data Retention” below.

This section refers to messages or communications we receive in connection with this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business OTHER than through comments or the contact or feedback forms on this website (e.g., emails to our administrative address(es), letters of inquiry, business-related telephone calls and/or text messages, and/or some other means not specified here).

Special Note: For most general inquiries, you’re perfectly free to contact us using a pseudonym. (Obviously, some modes of communication are better suited than others for anonymity.) However, if your communication(s) pertain to a legal matter, a specific financial transaction, or certain privacy-related requests, or if you wish to hire or commission us to perform work for you, we may need your real name.

The types of personal information we collect in connection with such messages can vary significantly depending on the specific mode of communication. For example (but without limitation), a text message is unlikely to include your IP address, hostname, or user agent information, but will almost certainly reveal your phone number, and a voicemail message will obviously record your voice (which in some cases may be automatically transcribed). Email messages typically include a variety of potentially personally identifiable metadata in the email headers and any file attachments (including, though not limited to, any attached images and/or other media — see “Data in Submitted Images” below). If you contact us via a third-party website or service, e.g., a social media platform, the message will likely include your account name, profile picture, and potentially information in your public profile and/or that you make visible or otherwise accessible to us; the messages themselves might also be publicly visible. With some third-party services, individual settings may also affect what information is visible and/or accessible in connection with messages and/or other communications.

As noted in the “Comments” and “Contact Forms” sections above, when you contact us, we may sometimes gather additional information about you to help us better understand who you are and the context of your message, and/or, where applicable, verify your identity. For example (but without limitation), if we receive a telephone call from an unfamiliar number, we might look up the number in a search engine or reverse telephone lookup service, and if you email us a business proposition, we might visit your website to learn more about your business before replying. In many cases, such additional information comes from comes from sources available to the public, but we may sometimes also seek additional nonpublic information about you, which may come from a variety of sources, depending on the specific context and circumstances.

If we reply to your message, we will normally do so via the same means you used to contact us unless you indicate that you wish us to respond in some other way. However, if you have sent a business-related message to one of our non-6200 Productions accounts or addresses, we typically prefer, to the extent possible, to forward the message to an appropriate 6200 Productions account or address and respond from there instead.

Keep in mind that messages exchanged via third-party sites or services are subject to those sites or services’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use, which are outside of our control, and which may apply in addition to or, in some cases, instead of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use of this website. For example, if you send us a message related to our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business via a third-party messaging service, this Privacy Policy will govern how we use and/or retain that message and the information it contains, but the applicable messaging service’s policies will govern how that service uses and/or retains information from and/or related to that communication. This includes (without limitation) calls and/or texts made or received using the Google Voice communications service and/or any messages sent or received via our account(s) on the Gmail email service. (Although we now strive to limit our use of third-party email services for business purposes, some messages related to 6200 Productions (such as, without limitation, notifications, call and/or voicemail transcripts, texts, and/or other messages made or received via the Google Voice service, and/or notifications or other messages pertaining to other Google services we may use) may occasionally be sent or received via and/or remain archived in those accounts.) Those and other Google services are subject to any applicable Google terms and policies, including, but not necessarily limited to, the Google Terms of Service; other service-specific additional terms and policies (e.g., the various terms and policies that apply to the use of the Google Voice service, which are summarized in the Google Voice “Additional Terms of Service” help page); the Google Privacy Policy; and, where applicable, the Google Telephony Services Privacy Disclosure. (Google, Gmail, Google Voice, Google Workspace, and other related marks and logos are trademarks of Google LLC.) Obviously, we may also communicate with people via various other third-party services; these are just a few representative examples.

As explained in the “Security Scans” section above, messages we send or receive may be scanned for suspected spam, malware, and/or other suspicious activity by us and/or (as applicable) our web host, Internet service provider(s), mobile carrier(s), and/or other applicable service provider(s). This may include messages we receive through a third-party website or service if we have message notifications forwarded to us via some other means. (With some services, notifications include only the fact that a new message was received from a particular sender; other services include some or all of the message in the notification.) We (and/or our applicable service providers) may also perform other types of automated tests on messages we receive — for example (but without limitation), we may automatically filter, flag, and/or categorize certain types of messages to help us better organize and manage our inbox(es).

If you communicate with us by some means or medium that is shared by (and thus accessible to) multiple users, and/or that is publicly accessible — for example (but without limitation), via an email discussion group or group chat, on social media, and/or by transmitting electronic files via shared FTP folder(s) — those communications and any personal information they contain may be visible or otherwise accessible to anyone with access to the shared medium. We cannot control and take no responsibility for what third parties may do with any personal information in shared and/or publicly accessible communications, so you should exercise caution when disclosing sensitive information in such contexts.

In some cases, performing our writing/editing/writing consulting services and/or work for certain clients or employers may involve our use of the client or employer’s accounts, systems, and/or devices in addition to or instead of our own. For example (but without limitation), a client might create temporary accounts for us on the client’s company email system and/or teleconferencing platform and ask us to use those accounts for communications related to the services we perform for that client, and/or might provide us with access to a company laptop and smartphone to use in performing such services. Any communications conducted using client- or employer-provided accounts, systems, and/or devices, and any files and/or data that may be processed and/or stored on such accounts, systems, and/or devices, are typically subject to the policies of the applicable client or employer, which may apply in addition to or instead of this Privacy Policy, and in most cases are outside of our control.

We may publish your messages or other communications, or portions thereof, under the same circumstances as described in the “Contact Forms” section above. Obviously, information that pertains to our content, writing/editing/writing/consulting work, and/or other creative endeavors (for example, if we interview or consult with you in connection with an article we’re writing) may be published and/or otherwise disclosed in that context. Otherwise, we may disclose personal information we collect through and/or in connection with inquiries, messages, and support requests as described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below.

See the “Additional Information About Data Retention” section below to learn more about our typical data retention practices. The data retention and data use policies of any third-party websites or services you may use to contact us are generally outside of our control.

Other Information You Provide to Us

In some cases, you may provide us with personal information through and/or in connection with this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business in ways not specifically mentioned above. For example (but without limitation), if you send us an inquiry about this Privacy Policy via postal mail, it will likely include your mailing address as well as any information in your inquiry itself; if for some reason you visit our home and connect your mobile device to our personal wireless network (which is not available to the general public), our wireless router may log certain information about your device and/or its Internet connections. If you hire or seek to hire us to perform writing, editing, and/or writing consultation services for you, you will likely provide us with at least a certain amount of personal information pertaining to the services you ask us to perform, your contact details, our contract(s) and/or other agreement(s) for such services, and/or applicable payment arrangements (see “Financial Transactions Policy” below). Any electronic documents, images, and/or other media you provide to us in connection with this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business may contain a variety of personal information; see “Data in Submitted Images” below. (These are just a few representative examples, not an exhaustive list.)

Our use and retention of personal information you provide to us in such ways will depend on the nature of the information and the context in which we collect it, although in general, we only disclose such information as described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below. See the “Additional Information About Data Retention” section below to learn more about our typical data retention practices.

Data in Submitted Images

Categories of information collected: IP addresses*; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information*; visitor activity*; errors and suspicious activity*; names*; email addresses*; email header information*; other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses, and/or other online contact info)*; images and/or other media (including metadata); other documents/materials (including metadata)*; geolocation data*; URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: camera and/or mobile phone types/models (determined from metadata or inferred from other data)*; special: device identifiers*; special: other identifiers*; special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*; special: other visible and/or audible information that may be personally identifiable and/or potentially personally identifiable (e.g., a pictured car’s license plate and/or vehicle identification numbers)*
Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; fulfilling a contractual obligation; legal compliance or audit; research and publishing; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement; recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships; advertising or other commercial purposes
Data retention: See below.

Photographs and other images or media we collect for use on the 6200 Productions website, in connection with our content and/or other creative endeavors, and/or for some related purpose(s) — whether submitted by you in connection with a comment or other communication; created by us; or obtained from some other source — may contain an assortment of personal information.

First, the identifiable image and/or recognizable likeness of any individual person (and/or their audible voice, e.g., in a video or audio recording, broadcast, or other media) is usually considered to be personal information about that individual. Images or other media may also contain and/or make it possible to infer other types of personal information.

Second, digital media files usually contain metadata (e.g., Exif information) added by the camera or device that originally generated the file and/or by any software used to edit it, some of which may include and/or constitute personal information and/or potentially personally identifiable information. At a minimum, metadata normally includes the filename, type, size, creation date/time, and the date/time of the most recent modification of that file. For digital photos, metadata typically also includes the make and model of the camera/device, camera and image settings (e.g., shutter speed, F-stop, color profile, whether the flash fired), and sometimes the type and version of any editing software used. Depending on the type of camera/device, the software used, and the individual settings, the metadata could also include personal information and/or potentially personally identifiable information, e.g., the photographer’s name and/or the location where the photo was taken, based on GPS coordinates (a common option on modern GPS-equipped cameras and mobile devices). Video and/or audio recording devices and/or editing software may add various metadata to other types of digital media files. The number of potential variations is too great to detail here, so you should consult the documentation and settings for your individual device and software.

Naturally, if you submit an image or other media file to us, you are providing us with any information contained in the image or other media file and its metadata, as well as any other information you provide to us about the image or other media file, its subject(s) and/or setting(s), and/or the context in which it was created. If the image or other media file is published, this information may be included, making it available to the public. We cannot control and take no responsibility for what third parties may do with any personal information a published image or other media file or its metadata may contain.

If we use your images and/or other media, we may also ADD metadata to the file(s) and/or alter the filename(s) to indicate your copyright and license information (e.g., “© 2018 John Doe; used with permission on 6200 Productions”). This helps us to keep track of the provenance of the images and/or media files we use.

We typically also gather additional information about the images and/or other media we use and any subject(s) and/or setting(s) they depict or illustrate so that we can correctly identify and describe them (and/or so we can understand and/or accurately describe the circumstances under which the images and/or other media were created — e.g., where and when a particular photograph was taken). Such information may come from a variety of sources (which may include sources available to the public and/or nonpublic sources) depending on the nature of the images and/or other media files and the context in which we obtain them.

If you submit an image or other media file to us, you are free to remove or redact any personally identifiable metadata it may contain — and/or to obscure personal information in the image or other media itself — prior to submitting it to us. (Certain types of metadata (e.g., file extensions) are necessary for an electronic file to function properly, but other metadata can be edited or redacted, either through your computer’s file system or by using appropriate editing tools.)

In some cases, we may be able, upon your request, to remove or obscure personal information from the images or other media files you submit to us or from specific previously submitted ones. We may also elect to remove certain data on our own initiative and/or do so incidentally in the process of preparing the images and/or other media files for use (e.g., by creating a resized copy of an image that omits some or all of the original image file’s metadata). However, please note that this is not always feasible. Also, if the image is owned by someone else, we might need the rights holder’s advance permission to alter it.

If we remove or obscure information from an image or other media file that has already been published on the 6200 Productions website, copies of the original version (with personally identifiable information intact) may remain for a time in cached pages and/or backup files created by us and/or our web host. Again, please keep in mind that any personal information contained in the earlier version of the image or other media file may already have been accessed and/or used by third parties during the time it was available to the public, which is outside of our control.

We typically retain indefinitely offline copies and archival backups of the photos, images, and other media files we create and/or collect for publication on the 6200 Productions website and/or for use in connection with our content and/or other creative endeavors, including, where possible, the associated work files and editing stages, if any, for images or files we have modified. However, we may delete, destroy, or discard certain specific images and/or other media files if they are duplicates; if we deem them unusable (e.g., photos that are out of focus, badly cropped, or too dark to see clearly); if the files are damaged or corrupt; if we have agreed and/or have some contractual or legal reason to delete them (e.g., if we have agreed to delete all copies of a particular image); or if we elect to not use them (or to discontinue using them) for some other reason. If we have contact information and/or other relevant data pertaining to the creator(s) and/or subject(s) of a particular photograph, image, or other media file, we customarily retain that data for at least as long as we retain the file itself.

If you have questions about data related to images and/or other media, please contact us via any of the methods described in “Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us” below.

Data Related to Administrative Users

Categories of information collected: IP addresses*; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information*; visitor activity*; errors and suspicious activity*; names*; email addresses*; email header information*; other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses, and/or other online contact info)*; images and/or other media (including metadata)*; other documents/materials (including metadata)*; geolocation data*; URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; metadata*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*; special: other identifiers*; special: other technical details (some of which might be potentially personally identifiable and/or constitute personal information in certain jurisdictions)*
Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; fulfilling a contractual obligation; legal compliance or audit; research and publishing; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and technical improvement; recruitment/hiring or business partnerships
Data retention: Varies, but potentially indefinite.

In the (currently unlikely) event that we authorize some other person(s) to become an authorized administrative user of this website, we may collect a variety of personal information from such person(s), both as part of the user registration process and in connection with such users’ subsequent access to and/or use of the site’s administrative dashboard.

Registered administrative users select several usernames (which may include their real name and/or a pseudonym): a permanent username that is used for login purposes and cannot be changed; a nickname, which can be changed at any time after registration; and a public display name (which can be the permanent username, the nickname, or the user’s real first and/or last names). Each administrative user also receives a unique user ID number within the website’s database. Naturally, each administrative user must select, generate, or be assigned a suitable login password. We may also ask or require administrative users to use multi-factor authentication, which requires the user to enter an authentication code (usually sent via email and/or text, generated via an authenticator app, or selected from a pre-generated list of backup codes) in addition to a password and username or email address in order to log into the administrative dashboard. As noted in “Security Scans” above, the QR Code® that may be used to set up multi-factor authentication is generated via a remote API service operated by SolidWP or its parent company Because SolidWP is now one of the StellarWP brands, part of the Liquid Web family of brands, communications with that API service are subject to the StellarWP Privacy Policy. (SolidWP, StellarWP, and Liquid Web are trademarks of Liquid Web, LLC. QR Code is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED; DENSO and DENSO WAVE are registered trademarks of DENSO Corporation.)

Each registered user has a user profile in which they may enter contact information, the URLs of a personal website and/or various social media profiles, and a short “About Yourself” biography. Only the contact email is required; it is not normally publicly visible (unless the user makes it so), although the external links, social media profiles, and/or biographical information may be. Additionally, we may require other administrative users to provide us with various other personal information, which is not necessarily recorded in their user profile. (It is extremely unlikely that we would authorize someone to become an administrative user if we did not have ample information about them, including (though not limited to) their real name and their contact information!) We may also collect administrative users’ ages and/or dates of birth to confirm that they are at least 18 years old; we do not knowingly permit any person under the age of 18 to access the site’s administrative dashboard.

This website uses a variety of cookies to manage logins and user credentials for administrative users; these cookies are described in the Cookie Notice. Additionally, the website and/or our web host may log certain information about each administrative login or login attempt, and about any actions a user performs on the site while logged in. For example (but without limitation), the website may record an administrative user’s username, user ID number, IP address, hostname, user agent information, and/or geolocation data each time the user logs into the administrative dashboard, edits a post, or installs or updates a plugin or other site component. The specific information collected in such ways naturally varies depending on the specific context, but is generally similar to the types of information described in the “Website Server, Error, and Security Logs” and “Security Scans” sections above.

Naturally, we may use an administrative user’s email address and/or other contact information to communicate with that user. Administrative users may also receive a variety of automated email notifications related to this website. For example (but without limitation), an administrative user might receive automated emails containing multi-factor authentication codes for login purposes; confirmation emails pertaining to new user registration; confirmations of password changes and/or changes in certain other settings; notifications of new comments submitted on posts or pages of which the administrative user is the author and/or that are awaiting moderation; notifications of certain site changes (e.g., a notification that a plugin or theme has automatically updated) and/or automated tasks or events (e.g., scheduled backups); error notifications (e.g., warnings that a scheduled event event has failed to complete or that an outgoing email message was rejected by the recipient’s mail server or otherwise failed to go through); and/or security alerts. (These are just a few representative examples, not an exhaustive list of all the automated emails an administrative user might receive, which may also vary depending on the user’s specific administrative role.) If an administrative user loses their password and requests a reset, they’ll also receive an automated confirmation email, which includes the IP address from which the reset request was made.

Some of the information administrative users provide and certain actions they perform may become publicly visible, generally in self-evident ways. (For example, but without limitation, most new published posts and/or comments will become publicly visible, as may user profile information.) Other information we collect from and/or about administrative users is always accessible to us, and in some cases may also be accessible to other administrative users, if any. (For example, but without limitation, administrative users may have access to the information contained in the user profiles of other users, and may have sufficient administrative permissions to access and/or change user login credentials and/or user settings, just as we do.)

As noted in “Embedded Content” and “Ads on 6200 Productions” above, some portions of the administrative dashboard may contain advertising and/or embedded content placed there by third parties in connection with this website’s plugins, themes, and/or other components. Some of this advertising and/or embedded content may use cookies and other technologies, and/or otherwise collect personal information about users who access the administrative dashboard — potentially in ways that do not apply to and/or that we do not permit on the publicly facing portions of the website. The providers of such advertising and/or embedded content may also collect personal information about administrative users’ online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services, which is typically outside of our control.

Additionally, certain administrative email messages may contain embedded content provided by third parties, and/or may incorporate code and/or content (e.g., logo images) hosted on and remotely served by the web servers used by this website. (In general, the loading in an email message of code and/or content from this website causes the recipient’s IP address (and/or hostname), user agent information, and other device information to be recorded in the website logs in the manner described in “Website Server, Error, and Security Logs” above.) Administrative users are free to block the loading or downloading of embedded content or remotely served code and/or content in administrative email messages, which in most cases does not impair the messages’ functionality.

Our retention of information we collect from and about administrative users varies depending on the context. Profile information and login credentials are normally retained for as long as the user uses those details (and may remain in backup files for a time after being changed or removed). If someone is a registered administrative user, we will retain their contact information for at least as long as they have continued access to the website’s administrative dashboard, and potentially indefinitely (especially if we have some ongoing personal or professional relationship with them independent of their role as an administrative user). The retention of log data is described in the “Website Server, Error, and Security Logs” and “Security Scans” sections above. Comments an administrative user posts will be treated like any other comments on the site; retention of other content posted or submitted by another administrative user may depend on what legal relationship, if any, we have with that user.

Excepting our own personal information — which of course we may use and/or disclose in any manner we deem appropriate — we may disclose information collected from and/or about administrative users as described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below. Other administrative users must also accept and agree to abide by this Privacy Policy as well as any additional confidentiality, nondisclosure, and/or other legal agreements we may require, which shall be determined in our sole discretion.

(The additional information we may collect in connection with our professional relationships with independent contractors, employees, and/or business partners is beyond the scope of this section. The “Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring or Business Partnerships” section below describes the types of information we may collect in those contexts.)

Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships

Categories of information collected: IP addresses*; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information*; visitor activity*; errors and suspicious activity*; names; email addresses*; email header information*; other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses, and/or other online contact info)*; images and/or other media (including metadata)*; other documents/materials (including metadata)*; geolocation data*; URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: government-issued identification (e.g., driver’s license, state ID card, and/or passport)*; special: work authorization, payment, and/or tax-related information (e.g., Social Security numbers and/or other taxpayer identification numbers, tax documents, payment- and/or payroll-related information, and/or information pertaining to an individual’s authorization to work in our locale)*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*; special: other identifiers*; special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*
Purpose(s): Providing services; fulfilling a contractual obligation; legal compliance or audit; research and publishing; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement; recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships
Data retention: Potentially indefinite, although we may (except as otherwise required by law) delete or discard unsolicited offers or commercial solicitations, spam, applications or inquiries that were obviously submitted by bots rather than people, and/or information we have some legal or contractual obligation to delete or discard; see below for more details.

From time to time, we may seek to recruit and/or hire temporary or permanent employees, independent contractors, and/or interns to support our business operations, help us provide our services, and/or perform specific tasks and/or functions for us. In some cases, we may enter into or contemplate entering into some other type of professional relationship with some other individual(s) or entity: for example (but without limitation), a professional collaboration, formal business partnership, or joint venture (JV).

Please note that the inclusion of this section DOES NOT necessarily mean that we are hiring, soliciting partnership or JV proposals, or likely to do so in the immediately foreseeable future. The purpose of this section is to describe our policy for handling information in such situations.

In such situations, we may collect (to the extent permitted by applicable law and/or regulations) a broad range of personal information about any individual(s) or entity we hire or contemplate hiring and/or with whom we enter into or contemplate entering into any professional relationship or business venture, such as (without limitation) contact information; resumes/CVs; education information; professional certifications and/or licensure information; employment histories; professional references and/or information about current and/or past clients, customers, and/or business ventures; professional portfolios and/or other samples; skill or aptitude test results; government-issued identification (e.g., driver’s license, state ID card, and/or passport); information about their authorization to work in our locale (e.g., Form I-9 and any documents used to establish identity and/or employment authorization); information about professional charges, rates, and/or fees; information about salaries, compensation, and/or benefits (e.g., salary histories and/or salary expectations); information required for employee or independent contractor reporting; payment- and/or payroll-related information; tax-related information (e.g., tax withholding documents and/or information necessary for employment tax reporting purposes); and/or the various types of information revealed in a typical background check or investigation. (This is not an exhaustive list; the types of information we collect may vary depending on the context, and applicable law and/or regulations may dictate what types of information we must or must not collect and/or consider.) Obviously, we may also make various inferences based on the information we collect, e.g., our judgment of a candidate or applicant’s suitability for a specific role or whether a proposed venture is in our interests.

The information we collect may come directly from the applicable individual(s) or entity — with whom we may of course communicate via email, phone, and/or various other means as we deem appropriate in the particular circumstances — and/or from third-party sources such as (again without limitation) staffing agencies/employment agencies, fingerprinting and/or background check services, current and/or past colleagues and/or coworkers, current and/or past clients and/or customers, current and/or past business partners, professional references, current and/or past instructors and/or students, subject matter experts, public records, news reports, and/or other information or records available to the public.

Our retention of such data varies depending on the context in which we collect it. Except as otherwise required by law, we may promptly delete unsolicited offers or commercial solicitations as spam, although we typically retain inquiries to which we respond, even if we decline them. We may indefinitely retain applications for employment and/or employment referral records, although we may (except as otherwise required by law) discard applications or inquiries that were obviously generated by bots rather than people. Our retention of applications or related information we receive through third parties such as (without limitation) staffing agencies/employment agencies, and/or information we collect in connection with an offer of partnership or other business proposal, may be subject to certain contractual requirements (e.g., an obligation to return or destroy certain information after a specific period of time). Applicable law and/or regulations may also govern whether and for how long we must retain application, hiring, employment, employment referral, membership, and/or personnel records, files, and related information. The retention of such information by third parties (such as, without limitation, staffing agencies/employment agencies and/or other vendors or service providers) is subject to the respective policies of such third parties, and in many cases is outside of our control.

We may disclose information pertaining to any individual(s) or entity we hire or contemplate hiring and/or with whom we enter into or contemplate entering into any professional relationship or business venture as we deem reasonable and appropriate (and to the extent permitted by applicable law and/or regulations and/or any relevant contractual obligations) for us to make informed hiring, employment, and/or business decisions. For example (but without limitation), we might disclose a job applicant’s information to a service that conducts background checks for us, discuss a prospective independent contractor’s work and professional reputation with their previous clients, or seek financial and/or legal advice regarding a possible partnership or other business venture. We may also disclose such information as otherwise described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below.

Financial Transactions Policy

Categories of information collected: IP addresses*; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information*; visitor activity*; errors and suspicious activity*; names*; email addresses*; email header information*; other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses, and/or other online contact info)*; images and/or other media (possibly including metadata)*; geolocation data*; URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: government-issued identification (e.g., driver’s license, state ID card, and/or passport)*; special: transaction-specific details, other financial information, and/or tax-related information (e.g., transaction IDs, check information, payment history, account information, Social Security numbers and/or other taxpayer identification numbers, and/or relevant tax documents)*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: other identifiers*; special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)* (Please note that payment processors, banks, other financial institutions, and/or other applicable vendors and/or third-party services may also collect other types of information not listed here.)
Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; completing a transaction; fulfilling a contractual obligation; legal compliance or audit; research and publishing; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement; advertising or other commercial purposes
Data retention: Typically indefinite; see below.

The following policy applies to financial transactions involving 6200 Productions, including (without limitation) payments for our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services and/or the purchase of advertisements on the site.

Please note that this policy applies only to transactions with us, NOT to your transactions with third-party vendors, retailers, or services that are outside of our direct control. For example (but without limitation), if you purchase a copy of some work we have written through an online bookseller rather than directly from us, the bookseller’s policies will apply, NOT this Financial Transactions Policy. Also, if your transaction pertains to the owner’s automotive website, Ate Up With Motor, the Ate Up With Motor Financial Transactions Policy will apply, not this one. (Ate Up With Motor is a trademark of Aaron Severson dba Ate Up With Motor.) The owner’s personal website, aaronseverson.com, also has its own Financial Transactions Policy. You should refer to those separate policies where applicable; while the policies are generally similar, they are not identical.

If your transaction is pursuant to a separate written agreement with us (e.g., a contract for professional services, an advertising or endorsement agreement, or a license agreement for the use of our content), the terms of that agreement shall, where applicable, take precedence over the terms of this Financial Transactions Policy. Similarly, if a transaction involves one or more third-party services (e.g., payment processors, marketplaces, auction services) that impose or otherwise require specific policies with respect to transactions conducted on and/or otherwise involving their services, those policies shall — to the extent such service(s) may require and where applicable — take precedence over the terms of this Financial Transactions Policy. For example (but without limitation), if a particular transaction is conducted through an online marketplace that requires such transactions to be returnable or refundable under certain conditions, such requirements shall take precedence over the policy described in “Refunds and Returns” below.

Nothing in this policy limits your rights and remedies under applicable law.

Transaction-Related Information Gathering

If you enter into a financial transaction with 6200 Productions — whether to make a payment to us or for us to pay you for goods, services, or some other purpose related to 6200 Productions — we may collect certain personal information from you, such as (without limitation) your name, company name (if applicable), email address, billing address and/or other contact information, transaction details, payment information, invoice numbers and/or other transaction identifiers, tax ID number(s), relevant tax documents, and/or other tax-related information.

If your transaction is via a third-party payment processing service or other service provider (e.g., an electronic funds transfer service), much of this information, including payment details such as bank account and/or credit card numbers, may be collected and processed by the payment processor or service provider rather than by us. For other types of transactions, that information may be collected and processed directly by us and/or the applicable bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s). (For example (but without limitation), if you make a payment to us by check, the check will necessarily include the routing and account numbers so that the applicable bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s) can process the deposit and the transfer of funds.)

Transactions conducted via PayPal® services are subject to the PayPal User Agreement, the PayPal Privacy Statement, the Statement on Cookies and Tracking Technologies (which is linked from within the applicable PayPal Privacy Statement), and any other applicable PayPal policies, terms, and/or conditions. (These may differ depending on where you are, so visit the “Legal Agreements for PayPal Services” page and select your location using the drop-down menu to see the versions of these agreements and documents that apply to you. We are located in the United States and thus are subject to the U.S. versions.) The PayPal services may use cookies and/or similar technologies in the payment button and/or the shopping cart to collect information about, track, and/or identify users, in addition to whatever information the services may collect to log you into your PayPal account (if any) and/or complete any applicable transaction(s). We do not have access to user data collected by PayPal services except for the information we receive in connection with a completed PayPal transaction, which is described in the following paragraph.

If a transaction is completed via PayPal services, we may receive a standard transaction report (which is sent to us via email as well as being stored in our PayPal account) that contains various personal information, typically including (though not necessarily limited to) a unique transaction ID number, your name, email address, mailing address, and shipping address (if different); the date and amount(s) of the payment(s) (and of course what each payment was for); whether or not you are a “Verified” PayPal user; and any notes or additional instructions that may have been specified. If the payment(s) were for a PayPal invoice, a copy of that invoice will be appended to the report. This transaction report does NOT include and we do not have access to any credit card, debit card, bank account, or other financial account information you use with your PayPal transactions or have associated with your PayPal account. The receipts, payment confirmations, and/or other transaction-related notices we receive when we make payments and/or purchases via those services may contain personal information similar to that found in the transaction reports for payments we receive via PayPal services (but may include our credit card, debit card, bank account, and/or other financial account information where applicable). (PayPal.com, PayPal, and all logos related to the PayPal services are either trademarks or registered trademarks of PayPal, Inc. or its licensors. In addition, all page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and scripts related to the PayPal services are service marks, trademarks, and/or trade dress of PayPal.)

In some cases, we may seek additional information about you in connection with your transaction, either from you directly and/or from third-party sources. Some examples might include (without limitation) looking up your address in a mapping or navigation service to clarify delivery instructions for a courier or other delivery service; checking with the applicable postal service to verify your postal code; inquiring whether payments made from a business account or business email address are for the business or for the individual; and/or investigating suspected fraud and/or other security issues. (These are just a few representative examples, not an exhaustive list.) Such additional information may come from a variety of sources (which may include sources available to the public and/or nonpublic sources) depending on the specific context and circumstances.

If we enter into and/or complete a transaction with you via and/or otherwise involving a third-party service, the applicable service may provide us with additional information about you and/or other individual(s) and/or entities involved with that transaction (e.g., your profile picture, if any, on that service), as further described in “Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties” below.

We may use the personal information we collect in connection with transactions for billing/invoicing; so that we can process and/or complete the applicable transaction(s); to respond to transaction-related questions, inquiries, and/or comments; for our administrative, bookkeeping, accounting, tax reporting, and/or legal compliance purposes; to troubleshoot and/or resolve technical problems, and/or for service improvement purposes; for fraud prevention and/or other security purposes; and/or to fulfill our contractual obligations to the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), other financial institution(s), and/or service provider(s), and/or to other relevant third parties (e.g., our agent(s) and/or manager(s), if any). (In particular, our service agreements with our payment processor(s), bank(s), and/or other financial institution(s) typically require us to cooperate with their investigations and to respond promptly to their requests for relevant information.) Naturally, transaction-related information may also help us to achieve various other business and/or commercial purposes, such as (without limitation) deciding whether to continue offering a particular product or service; measuring the effectiveness of our advertising and/or marketing efforts; setting prices; determining what products, services, and/or content to offer in the future; and/or making our own purchasing decisions. While such purposes typically involve aggregate transaction data (e.g., total sales, revenues, returns, and/or conversions) rather than personal information pertaining to individual transactions, we may also consider and/or otherwise use information related to specific transactions if we deem it relevant — for example (again without limitation), taking specific customer feedback and/or certain past client experiences into account when weighing a particular business or commercial decision, or describing our experience with a specific transaction as part of a review of the applicable vendor(s).

Consent to Electronic Communication Delivery

By entering into a financial transaction with 6200 Productions (by whatever means), you affirm your consent to electronically receive any and all communications related to your transaction (including, without limitation, any related invoices, agreements, disclosures, notices, policies, transaction confirmations, and/or transaction reports).

Such communications currently have the following hardware and software requirements:

A device with an Internet connection.
A current web browser that supports 256-bit or stronger encryption.
A valid email address.
An email client capable of reading both plain text and HTML email.
Software capable of opening files in DOC, DOCX, PDF, XLS, and XLSX formats.
Storage space sufficient to store the communications electronically, and/or a printer on which you can print them.

We will notify you in the event of any material change to these requirements.

You are responsible for promptly notifying us of any change to your email address that may affect your ability to electronically receive communications related to your transaction. You acknowledge and agree that in the event we electronically send you a transaction-related communication that you do not receive because your email address is incorrect, invalid, or out of date, or because the communication is blocked by your Internet service provider or spam filters, we shall (except as otherwise required by law) be deemed to have provided you with the communication.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to electronically receive communications by notifying us via any of the methods described in the “Customer Service Information” subsection below. We will confirm your withdrawal in writing (either on paper or electronically) and indicate the date on which such withdrawal takes effect. Please note that a withdrawal of consent will not apply to any communication provided to you electronically before the date on which the withdrawal takes effect.

In the event you do not consent or withdraw your consent to electronically receive communications, we reserve the right (to the extent permitted by applicable law) to cancel your transaction, restrict or refuse future transactions with you, and/or limit your acceptable payment types.

After consenting to receive communications electronically, you may request to receive paper copies of any communications we previously sent you electronically by contacting us via any of the methods described in the “Customer Service Information” subsection below. Depending on the nature of the communications, we reserve the right (to the extent permitted by applicable law) to charge you a fee for such paper copies up to but not exceeding the actual cost of postage or shipping. No such fee will apply to paper copies of any tax document we are required by law to send you. Requesting paper copies of communications you previously received electronically will NOT be considered a withdrawal of consent to receive future communications electronically unless you specifically indicate that you wish to withdraw consent as indicated above.

Notwithstanding the foregoing:

We may always, at our sole discretion, elect to send you any communications related to your transaction on paper in addition to or instead of furnishing those communications to you electronically, even if you consented to receive such communications electronically.
We will furnish any required tax statements to you on paper unless you separately consent to receive such statements electronically. This does not apply to any tax forms or related documents we provide for you to complete and return to us (e.g., to request your taxpayer identification number), which we may send to you electronically as described above.

Acceptable Payment Types

We presently accept the following forms of payment:

For the purchase of advertising on the 6200 Productions website: PayPal payments, personal or company check, money order, bank draft/cashier’s check/teller’s check, or electronic funds transfer, payable to Aaron Severson.
For payment(s) of license fees and/or royalties for the reuse of our content: PayPal payments, personal or company check, money order, bank draft/cashier’s check/teller’s check, or electronic funds transfer, payable to Aaron Severson.
For our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services, or for other types of transactions: personal or company check, money order, bank draft/cashier’s check/teller’s check, or electronic funds transfer, payable to Aaron Severson. (We do not currently accept payment via PayPal services for our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services. PayPal is a registered trademark of PayPal, Inc.)

Depending on the nature of the transaction and our business relationship with you, we may accept certain other forms of payment by prior mutual agreement, assuming that we have the means to securely and appropriately receive such payments from you, and provided that the use of such payment method(s) is permitted by applicable law and/or regulations. However, we do not accept virtual currency or cryptocurrency of any kind.

Under certain circumstances, applicable law and/or regulations may affect or limit the types of payment we can accept or use. (For example, federal regulations expressly prohibit the use of remotely created payment orders, remotely created checks, cash-to-cash money transfers, and cash reload mechanisms in many transactions conducted by telephone.)

Please note that U.S. law requires us to promptly report to the appropriate federal agency or agencies certain large transactions (or related transactions whose total exceeds certain dollar amounts) paid with cash and/or, in some cases, certain other monetary instruments (e.g., money orders, bank drafts/cashier’s checks/teller’s checks, and/or traveler’s checks). Such reports must include a variety of personal information about the payer and (where applicable) each other person on whose behalf the payer conducted the transaction(s), including (though not limited to) the payer’s verified name and address, occupation, date of birth, and U.S. taxpayer identification number (if any). Failure to timely report such transactions where required, omitting required information, furnishing inaccurate information, and/or attempting to evade the reporting requirements may be subject to substantial civil and criminal penalties. (Where we are required to report a transaction or transactions in this way, we are also required to provide a written statement to each person named in the report.)

Currency

Payments to 6200 Productions should be in U.S. funds, with any exceptions to be discussed in advance and subject to our prior approval.

Some payment processors, including many PayPal services, will automatically convert payments or funds transfers to the recipient’s preferred currency, or at least give you the option to do so. If your transaction is via PayPal services, you may assume any non-U.S. funds will be appropriately converted unless the applicable PayPal service warns or notifies you otherwise. (PayPal is a registered trademark of PayPal, Inc.)

For other types of transactions drawn on non-U.S. funds, please contact us in advance so that we can discuss appropriate arrangements for currency conversion.

Please note that our above-noted legal obligation to promptly report certain large transactions (or related transactions) paid with cash and/or certain other monetary instruments also applies to payments involving non-U.S. currency or currencies.

Taxes, Duties, and Fees

Except as otherwise expressly indicated or as otherwise required by applicable law, our prices and the charges for our services do not include any applicable taxes, duties, or other government-imposed charges or fees.

For certain transactions, we may collect and/or withhold (and/or may be required to collect and/or withhold) certain applicable taxes, duties, and/or other government-imposed charges or fees from you and remit them to the applicable government agency or agencies, in accordance with applicable law. Additionally, we may be required to report certain information about you to one or more tax agencies and/or other government entities in connection with payments we make to or receive from you, whether or not any tax collection or withholding requirements apply. In some cases, we may need to collect additional information from you for those purposes (e.g., by asking you to complete tax forms or other documents to provide information such as (though not limited to) your name, address, telephone number, business name (if applicable), Social Security number and/or other taxpayer identification number, other tax-related details, and signature).

Please note that you may owe taxes (e.g., sales tax, use tax, VAT, GST, HST, and/or other taxes), duties, and/or other government-imposed charges or fees on your transactions with us, whether or not we collect and/or withhold such taxes, duties, charges, or fees from you. Except as otherwise required by law, any applicable government-imposed taxes, duties, charges, and/or fees you may owe that we do not collect or withhold from you are your sole responsibility, as are any tax returns and/or other documentation you may be required to submit to the applicable government agency or agencies in connection with your transactions with us.

(Please also note that if we make any payments to you, it is your responsibility, to the extent required by applicable law, to report such payments; file any applicable tax returns and/or other required documentation; and pay any and all applicable taxes and other government-imposed charges and fees, whether or not we withhold any taxes or other government-imposed charges or fees from the payments made to you, and regardless of whether such withholding, if any, equals or exceeds your actual liability. For more information, contact the applicable tax agency or agencies, or consult a tax professional.)

Returned Check Fees

Payments you make to us by check, bank draft, or other negotiable instrument that are rejected or returned by our bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s) for insufficient funds or for any other reason shall be subject to a returned check fee up to but not exceeding the actual amount of any fee(s) our bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s) charge us in such circumstance. We reserve the right to waive this returned check fee at our sole discretion.

Refunds and Returns

The following is our general refund and return policy for payments you make to 6200 Productions. Please note that if we specify different refund and return terms for a particular purchase or transaction (for example, in the applicable product listing, order form, invoice, or written contract), those specified terms will take precedence over the general refund and return policy presented below.

To request a refund, or if you need assistance with a refund or return already in progress, you can contact us via any of the methods shown in the “Customer Service Information” subsection below, or via any other contact method we may reasonably designate or make available to you for that purpose — for example (but without limitation), the contact information listed on an invoice we submit to you or that is specified in an applicable written agreement or other business communication with us.

Our general policy for refunds and returns depends on the nature of the transaction, as specified below:

Advertising Purchases: You may cancel your ad for a full refund within seven days of your payment. If you choose to cancel your ad after seven days, but prior to the expiration date of the ad commitment, we will credit the prorated remainder of the commitment period toward a future ad, but cannot provide a cash refund except where we are required to do so by the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), other financial institution(s), and/or other applicable third-party service(s), or as otherwise required by law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right to refuse and/or to refund (in whole or in part) any individual advertising purchase or purchases, at our sole discretion.
Other Purchases: Purchases of goods or services other than advertising are fully refundable prior to the delivery by us of the applicable good(s) and/or the performance by us of the applicable service(s). In the event you purchase tangible good(s) (e.g., a printed book) from us, you may return the purchased good(s) for a full refund, less any applicable shipping costs, within 30 days of the date of purchase or the period allowed by the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), other financial institution(s), and/or other applicable third-party service(s), whichever is greater. Except as otherwise required by the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), other financial institution(s), and/or other applicable third-party service(s), or as otherwise required by law, purchases of digital goods and/or services other than advertising (e.g., the purchase of an ebook and/or payment(s) for our writing/editing/writing consulting services) are nonrefundable once the applicable good(s) and/or service(s) have been delivered and/or performed (as applicable) by us. We reserve the right to calculate refunds for services we have partly performed, but not yet wholly completed, on a pro rata basis, depending on the nature of the service and the percentage or proportion we have already performed or otherwise completed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we reserve the right to refuse and/or to refund (in whole or in part) any individual purchase or purchases, and/or any applicable shipping costs, at our sole discretion.
Other Types of Transactions: For transactions that do not fit into any of the above categories (including, though not limited to, payment(s) of license fees and/or royalties for the reuse of our content), eligibility for refunds or returns shall be determined on a case-by-case basis and shall be at our sole discretion, except as otherwise required by the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), other financial institution(s), and/or other applicable third-party service(s), or as otherwise required by law. We reserve the right to refuse and/or to refund (in whole or in part) any individual transaction or transactions, at our sole discretion.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, payments you make to 6200 Productions shall be eligible for refunds and/or returns to the extent required by the policies of the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), other financial institution(s), and/or other applicable third-party service(s), or as otherwise required by law. For example (but without limitation), if payment for a transaction is made via a third-party payment processor, that payment processor’s policies may require us to offer refunds and/or returns for that transaction, even if we otherwise treat such transactions as nonrefundable.

In addition to the refund and returns terms above, if you are located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the UK, you may also have the right to withdraw from the transaction; see the “Right of Withdrawal” subsection below.

Right of Withdrawal

(Note: This subsection was adapted from language in the Terms of Service for WordPress.com by Automattic, which are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license. Therefore, this subsection, like the rest of the Privacy Policy, is also licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Automattic and WordPress.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of Automattic (or Automattic’s licensors). WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries. 6200 Productions is not affiliated with or endorsed by Automattic or the WordPress Foundation in any way.)

If you are located in a country in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the UK, you have the right to withdraw from the transaction or contract within fourteen (14) days, starting from the date of delivery (for the purchase of goods) or the date of conclusion of the contract (for the provision of services or the supply of digital content), without giving any reason, as long as your purchase was not of a customized nature, the service has not been fully performed, or subject to other limitations as permitted by law. For digital content, you agree that any purchase of digital content will be made available to you immediately and as a result you waive any right of withdrawal to such content.

You may exercise your right to withdrawal by sending a clear, written request via postal mail to Aaron Severson, Attn: 6200 Productions Customer Service, 11100 National Bl. #3, Los Angeles, CA 90064, USA; via email at admin (at) 6200productions (dot) com; or via any other email address indicated in the applicable contract or invoice(s).

To make your request, you can copy and complete the following model form:

I hereby give notice that I withdraw from my contract of sale for the following goods or services: [list the specific goods and/or services)
I purchased the goods or services on: [list the date of purchase, the date of the contract, or the last contract renewal, as applicable]
My full legal name and email address are: [specify your name and email, if possible using the same email address you used for the purchase]
My address of legal residence is: [list your address]
Today’s date is: [list the date]

If you submit your request by postal mail, please also include your signature. (Requests submitted via email need not be signed.)

Effects of Withdrawal/Cancellation: If you cancel your transaction or contract with us, we will reimburse you all payments we have received from you in connection with the transaction or contract (or, if you cancel only a portion of the transaction, in connection with the portion of the transaction from which you are withdrawing), including delivery charges (with the exception of additional charges resulting from the fact that you have chosen a type of delivery other than the most favorable standard delivery offered by us), without undue delay and no later than within fourteen (14) days from the day on which we received the notification of your cancellation of the transaction or contract. For this reimbursement, we will use the same means of payment that you used for the original transaction, unless expressly agreed otherwise with you; you will not be charged for this reimbursement.

If you withdraw from the purchase of tangible goods, we may withhold reimbursement until we have received the returned goods or you have supplied evidence that you have sent the goods back to us, whichever is earlier. You must return the goods without undue delay, and in any event within fourteen (14) days after notifying us of your withdrawal from the transaction or contract; the deadline will be met if you send back the goods before the expiration of the 14-day withdrawal period. Unless you and we expressly agree otherwise, you are responsible for paying any return shipping costs that may apply.

If you cancel a contract for the provision of services and you have requested that we begin our services during the withdrawal period, you will pay us a reasonable amount corresponding to the services already provided up to the time you notify us of the exercise of the withdrawal right compared to the total scope of the services provided for in the contract.

If you cancel your transaction or contract with us, you will refrain from using or making available to third parties any digital content or digital services you received as part of the canceled transaction or contract (or, for a partial cancellation, as part of the canceled portion of the transaction).

Disclosure of Transaction-Related Information

We may disclose information related to your transaction(s) with 6200 Productions, including, where appropriate, copies of any applicable invoices, checks and/or receipts, transaction reports (if applicable), shipping and/or delivery information (if any), and/or relevant tax information and/or tax documents:

To the applicable email, telephony, and/or other communications service provider(s), for purposes of transaction-related communications; and/or:
To the applicable postal service(s), common carrier(s), shipping agency (or agencies), and/or delivery service(s), for purposes of sending, receiving, and/or tracking the status of transaction-related correspondence, shipments, and/or deliveries; and/or:
To the applicable person(s) or entity, in the event the transaction is for or on behalf of some other person(s) or entity (e.g., a purchase you make as a gift for someone else); and/or:
To our legal counsel, bookkeeper(s), accountant(s), tax preparer(s), tax filing service(s), and/or tax attorney(s), as we deem reasonably necessary to our routine business operations, for legal compliance and/or audit purposes, and/or for our legal protection; and/or:
To our employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, business partners, vendors, and/or service providers (as applicable) that need to know the information in order to complete your transaction, support our routine business operations, and/or otherwise provide services for us and/or on our behalf; and/or:
To the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), other financial institution(s), and/or electronic funds transfer service(s); their respective legal counsel, auditors, and/or fraud protection services (for example, if we must provide information in connection with a dispute or fraud investigation); and/or as otherwise required by our contractual agreements (if any) with such payment processor(s), bank(s), financial institution(s), and/or service(s); and/or:
To any applicable federal, state, local, or other tax agency (whether within or outside the United States), where we are legally required to do so and/or deem it reasonably necessary to ensure our compliance with applicable tax laws and/or regulations (e.g., to calculate or estimate applicable tax rates and/or in connection with tax returns, filings, withholding, and/or estimated tax payments), and/or in connection with audits or other official investigations; and/or:
As otherwise legally required (e.g., to comply with applicable government reporting or disclosure requirements; as part of and/or in connection with a customs inspection; in connection with a civil or criminal trial or other official investigation or proceeding; and/or if we receive a subpoena, court order, or other official order requiring us to disclose certain information); and/or:
As otherwise described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below.

Where applicable, we may also disclose in any or all of the above-listed ways personal information pertaining to payments we make to you (and/or transactions with which we are involved in some other way) on behalf of and/or otherwise involving 6200 Productions. If the information pertains to our purchase of goods, products, services, and/or content (and/or some other, similar, comparable, and/or related transaction(s)), we may also use and/or disclose relevant portions of that information in connection with customer service, support, warranty, and/or insurance matters, and/or disclose relevant information as part of and/or in connection with reviews and/or other commentary regarding the applicable transaction(s). For example (but without limitation), if we post a review of a recent business-related purchase, we might mention our experience with the specific salesperson or customer service representative who assisted us, and filing a warranty claim or support ticket for a recent purchase might require submitting receipts or other proofs of purchase.

We may also use personal information related to your transaction(s) to communicate with you via email and/or postal mail regarding the transaction(s) (e.g., to acknowledge, complete, and/or address questions and/or issues related to your transaction), and/or, if you call or text us regarding your transaction and/or ask us to call or text you, to communicate with you regarding your transaction by telephone and/or via text message.

As explained in the “Security Scans” section of the Privacy Policy, messages and/or notifications that we send or receive, including transaction-related notifications and/or messages, may be scanned for suspected spam, malware, and/or other suspicious activity by us and/or (as applicable) our web host, Internet service provider(s), mobile carrier(s), and/or other applicable service provider(s).

Data Retention

We generally must indefinitely retain records of our business-related financial transactions — including ones we refuse and/or refund — for bookkeeping and compliance purposes. (Many types of business documents, particularly tax-related ones, are subject to mandatory retention periods; for example, some documents related to state tax withholding must be retained for at least five years after the payments to which they pertain.) See the “Additional Information About Data Retention” section below to learn more about our typical data retention practices. The retention of transaction-related data by third parties (e.g., applicable tax agencies, bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s), and/or payment processor(s)) is subject to the respective policies of such third parties, and in many cases is outside of our control.

Customer Service Information

If you have questions about this Financial Transactions Policy, would like to receive further information regarding 6200 Productions, need help with a purchase or other transaction involving 6200 Productions, or have a complaint, please contact us via email at admin (at) 6200productions (dot) com; by using the Contact Form (if available); or by telephone at (310) 909-7846. IMPORTANT NOTE: Calls or messages to this number — which is provided by the Google Voice communications service — may be transcribed and/or recorded, and transcriptions, recordings, call notifications (including notifications of missed calls), texts, and/or other messages may be transmitted via email. All communications made or received through this number are subject to any applicable Google terms and policies (including, but not limited to, the ones listed in the Google Voice “Additional Terms of Service” help page; the Google Privacy Policy; and, where applicable, the Google Telephony Services Privacy Disclosure) as well as to this Privacy Policy. (Google, Google Voice, Google Workspace, and other related marks and logos are trademarks of Google LLC. 6200 Productions is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google in any way.)

Alternatively, you can contact the owner via postal mail at:

Aaron Severson
Attn: 6200 Productions Customer Service
11100 National Bl. #3
Los Angeles, CA 90064
USA

You may also submit questions or complaints via any other contact method we may reasonably designate or make available to you for that purpose — for example (but without limitation), the contact information listed on an invoice we submit to you or that is specified in an applicable written agreement or other business communication with us.

If you have a complaint, you can also contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs by telephone at (800) 952-5210 (or TTY (800) 735-2929 for the hearing impaired) or in writing at 1625 North Market Bl., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, USA.

Information We Receive from Other Sources

Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties

Categories of information collected: IP addresses*; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information*; visitor activity*; errors and suspicious activity*; names*; email addresses*; email header information*; other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses, and/or other online contact info)*; images and/or other media (possibly including metadata)*; geolocation data*; URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: government-issued identification (e.g., driver’s license, state ID card, and/or passport)*; special: transaction-specific details, other financial information, and/or tax-related information (e.g., transaction IDs, check information, payment history, account information, Social Security numbers and/or other taxpayer identification numbers, and/or relevant tax documents)*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: other identifiers*; special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*(Please note that payment processors, banks, other financial institutions, and/or other applicable vendors and/or third-party services may also collect other types of information not listed here.)
Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; completing a transaction; fulfilling a contractual obligation; legal compliance or audit; research and publishing; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement; advertising or other commercial purposes
Data retention: Typically indefinite; see below.

As noted in the “Financial Transactions Policy” section above, we may receive information about you from third parties in connection with your transactions with us (e.g., transaction reports). See that section for more details.

If we offer goods, products, services, and/or content through some third-party vendor or service (e.g., if we offer a book we’ve written through a third-party publisher, or offer goods and/or products through an online marketplace or auction service), that vendor or service may provide us with information about completed transactions, which in some cases may include personal information about individuals or households who purchase our goods, products, services, and/or content (rather than just aggregate statistics such as total sales). Similarly, such vendors and/or services may provide us with information about people who interact with our offered goods, products, services, and/or content (or the listings for them) in some other way: for example (but without limitation), by leaving comments, ratings, and/or reviews; adding our product to a wish list; preordering a product or service that is not yet available; bidding on an item offered at auction; and/or asking us a question. The type of information we may collect in such ways naturally varies depending on the specific vendor(s) and/or service(s) involved and the nature of the interaction, but could conceivably include any information about applicable person(s) and/or entities that is publicly visible (e.g., username/account name, profile picture, and/or public profile information) and/or that the person or entity makes visible or otherwise accessible to us.

In the same way, if we purchase goods, products, services, and/or content through a third-party vendor or service, conduct some other financial transaction(s) via such means, and/or are otherwise involved with such transaction(s) on behalf of and/or otherwise involving 6200 Productions, the applicable vendor(s) and/or service(s) may provide us with additional personal information about other individual(s) and/or entities involved in or otherwise connected with the transaction — for example (but without limitation), the seller’s profile picture and/or geographical location, and/or the name of the individual salesperson who processed our order.

Depending on the nature of the transaction, we might also receive additional transaction-related personal information from other third-party vendors and/or service providers. For example (but without limitation), applicable bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s) might inform us that a payment has been declined or disputed, a shipping service might provide us with status updates about the delivery of a package, or a fulfillment service might warn us that certain ordered items are back-ordered or no longer available. The types of information we may collect in such cases, and the vendors and/or service providers that might provide it, naturally depend on the context and the nature of the transaction.

Where we collect personal information in such contexts, we may use that information so that we can (if applicable) process and complete the relevant transaction(s) (and/or resolve transaction-related problems); for our administrative, bookkeeping, accounting, tax reporting, and/or legal compliance purposes; to respond to transaction-related questions, inquiries, and/or comments; to troubleshoot and/or resolve technical problems, and/or for service improvement purposes; for fraud prevention and/or other security purposes; and/or to fulfill our contractual obligations to the applicable third-party vendor(s) and/or service provider(s), and/or to other relevant third parties (e.g., our agent(s) and/or manager(s), if any). As noted in the “Financial Transactions Policy” section above, if the information pertains to our purchase of goods, products, services, and/or content (and/or some other, similar, comparable, and/or related transaction(s)), we may also use and/or disclose relevant portions of that information in connection with customer service, support, warranty, and/or insurance matters, and/or disclose relevant information as part of and/or in connection with reviews and/or other commentary regarding the applicable transaction(s). For example (but without limitation), if we post a review of a recent business-related purchase, we might mention our experience with the specific salesperson or customer service representative who assisted us, and filing a warranty claim or support ticket for a recent purchase might require submitting receipts or other proofs of purchase.

As noted in the “Financial Transactions Policy” section above, transaction-related information may also help us to achieve various other business and/or commercial purposes. While such purposes typically involve aggregate transaction data (e.g., total sales, revenues, returns, and/or conversions) rather than personal information pertaining to individual transactions, we may also consider and/or otherwise use information related to specific transactions if we deem it relevant — for example (again without limitation), taking specific customer feedback and/or certain past client experiences into account when weighing a particular business or commercial decision.

We typically retain such information indefinitely; it isn’t necessarily separable from transaction records we must retain for bookkeeping and compliance purposes, and some services retain such information (and may continue to make it available to us) indefinitely, whether or not we separately retain it. (See the “Additional Information About Data Retention” section below to learn more about our typical data retention practices.) We may disclose such information as indicated above and/or as otherwise described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below. The retention of data by third-party vendors or service providers is subject to the respective policies of such third parties, and in many cases is outside of our control.

Information Provided by Social Media Platforms

Categories of information collected: IP addresses*; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information*; visitor activity*; errors and suspicious activity*; names*; email addresses*; email header information*; other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses, and/or other online contact info)*; images and/or other media (including metadata)*; geolocation data*; URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: other identifiers*; special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)* (Please note that the applicable platform(s) may also collect other types of information from and/or about users beyond those listed here.)
Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; fulfilling a contractual obligation; research and publishing; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement; recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships; advertising or other commercial purposes
Data retention: Frequently indefinite; see below.

Social media platforms typically offer a variety of information and insights about the people who interact with us and/or the content we post on those platforms, and/or whose content we view and/or otherwise interact with on a particular platform or platforms — for example (but without limitation), sending notifications when someone “likes” or comments on our content, or providing insights such as (again without limitation) summaries of how many people have viewed or otherwise interacted with a specific post.

The information we may collect in this manner obviously varies depending on the specific platform and context, and at least some of it may be in aggregate form (e.g., statistics and graphs showing trends in interactions over time), but it may include (or at least make readily available to us) any information about applicable person(s) and/or entities that is publicly visible (e.g., the username/account name, profile picture, and/or public profile information of someone who comments on one of our posts or marks it as a favorite) and/or that the person or entity makes visible or otherwise accessible to us. Such information may include, but is not necessarily limited to, details about an individual or entity’s connections with other users of that social media platform and/or about the individual or entity’s other activity on that platform (e.g., other posts on which they have just commented), and in some cases may also reveal a variety of other personal information.

On some social media platforms, certain types of information, insights, and/or notifications can be muted or hidden, but cannot normally be deleted, and may still remain in the social media platform’s files even if the applicable content and/or users have been removed. For this reason, most such information can normally be considered to be retained indefinitely, whether or not we separately retain it. See the “Additional Information About Data Retention” section below to learn more about our typical data retention practices in other circumstances. The data retention and data use policies of third-party social media platforms are generally outside of our control.

Where we gather information through social media for our content, writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or other creative endeavors — such as, without limitation, any photos, images, other media, and/or other content that another social media user authorizes us to use in connection with our content, work, and/or creative endeavors — we may publish and/or otherwise disclose such information in that context; otherwise, we only disclose information we gather through social media platforms as described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below. However, it is the nature of social media that much of the information posted on such platforms may be visible or otherwise accessible to some or all of the other users of that platform, and in some cases also to the public, which is not necessarily within our control. For example (again without limitation), anyone who can see a particular social media post can typically also see who has “liked” and/or commented on that post.

Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes

Categories of information collected: IP addresses*; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information*; visitor activity*; errors and suspicious activity*; names*; email addresses*; email header information*; other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses, and/or other online contact info)*; images and/or other media (including metadata)*; geolocation data (determined directly, estimated from IP addresses and/or hostnames, and/or inferred from other data)*; other personal information*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; metadata*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*; special: other identifiers*; special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*; special: other technical details (some of which might be potentially personally identifiable and/or constitute personal information in certain jurisdictions)*
Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; fulfilling a contractual obligation [see below]; legal compliance or audit; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement; recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships
Data retention: Varies, but potentially indefinite.

Some of the security measures we use to secure this website, our data, and/or our system(s) and/or device(s) may periodically supply us with ban lists/blacklists/block lists of IP addresses, domain names and/or hostnames, email addresses, user agents, and/or other such information that may be associated with malicious activity, e.g., spamming and/or attempts to transmit or otherwise propagate malicious code. We may also collect similar information and/or lists from a variety of sources (which may include sources available to the public and/or nonpublic sources). (A representative sampling of such sources is included among the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers that appear in the “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” section below, although since security-related information and/or alerts may come from many different sources, those examples should not be regarded as an exhaustive list, and we don’t necessarily use all of those providers at any given time.)

Naturally, our security software and/or services also maintain regularly updated lists of virus signatures and other detection data to help identify and prevent malicious activity. We may also receive alerts and/or other security-related information from various sources regarding data breaches and/or suspected intrusion attempts that could potentially expose our online credentials and/or other personal information to unauthorized persons and/or malicious actors.

Such security-related information is not necessarily personally identifiable (for example, the IP addresses and/or hostnames included on spam block lists are typically for email servers rather than individual users), but certain information may be personally identifiable or potentially personally identifiable (e.g., email addresses associated with spamming, and/or telephone numbers used by telemarketers or as part of scams or other malicious activity).

In some cases, we may perform WHOIS, RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol), and/or similar lookups on certain IP addresses, domain names, and/or hostnames, especially if they have been used for suspicious and/or malicious activity directed at and/or otherwise involving this website, our business, and/or us. Such lookups may enable us to determine information such as (though not limited to) the registered owner of a particular domain registration; the geographical location of a particular IP address or hostname; and/or the Internet service provider or other network operator with which a particular IP address, hostname, or range of IP addresses is associated. Our firewalls and/or other security applications, software, and/or services may provide us with similar information about any online servers or resources to which our devices and/or systems connect or attempt to connect (and/or that connect or attempt to connect to our devices and/or systems). For example (but without limitation), the NetGuard firewall app can look up such information (via IPinfo API services and/or other WHOIS/RDAP lookup services) to help us understand and control the Internet connections our mobile apps make and/or attempt to make. (IPinfo is a trademark or registered trademark of IDB LLC in the United States and/or other countries.)

As noted in the “Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Professional Partnerships” section above, if we hire, contemplate hiring, or enter into or contemplate entering into a business partnership or other professional relationship with some individual(s) or entity, we may conduct and/or commission background checks on such individual(s) or entity to help us make informed decisions regarding any potential security risks a particular individual or entity might present.

Our retention of such data varies. Much of the information we collect of this kind is managed automatically by our security tools, which regularly update the associated data, adding new information and sometimes changing or removing older data. Also, we periodically make manual changes to that information, e.g., when we whitelist an email address that was wrongly flagged for spam or blacklist an email address or domain that has sent us suspicious emails.

Special Note: The reason we include “fulfilling a contractual obligation” among the potential purposes listed above is that certain sources from which we collect security information may impose contractual limits on how we use that information (e.g., terms of service prohibiting us from altering security update data or interfering with the normal update process) and/or may not permit us to pick and choose which data we do or do not add.

In many cases, such data is already available to the public. We may also disclose such information if we need technical assistance and/or otherwise consider such disclosure appropriate for our security and/or the security of others. For example (but without limitation), we might submit to the maintainers of these lists or databases certain email addresses, domain names, IP addresses, and/or hostnames that have been used in malicious activity directed at us, post information on support forums in order to obtain help or advice in preventing and/or remediating certain malicious activity; or contact Internet service providers, web hosts, or email providers regarding malicious or fraudulent activity involving their systems.

We may also disclose such information in connection with legal action involving malicious activity, and/or as otherwise described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below.

Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources

Categories of information collected: IP addresses*; domain names and/or hostnames*; user agent information*; visitor activity*; errors and suspicious activity*; names; email addresses*; email header information*; other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses, and/or other online contact info)*; images and/or other media (including metadata)*; other documents/materials (including metadata)*; geolocation data*; URLs/websites*; other personal information*; special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*; special: device identifiers*; metadata*; special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*; special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*; special: other identifiers*; special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*; special: other visible and/or audible information that may be personally identifiable and/or potentially personally identifiable (e.g., a pictured car’s license plate and/or vehicle identification numbers)*

Purpose(s): Functionality; providing services; fulfilling a contractual obligation; legal compliance or audit; research and publishing; security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement; recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships; advertising or other commercial purposes

Data retention: Varies depending on context; see below.

We frequently collect personal information related to this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business from other third-party sources. The following are some representative examples:

As noted in the “Comments”; “Contact Forms”; and “Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests” sections above, we may sometimes gather additional information about individuals who contact us, in addition to any information those individuals provide to us.

As noted in the “Data in Submitted Images” section above, when we gather photographs, other images, and/or other media intended for use on this website or for some related business purpose (whether those images were created by us or obtained from others), we typically look for additional information about the subjects of those images. This information, which may come from a variety of sources, may sometimes include personal information and/or potentially personally identifiable information, such as (without limitation) biographical details about the famous owners of a particular object shown in a photograph.

If we use an image or other content you have offered under a Creative Commons license or other, similar license, we may gather certain information about you, typically (though not necessarily only) from sources already available to the public, for the purposes of properly attributing that content and otherwise complying with the applicable license terms. (Where we deem it appropriate, we sometimes do the same with content that is in the public domain in our jurisdiction, e.g., works created by U.S. federal employees in the context of their official duties.) This may include any creator information listed on the hosting service, archive, or repository from which we obtained the content as well as other relevant information we may find in various print or online sources and/or obtain directly from you. (Creative Commons, CC, the CC in a circle logo, CCPlus, CC+, the CC+ in a circle logo, CC0, all other Creative Commons license and public domain dedication marks, and their associated buttons and icons are trademarks or registered trademarks of Creative Commons.)

As noted in the “Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Professional Partnerships” section above, if we hire, contemplate hiring, or enter into or contemplate entering into a business partnership or other professional relationship with some individual(s) or entity, we may collect a range of personal information about them so that we can make informed hiring, employment, and/or business decisions.

Similarly, we may collect a range of personal information about any individual(s) or entity (e.g., editors, publishers, prospective clients or employers, and/or other third parties) for whom we provide or contemplate providing (and/or to whom we offer or contemplate offering) our writing/editing/writing consulting services; to whom we license, sell, and/or otherwise offer (or contemplate licensing, selling, and/or otherwise offering) our content and/or other creative work; and/or for whom we otherwise work, provide services, and/or contemplate working and/or providing services, to help us make informed decisions about our professional engagement(s), business dealings, and/or work. Such information may come from a variety of sources (which may include sources available to the public and/or nonpublic sources) in addition to any information provided by the applicable individual(s) or entity.

If we have employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners, their collaboration(s) with us and/or the services they provide for us and/or on our behalf may entail and/or include their providing us with personal information about relevant people. The types of personal information that we might collect in such ways will naturally vary depending on the nature of the collaboration and/or specific services involved. For example (again without limitation), a tax preparer is unlikely to provide us with photos of living individuals, but we might hire a researcher or photographer for that express purpose.

In some cases, third-party vendors and/or service providers also may provide us with personal information about specific individuals and/or households. For example (but without limitation), a messaging service might notify us that someone listed in our phone’s contacts has joined that service, is typing, and/or has seen a particular message; our mobile phone bill might reveal that a certain person we called uses the same carrier we do; or a hotel where we are staying might accept business-related messages and/or packages addressed to us while we are out, which would necessarily involve hotel staff collecting certain information from the sender(s) and communicating that information to us when we return. Also, where we use vendors and/or service providers to purchase, access, and/or otherwise obtain published works and/or other information and/or resources available to the public that contain and/or otherwise incorporate personal information about individuals or households — for example (again without limitation), if we order a copy of a book or magazine from a bookseller; use a streaming service offered through one of our public libraries to watch a documentary; read a news report or historical article published on or offered through another website or an app or online service; take a class that discusses the lives and/or work of notable people related to the class’s subject matter; and/or download a photo depicting identifiable people from a repository of images and other media files available under free licenses — the applicable vendor(s) and/or service provider(s) could also be said to be providing us with personal information. The precise nature and extent of the information that might be provided to us in such ways naturally depend on the specific circumstances and the nature of the service(s) involved.

We may also receive personal information about someone through their employees, independent contractors, interns, agents or other authorized representatives, business partners, vendors, and/or service providers. For example (but without limitation), if we call someone’s office, their assistant or secretary might disclose their employer’s current whereabouts and/or schedule so that we can arrange a call or meeting, or we might speak directly to someone’s bookkeeper(s), accountant(s), and/or tax preparer(s) regarding payment- and/or tax-related questions. Naturally, if someone elects to communicate with us through some agent or other authorized representative, that agent or representative may provide us with whatever personal information the person(s) for whom they are acting instruct and/or authorize them to disclose. Someone’s vendors and/or service providers (even ones we do not use ourselves) might also provide us with personal information about someone who uses their services. For example (again without limitation), if someone sends us a package via a shipping service or courier, the shipping label and/or waybill might indicate the sender’s account number as well as their name and return address, or the email service of someone to whom we have sent an email message might warn us that our message could not be delivered because the recipient’s mailbox is full. Furthermore, in some jurisdictions, the simple fact that someone uses a particular vendor or service may constitute personal information. Again, the details and extent of any personal information we might collect in such ways may vary considerably depending on the specific context and circumstances.

From time to time, site visitors and/or personal and/or professional acquaintances (which may include, but obviously are not limited to, other members of a given household and/or family) may provide us with personal information about some individual and/or household, whether directly or indirectly. For example (but without limitation), another site visitor might provide us with your contact information for some specific purpose, send us a clipping of a newspaper interview with you, or submit photographs and/or other media in which you are visible. If you own an interesting or unusual car, someone might provide us with pictures of and/or information about it, either for our general interest or for use on the owner’s Ate Up With Motor website and/or in connection with our other automotive writing. (Ate Up With Motor is a trademark of Aaron Severson dba Ate Up With Motor.)

Published works (e.g., books, magazines, newspapers, CDs, DVDs, broadcast radio and/or television programs, streaming media, other publicly accessible online content, and/or theatrical movies) we use and/or access in connection with our content, our business, and/or our other creative endeavors (and/or advertising and/or promotional materials related to such published works) often contain and/or otherwise incorporate an assortment of personal information, both about the subjects of the work and about the people who created, produced, and/or published it. We may also gather additional information about the people described, depicted, and/or involved with such published works, such as (without limitation) seeking to identify pictured individuals not named in a photo caption, determine the names of contributors not credited in the work itself, and/or seek out the contact information of the editor or publisher. Such information may come from a variety of sources (which may include sources available to the public and/or nonpublic sources).

Similarly, if we install or update any software (e.g., apps, fonts, plugins, themes, and/or add-ons) — particularly software offered under open source licenses — that software, the installation files and/or source code, and/or the associated documentation (and/or the website, repository, or other source from which we obtain them) may provide us with personal information about the developer/development team (e.g., names, contact information, digital signatures). If you’re a software developer, we may collect or have collected information about you in such contexts. Software licenses typically prohibit altering or deleting the credits, copyright notices, and/or other developer information contained in the software, even where the license otherwise permits modification.

As should come as no surprise given our vocation and the nature of our services, we routinely gather a wide variety of information related to our content, content we create and/or edit (and/or on which we consult and/or otherwise collaborate) in the course of our business and/or our other creative endeavors (professional or otherwise), which often includes information about people involved with and/or otherwise relevant to such content and/or creative endeavors. The process of researching, creating, and/or editing such content and/or creative endeavors (and/or consulting on others’ content and/or creative endeavors) routinely involves discussing and/or sharing such information with third parties such as (without limitation) subject matter experts, other writers, historians, biographers, researchers, instructors and/or coaches, academics, scientists and/or engineers, journalists, critics, reviewers, enthusiasts, collectors, librarians and/or other library staff, archivists, translators, designers, artists, architects, photographers, filmmakers, videographers, podcasters, other media creators, playwrights, musicians and/or composers, actors and/or other performers, producers, developers, editors, publishers, publicists and/or promoters, public relations representatives and/or other press contacts, observers, eyewitnesses, and/or other knowledgeable parties (and/or, in the case of work we perform, propose to perform, and/or consider performing for others, the applicable client(s), employer(s), and/or prospective client(s) or employer(s)), as well as looking up names and/or other relevant personal details in sources such as (as applicable, but without limitation) books; magazines and/or journals; reports, white papers, and/or other such documents; press releases and/or promotional materials; newspapers and/or other news reports; films and/or other videos; plays and/or theatrical productions; television programs; radio programs; broadcasts and/or streaming media of whatever type(s); podcasts; other audio recordings; scripts and/or screenplays; online or offline electronic resources such as (again without limitation) social media, search engines, websites, library catalogs, repositories, and/or databases; and/or public records. Our research, writing, and/or editing process may sometimes also include inviting comment from and/or presenting questions to the public regarding related topics. If you are or were somehow involved with the subject(s) of our content and/or other creative endeavors, if you are or were otherwise relevant to such content and/or creative endeavors, and/or if you are a public figure, some of the information we gather may be about you, your work, and/or your career. In many cases, this information is drawn from sources that are or were already available to the public, but it may also include nonpublic information collected from a variety of sources. It may also include images, such as (without limitation) publicity photos or official portraits, and/or other media, such as (again without limitation) films and/or other videos, audio interviews, and/or podcasts. In some cases, we may look for your contact information so we can ask you questions related to our content, request an interview, and/or let you know about content in which you were mentioned. (Naturally, some of the information we gather in connection with content we write, edit, and/or otherwise research may also come from you, if we communicate with you in connection with our research and/or if you have disclosed the information publicly and/or in some other context known to us.)

Much, though not necessarily all, of the content we create and/or edit (and/or on which we consult and/or otherwise collaborate) in the course of our business and/or other creative endeavors (professional or otherwise) is intended for eventual publication (and/or public performance, broadcast, and/or exhibition, as applicable). If that content is published, performed, broadcast, exhibited, and/or otherwise distributed by third parties — for example (but without limitation), if another website, a magazine, or some other publication runs one of our articles or stories, or if a publisher agrees to publish a book we’ve written — the applicable third party or parties may provide us with additional personal information pertaining to such content and/or the people who read, comment on, inquire about, and/or otherwise interact with that content. For example (again without limitation), a website that runs one or more of our articles might communicate to us comments or questions the website receives about the content, or otherwise provide us with details about the content’s readership and/or reception; a magazine interested in publishing a fictional story we’ve written might ask us to change certain character names that could be misconstrued as referring to specific real people; and a publisher who receives an inquiry from an overseas publisher about translating a book we’ve written into other languages will likely inform us of the particulars of that offer. For obvious reasons, what personal information (if any) we may collect in such contexts may vary considerably depending on the specific context and circumstances. Such information may be provided to us directly and/or through our agents, representatives, and/or other intermediaries.

(Again, the above scenarios are just some representative examples, not an exhaustive list. The disclosures in the “Categories of Personal Information Collected” subsection of the “CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice” section below will give you a sense of what kinds of personal information we may collect. Please note that the definitions and categories listed in that section are based on California law; other jurisdictions may have different definitions of what constitutes personal information, and/or may categorize it differently.)

Our retention of such information varies depending on the nature of the information and the context in which we collect it. We normally retain indefinitely our research notes and other information relevant to our past, current, or possible future content and/or creative endeavors, including image-related information. (Obviously, we can’t and don’t retain or remember every fact we see, read, or hear, but we do typically retain our notes in some form or other, although we may delete or discard certain research notes, materials, and/or information that we deem unusable, elect not to use, and/or no longer need.) Since software licenses typically prohibit redacting or altering any of the developer credits or copyright information, we usually retain that information for at least as long as we continue using the applicable software. See the “Additional Information About Data Retention” section below to learn more about our typical data retention practices. The retention of data by third parties (e.g., our vendors and/or service providers) is subject to the individual policies of the applicable third parties, and in most cases is outside of our control.

Obviously, information we collect for our content, writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or other creative endeavors may be published and/or otherwise disclosed in that context; other information not already available to the public generally will not be except as otherwise described in “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below.

Combining Information From Multiple Sources

To achieve the purposes described in “Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection” above, we may combine personal information we collect about you from multiple sources and/or over time. For example (but without limitation), if we communicate with you directly regarding an article or other content we create and/or edit in which you’re mentioned, we may combine the information you provide to us with information we have collected about you from third-party sources. In some cases, we may combine information about you from multiple devices you use (e.g., if you submit comments to this website from several different computers and/or mobile devices) and/or collect personal information about your online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services (e.g., by reading comments, social media posts, and/or articles you’ve published elsewhere on the Internet).

How You Can Correct or Update Your Personal Information

If you’d like us to correct or update personal information we’ve collected about you — for example, if you wish to update the contact information you previously provided to us, or if we misspelled your name in an article or image credit — please let us know! You can request a change or correction by contacting us via any of the methods described in “Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us” below. We will endeavor to promptly correct or update the information as we deem appropriate (and to the extent we reasonably can).

Please note that depending on the nature of the requested changes(s) or correction(s), we may need to first take steps to verify your identity, particularly if a change or correction you’ve requested involves any sensitive personal information; we may refuse your request to correct or update personal information if we aren’t reasonably certain that you are who you say you are. Also, please keep in mind that for certain types of sensitive personal information — e.g., your bank account number — we may not be able to tell you the specific information we currently have, other than to confirm whether or not we possess it.

Except as otherwise required by law, we may also deny your request to correct or update personal information if the requested change or correction is beyond our reasonable ability to make, would involve disproportionate effort and/or expense, and/or conflicts with a legal or contractual obligation, and/or if we believe in good faith that the information we currently possess is correct; that making the requested change or correction would adversely affect our rights, security, and/or safety and/or the rights, security, and/or safety of someone else; and/or that the request is otherwise unreasonable, inappropriate, and/or infeasible. In particular, we may deny requests that would infringe upon the rights of free speech, freedom of the press, and/or freedom of expression (ours and/or someone else’s) and/or that pertain to differences of opinion, perspective, and/or critical judgment rather than fact.

Additional Information About Data Retention

In addition to the data retention practices described in the various sections above, we typically retain indefinitely:

Information pertaining to our professional writing/editing/writing consulting work and/or other creative endeavors, including — except as otherwise stipulated by a specific client or employee agreement and/or other applicable legal requirement(s) — research notes, drafts, and/or other relevant data. (We may delete or discard certain drafts and/or research notes, materials, and/or information that we deem unusable, elect not to use, and/or no longer need.) We generally also retain (again without limitation) calendar and/or journal entries and related notes (e.g., a calendar entry pertaining to a business meeting or phone call and/or our notes on what was discussed during that meeting or call).
Information pertaining to any financial transactions and/or legal agreements involving 6200 Productions, our professional writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or our other creative endeavors, including (but not limited to) records of purchases or payments we make or receive in connection with the website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business. (Obviously, our financial and legal records often necessarily include some personal information.) We must also retain our tax records for bookkeeping and compliance purposes. (Vendors and/or service providers involved in a given transaction (e.g., the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), and/or other financial institution(s)) may also retain certain information related to that transaction, which is generally outside of our control.)
The contact information and other details of individuals with whom we repeatedly or regularly correspond and/or otherwise communicate regarding 6200 Productions, our professional writing/editing/writing consulting work, our other creative endeavors, and/or related matters. (Naturally, if we regularly communicate with someone and/or have (or previously had) some type of business and/or personal relationship with them, we will likely add them to our contacts, potentially including other personal details — for example (but without limitation), their job title (if any), their birthday, the name of their spouse/partner, and/or the email address and phone number of their secretary or assistant — if we possess such information.)
Names (including, though not limited to, business names, product names, and/or domain names) we’ve entered into our spell-checking dictionaries (which we retain for what we hope are obvious reasons!).
Copies of published works (e.g., books, magazines, newspapers, CDs, DVDs, software) that we own or for which we have a perpetual license, along with (where applicable) associated documentation and/or notes and any inventories, catalogs, databases, lists, and/or other tools that we may create and/or utilize to manage our collection(s) of such works. (We may dispose of copies that are duplicates, that are damaged or otherwise unusable, and/or that we no longer need; naturally, copies that we have borrowed or rented are eventually returned as appropriate.)
Information pertaining to our licenses/authorizations for the use of intellectual property owned by others, including any relevant contact information. (We may discard this information if we discontinue using that intellectual property, e.g., if we uninstall a particular app or other software.)
Information pertaining to business-related technical and/or legal questions.
Information pertaining to business-related disputes and/or legal issues.

Even where it is our customary practice to indefinitely retain certain information, our retention of individual communications/messages may vary based on the medium and/or format of those communications/messages:

Email: The large majority of our business-related communications are conducted via email, and retaining offline copies of our email messages provides a convenient means of securing and organizing those communications in a readily accessible, searchable form. Therefore, we typically retain indefinitely most business-related emails, excepting obvious spam, mass mailings, messages and/or attachments that contain suspicious code, and/or certain automated notification/alert emails (which we may delete if they are no longer needed and/or relevant). This may not apply to emails sent and/or received via client- or employer provided accounts, systems, and/or devices; see the separate bullet point below.
Communications/messages via third-party services (including, without limitation, calls and/or texts made or received through the Google Voice communications service, social media platforms, and/or other communications services): Most business-related communications/messages that we send and/or receive via third-party services are retained indefinitely in some form, although in such cases, we may, to the extent possible, retain local and/or off-line copies in addition to (or instead of) leaving the original communication/message(s) on the applicable third-party service. For example (but without limitation), if we receive messages via the Google Voice communications service, we may remove the original messages from our account on that service, but retain the notification emails and/or other local copies of those messages. Recordings of calls (if any) made via the Google Voice service or other third-party services, and/or voicemail messages received through such services, may be retained for as long as we reasonably need those recordings, except as otherwise required by law and/or the applicable service’s terms of use/terms of service. This may not apply to communications/messages sent and/or received via client- or employer provided accounts, systems, and/or devices; see the separate bullet point below. Please note that in some cases, third-party services may retain records of messages sent via those services even if the users who sent and/or received those messages delete their copies and/or their accounts, which is outside of our control. (Google, Google Voice, and other related marks are trademarks of Google LLC.)
Other activity history on third-party websites and/or services: Many third-party websites and/or online services (including, though not limited to, social media platforms, marketplace services, and payment services) compile and maintain fairly comprehensive histories of user actions and/or activity involving that service, which sometimes include certain personal information (e.g., records of comments made on a social media platform, or of recent payments made or received). Such third-party websites and/or online services don’t necessarily offer the option to selectively edit or delete such information; doing so may be a cumbersome and/or time-consuming task even where the option is available (e.g., requiring the user to scroll through years worth of activity to find specific items); and the site or service may retain the information even if the user’s copy of their history is partially or completely deleted. For that reason, our activity history on many of the third-party websites and/or services we use can normally be considered to be retained indefinitely, although we may sometimes delete or otherwise remove certain activity history if we have some compelling reason to do so and if the applicable site or service allows such deletion or removal.
Text messages: Our retention of business-related text messages and/or other, similar non-voice direct messages that we send and/or receive via our phone(s) is highly variable. (Our older smartphone(s) could be set to automatically delete messages after a certain period of time — we normally set that interval to 60 days — unless they were deliberately saved, but not all the devices and apps we currently use provide that functionality, at least not in the same global manner.) Depending on the nature and context of the specific message(s), we may delete them immediately, retain them indefinitely, or something in between; in some cases, we may set messages to automatically delete themselves after a certain period of time, and/or retain only a certain number of messages in any particular text “conversation.” In any event, even if we delete a text message or messages, any included information and/or attachments for which we have some ongoing need may be transferred to other records before the deletion of the original message(s). (For example, if you send us a text message asking us to contact you via postal mail, we typically will separately record your mailing address in order to comply with and retain records of your request.) Text messages may also be captured in periodic phone backups, which we may retain for a year or more. However, none of the foregoing may apply to text messages sent and/or received via client- or employer provided accounts, systems, and/or devices; see the separate bullet point below. Please note that our mobile carrier(s) and/or other service providers may also retain records of text messages sent or received via our phone(s), which is outside of our control.
Phone calls: Records of calls we make or receive via our phone(s) (i.e., NOT via the Google Voice communications service or some other third-party service) are typically included in our phone bills and/or other phone usage records, which we customarily retain indefinitely. (Our phone service provider(s) and/or mobile carrier(s) may also retain such records, which is outside of our control.) Our retention of call logs or records on our phone(s) is typically determined on a case-by-case basis and is highly variable. Recordings of phone calls (if any) and/or voicemail messages may be retained for as long as we reasonably need them, except as otherwise required by law (and/or, in the case of voicemail messages, the policies of the applicable phone company or mobile carrier). This may not apply to records of calls made and/or received via client- or employer provided accounts, systems, and/or devices; see the separate bullet point below. (Google, Google Voice, and other related marks are trademarks of Google LLC.)
Communications made via client- or employer-provided accounts, systems, and/or devices: As noted in “Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests” above, our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services and/or work for certain clients or employers may sometimes involve the use of accounts, systems, and/or devices provided by the client or employer (e.g., a company email address, laptop, and/or smartphone). The retention of communications sent and/or received using client- or employer-provided accounts, systems, and/or devices, and/or of any files and/or other data stored on such accounts, systems, and/or devices, is typically determined by the policies of the applicable client or employer, which in most cases are outside of our control. In many such cases, we do not have continued access to such communications, files, and/or data outside of performing or after completing our services and/or work for that client or employer, whether or not the client or employer separately retains such communications, files, and/or data.
Postal mail and/or physical documents: We promptly discard most mass mailings and unsolicited business inquiries (“junk mail”) we receive via postal mail or other physical means. Where we receive legitimate business correspondence or business documents (e.g., copies of contracts or receipts) by mail or some other physical means, we typically retain them. (This includes, where applicable, data disks and/or other physical data storage media containing business documents and/or related materials.) However, where possible, we may scan, photograph, or photocopy them (and/or retain the electronic versions, if we have received both electronic and physical copies) in addition to (and in some cases instead of) retaining the original physical copies. Naturally, if we have agreed and/or have some contractual or legal obligation to return or destroy specific business documents, we will do so as appropriate.

Where this policy indicates that our retention of personal information is “indefinite” or that we retain information “indefinitely,” how long we actually retain such information is determined on a case-by-case basis depending on the nature of the information in question, how and why we collected it, and other relevant factors. In determining for how long to retain personal information, we may consider a variety of criteria, including (but not limited to) the following:

In what form or format is the information? For example, is it contained in an email message or other written document (which we are likely to retain unless we take steps to delete it), or is it oral information received in a verbal conversation (which we may not retain or even remember for long unless we take steps to memorialize it)?
To whom does the information pertain? For example, does it relate to a site visitor, a professional client, some other business contact, or a friend or family member with whom we interacted in some business context? (Over the years, our personal and professional lives have often overlapped in various ways and to varying degrees.)
What was the context in which we received the information? For example, was it received in confidence (or subject to a nondisclosure agreement), or was it provided to us publicly, or with the expectation that the information would be disclosed or made public (e.g., a website comment or an interview intended for publication)?
How personal is the information? Is it sensitive personal information, such as a Social Security number? (We generally try to avoid collecting or retaining Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, or other government-issued identification numbers except where we’re legally required to do so.) Is it private or confidential, or is some or all of the information available to the public?
Does the person to whom the information relates, or from whom it was obtained, expect that we will retain it?
How likely is it that we will need to refer back to the information in the future? For example, is it part of a message containing specific instructions, the answer to a question, a suggested reference or useful resource, a standing offer of assistance, or a memorandum of understanding?
Do we need the information in connection with work or services we have contracted to perform or receive — especially ones that are current, pending, or ongoing — or in order to otherwise complete a transaction or fulfill a contractual obligation (e.g., in order to comply with the terms of a license agreement)? If the information is related to a transaction, do we need to retain the information for customer service, return, warranty, and/or insurance purposes?
Does the information pertain to past work or services? If so, do we still have, or are we likely to have, an ongoing business relationship with the person or persons for whom we performed those services (or who performed them for us), and is retention of that information necessary or appropriate to that ongoing relationship? Do we have the right to use or reuse the information outside of that specific business relationship, or is the information proprietary, confidential, or contractually restricted?
Do we need to retain the information for purposes such as security, troubleshooting, quality control, and/or service improvement, or to protect someone’s safety and/or property (including our own)?
What are our legal obligations with regard to the information? For example, do we need the information for tax purposes or to comply with some other reporting or disclosure requirement? Is the information subject to legally mandated retention requirements, such as the ones that apply to tax, payroll, and other employment information, or the record-keeping requirements that apply to certain privacy requests? (For example, if you submit a request to exercise your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), the CCPA regulations require us to retain records of that request and how we responded to it for at least 24 months.) Do we have a contractual obligation to return or destroy the information after a specific period, or a statutory or regulatory obligation to dispose of the information within a particular timeframe?
How might either retaining or disposing of the information affect our legal liability and/or our ability to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims? For example, as a sole proprietor, the owner of this website may be personally liable in a business-related legal dispute — in which event much may depend on our being able to produce relevant correspondence, records, and other evidence — and we obviously have compelling reasons to indefinitely retain any contracts to which we are a party.
Do we need to retain the information in order for us to be able to establish, exercise, and defend our rights, in particular (though not limited to) our rights of free speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of expression? The owner of this website is a professional writer, which means that our articles, stories, and other creative endeavors are our livelihood and (in many cases) our intellectual property, which we do not relinquish or discard without good reason; the same is true of our associated photos and other images, drafts, notes, research, and reference materials.
Is the information closely tied to or inextricable from other data we need to retain? For example, a business email, a bank statement, or a phone bill may each contain a combination of irrelevant details and crucial business information, but the former may not be reasonably separable from the latter (and we may be obligated to retain such records in unaltered form).

These examples are not an exhaustive list of criteria we may consider; depending on the particular circumstances, there may also be other relevant considerations. Other than legal obligation, no one factor is necessarily determinative. (For example, we don’t habitually delete the personal information of our friends or family members, but if a friend hired us to edit a confidential business document, we might shred the document and related work files within a reasonable period after completing the project, unless we needed to retain it for compliance purposes or to guard against potential liability.)

In all cases (even circumstances where we typically retain information indefinitely), we may, to the extent legally permitted, delete, discard, or destroy specific messages, communications, documents, files, records, and/or data (of any type, format, and/or medium) if:

They are duplicates, and/or:
We reasonably believe that they are substantially redundant of other data we still retain (e.g., an “order shipped” notification for an order for which we also have a delivery receipt), and/or:
They are illegible, inaccessible, and/or otherwise unusable, and/or:
They are corrupted, contaminated, or otherwise damaged, particularly if we reasonably believe that the corruption, contamination, or damage poses a danger to health, safety, security, and/or the integrity of other data and/or property, and/or:
We have agreed and/or have some contractual or legal obligation to delete, discard, or destroy them, and/or:
We have some other compelling reason to do so.

Even where it is our normal practice to retain personal information about site visitors, we periodically remove certain personal information from the website’s online database(s) and/or mail servers, transferring the data to local and/or offline storage for greater security and/or redacting portions of the data that we no longer need.

Special Note on Subpoenas, Court Orders, and Preservation Requests: In certain cases, we may be legally obligated to retain and preserve certain data, even data we would not otherwise retain, pursuant to a subpoena, a valid court order, or a preservation request from a government or law enforcement agency. In such event, we will preserve the specified information (and may disclose it to the requesting party) to the extent legally required; in some cases, we may also be required to keep the order or request confidential.

The retention of data by third parties (e.g., our vendors and/or service providers) is subject to the respective policies of such third parties, and in many cases is outside of our control.

Reports and Aggregate Statistics

From time to time, 6200 Productions may compile aggregate statistical information about users of the website and/or our services. For example, we may create reports on trends in the usage of the website, e.g., total page views, the average number of unique visitors per month, the most popular pages on the site, and/or the average time visitors spend on the site. The data contained in such reports and/or statistics will be de-identified, anonymized, pseudonymized, redacted, and/or aggregated such that it could not reasonably be used to identify specific person(s) and/or household(s) (other than us, if we are somehow included in that information and elect not to de-identify, anonymize, pseudonymize, redact, and/or aggregate our own information).

We may also, to the extent permitted — and/or required — by applicable law and/or regulations, publish aggregate information about requests we receive pursuant the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) (as described in “Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA)” below) and/or other privacy laws (e.g., how many requests of a particular type we received in a given period).

We may publish such reports and/or aggregate statistics and/or otherwise disclose them third parties such as (as applicable, but without limitation) our current and/or prospective advertisers, clients, employers, and/or commercial partners (e.g., with prospective buyers in connection with the possible sale of our business); our employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners, if any; and/or our vendors and/or service providers.

Information Captured by Service/Software/App/Device Telemetry

Many modern electronic services, software programs, apps, and devices, from operating systems to office software and even printers/print drivers, now incorporate surveillance mechanisms (often called “telemetry”) that collect information about the use of that service/software/app/device and then transmit that data to the manufacturer/developer and/or other third parties. The information collected by these mechanisms can sometimes include personal information and/or potentially personally identifiable information about us and/or other individuals and/or households.

Here are some examples of how this might occur:

If some service/app/software/device crashes while we are accessing a file or website containing personal information, details about that file or website and its contents might be captured and transmitted as part of a crash report.
If any websites, online services, or apps we access use the familiar reCAPTCHA human verification service, which is provided by Google, the reCAPTCHA service may collect detailed information about our activity on those websites, services, or apps. Google provides no way to opt out of this data collection, which with recent versions of the reCAPTCHA service is not limited to interactions with the reCAPTCHA interface itself. (Google and other related marks and logos are trademarks of Google LLC.)
Security features incorporated into our web browsers and/or devices might capture personal information contained in the filenames, metadata, and/or contents of files we download from or upload to the Internet and disclose that data to third parties to determine if those files are associated with known malware.
Our antivirus software and/or other security services/software/apps might capture personal information in scanned email messages and/or other electronic files and communicate that data to third parties for threat analysis purposes.
The telemetry of our office software might capture text on which we use the software’s spelling and grammar checking features and transmit that information to the software manufacturer for service improvement purposes.
Providers of mapping or navigation services/software/apps, particularly ones with access to our mobile phone’s location data, might build profiles of our movements and/or frequent destinations that include the geographical locations and/or addresses of people we meet or visit.
Providers of services, apps, or software with access to device microphone(s) might overhear and/or record our calls and/or conversations, particularly if the service, app, or software has voice activation and/or voice command features.
Certain services/apps/software/devices might record what we type while using that service/app/software/device and make that information available to the manufacturer and/or other third parties for various purposes.

Again, these examples are just a small sampling of the possible scenarios. The specifics of device and software telemetry vary widely, and manufacturers/developers are not always forthcoming about the details of their information-gathering.

Such surveillance can be difficult or impossible to escape. Certain services/software/apps/devices, like malware detection services, cannot adequately perform their intended functions without full access to device/system data. Some information-gathering features, like the telemetry incorporated into recent versions of the Microsoft® Windows® operating system (Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies) can’t be completely disabled without modifications that would violate the license agreement or terms of service. Even where it is theoretically possible to disable the telemetry features of a specific service/software/app/device, doing so may require advanced technical knowledge and/or special tools. Also, our work and research sometimes involves our using devices, software, and/or apps controlled by third parties — e.g., the computers offered to patrons of public libraries — that may incorporate telemetry or other surveillance mechanisms that we cannot disable or with which we are not familiar.

While we have made an effort to block and/or minimize such surveillance — for our privacy and security as well as yours — the bottom line is that some of the services/software/apps/devices we use retain at least the potential to collect and transmit personal information about us, the subjects of our writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or the people with whom we interact in the course of our business.

The examples of third-party vendors and service providers listed in the “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” section below include a representative sampling of services, software, apps, and/or electronic devices we may use that could collect personal information related to our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business, this website, and/or its visitors through telemetry and/or other integrated information-gathering/surveillance features. Please note that this is NOT an exhaustive list. We may sometimes use services, software, apps, and/or devices not listed (obviously, it’s not practical for us to list every service, device and/or piece of software we might conceivably use!); certain services/software/apps/devices that did not previously incorporate information-gathering/surveillance features might add them in subsequent updates; and certain services/software/apps/devices may incorporate surveillance features that are not readily apparent to us.

As we noted in the “Security Scans” section above, the likelihood and possible extent of any disclosure of personal information in such ways is difficult to predict or quantify, but it cannot be completely avoided without greatly compromising our security, the functionality of the tools and devices we use, and our ability to perform our work and provide our services.

Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information

We may disclose personal information we collect through and/or in connection with this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business:

To publish and/or respond to your submitted comments (including, as applicable, any images, other media files, and/or links they may contain), as described in the “Comments” section above. As explained in that section, this may include emailing copies of your comment to other users who have requested email notifications of replies/follow-up comments, and/or emailing you directly (at the email address you provided with your comment) prior to or instead of publishing your comment(s).
To respond (publicly and/or privately) to your messages, inquiries, and/or support requests, as described in the “Contact Forms” and “Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests” sections above.
To appropriately credit someone for the use of their images, other media, fonts, themes, plugins, and/or other content or intellectual property — particularly where such credit is required by the applicable license terms. As noted in “Data in Submitted Images” above, this may include (without limitation) adding copyright and license information to the applicable filename(s) and/or metadata to ensure that the attribution is clear. If you want to modify or remove your credit information, please contact us!
To publicly acknowledge and/or thank someone for their assistance, whether with the management of this website, our content, our other creative endeavors, and/or some related matter(s), except where they have specifically asked us not to or where their communications with us reasonably suggest that they prefer not to be acknowledged or identified. Such acknowledgments will typically be limited to their name/pseudonym, the nature of their assistance, and (where applicable) the date(s), although in some cases, certain other personal information may be obvious or implicit in the nature of the assistance provided. (Please note that once such an acknowledgment has been published, we cannot control and take no responsibility for what third parties may do with any personal information the acknowledgment may contain.)
In photographs, images, and/or other media in which someone (and/or information about them, e.g., their car’s license plate number) may be visible or otherwise included. The photographs, images, and/or other media (e.g., videos) we use and/or collect for use on the 6200 Productions website, in connection with our other content and/or creative endeavors, and/or as part of and/or in connection with our professional writing/editing/writing consulting work — not all of which are necessarily created by us — may include recognizable people (and/or their voices) and/or personal information or potentially personally identifiable information about individuals and/or households, whether in the whether in the photos, images, and/or other media themselves and/or in the filenames, titles, and/or other metadata (see the “Data in Submitted Images” section above for more about what the metadata may include). Obviously, in certain cases, those people (and/or their information) may be the subject(s), or among the subjects, of the photo(s), image(s), and/or other media; even where they are not, it is not always practical or even feasible for us to completely remove or obscure visible bystanders or other personal information or potentially personally identifiable information such photos, images, and/or other media may contain. (For example (but without limitation), the license terms under which we use images owned by others may not permit us to modify those images in such a way.) In many cases, we have no reasonable way to identify such individuals or associate photos, images, and/or other media in which they appear with other information about them. In certain cases, we may show photos, images, and/or other media (and/or related information) to others and/or take other steps to find out more about the subjects, settings, and/or circumstances of those photos, images, and/or other media; identify visible and/or audible individuals; and/or determine to whom certain vehicles, other objects and/or property, and/or animals depicted in the photos, images, and/or other media may belong. For example (again without limitation), if we have photos of a particular car that were taken at a car show or other public event, we might send those photos and/or information about them — e.g., the pictured car’s description and/or license plate number — to the event organizers in hopes of identifying and/or getting in touch with the car’s owner(s); if we have a clip from a home movie or similar video, we might show the clip to someone who appears in the video in hopes of identifying other people visible and/or audible in that video. (These are just a few representative examples, not an exhaustive list of inquiries we might conceivably make.) Please note that it isn’t necessarily always practical, appropriate, or even feasible for us to make such inquiries, and any inquiries we do make are not necessarily always fruitful. If you have recognized yourself (and/or your information) in a photo, image, or other media we have published and/or otherwise released and would like us to obscure or remove it, please contact us!
If that information is or was already otherwise available to the public (such as — without limitation — information that’s available on the website of the person(s) to whom the information pertains; that they’ve included in their published memoirs, books, articles, or other published works, or in public posts or public comments they’ve made on this or other websites; that appears in published interviews with and/or books, news reports, articles, press releases and/or promotional materials, and/or other published works about the person(s) to whom the information pertains and/or their work; and/or that is otherwise part of the public record, e.g., court records or transcripts of public hearings).
If the information is contained in and/or otherwise incorporated into artwork, a copy of a published work, a useful article, or some other object (including, without limitation, information inscribed or imprinted upon and/or affixed or otherwise attached to such work, copy, useful article, or object, particularly where that information cannot reasonably be removed without damage and/or defacement — for example (again without limitation), an autograph signed on a trading card; an artist’s signature and/or watermark on a lithograph or original art piece; the original subscriber’s name and mailing address imprinted upon the cover of a magazine; a previous owner’s name stamped on the flyleaf of a book; and/or handwritten notes in the margins of some text). For obvious reasons, such information is typically (and often necessarily!) included in any loan, donation, sale, and/or other disposal of that work, copy, useful article, or object.
As part of and/or in connection with our content and/or other creative endeavors; content we write and/or edit for others; and/or content and/or other creative endeavors on which we consult and/or otherwise collaborate — if the person(s) to whom the information pertains are the subject(s) of and/or otherwise pertinent to such content and/or creative endeavor(s). (This may include, without limitation, information contained in images, other media, bibliographies, annotations, and/or metadata.) For obvious reasons, journalistic, historical, and/or other nonfiction content, and many reviews and other critical accounts, routinely incorporate personal information about relevant people, as do some works of fiction and other types of art and/or creative work. As noted in “Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources” above, the process of researching, creating, and/or editing (and/or consulting and/or otherwise collaborating on) such content and/or creative endeavors routinely involves routinely involves discussing and/or sharing relevant information with various third parties and/or the public; the same is true of publishing, promoting, publicly performing, exhibiting, broadcasting, and/or otherwise disseminating and/or discussing such content and/or creative endeavors. (Please note that we cannot control and take no responsibility for what third parties may do with any personal information that may be contained, included, and/or referenced in any content or creative endeavor that has been published, publicly performed, exhibited, broadcast, and/or otherwise made available to the public!)
To editors, publishers, clients, employers, and/or other third parties for whom we provide (and/or to whom we offer) our writing/editing/writing consulting services; to whom we may license, sell, and/or otherwise offer our content and/or other creative work; for whom we may otherwise work, provide services, and/or offer to work and/or provide services; with whom we may collaborate and/or offer to collaborate in performing and/or offering our services and/or in researching, creating, editing, performing, and/or offering our content, other creative work, and/or other creative endeavors; and/or as we may reasonably elect and/or be requested or directed to do as part of and/or in connection with such services, content, creative endeavor(s), collaboration(s), and/or work (and/or the offer thereof), where the information is part of and/or otherwise pertains to such services, content, creative endeavor(s), collaboration(s), and/or work (and/or the offer thereof). For example (but without limitation), if a client hires us to edit an article or book you’ve written, performing our services will likely entail discussions with the client about your work, your sources, and whatever personal information they may contain and/or suggest. Similarly (but again without limitation), if we apply for some writing and/or editing position or assignment, our application and/or interview process would likely involve discussing our previous work of a similar type and/or subject matter.
To our employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners, if any,that need to know the information in order to collaborate with us and/or to provide services for us and/or on our behalf (e.g., bookkeeping, accounting, tax preparation, legal services, translation, transcription, technical troubleshooting, website development/improvement, malware recovery/removal, other types of repair/maintenance/installation/technical service, training, tutoring, and/or education) and that have agreed to follow this Privacy Policy (or that have their own, comparably strict or stricter confidentiality policies, agreements, and/or requirements) regarding any personal information that we disclose to them.
To our third-party vendors and/or service providers that need to know that information in order to provide services available on this website, support our business operations, and/or otherwise provide services for us and/or on our behalf. (As noted in the “Information Captured by Service/Software/App/Device Telemetry” section above, this may include, but is not limited to, services, software, apps, and/or electronic devices we may use that could collect personal information related to this website and/or its content, our professional writing/editing/writing consulting work, the management of our business operations, and/or our other creative endeavors through telemetry and/or other integrated information-gathering and/or surveillance features, some of which cannot be disabled without simply ceasing to use that service, software, app, or device.) Please note that some or all of our vendors and/or service providers may use various subcontractors, subprocessors, vendors, subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or partners, not necessarily listed here, in order to provide their services for us. Representative examples of our third-party vendors and/or service providers may include (as applicable, but without limitation):
- Social media platforms and/or other social networking services (including, without limitation, chat rooms, online bulletin boards/message boards/discussion groups, wikis, and/or similar online forums) on which we have 6200 Productions accounts and/or pages (if any), and/or that we might use to research, promote, and/or discuss this website and/or its content, our professional writing/editing/writing consulting work, the management of our business operations, and/or our other creative endeavors, such as (without limitation) the Blogger (a.k.a. Blogspot) web publishing service, which is owned by Google and subject to the Google Privacy Policy — we don’t currently have a Blogspot blog, although in the past, the owner had a little-used (and long since deleted) Ate Up With Motor blog on that service, and we could theoretically create another blog on the Blogger service through our Google account(s) if we choose to do so in the future (Google, Blogger, Blogspot, and other related marks are trademarks of Google LLC; Ate Up With Motor is a trademark of Aaron Severson dba Ate Up With Motor); the Facebook social media platform (we initiated the deletion of our personal Facebook account on December 11, 2018, with no intention of reactivating or recreating it, but Facebook likely retains at least some related data, and we retain an offline copy of our account data as of that date — Facebook is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc.; Meta is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc.); the Flickr photo-sharing platform (presently owned and operated by Flickr, Inc., which is owned in turn by SmugMug, Inc.), on which we have published some images related to our content and which we use to communicate with some of the people who have allowed us to use their images; our use of Flickr services and/or products to publish, create, label, tag, comment on, describe, and/or categorize our images and/or videos in those services and/or products is subject, where applicable, to the Data Processing Addendum to the Flickr Terms & Conditions of Use (Flickr and SmugMug are trademarks of SmugMug); the IntenseDebate comment system (we requested the deletion of our IntenseDebate account on December 9, 2021; the IntenseDebate comment system is owned by Automattic and subject to the Automattic Privacy Policy; Automattic and IntenseDebate are trademarks or registered trademarks of Automattic (or Automattic’s licensors)); social media platforms such as (again without limitation) the Tumblr microblogging and social networking platform (Tumblr is a trademark of Tumblr, Inc. in the United States and other countries); the WordPress.com blogging platform (which is also owned by Automattic and subject to the Automattic Privacy Policy; Automattic and WordPress.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of Automattic (or Automattic’s licensors); WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries); and/or the X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter (X and Twitter are trademarks of X Corp. or its affiliates). The owner technically still has a personal blog on the LiveJournal community publishing platform (which was archived using a patched version of the ljArchive backup utility by Erik Frey), but can no longer use or even delete that blog because he refuses to accept the current LiveJournal user agreement. (The LiveJournal platform, which does not appear to have a privacy policy, is now owned by Rambler Group LLC. LiveJournal is a registered trademark of the advertising agency Index 20 LLC (a Rambler Group company) in the United States.)
- Providers whose services we may use in operating this website, such as (without limitation) our web host, DreamHost, LLC, which provides — directly and/or through its applicable subcontractors, subprocessors, vendors, subsidiaries, affiliates, and/or partners — various services for us, including (without limitation) hosting this website and its associated files, database(s), and server logs; managing our domain name registration for the 6200productions.com domain name; hosting the mail servers for all 6200productions.com email addresses; and providing certain of our administrative and security tools, as well as technical support and troubleshooting, and which, as noted in the “Website Server, Error, and Security Logs” section above, has access to any data and/or files on any server or other system they control (except where we have specially encrypted such file(s) and/or data), all subject to the DreamHost Privacy Policy and/or, where applicable, the Customer Data Processing Addendum to their General Terms of Service (DreamHost is a registered trademark of DreamHost, LLC); the Let’s Encrypt® certificate authority (CA), a service provided by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group™ that is described in the “Certificate Authority Checks” section above (Internet Security Research Group and Let’s Encrypt are trademarks of Internet Security Research Group; all rights reserved), and/or other certificate authorities we may use or access, such as, without limitation, the Sectigo® certificate authority, which provides the personal authentication certificate we use for digital signatures (which we purchased and manage through ComodoSSLstore.com, an authorized vendor) (Sectigo® is a federally registered trademark of Sectigo Limited; Comodo® is a registered trademark of Comodo Group, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and other countries); SolidWP, whose Solid Security plugin and/or other plugins we may use on this website (SolidWP is now one of the StellarWP brands, part of the Liquid Web family of brands, and subject to the StellarWP Privacy Policy; Solid Security, SolidWP, StellarWP, and Liquid Web are trademarks of Liquid Web, LLC); GoDaddy Media Temple, Inc. d/b/a Sucuri, a subsidiary of Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC (Sucuri), which provides the Sucuri Security plugin described in the “Security Scans” section above, which is subject to the Sucuri Security Privacy Policy, the Sucuri Cookie Policy (“Our Use of Cookies, Web Beacons, and Similar Technologies”), and/or the Data Processing Addendum to their Terms of Service (which applies to personal data Sucuri services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws), as applicable (Sucuri, Sucuri Security, Sucuri Security Inc., and Sucuri Inc. are trademarks of Sucuri Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions; GoDaddy is a registered trademark of Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC); GoDaddy® (which we previously used for domain registration and certain related services, although we ceased to use their services (except for those provided by Sucuri, a subsidiary) several years ago and permanent closed our GoDaddy account on October 8, 2020; GoDaddy is a registered trademark of Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC); embedded content providers such as (though not necessarily limited to) those described in the “Embedded Content” section above; Font Awesome (which, in addition to any embedded content it may serve on this site, may also be used by some of our other vendors and/or service providers in connection with other services we use, such as (without limitation) our web host’s online control panel and webmail interfaces; Font Awesome is a trademark of Fonticons, Inc.); MailChannels Corporation, whose email filtering and/or delivery services our web host may use in connection with our hosted email addresses (MailChannels is a trademark of MailChannels Corporation); providers of the various web server software, apps, and frameworks our web host uses and/or offers for use on the servers on which this website runs; most of these open source software projects don’t have privacy policies of their own, but since our web host handles most of the actual deployment and administration of the software (and administers and controls the servers on which the software runs), our use of that software in connection with the operation of this website is generally subject to the DreamHost Privacy Policy and/or, where applicable, the Customer Data Processing Addendum to their General Terms of Service (DreamHost is a registered trademark of DreamHost, LLC); the phpMyAdmin® project (a member project of Software Freedom Conservancy®), whose the open source database administration tool our web host provides for managing our website databases; the project doesn’t appear to have a privacy policy, but the tool’s source code is freely available for review — our use of the tool in connection with this website is subject to the DreamHost Privacy Policy and/or, where applicable, the Customer Data Processing Addendum to their General Terms of Service, since DreamHost administers the tool and controls the servers that store and run the databases we use the tool to access and manage (DreamHost is a registered trademark of DreamHost, LLC; phpMyAdmin and Software Freedom Conservancy are either registered trademarks or trademark of Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries; PHP is a trademark of The PHP Group; all other trademarks are the property of their respective owners); the Roundcube project, whose open source webmail client software and associated resources our web host uses for our browser-based email access; the Roundcube project doesn’t appear to have a privacy policy, but the mail client’s source code is freely available for review — our use of the mail client through our web host is subject to the DreamHost Privacy Policy and/or, where applicable, the Customer Data Processing Addendum to their General Terms of Service, since DreamHost actually administers the client and controls the mail servers to which it connects (DreamHost is a registered trademark of DreamHost, LLC); the Unsplash photo platform and/or related services (which we don’t currently use on this website, but which our web host may use to display images on their webmail and online control panel login pages and/or other user interfaces; Unsplash is a trademark or registered trademark of Unsplash Inc.); Zendesk, Inc., whose knowledge base platform and/or other software and/or services our web host may use for certain support resources, use of which is subject to the DreamHost Privacy Policy and/or, where applicable, the Customer Data Processing Addendum to their General Terms of Service; Zendesk’s Privacy and Data Protection page describes Zendesk’s role and responsibilities as a processor and/or service provider (in this case of DreamHost) with respect to such resources (Zendesk is a trademark of Zendesk, Inc.); the WordPress.org websites and/or their respective developers, contributors, volunteers, and other users (as explained in “Embedded Content” above, this website uses the WordPress content management system, so the WordPress.org websites may collect certain information about users who access the website’s administrative dashboard in the course of managing the site and its various plugins, themes, and/or other add-ons, as well as about and/or related to our use of the WordPress.org websites and/or forums, which we regularly use to seek help in managing, troubleshooting, and/or improving this website as well as to report bugs, security flaws, and/or other issues with the WordPress content management system itself; WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries); the developers of the various plugins, themes, and/or other add-ons used on this website (who may collect information via telemetry features incorporated into those plugins, themes, and/or other add-ons, and/or through our communications with the developers regarding the management, troubleshooting, and/or security of their respective plugins, themes, and/or other add-ons — such communications are frequently, though not necessarily exclusively, via the aforementioned WordPress.org forums; WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries); other sources of informational and/or instructional resources related to web development, online security, and/or the various aspects of operating and/or maintaining online systems, including (without limitation) providers of tutorials, guides, wikis, help files, online documentation, knowledge bases, technical consulting services, articles, and/or white papers offering recommendations, warnings, suggestions, examples, and/or discussion of how to use, manage, maintain, develop, customize, troubleshoot, and/or secure the WordPress content management system; its various plugins, themes, and/or other add-ons; and/or other software, apps, tools, services, and/or code (WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries); PayPal® (which serves the payment buttons that appear on the site and may process certain payments we make or receive — PayPal.com, PayPal, and all logos related to the PayPal services are either trademarks or registered trademarks of PayPal, Inc. or its licensors; in addition, all page headers, custom graphics, button icons, and scripts related to the PayPal services are service marks, trademarks, and/or trade dress of PayPal); the Blacklight tool (click here for more about how Blacklight works) developed and offered by the nonprofit newsroom The Markup, which we may use to help us identify potential privacy and/or security issues with this website and/or other websites and online services we use in the course of our business (Blacklight and The Markup are trademarks owned by The Markup or its licensors); WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) at Utah State University (whose WAVE Accessibility Tool and/or other tools we may use to improve the accessibility of this website and/or our content; Utah State University, WebAIM, and WebAIM Web Accessibility in Mind are trademarks of Utah State University); website speed testing services/tools (which examine the publicly visible/publicly accessible portions of the website to analyze how quickly they load and identify technical issues that may affect loading speed and/or other functionality); and/or WHOIS, RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol), and/or similar lookup providers (if we need to look up IP addresses, hostnames, and/or domain registrations using tools such as (though not necessarily limited to) the ICANN Domain Name Registration Data Lookup tool; ICANN is a trademark or registered trademark of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).
- Google, which provides (directly and/or through its various subsidiaries and/or affiliates) some of the software, apps, tools, and/or services we may use and/or offer, which are too numerous to fully enumerate here, but may include (without limitation) the Google Analytics, Google Fonts API, Google Hosted Libraries, Google Maps, FeedBurner, Gmail, Google Safe Browsing API, Blogger, and Blogspot services mentioned and/or described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy; the Android platform and related apps, services, APIs, and infrastructure (e.g., the Google Location Service infrastructure); the Android SDK Platform-Tools; the Firebase platform mentioned elsewhere in this section of the Privacy Policy; the Google Play store and its related services; the well-known Google search engines (and/or related search tools and/or services); Google Search Console tools and reports (formerly known as Google Webmaster Tools reports), which help webmasters analyze and improve their site’s indexability and search performance; the Google Authenticator mobile app (which manages authentication codes for multi-factor authentication); the Google Ads platform (which we believe is formally called the Google Ad Network advertiser network, although many Google policies and documents refer to “Google Ads”) and various advertising services, e.g., the AdMob, AdSense, and/or DoubleClick advertising services (which we don’t currently use on this website, but may be used by some apps, websites, and/or online services we use and/or access, and/or may show advertising through certain embedded content, as noted in the “Embedded Content” section above); the reCAPTCHA human verification service (which we don’t currently use on this website, but which may be used by various websites and/or online services we use and/or access, and which can collect information about and/or related to our online activity in those contexts, as described in the “Information Captured by Service/Software/App/Device Telemetry” section above); the Google Voice communications service (a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service provided by Google Voice Inc., a subsidiary of Google LLC, which is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and, where applicable, the Google Telephony Services Privacy Disclosure); Google Workspace productivity and collaboration tools; the Widevine digital content manager (a digital rights management (DRM) technology many web browsers use to allow playback of encrypted media content protected by DRM); and, as noted in the “Embedded Content” section above, the YouTube video platform. All Google products and services are subject to the Google Privacy Policy and/or, where applicable, their Data Processing Addendum for Products where Google is a Data Processor, the CCPA Service Provider Addendum to Google Data Processing Addendum, and/or the LGPD Processor Addendum to the Google Data Processing Addendum. For additional information about how Google uses technologies that may collect and/or process personal information, see the “Technologies” section of their Google Privacy & Terms site. (Google, AdMob, AdSense, Android, Blogger, Blogspot, DoubleClick, FeedBurner, Firebase, Gmail, Google Ad Network, Google Ads, Google AdSense, Google Analytics, Google Authenticator; Google Location Service, Google Maps, Google Play, Google Safe Browsing, Google Search Console, Google Voice, Google Webmaster Tools, Google Workspace, Widevine, YouTube, and other related marks and logos are trademarks of Google LLC. 6200 Productions is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google in any way.)
- Microsoft, which provides (directly and/or through its various subsidiaries and/or affiliates) some of the software, apps, tools, and/or services we may use and/or offer — which are too numerous to fully enumerate here, but may include (without limitation) the operating systems and associated software and services for some of the devices we use; BitLocker® encryption and data protection features; Microsoft® Bing® search engine(s); the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software and services; and/or any other Microsoft software, apps, tools, and/or services mentioned and/or described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy — and may collect and use certain information through, about, and/or related to the use of such software, apps, tools, and/or services as described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement and/or, where applicable, the Microsoft Products and Services Data Protection Addendum (which applies to certain data Microsoft products and services process on customers’ behalf). (Microsoft, Bing, and BitLocker are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies, as are the names of many other Microsoft products and services. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft in any way.)
- Other providers whose services enable us to operate and/or secure our system(s), device(s), and/or data, such as (without limitation) TCL Communication Ltd. (a.k.a. TCT) and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, which manufactured of our BlackBerry® KEY2 LE smartphone, which may collect information about and/or related to the use of that smartphone and/or its associated software and services as described in the BlackBerry Mobile Privacy Policy (the current TCT Privacy Policy available online appears somewhat different from the Privacy Policy presented in the legal information on the smartphone itself, and the latter version is apparently no longer available on the TCT website now that TCT has ended its license to manufacture and sell BlackBerry® smartphones; BlackBerry, KEY2, and KEY2 LE are the trademarks or registered trademarks of BlackBerry Limited; TCL is a registered trademark of TCL Corporation); BlackBerry Limited (and/or, where applicable, its subsidiary companies and/or affiliates), which makes the suite of BlackBerry® apps and services used by and with our BlackBerry® smartphones; manufactured (under the previous corporate name of Research In Motion Limited) the older of those smartphones (and many of their associated accessories); owns much of the underlying intellectual property of those smartphones and their associated software; and may collect information related to the use of those smartphones, software, apps, and/or services as described in the BlackBerry Privacy Notice (BlackBerry and Research in Motion are the trademarks or registered trademarks of BlackBerry Limited, the exclusive rights to which are expressly reserved — 6200 Productions is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, or otherwise authorized by BlackBerry Limited); Dell Technologies, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, which manufactured certain of our devices, displays, peripheral devices, and/or other components and may collect information about and/or related to the use their use and/or the use of their associated drivers and/or software as described in the Dell U.S. Privacy Statement (Dell and Dell Technologies are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries); HP Inc. (which may collect certain information about and/or related to our use of HP printers, scanners, copiers, and/or other devices; their associated ink, toner, and/or other consumable supplies; and/or their associated drivers, software, and/or services as described in the HP Privacy Statement; HP is a trademark of HP Inc., as are the names of many of its products and services); Intel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, which manufactured certain of our devices and/or components and may collect information about and/or related to their use and/or the use of their associated drivers and/or software as described in the Intel Privacy Notice (Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries); I.R.I.S. and/or its affiliates, whose optical character recognition software we may use in connection with our printer(s) and/or scanner(s) (I.R.I.S. is an I.R.I.S. trademark); The Khronos® Group, whose Vulkan® Runtime Libraries and/or other software, software development kits, and/or software components may be installed in conjunction with and/or incorporated into certain software and/or devices we may use, including, though not limited to, the drivers for certain of our display cards and/or other devices and/or components (Khronos and Vulkan are registered trademarks of The Khronos Group Inc.); LG Electronics and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, which manufactured certain of our devices, displays, peripheral devices, and/or other components and may collect information about and/or related to their use and/or the use of their associated drivers and/or software as described in, as applicable, their website Privacy Policy and/or any applicable product privacy policies (LG is a registered trademark of LG Corp.); Logitech and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, which manufactured certain of our devices, peripheral devices, and/or other components and may collect information about and/or related to their use and/or the use of their associated drivers and/or software as described in, as applicable, their Product Privacy Policy and/or their Website Privacy Statement (Logitech is a trademark or registered trademark of Logitech Europe S.A. and/or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries); Nuance Communications, Inc., present owner of the VoiceSignal® VSuite® voice recognition software used by the older of our BlackBerry® smartphones, which may collect information through and/or about our use of that software (to the extent that software still works, which is unclear) as described in the Nuance Privacy Policy (VoiceSignal, VSuite, and Nuance are registered trademarks or trademarks of Nuance Communications, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries); Qualcomm Incorporated and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, which manufactured some of the components and provides some of the services of our BlackBerry® KEY2 LE smartphone and/or our desktop computer and may collect information about and/or related to the use of such components and/or services, and/or any associated software and/or drivers, as described in the Qualcomm Incorporated Privacy Policy (Qualcomm is a trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated, registered in the United States and other countries; BlackBerry, KEY2, and KEY2 LE are the trademarks or registered trademarks of BlackBerry Limited); Realtek Semiconductor Corp. and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, which manufactured certain of our peripheral devices and/or other components as well as their associated drivers and/or software (the company’s official website does not appear to have any privacy policy; Realtek is a trademark of Realtek Semiconductor Corp.); Renesas Electronics Corporation and/or its affiliates, which manufactured certain of our peripheral devices and/or components and may collect information about and/or related to their use and/or the use of their associated drivers and/or software as described in the Renesas Privacy Policy (Renesas is a trademark or registered trademark of Renesas Electronics Corporation in Japan, the United States, and other countries); Rosewill, Inc. and/or its parent company, affiliates, and/or subsidiaries, which manufactured certain of our peripheral devices and/or other components and may collect information about and/or related to their use and/or the use of their associated drivers and/or software as described in the Rosewill Privacy Policy (Rosewill is a registered trademark of Rosewill Inc.); Sabrent (which manufactured certain of our peripheral devices and/or other components and may collect information about and/or related to their use and/or the use of their associated drivers and/or software as described in the Sabrent Privacy Policy; Sabrent is a trademark of Sabrent); Seagate Technology LLC and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, which manufactured certain of our hard drive(s) and/or other memory storage device(s) and their associated drivers and/or software, whose use is subject to the Seagate Privacy Statement (Seagate and Seagate Technology are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries); Staples, Inc. and/or its affiliates, which manufactured certain of our peripheral devices, other components, and/or other office equipment and may collect information about and/or related to the use of such devices, components, and/or equipment and/or their associated software and/or drivers as described in Staples’ U.S. Privacy Notice, which also applies to data they may collect in connection with our purchase(s) of supplies, equipment, and/or other office products from their retail stores and/or website (Staples is a registered trademark of Staples, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries); Toshiba Corporation and/or its affiliates, which manufactured certain of our hard drives, other memory storage devices, and/or other devices and/or components and may collect information about and/or related to their use and/or the use of their associated drivers and/or software as described in the applicable Toshiba privacy policy or privacy policies (Toshiba is a registered trademark of Toshiba Corporation in the United States and other countries); Waves Audio Ltd., which makes the Waves MaxxAudio® Pro audio processing software we use on some of our devices and may collect information about and/or related to the use of that software as described in the Maxx Privacy Policy; (Maxx, MaxxAudio, and Waves are trademarks or registered trademarks of Waves Audio Ltd.); Western Digital® and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, which manufactured certain of our hard drive(s) and/or other memory storage device(s) and their associated drivers and/or software, whose use is subject to the Western Digital Privacy Statement; Western Digital is a registered trademark or trademark of Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries); Avast Software s.r.o and/or their subsidiary Piriform Software Ltd., whose Avast® and/or CCleaner® security and/or maintenance software products we may use on some or all of our systems and/or devices — the Avast Products Policy describes what types of data Avast products may collect, while the CCleaner Data Factsheet explains what types of data CCleaner products may collect (Avast is a registered trademark of Avast Software s.r.o. in the U.S. and/or other countries; Piriform and CCleaner are trademarks or registered trademarks of Piriform Software Ltd. in the U.S. and/or other countries); Bitdefender, whose Bitdefender Mobile Security and/or Bitdefender Central apps and/or associated services we may use on some of our devices (Bitdefender is a trademark of Bitdefender); like many apps and services for the Android platform, the Bitdefender apps and/or services may incorporate and/or utilize various Google services (e.g., the Crashlytics crash reporter tool and/or other services of the Firebase platform, and/or the Google Safe Browsing API), all of which are subject to the Google Privacy Policy (Google, Android, Crashlytics, Firebase, Google Safe Browsing, and other related marks are trademarks of Google LLC), as well as various other subprocessors such as (without limitation) Akamai Technologies, Inc. and/or Amazon Web Services; Akamai is a registered trademark or service mark of Akamai Technologies, Inc. in the United States (Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off.); Amazon Web Services is a trademark of Amazon.com Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries); Malwarebytes, whose security tools we may use on some or all of our systems and devices (Malwarebytes is a trademark of Malwarebytes); Safer-Networking Ltd., whose Spybot® security and privacy software and/or tools (such as, though not necessarily limited to, Spybot – Search & Destroy security software and/or its associated apps, tools, and/or services) we may use on some or all of our systems and devices (Spybot and Spybot – Search & Destroy are registered trademarks of Patrick Kolla-ten Venne in the EU and/or other jurisdictions; Spybot is a registered trademark of Safer-Networking Ltd. dba Spybot in the United States and/or other countries); developers of Internet firewall applications, software, and/or services, such as (without limitation) Károly Pados’ TinyWall firewall software and/or Marcel Bokhorst’s NetGuard mobile firewall and Internet traffic monitor app (see the NetGuard privacy statement; the NetGuard app may also connect to IPinfo API services and/or other WHOIS/RDAP lookup services to look up information about IP addresses, hostnames, and/or domains to which our mobile apps connect and/or attempt to connect; IPinfo is a trademark or registered trademark of IDB LLC in the United States and/or other countries); other providers of filter lists, block lists, and/or other security-related information, such as (without limitation) the AdGuard Team AdGuard Filters (AdGuard is a registered trademark of AdGuard Software Limited); Steven Black’s StevenBlack/hosts unified hosts file (which consolidates various other hosts lists); Disconnect, Inc. (whose Tracker Protection lists some web browsers may use to help prevent fingerprinting and/or certain other forms of tracking; Disconnect is a trademark of Disconnect, Inc.); HackRepair.com (HackRepair.com is a trademark of Jim Walker dba HackRepair.com; HackRepair is a registered trademark of Jim Walker); Peter Lowe’s ad and tracking server list; the MVPS HOSTS file; Perishable Press; The Spamhaus Project (Spamhaus is a registered trademark of The Spamhaus Project SLU in the EU and/or other jurisdictions); and/or the URLhaus Malicious URL Blocklist; developers and/or providers of password management software, apps, tools, and/or services; the Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service (which is a project of Troy Hunt and subject to the Have I Been Pwned Privacy Policy; Have I Been Pwned is a trademark and brand of Superlative Enterprises Pty. Ltd.) and/or other data breach notification and/or identity theft protection services; and/or encryption software and/or services such as (without limitation) the open source GNU Privacy Guard for Windows (Gpg4win) and the software included with it, which may include (again without limitation) GnuPG (the encryption backend) and the GNU Privacy Assistant (GPA), the GpgOL and GpgEX plugins, and the Kleopatra certificate management application, which was developed by members of the KDE® Community and may be subject to the KDE Software Privacy Policy (GNU is a trademark or registered trademark of Free Software Foundation, Inc.; Microsoft, Outlook, and Windows are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies; KDE is a registered trademark of KDE e.V.; all other trademarks are the property of their respective owners); the OpenKeychain open source mobile encryption app; the Sectigo® certificate authority, which provides the personal authentication certificate we use for digital signatures (which we purchased and manage through ComodoSSLstore.com, an authorized vendor) (Sectigo® is a federally registered trademark of Sectigo Limited; Comodo® is a registered trademark of Comodo Group, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and other countries); David Wittman’s open source csrgenerator.com app for generating certificate signing requests for encryption certificates (whose source code is freely available for review); cryptographic key servers and/or other encryption key management services and/or tools; the open source VeraCrypt disk encryption tool developed by IDRIX (portions of which were developed by various others, summarized in the VeraCrypt Copyright Information notice; IDRIX and VeraCrypt are trademarks of IDRIX); and/or online forums, message boards, discussion groups, chat rooms, mailing lists, technical consulting services, wikis, help files, online documentation, knowledge bases, and/or other online venues and/or resources for investigating, troubleshooting, resolving, and/or preventing technical problems and/or suspicious and/or malicious activity, and/or otherwise discussing and/or researching matters pertaining to the operation, function, technical improvement, and/or security of our system(s), device(s), and/or data.
- Other providers whose services we may use in accessing the Internet, such as (without limitation) our home Internet service provider (currently Spectrum Internet®, a service of Charter Communications, Inc.; Spectrum Internet and Charter Communications are trademarks or registered trademarks of Charter Communications), which processes and thus has information about and/or related to much of our online activity (in addition to any information we may disclose to them for security, support, and/or troubleshooting purposes); our mobile carrier(s) (currently T-Mobile®; T-Mobile, T-Mobile USA®, and Deutsche Telekom® are registered trademarks of Deutsche Telekom AG; 6200 Productions and our services are not sponsored, certified, endorsed or approved by, or affiliated with, Deutsche Telekom AG, T-Mobile USA, Inc., or their respective subsidiaries and affiliates), which provide our mobile voice, text, and data plan and may process certain emails sent to and from our phone(s), and thus have information about and/or related to voice calls, texts, and online activity made, received, and/or otherwise conducted on our mobile device(s) (in addition to any information we may disclose to them for security, support, and/or troubleshooting purposes); other Internet service providers, mobile carriers, phone service providers, and/or wireless network services we may periodically use; ASUSTeK Computer Inc. and/or its affiliated entities, which manufactured our ASUS® wireless router and may collect information about and/or related to the use of that router and/or its associated software and/or services as described in the ASUS Privacy Policy (ASUS is either a U.S. registered trademark or trademark of ASUSTeK Computer Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Reference to any ASUS products, services, processes, or other information and/or use of ASUS Trademarks does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation thereof by ASUS.); NETGEAR, Inc. and/or its affiliates and subsidiaries, which manufactured our NETGEAR® wireless router and may collect information about and/or related to the use of that router and/or its associated software and/or services as described in the NETGEAR Privacy Policy (NETGEAR is a trademark and/or registered trademark of NETGEAR, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries); the open source Simple DNSCrypt utility developed by Christian Hermann and other contributors (which doesn’t have a privacy policy, although its source code is freely available for review; it implements Frank Denis’s open source dnscrypt-proxy DNS proxy to allow us to encrypt our Domain Name System (DNS) queries on our desktop computer(s); DNSCrypt is a trademark of Frank Denis); Cloudflare, Inc., through and/or in connection with our use of their 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver (which is a partnership between Cloudflare and APNIC Labs, subject to the Cloudflare Privacy Policy; Cloudflare and 1.1.1.1 are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Cloudflare, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions); the 1.1.1.1 App and/or its associated WARP mobile security/encryption service (which are subject to the Cloudflare Application Privacy Policy; Cloudflare, 1.1.1.1, and WARP are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Cloudflare, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions); the Cloudflare Resolver for the Mozilla Firefox browser (whose unique privacy practices are discussed in the “Frequently asked questions about the Cloudflare resolver for Firefox” page; Cloudflare is a trademark and/or registered trademark of Cloudflare, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions; Mozilla and Firefox are trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation in the U.S. and other countries); and/or other Cloudflare® services, such as (without limitation) the content delivery network (CDN) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection services used by some websites and/or online services we use and/or access; most Cloudflare services are subject to the Cloudflare Privacy Policy, the Cloudflare Data Processing Addendum (which applies to personal data Cloudflare services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws), and/or the Cloudflare Cookie Policy, as applicable (Cloudflare is a trademark and/or registered trademark of Cloudflare, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions); any other DNS resolver service(s) we may use; other CAPTCHA and/or comparable human verification services, e.g., the hCaptcha® service (a service of Intuition Machines, Inc.; hCaptcha and Intuition Machines are registered trademarks of Intuition Machines, Inc.), which may be used by various websites and/or online services we use and/or access in the course of our online activity; the Akismet spam-filtering service (which is a service of Automattic Inc. and subject to the Automattic Privacy Notice for Visitors to Our Users’ Sites and the Automattic Privacy Policy; the Akismet and the GDPR page provides additional information about the service’s processing of personal data — Akismet and Automattic are trademarks or registered trademarks of Automattic (or Automattic’s licensors)) and/or similar spam filtering services (which we don’t currently use on this website, but may be used by various websites and/or online services we use and/or access in the course of our online activity); link shorteners and/or other hyperlink redirection services and/or tools; Cisco Systems, Inc., whose OpenH264 Video Codec many web browsers use for encoding and decoding certain types of audiovisual content; this open source codec library does not have its own privacy policy, since it is usually incorporated into web browsers as a binary module (Cisco and Cisco Systems are trademarks or registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the United States and certain other countries); the Guardian Project (through and/or in connection with our use of the Orbot app and/or Tor Browser for Android app, which are subject to the project’s Data Usage and Protection Policies — these apps connect to the Tor® network developed by The Tor Project (Tor is a registered trademark of The Tor Project, Inc.; Google, Android, and other related marks are trademarks of Google LLC); Hidden Reflex (through and/or in connection with our use of the Epic Privacy Browser (for desktop, mobile, or both); associated encrypted file vault and/or other browser features; associated encrypted proxy/VPN browser extension; associated Epic AdBlocker extension (which is based on the uBlock Origin browser extension developed by Raymond Hill and uses many of the same lists, which are developed and maintained by a variety of people); associated EpicSearch.in search extension (which submits anonymized queries to the Yandex Search search engine(s) (whose use is subject to the Yandex Privacy Policy; Yandex and Yandex Search are trademarks of Yandex LLC) as an alternative to the browser’s default search function, which uses Yahoo!® search services (whose use is subject to the Yahoo Search Services privacy practices and the Yahoo Privacy Policy; Yahoo, Yahoo!, and other Yahoo marks are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo Inc. or its affiliates); and/or other associated browser extensions, themes, and/or other add-ons (Hidden Reflex, the Epic Privacy Browser, Epic Browser, EpicSearch, and the names of related products and services are trademarks of Hidden Reflex); Mozilla Corporation (which may collect certain information through and/or in connection with our use of the Firefox, Firefox Focus, and/or Fennec F-Droid web browsers (whether for desktop, mobile, or both) and/or associated browser extensions, themes, and/or other add-ons as described in the Mozilla Privacy Policy (Mozilla, Firefox, and Firefox Focus are trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation in the U.S. and other countries); the Phishing and Malware Protection features of these browsers may also use the Google Safe Browsing API, which is subject to the Google Privacy Policy (Google, Google Safe Browsing, and other related marks are trademarks of Google LLC); Opera Software AS (through and/or in connection with our use of the Opera web browser (for desktop, mobile, or both), its integral VPN/proxy service, and/or associated browser extensions, themes, and/or other add-ons; Opera is a trademark of Opera Software AS); providers of other web browsers we may use (whether for desktop, mobile, or both); and/or the providers and/or developers of browser extensions, themes, and/or other add-ons we may use, such as (without limitation) the Abine Blur browser extension (formerly known as DoNotTrackMe; Abine, Blur, and DoNotTrackMe are trademarks of Abine, Inc.) — we’ve also used their email masking tool in an effort to reduce the spam and mass mailings we tend to receive after filling out comment or petition forms; aka_StephanAS‘s browser themes and/or other add-ons; Chris Antanki’s Disable WebRTC extension (whose privacy policy indicates that the extension does not collect usage data); the Cookie AutoDelete browser extension developed by Kenny Do and CAD Team (which does not appear to collect usage data; its source code is freely available for review); damagnat‘s browser themes and/or other add-ons; Francesco De Stefano’s Opena11y Toolkit browser extension (which doesn’t appear to have a privacy policy, although its source code is freely available for review), which facilitates use of the open source tota11y accessibility visualization tool created by Khan Academy® developers to assess potential accessibility issues in online content (although “a11y” is a commonly used abbreviation for “accessibility”, A11Y is a trademark of the Bureau of Internet Accessibility in the United States — it’s not clear if the tota11y project is associated in any way with that organization; Khan Academy is a registered trademark of Khan Academy, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions; A11Y and Bureau of Internet Accessibility are registered trademarks of the Bureau of Internet Accessibility, Inc. in the United States); the various ad-blocking and other filter lists by the EasyList authors; the Adblock Plus® browser extension by eyeo GmbH and that extension’s related lists (Adblock Plus and eyeo are trademarks of Ad-IP GmbH & Co. KG, registered in the United States and other jurisdictions); browser add-ons and/or other privacy tools offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation® (EFF®) (which are subject to the EFF Privacy Policy: Software and Technology Projects; Electronic Frontier Foundation and EFF are trademarks of the Electronic Frontier Foundation); the Ghostery® browser extension by Cliqz International GmbH (Ghostery and Cliqz are registered trademarks of Cliqz International GmbH); the NoScript extension developed by Giorgio Maone of InformAction (which, according to the developer, does not collect personal information); the Nodetics Cookiebro – Cookie Manager browser extension (which currently asserts that it does not collect personal information); Thomas Rientjes’s open source Decentraleyes browser extension (whose Privacy Policy says the extension does not collect user data); Hosh Sadiq’s adblock-nocoin-list); the uBlock Origin browser extension (which is developed by Raymond Hill) and its related lists (which are developed and maintained by a variety of people); and/or the Cookie Quick Manager extension developed by ysard; Jefferson Scher’s userChrome.org website, which offers an unofficial guide and style recipes for customizing the appearance of the Mozilla Firefox web browser (the userChrome.org website is not maintained by or affiliated with Mozilla, which makes the Firefox browser; Firefox and Mozilla are trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation in the U.S. and other countries); and/or Nir Sofer, whose various NirSoft freeware utilities (such as, though not necessarily limited to, cache viewers and/or other browser cache management tools) we may use to manage certain of our browser functions.
- Other providers of software, apps, tools, and/or services we may use in connection with this website and/or its content, our professional writing/editing/writing consulting work, the management of our business operations, and/or our other creative endeavors, such as (without limitation) Adobe Inc. and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, which provide some of the software, apps, tools, and/or services we may use and/or offer and may collect and use certain information through, about, and/or related to the use of such software, apps, tools, and/or services as described in the applicable sections of the Adobe Privacy Center (Adobe is either a registered trademark or trademark of Adobe in the United States and/or other countries; we are not affiliated with or endorsed by Adobe in any way); Apple Inc. and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, which may collect information about and/or related to our use of iTunes software, the iTunes Store online store, and/or other Apple products and/or services as described in the Apple Customer Privacy Policy (Apple and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions; iTunes Store is a service mark of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries and regions; 6200 Productions is not endorsed or sponsored by or otherwise affiliated with Apple Inc.); Artifex Software Inc., which may collect certain information about and/or related to our use of their SmartOffice® mobile app as described in the SmartOffice Privacy Policy and/or the Artifex.com Privacy Policy, as applicable (Artifex and SmartOffice are registered trademarks of Artifex Software Inc.); Audacity® open source audio editing and recording software, whose new owners may collect personal information about and/or related to the use of the software — whose source code remains freely available for review — as described in the Desktop Privacy Notice, although this notice technically only applies to newer versions of the software than we currently use (the name Audacity® is a registered trademark of MuseCY SM Ltd.; all other trademarks are the property of their respective owners); Pete Batard’s open source Rufus utility (whose source code is freely available for review); Cannaverbe Limited (through and/or in connection with the use of their CDBurnerXP software); the CDex audio utility developed by Georgy Berdyshev, Ariane Paola Gomes, and Albert L. Faber; CompanionLink Software, Inc., whose CompanionLink® and/or DejaOffice® CRM products and/or services we may use to synchronize data and manage contacts, calendar entries, tasks, and notes on our device(s); the CompanionLink Data Processing Agreement applies to personal data CompanionLink services (and/or their associated subprocessors) process on our behalf that may be subject to European data protection laws (CompanionLink and DejaOffice are registered trademarks of CompanionLink Software, Inc.); Pavel Cvrček’s open source MozBackup utility, (whose source code is freely available for review); the ComicRack comics reader developed by cYo Soft; DataViz, Inc., which might collect information about and/or related to the use of the Documents To Go® app on the older of our BlackBerry® smartphones (DataViz and Documents To Go are registered trademarks of DataViz, Inc.; BlackBerry is the trademark or registered trademark of BlackBerry Limited); The Document Foundation (which may collect information about and/or related to our use of the open source LibreOffice® office productivity suite and/or its associated repository of extensions, themes, and other add-ons as described in the LibreOffice Privacy Policy (LibreOffice and The Document Foundation are registered trademarks of The Document Foundation or are in actual use as trademarks in one or more countries); the open source F-Droid repositories and client app (which may collect a limited amount of information about and/or in connection with our use of the repositories and/or app, as described in the “Terms, etc.” section of their About page); Shahin Gasanov’s ZoneIDTrimmer tool; The GIMP Team, which maintains the open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (aka GIMP, which doesn’t appear to have a privacy policy, although the source code is freely available from the “Downloads” page of The GIMP Website); The GIMP Help Team, which maintains the GIMP documentation; and/or the developers and/or maintainers of the software’s various associated plugins, scripts, brushes, filters, and/or other add-ons, such as (without limitation) Alessandro Francesconi’s open source Batch Image Manipulation Plugin (whose source code is also freely available) (GNU is a trademark or registered trademark of Free Software Foundation, Inc.); the open source gitg GNOME® GUI client for viewing Git® repositories (which doesn’t appear to have a privacy policy, although its source code is freely available for review; the GNOME name is a registered trademark or trademark of GNOME Foundation in the United States or other countries; Git is either a registered trademark or trademark of Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc., corporate home of the Git Project, in the United States and/or other countries; all other trademarks are the property of their respective owners); Kovid Goyal’s calibre ebook management software (which lacks a privacy policy, although its source code is freely available for review; calibre is a trademark or registered trademark of Kovid Goyal); the MakeMKV format converter utility developed by GuinpinSoft Inc. (which doesn’t appear to have a privacy policy); the open source HandBrake video transcoder (whose source code is freely available for review); Mark Harman’s open source Open Camera mobile app; Phil Harvey’s ExifTool utility and Bogdan Hrastnik’s related ExifToolGUI user interface for it; Florian Heidenreich’s Mp3tag utility (Mp3tag is a trademark of Florian Heidenreich); Don Ho’s Notepad++ open source editing tool (which doesn’t appear to have a privacy policy, although again its source code is freely available for review) and its various plugins (which may include, but are not necessarily limited to, the DSpell spell-checker plugin developed by Sergey Semushin as well as the NPP Converter, NPP Export, NPP mimetools and WinGup (Windows® Generic Updater) plugins that currently ship with Notepad++; Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies; all other trademarks are the property of their respective owners); Ivan Ivanenko’s open source Librera® ebook and comics reader app — the F-Droid version, which omits the Internet access features, ads, and analytics, and to which we have granted no Internet access privileges; the F-Droid version does not appear to collect personal information except to the extent necessary to manage updates, but the technically inclined can always browse the source code to be sure (Librera is a registered trademark or trademark of Ivan Oleksandrovych Ivanenko in the U.S. and/or other countries); JoeJoe‘s Rename Master utility; Tibor Kaputa’s Simple SMS Messenger app (whose source code is freely available for review) and/or Simple Mobile Tools Voice Recorder app (whose source code is also freely available for review); Robert Kausch’s open source fre:ac audio converter (which doesn’t appear to have a privacy policy, although the software’s source code is freely available for review); Tim Kosse’s open source FileZilla® FTP client (whose source code is freely available from the project’s “Download FileZilla Client” page FileZilla is a registered trademark of its respective owners); Petr Lastovicka’s open source Precise Calculator utility (which doesn’t have a privacy policy, although its source code is freely available for review); the open source HashCheck Shell Extension developed by Kai Liu, Christopher Gurnee, David B. Trout, and Tim Schlueter; the ImgBurn freeware disc-burning utility developed by LIGHTNING UK! (ImgBurn is a trademark of ImgBurn); the open source Media Player Classic – Black Edition (MPC-BE) (which doesn’t have a privacy policy, although its source code is freely available for review); Ruben Negendahl’s PicView picture viewer app (which doesn’t appear to have a privacy policy, although its source code is freely available for review); Igor Pavlov’s open source 7-Zip file archiver software (which doesn’t have a privacy policy, but whose source code is freely available for review); Dương Diệu Pháp’s open source ImageGlass image viewer app (which doesn’t have a privacy policy, but whose source code is freely available for review); the open source PuTTY SSH/Telnet client utility (whose source code is freely available for review); the open source SQLiteStudio SQL editing tool developed by SalSoft (whose source code is freely available for review; SQLite is a registered trademark of Hipp, Wyrick & Company, Inc.); JHM Schaars’ vDos MS-DOS® emulator, which doesn’t appear to have a privacy policy (Microsoft and MS-DOS are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies; all other trademarks are the property of their respective owners); Ted Smith’s open source QuickHash GUI utility (whose current Privacy Policy applies only to the QuickHash GUI website, not the utility itself, although the source code is freely available for review); the suite of PDF creation and editing software and tools offered by Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of PDF-XChange Co. Ltd., which includes an optical character recognition plugin powered by the ABBYY® FineReader® Engine software development kit (PDF-XChange is an internationally registered trademark of PDF-XChange Co. Ltd.; ABBYY, FineReader, and ABBYY FineReader are either registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Development Inc. and/or its affiliates; all other trademarks are the property of their respective owners); and/or VLC media player® software and/or other open source multimedia software projects of the VideoLAN organization (which doesn’t appear to have a privacy policy, although the VLC media player source code is freely available for review, as is the source code of all VideoLAN open source projects; VideoLAN, VLC, and VLC media player are trademarks internationally registered by the VideoLAN nonprofit organization).
- Manufacturers of other electronic devices we may use, such as (without limitation) cameras, recorders, or memory storage devices, either through our direct interactions with those manufacturers (e.g., our use of their customer service and/or technical support resources) and/or through telemetry or other information-gathering mechanisms incorporated into the devices and/or their associated software and/or drivers. We don’t believe that our current Canon® or FUJIFILM® digital cameras; SanDisk® portable audio player(s) and/or memory storage devices; analog television; Sony® digital recorder or DVD player; various USB flash drives, memory cards, hubs, and/or drive enclosures (which are from an assortment of different manufacturers); headphones and/or headsets; webcams and/or microphones; speakers and/or sound systems; home appliances (e.g., refrigerator, air conditioner, dehumidifier, vacuum cleaner(s)); or other such devices, equipment, and/or accessories independently transmit personal information to third parties, and we generally seek to avoid or at least limit our use of these devices’ proprietary software and/or apps, if any (obviously excepting firmware necessary for a device to function), but any information they did collect would be subject to the manufacturers’ respective privacy policies (and/or any applicable product- and/or software-specific privacy policies), as is any information they may collect through our use of the manufacturers’ websites, customer service, and/or technical support resources. (Canon is a registered trademark of Canon Inc. in the United States and may also be a registered trademark or trademark in other countries. FUJIFILM is a registered trademark of FUJIFILM Corporation in various jurisdictions. SanDisk and Western Digital are registered trademarks or trademarks of Western Digital Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries. Sony is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation.)
- Providers of other search engines and/or other research and/or reference tools, services, facilities, and/or resources we may use, such as (without limitation) the DuckDuckGo® search engine(s) and/or associated browser extension(s), whose use is subject to the DuckDuckGo Privacy Policy (DuckDuckGo is a registered trademark of Duck Duck Go, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions); the Startpage search engine(s) and/or associated browser extension(s), whose use is subject to the Startpage Privacy Policy, which also applies to use of the Startpage “Anonymous View” proxy service, Private Currency Converter feature, Private Language Translator feature, Private Shopping feature, and/or other associated features (Startpage and Startpage.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of Startpage BV); Yahoo!® search engines and/or search services, which are subject to the Yahoo Search Services privacy practices and the Yahoo Privacy Policy; we may also use various other Yahoo! and/or AOL® services, which are subject to the Yahoo Privacy Policy, the policies described in the legacy Yahoo Privacy Center, and/or the legacy Oath® Privacy Policy (for AOL), as applicable (AOL, Oath, Yahoo, Yahoo!, and other Yahoo marks are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo Inc. or its affiliates); the Yandex Search search engine(s), whose use is subject to the Yandex Privacy Policy (Yandex and Yandex Search are trademarks of Yandex LLC); the providers of any other search engines we may use; the DOI® system proxy servers of the International DOI Foundation, which resolve the alphanumeric Digital Object Identifier strings (DOI names) used to identify certain scholarly papers and other online resources and redirect DOI requests to the appropriate online address(es) (DOI® and DOI.ORG® are trademarks of the International DOI Foundation); the Wikimedia Foundation®, through and/or in connection with our use of and/or contributions to Wikimedia Commons®, Wikipedia®, and/or their other collaborative projects (Wikimedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia project names and logos are registered trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization; we are not endorsed by or affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation); automotive forums, chat rooms, bulletin boards, discussion groups, wikis, and/or similar online forums that we may use to research, promote, and/or discuss our automotive content (and/or content from the owner’s automotive website, Ate Up With Motor; Ate Up With Motor is a trademark of Aaron Severson dba Ate Up With Motor); press and/or public relations representatives; museums, libraries, archives, and/or databases, public and/or private, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles Public Library and/or L.A. County Library, through our use of their collections, holdings, exhibits, galleries, catalogs, databases, computers, equipment, and/or other systems and/or services (some of which may be provided by, powered by, and/or otherwise supported by third parties, which may have their own privacy policies); through our attendance at and/or participation in their tours, presentations, classes, programs, and/or events; and/or through our communications with their librarians, archivists, docents, guides, other staff, employees, workers, and/or volunteers, as applicable; organizations, services, and/or resources (public and/or private) that publish, catalog, offer, and/or otherwise make available public records and/or public information of whatever type(s); other online information and/or reference services, encyclopedias and/or dictionaries, almanacs, calculators and/or unit conversion tools, catalogs, galleries, repositories, news services, newsletters, online publications, online publishing services and/or platforms, websites, wikis, help files, online documentation, knowledge bases, blogs, video blogs (“vlogs”), podcasts, educational and/or instructional resources and/or services, tutorials and/or other training resources and/or services, file-sharing services, photo-sharing services, stock photo services, other services or platforms for sharing images and/or other media, video stores and/or video rental services, online and/or satellite radio and/or television services, and/or streaming services and/or platforms (of whatever type(s)); bookstores; and/or other retailers, vendors, merchants, resellers, marketplaces, auction services, distributors, manufacturers, publishers, developers, and/or other types of providers through which we may search for, purchase, and/or otherwise obtain and/or access materials, equipment, software, and/or supplies related to this website and/or its content, our professional writing/editing/writing consulting work, the management of our business operations, and/or our other creative endeavors.
- Vendors, services, and/or service providers that help us promote, monetize, sell, and/or otherwise offer for commercial advantage and/or financial gain our content, writing/editing/writing consulting services, and/or other creative endeavors, such as (without limitation) talent and/or literary agents and/or agencies; publicists; promoters; public relations services; advertising agencies and/or services; brokers; distributors; publishers; print-on-demand publishing and/or distribution platforms (e.g., Lulu Press, Inc. (Lulu.com); Lulu.com and the names and logos of all Lulu products and/or services are trademarks and/or service marks or registered trademarks and/or service marks of Lulu); other types of platforms and/or services for publishing and/or distributing written content and/or images; platforms and/or services for publishing and/or distributing audiovisual content (e.g., videos and/or podcasts); vendors and/or service providers through which we may create and/or offer 6200 Productions merchandise and/or other merchandise related to our services, content, and/or creative endeavors; wholesalers; resellers; booksellers; other retailers; marketplaces (of whatever kind); job search and/or professional networking sites and/or services; and/or staffing agencies/employment agencies.
- Our landlord(s), if any (and/or their respective employees, contractors, and/or agents), who are not normally privy to the operation of this website or our business, but do obviously have access to any residence and/or other space(s) we may rent from them, to the extent permitted by applicable law and/or the terms of our applicable lease(s) and/or rental agreements(s), and/or may collect certain personal information from and/or about anyone who enters their premises (e.g., through the use of security cameras and/or other automated systems, and/or by requiring us to provide certain information about our guests, visitors, and/or roommates). Additionally, in the event we seek to rent, lease, and/or otherwise obtain different and/or additional residence(s), space(s), and/or facilities (for example, but without limitation, if we move, or seek to rent a separate office space), we may provide relevant information as part of and/or otherwise in connection with the application process (e.g., to provide proof of employment and/or income to a prospective landlord or applicable management company).
- Other types of vendors and/or service providers, such as (without limitation) the Proton Mail encrypted email service and/or the Proton Mail Bridge application, both of which are subject to the Proton Privacy Policy and/or, where applicable, the Proton Data processing agreement, which applies to certain personal data the Proton services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to European data protection laws (Proton, Proton Mail, ProtonMail, and other related marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Proton AG); other applicable telephony and/or email services (through our phone, text, and/or email communications with you and/or others, and/or as appropriate for security and/or troubleshooting purposes); Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), voice chat, teleconferencing, video conferencing, and/or video chat apps, clients, platforms, and/or services; other types of messaging and/or chat apps, clients, platforms, and/or services, such as (without limitation) the Discord services (Discord is a trademark of Discord Inc.) and/or the Signal services (which are offered by Signal Messenger LLC, and whose associated service providers and/or subprocessors may include, but are not necessarily limited to, services provided by Google and/or Amazon Web Services; Signal is a registered trademark of Signal Technology Foundation in the United States and other countries; Google and other related marks are trademarks of Google LLC; Amazon Web Services is a trademark of Amazon.com Inc. or its affiliates in the United States and/or other countries); telephone directory, business directory, and/or reverse telephone lookup services; bank(s), other financial institution(s), and/or payment processor(s); other money transfer and/or electronic funds transfer service(s); fraud prevention services; credit bureaus; credit monitoring and/or identity theft protection services; online time servers; online scheduling, calendar, task management, meeting, and/or collaboration platforms, tools, and/or services; electronic signature, agreement, and/or time stamping authority services; online file transfer, file sharing, and/or file storage services (which may include, but are not necessarily limited to, cloud storage services); storage facilities (including, though not limited to, providers of safe deposit boxes) and/or document/information management services; data recovery services; data and/or document destruction and/or shredding services; third-party printers and/or print services (including, though not limited to, services through which we order personal and/or business checks); copying and/or facsimile services; providers (public and/or private) of third-party telephones, telephony services, computers and/or mobile devices, other electronic devices, computer networks, wireless networks, and/or other Internet connections we may periodically use; photography, videography, and/or filming services and/or studios; processing, conversion, and/or duplication services for photos, film, video, audio recordings, other audiovisual materials, and/or other such content, such as (without limitation) film and/or photo development and/or processing, photo printing, video and/or audio conversion, and/or the production of optical discs and/or phonorecords of whatever type(s); recording, editing, and/or mixing services for audio, video, and/or audiovisual content; sound and/or lighting technical and/or engineering services; icon generators; font and/or typeface providers and/or repositories; repair, maintenance, installation, and/or technical service providers and/or resources; transcription, captioning, subtitling, and/or translation services, automated or otherwise; notaries; insurers and/or warranty providers (and/or, where applicable, their respective administrators, affiliates, agents, brokers, claims adjusters, subcontractors, and/or subsidiaries); staffing agencies/employment agencies; fingerprinting, background check, and/or identity verification services; credit bureaus and/or credit reporting agencies; payroll services; bookkeeping, accounting, tax preparation, and/or tax filing services (which may include, but are not necessarily limited to, electronic filing services); services that file other types of official documents and/or publish legally required notices on our behalf (e.g., fictitious business name filing/registration services and/or motor vehicle registration services); auditing services; management consulting services; financial planning, financial management, and/or financial advisory services; brokerages; attorneys and/or law firms; legal aid and/or other legal consulting, legal counseling, and/or legal referral services; marketplaces, auction services, merchants, resellers, consignment sellers, second-hand shops, antiques dealers, pawn shops, and/or other vendors, service providers, charitable organizations, and/or other organizations and/or entities through which and/or to which we sell, otherwise offer for commercial advantage and/or financial gain, donate, and/or otherwise dispose of our copies of published works (e.g., books, magazines, newspapers, CDs, DVDs), other personal property and/or goods, and/or vehicles, and/or vendors and/or services through which we advertise and/or announce such sale(s), offer(s), donation(s), and/or disposal (e.g., classified advertising services, bulletin boards, and/or social media groups that allow posting items for sale); teachers, instructors, trainers, tutors, coaches and/or other educators; healthcare providers and/or their respective support staffs; convention centers, conference centers, meeting rooms, exhibit and/or exhibition halls, concert halls, stadiums, arenas, places of worship, and/or other such venues, and/or ticket brokers and/or other vendors who sell or otherwise provide tickets for and/or admission to such venues (for purposes of and/or in the course of attending, obtaining tickets for and/or admission to, arranging, organizing, and/or otherwise accessing and/or utilizing conventions, conferences, meetings, exhibitions, screenings, public performances, athletic events, ceremonies, services, and/or other such events, and/or the facilities therefor); event planning, management, and/or organization services; private security services; cleaning, janitorial, and/or laundry services; sanitation, waste disposal, trash disposal, waste reclamation, and/or recycling services; environmental remediation and/or inspection services; weather services and/or weather bureaus; mapping, navigation, and/or trip-planning services and/or apps such as (though not limited to) the OsmAnd mobile app by OsmAnd B.V. (OsmAnd is a trademark of OsmAnd B.V.); taxi, livery, shuttle, carpool, and/or rideshare services (if we use and/or arrange such transportation in the course of our business); travel agencies, travel bureaus, ticket brokers, and/or similar services (in connection with business trips we take and/or arrange); airlines, bus services, and/or rail services (in connection with our business travel and/or travel we arrange in the course of our business); hotels, motels, and/or other lodging providers (if we use, arrange, and/or communicate with people using such lodgings in the course of our business); rental services and/or rental agencies for vehicles such as (without limitation) cars, trucks, vans, bicycles, scooters, and/or boats (if we use and/or arrange such services in the course of our business) in the course of our business); parking attendants, security guards, property managers, receptionists, and/or other such functionaries (if we must communicate with such functionaries in the course of our business — for example (but without limitation) when signing in at the front desk prior to attending a meeting); restaurants, caterers and/or other food preparation services, meal delivery services, and/or other food delivery and/or grocery delivery services (if we dine out, order and/or arrange meals, and/or otherwise use and/or arrange such services in the course of our business); towing and/or roadside assistance services (if we use and/or arrange such services in the course of our business); movers (professional or otherwise), moving companies, and/or relocation services (in the event we relocate and/or need to transfer some or all of our business assets to some other site); gift registries of whatever type(s); and/or postal services, common carriers, shipping agencies, delivery services, and/or mailbox rental services (for the purposes of sending, receiving, and/or tracking the status of correspondence, packages, and/or shipments).
As we deem reasonable and appropriate (and as permitted by applicable law and/or regulations) to help us make informed hiring and/or employment decisions and/or other business decisions regarding current and/or prospective professional relationships, professional engagements, business proposals, business ventures, and/or work, as described in the “Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships”, “Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes”, and “Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources” sections above.
If we are legally required to do so, such as (without limitation) pursuant to a subpoena, search warrant, court order, or other official order; in connection with tax returns or other legally required filings, reports, registrations, or disclosures; as part of and/or in connection with a customs inspection; and/or in connection with an audit, civil or criminal trial, or other official investigation or proceeding. In some cases, we may disclose certain information if we deem it reasonably necessary to ensure our compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and/or orders, even if the specific disclosure is not expressly required. For example (again without limitation), if we enter into a financial transaction with you that is subject to sales tax or use tax, we might provide your address to the applicable tax agency in order to determine the correct tax rate.
If we are contractually obligated to do so pursuant to our agreement(s) with our business partner(s), client(s), licensor(s), licensee(s), vendor(s), and/or service provider(s) (as applicable), such as (without limitation) in connection with a dispute, an investigation, an audit, and/or arbitration. For example (but without limitation), if we are involved in a payment dispute or if a payment processor suspects a payment we made or received may have been fraudulent, the payment processor’s terms of service may require us to provide relevant information to their investigators. Similarly (again without limitation), third-party services such as (though not necessarily limited to) social media platforms may compel us to provide information related to suspected violations of their terms of service, and many service providers’ user agreements and/or terms of service now include “binding arbitration” clauses requiring all parties to cooperate with and submit to the judgment(s) of an arbiter in the event of a dispute. (These are just a few representative examples, not an exhaustive list of possible scenarios.)
If we believe in good faith that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect our property, rights, security, and/or safety, and/or the property, rights, security, and/or safety of others and/or of the public at large. For example (but without limitation), if we were to learn that we had been exposed to (or contracted) an infectious disease, we might provide information regarding anyone with whom we had recently been in close contact to healthcare workers and/or public health officials for contact tracing purposes. Additionally (again without limitation), as noted in the Copyright/Intellectual Property Violations section of the Terms of Use, if you submit a notice asserting that material on or linked to by the 6200 Productions website that was provided to us by a third party violates your copyright or other intellectual property right(s), we may forward a copy of your claim to that third party (since the claim may implicate their rights).
If the person(s) to whom the information pertains (and/or, where applicable, their respective heirs, successors, and/or assigns) have asked or authorized us to do so, either directly or through their respective agent(s) or other authorized representative(s).
If the information is de-identified, anonymized, pseudonymized, redacted, and/or aggregated such that it could not reasonably be used to identify the specific person(s) and/or household(s) to whom the information pertains (other than us, if we are somehow included in that information and elect not to de-identify, anonymize, pseudonymize, redact, and/or aggregate our own information).
As part of a business transfer (e.g., if we sell or otherwise transfer ownership of the 6200 Productions website, our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business, and/or their respective assets; enter bankruptcy; or pass our assets to our heirs and/or successors through our death or incapacity), in which case personal information we have collected would likely be among the assets sold or otherwise transferred to the new owner(s), who could continue to use that information only as set forth in this policy.

Additionally, if the owner has roommates, cohabitants, guests, and/or visitors in the owner’s home, they may, from time to time, become incidentally aware of certain personal information pertaining to this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services — for example (but without limitation), noticing the sender and/or recipient information on letters or packages we send or receive via postal mail or common carrier, and/or overhearing some portion of voice calls or video conferences in which we participate. The likelihood and potential extent of any such incidental disclosures is difficult to quantify, but the possibility is hard to avoid with any business activity conducted at home.

In general, we do not sell or rent the information we collect about individual visitors to the 6200 Productions website, at least not in the sense most people understand the terms “sell” and “rent.” (Some jurisdictions’ privacy laws, e.g., the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), have greatly complicated this question by expanding their definitions of “sale” to include almost any disclosure for which any of the parties involved receives any “valuable consideration” whatsoever; see the “Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information” subsection of the “CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice” section below for more information about this issue as it relates to California law.)

There are a number of potential exceptions:

First, as noted above, if we sell or transfer control of this website and/or our business, personal information we have collected would likely be among the assets involved in such sale or transfer (which, surprisingly, the CCPA does not necessarily regard as a “sale” of personal information for the purposes of that law).

Second, if we possess artwork, copies of published work(s), useful article(s), and/or other object(s) that contain and/or otherwise incorporate personal information about certain individual(s) or household(s) who have visited this website and/or otherwise used our services (e.g., a book by or about you; a magazine you once owned that still bears your name and address on the subscription mailing label; a DVD of a movie in which you appeared; or some item you once autographed), we might sell, lend, donate, or otherwise dispose of such artwork, our copy or copies of such published work(s), and/or such useful article(s) and/or object(s).

Third, it is conceivable that from time to time, personal information about one or more site visitors may be included in content that we research, write, adapt, edit, release, publish, and/or otherwise disseminate (and/or on which we consult and/or otherwise collaborate) as part of and/or in connection with our profession writing/editing/writing consulting services, and/or in connection with the owner’s automotive website, Ate Up With Motor. For example (but without limitation), if you are a public figure and/or were involved in some newsworthy event, it is possible that a client may hire us (or has previously hired us) to research and write a profile about you for a magazine or other publication; if you own an interesting old car, we might include a photo we took of it at a car show in an article we license to some website or publication. (There are many possible scenarios — these are just a few representative examples.) Therefore, in the event that we incorporate your name, other relevant personal information, and/or potentially personally identifiable information about you into our written content and/or bibliographies, annotations, and/or metadata; if your name and/or information is incorporated into content we research, write, adapt, edit, release, publish, perform, and/or otherwise disseminate (and/or on which we consult and/or otherwise collaborate) in or for some other format(s) and/or medium(s), and/or the metadata of such content; and/or if you and/or your information are somehow visible, audible, and/or otherwise included in certain of our images and/or other media, and/or present in their metadata, we may license, sell, and/or otherwise offer it for commercial advantage and/or financial gain in that context.

Please note that in many cases, we have no practical way to associate information collected through this website with information we may have collected about you in other contexts, or of associating different types of personal information and/or potentially personally identifiable information we may have collected about a given individual or household. For example (again without limitation), your IP address being recorded in our server logs doesn’t necessarily mean that we know your name or can recognize your face in the background of a photo! (If you have questions about this, please contact us via any of the methods described in “Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us” below.)

Fourth, as we noted in “Ads on 6200 Productions” above, we don’t permit our advertisers or sponsors to use scripts, cookies, web beacons, or other such technologies to collect information about you through the publicly visible/publicly accessible portions of this website portions of the 6200 Productions website. However, if you click on ad links to visit the websites of our advertisers or otherwise patronize their businesses, they may collect and use information about you — and may collect personal information about your online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services — as described in their respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use, which is outside of our control. Such advertisers may also be able to tell that you clicked on an ad on this website, even if we do not directly provide them with any information about you (and even though we obviously can’t control whether or not you click on an ad link). (Also, in some cases, the advertisements, banners, and/or donation boxes that certain plugins, themes, and/or other add-ons place on the site’s administrative dashboard may collect personal information about logged-in administrative users — and may collect personal information about administrative users’ online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services — which the providers of such advertising and/or embedded content may sell and/or use for various other commercial purposes; this is typically outside of our control.)

Fifth, some of our service providers and/or vendors (including, though not limited to, providers of embedded content used on this website, as described in “Embedded Content” above) may use and/or disclose — potentially for advertising, marketing, and/or other commercial purposes — personal information they collect through our use of their content, products, and/or services in ways that are outside of our control. (For example, again without limitation, we have no control over how video hosting platforms use information they collect about visitors who watch embedded videos we post, or how search engines, social media platforms, or other such service providers use data they collect through their respective services.)

As previously noted, while no online website, Internet-accessible device, or data storage system can be 100 percent secure, we take reasonable measures to protect personal information we collect through and/or in connection with the 6200 Productions website and/or our professional writing/editing and writing consulting business from unauthorized or illegal access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure, including, but not limited to, the use of encryption and encrypted connections, online and offline malware scans, appropriate password protection, and (where available and appropriate) multi-factor authentication.

Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws)

If you are located in certain parts of the world, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, now sometimes called the EU GDPR to distinguish it from the similarly named regulations of other regions), the UK GDPR, or Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais (LGDP), or in certain U.S. states, e.g., Nevada (see “Nevada Consumer Opt-Out Rights” below) or California (see “Your California Privacy Rights” below), applicable data protection laws may give you certain rights with respect to your personal information (which some jurisdictions call “personal data”), subject to any exemptions and restrictions provided by the law and/or associated regulations.

For example, if you are located in a region that falls under the scope of the EU GDPR or the UK GDPR, your rights with respect to your personal data include, subject to any exemptions and restrictions provided by applicable law and/or associated regulations, the rights to:

Request access to your personal data
Request rectification (correction) of your personal data
Request erasure (deletion) of your personal data
Request that we restrict our use and processing of your personal data
Request portability of your personal data (that is, request to receive your personal data in a portable, structured, commonly used, machine-readable format that you can transfer to another controller, or request that we transfer that data directly to another controller, where technically feasible)
Object to our use and processing of your personal data (and to object at any time to the use and processing of your personal data for purposes of direct marketing, including automated profiling to the extent it relates to such direct marketing)
Where our use and processing of your personal data is based on your consent, withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal; and
Make a complaint to an appropriate data protection supervisory authority.

In the UK, the data protection authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO); for information about European data protection authorities by country, see the “Our Members” page of the European Data Protection Board website.

If you have questions or would like to exercise your privacy rights under applicable national and/or state law, you can contact us via any of the methods described in “Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us” below.

To safeguard your privacy and the privacy of others, we may (to the extent permitted — and/or required — by applicable law and/or regulations) take steps to verify your identity and/or residency before processing certain requests pertaining to your personal information.

Nevada Consumer Opt-Out Rights

If you are a consumer residing in Nevada, Nevada law gives you the right to request that we not sell certain types of personally identifiable information (“covered information”) about you to third parties for monetary consideration.

If you are a Nevada consumer and submit a request directing us not to make any sale of covered information we have collected or will collect about you — which you may do at any time — we must respond within 60 days of receipt (which we may extend by up to 30 days if we determine that it is reasonably necessary and notify you of the extension) and may take reasonable steps to verify your identity and the authenticity of your request. The law requires us to comply with a verified request.

(Please note that this right does not apply to personally identifiable information that is publicly available; to the disclosure of covered information to our affiliates (if any), to persons who process the covered information on our behalf, or for purposes which are consistent with your reasonable expectations considering the context in which you provided the covered information to us; or to the disclosure or transfer of covered information as part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transfer of control of all or part of our assets, and may be subject to certain other exemptions and restrictions provided by the law and/or associated regulations.)

To submit a request to opt out of the sale of your covered information, you can email us at admin (at) 6200productions (dot) com or contact us via any of the other methods described in “Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us” below.

Your California Privacy Rights

The following sections present certain privacy-related disclosures required by California law along with information about the privacy rights of California residents as they may pertain to 6200 Productions and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business.

California Do Not Track Disclosure (CalOPPA)

Many modern web browsers (and some other user agents) offer a privacy setting that automatically sends a “Do Not Track” signal to the websites and online services you visit. 6200 Productions does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals. However, some of our embedded content providers (as described in the “Embedded Content” section above) may respond to Do Not Track browser signals, which is outside of our control; you should consult the privacy policies of the applicable content providers for further information about their respective Do Not Track policies. (This disclosure is required by the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) (California Business and Professions Code Section 22575 et seq.).)

“Shine the Light” Law Disclosures

California’s “Shine the Light” law (California Civil Code Section 1798.83) gives California residents who have established business relationships with certain businesses the right to request information about the businesses’ disclosure of personal information to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

The law defines “direct marketing purposes” as “the use of personal information to solicit or induce a purchase, rental, lease, or exchange of products, goods, property, or services directly to individuals by means of the mail, telephone, or electronic mail for their personal, family, or household purposes.” Selling, renting, exchanging, or leasing personal information “for consideration to businesses” is also considered a direct marketing purpose of the business “that sells, rents, exchanges, or obtains consideration for the personal information.” An “established business relationship” is defined as “a relationship formed by a voluntary, two-way communication between a business and a customer, with or without an exchange of consideration, for the purpose of purchasing, renting, or leasing real or personal property, or any interest therein, or obtaining a product or service from the business” that is either ongoing or was established by a purchase or other transaction within the preceding 18 months.

Under the “Shine the Light” law, if you are a California resident and have an established business relationship with a business that is subject to the law’s disclosure requirements, you may request, once per calendar year, an information-sharing disclosure that lists (subject to any applicable exemptions or exceptions provided by the law):

The categories of personal information, as defined in the applicable statute, that the business disclosed to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year and
The names and addresses of all such third parties and sufficient information to give “a reasonable indication of the nature of the third parties’ business.”

(The law does not require the business to reveal which specific pieces of information were disclosed, only the categories of information, and the business may provide the required information “in standardized format.”)

We believe we are exempt from the requirements of this law, since we have fewer than 20 full-time or part-time employees.

Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA)

Starting January 1, 2020, California privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) (California Civil Code Section 1798.100 et seq.), give California residents additional rights with respect to their personal information. If you are a California resident, your rights under the CCPA include:

The Right to Know About Personal Information Collected, Disclosed, or Sold: You have the right to request to know (free of charge, in a portable and (to the extent technically feasible) “readily useable format,” and not more than twice in a 12-month period) what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell, including:
1. The categories and/or specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you (or your household, as the law and its associated regulations define that term), and
2. The categories of sources from which we collected the personal information, and
3. The business or commercial purpose(s) for which that personal information was collected and/or sold, and
4. The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information, and
5. The categories of personal information that we sold in the preceding 12 months, and for each of those categories, the categories of third parties to whom we sold that particular category of personal information, and
6. The categories of personal information we disclosed for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months, and for each of those categories, the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed that particular category of personal information.
The Right to Request Deletion of Personal Information: You have the right to request the deletion of personal information about you (or your household) that we have collected in the course of our business.
The Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Personal Information: You have the right to request to opt-out of the sale of your personal information (or personal information about your household).
The Right to Non-Discrimination for Exercise of Privacy Rights: You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment from us for exercising your privacy rights under the CCPA.
The right to make a complaint to the applicable state government authority.
The right to take private legal action in the event of a data breach that results in unauthorized access to and exfiltration, theft, or disclosure of certain types of sensitive personal information due to our failure to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information to protect the personal information.

These rights are subject to certain exemptions, exceptions, and restrictions provided by the law and/or its associated regulations. You may designate an authorized agent to act on your behalf in exercising these rights.

While we believe we do not meet any of the applicability thresholds specified by this California law, we are committed to providing visitors with as many privacy choices as we reasonably can.

You (or your authorized agent) can submit a request to know, a request to delete, and/or a request to opt-out via any of the methods specified on the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page. Once we have reviewed your submission, we will contact you to discuss the next steps involved in processing your request. Applicable law and/or regulations stipulate the maximum time allowed for acknowledging and/or responding to requests.

There is no charge for for making a request.

In order to better safeguard your privacy and the privacy of others, we may be required to verify your identity before processing certain requests pertaining to your personal information. We may be unable to fulfill your request if we cannot verify your identity to the degree of certainty required by applicable law and/or regulations. The identity verification process typically involves checking information you provide to us against information we already possess. This begins with our checking the information we receive when you submit your request (including both the information you provide and any information we collect automatically in connection with the request). We may also need to ask you some additional questions and/or request additional information in order to verify your identity and/or process your request. In some cases, we may ask you to sign and return a declaration form. If your authorized agent submits a request on your behalf, we may also require (to the extent permitted — and/or required — by applicable law and/or regulations) the agent to provide proof that you gave them signed permission to submit the request, and/or require you to either verify your own identity directly with us or directly confirm with us that you authorized the agent to submit the request on your behalf. (You can find more information about the verification requirements in the “Identity Verification Requirements” section of the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page.)

Please note that even if we verify your identity, the regulations prohibit us from disclosing certain pieces of sensitive personal information (e.g., Social Security numbers, financial account numbers) in response to a request to know. (In the event that we possessed such sensitive personal information about you, the regulations would only permit us to disclose the fact that we possessed the information, not tell you the actual information we possessed.)

Except as otherwise required by law, privacy-related requests pertaining to children under 18 should be submitted by a parent, legal guardian, or other authorized adult representative.

CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) requires certain businesses to provide California residents with a “notice at collection” that discloses the categories of personal information the business collects (which must be described by reference to specific categories of personal information defined in the applicable statutes); the categories of sources from which the business collects personal information; how long that personal information may be retained; and how and why the business uses and/or discloses personal information. These disclosures must be updated at least once a year.

As noted in “Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA)” above, we believe we do not meet any of the CCPA applicability thresholds, but for the avoidance of doubt, we present the following disclosures.

Categories of Personal Information Collected

The following list summarizes the categories of personal information we collect, have collected, and/or may collect about individuals and/or households in the course of our business, which for the purposes of this notice includes information collected through and/or in connection with this website; information we have collected through our work as a professional writer/editor and writing consultant; and information collected through and/or in connection with the owner’s automotive website, Ate Up With Motor (which has its own privacy policy). (Ate Up With Motor is a trademark of Aaron Severson dba Ate Up With Motor.) For the avoidance of doubt, this notice also includes personal information collected through and/or in connection with the owner’s personal website, aaronseverson.com, which has its own separate privacy policy.

Please note that we do not necessarily collect all of these categories of personal information about every individual, or even most individuals. While we collect certain information from all site visitors (e.g., IP addresses and/or hostnames, user agent information), the categories listed below also encompass the range of information we gather in connection with the content we create and/or edit (and/or on which we consult and/or otherwise collaborate) and/or our other creative endeavors, which is far more extensive than we customarily collect about site visitors. (Simply reading a single magazine article or encyclopedia entry about some public figure as part of our research can sometimes provide us with most if not all of the categories of personal information listed here!) These categories also include information (a) that certain people volunteer to us, whether about themselves or someone else; (b) that we only collect from/about certain people for some specific reason(s); and/or (c) that we infer or surmise from other data (e.g., inferring an approximate geographical location based on an area code or email domain).

The statutory definitions of some of these categories overlap, with certain types of information (e.g., real names, employment information) technically falling into multiple categories; we have tried to limit repetition in the interests of space and comprehensibility. This list also includes some types of information that the law would probably regard as personal information, but that are not specifically described in the applicable statutes and/or regulations.

The examples listed for each category are intended to be a representative sampling, NOT an exhaustive list of all the specific pieces of information we may collect and/or have collected within a particular category. Also, this list describes the categories of information we collect, have collected, and/or may collect about individuals and/or households from ANY locale, NOT only from California residents. (In many cases, we have no reasonable way to know whether the individuals and/or households to whom certain personal information pertains are California residents or not.)

We have collected in the last 12 months and/or may collect the following categories of personal information in the course of our business:

Identifiers, such as (without limitation):
- Real names, pseudonyms, aliases, nicknames, usernames, and/or account names
- Postal mailing addresses and/or street addresses
- Telephone numbers (and/or fax numbers)
- Unique personal identifiers, device identifiers, and/or online identifiers (including, but not limited to, information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies)
- IP addresses
- Email addresses
- Social Security numbers, taxpayer identification numbers, driver’s license numbers, state ID card numbers, passport numbers, and/or other government-issued identification numbers
- Other similar identifiers
Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e), such as (without limitation):
- Signatures, physical and/or digital (the above-referenced statute does not specifically mention digital signatures, but they would seem to be reasonably encompassed by the category of signatures)
- Physical characteristics and/or descriptions (e.g., an individual’s height, weight, hair color, eye color, distinguishing marks, and/or distinguishing features)
- Education
- Employment and/or employment history
- Financial information pertaining to transactions with and/or otherwise involving us (e.g., invoices, transaction receipts, transaction ID numbers, payment history, balances, tax-related information, billing addresses, full and/or partial credit card and/or debit card information, check information, bank account and/or other financial account information, and/or other account details)
- Other financial information (e.g., credit ratings; whether someone has (or had) loans, past foreclosures, and/or declared bankruptcy; other information pertaining to creditworthiness, assets, benefits, income, liabilities, payments, balances, and/or taxes; the net worths of public figures)
- Medical information (e.g., information about medical conditions, diagnoses, and/or history; tests and/or treatments received; drugs, therapies, and/or medical products and/or equipment used; healthcare providers and/or organizations visited, consulted, and/or otherwise seen or used)
- Health insurance information (e.g., whether or not individuals or households are insured and if so, with which insurance provider(s) — we do NOT collect policy numbers, application or claims records, or other such data (other than the owner’s own), and much of what health-insurance-related data we do collect is in aggregate form)
- Information about other types of insurance and/or insurance coverage (the above-referenced statute only specifically mentions insurance policy numbers, but other types of information about insurance policies and/or coverage would also seem to be reasonably encompassed by this category)
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as (without limitation):
- Age and/or date of birth
- Race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, and/or immigration status
- Language and/or accent
- Religion, creed, religious belief, religious observance, and/or religious practice
- Marital/relationship status and/or information about spouses/partners
- Medical condition and/or physical or mental disability
- Sex, gender, gender identity, and/or gender expression
- Pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and/or related medical conditions
- Sexual orientation
- Reproductive health decisionmaking
- Veteran or military status
- Genetic characteristics, genetic data, and/or genetic information (and/or familial genetic information, such as (without limitation) family medical history)
- Information about familial status and/or children (e.g., the number of children and/or their names, ages, and/or genders)
Commercial information, such as (without limitation):
- Records of financial transactions with and/or otherwise involving us
- Information about cars and/or other vehicles an individual or household drives or otherwise operates and/or has driven or otherwise operated; owns, purchases, leases, rents, borrows, otherwise obtains, and/or uses; has owned, purchased, leased, rented, borrowed, otherwise obtained, and/or used; desires to drive or otherwise operate; desires and/or intends to own, purchase, lease, rent, borrow, otherwise obtain, and/or use; and/or is considering or has considered
- Information about art, books, other publications, films and/or other videos, performances and/or exhibitions, music, and/or other media an individual or household has read, watched, viewed, listened to, and/or otherwise consumed; desires and/or intends to read, watch, view, listen to, and/or otherwise consume; and/or is considering or has considered reading, watching, viewing, listening to, and/or otherwise consuming
- Information about personal property, products, goods, and/or services an individual or household owns, purchases, leases, rents, otherwise obtains, and/or uses; has owned, purchased, leased, rented, otherwise obtained, and/or used; desires and/or intends to own, purchase, lease, rent, otherwise obtain, and/or use; and/or is considering or has considered
- Information about food, beverages, groceries, meals, recipes, drinks, and/or cuisine(s) an individual or household purchases, otherwise receives and/or obtains, prepares, consumes, is considering or has considered, prefers, and/or disdains
- Information about retailers, vendors, marketplaces, and/or service providers an individual or household patronizes, has patronized, desires and/or intends to patronize, is considering or has considered patronizing, prefers, and/or disdains
- Information about lodgings, residence(s), office space(s), and/or real property an individual or household owns, purchases, leases, rents, and/or otherwise uses; has owned, purchased, leased, rented, and/or otherwise used; desires and/or intends to purchase, lease, rent, and/or otherwise use; and/or is considering or has considered; and/or information about who owns, manages, administers, sells, leases, rents, and/or otherwise offers for commercial advantage and/or financial gain particular lodgings; a particular residence; and/or a particular building, lot, office space, industrial facility, or real property
- Information about stock and/or securities ownership, purchases, sales, and/or transfers (e.g., whether an individual or household owns, purchases, sells, and/or has purchased and/or sold shares in a particular corporation or other business entity, and/or what broker(s) and/or other intermediaries, if any, conducted and/or administered such transaction(s))
- Information about an individual or household’s employees, independent contractors, interns, agents and/or other authorized representatives, and/or service providers (e.g., household staff, assistant(s), secretary or secretaries, attorney(s) and/or other legal counsel, talent and/or literary agent(s), manager(s), broker(s), real estate agent(s) and/or estate agent(s), bookkeeper(s), accountant(s), auditor(s), and/or other authorized representatives and/or professional service providers of whatever type(s))
- Information about an individual or household’s permit(s) and/or license(s) other than professional and/or business permits and/or licenses (e.g., parking permits; licenses or permits to own certain animals; hunting and/or fishing permits; amateur radio licenses; permits to use certain public spaces or facilities; and/or licenses or permits to own and/or carry firearms or other weapons)
- Information about gifts, donations, charitable contributions, and/or political contributions made and/or received
- Information about other types of purchases, transactions, and/or investments
- Information about an individual or household’s interest, participation, scores, and/or achievements in sports, games, hobbies, and/or other pastimes
- Information about an individual or household’s participation, achievements, winnings, losses, and/or prizes in sweepstakes, lotteries, raffles, contests, wagers, other forms of gambling, and/or games of chance or skill
- Information about an individual or household’s critical judgments, tastes, opinions, and/or preferences
- Other information about an individual or household’s purchasing and/or consuming histories and/or tendencies
- Information about products, goods, services, and/or property an individual or household sells, leases, rents, and/or otherwise offers for commercial advantage and/or financial gain
Biometric information (physiological, biological, and/or behavioral characteristics that can be used to establish individual identity, and/or activity patterns that contain identifying information), such as (without limitation) if we configure our smartphone(s) and/or other device(s) to be unlocked using a fingerprint, and/or if an individual provides us with examples of their handwriting and/or information about their health, sleep, and/or exercise habits
Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as (without limitation):
- Browsing activity and/or history
- Search history
- User agent information
- Email header information
- Encryption public keys and/or certificates, cryptographic signatures, and/or similar security data
- Online avatars, profile images, and/or icons
- Domain names and/or URLs of personal blogs, social media pages/feeds, and/or other online profiles
- Information about domain name registration(s)
- Network, shared device, online service, and/or online access information (e.g., names, domain names and/or hostnames, URLs, IP addresses, passwords and/or other login credentials, other authentication and/or security information, technical details, and/or other information pertaining to wireless networks; local area networks; shared printers and/or other devices; databases; websites; online accounts; and/or other means of networking, connecting, sharing, and/or otherwise accessing electronic devices, files, messages, communications, and/or data)
- Other information about an individual or household’s use of and/or interactions with networks, websites, applications, software, devices, electronic systems and/or services, advertisements, and/or messages, including, but not limited to, information about errors and/or suspicious activity
Geolocation data, such as (without limitation) an individual or household’s physical location and/or movements, whether directly observed; stated and/or described to us (directly or indirectly); and/or determined, estimated, and/or inferred from other data (e.g., an IP address, a hostname, a telephone area code, and/or GPS coordinates)
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information, such as (without limitation) photographs, illustrations and/or other images, films and/or other videos, audio recordings, broadcasts, live streams, voice and/or video calls or chats, and/or other media in which identifiable individuals and/or their recognizable likenesses are visible and/or their voices audible, and/or the sensory information normally received in the course of interacting with people in person (and thus seeing their faces, hearing their voices, etc.)
Professional or employment-related information, such as (without limitation):
- Resumes/CVs
- Current and/or past employer(s)
- Current and/or past occupation(s), job(s), job title(s), position(s), role(s), duties, and/or responsibilities
- Current and/or past work schedule(s), location(s), and/or assignment(s)
- Current and/or past salary, compensation, and/or benefits
- Business or organization ownership, directorship, officership, management, and/or registration information (e.g., whether an individual has some ownership interest in and/or is an officer or director of a corporation, some other business entity, or a nonprofit organization)
- Fictitious business name(s) and/or trade name(s)
- Professional charges, rates, and/or fees
- Information about professional clients, clientele, customers, users, advertisers and/or sponsors, affiliates, subsidiaries, vendors, service providers, contractors, subcontractors, employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, business partners, directors, officers, and/or shareholders
- Information about other professional relationships (e.g., publishing and/or licensing deals; management and/or representation; advertising, endorsement, sponsorship, and/or affiliate relationships; professional relationships with colleagues and/or coworkers; mentor/mentee relationships; preceptor/preceptee relationships; relationships with patients; relationships with students, interns, trainees, and/or apprentices; and/or professional collaborations, partnerships, and/or joint ventures)
- Military service information
- Membership in and/or affiliation with guilds, trade unions, labor unions, and/or other professional organizations and/or groups
- Business and/or professional license(s), permit(s), certification(s), registration(s), and/or other credential(s)
- Professional qualifications, skills, training, continuing education and/or professional development, professional aspirations, and/or career goals
- Professional achievements and/or honors
- Publishing histories/bibliographies/discographies/filmographies/performance histories/broadcast histories/portfolios/development credits/patent records and/or other, similar and/or comparable information about writers, designers, artists, architects, photographers, filmmakers, videographers, podcasters, other media creators, playwrights, musicians and/or composers, actors and/or other performers, translators, producers, developers, editors, publishers, researchers, scientists, engineers, inventors, and/or other such professionals
- Authorship, other credits, and/or rights holder information for creative works, literary works, journalistic works, scientific works, designs, inventions, and/or performances (e.g., books, articles, scientific and/or engineering studies, essays, blog posts, photographs, illustrations and/or other images, plays and/or theatrical productions, scripts and/or screenplays, songs and/or musical compositions, choreography, audio recordings, films and/or other videos, television and/or radio programs, other media, software, architectural plans, mechanical inventions and/or blueprints, designs of whatever type(s), and/or other types of artwork and/or creative endeavors), and/or other types of intellectual property, such as (but not necessarily limited to) trademarks, service marks, and/or patents
- Professional references, performance evaluations, and/or information about an individual’s professional reputation and/or conduct
- Other information about an individual’s current, past, and/or prospective employment, occupation, job(s), work, vocation, profession, career, trade, business, professional services, products, and/or commercial endeavors (including, but not limited to, information about job search activity and/or marketing, advertising, and/or promotional efforts related to such employment, occupation, job(s), work, vocation, profession, career, trade, business, professional services, products, and/or commercial endeavors)
Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S. Code Section 1232g and 34 C.F.R. Part 99), such as (without limitation) grades, transcripts, and/or other nonpublic information directly related to a current or former student that is contained in education records maintained by an educational agency or institution (or by a party acting for the agency or institution)
Other types of personal information not specifically described in the applicable statutes, such as (without limitation):
- Information about other members of an individual’s family (other than spouse/partner or children), other members of a given household (e.g., roommates), and/or pets
- Information about friendships, personal relationships, and/or social interactions (including observations and/or inferences regarding individuals’ tendencies and/or preferences therein)
- Information about individuals’ places of birth and/or upbringing
- Information about social class, rank, position, title, and/or investiture, of whatever type(s) and/or source(s)
- Information about membership in and/or affiliation with clubs, societies, fraternal orders, and/or other types of groups
- Information about an individual or household’s experience of, involvement in, and/or connection with with accident(s), natural disaster(s), and/or other catastrophic event(s) or hardship(s) (of whatever type(s) and/or cause(s))
- Legal information (e.g., information regarding an individual having been accused of, charged with, and/or convicted of crime(s), infraction(s), and/or misconduct; having been a victim (or an alleged victim) of crime(s) and/or misconduct; and/or being involved in a civil lawsuit)
- Information about wills, estates, executorship, inheritance, trusts, trusteeship, conservatorship, and/or guardianship
- Information about community service, volunteer work, civic activity (e.g., jury duty), and/or charitable activity
- Information about an individual or household’s interactions with government agencies, departments, organizations, and/or entities of whatever type(s) and/or level(s), whether within the U.S., in other countries, or both (e.g., information regarding an individual or household’s involvement in and/or connection with official hearings, proceedings, inspections, audits, investigations, reports, and/or complaints, of whatever type(s) and/or nature(s))
- Information about political affiliations, opinions, and/or activity
- Information about other types of opinions, feelings, predispositions, attitudes, ideas, and/or viewpoints
- Information about awards, honors, prizes, and/or other recognition
- Information about individuals’ public and/or personal reputations
- Information about individuals’ dreams (literal and/or figurative), hopes, aspirations, fears, and/or worries (of whatever type(s) and/or nature)
- Information about an individual’s style(s), themes, influences, inspirations, tendencies, techniques, development, and/or achievements in writing, art (in whatever medium(s)), photography, filmmaking, music, fashion, design, architecture, and/or other creative endeavors (professional or otherwise)
- Examples of individuals’ artwork (in whatever medium or mediums)
- Information about an individual being featured, portrayed, depicted, represented, and/or mentioned in and/or otherwise incorporated into one or more creative works, literary works, and/or performances (of whatever type(s) and/or medium(s)), and/or having been the basis of and/or inspiration for such work(s) and/or performance(s) and/or elements thereof
- Information about specific vehicles (irrespective of their actual ownership), such as (without limitation) license plate numbers, vehicle identification numbers, and/or related information (e.g., vehicle registration numbers and/or registration dates); vehicle position(s) and/or location(s); and/or other identifying characteristics and/or details (e.g., year, make, model, body style, color(s), equipment, features, distinguishing markings, modifications, customization, damage, repairs, and/or maintenance)
Inferences drawn from any of the information identified in this section, such as (without limitation) our estimation of an individual’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, aptitudes, deficiencies, motives, motivations, personality, and/or character, and/or their suitability for a particular job, assignment, project, or professional role
Categories of sensitive personal information, such as (without limitation):

Personal information that reveals:
- Someone’s Social Security number, driver’s license or state identification card number, and/or passport number
- Someone’s account login, financial account number, debit card number, and/or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, and/or credentials allowing access to an account
- Someone’s precise geolocation
- Someone’s racial and/or ethnic origin, citizenship and/or immigration status, religious and/or philosophical beliefs, and/or union membership
- The contents of someone’s mail, email, and/or text messages (unless we are the intended recipient of the communication(s))
- Someone’s genetic data
Biometric information processed for the purpose of uniquely identifying someone
Personal information concerning someone’s health
Personal information concerning someone’s sex life and/or sexual orientation

Although we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18 through this website, we may sometimes collect such information as part of our professional writing/editing/writing consulting work. (For example (but without limitation), we might write or edit a news article about a minor child’s notable achievements or involvement in some matter of public interest, which could include personal information collected through an interview with that child and/or from other sources.) If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that we may have collected personal information about your minor child, or if you wish to exercise your right to remove or delete such information, please contact us via any of the methods described in “Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us” below. (Parents or legal guardians can also submit privacy requests on behalf of their minor children via any of the methods specified on the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page.)

The fact that we collected and/or inferred certain information about a given individual or household does not necessarily mean that we still retain that information, or that we have any practical way to associate the different categories and/or specific pieces of information we may have collected about a given individual or household (e.g., to connect a visitor’s name with an IP address and/or hostname in the server logs and/or a face visible in the background of a photograph).

Keep in mind that if you have interacted with us via some third-party service, that service may have collected and/or disclosed — potentially for commercial purposes — personal information about you that is not reflected in the above list. The collection, use, and/or retention of personal information by third-party services is subject to such services’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use, and in most cases is outside of our control. (The above categories DO include personal information that third-party services have provided to us.)

Collection Sources

Personal information we collect about you and/or your household comes from one or more of the following categories of sources, whether directly or indirectly:

You, whether through your interactions with us; through your access to and/or use of this website; through public disclosures you make (e.g., blog and/or social media posts); through your participation in public events and/or activities taking place in public spaces; incidentally by virtue of your physical proximity to us (e.g., where you appear in the background of a photo or video we take); and/or in some other manner
Your employees, independent contractors, interns, agents or other authorized representatives, business partners, vendors, and/or service providers (as applicable)
Our employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners, if any (and as applicable)
Our vendors and/or service providers
Our devices and/or automated systems (e.g., certain security features of our smartphone(s), and/or other autonomous or semi-autonomous sensors and/or security systems)
Other visitors/users
Published works and/or other sources available to the public (e.g., news reports, books, articles, reports and/or white papers, press releases and/or promotional materials, films and/or other videos, plays and/or theatrical productions, television programs, radio programs, podcasts, other audio recordings, social media, search engines, websites, online databases and/or repositories, public records)
Nonpublic documents, records, collections, and/or archives (e.g., unpublished correspondence, manuscripts, and/or interviews; unreleased versions, outtakes, scripts, and/or other materials from film, theatrical, television, radio, music, and/or other media projects; internal business and/or organizational records, reports, memoranda, documents, and/or other materials; school transcripts and/or other school records)
Subject matter experts, other writers, historians, biographers, researchers, instructors and/or coaches, academics, scientists and/or engineers, journalists, critics, reviewers, enthusiasts, collectors, librarians and/or other library staff, archivists, translators, designers, artists, architects, photographers, filmmakers, videographers, podcasters, other media creators, playwrights, musicians and/or composers, actors and/or other performers, producers, developers, editors, publishers, publicists and/or promoters, public relations representatives and/or other press contacts, observers, eyewitnesses, and/or other knowledgeable parties (which in some cases may include (without limitation) personal and/or professional acquaintances (whether yours, ours, and/or someone else’s), such as (again without limitation) friends, current and/or past employers and/or supervisors, current and/or past colleagues and/or coworkers, current and/or past clients and/or customers, current and/or past business partners, professional references, current and/or past instructors and/or students, and/or other members of a given household and/or family)
Clients and/or employers for whom we provide (or have provided) writing/editing/writing consulting services, and/or publishers and/or other third parties through which we publish, perform, broadcast, exhibit, and/or otherwise distribute, and/or to whom we license and/or offer, our content and/or other creative endeavors (professional or otherwise).

Each of the above-listed categories of sources may provide us with information that falls into several or all of the categories of personal information listed in “Categories of Personal Information Collected” above.

Collection Purposes

Personal information we collect in the course of our business is collected for one or more of the following categories of purposes:

Functionality
Providing services
Completing a transaction
Fulfilling a contractual obligation
Legal compliance or audit
Research and publishing
Security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement
Recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships
Advertising or other commercial purposes

These categories of purposes are described in the “Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection” section above and have the same meanings here as in other sections of this Privacy Policy.

Retention of Personal Information

To learn more about how long we typically retain personal information, consult the applicable sections of this Privacy Policy, including the “Additional Information About Data Retention” section above.

Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information

The CCPA definitions are so expansive that almost any disclosure by a business of virtually any piece of information about any individual or household residing in California could potentially be considered sharing personal information for business or commercial purposes (or a “sale” of personal information).

Under the CCPA, sharing personal information “for a business purpose” means directing a “service provider” (as the CCPA and its associated regulations define that term) to collect, process, and/or maintain the information for certain specified purposes, which may include the following:

Auditing related to interactions with consumers
Security
Debugging/repair of existing intended functionality
Certain short-term, transient uses
Performing services (e.g., customer service, order fulfillment, payment processing, analytic services)
Internal research for tech development
Verifying or maintaining the quality or safety of and/or improving, upgrading, or enhancing a service or device the business owns, controls, or manufactures (or that is manufactured for the business)
Collection of employment-related information (as defined in Section 7001(k) of the CCPA regulations [formerly numbered as Section 999.301(f) and subsequently 7001(i)]), including for the purpose of administering employment benefits.

The CCPA requires that any sharing of personal information “for a business purpose” be pursuant to a written contract that specifies the services the “service provider” is to perform while restricting their further retention, use, or disclosure of the information. Without a suitable written service provider agreement, an entity that provides services may not necessarily be considered a “service provider” as the CCPA and its associated regulations define that term, and sharing personal information with that entity may not necessarily be considered “for a business purpose,” even if it’s clearly for one or more of the above-listed purposes.

Collecting, using, and/or sharing personal information is considered to be for “commercial purposes” if it serves to “advance a person’s commercial or economic interests, such as by inducing another person to buy, rent, lease, join, subscribe to, provide, or exchange products, goods, property, information, or services, or enabling or effecting, directly or indirectly, a commercial transaction.”

Under the CCPA, a disclosure of personal information for which any of the parties involved receives any “valuable consideration” may be deemed a “sale” of personal information even if it does not constitute a sale as most people understand that term (and even if no money changes hands). Sharing personal information “for a business purpose” as described above is generally not considered a “sale” under the CCPA so long as the “service provider” only uses the information as necessary for the contractually specified business purpose(s) and does not “sell” the information.

To achieve the purposes listed in “Collection Purposes” above, we may disclose personal information we collect through and/or in connection with this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services as described in the “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” section above. As noted elsewhere in this policy (and in the Ate Up With Motor Privacy Policy, which applies to the owner’s automotive website and/or its related services; Ate Up With Motor is a trademark of Aaron Severson dba Ate Up With Motor), the owner’s work as a professional writer/editor and writing consultant and other creative endeavors (professional or otherwise) routinely involve collecting and sharing personal information, often for eventual publication (and/or public performance, exhibition, and/or broadcast, as applicable). Such information routinely encompasses most or all of the categories of personal information listed in “Categories of Personal Information Collected” above, although we don’t necessarily disclose every type of information that may fall within a particular category, nor do we necessarily disclose every piece of information we collect within a given category.

Therefore, by the law’s definitions, we may disclose any or all of the categories of personal information we collect in the course of our business to any or all of the following:

Our employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners, if any; and/or:
Our vendors and/or service providers; and/or:
Any individual or entity with whom we communicate and/or consult in the course of researching, creating, and/or editing our content, writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or other creative endeavors, and/or who communicates and/or consults with us in the course of researching, creating, and/or editing their content, work, and/or creative endeavors; and/or:
Editors, publishers, clients, employers, and/or other third parties for whom we provide (and/or to whom we offer) our writing/editing/writing consulting services; to whom we may license, sell, and/or otherwise offer our content and/or other creative work; for whom we may otherwise work, provide services, and/or offer to work and/or provide services; with whom we may collaborate and/or offer to collaborate in performing and/or offering our services and/or in researching, creating, editing, performing, and/or offering our content, other creative work, and/or other creative endeavors; and/or as we may reasonably elect and/or be requested or directed to do as part of and/or in connection with such services, content, creative endeavor(s), collaboration(s), and/or work (and/or the offer thereof); and/or:
Individuals and/or entities who help us promote, monetize, sell, and/or otherwise offer for commercial advantage and/or financial gain our content, writing/editing/writing consulting services, and/or other creative endeavors; and/or:
The public, through the publication, performance, broadcast, exhibition, other dissemination, and/or public discussion of our content and/or other creative endeavors, content we write and/or edit for others, and/or content and/or other creative endeavors on which we consult and/or otherwise collaborate (and/or public discussion of the process of researching, creating, and/or editing such content and/or creative endeavors); our sharing, discussing, and/or otherwise disseminating information that is or was already otherwise available to the public (e.g., in news reports, published works, and/or public records); our disposal of our personal property (e.g., lending, donating, or selling our copies of books, magazines, newspapers, CDs, DVDs, and/or other published works); and/or, as applicable, our publication of your comments, any images and/or other media you submit to us for publication and/or for use in or with work(s) intended for publication and/or other public dissemination, and/or your other communications with us.

As indicated in the “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” section above, we may also disclose personal information:

If that information is or was already otherwise available to the public (which is also noted in the list above, but bears repeating for emphasis — we strenuously reject and regard as unconstitutional any attempt to use the CCPA, its associated regulations, and/or similar privacy laws to restrict or limit our right to discuss and/or otherwise disseminate information that is or was already published and/or otherwise available to the public); and/or:
If the information is contained in and/or otherwise incorporated into artwork, a copy of a published work, a useful article, or some other object (including, without limitation, information inscribed or imprinted upon and/or affixed or otherwise attached to such work, copy, useful article, or object, particularly where that information cannot reasonably be removed without damage and/or defacement); and/or:
To appropriately credit someone for the use of their images, other media, fonts, themes/plugins, and/or other content or intellectual property, particularly where such credit is required by the applicable license terms; and/or:
As we deem reasonable and appropriate (and as permitted by applicable law and/or regulations) to help us make informed hiring and/or employment decisions and/or other business decisions regarding current and/or prospective professional relationships, professional engagements, business proposals, business ventures, and/or work; and/or:
If we are legally required to do so (which would typically be pursuant to a subpoena, search warrant, court order, or other official order; in connection with tax returns or other legally required filings, reports, registrations, or disclosures; as part of and/or in connection with a customs inspection; and/or in connection with an audit, civil or criminal trial, or other official investigation or proceeding, but could also be in other circumstances that we cannot reasonably anticipate or enumerate here; we may also disclose certain information if we deem it reasonably necessary to ensure our compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and/or orders, even if the specific disclosure is not expressly required, such as (without limitation) if we need to contact a tax agency to determine the correct sales tax or use tax rate for a particular address); and/or:
If we are contractually obligated to do so pursuant to our agreement(s) with our business partner(s), client(s), licensor(s), licensee(s), vendor(s), and/or service provider(s) (as applicable), such as (without limitation) in connection with a dispute, an investigation, an audit, and/or arbitration; and/or:
If we believe in good faith that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect property, rights, security, and/or safety, and/or to forward copyright or other intellectual property rights claims pertaining to material provided to us by a third party to that third party (since such claims may implicate their rights); and/or:
If the person(s) to whom the information pertains (and/or, where applicable, their respective heirs, successors, and/or assigns) have asked or authorized us to do so, either directly or through their respective agent(s) or other authorized representative(s); and/or:
If the information is de-identified, anonymized, pseudonymized, redacted, and/or aggregated such that it could not reasonably be used to identify the specific person(s) and/or household(s) to whom the information pertains (other than us, if we are somehow included in that information and elect not to de-identify, anonymize, pseudonymize, redact, and/or aggregate our own information); and/or:
As part of a business transfer (e.g., if we sell or otherwise transfer ownership of the 6200 Productions website, our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business, and/or their respective assets; enter bankruptcy; or pass our assets to our heirs and/or successors through our death or incapacity).

Additionally, as also noted in the “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” section above, if the owner has roommates, cohabitants, guests, and/or visitors in the owner’s home, they may, from time to time, become incidentally aware of certain personal information pertaining to this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services, in ways that are hard to avoid with any business activity conducted at home.

For what we hope are obvious reasons, it is not feasible for us to enumerate every possible entity or even category of entities to whom we might disclose personal information in the above contexts, but any such disclosures could also involve any or all of the categories of personal information we collect in the course of our business.

Much if not all of the personal information we collect or access in the course of our business may be processed by one or more third parties. For example (but without limitation):

For obvious reasons, it is impossible for us to call, text, email, or mail any individual or household without disclosing a certain amount of the recipient’s personal information to third parties. For example, making a phone call or sending a text message requires communicating the recipient’s telephone number to the applicable telephone companies and/or mobile carriers.
Our web host, DreamHost®, controls the web servers on which this website runs as well as the mail servers for our associated email addresses. Therefore, DreamHost has full administrative access to most files, data, and/or messages processed by and/or stored on those servers. This is in addition to any information we disclose to DreamHost for purposes such as troubleshooting and/or security. (DreamHost is a registered trademark of DreamHost, LLC.)
Most files and data on our systems and devices are routinely scanned by one or more malware detection and/or other security tools, some of which may incorporate cloud-based scanning or analysis features and/or otherwise communicate with third parties, as explained in the “Security Scans” section of this Privacy Policy.
Most payments we receive are processed by the applicable bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s), and in some cases also by other applicable third-party service providers (e.g., payment processors and/or electronic funds transfer services). Those payments and related tax documents must also be disclosed to several different tax agencies, and may be discussed with our tax preparer(s) and/or other financial and/or legal professionals (e.g., our legal counsel).
Internet connections we make in the course of our business are processed by the applicable Internet service provider or mobile carrier (as applicable) and typically also by certain other third parties (e.g., DNS (Domain Name System) resolver services). Even if a website or online resource we access is fully encrypted, the applicable Internet service provider or mobile carrier can usually tell that we have connected to that site or resource and how much data is transmitted through that connection; if the website or resource is not fully encrypted, the Internet service provider or mobile carrier can also see any unencrypted data we may access or transmit. If we connect to a website or online resource using a proxy or VPN, our Internet service provider or mobile carrier generally cannot see that connection or any unencrypted data accessed or transmitted through it, but the proxy or VPN provider can.
Some information about our activities and/or some portions of the data we access in connection with our business may be captured by the telemetry and/or other surveillance features of the software, apps, services, and/or devices we use, as explained in the “Information Captured by Service/Software/App/Device Telemetry” section of this Privacy Policy.

Although the above examples might reasonably be considered sharing information “for a business purpose,” they may not always qualify as such by the CCPA definitions, since we do not necessarily always have (or even have any reasonable way to arrange) written contracts with those third parties that meet the CCPA requirements for service provider agreements.

The same conundrum applies to actions like the following:

Looking up someone’s name in a search engine, library catalog, or other database.
Entering someone’s address into a mapping or navigation service to look up driving directions, or meeting with someone face-to-face while our phone’s location services are turned on.
Using an automated translation service to translate text containing any names and/or other types of personal information.
Printing a document containing names and/or other types of personal information using a commercial print service or a printer controlled by a third party (e.g., printing a copy of a news article we read at the public library).
Performing a WHOIS lookup on an IP address or hostname, or allowing our firewalls and/or other security applications, software, and/or services to perform such lookups.
Storing or transmitting any electronic file containing personal information using any cloud storage service or other online storage system.

(These are just a few examples, not an exhaustive list.)

We believe that our use of the Google Analytics service to collect information about visitors to this website — which we discontinued on April 5, 2022 — DID constitutes sharing information “for a business purpose,” since we have accepted that service’s Data Processing Terms and CCPA Service Provider Addendum; we did not enable any Google Analytics Advertising Features; and we did not authorize Google to share or link our Google Analytics data with any other Google products or services, or with any advertising service (provided by Google or otherwise). (See the “Online Tracking” section above to learn more about what information the analytics service may have collected about site visitors, how Google may use the information the service collects, and what happens now that we have discontinued our use of Google Analytics tracking. Google, Google Analytics, and other related marks are trademarks of Google LLC.)

As noted in the “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” section above, the CCPA does not necessarily regard transfers of personal information as part of the sale or transfer of a business (that is, where the information is among the assets of the business being sold or transferred) to be “sales” for the purposes of that law.

Because the owner of this website is a professional writer/editor and writing consultant and much (though not all) of the information we collect in connection with our business is intended for publication (and/or public performance, exhibition, and/or broadcast, as applicable), a variety of activities we routinely undertake in connection with our work could potentially be deemed “commercial” as defined by the CCPA, even if our actual content is legally regarded as noncommercial speech. (For writers, photographers, and other creative professionals, the distinction between “commercial” activity and engaging in “noncommercial speech” as an integral part of one’s business is a complicated, muddy legal question mark.) Some representative examples could include:

Licensing, selling, and/or otherwise offering offering our content or writing/editing/writing consulting services for money and/or other valuable consideration (potentially including publishing content on this website, which may be supported by advertising, and which we use to advertise and/or otherwise promote our work and/or professional services) if that content or those services incorporate or involve any names and/or other types of personal information about individuals or households.
Advertising, promoting, and/or marketing our content, or published works incorporating our content, if that content contains any names and/or other types of personal information, and/or if such information is referenced in the promotion or marketing.
Proposing or pitching any article, book, and/or other content containing names and/or other types of personal information to editors, literary agents, and/or publishers.
Presenting and/or discussing examples of our content and/or our past or current writing/editing/writing consulting services in the course of proposing, pitching, and/or otherwise offering in a professional capacity and/or for commercial advantage and/or financial gain our content and/or professional services (e.g., submitting some of our content as writing samples and/or describing some of our previous work as part of our application or pitch for a job or freelance assignment), if such examples incorporate or involve any personal information.
Sharing, exchanging, or discussing with clients, coauthors, and/or collaborators any personal information pertaining to articles, books, and/or other content we are creating and/or editing (and/or on which we are consulting) in a professional capacity.
Arranging for people featured and/or quoted in our content to receive complimentary copies of our published work or be notified of its publication or commercial availability.

Even if disclosures like these are NOT deemed to be “for commercial purposes” (or “sales”) by the CCPA definitions, they are certainly for business purposes, whether the CCPA would define them as such or not. (In certain cases, such disclosures might reasonably be regarded as part of our acting as a service provider for someone else, particularly where the personal information involved is supplied mainly by the client rather than by us (e.g., in a manuscript we’ve been hired to edit). However, as explained above, it’s possible to provide services without necessarily being considered a “service provider” as the CCPA and its associated regulations define that term.)

From time to time, we may also facilitate other types of commercial transactions, whether directly or indirectly, such as:

By putting into contact (with their mutual consent) parties who have expressed interest in some transaction with one another. For example, if a visitor asks about licensing a photo or other content we have used that is owned by someone else, we might ask the applicable rights holder if they’re comfortable with our putting them in touch with the interested party.
By recommending that a professional contact or acquaintance be hired for a job, assignment, or commission, or chosen as a vendor or service provider.
By endorsing (explicitly or by implication) some author, artist, service provider, or vendor, and/or their products and/or services.

By the CCPA definitions, disclosing any personal information in such circumstances might be deemed sharing information “for commercial purposes,” whether or not any transaction is actually completed, whether or not we are a party to that transaction, and whether or not we receive any monetary or other valuable consideration in connection with it.

As noted in “Ads on 6200 Productions” above, we do not allow our advertisers (if any) to use scripts, cookies, web beacons, or other such technologies to collect information about you through the publicly visible/publicly accessible portions of the 6200 Productions website. However, if you click on advertising links or otherwise patronize our advertisers’ businesses, they may collect and use information about you — potentially for various commercial purposes — as described in their respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use, which is outside of our control. Such advertisers may also be able to tell that you clicked on an ad on this website, even if we do not directly provide them with any information about you (and even though we obviously can’t control whether or not you click on an ad link). (Also, in some cases, the advertisements, banners, and/or donation boxes that certain plugins, themes, and/or other add-ons place on the site’s administrative dashboard may collect personal information about logged-in administrative users — and may collect personal information about administrative users’ online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services — which the providers of such advertising and/or embedded content may sell and/or use for various other commercial purposes; this is typically outside of our control.)

Additionally, some of our embedded content providers (described in the “Embedded Content” section above) and/or other vendors and/or service providers might use information collected about our visitors for commercial purposes. For example (but without limitation), if you watched a video we disclosed via an embedded YouTube video player, the embedded video player probably collected information about you that the CCPA would consider personal information (e.g., your IP address, device identifiers and/or other identifiers, information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies, commercial information (e.g., which web browser you use and/or which provider you’re using to connect to the Internet) and may have used that information for what the CCPA would probably regard as commercial purposes (e.g., showing you personalized advertising). The CCPA generally regards allowing advertisers to collect personal information about website visitors as a “sale” of personal information; whether the state and the courts will take the same attitude toward embedded YouTube video players and/or other such embedded content remains unclear. Except as otherwise expressly indicated, we receive no monetary consideration for using and/or sharing such content, but the state may take the position that the simple privilege of displaying the content constitutes “valuable consideration” and thus could be considered a “sale” as defined by the CCPA. (The YouTube platform is owned by Google LLC. Google, YouTube, and other related marks and logos are trademarks of Google LLC.)

Put simply, by the law’s extremely broad definitions, any or all of the categories of personal information we collect in the course of our business could be deemed to be disclosed for business and/or commercial purposes, whether or not we “sell” personal information in the way most people understand that term.

You can learn more about the circumstances under which we may disclose personal information we collect through and/or in connection with this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services in the “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” section above.

If you have general questions about our data-sharing practices (i.e., questions about our typical practices rather than about the personal information of any specific individual or household), or if you have any concerns about those practices, feel free to contact us via any of the methods described in “Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us” below.

Opting-Out or Submitting Other California Privacy Requests (Do Not Sell My Personal Information Page)

If you are a California resident and would like to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, and/or to exercise any of the other privacy rights provided by California law — e.g., to request to know about personal information collected, disclosed, or sold, and/or request deletion of your personal information — you (or your authorized agent) you (or your authorized agent) can submit a request via any of the methods specified on our Do Not Sell My Personal Information page.

California Privacy Request Metrics Disclosures

Under Section 7102(a) of the CCPA regulations [formerly numbered as Section 999.317(g)], businesses that buy, receive for the business’s commercial purposes, sell, or share for commercial purposes the personal information of 10,000,000 or more consumers in a calendar year must timely disclose in their privacy policy the following metrics for the previous calendar year:

The number of requests to know that the business received, complied with in whole or in part, and denied;
The number of requests to delete that the business received, complied with in whole or in part, and denied;
The number of requests to opt-out that the business received, complied with in whole or in part, and denied; and
The median or mean number of days within which the business substantively responded to requests to know, requests to delete, and requests to opt-out.

Although the total number of consumers whose personal information we collect (much less “buy” and/or “sell” as the CCPA defines those terms) in a calendar year doesn’t even APPROACH 10,000,000 by any remotely reasonable interpretation of the CCPA definitions, we make the following voluntary disclosures, which, for the avoidance of doubt, include all requests we received, whether through this website, through the owner’s Ate Up With Motor automotive website, through the owner’s aaronseverson.com personal website, or by any other means. (Ate Up With Motor is a trademark of Aaron Severson dba Ate Up With Motor.)

Section 7102(b) of the regulations [formerly numbered as Section 999.317(h)] draws — and requires businesses to draw in making these disclosures — a distinction between requests received from consumers (which we presume means California residents, which is how the CCPA defines that term) and requests received from all individuals. For the avoidance of doubt, the following disclosures present the total number of requests we received from all individuals during each specified period. (These disclosures DO NOT include request forms we submitted for our internal testing and/or troubleshooting purposes that were not actual requests!)

California Privacy Requests Received in 2020

**2020 CCPA Request Metrics**
Type	Requests Received	Complied With (In Whole or in Part)	Denied	Mean Response Time	Median Response Time
Requests to know	1 (one)	1 (one)	0 (zero)	17.0 days	17.0 days
Requests to delete	8 (eight)*	6 (six)	2 (two)	8.5 days	3.5 days
Requests to opt-out	8 (eight)*	8 (eight)	0 (zero)	1.0 days	1.0 days

* Totals include several duplicative requests.

California Privacy Requests Received in 2021

**2021 CCPA Request Metrics**
Type	Mean Response Time	Median Response Time
Requests to know	N/A	N/A
Requests to delete	N/A	N/A
Requests to opt-out	N/A	N/A

(We didn’t receive any requests to know, requests to delete, or requests to opt-out during the 2021 calendar year, from California residents or otherwise.)

California Privacy Requests Received in 2022

**2022 CCPA Request Metrics**
Type	Requests Received	Complied With (In Whole or in Part)	Denied	Mean Response Time	Median Response Time
Requests to know	1 (one)	0 (zero)	1 (one)	12.0 days	12.0 days
Requests to delete	1 (one)	0 (zero)	1 (one)	12.0 days	12.0 days
Requests to opt-out	1 (one)	1 (one)	0 (zero)	3.0 days	3.0 days

California Privacy Requests Received in 2023

**2023 CCPA Request Metrics**
Type	Requests Received	Complied With (In Whole or in Part)	Denied	Mean Response Time	Median Response Time
Requests to know	1 (one)	0 (zero)	1 (one)	14.0 days	14.0 days
Requests to delete	2 (two)	0 (zero)	2 (two)	14.0 days	14.0 days
Requests to opt-out	3 (three)	3 (three)	0 (zero)	1.0 days	1.0 days

California Privacy Request Metrics Methodology

The CCPA regulations leave some ambiguity about what should be considered the date of “substantive response” to requests that require identity verification, a process which may take some time to complete and may require additional action on the part of the requestor. For purposes of these disclosures, our calculations reflect the date we either complied with (in whole or in part) or denied a given request.

For 2020, if we initially denied a request because we were unable to verify the requestor’s identity to the degree of certainty the regulations require, but subsequently verified the requestor’s identity to a degree of certainty sufficient to enable us to comply with the request (whether we did so or not), the disclosures reflect the final decision — and the final decision date — rather than the initial denial. For 2021, we did not receive any requests to know or requests to delete, so response time calculations were not applicable. To the extent it was applicable, we followed our 2020 methodology for 2022 and 2023. We may revise this methodology for later years depending on our subsequent experience.

Under California law, a consumer’s request to opt-out of the sale of their personal information remains in force indefinitely unless the consumer subsequently decides to opt-in, so we respond to duplicative or repeated requests to opt-out from a requestor who has already opted-out by affirming that the requestor’s original opt-out request remains in effect. We treated all such duplicative or repeated opt-out requests as “complied with” for purposes of these disclosures.

Where we substantively responded to a request on the same day it was received, we treated the response time as 1.0 days for purposes of calculating the mean and median response times.

Where we received no requests of a given type during the specified period, we listed the mean and median response times as “N/A” (not applicable).

If you have any questions about these disclosures, feel free to contact us via any of the methods described in “Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us” below.

Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us

The controller responsible for processing personal information we collect through and/or in connection with the 6200 Productions website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business (the “responsible party,” for jurisdictions that use that term) is the owner and operator of the www.6200productions.com website, Aaron Severson dba (doing business as) 6200 Productions, 11100 National Bl. #3, Los Angeles, CA 90064, USA.

If you have questions or concerns about this policy or our use of personal information, if you’d like to request a change or correction to personal information we’ve collected about you, or if you would like to contact us regarding any of the rights described in “Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws)” or “Nevada Consumer Opt-Out Rights” above (and/or any other privacy rights you may have under applicable national and/or state law), you can reach us via postal mail at that address, via email at admin (at) 6200productions (dot) com, or via any other method that may be specified on the Contact page.

If you are a California resident and would like to exercise your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) or other California privacy laws — e.g., the right to know about personal information collected, disclosed, or sold; the right to request deletion of your personal information; and/or the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information — you (or your authorized agent) can submit a request via any of the methods specified on the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page. (To reduce the risk of confusion or error, please do not use the regular Contact Form for these requests.)

Except as otherwise required by law, privacy-related requests or inquiries pertaining to children under 18 should be submitted by a parent, legal guardian, or other authorized adult representative.

Privacy Policy Changes

6200 Productions may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time, at our sole discretion. We recommend that you regularly review this page for changes, which will be summarized in “Recent Revisions” below; we may also provide additional notice in other ways (e.g., by updating the “Recent Policy Updates” box, by noting the “last updated” date next to the Privacy Policy link in our invoices, and/or by sending out email notifications). If the policy has changed since your last visit to the 6200 Productions website, the website may also prompt you to review and accept the changes. Your further access to and/or use of the 6200 Productions website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services after any changes to this Privacy Policy, which are effective once published on this page and whose effective date(s) will be indicated in the “Recent Revisions” section below, will be subject to the updated policy.

Recent Revisions

Here is a list of recent changes to this Privacy Policy, in reverse order by date:

January 12, 2024: In Security Scans, revised the paragraph on the Solid Security plugin to change “a remote API service associated with the WordPress.org websites” to “remote API services associated with the WordPress.org websites and/or operated by SolidWP or its parent company”. In that paragraph and in Data Related to Administrative Users, changed “a remote SolidWP API service” to “a remote API service operated by SolidWP or its parent company” to better reflect their current business structure. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the examples of categories of sensitive personal information to change “Someone’s racial and/or ethnic origin, religious and/or philosophical beliefs, and/or union membership” to “Someone’s racial and/or ethnic origin, citizenship and/or immigration status, religious and/or philosophical beliefs, and/or union membership” to reflect recent changes in the CCPA definition of sensitive personal information. Updated the California Privacy Request Metrics Disclosures section (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page) to add a subsection for 2023. In California Privacy Request Metrics Methodology (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the second paragraph to change “for 2022” to “for 2022 and 2023.”
October 17, 2023: Updated references to iThemes throughout this document (except in older entries in this revisions list) to reflect the rebranding of that business and its products, also updating the relevant external links and associated trademark notices. In the Taxes, Duties, and Fees subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, revised the second paragraph to add the phrase “in accordance with applicable law” at the end of the first sentence, separated with a comma. Made a clarification to this entry after initial publication.
September 12, 2023: In the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the first sentence of the preamble to change “requires certain businesses to provide California residents with information about the categories …” to “requires certain businesses to provide California residents with a ‘notice at collection’ that discloses the categories …” and added the phrase “how long that personal information may be retained;” to the same sentence. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection, moved the sentence beginning “To learn more about how long …” to a new “Retention of Personal Information” subsection later in the section (following the existing Collection Purposes subsection). In the Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information subsection, revised the first sentence to strike the phrase “even information that is readily available to the general public” and delete its em dashes. Later in that subsection, deleted the phrase “with the exception of ‘engaging in speech that state or federal courts have recognized as noncommercial speech, including political speech and journalism'” (as that exception has been removed from the CCPA). Later in that subsection, deleted the phrase “whether or not such information is from official government records (the only type of “publicly available information” the CCPA acknowledges)” for the same reason. Later in that subsection, revised the paragraph beginning “As noted in the ‘Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information’ section …” to delete the sentences beginning, “However, it remains unclear how the CCPA …” In the subsequent paragraph, removed the quotation marks around the first instance of “noncommercial speech” and changed the word “deemed” to “legally regarded as”. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
August 25, 2023: In Embedded Content, deleted the Twitter bullet point (since it is now very unlikely that we will share any embedded content from that service, which is in the process of changing its name). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the Twitter reference (in the examples of social media platforms) to reflect that the service is now called “X,” update the trademark notice, and remove the statement about Ate Up With Motor (since the owner intends to shortly delete the Ate Up With Motor account on that service). Also rearranged that item so that it’s listed alphabetically under its new name and removed a duplicative instance of “and/or.”
July 9, 2023: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added Nir Sofer’s NirSoft freeware utilities to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers (in the “Other providers whose services we may use in accessing the Internet” bullet point). Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
June 17, 2023: In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection and the copy of that list in the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, revised the wording of the Recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships bullet point to also refer to administering employment benefits and/or otherwise administering and/or conducting employment relationships, business partnerships, and/or other professional relationships. (This is not a substantive change in the intent of the disclosed purpose, but rather an attempt to better describe and explain the intended scope.) In the Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the last numbered point in the first list to update the reference to the cited regulation, whose numbering has changed.
June 12, 2023: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to the Comodo certificate authority (in the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers) to refer instead to Sectigo (which is the current brand name of that CA) and updated the associated trademark notice accordingly.
April 24, 2023: Fixed a typographical error in the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy (a nonprintable character had been inadvertently inserted after the telephone number).
April 16, 2023: As a global change, changed references to the “Customer EU Data Processing Addendum” to the DreamHost Terms of Service to refer instead to the “Customer Data Processing Addendum” (as that addendum is now called) and updated the hyperlink to the current version of the addendum.
April 11, 2023: Fixed a typographical error in Certificate Authority Checks.
April 10, 2023: In the Taxes, Duties, and Fees subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, revised the first sentence to change “Except as otherwise indicated, …” to “Except as otherwise expressly indicated or as otherwise required by applicable law, …” In the third paragraph, changed “any applicable government-imposed taxes, duties, charges, and/or fees you may owe that we do not collect from you are your sole responsibility” to “any applicable government-imposed taxes, duties, charges, and/or fees you may owe that we do not collect or withhold from you are your sole responsibility” for internal consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added the PicView app to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers (in the “Other providers of software, apps, tools, and/or services” bullet point).
January 17, 2023: As a global change on this page and the Cookie Notice, updated the links to the Legal Agreements for PayPal Services hub, whose URL has changed.
January 7, 2023: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Information about philosophical or other beliefs, opinions, feelings, predispositions, attitudes, ideas, and/or viewpoints” (under “Other types of personal information not specifically described in the applicable statutes”) to read “Information about other types of opinions, feelings, predispositions, attitudes, ideas, and/or viewpoints” (since philosophical beliefs are now separately categorized as a type of sensitive personal information). Also changed “Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above” to “Inferences drawn from any of the information identified in this section”. Amended the California Privacy Requests Received in 2022 table in California Privacy Request Metrics Disclosures (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page) to add the word “days” in the mean and median response time columns. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
January 1, 2023: On this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page, updated California Privacy Request Metrics Disclosures to include 2022 data. (We actually prepared these changes on December 31, but didn’t post them until after midnight.)
December 24, 2022: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the wording of several of the items under “Categories of sensitive personal information” to change various instances of “or” to “and/or” for greater consistency. Also changed “(where we are not the intended recipient of the communication)” to “(unless we are the intended recipient of the communication(s))” to more closely align with the statutory wording.
December 21, 2022: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the description of biometric information under “Categories of sensitive personal information” to change “… for the purposes of uniquely identifying sometime” to “… for the purpose of uniquely identifying someone”.
December 18, 2022: In Embedded Content, revised the first bullet point to update some of the information regarding the Google Fonts API, including clarifying that the service does record the website or URL from which you accessed the fonts, updating the link to their privacy FAQ, removing the reference to it explaining how long data remains stored on a user’s device (since the FAQ no longer contains that information), and making some minor punctuation adjustments.
December 17, 2022: As a global change throughout this page (except in older entries in this Recent Revisions list), changed most instances of the phrase “unless otherwise” to “except as otherwise” (maintaining the existing capitalization).
December 16, 2022: In the preamble, changed “may use, share, release, and/or otherwise disclose that information” to “may use and/or disclose that information.” In Definitions, revised the “IP address” definition” to change both instances of “collect, use, and/or share” to “collect and/or use”. In Online Tracking, changed “We may also share, release, and/or otherwise disclose analytics data …” to “We may also disclose analytics data …” In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, changed “We may also share additional data with them …” to “We may disclose additional data to them …” and changed “We may also share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” to “We may also disclose …” In Security Scans, changed “We may share information from security scans and/or other security measures with third parties …” to “We may disclose information from security scans and/or other security measures to third parties …” and changed “We may also share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” to “We may also disclose …” In Embedded Content, updated the bullet points on YouTube and Vimeo videos to change “posted, shared, and/or otherwise displayed” to “posted and/or otherwise displayed” and updated the bullet point on Twitter content to change “post, share, and/or otherwise display” to post and/or otherwise display”. In Information You Provide to Us, changed, “you’re under no obligation to share personal information with us …” to “you’re under no obligation to provide us with personal information …” In the last paragraph of Consents and Agreements, changed “share, release, and/or otherwise disclose” to “disclose” and changed “the ways we use, share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” to “the ways we use and/or disclose …” In the last paragraph of Comments, changed “share, release, and/or otherwise disclose” to “disclose” for consistency. In Contact Forms, changed “may share or otherwise disclose information related to California privacy requests …” to “may disclose information related to California privacy requests …” and changed “may share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” to “may disclose …” In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, changed “is shared and/or accessible” to “is visible and/or accessible”; changed “when sharing sensitive information in such ways” to “when disclosing sensitive information in such contexts”; and changed “may share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” to “may disclose …” In Other Information You Provide to Us, changed “only share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” to “only disclose …” In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, updated the last paragraph to change several instances of “share” to “disclose” (also changing “with” to “to” as applicable) and changed “may also share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” to “may also disclose …” for consistency. In the Disclosure of Transaction-Related Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “and/or share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” to “and/or disclose …” In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, changed two instances of “share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” to “disclose …” In Information Provided by Social Media Platforms, changed “much of the information posted and/or shared on …” to “much of the information posted on …” In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed two instances of “share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” to “disclose …” In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, revised the paragraph about information received from someone’s employees, independent contractors, etc., to change “authorize them to share” to “authorize them to disclose”; revised the paragraph beginning “Much, though not necessarily all, …” to changed “otherwise share with us …” to “otherwise provide us with …” In Reports and Aggregate Statistics, changed “otherwise share them with …” to “otherwise disclose them to …” In Information Captured by Service/Software/App/Device Telemetry, changed “share that data with third parties” to “disclose that data to third parties”. In the first paragraph of Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” to “disclose …” In the bullet point beginning “In photos, images, and/or other media …” changed “may share photos, images, and/or other media (and/or related information) with others” to “may show photos, images, and/or other media (and/or related information) to others” and changed “published and/or shared” to “published and/or otherwise released”. In the bullet point regarding employees, independent contractors, etc., changed “share with them” to “disclose to them.” Updated the reference to Flickr to change “on which we have shared” to “on which we have published” and change “to share” to “to publish”. Updated the reference to our mobile carrier to change “in addition to any information we may share with them for …” to “in addition to any information we may disclose to them for …” Updated the reference to our landlords to change “we may share relevant information …” to “we may provide relevant information …” In the paragraph beginning “Third, …” replaced both instances of the word “share” with “release”. In the paragraph beginning “Fifth, …” changed an instance of the word “share” to “post”. In “‘Shine the Light’ Law Disclosures (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “which specific pieces of information were shared” to “which specific pieces of information were disclosed”. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added a new set of bullet points (“Categories of sensitive personal information”) and made some punctuation adjustments accordingly. In the final paragraph of that subsection, changed “collected and/or shared” to “collected and/or disclosed”. In the Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information subsection (also on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the paragraph beginning “To achieve the purposes …” to change “may share, release, and/or otherwise disclose” to “may disclose”; two instances of “share, release, or disclose” to “disclose”. In the subsequent paragraph, changed “may share any or all of the categories …” to “may disclose any or all of the categories …” In the subsequent paragraph beginning “As indicated in the …” changed “may also share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” to “may also disclose …” In the first bullet point of the list following, changed “to share, discuss, and/or otherwise disseminate” to “to discuss and/or disseminate”. In the list following that one, changed “share with DreamHost” to “disclose to DreamHost” for consistency. In the subsequent paragraph regarding embedded content, changed “shared via an embedded YouTube video player, …” to “posted via an embedded YouTube video player, …” In the paragraph beginning, “Put simply, …” changed “shared for …” to “disclosed for …” In the paragraph after that, changed “may share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” to “may disclose …” and changed “with any or all …” to “to any or all …”
December 12, 2022: In the first section of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “(e.g., a money transfer or electronic funds transfer service)” to “(e.g., an electronic funds transfer service).” In the Acceptable Payment Types subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, deleted the phrase “wire transfer” from each of the bullet points. Amended the paragraph beginning “Depending on the nature …” to add the phrase “and provided that the use of such payment method(s) is permitted by applicable law and/or regulations” to the end of the first sentence, separated by a comma. Added a paragraph after that one, explaining that under certain circumstances, applicable law and/or regulations may affect or limit the types of payment we can accept or use. In the Currency subsection, deleted the phrase “e.g., international wire transfers,” for consistency. In the Disclosure of Transaction-Related Information subsection, deleted the reference to money transfer services in the sixth numbered item. In the Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Section 7001 (i)” to “Section 7001(i)” for usage consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
December 3, 2022: In the Acceptable Payment Types subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “do not accept cryptocurrency payments of any kind” to “do not accept virtual currency or cryptocurrency of any kind.” Fixed a typographical error in the references to the Financial Transactions Policy in the entries below for August 15, 2021; April 25, 2021; and January 20, 2021 (which had inadvertently referred to “Transaction” in the singular), for internal consistency. Similarly adjusted the entries for May 16, 2020 and April 23, 2020 on the Older Privacy Policy Revisions page, for the same reason.
November 24, 2022: In the Taxes, Duties, and Fees subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “certain taxes, duties, and/or other government-imposed charges or fees from you” to “certain applicable taxes, duties, and/or other government-imposed charges or fees from you”. Later in that paragraph, also changed “We may also be required …” to “Additionally, we may be required …” and changed “even where no tax collection or withholding requirements apply” to “whether or not any tax collection or withholding requirements apply” for greater clarity. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 21, 2022: In the Taxes, Duties, and Fees subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “For certain transactions, we may be required to collect and/or withhold certain taxes, duties, and/or other government-imposed charges or fees from you and remit them directly to …” to “For certain transactions, we may collect and/or withhold (and/or may be required to collect and/or withhold) certain taxes, duties, and/or other government-imposed charges or fees from you and remit them to …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point beginning “If we are legally required to do so, …” to change “that is subject to sales/use tax” to “that is subject to sales tax or use tax”. In the equivalent bullet point in the Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “correct sales/use tax rate” to “correct sales tax or use tax rate” for consistency.
November 17, 2022: In Credits and License for This Policy, the preambles of the Your California Privacy Rights and Cookie Notice pages, and the preamble of the Older Privacy Policy Revisions page, updated the Automattic trademark notices to also add an express disclaimer of affiliation or endorsement. In Online Tracking, updated the data processing terms bullet point to add a sentence: “Google has indicated that the terms will be further updated January 1, 2023, to reflect new state data protection laws in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah.” (This is mostly for reference, as we do not intend to resume using the Google Analytics service.) In the Right of Withdrawal subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, added a trademark notice along with the aforementioned disclaimer of affiliation or endorsement to the beginning of the subsection. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 13, 2022: On this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page, renamed the California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) section “California Privacy Request Metrics Disclosures” and updated the Table of Contents accordingly.
November 10, 2022: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added “Reproductive health decisionmaking” to the examples under “Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law” (in its own bullet point).
November 8, 2022: In Security Scans, revised the QR Code reference to add a registered trademark symbol; change “the QR Codes this website’s administrative users may use to set up multi-factor authentication …” to “a QR Code® (which this website’s administrative users may use to set up multi-factor authentication) …”; and adjust the trademark notice. Made the same trademark changes to the references in Data Related to Administrative Users, also changing “the QR Codes that may be used to set up multi-factor authentication are generated …” to “the QR Code® that may be used to set up multi-factor authentication is generated …” for grammatical reasons. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to Tibor Kaputa’s Simple Mobile Tools to also refer to the Simple SMS Messenger app by the same developer, making a minor wording adjustment to the existing reference for text flow.
November 5, 2022: In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “typically from sources already available to the public” to “typically (though not necessarily only) from sources already available to the public” and changed “in various print or online sources” to “in various print or online sources and/or obtain directly from you.” Later in that section, deleted the last sentence of the paragraph beginning “Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Professional Partnerships” section above …” (since that sentence was redundant with the earlier section referenced). In Nevada Consumer Opt-Out Rights, changed “(which may be extended to 90 days if we deem it reasonably necessary and notify you of the extension)” to “(which we may extend by up to 30 days if we determine that it is reasonably necessary and notify you of the extension)” to more closely reflect the statutory wording. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), adjusted the wording of three of the bullet points under “Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law” to more closely reflect the statutory wording: Changed “Language(s) spoken and/or preferred” to “Language and/or accent”; changed “Religion and/or creed” to “Religion, creed, religious belief, religious observance, and/or religious practice” and changed “Pregnancy, childbirth, and/or related medical conditions”to “Pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and/or related medical conditions”. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
October 24, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the bullet point beginning “As part of and/or in connection with our content and/or other creative endeavors …” to change “broadcast, and/or otherwise disseminated and/or made available to the public” to “broadcast, and/or otherwise made available to the public” for clarity. Later in that section, updated the reference to the ImageGlass app to add the words “image viewer app” after the name. In Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), revised the bullet point reading “Request portability of your personal data” to add a parenthetical explanation of what that right entails. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
October 17, 2022: In the Financial Transactions Policy, added a final paragraph to the preamble: “Nothing in this policy limits your rights and remedies under applicable law.” Renamed the Taxes subsection “Taxes, Duties, and Fees” and revised the wording of the text to better reflect that scope and make a number of clarifications, including clarifying that unless otherwise indicated, our prices and the charges for our services do not include any applicable taxes, duties, or other government-imposed charges or fees, and that you are obligated to file any required tax returns and other documentation and pay any applicable taxes on any payments we make to you. In the Returned Check Fees subsection, changed “by check or bank draft” to “by check, bank draft, or other negotiable instrument” for completeness. In Refunds and Returns, added clearer instructions for how to request a refund or ask for assistance with a refund or return, making some adjustments to the surrounding text for clarity with the additions. Also renamed the Information Sharing subsection “Disclosure of Transaction-Related Information” to better describe the scope of that subsection. Added ID attributes to the headings of each of the subsections to facilitate linking directly to them. Added internal links to the references to other subsections in the preamble, Consent to Electronic Communication Delivery, and Refunds and Returns subsections. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
October 9, 2022: In Definitions, fixed a typo in the “IP address” definition (there was supposed to be a comma between the first instance of “Internet service provider” and the first instance of “mobile carrier”).
October 8, 2022: In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “other delivery provider” to “other delivery service.” In the Information Sharing subsection, changed “and/or shipping agency (or agencies)” to “shipping agency (or agencies), and/or delivery service(s)” to avoid any definitional ambiguity, and for internal consistency.
October 6, 2022: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Military or veteran status” (under “Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law”) back to “Veteran or military status” to more closely reflect the statutory wording.
October 5, 2022: In Data Related to Administrative Users, changed the phrase “determined at our sole discretion” to “determined in our sole discretion.” In The Consent to Electronic Communication Delivery subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, revised the text to specify that required tax statements (but not tax forms or documents we provide for you to complete and return to us, such as to request your taxpayer identification number) will be furnished on paper unless you separately consent to receive them electronically, and that we may always elect to send you paper copies of communications in addition to or instead of sending them electronically, even if you consented to receive them electronically. Made a number of clarifications to the procedures for withdrawing consent to electronically receive communications, including clarifying that we will confirm your withdrawal of consent (and its effective date) in writing, that withdrawal of consent will not affect the delivery of any communication provided electronically prior to the effective date of the withdrawal, and that a request for paper copies of communications previously delivered electronically will not be considered a withdrawal of consent to electronically receive future communications unless you specifically indicate that you wish to withdraw consent. Rearranged the order of some text for greater clarity and readability. Also in that section, changed “No such fee will apply to paper copies of tax documents …” to “No such fee will apply to paper copies of any tax document …”
October 1, 2022: In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, revised the first numbered item to read “The use is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract, and/or;” to more closely reflect the regulatory wording. Also revised the wording of the first portion of the fourth numbered item to read “The use is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests and/or those of a third party” for the same reason (leaving the parenthetical examples unchanged). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to add several more examples of providers of filter lists, block lists, and/or other security-related information: the AdGuard Team AdGuard Filters, Peter Lowe’s ad and tracking server list, and the URLhaus Malicious URL Blocklist. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
September 29, 2022: In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, changed “We may promptly delete unsolicited offers or commercial solicitations as spam, …” to “Unless otherwise required by law, we may promptly delete unsolicited offers or commercial solicitations as spam, …” Later in that same paragraph, changed “retain applications we receive” to “retain applications for employment and/or employment referral records” and removed the references in that sentence to job openings; changed “retain employment, hiring, application, and/or related information” to “must retain application, hiring, employment, employment referral, membership, and/or personnel records, files, and related information”; and changed “retention of related data …” to “retention of such information …” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the wording of several bullet points under “Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law”: changed “Veteran or military status” to “Military or veteran status” and changed “Genetic data and/or characteristics” to “Genetic characteristics, genetic data, and/or genetic information” (to try to cover all the variations in statutory language).
September 28, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to the SQLiteStudio tool to add a trademark notice for SQLite. In the first paragraph of Security Scans and the last paragraph of Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “against unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure” to “from unauthorized or illegal access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure”. In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the last item in the first numbered list to change “… appropriate to the nature of the information” to “… appropriate to the nature of the information to protect the personal information” to more closely reflect the statutory language. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
September 27, 2022: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point regarding genetic data (under “Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law”) to read “Genetic data and/or characteristics (and/or familial genetic information, such as (without limitation) family medical history)”. (This is not a change but a clarification, to better reflect the variations in statutory wording and make clearer that federal law considers family medical history to be a type of genetic information.)
September 25, 2022: In the Taxes subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “and pay those taxes directly …” to “and remit those taxes directly …”
September 22, 2022: In the Acceptable Payment Types subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed each instance of “or electronic funds transfer” to “wire transfer, or electronic funds transfer”. (This is intended as a clarification rather than a change of policy; we had previously assumed that a wire transfer could be considered a type of electronic funds transfer, but we recently learned that U.S. banking regulations actually exclude wire transfers from the definition of electronic funds transfer, so they are apparently regarded as a different type of transfer.)
September 15, 2022: In the Acceptable Payment Types subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “their verified name …” to “the payer’s verified name …” for clarity.
September 11, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the ABBYY trademark notice.
September 7, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, fixed a typographical error in the trademark symbol in the reference to the Internet Security Research Group nonprofit organization and added the phrase “that is” immediately after that reference. Also fixed a typographical error in the GoDaddy reference (changing “permanent closed” to “permanently closed”). Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
September 6, 2022: In Embedded Content and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the Twitter trademark notices.
September 1, 2022: As a global change throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page, adjusted the formatting of certain bullet-pointed lists for greater stylistic consistency. In Definitions, updated the Cookies and similar technologies definition to add an additional informational link for Canada. Made the same change in the Cookies and Similar Technologies section of the Cookie Notice for consistency. Also updated the wording of the How This Website Uses Cookies and Similar Technologies section of the Cookie Notice to reflect the discontinuation of analytics tracking. In How You Can Correct or Update Your Personal Information and Additional Information About Data Retention on this page, changed several instances of the phrase “sensitive information” to “sensitive personal information” for greater consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
August 28, 2022: Updated the Acceptable Payment Types subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy to note that in some circumstances, we may accept certain other payment types by prior mutual agreement.
August 23, 2022: In Embedded Content, updated the Yoast SEO bullet point to indicate that the Ryte integration has been removed, revising the wording of that language accordingly. In the Consent to Electronic Communication Delivery subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed the phrase “(including, without limitation, any related agreements, disclosures, …” to “(including, without limitation, any related invoices, agreements, disclosures, …” for the avoidance of doubt. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
August 21, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the reference to Dell Technologies, Inc., to change “Dell Technologies, Inc. and/or its affiliates, …” to “Dell Technologies, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, …” and update the trademark notice.
August 20, 2022: In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, revised the first numbered provision to change “to enter into a contractual agreement with you and/or fulfill …” to “to perform and/or fulfill …” In Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), revised the bullet point on the right to object to processing of your personal data to change the phrase “including profiling” to “including automated profiling” for greater clarity. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
August 18, 2022: In Embedded Content, revised the PayPal bullet point to note that PayPal may also use automated technologies to assess this website (which may include collecting publicly available personal information published on the site) to ensure compliance with its user agreement and to combat malicious or fraudulent activity, reflecting an upcoming update to the PayPal User Agreement. Also changed the phrase “may different” to “may differ” to fix a grammatical error. In the paragraph following the bullet-pointed list, fixed another editorial error by changing “… and/or terms of service/terms” to “… and/or terms of service/terms of use.” Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
August 13, 2022: In Online Tracking, updated the “Data retention” bullet point to read, “We initiated deletion of analytics data and reports on April 5, 2022, and confirmed that the data was no longer recoverable by us as of May 11, 2022; see below for more details.” In the bullet point regarding “Persistent cookies,” deleted the final two sentences (about Client ID numbers), which are no longer relevant, and revised the reference to the Cookie Notice to add a link to that notice. In the Acceptable Payment Types subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “Failure to promptly report …” to “Failure to timely report …” and changed “(Where we are required to report a payer’s transaction(s) in this way, we are also required to notify the payer in writing that we have done so.)” to “(Where we are required to report a transaction or transactions in this way, we are also required to provide a written statement to each person named in the report.)” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, removed an extra space. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
August 7, 2022: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point beginning “Information about other professional relationships …” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to delete “contractor and/or subcontractor relationships” (since those are included in the preceding bullet point).
August 4, 2022: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Training, continuing education, professional development, career goals, and/or professional aspirations” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to “Professional qualifications, skills, training, continuing education and/or professional development, professional aspirations, and/or career goals”.
July 29, 2022: In Additional Information About Data Retention, changed the phrase “to protect someone’s health, safety, or property” to “to protect someone’s safety and/or property” (mostly for internal consistency).
July 28, 2022: In “Shine the Light” Law Disclosures (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made some wording changes to more closely align with the statutory wording: Changed “is also considered a direct marketing purpose” to “is also considered a direct marketing purpose of the business ‘that sells, rents, exchanges, or obtains consideration for the personal information'”; changed “is defined as ‘a relationship formed by a voluntary, two-way communication between a business and a customer’ that is either ongoing or was established with a purchase or other transaction within the past 18 months” to “is defined as ‘a relationship formed by a voluntary, two-way communication between a business and a customer, with or without an exchange of consideration, for the purpose of purchasing, renting, or leasing real or personal property, or any interest therein, or obtaining a product or service from the business’ that is either ongoing or was established by a purchase or other transaction within the preceding 18 months”; changed “What categories of personal information, if any, that business shared with third parties …” to “The categories of personal information, as defined in the applicable statute, that the business disclosed to third parties …”; changed “in the preceding calendar year” to “during the immediately preceding calendar year”; and changed “(The law does not require the business to reveal which specific pieces of information were shared, only the categories of information, as defined in the applicable statutes.)” to “(The law does not require the business to reveal which specific pieces of information were shared, only the categories of information, and the business may provide the required information ‘in standardized format.’)”
July 24, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point regarding our landlord(s) to change “by requesting information about the identities of our guests, …” to “by requiring us to provide certain information about our guests, …”
July 23, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the hyperlink to the HP Privacy Statement. Amended the reference to Intel Corporation to correct the reference to their privacy notice (the anchor text for the hyperlink had said “Privacy Statement” rather than “Privacy Notice”) and update the trademark notice.
July 22, 2022: In Credits and License for This Policy, changed “Therefore, this policy is also licensed …” to “Therefore, this Privacy Policy is also licensed …” In Embedded Content, changed “Embedded content providers may combine some or all of this information with other information they collect about you over time and/or across different websites and/or online services you use” to “Embedded content providers may collect personal information about your online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services”. Also revised the paragraph beginning “Embedded content providers may use various third-party service providers …” to add a sentence: “They may also collect personal information about your online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services.” In the Creative Commons bullet point, fixed an inadvertent repetition of the word “about”. In Ads on 6200 Productions, revised the first paragraph to change “they may collect and use” to “those advertisers may collect and use” and change “potentially for commercial purposes” to “and may collect personal information about your online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services”. In the paragraph about advertising on the administrative dashboard, changed “may combine some or all of that information with information they collect about the user over time and/or across different websites and/or online services” to “may also collect personal information about administrative users’ online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services” and changed “The collection, use, and retention of such data …” to “The collection, use, and retention of such personal information …” In Data Related to Administrative Users, revised the paragraph regarding advertising and/or embedded content on the administrative dashboard to fix an inadvertent duplication of the word “about” and change “may combine some or all of that information with information they collect about the user over time and/or across different websites and/or online services” to “may also collect personal information about administrative users’ online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services” for consistency. In Combining Information From Multiple Sources, changed “that relates to your online activities over time …” to “about your online activities over time …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the bullet point beginning “To publicly acknowledge and/or thank someone for their assistance” to add a disclaimer responsibility for what third parties may do with personal information contained in a published acknowledgment, and revised the bullet point regarding our content and/or other creative endeavors to add a note that we can’t control what third parties may do with personal information included, contained, and/or referenced in any content or creative endeavor that has been published, publicly performed, exhibited, broadcast, and/or otherwise disseminated and/or made available to the public. Updated the paragraph beginning “Fourth, …” to change “potentially for various commercial purposes” to “and may collect personal information about your online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services” and change “may collect personal information about logged-in administrative users, which the providers of such advertising and/or embedded content may sell and/or combine with information they collect about the user over time and/or across different websites and/or online services” to “may collect personal information about logged-in administrative users — and may collect personal information about administrative users’ online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services — which the providers of such advertising and/or embedded content may sell and/or use for various other commercial purposes”. In California Do Not Track Disclosure (CalOPPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “(California residents are entitled to this disclosure under the …” to “(This disclosure is required by the …” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the examples of “Medical information” (under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)”) to change “information about medical conditions” to “information about medical conditions, diagnoses, and/or history” for completeness, and revised the bullet point beginning “Information about community service …” (under “Other types of personal information not specifically described in the applicable statutes”) to read “Information about community service, volunteer work, civic activity (e.g., jury duty), and/or charitable activity”. In the Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “may collect personal information about logged-in administrative users, which the providers of such advertising and/or embedded content may sell and/or combine with information they collect about the user over time and/or across different websites and/or online services for various commercial purposes” to “may collect personal information about logged-in administrative users — and may collect personal information about administrative users’ online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services — which the providers of such advertising and/or embedded content may sell and/or use for various other commercial purposes for consistency. Also attempted to fix some spacing issues on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
July 21, 2022: As a global change throughout this Privacy Policy and the Your California Privacy Rights page, changed all instances of “personal information collected, disclosed or sold” to “personal information collected, disclosed, or sold” for punctuation consistency. In the Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the first numbered item in the list of business purposes under the CCPA to change “Auditing interactions with consumers” to “Auditing related to interactions with consumers” for greater consistency with the statutory wording.
July 19, 2022: In Definitions, revised the “Identifiers” definition to change “real names” to “a real name or unique pseudonym” and change the rest of the examples from plural to singular, also changing “Social Security number, taxpayer identification number” to “Social Security number or other taxpayer identification number” and adding indefinite articles to the examples for better grammar. Revised the “Names” definition to change “real, legal names” to “real names (first and/or last name(s), and in some cases middle name or middle initial)”; change “legal name” to “full legal name” for clarity; and change “(e.g., financial transactions or legal agreements)” to “(e.g., for contracts and/or other legal matters)”. In Information You Provide to Us, changed “your legal name” to “your real name” and change “contracts or legal agreements” to just “legal agreements”. In Contact Forms, changed “Special Note on Legal Names vs. Pseudonyms/Aliases” to “Special Note on Real Names vs. Pseudonyms/Aliases” and changed “We need your legal name …” to “We generally need your real name …” In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, revised the paragraph beginning “Special Note:” to change “may need your legal name” to “may need your real name” for consistency. In Data Related to Administrative Users, changed “their legal name and contact information” to “their real name and their contact information” (also for consistency). Updated the preamble of the Your California Privacy Rights page and the Cookie Notice to add a disclaimer about variations in text style having no legal significance or effect. In the Cookie Notice preamble, also made a formatting adjustment to the note about the credits and license and fixed a formatting error. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
July 16, 2022: In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, revised the paragraph beginning “As should come as no surprise given our vocation …” to add “scripts and/or screenplays” to the examples of sources in which we may look up names and/or other relevant personal details. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the wording of three of the bullet points under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e),” changing “Physical characteristics and/or descriptions of individuals (e.g., height, weight, &hellip” to “Physical characteristics and/or descriptions (e.g., an individual’s height, weight, …”; changing “Education information” to “Education”; and revising the final bullet point (about other types of insurance) to add a parenthetical aside: “(the above-referenced statute only specifically mentions insurance policy numbers, but other types of information about insurance policies and/or coverage would also seem to be reasonably encompassed by this category)”. Also added a bullet point after “Education”: “Employment and/or employment history” (although this is redundant to the separate enumerated category of “Professional or employment-related information”). Under “Professional or employment-related information,” changed “Professional and/or business certification(s), license(s), permit(s), and/or other credential(s)” to “Business and/or professional license(s), permit(s), certification(s), registration(s), and/or other credential(s)” and added “scripts and/or screenplays” to the parenthetical examples of “creative works, literary works, journalistic works, scientific works, designs, inventions, and/or performances” in the bullet point beginning “Authorship, other credits, …” Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication, including fixing an editorial error in this entry.
July 14, 2022: In Comments and Contact Forms, changed references to “emojis, and/or special characters” to just “and/or special characters” (since the former are a subset of the latter). In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “collected that information” to “collected the personal information” and rearranged the list items about information sold or disclosed for a business purpose to more closely align with the regulatory wording. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication, including fixing a typo in this entry.
July 12, 2022: In Embedded Content, updated the Yoast SEO bullet point to add language about the recently added WordProof integration; updated the trademark notice accordingly. In Consents and Agreements, changed “Other consents, preferences, and/or agreements …” to “Other consents, agreements, and/or preferences …” for wording consistency. Updated the paragraph beginning “Consents, agreements, and/or privacy preferences stored …” added language clarifying that in some cases, if a logged-in administrative user indicates their consent(s), agreement(s), and/or preferences via cookies and/or similar technologies, such consent(s), agreement(s), and/or preferences may also be stored in the website database as part of the user’s profile. Split the existing language about separate agreements into a separate sentence reading “Additionally, if in addition to indicating your consent(s), agreement(s), and/or preferences via cookies and/or similar technologies, you ALSO enter into an agreement with us and/or indicate your specific consent(s) and/or preferences in some other way, such separate consent(s), agreement(s), and/or preferences may be retained as described above.” Also changed “as that Notice explains” to “as the Cookie Notice explains” for clarity. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
July 11, 2022: In Consents and Agreements, amended the “Data retention” bullet point to change “Typically indefinite” to “Depends on context, but potentially indefinite; see below” for consistency with the main text. In Comments, revised the “Data retention” bullet point to change “comments the submitter asks us to delete” to “comments the submitter asks us to delete or that we otherwise elect to delete” for internal consistency. In the body of that section, changed “we may email you at that address in addition …” to “we may respond to your comment by emailing you at that address in addition …” for clarity and greater consistency with the Terms of Use. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point beginning “Signatures, physical and/or digital …” (under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)”) to change the phrase “the statute does not actually mention” to “the above-referenced statute does not specifically mention” for clarity.
July 10, 2022: As a global change throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page, changed various references to “fulfilling” legal obligations to “complying with” legal obligations (keeping the original tense and conjugation; this is a nitpicking wording adjustment). In Additional Information About Data Retention, also changed “or to fulfill some other reporting or disclosure requirement” to “or to comply with some other reporting or disclosure requirement” for consistency. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point beginning “Information about professional clients, …” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to change “employees, interns, business partners” to “employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, business partners” for completeness and consistency.
July 9, 2022: In Credits and License for This Policy, the preamble of the Your California Privacy Rights page, Embedded Content, and the Right of Withdrawal subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, updated the source link to the WordPress.com Terms of Service. In Notice Regarding Children Under 18, changed “by children under 18” to “by children under 18 years of age.” In the Right of Withdrawal subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, amended the second paragraph to change “withdraw from the transaction” to “withdraw from the transaction or contract”; change “(for the provision of services)” to “(for the provision of services or the supply of digital content)”; change “within fourteen (14) days from …” to “within fourteen (14) days, starting from …”; added a comma after “without giving any reason”; changed “clear, written request” to “clear written request via postal mail”; changed “For your request, …” to “To make your request, …”; changed “delivery costs” to “delivery charges” and “additional costs” to “additional charges”; changed the phrase “For this repayment, …” to “For this reimbursement, …”; and changed “If you have requested …” to “If you cancel a contract for the provision of services and you have requested …” Rearranged the text of the subsection to put the address and model form before the language about the effects of withdrawal, split the latter into multiple paragraphs, and made various wording changes (including adding a boldface subheading, “Effects of Withdrawal/Cancellation” to the first of the paragraphs describing those effects). Also added language clarifying that if you are withdrawing from the purchase of tangible goods, you must send them back before the end of the 14-day withdrawal period; that we may delay reimbursement until the goods are returned; and that you are responsible for paying any return shipping costs that may apply unless you and we expressly agree otherwise. (We did a lot of tinkering with this subsection after initial publication.) In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Professional and/or business certification(s), license(s), and/or permit(s)” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to “Professional and/or business certification(s), license(s), permit(s), and/or other credential(s)” for completeness. Fixed a punctuation error in this entry in Recent Revisions. Updated the preamble of the Older Privacy Policy Revisions page to reflect the updated credits and license information as well as the updated trademark notice. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
July 7, 2022: In Online Tracking, Embedded Content, and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the links to certain Google policy and terms documents. In the Taxes subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “(e.g., sales/use tax, VAT, GST, and/or other taxes)” to “(e.g., sales tax, use tax, VAT, GST, HST, and/or other taxes)”. Renamed the Right to Withdrawal subsection “Right of Withdrawal” and adjusted the preceding reference accordingly. In Refunds and Returns and Right of Withdrawal, changed the instances of the word “section” to “subsection” for clarity and wording consistency. Also changed both instances of “United Kingdom” to “UK” for stylistic consistency. In the latter subsection, changed “from the date of purchase” to “from the date of delivery (for the purchase of goods) or the date of conclusion of the contract (for the provision of services)”. Made a number of clarifications to the second paragraph of the subsection, including changing some instances of “contract” to “transaction or contract”; adding parenthetical language about partial withdrawals; clarifying that the stipulation about refraining from using purchased digital content or digital services applies specifically to ones purchased in the canceled transaction; and making some minor wording adjustments. Also revised the information about what a request should include (toward the end of that subsection) to format it as a model form. In Nevada Consumer Opt-Out Rights, amended the paragraph beginning “(Please note that this right does not apply …” to change two instances of “information” to “covered information” and change “other transfer of our assets” to “other transfer of control of all or part of our assets” to more closely align with the statutory wording. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
July 5, 2022: Updated Credits and License for This Policy to note that some portions of this policy are also adapted from the Terms of Service for WordPress.com (also by Automattic) and updated the trademark notice accordingly. Made the same changes to the preamble of the Your California Privacy Rights page for consistency. In Financial Transactions Policy, added a subsection called “Right to Withdrawal,” which applies to certain European and UK users. (This language is adapted from the Terms of Service for WordPress.com, also by Automattic, which is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0, like the rest of this policy.) Updated the Refunds and Returns section to reference it. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added boldface to the names of the categories. Removed an extra space. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
July 1, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended the reference to Apple Inc. to updated the trademark notice and add a disclaimer of affiliation or sponsorship. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the last bullet point under “Professional or employment-related information” (beginning “Other information about an individual’s current, past, and/or prospective employment, …”) to change both instances of “vocation, profession, trade, …” to “vocation, profession, career, trade, …” In the final bullet point under “Other types of personal information not specifically described in the applicable statutes” (regarding information about vehicles), changed “color” to “color(s)”.
June 28, 2022: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Genetic information (and/or familial genetic information)” (under “Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law”) to “Genetic data (and/or familial genetic data)”. (“Information” and “data” are reasonably synonymous in this context, but the various statutory and regulatory language generally says “genetic data.”)
June 25, 2022: In Certificate Authority Checks, changed “a service of the nonprofit …” to “a service provided by the nonprofit …” Made the same change in the reference to the CA in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information for consistency. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, revised the “Data retention” bullet point to add the phrase “(unless otherwise required by law)” before “delete or discard”; change “unsolicited offers or inquiries” to “unsolicited offers or commercial solicitations”; and change “inquiries or applications that we believe to be fraudulent or submitted by bots” to “applications or inquiries that were obviously submitted by bots rather than people” for greater consistency with the main text of that section. In the main text, updated the paragraph on retention periods to change “discard applications that were obviously generated …” to “discard applications or inquiries that were obviously generated …” again for consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
June 24, 2022: In the Refunds and Returns subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, revised the first paragraph to clarify that the refund and return policy presented is a general policy, and that if different terms are specified for a particular purchase or transaction, those specified terms shall take precedence over the general policy. In the Advertising Purchases bullet point, also changed “but prior to the expiration date” to “but prior to the expiration date of the ad commitment” for clarity and added a comma before that phrase.
June 23, 2022: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the description of the “Biometric information” category to change “provides us with information about their health, sleep, and/or exercise habits” to “provides us with examples of their handwriting and/or information about their health, sleep, and/or exercise habits”. In the examples under “Other types of personal information …” changed “Handwritten notes and/or documents; illustrations; paintings; sketches; and/or other examples of individuals’ handwriting, calligraphy, and/or artwork (in whatever medium)” to “Examples of individuals’ artwork (in whatever medium or mediums)”. In the June 22, 2022 entry in this Recent Revisions list, changed “listing details of the cookies used with Google advertising …” to “containing a detailed list of cookies associated with Google advertising …” for internal consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
June 22, 2022: In the preamble of this page and the Cookie Notice and in Cookies and Similar Technologies, changed the phrase “that explicitly require such a policy” to “that specifically require such a policy”. In Embedded Content, updated the YouTube and FeedBurner bullet points to add links to a Google page containing a detailed list of cookies associated with Google advertising and measurement products. In the Cookie Notice, updated the YouTube Videos and Vimeo Videos sections to add some additional cookies, correct the names of certain cookies (some of whose names actually start with a double underscore rather than a single underscore as previously listed), rearrange some of those cookies, and update the descriptions with some clarifications and additional relevant Google links. Also rearranged and slightly condensed the Vimeo Videos description (which was becoming unwieldy) and updated its trademark notice. Made some adjustments to the “last updated” date on the Cookie Notice (removing the day of the week and adding the word “on” after “updated”). Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
June 21, 2022: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the description of the “Education information” category to more closely reflect the statutory and regulatory definitions. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
June 18, 2022: In the Refunds and Returns subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, revised the Advertising Purchases bullet point to change the refund period for those transactions from five days to seven days. In the Other Purchase bullet point, changed the refund period for tangible goods from 21 days to 30 days and changed “from the date of your payment” to “from the date of purchase.” Also split the sentence about purchases of digital goods and/or services at “and we reserve the right …” making the latter portion a separate sentence beginning “We reserve the right …” Throughout that subsection, changed the phrase “reserve the right to refuse and/or refund” to “reserve the right to refuse and/or to refund” for greater clarity. Added a comma before the phrase “or as otherwise required by law” and changed “or otherwise required by law” to “or as otherwise required by law” (also set off with a comma) for consistency. In the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, amended the sentence beginning “All communications made or received …” to change em dashes to parentheses. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point beginning “Financial information pertaining to transactions with and/or otherwise involving …” (under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)”) to set the examples in parentheses and change “such as (without limitation)” to “e.g.” (set off with a comma) for formatting consistency. Under “Internet or other electronic network activity information,” also changed “Encryption public keys, access codes, and/or similar security data” to “Encryption public keys and/or certificates, cryptographic signatures, and/or similar security data” to better express the intended scope. Further updated the Cookie Notice to add some additional YouTube cookies to the applicable section. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
June 17, 2022: In Additional Information About Data Retention, revised the paragraph beginning “Where this policy indicates that …” to change “relevant criteria” to “relevant factors” and change “a variety of factors” to “a variety of criteria”. In the subsequent bullet-pointed list, changed “Does the information pertains” to “Does the information pertain” to fix a grammatical error. Updated the Cookie Notice to add the pm_sess and DV cookies to the list of YouTube cookies. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication (including reordering the added cookies in the Cookie Notice).
June 16, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, made a formatting adjustment to the bullet point regarding disclosures to protect property, rights, security, and/or safety. (The text of that bullet point didn’t change, just which portion is boldface, for stylistic consistency.)
June 14, 2022: In Definitions, made a number of clarifications to the definitions of “user agent information” and “metadata.” In the “Other contact information” definition, changed “specific person” to “specific individual” (mostly for consistency). In the “Other documents/materials” definition, changed “document or material” to “document and/or material” and changed “newsletters” to “press releases” (as a more representative example). In Certificate Authority Checks, revised the “Categories of information collected” bullet point to change “visitor activity (referring site)” to just “visitor activity” (which is more technically accurate). In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “individual(s) or entities” to “individuals and/or entities”. In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, revised the paragraph beginning “In the same way, …” to change “individuals or entities” to “individuals and/or entities” for consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
June 13, 2022: In the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, made some minor wording adjustments to the first sentence of the first paragraph. Also rearranged the California Department of Consumer Affairs information to put the telephone numbers before the address and added “USA” to their postal address for stylistic consistency.
June 12, 2022: In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, revised the paragraph on retention to change “unsolicited offers or solicitations” to “unsolicited offers or commercial solicitations” for clarity and change “… may discard applications that appear to be fraudulent or that were obviously generated by bots rather than people” to “… may (unless otherwise required by law) discard applications that were obviously generated by bots rather than people.”
June 9, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to Proton Mail to reflect the latest stylization (e.g., to style “Proton Mail” as two words rather than one), company name, policy links, trademark information, and other incidental details.
June 8, 2022: In Definitions, updated the “Referring site” definition to change “take steps to remove …” to “claim to take steps to remove …” In Nevada Consumer Opt-Out Rights, set the paragraph beginning “Please note that …” in parentheses and changed “To request to opt out of the sale of your covered information in this way, …” to “To submit a request to opt out of the sale of your covered information, …” for clarity.
June 5, 2022: In Additional Information About Data Retention, amended the bullet point beginning “How personal is the information?” to add “Is it sensitive information, such as a Social Security number? (We generally try to avoid collecting or retaining Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, or other government-issued identification numbers except where we’re legally required to do so.)” before “Is it private or confidential, …” and delete the word “otherwise.” Moved the Opting-Out or Submitting Other California Privacy Requests (Do Not Sell My Personal Information Page) section (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page) to make it a subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice, immediately following the Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information subsection, added an ID value to the heading of the version that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page (for hyperlinking and labeling purposes), and updated the Table of Contents accordingly. In the Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), deleted the second half of the final paragraph (which began “If you are a California resident …”), since that same text (verbatim) now appears in the subsection immediately following that one. Made some wording adjustments to the preamble of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page) for clarity, including adding an internal link to the Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) section. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), adjusted the text style of the first sentence of the paragraph beginning “Please note that we do not necessarily collect …” Later in that subsection, updated the paragraph beginning “The fact that we collected and/or inferred …” to explain that our typical retention periods for personal information are discussed throughout the Privacy Policy and in Additional Information About Data Retention, adding links to the latter section and to the Table of Contents. (We also added a variation of the same language to the version of that section that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, adjusting the links and wording accordingly.) In the Collection Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page only, not on the Your California Privacy Rights page), added quotation marks to the reference to the Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection section for stylistic consistency. In the version of the California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) section that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, fixed a formatting error with the 2020 metrics table. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
June 3, 2022: In the Table of Contents, added some code labels for the benefit of screen readers and other assistive technologies. Throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page, updated the specific references to sections of the CCPA regulations to reflect the recent renumbering/reorganization of those regulations, retaining the previous section numbers in brackets for reference. In Additional Information About Data Retention, revised the bullet point regarding email to add language explaining WHY we typically retain email indefinitely. Also replaced the paragraph that began “Personal information we may collect in connection with …” with a new paragraph describing the criteria we may use in determining the actual retention period of information retained indefinitely, including a list of representative examples of such criteria. In the subsequent list of conditions in which we may delete, discard, or destroy data, added the words “to the extent legally permitted,” separated by commas, after “we may,” and changed “unreadable” to “illegible.” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point beginning “Financial information pertaining to transactions …” (under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)”) to change “transaction ID numbers” to “invoices, transaction receipts, transaction ID numbers” (mostly for the avoidance of doubt, since the information already described in that bullet point consists largely of information found on or derived from invoices and receipts). In California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures), made some code adjustments to the tables for better accessibility and added table captions. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
May 29, 2022: In Credits and License for This Policy and the preambles of the Your California Privacy Rights page, the Cookie Notice, and the Older Privacy Policy Revisions, clarified the wording of the license language. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, revised the “Categories of information collected” bullet point to change “related tax documents, other payroll-related information” to “tax documents, payment- and/or payroll-related information”. Made some further adjustments to the examples presented in the paragraph beginning “In such situations, …” mostly for wording consistency. In Nevada Consumer Opt-Out Rights, revised and updated the text for clarity and to more closely align with the wording of the law. (These changes went through several iterations.) Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
May 28, 2022: In Definitions, made some revisions to the wording of the “Personal information/personal data/personally identifying information/personally identifiable information” definition (shifting from the second person to the third and making some clarifications). Also revised the definition of “Identifiers” to change “driver’s license numbers, Social Security numbers, …” to “Social Security numbers, taxpayer identification numbers, driver’s license or state ID card numbers, passport numbers, …” and revised the definition of “Other contact information” to clarify that it can also include any other identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online. As a global change throughout the various “Categories of information collected” bullet points, changed “other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses)*” to “other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses, and/or other online contact info)*”. In Data in Submitted Images, revised the “Categories of information collected” bullet point to change “geolocation data (provided by the creator/rights holder/repository, determined from metadata, and/or inferred from other data)*” to just “geolocation data*”. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, revised “Categories of information collected” to add “special: government-issued identification (e.g., driver’s license, state ID card, and/or passport)*” for consistency with the text of that section and change “taxpayer identification numbers” to “Social Security numbers and/or other taxpayer identification numbers”. In the paragraph beginning “In such situations, …” made some clarifications about the types of information that may be collected in those circumstances. In Financial Transactions Policy, revised “Categories of information collected” to add “special: government-issued identification (e.g., driver’s license, state ID card, and/or passport)*” and change “taxpayer identification numbers” to “Social Security numbers and/or other taxpayer identification numbers”. In the Taxes subsection, made some clarifications to the text (including explaining reporting requirements may involve other government entities besides tax agencies, and that we may need to collect additional information from you for the purposes described) and split it into multiple paragraphs. In the Data Retention subsection, added a parenthetical sentence about legal retention requirements. In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, revised “Categories of information collected” to add “special: government-issued identification (e.g., driver’s license, state ID card, and/or passport)*” and change “taxpayer identification numbers” to “Social Security numbers and/or other taxpayer identification numbers”. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, revised the “Categories of information collected” bullet point to change “geolocation data (provided by sources and/or inferred from other data)*” to just “geolocation data*” and added “special: other visible and/or audible information that may be personally identifiable and/or potentially personally identifiable (e.g., a pictured car’s license plate and/or vehicle identification numbers)*” for consistency with Data in Submitted Images. In Additional Information About Data Retention, changed “(e.g., a contractual obligation to return or destroy certain information after a specific period of time)” to “(e.g., statutory retention requirements, or a contractual obligation to return or destroy certain information after a specific period of time)”. In “Shine the Light” Law Disclosures (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “as defined by …” to “as defined in …” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “driver’s license numbers” to “driver’s license numbers, state ID card numbers” (in the examples of “Identifiers”) for consistency. In the Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “as defined by …” to “as defined in …” In California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “as defined by the CCPA” to “which is how the CCPA defines that term” for clarity. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
May 24, 2022: In Definitions, revised the “Email address(es)” definition to mention that email is typically also our main means of communicating with clients. In Information You Provide to Us, updated the language about information we need to collect, mostly for greater consistency with other sections of this policy (e.g., to mention that in some circumstances, we may be legally obligated to collect certain information) and to add a reference and internal link to the Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring or Business Partnerships section. In Other Information You Provide to Us, noted that the information you will likely provide to us in connection with hiring or seeking to hire us to perform professional writing/editing/writing consulting services will probably include your contact details (although we would hope this would be self-evident!). In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), fixed the punctuation of “et seq.”
May 23, 2022: As a global change (except in Definitions and earlier entries in this Recent Revisions list), changed “potentially personally identifying” to “potentially personally identifiable” throughout. (For the purposes of this policy, those terms have the same intended meaning, which is explained in Definitions.) Also changed some but not all instances of the phrase “personally identifying” to “personally identifiable” throughout (again excepting this Recent Revisions list). In Definitions, changed the definition of “Personal information/personally identifying information/personal data” to “Personal information/personal data/personally identifying information/personally identifiable information”; clarified that this policy uses all of those terms interchangeably, made some wording revisions, and added a note that earlier versions of this policy used the term “potentially personally identifying information,” which meant the same thing as “potentially personally identifiable information” in the current version. In Data Related to Administrative Users, changed “any persons younger than 18” to “any person under the age of 18” for grammar and internal consistency. In Information Captured by Service/Software/App/Device Telemetry, changed “The information collected by these mechanisms can sometimes include personal information or …” to “The information collected by these mechanisms can sometimes include personal information and/or …” In the PayPal Buttons section of the Cookie Notice, changed “no personally identifying information” to “no personally identifiable information” for consistency. Amended the September 18, 2021 entry below to fix a capitalization error in a prior reference to the Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information section.
May 22, 2022: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the examples of “Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information” to note that this category may also encompass the sensory information normally received in the course of interacting with people in person (and thus seeing their faces, hearing their voices, etc.). (This is a clarification, not a change in the types of information collected.)
May 14, 2022: Renamed the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice “Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information” (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page) and updated the Table of Contents and other internal references accordingly. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, made some punctuation adjustments to the reference to Epic Browser and its associated features (changing commas to semicolons). In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the descriptions of the CCPA rights to more closely reflect the regulatory wording. In Opting-Out or Submitting Other California Privacy Requests (Do Not Sell My Personal Information Page) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “If you are a California resident and would like to exercise your Right to Opt-Out of the sale of your personal information, or any of your other rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) or other California privacy laws — e.g., the Right to Know (a.k.a. the right to access) and/or the Right to Delete your personal information …” to “If you are a California resident and would like to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, and/or to exercise any of the other privacy rights provided by California law — e.g., to request to know about personal information collected, disclosed or sold, and/or request deletion of your personal information …” In the Disclosure or Sale of Personal Information subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice and Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “the Right to Know (a.k.a. the right to access), the Right to Delete your personal information, and/or the Right to Opt-Out of the sale of your personal information” to “to request to know about personal information collected, disclosed, or sold; request deletion of your personal information; and/or request to opt-out of the sale of your personal information” (again for internal consistency). Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
May 12, 2022: In Online Tracking, updated the text to reflect the fact that the analytics property has now been removed from the Trash Can of the analytics service. In Contact Forms, revised the bullet-pointed provision beginning “If your message contains questions, …” to change “we will endeavor to do so at our earliest opportunity” to “we will endeavor to do so (to the extent we reasonably can) at our earliest opportunity” for consistency with the current wording of the Terms of Use. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the Facebook trademark notice and made a minor punctuation adjustment to that reference for clarity. Also added the Akismet spam-filtering service (and/or similar spam filtering services) to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers in that section. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the wording of two bullet points under “Professional or employment-related information”: Changed “Current and/or past occupation(s), job title(s), position(s), role(s), duties, and/or responsibilities” to “Current and/or past occupation(s), job(s), job title(s), position(s), role(s), duties, and/or responsibilities” and revised the final bullet point in that category to change both instances of “employment, occupation, work, vocation, …” to “employment, occupation, job(s), work, vocation, …”
April 30, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point regarding our landlord(s) to note that they may also collect personal information from and/or about anyone who enters their premises (including, but not limited to, through the use of security cameras and/or other automated systems). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the “Biometric information” category description to better reflect the statutory definition and rearrange the order of the examples.
April 26, 2022: In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, revised the examples in the paragraph beginning “in such situations, …” to change “employment history” to “employment histories” for grammatical consistency and change “salary or compensation information and/or history” to “information about professional charges, rates, and/or fees; information about salaries, compensation, and/or benefits (e.g., salary histories and/or salary expectations)” to better represent the range of possibilities. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Current and/or past compensation and/or benefits” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to “Current and/or past salary, compensation, and/or benefits” for internal consistency and added an additional example to that category: “Professional charges, rates, and/or fees” (mostly for internal consistency and the avoidance of doubt, since such information would be reasonably encompassed by the final “Other information about …” bullet point under that category). In the last bullet point under that category, changed both instances of “occupation, work, vocation” to “employment, occupation, work, vocation” for completeness. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication, including fixing an erroneous reference in an earlier version of this entry to the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice.
April 23, 2022: In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, added “special: other identifiers*” to the “Categories of information collected” bullet point (mostly for internal consistency; the types of information the logs collect hasn’t changed). In Contact Forms, added a paragraph after the list of circumstances in which messages may be published noting that we can’t control and take no responsibility for what third parties may do with personal information a published message may contain. In Data in Submitted Images, also deleted the separate reference to “metadata” in “Categories of information collected” (since it’s redundant and already reflected earlier in that list). (We had marked this change on April 22, 2022, but belatedly realized afterward that we hadn’t actually executed it. We did so early on April 23, 2022, updating the April 22, 2022 entry accordingly.) Also in Data in Submitted Images, added boldface to the statement about not being able to control and taking no responsibility for what third parties may do with personal information contained in published images and/or other media files or their metadata, and removed boldface from the following paragraph about adding metadata to images and/or other media. In Data Related to Administrative Users, updated the paragraph about embedded content in administrative emails to change “free to block the loading or download …” to “free to block the loading or downloading …” in the interests of better grammar. In Combining Information From Multiple Sources, changed “that relates to your online activities across different websites and/or online services” to “that relates to your online activities over time and/or across different websites and/or online services”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information and in the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed the phrase “other cohabitants” to just “cohabitants” (which in this context is meant in the broad sense of “other people living in the same home”). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point beginning “Race, color, ethnicity, …” (under “Characteristics of protected classifications”) to change “residency status” to “immigration status” (which better expresses the intended scope in the context of federal and state nondiscrimination laws). In the “Professional or employment-related information” category later in that same subsection (also on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Business or organization ownership, officership, and/or registration information …” to “Business or organization ownership, directorship, officership, management, and/or registration information” and changed “an officer or trustee” to “and officer or director”; changed “Information about professional clients, clientele, customers, users, advertisers and/or sponsors, vendors, service providers, and/or subcontractors” to “Information about professional clients, clientele, customers, users, advertisers and/or sponsors, affiliates, subsidiaries, vendors, service providers, contractors, subcontractors, employees, interns, business partners, directors, officers, and/or shareholders”; and changed “endorsement, sponsorship, and/or affiliate relationships” to “advertising, endorsement, sponsorship, and/or affiliate relationships”. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
April 22, 2022: Revised some of the “Categories of information collected” bullet points throughout this page to make some adjustments to the use of asterisks (to indicate types of information that may be collected in some instances and not in others) for greater logical consistency. (This is mostly for consistency of presentation; the types of information that may be collected haven’t changed in any substantive way.) In Data Related to Administrative Users, added “fulfilling a contractual obligation” to the “Purpose(s)” bullet point (since it’s possible an administrative user might be an independent contractor or outside service provider doing administrative tasks under contract). Also added a paragraph to the text about embedded content and other remotely served code and/or content that may be incorporated into administrative email messages (e.g., logo images hosted on the web servers for this website, which some plugins may automatically add to administrative emails). In the Consent to Electronic Communication Delivery subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, revised the paragraph beginning “You are responsible for promptly …” to change “we shall be deemed to have provided you with the communication” to “we shall (except as otherwise required by law) be deemed to have provided you with the communication.” Made a minor adjustment to the April 21, 2022 entry below (adding quotation marks around both instances of “Categories of information collected”) for stylistic consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
April 21, 2022: In Online Tracking, revised the second paragraph (beginning (“The Google Analytics service uses …”) to add “their geographical locations (estimated based on their IP addresses and/or inferred from other data)” to the types of information the service gathered. (This isn’t new, and is also noted in “Categories of information collected,” but we wanted to make sure it remains clear despite our having condensed the text of this section to reflect our discontinuation of analytics tracking.) In the subsequent bullet point beginning “No further data collection:” changed “collect information about site visitors” to “collect information about site visitors on our behalf” for clarity. In Data in Submitted Images, amended the “Categories of information” collected bullet point to change “other contact information*” to “other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses)*” for internal consistency. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, amended the “Categories of information collected” bullet point to add asterisks after “other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses)” and “other personal information” (again for internal consistency). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added Zendesk, Inc. to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers (in the “Providers whose services we may use in operating this website” bullet point). Also fixed a punctuation error (a missing semicolon) in that section. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
April 18, 2022: In Online Tracking, fixed a formatting error in the “Further Information About the Google Analytics Service and Our Use of It” subheading. In the first paragraph of Security Scans and the final paragraph of Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “protect against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of personal information we collect through and/or in connection with the 6200 Productions website and/or our professional writing/editing and writing consulting business” to “protect personal information we collect through and/or in connection with the 6200 Productions website and/or our professional writing/editing and writing consulting business against unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure” (in the interests of better grammar and to more closely align with the wording of related state statutes). Later in Security Scans, also revised the paragraph regarding email servers to change “may use a variety of means” to “may use various measures” (mostly for wording consistency). In the preceding paragraph in Security Scans and the first paragraph of Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, also changed the phrase “those examples should not be regarded as an exhaustive list” to “those examples should not be regarded as an exhaustive list, and we don’t necessarily use all of those providers at any given time.” In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, revised the paragraph beginning “(Again, the above scenarios …” to change the reference to the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice to specifically reference the “Categories of Personal Information Collected” subsection of that notice (and add a link to it) for clarity. In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy page), changed “The rights the CCPA provides California residents include:” to “If you are a California resident, your rights under the CCPA include:” for clarity. In the numbered list, changed “no more than twice in any 12-month period” to “not more than twice in a 12-month period” and changed “for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA” to “for exercising your privacy rights under the CCPA.” On this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page, adjusted the heading levels of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice, the California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) section, and their various subsections and updated the Table of Contents accordingly. (This is mostly a stylistic change.) Renamed the yearly subsections of the California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) section from “California Privacy Request Metrics for the …” to “California Privacy Requests Received in …” and deleted the words “Calendar Year” in the interests of clarity. Also fixed a related technical error in the Table of Contents. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made a stylistic adjustment to the paragraph beginning “Put simply, by the law’s extremely broad definitions, …” (changing the font color), mostly for consistency. (We also made some global changes to the text styles of headings — across the entire site, not just to this policy or the Your California Privacy Rights page — by adjusting the website stylesheet. As noted in the preamble, variations in text style have no legal significance or effect.) Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
April 15, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added MailChannels Corporation to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers (in the “Providers whose services we may use in operating this website” bullet point).
April 14, 2022: In the Consent to Electronic Communication Delivery subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, added the parenthetical phrase “(to the extent permitted by applicable law)” after both instances of the phrase “we reserve the right”.
April 12, 2022: In Notice Regarding Children Under 18, changed “know to be from a child …” to “know or subsequently discover to be from a child …” In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection, revised the parenthetical examples of information that is considered sensitive personal information in some jurisdictions to change “(e.g., political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation)” to “(e.g., political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, union membership, sexual orientation).” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point on “Health insurance information” (under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)” to change “application or claims histories” to “application or claims records” in the interests of clarity. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
April 11, 2022: In Notice Regarding Children Under 18 and Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added a paragraph reiterating the statement that except as otherwise required by law, privacy-related request or inquiries pertaining to children under 18 should be submitted by a parent, legal guardian, or other authorized adult representative. In Additional Information About Data Retention, updated the first bullet point to deleted the phrase “which may sometimes include information about or in some way connected with visitors to this website” (which remains true, but is not really germane to the intended point). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “if we have roommates, houseguests, other cohabitants, and/or visitors” to “if the owner has roommates, other cohabitants, guests, and/or visitors in the owner’s home” for greater clarity. Made the same change in the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page) for consistency. Later in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “collect from individual visitors …” to “collect about individual visitors …” Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
April 10, 2022: As a global change throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page (except in older entries in this Recent Revisions list), adjusted the capitalization of “Social Security numbers” (to make “numbers” lowercase). In Notice to Parents Regarding Children Under 18, added additional information about requesting removal or deletion of information, including a (legally required) disclaimer that it doesn’t ensure complete or comprehensive removal. Also renamed that section “Notice Regarding Children Under 18” and updated the Table of Contents accordingly. In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, amended the bullet point regarding consent to add a sentence: “(You have the right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.)” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added “weather services and/or weather bureaus” to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers (in the “Other types of vendors and/or service providers” bullet point). In Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), updated the list of GDPR rights to delete the semicolon and the word “and” from the end of the bullet point on the right to object and add a bullet point regarding the right to withdraw consent. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
April 7, 2022: In Online Tracking, updated the bullet point on “Data deletion” to change “remain in the service’s Trash Can for 35 days” to “remain in the service’s Trash Can for 35 days (in this case, through May 11, 2022)” for clarity. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, made a minor stylistic adjustment to the DOI trademark symbols; revised the references to Wikimedia Foundation projects to remove the hyperlink from “Wikipedia®” (a privacy policy link that is now duplicative); and changed “museums, libraries, archives, and/or databases, public or otherwise” to “museums, libraries, archives, and/or databases, public and/or private” for internal consistency. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the paragraph beginning “To achieve the purposes listed …” to adjust the link attributes of the link to the Ate Up With Motor Privacy Policy (to add rel=”noopener noreferrer”), mostly for consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
April 5, 2022: Extensively revised the Online Tracking section to explain that we have now discontinued our use of Google Analytics tracking on this website. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the paragraph about Google Analytics tracking to reflect our discontinuation of analytics tracking. In the Cookie Notice, updated the Google Analytics and Disable Google Analytics Tracking categories to reflect our discontinuation of analytics tracking. Also updated the meta description of the Your California Privacy Rights page. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions (and this summary of them) after initial publication.
April 4, 2022: In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection, revised the paragraph beginning “Please also note that while the listed categories are intended to encompass …” to explain that the “other personal information*” catch-all category may encompass various different types or categories of personal information, including some representative examples. In the final paragraph of that section, deleted the sentence “California law now defines a series of specific categories of personal information, which are not necessarily intuitive or easy for the average person to grasp without actually reading the applicable statutes or referring to a list of examples.” In the first sentence of the preamble of the Your California Privacy Rights page, removed the parentheses around the phrase “and is effective” for consistency with this page. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
April 3, 2022: In the Effective Date section of the preamble, changed “This version of the Privacy Policy is effective …” to “This version of the Privacy Policy was last updated on and is effective …” In Comments; Contact Forms; and Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, changed “which may from a variety of sources” to “which may come from a variety of sources” (since we somehow managed to omit the word “come” all three times).
April 1, 2022: As a global change throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page (except in the earlier entries in this Recent Revisions list), changed the phrase “Advertising and other commercial purposes” (referring to purposes for collecting and using information” to “Advertising or other commercial purposes”. (This is a nitpicky semantic adjustment that doesn’t reflect any change in our actual practices.) In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list in the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the “Legal compliance or audit” bullet point to change “to respond to subpoenas and/or other court orders” to “to respond to subpoenas, court orders, and/or other official orders”. (This is another semantic adjustment that doesn’t reflect any change in practices.) In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “As otherwise required by law” to “As otherwise legally required” and changed “subpoena or other court order” to “subpoena, court order, or other official order”. In Additional Information About Data Retention, revised the paragraph beginning “Special Note on Subpoenas, Court Orders, and Preservation Requests” to change “to the extent required by applicable law, which in some cases may also require us …” to “to the extent legally required; in some cases, we may also be required …”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “If we are required by law to do so” to “If we are legally required to do so”; changed “other court order or administrative order” to “court order, or official order”; and changed “with applicable laws and/or regulations” to “with applicable laws, regulations, and/or orders”; made the same changes to the equivalent item in the the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page) for consistency. (These also are fussy semantic changes.) In the preamble of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed both instances of the word “notices” to “disclosures”. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point beginning “Information about food, beverages, …” (under “Commercial information”) to change “consumes, prefers, and/or disdains” to “consumes, is considering or has considered, prefers, and/or disdains” (mostly for wording consistency).
March 30, 2022: In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the list of CCPA rights to change “The right to not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising these rights” to “The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA.” Changed “You (or your authorized agent) can exercise your California privacy rights via …” to “You (or your authorized agent) can submit a request to know, a request to delete, and/or a request to opt-out via …” Updated the paragraph beginning “In order to better safeguard …” to add some general information about the identity verification process. Subsequently updated that paragraph further to add information about verification for requests submitted by an authorized agent. In Opting-Out or Submitting Other California Privacy Requests (Do Not Sell My Personal Information Page) and the final paragraph of the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “you (or your authorized agent) should visit …” to “you (or your authorized agent) can submit a request via any of the methods specified on …” Also in the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the numbered list of business purposes to add an additional item: “Collection of employment-related information (as defined by Section 999.301(f) of the CCPA regulations), including for the purpose of administering employment benefits.” Adjusted the punctuation of the list accordingly. In the final paragraph of that subsection, also changed “feel free to contact us …” to “or if you have any concerns about those practices, feel free to contact us …” In Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “If you have questions about …” to “If you have questions or concerns about …” Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication. In the preamble of the Your California Privacy Rights page, moved the effective date to follow “The text of this page,” set off with commas and preceded by the phrase “which was last updated on (and is effective)”. In the preamble of the Cookie Notice, changed “was last revised …” to “was last updated …”
March 29, 2022: As a global change in the various “Categories of information collected” bullet points throughout this page, changed “special: mobile phone types/models (determined from user agent information)*” to “special: mobile device types/models (determined from user agent information)*” (since user agent information can sometimes indicate the types/models of tablets or other mobile devices as well as smartphones). In Contact Forms, revised the paragraph beginning “If you use the California Privacy Request Form on …” to change “on behalf of someone else for whom you are acting as an authorized agent” to just “on behalf of someone else” and add a final sentence: “(You can find more information about the verification requirements in the “Identity Verification Requirements” section of the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page.)”
March 28, 2022: In Online Tracking, revised the third numbered option for withdrawing consent to analytics tracking to change “This will cause the notification banner to reappear, …” to “This should cause the notification banner to reappear the next time you visit or refresh/reload a page on this website, …” for greater clarity. In the Consent to Electronic Communication Delivery subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, amended the listed hardware and software requirements to change the phrase “to store the communications” to “to store the communications electronically” for clarity. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed several instances of the phrase “though not” to “but not” and changed “information collected through cookies and/or similar technologies” (under “Identifiers”) to “information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies” for wording consistency. In the second-to-last bullet point under “Commercial information,” changed “consuming history and/or tendencies” to “consuming histories and/or tendencies”. Under “Professional or employment-related information,” combined the bullet points “Professional references” and “Performance evaluations and/or information about an individual’s professional reputation and/or conduct” into a single bullet point. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the paragraph about embedded content providers to change “information collected through cookies and/or similar technologies” to “information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies” (again for wording consistency). Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
March 27, 2022: In Information We Receive From Third Parties for Security Purposes, updated the paragraph beginning “In many cases, …” to add “IP addresses” to the examples of information we might submit to list or database maintainers. (This is mainly for the avoidance of doubt, since hostnames, already listed among those non-exhaustive examples, typically incorporate IP addresses, as explained in Definitions.) Also changed “or post information on support forums in order to obtain help or advice in preventing and/or remediating certain malicious activity” to “post information on support forums in order to obtain help or advice in preventing and/or remediating certain malicious activity; or contact Internet service providers, web hosts, or email providers regarding malicious or fraudulent activity involving their systems” (separated with a semicolon) as an additional illustrative example. (The latter has long been part of our customary practice and is clearly encompassed by the category of disclosures we believe in good faith are reasonably necessary for our security and/or the security of others.) In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “plays and/or theatrical productions; audio recordings; broadcasts of whatever type; public records; and/or online or offline electronic resources such as (again without limitation) websites, search engines, library catalogs, repositories, and/or databases” to “plays and/or theatrical productions; television programs; radio programs; broadcasts and/or streaming media of whatever type(s); podcasts; other audio recordings; online or offline electronic resources such as (again without limitation) social media, search engines, websites, library catalogs, repositories, and/or databases; and/or public records” (mostly for greater consistency with the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information and the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed several instances of the phrase “whatever type” to “whatever type(s)” for internal consistency. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), fixed a typographical error in the paragraph about embedded content providers (we misspelled “monetary” in the revision made on March 26, 2022). Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
March 26, 2022: In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, added some additional examples of legitimate interests, made some wording adjustments to the examples already listed, and reordered several of the examples. In How You Can Correct or Update Your Personal Information, changed “free expression” to “freedom of expression” for consistency. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the paragraph beginning “By the CCPA definitions, …” to change “monetary compensation or other valuable consideration” to “monetary or other valuable consideration”. In the subsequent paragraph about embedded content providers (beginning “Additionally, …”), changed “monetary compensation” to “monetary consideration” for consistency.
March 25, 2022: In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, added some additional examples of legitimate interests and made some wording adjustments to the examples already listed in that provision. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
March 23, 2022: In Online Tracking, made a minor adjustment to the trademark notice at the end of the section. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, made a minor punctuation adjustment to the Renesas trademark notice. In the Cookie Notice, updated the trademark notices in the Google Analytics and Disable Google Analytics Tracking sections for consistency with the Online Tracking section on this page. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
March 20, 2022: In Online Tracking, revised the paragraph beginning “Because we generally don’t have direct access to the cookies …” to change “we can’t usually link …” to “we generally can’t link …” Later in that section, changed “you have several options for disabling tracking:” to “you have several options for withdrawing your consent and disabling tracking:” Added a paragraph later in that section explaining that withdrawing consent does not remove or delete previously collected analytics data and describing the possibility (and limitations) of removing an individual visitor’s user data from the analytics reports. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, revised the paragraph beginning “In such situations, …” to change “must and/or must not collect or consider” to “must or must not collect and/or consider” (which makes more sense in context). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point beginning “Information about other beliefs, …” (under “Other types of personal information”) to read “Information about philosophical or other beliefs, opinions, feelings, predispositions, attitudes, ideas, and/or viewpoints” to better describe the intended scope.
March 19, 2022: In the preamble, added a comma before “and/or our professional …” for grammatical reasons. In Online Tracking, revised the first paragraph to close the parentheses at the end of the sentence beginning “We don’t currently …” rather than at the end of the paragraph and change “certain embedded content on the administrative dashboard” to just “certain embedded content”. In the second paragraph of that section, changed “uses cookies (specifically, first-party “tracking cookies”)” to “may use cookies” and changed “site visitors who consent to tracking” to “site visitors.” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the references to Yahoo and AOL services to update the trademark notices. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
March 15, 2022: As a global change, changed the phrase “universally unique” to “unique” throughout. In Online Tracking, updated the paragraph beginning “The Google Analytic service uses …” to change “the brands and models of visitors’ mobile devices” to “the brands and/or models of visitors’ mobile devices”; change “the advertising identifier(s) other universally unique identifiers” to “the advertising identifier(s) and/or other unique identifiers” (the omission of the conjunction was a typographical error); change “desktop computers, or other devices” to “desktop computers, and/or other devices”; change “related search terms or queries” to “related search terms and/or queries”; and remove an extra space. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended the reference to WebAIM to clarify that WebAIM is at Utah State University and update the trademark notice. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
March 12, 2022: In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, revised the paragraph beginning “If a transaction is completed via PayPal services, …” to change “This transaction report does NOT include bank account or credit card numbers — the PayPal services do not provide and we do not have access to any credit card, bank account, or other financial institution account information you use …” to “This transaction report does NOT include and we do not have access to any credit card, debit card, bank account, or other financial account information you use …” for clarity and internal consistency. Later in that same paragraph, changed “via that service” to “via those services” for consistency and added the parenthetical phrase “(but may include our credit card, debit card, bank account, and/or other financial account information where applicable)” to the end of that sentence. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised two of the bullet points under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)”: In the bullet point beginning “Financial information pertaining to transactions with and/or otherwise involving …” changed “other financial institution account” to “other financial account” and deleted the parenthetical aside regarding PayPal services (which was of marginal relevance and potentially confusing in that context); in the bullet point beginning “Health insurance information …” changed “do NOT collect policy numbers or similar data” to “do NOT collect policy numbers, application or claims histories, or other such data (other than the owner’s own)” for clarity and the avoidance of doubt.
March 10, 2022: As a global change, changed the phrase “related tax documents” to “relevant tax documents” throughout (except in the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), where we left the phrase as it was). In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “your applicable taxpayer identification number, and/or relevant tax documents” to “tax ID number(s), relevant tax documents, and/or other tax-related information.”
March 8, 2022: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the “Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information” bullet point to change “voice(s)” to “voices” for grammatical consistency.
March 6, 2022: In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, added a final paragraph (adapted from the current Automattic language) about how to contact us for more information regarding international transfers of personal information. In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list in the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the “Security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement” bullet point to change “protect this website” to “safeguard this website”; change “from malicious activity” to “against malicious activity”; and change “safeguard our property” to “protect our property”. (This is strictly a nitpicking wording adjustment that doesn’t reflect any substantive change in the purposes described.) In the Consent to Electronic Communication Delivery subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, revised the hardware and software requirements to change “that supports 128-bit or stronger encryption” to “that supports 256-bit or stronger encryption” (since the latter is the actual strength of this website’s current encryption setup). Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
March 5, 2022: In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, changed “third-party data processors” to “third-party data processors (including, though not limited to, our web host, which also hosts the mail servers for our 6200productions.com email addresses).” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the last paragraph to change “and appropriate password protection” to “appropriate password protection, and (where available and appropriate) multi-factor authentication.”
March 3, 2022: In Definitions, revised the definition of “Special” to read “This policy uses this term as a prefix in referring to certain types of information that call for special explanation because they aren’t easily categorized, overlap several different categories of personal information, and/or may or may not necessarily constitute personal information in all cases.” In Security Scans, updated the paragraph regarding the Sucuri Security plugin to change “and/or information in comments or …” to “the website domain name, username, and email address of an administrative user who generates an API key for communication with the remote service; and/or information contained in published comments and/or …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the item about services that file other types of official documents and/or publish legally required notices on our behalf (under “Other types of vendors and/or service providers”) to change “(such as, without limitation, fictitious business name filing/registration services)” to “(e.g., fictitious business name filing/registration services and/or motor vehicle registration services)”.
March 2, 2022: In the preamble, changed “in connection with this website (https://www.6200productions, including, …” to “in connection with the 6200 Productions website, www.6200productions.com (including, …”; changed “this website” to “the 6200 Productions website”; added a new second sentence to the first paragraph (reading “Please read this policy carefully”); changed “linked from 6200 Productions” to “linked from the 6200 Productions website”; changed “in addition to or instead of this policy” to “in addition to or instead of this Privacy Policy”; and changed “of this website” to “for the 6200 Productions website.” In the version of Who We Are that appears on this page, changed “the owner of this website” to “the owner and operator of the www.6200productions.com website”; deleted the text regarding DreamHost policies (instead making the first instance of “DreamHost®” the anchor text for a hyperlink to the DreamHost Privacy Policy); and changed “this website” to “the 6200 Productions website”. In the version of Who We Are that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, added the phrase “the owner and operator of the www.6200productions.com website” before “a U.S. citizen …” (set off with a comma) for consistency. In both versions of Who We Are, changed “the terms” to “the words” and deleted the phrase “shall be deemed to refer to” in the interests of reducing legal jargon. In Security Scans, changed “that visitor’s IP address” to “that visitor’s IP address and/or hostname” and updated the paragraph regarding the iThemes Security plugin to also mention the QR Code generation API service used for multi-factor authentication setup. Also updated that paragraph’s trademark notices accordingly. In Data in Submitted Images, revised the paragraph beginning “Naturally, if you submit …” to change three instances of “or media file” to “image or other media file” and change “a published image/other media file or its metadata may contain” to “a published image or other media file or its metadata may contain.” In the subsequent paragraph about gathering additional information, changed “the images and/or media files” to “the images and/or other media files” In the subsequent paragraph about removing or redacting information, changed “image or media” to “image or other media”. In the paragraph beginning “In some cases, …” changed “specifically” to “specific” and changed “images/media files” to “images and/or other media files”. In the paragraph following that one, changed “the earlier version of the image or media file” to “the earlier version of the image or other media file”. In the final paragraph of that section, changed “If you have questions about image-related data, …” to “If you have questions about data related to images and/or other media, …” In Data Related to Administrative Users, added information about the QR Code API service and updated the paragraph regarding email notifications to note that if an administrative user requests a password reset, the confirmation email will include the IP address from which the reset request was made. In the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “would like further information” to “would like to receive further information” and amended the postal mail information to change “Attn: Customer Service” to “Attn: 6200 Productions Customer Service”. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point beginning “Information about other professional relationships …” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to change “such as, without limitation” to “e.g.” for greater stylistic consistency. In the California Privacy Request Metrics Methodology subsection (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “a consumer’s request to opt-out of the sale of their personal information remains in force until the consumer opts-in” to “a consumer’s request to opt-out of the sale of their personal information remains in force indefinitely unless the consumer subsequently decides to opt-in” for clarity. In Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “personal data” to “personal information” (for greater internal consistency, although this policy uses the terms “personal information” and “personal data” synonymously); changed “this website” to “the 6200 Productions website”; deleted the parenthetical URL in the first sentence; and added the phrase “the owner and operator of the www.6200productions.com website” (followed by a comma) before “Aaron Severson”. In Privacy Policy Changes (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “(e.g., by updating the “Recent Policy Updates” box and/or by sending out email notifications)” to “(e.g., by updating the “Recent Policy Updates” box, by noting the “last updated” date next to the Privacy Policy link in our invoices, and/or by sending out email notifications)” and changed both instances of “this website” to “the 6200 Productions website”. In the version of Privacy Policy Changes that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, also changed “the applicable pages of this website” to “the applicable pages of the www.6200productions.com website”. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
March 1, 2022: As a global change throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page, replaced many (though not all) instances of the word “gather” (however conjugated) with “collect” (conjugated the same way — e.g., changing “gathered” to “collected”). (This change is mostly for the sake of greater internal consistency; as noted in Definitions, this policy uses the terms “gather” and “collect” synonymously.) Also changed certain instances of the word “receive” and “obtain” (however conjugated) to “collect” (conjugated the same way), again for wording consistency. Also as a global change (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), replaced curved apostrophes with straight ones for stylistic consistency. Added the site URL to the preamble. Renamed the Information We Collect section “Ways We Collect Information” for clarity and rearranged that section and the Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection section so that they come after Cookies and Similar Technologies (with Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection first), updating the Table of Contents accordingly. In Definitions, changed two instances of the word “treats” to “uses”. In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection, changed “the categories of purposes for which we may collect that information” to “the categories of purposes for which we collect and use that information”; changed “Those possible purposes include:” to “Those purposes may include:”; changed “information we collect may have several purposes or possible purposes” to “we may collect information for several purposes or potential purposes”; changed “multiple purposes or possible purposes” to “multiple purposes or potential purposes”; and deleted the sentence beginning “There may be circumstances …” In the final paragraph of that section, changed “the categories listed in the “Categories of information gathered” bullet points …” to “the categories listed in the “Categories of information collected” bullet points …” In the subsequent sections (except this Recent Revisions list), renamed the “Categories of information gathered” bullet points “Categories of information collected” and changed the phrase “possible purposes” to “potential purposes” for internal consistency. In Ways We Collect Information, changed the phrase “will be further explained below” to “will be further explained in the sections below.” In Consents and Agreements, changed “gathering” to “collection” and changed “and/or that you submit …” to “and/or that you provide …” In Comments, changed “Although the website automatically collects the IP address and user agent information of …” to “Although the website automatically collects the IP address (and/or hostname) and user agent information of …” for internal consistency. In Other Information You Provide to Us, Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, and Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “the context in which we received it” to “the context in which we collect it.” In Data in Submitted Images, changed “the context in which we obtained them” to “the context in which we obtain them.” In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “have received a subpoena or other court order” to “receive a subpoena or other court order” to match the tense used in the rest of that list. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “collect and handle that information” to “use that information”. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, also changed “and/or obtain the contact information of an editor or publisher” to “and/or seek out the contact information of the editor or publisher” and revised the parenthetical sentence that began “Naturally, certain information …” to change “certain information” to “some of the information” and add a comma after “come from you”. In Additional Information About Data Retention, changed “how and why we received it” to “how and why we collect it” and changed “may be legally compelled …” to “may be legally obligated …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added fraud prevention services to the examples in the “Other types of vendors and/or service providers” bullet point and changed “online scheduling, task management, meeting, and/or collaboration platforms, tools, and/or services” to “online scheduling, calendar, task management, meeting, and/or collaboration platforms, tools, and/or services” for completeness. In the version of the Collection Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, changed “information we collect may have several purposes or possible purposes” to “we may collect information for several purposes or potential purposes” for consistency. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the paragraph beginning “Additionally, some of our embedded content providers …” to delete the phrase “(and/or otherwise obtained from us)”. In Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added the site URL. In the Cookie Notice, changed the phrase “was last updated …” in the preamble to “was last revised …” Moved the reference to the article about how to manage or delete web storage data from the Categories of Cookies Used section to the How This Website Uses Cookies and Similar Technologies section, consolidating that information with the existing last paragraph (about disabling data storage not being recommended), making a number of clarifications, and changing both instances of the phrase “the company” to “the business”. In the Categories of Cookies Used section, changed “As noted above, you can also review this information …” to “As noted above, you can also review these cookie categories …” In the Google Analytics category, changed “gather information” to “collect information”. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
February 28, 2022: In How You Can Correct or Update Your Personal Information, changed “as appropriate” to “as we deem appropriate”. In the second paragraph, changed “particularly if a change or correction involves …” to “particularly if a change or correction you’ve requested involves …” and added a clause to the end of the first sentence, separated with a semicolon: “we may deny your request to correct or update personal information if we aren’t reasonably certain that you are who you say you are.” Added a new paragraph about other reasons we may deny a request to change or correct personal information. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information changed “third-party printers and/or print services” (in the “Other types of vendors and/or service providers” bullet point) to “third-party printers and/or print services (including, though not limited to, services through which we order personal and/or business checks)”. In California Do Not Track Disclosure (CalOPPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added a new first sentence: “Many modern web browsers (and some other user agents) offer a privacy setting that automatically sends a “Do Not Track” signal to the websites and online services you visit.” Changed “does not currently respond to Do Not Track browser settings” to “does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals” and added a sentence about embedded content providers. In the version of that section that appears on this page, also corrected the name of the category (the parenthetical “(CalOPPA)” had been inadvertently omitted). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the examples in the “Biometric information” category to change “if you provide us with information about your health, sleep, and/or exercise habits” to “if an individual provides us with information about their health, sleep, and/or exercise habits” to be more consistent with the wording of the listed examples in the other categories.
February 27, 2022: In Embedded Content, split the paragraph beginning “You should generally assume that …” at the sentence beginning “Embedded content providers may combine …” and changed “over time and/or across other websites and/or online services …” to “over time and/or across different websites and/or online services …” In Ads on 6200 Productions, deleted the parenthetical sentence beginning “(Advertisements, banners, …” (since that issue is discussed later in the section). In the subsequent paragraph about advertisements and donation boxes on the administrative dashboard, added the phrase “the providers of such advertising and/or embedded content may combine some or all of that information with information they gather about the user over time and/or across different websites and/or online services” after “in the manner described in the “Embedded Content” section above,” separated by a semicolon. In the following sentence, changed “is controlled by the applicable developers and/or their respective service providers” to “is controlled by the applicable developers and/or their respective service providers and/or advertising partners”. In Data Related to Administrative Users, added a final sentence to the paragraph beginning “As noted in “Embedded Content” and …”: “The providers of such advertising and/or embedded content may combine some or all of that information with information they gather about the user over time and/or across different websites and/or online services, which is typically outside of our control.” In Combining Information From Multiple Sources, changed “may combine information” to “may combine personal information”; deleted the phrase “and/or that you’ve shared in other public forums”; and changed “and/or from across the Internet (e.g., if we observe that you use the same username or nickname across multiple websites and/or online services we visit and/or otherwise use)” to “and/or collect personal information that relates to your online activities across different websites and/or online services (e.g., by reading comments, social media posts, and/or articles you’ve published elsewhere on the Internet)” for greater clarity. Added a new section after Combining Information From Multiple Sources: How You Can Correct or Update Your Personal Information. Updated the Table of Contents accordingly. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the paragraph beginning “Fourth, …” to delete the parenthetical sentence beginning “Advertisements, banners, …” and replace it with a new final sentence: “(Also, in some cases, the advertisements, banners, and/or donation boxes that certain plugins, themes, and/or other add-ons place on the site’s administrative dashboard may collect personal information about logged-in administrative users, which the providers of such advertising and/or embedded content may sell and/or combine with information they gather about the user over time and/or across different websites and/or online services for various commercial purposes; this is typically outside of our control.)” In the preamble of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “the sources from which the business gets that personal information, and how and why the business uses and/or shares that personal information” to “the categories of sources from which the business collects such personal information, and how and why the business uses and/or discloses that personal information.” Also changed “These disclosures” to “These notices” and changed “make the disclosures listed below” to “present the following notices” for greater consistency with the wording of the statutes and regulations. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “collect and/or have collected” to “collect, have collected, and/or may collect” for the avoidance of doubt. Later in that paragraph, changed “these disclosures also include …” to “this notice also includes …” In the paragraph beginning “The examples listed …” changed “may gather and/or have gathered” to “may collect and/or have collected” and changed “collect and/or have collected on …” to “collect, have collected, and/or may collect about …” for consistency. In the final sentence of the subsection, changed “The disclosures above DO include categories of personal information that …” to “The above categories DO include personal information that …” for clarity. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the paragraph about advertising (beginning “As noted in …”) to delete the parenthetical sentence about administrative dashboard advertising and replace it with a new final sentence for consistency: “(Also, in some cases, the advertisements, banners, and/or donation boxes that certain plugins, themes, and/or other add-ons place on the site’s administrative dashboard may collect personal information about logged-in administrative users, which the providers of such advertising and/or embedded content may sell and/or combine with information they gather about the user over time and/or across different websites and/or online services for various commercial purposes; this is typically outside of our control.)” In the version of Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us that appears on this page, changed “If you have questions about this policy or our use of personal information, or if you would like to contact us regarding …” to “If you have questions about this policy or our use of personal information, if you’d like to request a change or correction to personal information we’ve collected about you, or if you would like to contact us regarding …” In the version of that section that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, changed “and/or our use of personal information, you can reach us …” to “and/or our use of personal information, or if you’d like to request a change or correction to personal information we’ve collected about you, you can reach us …”
February 26, 2022: In the preamble, adjusted the link to this Recent Revisions list so that the word “section” is outside of rather than part of the link’s anchor text (for stylistic consistency) and changed “If this policy has changed since you last reviewed it, or if …” to “If the last time you reviewed this policy was prior to that date, or if …” for clarity. In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the examples in the bullet point on “Published works and/or other sources available to the public” to change “social media, websites, online databases and/or repositories” to “social media, search engines, websites, online databases and/or repositories” for greater consistency with Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “might be deemed sharing information “for commercial purposes” whether or not any transaction …” to “might be deemed sharing information “for commercial purposes,” whether or not any transaction …” In the California Privacy Request Metrics Methodology subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Under California law, an opt-out request must remain in force until the consumer opts-in, so we respond to duplicative or repeated opt-out requests from a requestor who has already opted-out by affirming that the requestor’s original opt-out remains in effect” to “Under California law, a consumer’s request to opt-out of the sale of their personal information remains in force until the consumer opts-in, so we respond to duplicative or repeated requests to opt-out from a requestor who has already opted-out by affirming that the requestor’s original opt-out request remains in effect” for clarity. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
February 25, 2022: As a global change, changed “voice mail” to “voicemail” throughout this page. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the examples in the bullet point beginning “Other financial information” (under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)”) to change “liabilities, payments, and/or balances” to “liabilities, payments, balances, and/or taxes” for completeness. Also revised a bullet point under “Professional or employment-related information” to change “Training, professional development, career goals, and/or professional aspirations” to “Training, continuing education, professional development, career goals, and/or professional aspirations” for the same reason.
February 23, 2022: Updated the Acceptable Payment Types subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy to reorganize the first two paragraphs as a bullet-pointed list and make a number of clarifications. (The two substantive changes are to clarify that advertising purchases can also be paid by check, money order, or electronic funds transfer — we didn’t mean to imply that advertising could only be purchased via PayPal payments — and to note that we will now accept PayPal payment(s) of license fees and/or royalties for the reuse of our content, though not for our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services.) In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added “services that file other types of official documents and/or publish legally required notices on our behalf (such as, without limitation, fictitious business name filing/registration services)” to the examples listed in the “Other types of vendors and/or service providers” bullet point. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
February 15, 2022: In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “accountant(s), tax preparer(s), and/or tax attorney(s)” to “accountant(s), tax preparer(s), tax filing service(s), and/or tax attorney(s)” for completeness. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to add a reference to the web server software, apps, and frameworks used and/or offered for use on this website’s web servers and change “bookkeeping, accounting, and/or tax preparation services” to “bookkeeping, accounting, tax preparation, and/or tax filing services (which may include, but are not necessarily limited to, electronic filing services)” for completeness and consistency. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised two of the bullet points under “Other types of personal information not specifically described in the applicable statutes”: In the bullet point beginning “Information about an individual or household’s interactions with government agencies, …” revised the parenthetical examples to read “(e.g., information regarding an individual or household’s involvement in and/or connection with official hearings, proceedings, inspections, audits, investigations, reports, and/or complaints, of whatever type(s) and/or nature(s))” (mostly to eliminate some redundancies), and in the bullet point beginning “Information about an individual’s style(s), themes, …” changed “influences, inspirations, tendencies, development, …” to “influences, inspirations, tendencies, techniques, development, …”
February 12, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet points regarding employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners and third-party vendors and/or service providers to remove the sentence beginning “Some or all of …” regarding ones that may be located outside your home country and/or the European Economic Area, a point that is addressed in Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), renamed the “Protected classification information (characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law)” category “Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law”; renamed the “Sensory data (audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, and/or similar information)” category “Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information”; and changed “Inferences we draw from …” to “Inferences drawn from …” to more closely align with the wording of the statutory categories. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point beginning “If the information is de-identified” to change “such that it could not reasonably be used to identify specific person(s)” to “such that it could not reasonably be used to identify the specific person(s) and/or household(s) to whom the information pertains” for greater consistency with the wording of the related bullet point in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. In the California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “whether through the Ate Up With Motor website, through the owner’s 6200 Productions professional writing website, …” to “whether through this website, through the owner’s Ate Up With Motor automotive website, …” for clarity and wording consistency. In the California Privacy Request Metrics for the 2020 Calendar Year subsection, changed “Totals include several duplicate deletion requests and opt-out requests” to “Totals include several duplicative requests.” In the California Privacy Request Metrics Methodology subsection, changed “duplicate or repeated” and “duplicated or repeated” to “duplicative or repeated”. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
February 8, 2022: In Comments, changed “may email you at that address prior to or instead of publishing the comment” to “may email you at that address in addition to or instead of publishing the comment” for consistency with the current wording of the Terms of Use. Later in the section, also changed “and to distinguish human users …” to “and to help distinguish human users …”
February 7, 2022: In Online Tracking, amended the paragraph beginning “Because we generally don’t have direct access …” to change “an association between the analytics service’s user data and other information about specific individuals” to “an association between the analytics data and other information about specific individuals” for greater clarity. In Comments, changed “By submitting a comment, you are expressly authorizing us to publish and use the comment as described …” to “We may publish and/or use your submitted comment(s) as described …” In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “By making a payment to 6200 Productions (by whatever means), you grant us express permission to disclose information associated with your transaction(s) …” to “We may disclose information related to your transaction(s) with 6200 Productions …” Later in that same subsection, changed “By making a payment, you also grant us express permission to communicate with you regarding your transaction via email and/or postal mail …” to “We may also use personal information related to your transaction(s) to communicate with you via email and/or postal mail regarding the transaction(s) …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the reference to the F-Droid repository and app to change both instances of “repository” to “repositories” (since there are technically several F-Droid repositories). Later in that section, updated the bullet point beginning “If we believe in good faith …” to change “we may forward (and you expressly authorize us to forward) your claim to that third party (since such claims may implicate their rights)” to “we may forward a copy of your claim to that third party (since the claim may implicate their rights)” for consistency with the related language in the Terms of Use.
February 5, 2022: In Comments, removed the parenthetical reference in the first paragraph to the tools on the Privacy Tools page (as the data request tools aren’t working and have been removed from that page). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended the reference to Apple products and/or services to change “use of iTunes, the iTunes Store, …” to “use of iTunes software, the iTunes Store online store, …” In Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), removed the reference to the tools on the Privacy Tools page (as the data request tools aren’t working and have been removed from that page). Also deleted the final sentence of that section (that began “Also, please note …”). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point beginning “Other financial information …” (under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)”) to change “the net worth of public figures” to “the net worths of public figures” (which is more grammatically correct). In Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us, removed the reference to the data request tools on the Privacy Tools page. (The data request tools previously used on that page are no longer working, so we removed them while we seek a suitable replacement.) Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
February 3, 2022: In Definitions, clarified the “Email header information” definition by changing “also the names and IP addresses of the mail servers that sent and received the message, routing information, encryption and security protocols, and other technical details” to “also the IP addresses and/or hostnames of the mail servers that transmitted the message, routing information, security protocols, encryption information (if any), the mail client(s) used, and/or other technical details; in some cases, the headers may also include your IP address and/or hostname.” Also changed “(The precise details vary depending on your email client and provider.)” to “(The precise details may vary depending on your email client and provider and how you’re connecting to the Internet.)” In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made some further wording adjustments to the description of the Right to Know to more closely reflect the wording of the applicable statutes and regulations: added “The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information, and” as a separate item after “The business or commercial purpose(s) …”; changed “shared with third parties for business purposes and/or sold to third parties in the preceding 12 months” to “sold and/or disclosed for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months”; and changed “the categories of third parties with whom that category of personal information was shared and/or to whom that category of personal information was sold” to “the categories of third parties to whom we sold and/or to whom we disclosed for a business purpose that particular category of personal information.” Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
February 2, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the examples of “Other types of vendors and/or service providers” to change “fingerprinting and/or background check services” to “fingerprinting, background check, and/or identity verification services” and change “legal aid and/or other legal consulting or legal counseling services” to “legal aid and/or other legal consulting, legal counseling, and/or legal referral services” for completeness. In the Collection Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the last bullet point in the list to change “otherwise distribute our content …” to “otherwise distribute, and/or to whom we license and/or offer, our content …” for completeness.
February 1, 2022: In Who We Are (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added “USA” after “California” in the first sentence. In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, changed “below and throughout this Privacy Policy” to “below” for clarity and internal consistency. In Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), changed “If you are located in certain countries, …” to “If you are located in certain parts of the world, …” Updated the bullet point about objecting to the use and processing of personal data, added the parenthetical phrase “(and to object at any time to the use and processing of your personal data for purposes of direct marketing, including profiling to the extent it relates to such direct marketing)” after “of your personal data”. Changed “allow residents of countries outside the U.S. to request …” to “allow people located in countries outside of the U.S. to request …” Also changed “under the privacy and/or data protection laws of their home state …” to “under the privacy and/or data protection laws of a U.S. state …” In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “The business or commercial purpose(s) for which such personal information was collected or sold …” to “The business or commercial purpose(s) for which that personal information was collected and/or sold …”; changed “have shared with third parties …” to “shared with third parties …”; and changed “The categories of third parties with whom each of those categories of personal information was shared and/or to whom personal information was sold” to “For each of those categories of personal information, the categories of third parties with whom that category of personal information was shared and/or to whom that category of personal information was sold” to better reflect the wording of the applicable statutes and regulations. In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Clients or employers” to “Clients and/or employers” for wording consistency within that list. In the Collection Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the wording of the reference to the Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection section to change “defined in …” to “described in …” for wording consistency. In Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us, split the first paragraph into two (at the sentence beginning “If you have questions …”). In the version of that section that appears on this page (NOT the version that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page), also added a reference to the request tools on the Privacy Tools page, along with a link to that page. In the Cookie Notice, revised the paragraph beginning “Some websites and/or online services may also use similar technologies, …” to change “about you and your user agent (as defined in …” to “about you and your user agent (a term explained in …” for internal consistency. Made a minor clarification to the January 31, 2022 entry below. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
January 31, 2022: In Online Tracking, updated the paragraphs describing the information the Google Analytics service gathers and makes available to us to be more accurate and up to date. (There are aspects of that service that strain the limits of our technical knowledge — we had misunderstood certain points, and certain points have changed from our previous understanding.) Also added a link to more information about the IP anonymization feature user reports; moved the link to the technical information about Google Analytics cookies to the later paragraph beginning “To learn more about how Google may use information …”; changed “We have also accepted …” to “We have accepted …”; and fixed some typographical errors. In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “The categories of business and/or commercial purposes for collecting and using that information, and” to “The business or commercial purpose(s) for which such personal information was collected or sold, and” and changed “The categories of third parties with whom personal information was shared …” to “The categories of third parties with whom each of those categories of personal information was shared …” to better reflect the wording of the applicable statutes and regulations. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the numbered list about business purposes to change “analytics services” to “analytic services” to reflect the statutory wording.
January 30, 2022: In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, changed “legal grounds for collecting and using your information are that:” to “legal bases for collecting and processing your information are that:”; deleted the parenthetical example in the item on legal obligations; and revised the “legitimate interest” item to add “to comply with the laws and regulations that apply to us and our business” to the listed examples. In Contact Forms, updated the paragraph regarding sharing or disclosing information related to California Privacy Request Form submissions to change “for administrative and/or compliance purposes” to “for compliance purposes”. In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), rearranged the items on the first numbered list so that “The categories of sources …” precedes rather than follows “The categories of business and/or commercial purposes …” In a subsequent item in that list, changed “The categories of personal information about you (and/or your household) that we have shared with third parties for business purposes or sold to third parties in the preceding 12 months” to “The categories of personal information that we have shared with third parties for business purposes and/or sold to third parties in the preceding 12 months” to better reflect the wording of the applicable statutes and regulations. In the subsequent item, changed “was shared or to whom …” to “was shared and/or to whom …” for wording consistency. Later in that section, changed “Applicable law and/or regulations stipulate the maximum time allowed for acknowledging and/or responding to your request” to “Applicable law and/or regulations stipulate the maximum time allowed for acknowledging and/or responding to requests.” Later in that section, changed “disclosing certain types of extremely sensitive personal information (e.g., Social Security Numbers or financial account numbers)” to “disclosing certain pieces of sensitive personal information (e.g., Social Security Numbers, financial account numbers)” for clarity. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
January 29, 2022: In Comments, changed “to better understand who you are and the context of your comment” to “to help us better understand who you are and the context of your comment, and/or, where applicable, verify your identity.” In Contact Forms and Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, changed “to help us better understand who you are and the context of your message” to “to help us better understand who you are and the context of your message, and/or, where applicable, verify your identity.” (These changes are for the sake of wording consistency across these sections; verifying your identity would reasonably fall into the broader category of helping us better understand who you are!) In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “have no reasonable way of associating information …” to “have no practical way to associate information …” and changed “obtained” to “collected” for internal consistency. In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “request to know — free of charge, and (where possible) in “a readily usable format”:” to “request to know (free of charge, in a portable and (to the extent technically feasible) “readily useable format,” and no more than twice in any 12-month period):”; changed “for business or commercial purposes in the preceding 12 months” to “for business purposes or sold to third parties in the preceding 12 months”; and changed “with whom personal information was shared” to “with whom personal information was shared or to whom personal information was sold” to better reflect the wording of the applicable statutes and regulations. Later in that section, amended the paragraph beginning “In order to better safeguard your privacy …” to change “(You can find more information in …” to “(You can find more information about the verification requirements in …” and delete the final sentence after the parenthetical reference to the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page (which discusses the verification requirements in more detail it doesn’t make sense to repeat here). In the subsequent paragraph, changed “Even if we verify …” to “Please note that even if we verify …” Deleted the subsequent paragraph beginning “Please note that in addition to any exceptions and exemptions …” In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the paragraph beginning “Although the above examples …” to delete the parenthetical example about text messages. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
January 28, 2022: In the Taxes subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “may also be required to report certain payments made to or received from you to one or more applicable tax agencies, …” to “may also be required to report certain information about you to one or more applicable tax agencies in connection with payments we make to or receive from you, …” for greater clarity and set that sentence in parentheses.
January 26, 2022: In Online Tracking, updated the trademark notice to add Google Search Console. In Contact Forms, updated the paragraph beginning “Special Note on Legal Names vs. Pseudonyms/Aliases” to add “financial transactions”; change “that pertain to other legal matters” to “that pertain to financial and/or legal matters”; and change “for certain privacy-related requests” to “certain privacy-related requests” for internal consistency. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, updated the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point to add “special: work authorization, payment, and/or tax-related information (e.g., taxpayer identification numbers, related tax documents, other payroll-related information, and/or information pertaining to an individual’s authorization to work in our locale)*” for completeness. In the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “special: amounts and other transaction-specific details and/or other financial information, e.g., transaction IDs, checks, and/or tax forms*” to “special: transaction-specific details, other financial information, and/or tax-related information (e.g., transaction IDs, check information, payment history, account information, taxpayer identification numbers, and/or related tax documents)*” for greater clarity. In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “(where applicable) relevant tax documents such as (again without limitation) Form 1099-MISC and/or Form W-9” to just “relevant tax documents.” (The tax documents that may be relevant in a given situation may vary, and there are too many possibilities to attempt to enumerate here.) In the Taxes subsection, changed “collect and/or withhold tax (e.g., sales or use tax) from you and pay it directly to the applicable tax agency or agencies” to “collect and/or withhold certain taxes from you and pay those taxes directly to the applicable tax agency or agencies. We may also be required to report certain payments made to or received from you to one or more applicable tax agencies, even where no tax collection or withholding requirements apply.” In the Returned Check Fees subsection, replaced the dollar amount with a statement that the returned check fee may be up to but not exceeding the actual amount(s) of any fees our bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s) charge us in such circumstance. In the Information Sharing subsection, revised the bullet point regarding tax agencies to change “where we deem it reasonably necessary …” to “where we are legally required to do so and/or deem it reasonably necessary …” In the “Categories of information” gathered bullet point of Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, changed “special: amounts and other transaction-specific details and/or other financial information, e.g., transaction IDs and/or payment amounts*” to “special: transaction-specific details, other financial information, and/or tax-related information (e.g., transaction IDs, check information, payment history, account information, taxpayer identification numbers, and/or related tax documents)*” for consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the Google bullet point to add Google Search Console to the trademark notice. In the “Other providers whose services enable us to operate and/or secure our system(s), device(s), and/or data” bullet point, added the Sectigo certificate authority (which provides our personal authentication certificate for digital signatures) and David Wittman’s csrgenerator.com app. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
January 25, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the paragraph beginning “Fifth, …” (about third-party vendors and/or service providers) to change “including, though not necessarily limited to, …” to “including, though not limited to, …”; change “use of their content and/or services” to “use of their content, products, and/or services” for completeness; change “but without limitation” to “again without limitation”; change “how video hosting platforms use the information they may collect” to “how video hosting platforms use information they collect”; and change “use data they may gather through their services use data they may gather through their services” to “use data they gather through their respective services” (mostly to eliminate the duplicative text).
January 24, 2022: In Definitions, revised the “Cookies and similar technologies” definition to fix an incorrectly formatted link; change “(for the EU and UK)” to “(for the EU, Switzerland, and the UK)”; and change “may be (or may incorporate) …” to “may be (and/or may incorporate) …” In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, amended the paragraph regarding third-party vendors and/or service providers to change “download a photo containing recognizable people” to “download a photo depicting identifiable people” for wording consistency. In the subsequent paragraph regarding software, changed “and/or the website or other source …” to “and/or the website, repository, or other source …” and changed “obtained them” to “obtain them”. In the Cookie Notice, revised the paragraph beginning “You can learn more about how cookies work …” to fix an incorrectly formatted link; change “(for the EU and UK)” to “(for the EU, Switzerland, and the UK)”; and change “may be (or may incorporate) …” to “may be (and/or may incorporate) …” for consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions (and this summary of them) after initial publication.
January 23, 2022: In the preamble of this policy, adjusted the wording of the reference to the Cookie Notice to change “is incorporated by reference herein” to “is incorporated herein by reference”. In the preamble to the Your California Privacy Rights page, made a number of minor wording changes to clarify that the specified license applies to the text of that page, also changing the phrase “textual and formatting adjustments” to “wording and formatting adjustments” for clarity and changing “that revisions list” to “the Recent Revisions list” for internal consistency. Made some minor textual adjustments to the older revisions now archived on the Older Privacy Policy Revisions page in hopes of keeping them reasonably comprehensible outside of the context of this page. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e),” revised the bullet point on physical characteristics and/or descriptions of individuals to add “eye color” to the parenthetical examples. Also revised the bullet point on medical information (under the came category) to change “otherwise used or seen” to “otherwise seen or used” (which we had intended to change yesterday, but somehow missed). Corrected the reference to the latter change in the January 22, 2022 entry below to avoid confusion. Restored the “Protected classification information” category in the version of that subsection that appears on the Privacy Policy page (which was inadvertently deleted in a prior revision, although the version on the Your California Privacy Rights page was not affected) and changed the bullet point beginning “Race, color, ancestry, …” to read “Race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, and/or residency status”. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions (and this summary of them) after initial publication.
January 22, 2022: In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection, changed “In some cases, we may collect certain types of information in certain circumstances and not in others. In those cases, the information category shown below will be followed by a single asterisk (*).” to “In the sections below, certain categories of information are followed by a single asterisk (*), which indicates that we may collect such information in some circumstances and not in others.” In the parenthetical example, changed “except in connection with certain financial transactions or if you ask …” to “except for certain financial transactions and/or legal matters, or if you ask …” and changed “parcel” to “package” for wording consistency. In the paragraph beginning “Keep in mind that …” changed “the specific context described in that section” to “the specific context(s) described in that section, which may or may not apply to you” and deleted the second sentence. In the subsequent paragraph beginning “Please also note …” added the phrase “again without limitation” after “For example,” set off with commas. In Online Tracking, revised the paragraph beginning “Special Note” to change “any analytics data we share …” to “any data from the analytics service that we share …” and change “in connection with such contractual obligations is only in aggregate and/or otherwise de-identified form” to “in connection with such obligations is only in aggregate form.” Added a new paragraph near the end of that section about Google Search Console tools and reports. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the Unsplash trademark notice; updated the Google Search Console reference to remove the definite article, change “tool” to “tools and reports,” and change “which lets webmasters identify issues that may affect their site’s indexability, search visibility, and/or performance …” to “which help webmasters analyze and improve their site’s indexability and search performance …”; and changed “password management software, services, and/or tools” to “password management software, apps, tools, and/or services” for wording consistency. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e),” revised the bullet point on financial information pertaining to transactions with and/or otherwise involving us to add “payment history, balances” to the listed examples. Revised the subsequent bullet point regarding other financial information to change “other information pertaining to creditworthiness, assets, benefits, income, and/or liabilities” to “other information pertaining to creditworthiness, assets, benefits, income, liabilities, payments, and/or balances”. Revised the subsequent bullet point on medical information to change “health conditions” to “medical conditions”. Under “Internet or other electronic network activity information,” changed “Encryption public keys and/or similar security data” to “Encryption public keys, access codes, and/or similar security data” and amended the bullet point beginning “Network, shared device, online service, and/or online access information” to change “passwords and/or other login credentials” to “passwords and/or passcodes, other login credentials”. Under “Professional or employment-related information,” changed “Current and/or past job title(s), position(s), role(s), duties, and/or responsibilities” to “Current and/or past occupation(s), job title(s), position(s), role(s), duties, and/or responsibilities” for completeness. In the last bullet point under “Professional or employment-related information,” changed both instances of “work, vocation, profession, trade, business, professional services, products, and/or other commercial endeavors” to “occupation, work, vocation, profession, trade, business, professional services, products, and/or commercial endeavors” for the same reason. In the “Inferences” category, changed “a particular job, assignment, or professional role” to “a particular job, assignment, project, or professional role” and added a period at the end. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
January 21, 2022: In Embedded Content, added a sentence to the end of the paragraph beginning “You should generally assume …”: “Embedded content providers may combine some or all of this information with other information they gather about you over time and/or across other websites and/or online services you use; for example (but without limitation), an online video platform may add information about the embedded videos you watch on this website to information that platform has collected about videos you’ve watched on other websites and/or on the platform’s own website. In Combining Information From Multiple Sources, changed “from multiple sources” to “from multiple sources and/or over time” (mostly for the avoidance of doubt, since the latter point was hopefully already adequately clear from the preexisting text of this policy) and changed “from across multiple devices you may use” to “from multiple devices you use” for greater clarity. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added “developers and/or providers of password management software, services, and/or tools” to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers (in the bullet point regarding providers whose services enable us to operate and/or secure our system(s), device(s), and/or data).
January 20, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended the reference to Renesas Electronics Corporation to change “devices” to “peripheral devices” for clarity and consistency.
January 18, 2022: In Security Scans, deleted the first sentence paragraph beginning “The examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers …” (since an earlier paragraph in the same section says almost exactly the same thing in the same way). In the remaining sentence of that paragraph, changed “use and/or add other security measures from different providers, and/or that have other features not specified here” to “use and/or add other security measures that have other features not specified here.” In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, amended the last paragraph to change “and/or other business decisions” to “and/or business decisions” for wording consistency with the related language in Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, in the bullet point regarding providers whose services enable us to operate and/or secure our system(s), device(s), and/or data, changed “researching pertaining to the operation, function, and/or security” to “researching matters pertaining to the operation, function, technical improvement, and/or security” (mostly for the avoidance of doubt, since technical improvement typically pertains to operation, function, and/or security). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point beginning “Information about an individual’s style(s), …” (under “Other types of personal information”), changed “themes, influences, tendencies, …” to “themes, influences, inspirations, tendencies, …”
January 17, 2022: In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, Online Tracking, and Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), changed “Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados” to “Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais” (which is the correct full name of the law, although it’s often reported as “Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados”).
January 16, 2022: In the Financial Transactions Policy, added a new subsection: Consent to Electronic Communication Delivery. In the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, added “USA” to the customer service postal mailing address. In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “The right to take private legal action in the event of a data breach that exposes your personal information (and/or your household’s personal information) to theft or unauthorized access” to “The right to take private legal action in the event of a data breach that results in unauthorized access to and exfiltration, theft, or disclosure of certain types of sensitive personal information due to our failure to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information.” In Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added “USA” to the postal mailing address.
January 15, 2022: In Online Tracking, revised the paragraph beginning “We have not enabled …” to change “data storage, billing, and/or customer support” to “billing, data storage, and/or customer support” and change “and/or safety; and/or as required by law” to “or safety; or as required by law” (mostly for greater consistency with their wording). Revised the paragraph beginning “To learn more about how Google may use information …” to change “which provide additional information” to “which provides additional information” for subject-verb agreement. In Reports and Aggregate Statistics, changed “de-identified, anonymized, redacted, and/or aggregated” to “de-identified, anonymized, pseudonymized, redacted, and/or aggregated” and changed “elect not to de-identify, anonymize, redact, and/or aggregate …” to “elect not to de-identify, anonymize, pseudonymize, redact, and/or aggregate …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to the ImgBurn utility to correct the developer pseudonym (which they apparently style in all caps followed by an exclamation point). Also changed “If the information is de-identified, anonymized, redacted, and/or aggregated …” to “If the information is de-identified, anonymized, pseudonymized, redacted, and/or aggregated …” and changed “elect not to de-identify, anonymize, redact, and/or aggregate …” to “elect not to de-identify, anonymize, pseudonymize, redact, and/or aggregate …” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “Physical characteristics and/or descriptions of individuals …” (under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)”) to add a comma after “distinguishing marks”. In the examples under “Commercial information,” made a number of wording changes in the interests of internal consistency: Updated the bullet point on cars and/or other vehicles to change “wants and/or intends to own, purchase, lease, rent, borrow, otherwise obtain, and/or use” to “desires and/or intends to own, purchase, lease, rent, borrow, otherwise obtain, and/or use”; fixed a formatting error in the bullet point about art, books, etc.; updated the bullet point on personal property, products, goods, and/or services to change “desires to purchase, lease, rent, otherwise obtain, and/or use; and/or is considering or has considered purchasing, renting, leasing, otherwise obtaining, and/or using” to “desires and/or intends to own, purchase, lease, rent, otherwise obtain, and/or use; and/or is considering or has considered”; updated the bullet point on retailers, vendors, marketplaces, and/or service providers to change “is considering or has considered patronizing, plans to patronize, prefers, and/or disdains” to “desires and/or intends to patronize, is considering or has considered patronizing, prefers, and/or disdains”; and updated the bullet point on lodgings, residence(s), office space(s), and/or real property to change ” (and/or is considering or has considered purchasing, leasing, renting, and/or otherwise using)” to “has owned, purchased, leased, rented, and/or otherwise used; desires and/or intends to purchase, lease, rent, and/or otherwise use; and/or is considering or has considered” set off with semicolons rather than commas. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made two minor wording changes to the paragraph beginning “Under the CCPA, a disclosure of personal information for which …”: changed “generally is not considered …” to “is generally not considered …” and changed “so long as the “service provider” only uses the information for the contractually specified purpose(s) and does not otherwise “sell” the information” to “so long as the “service provider” only uses the information as necessary for the contractually specified business purpose(s) and does not “sell” the information.” Later in that section, changed “If the information is de-identified, anonymized, redacted, and/or aggregated …” to “If the information is de-identified, anonymized, pseudonymized, redacted, and/or aggregated …” and changed “elect not to de-identify, anonymize, redact, and/or aggregate …” to “elect not to de-identify, anonymize, pseudonymize, redact, and/or aggregate …” for internal consistency.
January 13, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended the reference to LG Electronics to change “and any applicable product privacy policies” to “and/or any applicable product privacy policies” for internal consistency and revised the reference to the Rufus utility to correct the developer’s name.
January 12, 2022: In “Shine the Light” Law Disclosures (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), corrected the reference to the applicable statute by removing “et seq.” from the parenthetical citation. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), further updated the language about sharing information for a business purpose, changing “for certain specified purposes, which the law divides into the following categories:” to “for certain specified purposes, which may include the following:” and changing “even if it’s for purposes that clearly fall into one or more of the categories listed above” to “even if it’s clearly for one or more of the above-listed purposes.” Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
January 11, 2022: In Embedded Content, updated the Yoast SEO bullet point to add information about the plugin’s new Wincher integration (mostly for the record, since we’ve disabled the integration and don’t currently have any plans to use it). Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
January 10, 2022: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the Google bullet point to change “are subject to the the Google Privacy Policy and, where applicable, …” to “are subject to the Google Privacy Policy and/or, where applicable, …” Also fixed some instances of “of of” in that section. Corrected a number of instances of “the the” and “and and” in older entries in this Recent Revisions list and the Older Privacy Policy Revisions page (which were also obviously typographical errors). Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
January 8, 2022: In Security Scans, made a minor clarification to the description of the features of the Sucuri Security plugin. In Information You Provide to Us, changed “your access to and/or use of this website” to “your access to and/or use of this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services” for internal consistency and changed “copyright inquiries” to “copyright notices” for consistency with the Terms of Use. Also changed “and for communications …” to “for communications …” separated with a comma, and added “and for certain privacy-related requests” to the end of that sentence. In the last sentence of that section, changed “beyond what the site collects automatically” to “beyond what we collect automatically.” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made various minor wording adjustments to the examples under the “Commercial information” category (mostly for internal consistency). Revised the bullet point beginning “Authorship, other credits, and/or rights holder information …” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to fix a duplication in the listed examples.
January 5, 2021: Renamed the Information-Sharing Disclosures (Shine the Light Law) section the “Shine the Light” Law Disclosures section (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page) and updated the Table of Contents accordingly. In the first paragraph of that section, changed “about those businesses’ disclosure of the customer’s personal information to third parties for direct marketing purposes” to “about the businesses’ disclosure of personal information to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes” for clarity. Updated the second paragraph of that section to clarify that a third party selling, renting, exchanging, or leasing personal information “for consideration to businesses” is also considered a direct marketing purpose under the “Shine the Light” law. In the third paragraph, set the second instance of “Shine the Light” in quotation marks for consistency; changed “with a business subject to the law’s requirements” to “with a business that is subject to the law’s disclosure requirements”; made the phrase “information-sharing disclosure” lower case; and changed “that details:” to “that lists (subject to any applicable exemptions or exceptions provided by the law):” In the first numbered item, deleted the phrase “about you” and changed “for direct marketing purposes” to “for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes”. In the second numbered item, changed “The names/identities and addresses of such third parties” to “The names and addresses of all such third parties and sufficient information to give “a reasonable indication of the nature of the third parties’ business.”” Subsequently replaced the final two paragraphs of that section with the statement that we believe we are exempt from the requirements of this law, since we have fewer than 20 full-time or part-time employees. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication (including fixing some inadvertent discrepancies that crept into this summary with the multiple rounds of changes).
January 4, 2022: In Embedded Content, amended the data retention bullet point to change “we do not have access to most such data and so its retention is normally outside of our control” to “in most cases, we do not have access to the data collected by embedded content providers, and its retention is generally outside of our control.” In Data in Submitted Images, changed “the recognizable image and/or identifiable likeness” to “the identifiable image and/or recognizable likeness”. Later in the day, also changed “allow us to infer …” to “make it possible to infer …” In Information Provided by Social Media Platforms, changed “applicable service(s)” to “applicable platform(s)” for consistency and changed “beyond that listed here” to “beyond those listed here” for better grammar. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “developers, editors, publishers” to “producers, developers, editors, publishers” to further illustrate the intended scope. (The examples listed in that paragraph are still not intended to be an exhaustive list!) In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point on “Sensory data” to change “recognizable individuals and/or their identifiable likenesses” to “identifiable individuals and/or their recognizable likenesses” for consistency. In the bullet point beginning “Publishing histories/ …” (under “Professional or employment-related information”), added “publishers” to the listed examples and reordered the enumerated examples in that bullet point for greater internal consistency. In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “Subject matter experts …” to change “developers, editors, publishers” to “producers, developers, editors, publishers” for internal consistency. Fixed a typographical error in the January 2, 2022 entry below (“Under in …” was supposed to read “Under …”). As a global change throughout this page, changed various instances of the phrase “beyond our control” to “outside of our control” for wording consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
January 2, 2022: In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “by phone” to “by telephone” for wording consistency. In the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “If you have questions about this Financial Transactions Policy, …” to “If you have questions about this Financial Transactions Policy, would like further information, …” and changed “or by calling or texting …” to “or by telephone at …” Also changed “You may also submit questions about this Financial Transactions Policy and/or inquiries regarding specific purchases or other transactions …” to “You may also submit questions or complaints …” In the final paragraph of that subsection, changed “Under California Civil Code Section 1789.3, California residents are entitled to the following additional notice: California consumers can report complaints to …” to just “If you have a complaint, you can also contact …” and added the department’s TTY number in addition to their regular toll-free number. In the California Privacy Request Metrics Methodology subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “listed the average response time” to “listed the mean and median response times” for internal consistency.
January 1, 2022: In Definitions, made some minor wording changes to the definitions of “Personal information/personally identifying information/personal data”; “Identifiers”; and “Protected classifications”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the trademark notice for Abine Blur. In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), deleted the sentence about not needing to be physically present in California (which is a topic with some complicated and potentially confusing jurisdictional nuances beyond the scope of that section). Under the California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added a California Privacy Request Metrics for the 2021 Calendar Year subsection. In the California Privacy Request Metrics Methodology subsection (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), fixed an error with the section ID and updated the text to reflect 2021 as well as 2020. In Recent Revisions, moved all entries from prior to January 1, 2021 to the separate Older Privacy Policy Revisions page for space reasons. Made a few minor wording changes to the preamble of that page for clarity and consistency.
December 29, 2021: In Legal Bases for Collecting Information, made the “contractual obligation” item the first item on the numbered list and changed it to read “The use is necessary in order for us to enter into a contractual agreement with you and/or fulfill our commitments and/or contractual obligations to you (e.g., to comply with a license for the use of your intellectual property, to process and/or complete a purchase you have made, or to perform professional writing/editing/writing consulting services you have engaged us to perform); and/or:” (We initially published a different iteration of this language, integrated into the list differently, that we subsequently discarded later in the day.) Made “to provide the functions of the website” one of the examples in the “legitimate interest” item rather than a separate list item. Also changed “to better understand how (and how many) people access our content” to “to better understand how (and how many) people access this website”. Added a colon after each other instance of “and/or” in the numbered list for stylistic consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added a link to and language about the Flickr Data Processing Addendum. In that same bullet point about social media and social networking services, also rearranged some of the examples to put them in a more consistent order and made some minor wording adjustments. Also added the Unsplash photo platform and/or related services to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers. Fixed a typo in this summary. Updated past entries in this Recent Revisions list to capitalize all instances of “Recent Revisions” for consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
December 28, 2021: In Certificate Authority Checks, revised the last paragraph to remove the language about public repository log data (which gets into technical areas we’re not confident we fully understand); change “does obviously have administrative access …” to “also has administrative access …”; and add a reference and link to the DreamHost General Terms of Service as well as their privacy policy. In Contact Forms, changed the first three instances of “your inquiry” to “your message” for consistency. Also changed “If you ask a general question or report some functional or technical issue with the site” to “If your message includes questions and/or comments about us, our business, and/or this website, or pertains to a technical problem with the site”; changed “we may (unless you ask us not to) …” to “and unless you specifically request otherwise, we may …”; changed “to respond to your inquiry and/or support other users with similar concerns” to “to publicly respond to your question(s) and/or comment(s), and/or to support other users with similar concerns”; changed “(unless you authorize us to include other personally identifying information)” to “(unless you ask or authorize us to include other personally identifying information); changed “your inquiry in this manner” to “your message (or an excerpt of it) in this manner”; changed “we will make all reasonable efforts to accommodate your request” to “we will make a reasonable effort to accommodate your request”; and added a final sentence to the same bullet point: “If you wish us to completely unpublish a message you submitted that we have published or excerpted in this way, please let us know and we will endeavor to do so at our earliest opportunity.” (These changes are for greater consistency with the current language in the Terms of Use.) In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “software (e.g., apps, plugins, themes, and/or add-ons)” to “software (e.g., apps, fonts, plugins, themes, and/or add-ons)”. In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “and/or describing our experience …” to “or describing our experience …” for greater clarity. (That phrase is intended as a second example, not a continuation of the first.) In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to the fre:ac audio converter to add the name of the its author/developer, also relocating that reference within the same bullet point to maintain a more-or-less consistently alphabetical order. In Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), changed “Request deletion …” to “Request erasure (deletion) …”; changed “Request that we limit …” to “Request that we restrict …”; moved the bullet point beginning “Object to …” to after “Request portability …”; moved the “and” appropriately; and changed “to the applicable government data protection authority” to “to an appropriate data protection supervisory authority.” Immediately below that bullet-pointed list, changed “In the UK, the applicable data protection authority …” to “In the UK, the data protection authority …”; and changed “for a current list of European national data protection authorities, …” to “for information about European data protection authorities by country, …” In the subsequent paragraph beginning “If you have questions …” changed “delete” to “delete (erase)” for consistency. In the Cookie Notice, updated the preamble to revise the language about changes to the Cookie Notice being summarized in this Recent Revisions list, moved that sentence to just before the “last updated” date, and changed “This version was last updated …” to “The current version of this notice was last updated …” Also revised the license language to change “including this notice” to “including this Cookie Notice” for clarity. In the Categories of Cookies Used section to change “most commonly use on this website” to “may use on this website”. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
December 26, 2021: In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, changed “enter or contemplate entering” and “enter or contemplate entering into” to “enter into or contemplate entering into” for wording consistency. Also changed “any person or entity” to “any individual(s) or entity” for the same reason. Toward the end of that section, changed “We may share information pertaining to current and/or prospective employees, independent contractors, interns, business partners, business proposals, and/or business ventures …” to “We may share information pertaining to any individual(s) or entity we hire or contemplate hiring and/or with whom we enter into or contemplate entering into any professional relationship or business venture …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the bullet point that previously began “As we deem reasonable and appropriate (and as permitted by applicable law and/or regulations) to enable us to make informed hiring, employment, and/or business decisions regarding current and/or prospective employees, independent contractors, interns, business partners, business proposals, and/or business ventures, as described in …” to read “As we deem reasonable and appropriate (and as permitted by applicable law and/or regulations) to help us make informed hiring and/or employment decisions and/or other business decisions regarding current and/or prospective professional relationships, professional engagements, business proposals, business ventures, and/or work, as described in …” and added links to the Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes and Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources as well as Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships. (This is a clarification, intended to better summarize this policy’s existing language related to these topics, and doesn’t represent any substantive change in our practices.) In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point about accident(s), natural disaster(s), and/or other catastrophic event(s) or hardship(s) to change “involvement in and/or connection with” to “experience of, involvement in, and/or connection with” to better express the intended scope of that example. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point beginning “As we deem reasonable and appropriate …” to match the updated text of the equivalent bullet point in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
December 25, 2021: In Comments, changed “By submitting a comment, we will assume that you are expressly authorizing us to publish and use the contents of that comment (including any images, other media files, and/or links the comment may contain) …” to “By submitting a comment, you are expressly authorizing us to publish and use the comment as described in the …” In the subsequent paragraph beginning “If you submit a valid email address …” changed “before approving it” to “before approving the comment” for clarity. In Contact Forms, amended the sentence beginning “We will redact …” to add the parenthetical phrase “(unless you authorize us to include other personally identifying information)”. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, changed “about any prospective employees, independent contractors, interns, and/or business partners” to “about any person or entity we hire or contemplate hiring and/or with whom we enter or contemplate entering into any professional relationship or business venture”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the bullet point on business transfers to change “sell or transfer control” to “sell or otherwise transfer ownership” and change “heirs, successors, and/or assigns” to “heirs and/or successors”. In Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), changed “subject to any exemptions” to “subject to any exemptions and restrictions” and changed “subject to any exemptions provided by applicable law” to “subject to any exemptions and restrictions provided by applicable law and/or associated regulations” for wording consistency. In Nevada Consumer Opt-Out Rights, changed “restrictions and exemptions provided by applicable law” to “exemptions and restrictions provided by applicable law and/or associated regulations”. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed all instances of the phrase “the CCPA and its implementing regulations” to “the CCPA and its associated regulations” for wording consistency. (In this context, “associated regulations” and “implementing regulations” are synonymous.) Also updated the bullet point regarding business transfers to match the revised wording in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. In the California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “of the implementing regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA)” to “of the CCPA regulations” in the interests of brevity and consistency. Corrected the entry for February 20, 2020 below to change “Contact and Image Authorization Forms” to “Contact Forms” (the correct name of the applicable section).
December 23, 2021: In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, revised the paragraph beginning “If we have employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners …” to delete the second sentence (whose examples were redundant) and change “Again, the types …” to “The types …” In the subsequent paragraph about software, changed “whenever we install software/apps, services, themes, and/or add-ons — particularly software/apps/services/themes/add-ons we use under open source licenses — the software and/or installation files …” to “if we install or update any software (e.g., apps, plugins, themes, and/or add-ons) — particularly software offered under open source licenses — that software, the installation files and/or source code, and/or the associated documentation …” and changed “If you’re a developer …” to “If you’re a software developer …” for clarity. In Reports and Aggregate Statistics, fixed a typographical error (inadvertent repetition of the words “about requests”). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the bullet point on employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners to change “confidentiality policies and/or confidentiality agreements” to “confidentiality policies, agreements, and/or requirements” (since some professions are subject to certain legal confidentiality requirements in addition to any other policies or agreements that may apply). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point beginning “Information about personal property, products, goods, and/or services” (under “Commercial information”) to change “owns, rents” to “owns, purchases, rents” for wording consistency. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made some further clarifications to the paragraphs regarding how the CCPA (and its implementing regulations, which add their own interpretive nuances) define sharing personal information “for a business purpose.” Later in that same subsection, changed “Sharing information “for a business purpose” as described above generally is not considered a “sale” of personal information under the CCPA” to “Sharing personal information “for a business purpose” as described above generally is not considered a “sale” under the CCPA so long as the “service provider” only uses the information for the contractually specified purpose(s) and does not otherwise “sell” the information.” Later in that same section, changed “contractual relationships with those third parties” to “written contracts with those third parties” for wording consistency. Later in that same subsection, revised the paragraph beginning “Even if disclosures like these are NOT deemed …” to change “without necessarily being considered a “service provider” as the CCPA defines that term” to “without necessarily being considered a “service provider” as the CCPA and its implementing regulations define that term.” In the California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “presume means California residents and/or households” to “presume means California residents”. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
December 17, 2021: In Information Captured by Service/Software/App/Device Telemetry, revised the listed examples for clarity and relevancy. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), further revised the first paragraph on sharing information for a business purpose to change “disclosing the personal information of “consumers” (i.e., California residents and/or households) to another party for certain operational purposes” to “disclosing personal information to a “service provider” (as the CCPA defines that term) that processes information on the business’s behalf for certain specified purposes”. Revised the paragraph following the numbered list to read “The CCPA requires that a disclosure of personal information “for a business purpose” be subject to a suitable written service provider agreement between the business that discloses the information and the entity that receives the information, specifying the services that entity is to perform for the business and the business purpose(s) for which that entity may use the information while prohibiting that entity from retaining, using, or disclosing the information for any other purpose. Without a suitable written service provider agreement, an entity that provides services to a business may not necessarily be considered a “service provider” as the CCPA defines that term, and sharing personal information with that entity may not necessarily be considered “for a business purpose,” even if it’s for purposes that clearly fall into one or more of the categories listed above.” Later in that same subsection, changed “might reasonably be considered sharing information with third parties “for a business purpose,” …” to “might reasonably be considered sharing information “for a business purpose,”…” In the paragraph regarding the Google Analytics service, changed “(whether provided by Google or otherwise)” to “(provided by Google or otherwise).” In the later paragraph beginning “Even if disclosures like these …” changed “However, as explained above, being a “service provider” under the CCPA requires a written agreement that directs the service provider to collect and/or process personal information on the client or customer’s behalf for certain specific business purposes while restricting the service provider’s further use and/or disclosure of that information; it’s possible to provide services, even to other businesses, without necessarily being considered a “service provider” as the CCPA and its associated regulations define that term” to “However, as explained above, it’s possible to provide services without necessarily being considered a “service provider” as the CCPA defines that term” in the interests of brevity. In the paragraph following the list of examples of facilitating other types of commercial transactions later in that subsection, changed changed “any compensation or other valuable consideration” to “any monetary compensation or other valuable consideration”. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
December 16, 2021: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Internet or similar network activity information” to “Internet or other electronic network activity information” (which is how the applicable statute words it) and change “electronic systems and/or services (online and/or otherwise)” (in the last bullet point under that category) to “electronic systems and/or services”. Also deleted the “Other types of information and/or data that could potentially be deemed personal information …” category (since it’s really redundant). In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the paragraph on disclosing information for a business purpose to change “means a business disclosing …” to “means disclosing …” and change “to third parties for any of the following categories of purposes:” to “to another party for certain operational purposes, which the law divides into the following categories:” In the list of categories, changed “Debugging/repair” to “Debugging/repair of existing intended functionality”; changed “Certain short-term uses” to “Certain short-term, transient uses”; changed “Performing services” to “Performing services (e.g., customer service, order fulfillment, payment processing, analytics services)”; and changed “Quality and safety maintenance and verification” to “Verifying or maintaining the quality or safety of and/or improving, upgrading, or enhancing a service or device the business owns, controls, or manufactures (or that is manufactured for the business).” In the subsequent paragraph, deleted “The law imposes additional conditions on such disclosures:” in the interests of brevity; changed “third party” to “party” throughout; and changed “specifying the services the third party is to perform using the information …” to “specifying how that party is to use the information …” Later in that subsection, revised the bullet point beginning “Most files and data on …” to delete the reference to Sucuri in the interests of brevity (since that information is presented in greater detail in Security Scans) and change “some of which may incorporate cloud-based scanning or analysis features” to “some of which may incorporate cloud-based scanning or analysis features and/or otherwise communicate with third parties”. Reworded the bullet point about Internet service providers and unencrypted websites or online resources for greater clarity and moved it to after the bullet point about banks and/or other financial institutions. In the Cookie Notice, made a minor correction to the Privacy and Cookie Preferences category (there isn’t a separate “gdpr” cookie; that’s the prefix shared by the other cookies in this category).
December 15, 2021: In Definitions, revised the “Cookies and similar technologies” bullet point to change references to storing cookies “on” your browser to storing them “in” your browser and make some clarifications to the language about similar technologies. In Cookies and Similar Technologies, changed “(e.g., storing local shared objects and/or other data in your browser’s web storage)” to “(e.g., storing data in your browser’s web storage)” and changed “Some are placed automatically while others are only set when you perform certain actions.” to “Some cookies and stored data may be placed automatically while others are only set when you perform certain actions or use certain site functions” (mostly to avoid an unclear antecedent). In Browser Tests, condensed and rearranged the text and clarified that the results of such tests (which generally don’t contain any personally identifying information) may be stored in your device’s memory for the duration of your visit and/or stored in your browser. In Online Tracking, revised the paragraph regarding linking Google Analytics data with other Google Products or services (which we still don’t do) to clarify that we also haven’t enabled any Google Analytics Advertising Features (also adding a link to the Google policy that covers such features). In the bullet point about the cookie to disable analytics tracking, changed “This will place a cookie on your browser” to “This will set a cookie in your browser” for wording consistency. Also revised the disclaimer language for the analytics opt-out browser add-on to change “WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER AND ACCEPT ABSOLUTELY NO LIABILITY OF ANY KIND …” to “EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW, WE MAKE NO WARRANTIES WHATSOEVER AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY OF ANY KIND …” In Embedded Content, changed “your browser or user agent settings” to “certain of your settings” and revised the Google Fonts/Google Hosted Libraries, YouTube Videos, and FeedBurner bullet points to clarify that the Google “Technologies” pages do not currently discuss the storage of data in your browser (or other user agent) using technologies other than cookies. In Comments, changed “places a set of cookies on your browser” to “places a set of cookies in your browser” for wording consistency. In Financial Transactions Policy, changed “payment processor(s), bank(s), other financial institution(s), and/or other applicable third-party service(s)” to “payment processors, banks, other financial institutions, and/or other applicable vendors and/or third-party services”. In the Information Sharing subsection, changed “payment processor transaction reports” to just “transaction reports”. In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, changed “the applicable vendor(s), service(s), and/or payment processor(s)” to “payment processors, banks, other financial institutions, and/or other applicable vendors and/or third-party services” for greater internal consistency. In Additional Information About Data Retention, fixed a typo (a missing space) in the bullet point about information pertaining to financial transactions. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the bullet point regarding contractual obligations to change “or if our payment processor suspects a payment we received” to “or if a payment processor suspects a payment we made or received”. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made a number of clarifications and wording adjustments to the paragraph the Google Analytics service (mainly for consistency with the revised language in Online Tracking). In the second paragraph of the Your California Privacy Rights page (regarding the license terms), changed “for a list of recent changes” to “for a summary of recent changes” and changed “also includes changes” to “will also summarize changes” (for clarity and wording consistency). In the Cookie Notice, revised the paragraph regarding the license to change “will also note” to “will also summarize”. Revised the Cookies and Similar Technologies section to match the updated language in Definitions above. In the How This Website Uses Cookies and Similar Technologies section, changed “The use of cookies also allows …” to “The use of cookies and/or similar technologies may also allow …” Added a new final paragraph: “While it is sometimes possible to block technologies other than cookies from storing data on your browser (or other user agent), doing so may cause many functional problems and is not recommended.” In Categories of Cookies Used, changed “descriptions of the cookies” to “descriptions of the categories of cookies”; condensed and clarified some of the text (particularly about cookie durations); added language about data stored using technologies other than cookies; added a link to an article explaining how to remove such data from many modern browsers; and added a note that if your browser (or other user agent) crashes rather than being closed properly, session cookies may not be deleted as they ordinarily would be. Throughout the Cookie Notice, also changed references to placing cookies “on” your browser to “in” your browser for wording consistency. Revised the disclaimer in the Disable Google Analytics Tracking category to match the updated one in Online Tracking. Revised the PayPal Buttons category to mention that the buttons may also incorporate a tracking pixel called “pixel.gif.” Revised the YouTube Videos category to update the cookies used, separate cookies from data items stored using other technologies, and update and clarify the “How they are used” text. Updated the Browser Tests section at the bottom of the Cookie Notice to reflect the revised text of Browser Tests above. On the Older Privacy Policy Revisions page, amended the entry for August 24, 2015 (regarding the license update) to spell out the names of the licenses to avoid any future confusion. Tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
December 14, 2021: As a global change on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page (except in older entries in this Recent Revisions list), changed “commercial advantage” to “commercial advantage and/or financial gain” to better express the intended meaning. (It’s intended as a catch-all term.) In Online Tracking, changed “the advertising identifiers and/or …” to “the advertising identifier(s) and/or …” In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs; Security Scans; and Embedded Content, changed “(e.g., advertising identifiers and/or …” to “(e.g., the advertising identifier(s) and/or …” Also in Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, changed “no more than 30 days” to “no more than about 30 days”. Also in Security Scans, changed “for 30 days or less” to “for no more than about 30 days” for consistency. In Ads on 6200 Productions, changed “are served by us” to “are locally served” for clarity. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the references to Yahoo! search service privacy practices to change “and/or, where applicable, the …” to “and the …” (as the privacy practices document is intended to supplement rather than supplant the Yahoo Privacy Policy). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “Information about lodgings …” (under “Commercial information”) to change both instances of “other real property” to “real property”. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the paragraph beginning “To achieve the purposes …” to change “and/or other creative endeavors” to “and other creative endeavors (professional or otherwise)” for grammar and wording consistency and change “often for publication” to “often for eventual publication”. In the bullet-pointed list below that paragraph, deleted the bullet point beginning “Any government agency …” (since legal and contractual obligations are covered in bullet points in the subsequent list). Removed an extra space in an earlier entry in this Recent Revisions list.
December 13, 2021: In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list that appears in the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights), revised the “Recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships” bullet point to change “business partnerships or other professional relationships with someone” to “business partnerships and/or other professional relationships” (mostly in the interests of better grammar). In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, changed “for example (but without limitation), a formal business partnership or joint venture (JV)” to “for example (but without limitation), a professional collaboration, formal business partnership, or joint venture (JV).” In Information About Social Media Platforms, language about the promulgation of information and/or content on social media and about our disclosure of such information. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “other providers of filter lists, block lists, and/or other security information” to “other providers of filter lists, block lists, and/or other security-related information” and updated the reference to The Spamhaus Project to point the hyperlink to their Privacy Policy rather than their homepage. Also updated the T-Mobile trademark information. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made some adjustments to the list of categories and examples to eliminate any discrepancies. (This hopefully didn’t actually change anything except perhaps to fix a few minor differences between the versions of that list.) Reordered the examples under “Identifiers” to put “Postal mailing address and/or street addresses” and “Unique personal identifiers, device identifiers, and/or online identifiers” before IP addresses and email addresses; added “Telephone numbers (and/or fax numbers)” as its own bullet point after “Postal mailing addresses”; added “passport numbers” to the examples of government-issued identification numbers; deleted the separate bullet point on information collected through cookies and/or similar technologies and made that a parenthetical part of the “Unique personal identifiers, device identifiers, and/or online identifiers” bullet point; and split “Other similar identifiers” into a separate bullet point under that category, last in the list (mostly to make the examples somewhat more consistent with the statutory description of this category). Under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e),” removed the “Telephone numbers (and/or fax numbers)” bullet point (since those are now listed under “Identifiers”) and deleted the “Account numbers” bullet point (which is redundant in the present list). Renamed the “Characteristics of classifications protected by law” category “Protected classification information (characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law)” for greater consistency with the statutory language. Moved the “Inferences” category to put it last and change “Inferences we make” to “Inferences we draw from any of the information identified above” and rearranged the order of the listed examples, again for greater consistency with the statutory definition of that category. (This revision initially had an embarrassing typo we fixed later in the day.) In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added “(or a “sale” of personal information)” to the end of the first paragraph (after “for business or commercial purposes) and changed “A disclosure of personal information is considered to be for “commercial purposes” if it …” to “Collecting, using, and/or sharing personal information is considered to be for “commercial purposes” if it …” Also updated the paragraph regarding the Google Analytics service to change “now include a CCPA Service Provider Addendum” to “now include a CCPA Service Provider Addendum, and we have not authorized Google to share or link our Google Analytics data with any other Google products or services or with any advertising services (provided by Google or otherwise).” In California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “(much less purchase and/or “sell” as the CCPA defines those terms)” to “(much less “buy” and/or “sell” as the CCPA defines those terms)” for wording consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
December 12, 2021: In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, changed “or Contact Form submissions” to “or the contact or feedback forms on this website” for wording consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended the bullet point on appropriately crediting someone to change “this may include adding …” to “this may include (without limitation) adding …” and change “filename” to “filename(s)” for internal consistency. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “We have collected and/or may collect the following categories of personal information …” to “We have collected in the last 12 months and/or may collect the following categories of personal information …” Under “Professional or employment-related information,” changed “Current and/or past employer(s) and/or client(s)” to “Current and/or past employer(s)” (since clients are mentioned in a subsequent bullet point) and added the words “Current and/or past” to the beginnings of the bullet points on job titles, work schedule, and compensation for completeness. Rearranged the bullet points to put the bullet point about fictitious business names after rather than before the one about business or organization ownership. Added “relationships with patients” to the examples in the “Information about professional relationships” bullet point.
December 11, 2021: In Definitions, revised the “User agent information” definition’s reference to browser fingerprinting to change “specific combination of user agent characteristics” to “specific combination of user agent and device characteristics” (which is a bit more precise). In Comments, fixed a typographical error: “comment us using only a pseudonym” was supposed to read “comment using only a pseudonym.” Also changed “we may not be able to associate that comment with any other personal information about you” to “we may not be able to associate that comment with other personal information we possess about you” and changed “it won’t be included …” to “the comment won’t be included …” Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
December 9, 2021: In the preamble, changed “By using this website and/or our …” to “By accessing and/or using this website and/or using our …” In Notice to Parents Regarding Children Under 18, changed “Our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services and the 6200 Productions website are not intended for or directed to children, and should not be used or accessed by children under 18” to “The 6200 Productions website and our professional writing/editing/writing consulting services are not intended for or directed to children, and should not be accessed or used by children under 18” for wording consistency. In Definitions, updated the “User(s) and visitor(s) definition to change “who accesses our website” to “who accesses and/or uses this website” for wording consistency. Also revised the “IP address” definition to change “by using a virtual private network (VPN) or proxy service; with these services, you first connect to a computer server provided by the VPN/proxy service and that proxy server then connects to other Internet sites and resources” to “by using a virtual private network (VPN) or proxy service; with such services, you first connect to a remote server provided by the VPN or proxy service and that server then connects to other Internet sites and/or resources” for greater clarity. In Online Tracking, changed “(for example, to determine which articles are the most popular)” to “(for example, to determine which posts and/or pages are the most popular)”; changed “and not a proxy server or VPN” to “and not a proxy or VPN server”; and revised the paragraph regarding the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on to change “We offer no warranties whatsoever” to “We make no warranties whatsoever” and set the disclaimer text in all caps. In Information You Provide to Us, changed “Through your use of this website” to “Through your access to and/or use of this website” for wording consistency. In Comments, changed “as well as the specific article you commented on” to “as well as the specific post or page you commented on” for consistency with the Comment Policy. In Data Related to Administrative Users, updated the language about administrative user ID numbers to change “Each administrative user also has a unique user ID number within the website’s database, which the database uses to associate that user with other actions they perform and/or content they post, edit, or submit on the website” to just “Each administrative user also receives a unique user ID number within the website’s database.” In the paragraph beginning “This website uses …” changed “may record an administrative user’s IP address, hostname, user agent information, and/or geolocation data” to “may record an administrative user’s username, user ID number, IP address, hostname, user agent information, and/or geolocation data”. In the paragraph beginning “Some of the information administrative users provide …” changed “to access and/or reset user login credentials” to “to access and/or change user login credentials and/or user settings”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to the IntenseDebate comment system to note that we requested the deletion of our IntenseDebate account on December 9, 2021, making some minor wording adjustments to accommodate this addition. In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “current California resident” to “California resident.” In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “through your use of this website” to “through your access to and/or use of this website” for wording consistency. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “use a proxy server or VPN, the VPN or proxy server …” to “use a proxy or VPN, that proxy or VPN …” In Privacy Policy Changes (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Your further use of …” to “Your further access to and/or use of …” In the Cookie Notice, revised the Disable Google Analytics Tracking section to updated the disclaimer text regarding the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on to match the current version in Online Tracking on this page. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
December 8, 2021: As a global change throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page, changed all instances of “applicable law/regulations” to “applicable law and/or regulations” (except in older entries in this Recent Revisions list). In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, changed “is necessary to provide …” to “is necessary in order to provide …”; changed “is necessary to fulfill …” to “is necessary in order to fulfill …” for wording consistency. In Contact Forms, changed “Information from California Privacy Request Form submissions must be retained for at least 24 months for compliance purposes” to “We must retain privacy requests submitted via the California Privacy Request Form to the extent necessary to comply with applicable law and/or regulations.” In Additional Information About Data Retention, revised the bullet point on information pertaining to disputes and/or legal issues to change “Any information …” to “Information …” Also removed the language in that bullet point about privacy request retention, moving that language to the paragraph after the second bullet-pointed list in that section (beginning “Personal information we may collect …”); changing the phrase “Similarly, for compliance purposes, …” to “In particular (but without limitation), …”; changing “to the extent required by applicable law and/or regulations” to “to the extent necessary to comply with applicable law and/or regulations”; adding the parenthetical phrase “(again without limitation)” after the words “For example”; and changing “retain records of that request …” to “retain records of that request and how we responded to it …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the bullet point on photos, images, and/or other media to change “Photographs, images, and/or other media (e.g., videos) we use and/or collect for use on this website and/or elsewhere …” to “The photographs, images, and/or other media (e.g., videos) we use and/or collect for use on the 6200 Productions website, in connection with our other content and/or creative endeavors, and/or as part of and/or in connection with our professional writing/editing/writing consulting work …” Also changed “for example, the license terms …” to “For example (but without limitation), the license terms …” and made that parenthetical aside a separate sentence (still set in parentheses). In the subsequent instance of “For example …” in that same bullet point, changed “(but without limitation)” to “(again without limitation)”. In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “to the degree of certainty applicable law and/or regulations require” to “to the degree of certainty required by applicable law and/or regulations” (mostly to eliminate an aesthetically troublesome issue of subject/verb agreement).
December 7, 2021: In Contact Forms, rearranged and slightly revised the first paragraph to read “This section applies to messages you send us via the Contact Form and/or any other contact or feedback forms we may offer on the 6200 Productions website, including, though not limited to, privacy requests submitted via the California Privacy Request Form on the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page.” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point on “Financial information pertaining to transactions with and/or otherwise involving us” (under “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)”) to change “credit card information” to “credit card and/or debit card information” (since the statute refers to both). Added a bullet point under “Characteristics of classifications protected by law”: “Genetic information (and/or familial genetic information)”. Amended the “Biometric information” category to change “Biometric information, such as …” to “Biometric information (genetic, physiological, behavioral, and/or biological characteristics, and/or activity patterns), such as …” for clarity. Under “Internet or similar network activity information,” changed “Web browsing activity and/or history” to just “Browsing activity and/or history” (mostly for greater consistency with the statutory wording). Amended the “Sensory data” category to change “(audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information)” to “(audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, and/or similar information)” for internal consistency. In the California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “(which we presume means California consumers as defined by the CCPA, although the regulations are not entirely clear on this point)” to “(which we presume means California residents and/or households, as defined by the CCPA)”. In the California Privacy Request Metrics Methodology subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “We may revise this methodology for subsequent years depending on our subsequent experience” to “We may revise this methodology for later years depending on our subsequent experience.”
December 6, 2021: In the preamble, changed “which summarizes recent modifications …” to “which summarizes recent changes …” In Comments, changed “either by being automatically “stripped” prior to publication or manually deleted by us” to “whether automatically “stripped” prior to publication or manually deleted by us” in the interests of grammar and revised the paragraph beginning “From time to time, …” to add an additional sentence: “Naturally, if you offer corrections and/or clarifications of our content, we will also take steps to verify that information and, if we deem it appropriate, incorporate the factual substance of such correction(s) and/or clarification(s) into the applicable content (and/or make a note for our future reference).” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point beginning “To appropriately credit someone” to change “themes/plugins” to “themes, plugins” and revised the bullet point on photos, images, and/or other media to change “may share photos, images, and/or other media and/or information about them …” to “may share photos, images, and/or other media (and/or related information) …” for greater clarity. In the February 10, 2020 entry below, fixed an erroneous reference to the “Comments and Personal Information” section (the correct name of that section is “Comments”). In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “The current CCPA regulations issued by California’s Office of the Attorney General stipulate …” to “The current CCPA regulations stipulate …” Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
December 5, 2021: Throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page, removed the target=”_blank” property from certain hyperlinks and restored the rel=”noopener” attribute to the hyperlinks that still have that property. Also changed links with the rel=”noreferrer” attribute to rel=”noopener noreferrer” where they weren’t already set that way. (These adjustments pertain to certain technical matters that shouldn’t affect the functionality of those links.) In Definitions, revised the “Domain name and/or hostname” definition to change “publicly available” to “available to the public” and updated the “Administrative dashboard/backend” definition to change “public-facing” to “publicly visible/publicly accessible”. In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, revised the “legitimate interest” bullet point to change “for example” to “e.g.” and set the examples in parentheses for stylistic consistency. In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list that appears in the version of the “Collection Purposes” subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the “Advertising and other commercial purposes” bullet point to change “other writing/editing/writing consulting work” to “writing/editing/writing consulting work” for internal consistency. In Online Tracking, changed “publicly visible portions of this website” to “publicly visible/publicly accessible portions of this website” for internal consistency. In Security Scans, changed “for malware and/or signs of other malicious activity” to “for malware and blocking suspicious and/or malicious activity”; changed “Some of these scans …” to “Some of these measures …” and changed “we may initiate additional manual scans and/or request that our web host’s technical support staff conduct a more thorough active scan to help us root out a possible security threat or troubleshoot a technical problem” to “we may manually initiate additional security measures and/or request that our web host’s technical support staff take additional steps to investigate and/or block security threats and/or suspicious activity.” Also changed several instances of the phrase “suspicious or malicious activity” to “suspicious and/or malicious activity” for internal consistency. In Embedded Content, updated the Font Awesome bullet point to change “public-facing” to “publicly visible/publicly accessible” and updated the WordPress.org bullet point to change “publicly accessible” to “publicly visible/publicly accessible” (for internal consistency). In Comments; Contact Forms; and Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, changed “comes from publicly available sources” to “comes from sources available to the public”. Also in Comments, changed “or because it contains information pertaining to our content or research” to “or because it contains information pertaining to our content and/or research”. Also in Contact Forms, changed “Contact Forms” to “Contact Form submissions”; changed “pertaining to our content” to “pertaining to our content, our writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or our other creative endeavors”; changed “into the applicable content” to “into the applicable content, work, or creative endeavor(s)”; and changed “our content, and/or some related matter(s)” to “our content, our other creative endeavors, and/or some related matter(s)”. Also in Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, changed “information that pertains to our articles or other content” to “information that pertains to our content, writing/editing/writing/consulting work, and/or other creative endeavors” and changed “in connection with an article” to “in connection with an article we’re writing”. In Data in Submitted Images, changed “in connection with our content, and/or for some related business purpose” to “in connection with our content and/or other creative endeavors, and/or for some related purpose(s)”; changed “making it publicly available” to “making it available to the public”; changed “Such information may come from a variety of publicly available and/or nonpublic sources” to “Such information may come from a variety of sources (which may include sources available to the public and/or nonpublic sources)”; changed “during the time it was publicly available” to “during the time it was available to the public”; changed “we publish on the 6200 Productions website and/or as part of our content” to “we create and/or collect for publication on the 6200 Productions website and/or for use in connection with our content and/or other creative endeavors”. In Data Related to Administrative Users, changed “it is not publicly visible” to “it is not normally publicly visible (unless the user makes it so)”. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, changed “other publicly available information or records” to “other information or records available to the public.” In the Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “may come from a variety of publicly available and/or nonpublic sources” to “may come from a variety of sources (which may include sources available to the public and/or nonpublic sources)”. In Information We Receive From Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “from a variety of publicly available and/or nonpublic sources” to “from a variety of sources (which may include sources available to the public and/or nonpublic sources)”; changed “to identify and prevent malicious activity” to “to help identify and prevent malicious activity”; changed an instance of the phrase “suspicious or malicious activity” to “suspicious and/or malicious activity” for internal consistency; changed an instance of the phrase “suspicious or malicious activity” to “suspicious and/or malicious activity” for internal consistency; and changed “In many cases, such data is already publicly available” to “In many cases, such data is already available to the public.” In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, updated the second paragraph to replace everything after “about individuals who contact us” with the phrase “in addition to any information those individuals provide to us” (set off with a comma) to limit repetition; updated the paragraph regarding gathering additional information about images and/or other media to change “which may come from a variety of public and/or nonpublic sources” to “which may come from a variety of sources”; updated the subsequent paragraph about attribution information for license content to change “typically gather certain publicly available information about you …” to “may gather certain information about you, typically from sources already available to the public, …”; updated the paragraphs regarding hiring and/or professional partnerships and individuals or entities to which we contemplate providing services and/or licensing our content to change “from a variety of public and/or nonpublic third-party sources” to “from a variety of sources (which may include sources available to the public and/or nonpublic sources)”; updated the paragraph regarding vendors and/or service providers to change “obtain published works and/or other publicly available information and/or resources” to “obtain published works and/or other information and/or resources available to the public”; updated the paragraph beginning “Published works …” to change “other publicly available online content” to “other publicly accessible online content”; changed “may come from a variety of public and/or nonpublic third-party sources” (later in the same paragraph) to “may come from a variety of sources (which may include sources available to the public and/or nonpublic sources)”; and updated the paragraph regarding information related to our content to change “and/or other creative endeavors” to “and/or our other creative endeavors” and change “drawn from sources that were already publicly available” to “drawn from sources that are or were already available to the public”. Updated the paragraph regarding retention to change “possible future article or content” to “possible future content and/or creative endeavors”. Updated the final paragraph of that section to change “Obviously, information we gather for our articles and/or other content may be published and/or otherwise disclosed in that context; other, nonpublic information generally will not be except as otherwise described in …” to “Obviously, information we gather for our content, writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or other creative endeavors may be published and/or otherwise disclosed in that context; other information not already available to the public generally will not be except as otherwise described in …” In Additional Information About Data Retention, changed “technical or legal questions” to “technical and/or legal questions”; changed “a business-related dispute or legal issue” to “business-related disputes and/or legal issues”; and changed “applicable law and/or regulation” to “applicable law and/or regulations” (the latter for internal consistency). In Information Captured by Service/Software/App/Device Telemetry, changed “If a service/app/software/device crashes …” to “If some service/app/software/device crashes …”; changed “including (but not limited to) taking snapshots …” to “which may include (without limitation) taking snapshots … In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the bullet point regarding public acknowledgments of assistance to change “whether with the management of this website, our content, and/or some related matter(s)” to “whether with the management of this website, our content, our other creative endeavors, and/or some related matter(s)” for internal consistency. Changed the bullet “If that information is or was already publicly available …” to “If that information is or was already otherwise available to the public …” Updated references throughout that section to useful articles to consistently say “useful article” rather than just “article” to avoid confusion. (“Useful article” is a legal term referring to utilitarian objects like articles of clothing, and thus is something quite different from, e.g., a news article.) Also changed “which examine the publicly accessible/visible portions of the website” to “which examine the publicly visible/publicly accessible portions of the website” (again for internal consistency) and updated the reference to calibre ebook management software to change “its code is open source and publicly available” to “its source is freely available for review” and adjusted which portions of that text are part of the anchor text for the link to the source code. Updated the paragraph beginning “Fourth …” to change “the publicly visible portions …” to “the publicly visible/publicly accessible portions …” for internal consistency. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the paragraph beginning “Please note that …” to change “in connection with the articles and other content” to “in connection with the content” for wording consistency. In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Published and/or publicly available sources” to “Published works and/or other sources available to the public”. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “information that otherwise is or was already publicly available” to “information that is or was already otherwise available to the public” and changed “If that information otherwise is or was already publicly available” to “If that information is or was already otherwise available to the public” and changed “share, discuss, and/or otherwise disseminate publicly available information, whether or not that information is offered through official government sources” to “share, discuss, and/or otherwise disseminate information that is or was already published and/or otherwise available to the public, whether or not such information is from official government records (the only type of “publicly available information” the CCPA acknowledges)”. Updated the subsequent bullet point regarding artwork, copies of published works, or other objects to change “such work, copy, article, or object” to “such work, copy, useful article, or object” for consistency with the related language in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. Later in that subsection, changed “Some information about our activities and/or data accessed on our systems and devices may be captured by the telemetry and/or other surveillance features of the software, apps, services, and devices we use” to “Some information about our activities and/or some portions of the data we access in connection with our business may be captured by the telemetry and/or other surveillance features of the software, apps, services, and/or devices we use” and changed “Although any of the above examples …” to “Although the above examples …” Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
December 4, 2021: In Additional Information About Data Retention, changed “Information pertaining to any financial transactions and/or legal agreements involving 6200 Productions” to “Information pertaining to any financial transactions and/or legal agreements involving 6200 Productions, our professional writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or our other creative endeavors” and changed “communicate regarding 6200 Productions and/or related matters, and/or our other creative endeavors” to “communicate regarding 6200 Productions, our professional writing/editing/writing consulting work, our other creative endeavors, and/or related matters” for the avoidance of doubt. Also updated the bullet point on postal mail and/or physical documents to add language about data disks and/or other physical data storage media, splitting the second sentence into multiple sentences for clarity with this addition. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made some additional clarifications (most of them quite minor) to the language regarding business service providers. Also made some minor revisions to the paragraph regarding the Google Analytics service and fixed some inconsistencies between the version of that paragraph that appears on this page and the version that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page.
December 2, 2021: As a global change through this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page, updated certain hyperlinks to remove the rel=”noopener” attribute and replace the attribute rel=”noopener noreferrer” with rel=”noreferrer” (a purely technical change that shouldn’t affect the functionality of those links). In Definitions, revised the “Identifiers” definition to better integrate the recently added example about advertising IDs into the previous list. Updated the “Cookies and similar technologies” definition to adjust the wording of the trademark disclaimer for the informational links. In Cookies and Similar Technologies, changed “about the cookies the site may use” to “about the categories of cookies that may be used on this website”. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “with certain types of information (e.g., real names, information about education and/or employment) technically falling into multiple categories” to “with certain types of information (e.g., real names, employment information) technically falling into multiple categories”. Revised the “Education information” category description to add a comma before “such as” and change “other personally identifiable information …” to “other nonpublic personally identifiable information …” In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and Your California Privacy Rights page), fixed a hyperlink that was incorrectly pointing to a page on the owner’s Ate Up With Motor website rather than this one. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made a variety of clarifications and corrections, and rearranged certain portions of the text for more logical flow with the revisions. Also fixed another hyperlink that was incorrectly pointing to a page on the owner’s Ate Up With Motor website rather than this one. In the Cookie Notice, adjusted the wording of the trademark disclaimer for the informational links at the end of the Cookies and Similar Technologies section. Also revised the Categories of Cookies used section to clarify that it shouldn’t be regarded as an exhaustive list of specific cookies and better explain some of the reasons the cookies used may vary. Revised the paragraph beginning “The durations described below …” to further clarify why the listed cookie durations are approximate. Revised the December 1, 2021 entry below to change “the statutory definition of the latter category is actually referring …” to “the statutory definition of the latter category is probably referring …” (We’re still not entirely sure if we’re correctly understanding the intent of the CCPA’s statutory language about education information, whose wording is confusing.) Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
December 1, 2021: In Definitions, updated the Identifiers definition to include language about advertising identifiers. Updated the Cookies and Similar Technologies definition to move the KnowCookies.com link to the end of the definition, add two additional informational links, and add a trademark disclaimer. In Cookies and Similar Technologies, changed “the Cookie Notice version(s)” to “the Cookie Notice version”. In Online Tracking, revised the paragraph on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to change “that prevents the Google Analytics service from collecting data about you” to “that prevents the Google Analytics service from collecting information about your visits to websites that use that service” (which better describes how the add-on is supposed to work). In Ads on 6200 Productions, changed “such information-gathering and disclosure normally only involves our information, not that of other site visitors” to “such information-gathering normally only affects site administrators, not other site visitors.” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “In the last 12 months, we have collected …” to “We have collected and/or may collect …” (The listed categories include some types of information that we haven’t actually collected in the past 12 months, but have collected in the past and may collect in the future, and therefore will continue to list.) Moved the bullet point on information gathered through cookies and/or similar technologies from “Internet or similar network activity” to “Identifiers” and changed “gathered” to collected” (for purely aesthetic reasons, since this policy treats those terms synonymously). In “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e),” changed “Telephone numbers, FAX numbers, and/or other contact information” to “Telephone numbers (and/or fax numbers, which are not actually mentioned in the statute, but would seem to be reasonably encompassed by the category of telephone numbers)”. Added a similar parenthetical clarification to the bullet point regarding signatures (since the statute doesn’t actually mention digital signatures either). Also added “Education information” to the examples under that category. Under “Internet or similar network activity information,” deleted “Other potentially personally identifying information in electronic files and/or associated metadata” (which would really fall into one or more of the other listed categories) and revised the “Other information about …” bullet point to change “messages, and/or advertisements” to “advertisements, and/or messages”. Rearranged several of the examples under that category to put the bullet point on encryption public keys and/or similar security data immediately below “Email header information”. (We’re still not really sure how encryption public keys should be properly categorized, to the extent they could be considered personal information.) Replaced the previous “Nonpublic education information” category description with the following: “Education information such as (without limitation) transcripts, class lists, grades, and/or other personally identifiable information directly related to current and/or former students that is contained in education records maintained by an educational institution (and/or parties acting on its behalf)”. (We belatedly realized that the statutory definition of the latter category is probably referring specifically to education records maintained by schools and other educational institutions rather than to all education information.) Updated the Cookie Notice to move the KnowCookies.com link to the end of the Cookies and Similar Technologies section, add two additional informational links, and add a trademark disclaimer. In the Categories of Cookies Used section, changed “the Cookie Notice version(s)” to “the Cookie Notice version”. In the Disable Google Analytics Tracking category, added language about the Google Analytics Opt-out add-on mentioned in the Online Tracking section of this page. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 30, 2021: In Information We Collect, changed “if and when you supply information …” to “if and when you provide information …” for wording consistency. In Definitions, replaced the link to AboutCookies.org with a link to KnowCookies.com (which has more up-to-date information on managing or deleting cookies in newer browsers). In Cookies and Similar Technologies, changed the phrase “shall govern” to “shall govern and control.” In Embedded Content, changed the reference to the WordPress.org Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to read “To learn more about how the WordPress.org websites use the information they gather, see the WordPress.org Privacy Policy; for more information about their use of cookies, see their Cookie Policy.” (The actual policy links remain unchanged.) In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “catalogs, repositories” (in the “Providers of other search engines and/or other research and/or reference tools, services, facilities, and/or resources” bullet point) to “catalogs, galleries, repositories” and changed “and/or bookstores and/or other retailers, vendors, merchants, resellers, marketplaces, auction services, distributors, and/or providers …” (later in the same bullet point) to “bookstores; and/or other retailers, vendors, merchants, resellers, marketplaces, auction services, distributors, manufacturers, publishers, developers, and/or other types of providers …” In Privacy Policy Changes (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Your continued use …” to “Your further use …” (This change reflects the current language in the Automattic Privacy Policy described in Credits and License for This Policy.) In the preamble to the Your California Privacy Rights page, changed “shall govern” to “shall govern and control.” Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication. Updated the Cookie Notice to replace the link to AboutCookies.org with a link to KnowCookies.com; changed the phrase “shall govern” to “shall govern and control”; fixed a typo in Administrative and Login Cookies; and added another WordPress trademark notice to Browser Tests.
November 29, 2021: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “with certain types of information (e.g., real names) technically falling into multiple categories” to “with certain types of information (e.g., real names, information about education and/or employment) technically falling into multiple categories”. Changed “Additional categories of personal information described in the California Customer Records statute (California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e))” to “Categories of personal information described in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)”. Corrected the reference to that category in the November 28, 2021 entry below (we went back and forth on the exact wording several times that day, and apparently forgot to update the Recent Revisions description to reflect what it eventually ended up as).
November 28, 2021: In Online Tracking, changed “Google may transfer and/or otherwise disclose the data to third parties for subcontracted data processing and/or tasks such as (again without limitation) billing and/or data storage …” to “Google may transfer and/or otherwise disclose the data to third parties who perform subcontracted data processing and/or certain other services, such as (without limitation) data storage, billing, and/or customer support …”. Added a new section immediately before Additional Information About Data Retention: Combining Information From Multiple Sources. Renamed the California Do Not Track Disclosure section (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page) “California Do Not Track Disclosure (CalOPPA)” and updated the Table of Contents accordingly. Updated the text to change “(California residents are entitled to this disclosure under California Business and Professions Code Section 22575(b)(5).)” to “(California residents are entitled to this disclosure under the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) (California Business and Professions Code Section 22575 et seq.).)” for clarity. In Information-Sharing Disclosures (Shine the Light Law) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “California Civil Code Section 1798.83 et seq. (the “Shine the Light” law) …” to “California’s “Shine the Light” law (California Civil Code Section 1798.83 et seq.) …” (again for clarity). In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added the parenthetical phrase “(California Civil Code Section 1798.100 et. seq.)” after the phrase “the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA)” (mostly for consistency). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “described in the California Customer Records statute, California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)” to “described in the California Customer Records statute (California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e))” (mostly for consistency). Moved the bullet point on “Telephone numbers, FAX numbers, and/or other contact information” to “Additional categories of personal information”. Split the “Records of financial transactions” bullet point, which had been listed under “Commercial information,” between that category and “Additional categories of personal information” (moving the portion about financial account information to the latter). Renamed the “Financial information” bullet point in the latter category “Other financial information” for clarity. Reordered the categories to put them back in the order they were in prior to the changes made on November 26, 2021. (If anyone is wondering the reasons for this shuffling, it’s that while the categories are defined by law, it’s not entirely clear if they must be listed in that specific order, which isn’t necessarily the most logical one for our purposes; on further reflection, we decided not to chance it.) In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, revised the paragraph beginning “The CCPA definitions are so expansive that …” to change “a disclosure for commercial purposes may be deemed “selling” personal information even if it does not constitute a sale as most people understand that term” to “a disclosure for which any of the parties involved receives any “valuable consideration” may be deemed “selling” personal information even if it does not constitute a sale as most people understand that term (and even if no money changes hands).” (We made this change on this page on November 25, 2021, but somehow didn’t make the corresponding update to the Your California Privacy Rights page.) Made some wording changes to Privacy Policy Changes, adding a recommendation that you regularly review this page for changes and rearranging and revising some text for clarity. Added a version of the Privacy Policy Changes section (with some appropriate wording adjustments) to the Your California Privacy Rights page. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 27, 2021: In Notice to Parents Regarding Children Under 18, changed “business” to “services” and changed “(e.g., an email message, a Contact Form submission, or a comment)” to “(e.g., a message to the site’s administrative email address, a Contact Form submission, or a comment)” for greater clarity. Also changed “If you have questions, if you are a parent …” to just “If you are a parent …” (again for clarity). In Financial Transactions Policy, updated the second paragraph to add “(but without limitation) after “For example”. In Information Provided by Social Media Platforms, changed “such as (without limitation) summaries of how many people have viewed or otherwise interacted with a specific post” to “such as (again without limitation) summaries of how many people have viewed or otherwise interacted with a specific post.” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended the paragraph on photos, images, and/or other media to change “in hopes of identifying the other people shown” to “in hopes of identifying other people visible and/or audible in that video” for greater clarity. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), further updated the recently added bullet point beginning “Information about an individual or household’s interactions with government agencies …” (under “Other types of personal information”) to change “(e.g., information regarding official reports, filings, disclosures, hearings, audits, and/or complaints)” to “(e.g., information regarding an individual or household’s tax returns; other legally required filings, reports, registrations, and/or disclosures; and/or involvement in official inspections, audits, investigations, proceedings, hearings, and/or complaints, of whatever type(s) and/or nature(s))”. Also changed “If you have questions, if you are a parent …” to just “If you are a parent …” for internal consistency. In Privacy Policy Changes, added a sentence indicating that any changes will be summarized in the Recent Revisions section and that we may provide additional notice in other ways. Also changed “is shown near …” to “will be shown near …” In the preamble of the Your California Privacy Rights page, changed “as of November 27, 2021” to “(effective date: November 27, 2021)” to reduce potential confusion. (Future date changes will also be presented in this format for easier reference.) Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 26, 2021: In Notice to Parents Regarding Children Under 18, changed “(e.g., an email message, Contact Form submission, or comment)” to “(e.g., an email message, a Contact Form submission, or a comment)” (for grammatical reasons). In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, revised the paragraph on sources to add “designers”; “architects”; “developers”; “editors”; and “publishers” to the examples, change “illustrators and/or other artists” to just “artists,” and rearrange a few of the listed examples. In California Do Not Track Disclosure (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Currently, 6200 Productions does not …” to “6200 Productions does not currently …” and added an explanatory sentence: “(California residents are entitled to this disclosure under California Business and Professions Code Section 22575(b)(5).)” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), reordered the categories of personal information to put them in a more logical sequence. Updated the first bullet point under “Identifiers” to change “pseudonyms/aliases …” to “pseudonyms, aliases …” Combined the bullet points on “Telephone numbers (and/or FAX numbers)” and “Other contact information” into a single bullet point (“Telephone numbers, FAX numbers, and/or other contact information”) and moved them from “Additional categories of personal information” to “Identifiers”. Deleted the bullet point on “Information collected through cookies and/or similar technologies” under “Identifiers” (since it’s listed under “Internet or similar network activity information”). Moved the bullet points about encryption keys and potentially personally identifying information in electronic files to “Internet or similar network activity”. Moved the bullet point beginning “Records of financial transactions with us …” from “Additional categories of personal information …” to “Commercial information.” Moved the bullet points about gifts, donations, charitable contributions, and/or political contributions; licenses and/or permits; and employees, independent contractors, etc. from “Other types of personal information” to “Commercial information”. Deleted the bullet point on “Skills, aptitudes, abilities, and/or intelligence” (under “Professional or employment-related information”), since those fall more into the category of “Inferences” (listed separately). Revised the bullet point on “Information about an individual or household’s interactions with government agencies, departments, organizations, and/or entities of whatever type(s) and/or level(s), whether within the U.S., in other countries, or both” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to change “is an officer of …” to “is an officer or trustee of …” Amended the bullet point beginning “Publishing histories/bibliographies/discographies …” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to revise some of the examples, mostly for internal consistency. In the “Additional categories of personal information …” category, changed “as defined in …” to “described in …” Changed “Other physical characteristics …” to “Physical characteristics …” Changed “Other financial information …” to “Financial information …” Reordered some of the remaining bullet points under “Other types of personal information”. Revised the bullet point on specific vehicles to add the parenthetical phrase “(irrespective of their actual ownership)” to better explain the intent. (The owner’s automotive writing and research frequently involve observing and/or otherwise collecting information about specific vehicles without necessarily knowing to whom they actually belong!) Added a bullet point under “Other types of personal information”: “Information about an individual or household’s interactions with government agencies, departments, organizations, and/or entities of whatever type(s) and/or level(s), whether within the U.S., in other countries, or both (e.g., information regarding official reports, filings, disclosures, hearings, audits, and/or complaints)”. Amended the “Inferences” category to change “estimation of an individual’s personality, character, aptitudes and/or deficiencies, predispositions, motives, motivations, and/or likely behavior, and/or their suitability for a particular job, assignment, or professional role” to “estimation of an individual’s personality, character, intelligence, abilities, aptitudes and/or deficiencies, attitudes, preferences, predispositions, motives, motivations, psychological trends, and/or behavior, and/or their suitability for a particular job, assignment, or professional role”. Deleted the bullet point beginning “Other types of personal information, and/or other types of data …” and replaced it with “Other types of information and/or data that could potentially be deemed personal information, but that do not readily fit into any of the above-listed categories” (listing this as a separate category after the others). In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “Subject matter experts …” for consistency with the updated examples in Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Most payments we receive are processed by our bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s) and the applicable payment processor(s), if any” to “Most payments we receive are processed by the applicable bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s), and in some cases also by other applicable third-party service providers (e.g., payment processors and/or electronic funds transfer services).” As a global change on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page, replaced various instances of the section symbol (§) with the word “Section” (except in older entries in this Recent Revisions list) for clarity and internal consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 25, 2021: In Information We Collect, changed “information on you” to “information about you”. In Browser Tests, changed “information on the Modernizr plugin” to “information about the Modernizr plugin”. In Embedded Content, changed “includes more information on the cookies …” to “includes more information about the cookies …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “for more information on this issue as it relates …” to “for more information about this issue as it relates …” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added a bullet point under “Other types of personal information”: “Information about an individual being featured, portrayed, depicted, represented, and/or mentioned in and/or otherwise incorporated into one or more creative works, literary works, and/or performances (of whatever type(s) and/or medium(s)), and/or having been the basis of and/or inspiration for such work(s) and/or performance(s) and/or elements thereof”. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the paragraph beginning “The CCPA definitions are so expansive that …” to change “a disclosure for commercial purposes may be deemed “selling” personal information even if it does not constitute a sale as most people understand that term” to “a disclosure for which any of the parties involved receives any “valuable consideration” may be deemed “selling” personal information even if it does not constitute a sale as most people understand that term (and even if no money changes hands).” Also updated the paragraph regarding the Google Analytics service to change “information on visitors” to “information about visitors” for wording consistency. In the Cookie Notice, made some wording changes to the Administrative and Login Cookies section to reference other user agents rather than just browsers. (We can’t think offhand how someone could access the administrative dashboard from a user agent other than a browser, but there may be scenarios where it’s possible.) Also made a few minor wording adjustments to the PayPal® Buttons section. We also had to rebuild all the cookie categories in the bottom banner, which had somehow been deleted. Inevitably tinkered with these changes after initial publication.
November 23, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the paragraph beginning “In general …” to change “almost any disclosure for which either party receives any “valuable consideration” whatsoever” to “almost any disclosure for which any of the parties involved receives any “valuable consideration” whatsoever”. In the subsequent paragraph about business transfers, changed “the CCPA apparently does not regard as a sale for the purposes of that law” to “the CCPA does not necessarily regard as a “sale” of personal information for the purposes of that law” for clarity. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the paragraph beginning “As noted in …” to change “the CCPA apparently does NOT regard transfers of personal information” to “the CCPA does not necessarily regard transfers of personal information” and changed “for purposes of the law” to “for the purposes of that law” for internal consistency. Later in the same paragraph, changed the phrase “California’s attorney general and courts” to “the state and the courts”. Inevitably tinkered with these changes after initial publication.
November 22, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the paragraph beginning “In general …” to change “virtually any disclosure in which any party has any financial stake whatsoever” to “almost any disclosure for which either party receives any “valuable consideration” whatsoever”. In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the first item on the numbered list (regarding “The Right to Know”) to change “the right to request …” to “the right to request to know …” In the first subordinate item under that one (beginning “The categories and/or specific pieces of personal information …”), deleted the phrase “in the preceding 12 months”. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point on “Information about other professional relationships” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to add “preceptor/preceptee relationships; relationships with students, interns, trainees, and/or apprentices” to the parenthetical examples.
November 20, 2021: In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, changed “If you are in an area …” to “If you are located in a part of the world &hellip” and changed “from within the European Economic Area (EEA) may be used, stored, and/or accessed by individuals operating outside the EEA …” to “may be used, stored, and/or accessed by individuals operating outside your home country and/or the European Economic Area …” In Online Tracking, revised the example regarding proxy servers to change “if a visitor in Texas accesses the site through a proxy server in Switzerland, the analytics service will generally treat that visitor as coming from Switzerland, not the U.S.” to “if a visitor in Texas accesses the site through a proxy server located in the German state of Bavaria, the analytics service will generally treat that visitor as originating from Germany, not the U.S.” and changed an instance of “U.K.” to “UK” for stylistic consistency. Also made a number of minor wording adjustments to the paragraph regarding the Google Ads Data Processing Terms for greater clarity. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to the CDex audio utility to delete the phrase “open source” (which may no longer be accurate). Also added the fre:ac audio converter to the listed examples in that same bullet point. In Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), changed “For example, the rights provided by the EU GDPR and UK GDPR include the rights to:” to “For example, if you are located in a region that falls under the scope of the EU GDPR or the UK GDPR, your rights with respect to your personal data include, subject to any exemptions provided by applicable law, the rights to:” (Both versions are adapted from the language in the current Automattic Privacy Policy described in Credits and License for This Policy, to which we decided to hew a bit more closely.) In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “The fact that we collected and/or inferred certain information does not necessarily mean that we still retain it, or that we have any practical way to associate the different categories of information we may have collected …” to “The fact that we collected and/or inferred certain information about a given individual or household does not necessarily mean that we still retain that information, or that we have any practical way to associate the different categories and/or specific pieces of information we may have collected …” for greater clarity.
November 19, 2021: In Embedded Content, updated the Twitter trademark notice. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to restaurants and other food services to change “(if we use and/or arrange such services in the course of our business)” to “(if we dine out, order and/or arrange meals, and/or otherwise use and/or arrange such services in the course of our business)” for greater clarity. In Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the beginning of the first sentence to read “The controller responsible for processing personal data we collect through and/or in connection with this website and/or our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business (the “responsible party,” for jurisdictions that use that term) is …” for consistency with the preamble wording. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 17, 2021: In Definitions, updated the definition of “Protected classifications” to change “such as (without limitation) race, religion, gender, or medical conditions” to “such as (though not limited to) race, religion, gender, medical condition, and/or disability.” In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information, updated the bullet-pointed list to change each instance of “or” to “and/or” for wording consistency. In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list in the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point on “Providing services” to change “perform some action” to “perform some action(s)”; updated the bullet point on “Fulfilling a contractual obligation” to change “contractual agreements, whether with you or with a third party” to “contractual agreements, whether with you, with some third party or parties, or both”; and updated the bullet point on “Legal compliance or audit” to change “subpoenas or other court orders” to “subpoenas and/or other court orders”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to the phpMyAdmin tool to change “but its source code …” to “but the tool’s source code …” for clarity. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point on “Race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, and/or residency” (under “Characteristics of classifications protected by law”) to change “residency” to “residency status” for clarity. Also changed “Information about children (such as (without limitation) the number of children and/or their names, ages, and/or genders) and/or other family members” to “Information about familial status and/or children (e.g., the number of children and/or their names, ages, and/or genders)” and reordered several of the bullet points in that category. Revised the bullet point on certifications and/or licenses (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to read “Professional and/or business certification(s), license(s), and/or permit(s)”. Revised the bullet point about permits and/or licenses (under “Other types of personal information”) to change “permits and/or licenses” to “permit(s) and/or license(s)” and delete the comma before “other than …” Changed the bullet point “Information about other household members (e.g., roommates) and/or pets” (under “Other types of personal information”) to read “Information about other members of an individual’s family (other than spouse/partner or children), other members of a given household (e.g., roommates), and/or pets” and rearranged the order of that bullet point within that category. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 16, 2021: In Definitions, updated the “User(s) and visitor(s)” definition to fix a typographical error (duplicate quotation mark). In the last paragraph of Cookies and Similar Technologies, made some minor wording adjustments for internal consistency. In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, changed “(e.g., the login credentials for 6200productions.com email address(es) and/or FTP folder(s)) to “(e.g., login credentials for FTP folder(s) associated with this website)” and changed “the routine operation of the website and its related systems” to “the routine operations of the website and its related systems”. Also changed “web host owns the servers” to “web host, DreamHost®, controls the servers”; changed “our service agreement prohibits us from tampering with the logs or other normal functions of the DreamHost servers” to “we are not permitted to tamper or interfere with the normal functions of DreamHost servers or other systems”; changed “on any server they own” to “on any server or other system they control”; and changed “for security and/or troubleshooting purposes” to “for purposes such as troubleshooting and/or security.” In Security Scans, updated the second paragraph to name the web host and add a trademark notice. Also updated the paragraph on data retention to add links to the DreamHost Privacy Policy and Customer EU Data Processing Addendum. In Data Related to Administrative Users, made a number of clarifications and wording adjustments. In Additional Information About Data Retention, changed “Other activity history on third-party sites and/or services” to “Other activity history on third-party websites and/or services” and changed “third-party sites and/or services” to “third-party websites and/or services” in the text of that bullet point. Also changed one instance of “Third-party …” to “Such third-party …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to DreamHost to also reiterate that they have access to most data and/or files on any server or other system they control and make some minor formatting adjustments. Also updated certain other references in that section to services DreamHost administers to change “provides the tool and owns and operates the servers” to “administers the tool and controls the servers” and change “operates the client and the mail servers …” to “administers the client and controls the mail servers …” for internal consistency. Updated the reference to 7-Zip software to better describe what it is. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point on “Network, shared device, and/or online service information” (under “Internet or similar network activity information”) to rename it “Network, shared device, online service, and/or online access information”; reorder some of the parenthetical examples; and add “other authentication and/or security information” to the listed examples. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated a reference to DreamHost to change “owns the web servers” to “controls the web servers” (again for consistency). In the preamble of the Cookie Notice, changed “websites and/or services” to “websites or services”; changed “third-party sites and/or services” to “third-party websites or services”; and changed “sites and/or services'” to “sites or services'” for wording consistency. Updated the November 15, 2021 entry in this Recent Revisions list to remove the anchor link to the “Data Related to Administrative Users” section. (The link is still present in the applicable text, but we removed it here to avoid confusion and formatting issues.) Removed some extra spaces throughout. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 15, 2021: In Definitions, updated the “User(s) and visitor(s)” definition to add: “This policy sometimes also refers to administrative user(s) (or site administrator(s) — these terms are used synonymously), which refers to us and/or any other users we have specifically authorized to access and manage the website’s various administrative functions; see “Data Related to Administrative Users” below.” Updated the “Administrative dashboard/backend” definition to delete the phrase “(meaning us!”)” and correct “administrator backend” (a typographical error) to “administrative backend”. Also deleted the interjection “meaning us” in Ads on 6200 Productions, replacing it with a comma. In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, changed “email alerts that are sent to us as the site administrator” to just “email alerts to the site administrator”. In Security Scans, changed “email alerts to us as the site administrator” to “email alerts to the site administrator” for consistency. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point on “Network, shared device, and/or online service information” (under “Internet or similar network activity information”) to change “passwords/login credentials” to “passwords and/or other login credentials”. Also revised the bullet point on inferences to change “Inferences we draw from other personal information, …” to “Inferences we make, …” and revise and expand the examples as follows: “such as (without limitation) our estimation of an individual’s personality, character, aptitudes and/or deficiencies, predispositions, motives, motivations, and/or likely behavior, and/or their suitability for a particular job, assignment, or professional role”. Updated the Browser Tests section of the Cookie Notice to change “Cookies that store the results of such browser tests typically expire when you close your browser” to “Cookies that store the results of such tests typically expire when you close your browser (or other user agent)” for internal consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 13, 2021: In Definitions, further updated the “IP address” definition to change “(although there are occasional exceptions)” to “(although there are some exceptions)”. In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, updated the sentence beginning “Certain security-related log data …” to put the example in parentheses rather than set off with commas. In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “shipping records (if any)” to “shipping and/or delivery information (if any)” and changed “related tax documents” to “relevant tax information and/or tax documents” for greater clarity. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point on information about specific vehicles (under “Other types of personal information”) to change “(e.g., vehicle registration dates)” to “(e.g., vehicle registration numbers and/or registration dates)”.
November 12, 2021: In Contact Forms and Reports and Aggregate Statistics, changed “publish de-identified aggregate information about requests” to “publish aggregate information about requests”. Tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 11, 2021: In Definitions, updated the “IP address” definition to change “An IP address typically reveals the Internet service provider or mobile carrier the device is using” to “An IP address usually has an associated “hostname,” which is a type of domain name (defined below) that identifies a specific device connected to the Internet. A visitor/user’s hostname is typically a combination of their IP address and the name of a server, network node, or data center of the Internet service provider mobile carrier, or other network provider that provides that IP address; mechanisms that collect, use, and/or share visitor/user IP addresses generally also collect, use, and/or share the associated hostnames, if any (although there are occasional exceptions).” Changed the following sentence to “A given device’s IP address may change periodically (especially if the device is configured to use “dynamic” IP addresses assigned by the Internet service provider or mobile carrier, and/or if the device is used with several different Internet service providers/mobile carriers).” Renamed the “Domain name” definition “Domain name and/or hostname”; deleted the sentence “Most websites have a domain name, as do nearly all email addresses” (which was probably redundant); and replaced the next two sentences with the following: “A domain name is usually associated with one or more IP addresses. When you access an online resource by its domain name, your device first connects to a Domain Name System (DNS) server, which is an online directory that contains the IP addresses associated with domain names, to look up the appropriate IP address so your device can connect to it. Certain domain names, known as “hostnames,” identify specific devices connected to the Internet and/or other network(s). (Websites and online services may use multiple servers, sometimes located in different places, and thus may have multiple hostnames.) When you access the Internet, your hostname — which the websites and online services you visit and/or use can usually see — is typically a combination of your IP address and the name of a server, network node, or data center of the Internet service provider, mobile carrier, or other network provider you’re currently using.” Also changed “Domain name ownership must be …” to “The ownership of an Internet domain name must be …” As a global change, changed all instances of “domain name system” to “Domain Name System” throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page. As an additional global change, updated the various “Categories of information gathered” bullet points to change “domain names” to “domain names and/or hostnames” (with or without the asterisk, as appropriate). As an additional global change, updated various references throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page to IP address(es) to also reference hostname(s). As a further global change, changed various instances throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page of the word “aggregated” to “aggregate” where grammatically appropriate, including (though not limited to) renaming the Reports and Aggregated Statistics section “Reports and Aggregate Statistics” and updating the Table of Contents accordingly. In Certificate Authority Checks and Online Tracking, added “domain names and/or hostnames” (with and without asterisk, respectively) to the listed categories of information gathered. (This isn’t actually new, it’s just an effort to more accurately describe how information may be gathered in these contexts, some of which we only poorly understand.) Also in Online Tracking, changed “Please note that the Google Analytics service does not provide visitors’ IP addresses or other personal information to us except in the form of aggregated statistics” to “Please note that most of the information the Google Analytics service provides us about visitors to this website is in the form of aggregate statistics.” In Ads on 6200 Productions, fixed a grammatical error (improper subject/verb agreement). In Contact Forms and Reports and Aggregate Statistics, changed the phrases “publish de-identified and/or aggregate information” and “publish aggregated, de-identified information and/or statistics” to “publish de-identified aggregate information” for wording consistency. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “domain names” to “domain names and/or hostnames”; changed “certain IP addresses and/or domain names” to “certain IP addresses, domain names, and/or hostnames”; and changed “certain email addresses or domain names” to “certain email addresses, domain names, and/or hostnames”. Also fixed an editorial error (leftover text from a previous revision). In Additional Information About Data Retention, changed “Names and/or company/domain names …” to “Names (including, though not limited to, business names, product names, and/or domain names)”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “To publish your submitted comments” to “To publish and/or respond to your submitted comments” (which is a better summation). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point regarding “Network, shared device, and/or online service information” (under “Internet or similar network activity information”) to add “domain names and/or hostnames” to the parenthetical examples. (These would of course fall under the broader category of “names,” already listed.) Added another bullet point under that category: “Information about domain name registration(s)”. Also updated the final bullet point in that category to add “networks” immediately before “websites” (to be as comprehensive as possible). Updated the “Geolocation data” category to change “(e.g., from an IP address, hostname, telephone area code, and/or GPS coordinates)” to “(e.g., an IP address, a hostname, a telephone area code, and/or GPS coordinates)” for better grammar. Updated the final bullet point under “Professional or employment-related information” to read “Other information about an individual’s current, past, and/or prospective work, vocation, profession, trade, business, professional services, products, and/or other commercial endeavors (including, though not limited to, information about job search activity and/or marketing, advertising, and/or promotional efforts related to such work, vocation, profession, trade, business, professional services, products, and/or other commercial endeavors)”. Updated the bullet point on information about specific vehicles (under “Other types of personal information”) to add “and/or” before “related information” and change “characteristics or details” to “characteristics and/or details”. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the paragraph about embedded content providers to change “(e.g., which web browser you use)” to “(e.g., which web browser you use and/or which provider you’re using to connect to the Internet)” and change “YouTube is owned &helllip;” to “The YouTube platform is owned …” Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication, including (though not limited to) tidying up some editorial errors in the earlier iterations.
November 10, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information and the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point on information we are legally required to disclose to change the phrase “applicable law or regulation” to “applicable laws and/or regulations” for internal consistency. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the last bullet point under “Internet or similar network activity information” to change “but not limited to” to “though not limited to”. In the bullet point beginning “Information about an individual or household’s employees, independent contractors, interns, agents or other authorized representatives, and/or service providers …” (under “Other types of personal information”), changed “agents or …” to “agents and/or …”; changed “assistant and/or secretary” to “assistant(s), secretary or secretaries”; added “household staff” and “real estate agent(s) and/or estate agent(s)” to the listed examples; and added the word “of whatever type(s)” after “professional service providers”. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point regarding “Network, shared device, and/or online service information” (under “Internet or similar network activity information”) to add “domain names and/or hostnames” to the parenthetical examples. (These would of course fall under the broader category of “names,” already listed.) Also added another bullet point under that category: “Information about domain name registration(s)”. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), also changed “for money or other valuable consideration” to “for money and/or other valuable consideration”.
November 9, 2021: In Credits and License for This Policy, made a few wording changes for greater clarity. Also updated the Cookie Notice to make the license language a bit less awkward and capitalize the word “Definitions” in the preamble. In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “accounting/bookkeeping” to “bookkeeping, accounting”. In the Information Sharing subsection, changed “accountant/bookkeeper(s)” to “bookkeeper(s), accountant(s)”. Also changed “wire transfer and/or funds transfer service(s) to “money transfer or electronic funds transfer service(s)” and changed “and/or services” to “and/or service(s)” (again for internal consistency). In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, changed “accounting/bookkeeping” to “bookkeeping, accounting” for consistency. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “someone’s accountant(s) and/or tax preparer(s)” to “someone’s bookkeeper(s), accountant(s), and/or tax preparer(s)” (for consistency). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point on employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners” to add “bookkeeping” to the parenthetical examples. Also changed “other wire transfer and/or funds transfer services” to “other money transfer and/or electronic funds transfer service(s)” (for internal consistency). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point regarding “Information about an individual or household’s employees, independent contractors, interns, agents or other authorized representatives, and/or service providers” (under “Other types of personal information”) to add “bookkeeper(s)” to the parenthetical examples. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 8, 2021: In Notice to Parents Regarding Children Under 18, updated the first sentence to read “Our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business and the 6200 Productions website are not intended for or directed to children, and should not be used or accessed by children under 18.” In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, added “your applicable taxpayer identification number” to the examples in the first paragraph. Also changed “(e.g., a wire transfer or other funds transfer service)” to “(e.g., a money transfer or electronic funds transfer service)” and changed “will be collected and processed …” to “may be collected and processed …” In the Acceptable Payment Types subsection, updated the second paragraph to add electronic funds transfers to the acceptable payment types; added a note that we do not accept cryptocurrency payments of any kind; and added a final paragraph noting that U.S. law requires that certain large transactions or related transactions paid in cash or cash equivalents be promptly reported to to the appropriate federal agency or agencies. (We went back and forth repeatedly on how exactly to word these additions.) In the Currency subsection, added a note that the obligation to report certain large transactions paid with cash or cash equivalents also applies to payments involving non-U.S. currency or currencies. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, further amended the trademark notice for Wikimedia Foundation projects and changed “electronic signature and/or agreement services” to “electronic signature, agreement, and/or time stamping authority services”. Also in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information and in the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point on information we are required by law to disclose to add “as part of and/or in connection with a customs inspection” to the listed examples (for consistency with the recent addition to the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy). In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes bullet, also changed “cannot reasonably anticipate” to “cannot reasonably anticipate or enumerate here”. At the beginning of Your California Privacy Rights on this page (and just below the Who We Are section of the Your California Privacy Rights page, below a new Your California Privacy Rights heading), added a one-sentence paragraph explaining what the section contains, in the interests of greater clarity. Also made some formatting adjustments to the Your California Privacy Rights page (adjusting the heading levels so they match those of the Privacy Policy). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “taxpayer ID numbers” (under “Identifiers”) to “taxpayer identification numbers” for internal consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 7, 2021: Throughout this page, the Your California Privacy Rights page, and the Cookie Notice, added parenthetical phrases such as “(without limitation)”; “(though not necessarily limited to)”; “(but not necessarily limited to)”; or “(again without limitation)” after various instances of the phrase “such as” where such qualifiers weren’t already present. Also changed various instances of “such as” (including some that did have qualifiers like “(without limitation)”) to “e.g.,” setting off the applicable text with commas and/or in parentheses as grammatically appropriate and changed a few instances of the words “and” and “or” to “and/or” in the interests of greater wording consistency. In Definitions, updated the definition of “Websites/URLs” to change “a URL such as your social media profile or online resume/CV” to “the URLs of your social media profile(s), online resume/CV, and/or other such web page(s)”. Updated the “Cookies and similar technologies” definition to also mention other user agents in addition to and/or in place of references to “devices.” In Cookies and Similar Technologies, changed “Some are placed on your device/browser automatically …” to “Some are placed automatically …” In Certificate Authority Checks, changed “your web browser” to “your browser (or other user agent)” In Browser Tests, changed “current browser session” to “current session” and revised the text to mention other user agents as well as browsers and change “(Different browsers, and even different versions of the same browser, may handle certain content in different ways, which can create problems if content is not correctly tailored for that browser.)” to “(Different user agents — even different versions of the same browser or other user agent — may handle certain content in different ways, which can create problems if content is not correctly tailored for that particular user agent.)” In Online Tracking, changed “certain other browser and/or device information” to “certain other device, browser, and/or user agent information”. Also revised the bullet point regarding the Disable Google Analytics Tracking cookie to reference other user agents as well as browsers (making some wording adjustments for clarity with this addition) and change “in connection with content such as embedded video players” to “in connection with embedded video players and/or other such content.” Revised a subsequent bullet point in the same list to change “Use your web browser to delete …” to “Delete from your web browser (or other user agent) …” In Embedded Content, changed “special: other browser settings/configuration details/add-ons*” to “special: other browser/user agent settings/configuration details/add-ons*”; changed “your browser’s settings (e.g., your time zone and/or preferred language settings)” to “your browser or user agent settings (e.g., your time zone and/or preferred language settings)”; and changed “if you visit the website from a different device or browser” to “if you visit the website using a different device, browser, or other user agent”. Also added “(or other user agent)” after “browser” where it wasn’t already included; changed of “your browser’s web storage” to “your browser or other user agent’s web storage”; and changed several instances of “browsers” to “browsers (or other user agents)” for consistency. In Consents and Agreements, changed “on your device/browser” to “in your browser (or other user agent)” and “your individual browser settings” to “your browser (or other user agent) settings” for consistency. In Comments, updated the paragraph about saving your name, email, and URL to change references to your “device” and “browser” to also refer to other user agents, making some minor wording adjustments to accommodate the additions. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, updated the paragraph on retention to change “receive through third parties such as staffing agencies/employment agencies, and/or …” to “receive through third parties such as (without limitation) staffing agencies/employment agencies, and/or …” In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, updated the “As otherwise required by law” bullet point to change “to comply with applicable government reporting or disclosure requirements, such as customs inspections; …” to “to comply with applicable government reporting or disclosure requirements; as part of and/or in connection with a customs inspection; …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point on photographs, images, and/or other media to change “(and/or information such as their car’s license plate number)” to “(and/or information about them, e.g., their car’s license plate number)” and changed “might send those photos and/or information such as the car’s description and/or license plate number to the event organizers” to “might send those photos and/or information about them — e.g., the pictured car’s description and/or license plate number — to the event organizers”. Also changed “how companies such as search engines or social media platforms use data they may gather through their services” to “search engines, social media platforms, or other such service providers use data they may gather through their services.” In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “6200 Productions does not technically meet any of the applicability thresholds …” to just “we do not meet any of the applicability thresholds …” In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “what web browser you use” to “which web browser you use” and changed “disposing of personal property such as our copies of published books, magazines, newspapers, CDs, and/or DVDs” to “disposing of our copies of published books, magazines, newspapers, CDs, DVDs, and/or other such personal property”. In the Cookie Notice, updated the Cookies and Similar Technologies section to match the revised “Cookies and similar technologies” text in Definitions. Updated How This Website Uses Cookies and Similar Technologies to change “on your browser” to “on your browser (or other user agent)”; change “You are free to use your browser and/or browser add-ons to block or remove …” to “You are free to use your browser or user agent’s settings and/or add-ons to block or remove …”; and update the last sentence to mention other user agents as well as browsers and devices. Updated Categories of Cookies Used to also reference other user agents as well as web browsers and add a parenthetical note that persistent cookies are sometimes called “permanent cookies” (although most aren’t actually permanent). Updated the various individual cookie sections (and the Browser Tests section) to mention other user agents as well as browsers, making a number of minor wording adjustments for clarity with these additions. In the Google Analytics and Disable Google Analytics Tracking sections, changed “in connection with content such as embedded video players” to “in connection with embedded video players and/or other such content.” In the YouTube Videos section, changed “providing certain functionality such as allowing you to stop and restart a video without losing your place” to “providing certain functionality (e.g., allowing you to pause a video at a particular point)” for internal consistency. Tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 6, 2021: In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list in the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the “Legal compliance or audit” bullet point to change “to answer subpoenas or other court orders” to “to respond to subpoenas or other court orders” for wording consistency. In Embedded Content, updated the YouTube and Vimeo bullet points to note that embedded video players may use IP addresses, geolocation data, and/or other information to determine whether or not you can view a specific video (e.g., one that’s unavailable in certain locales). In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “subpoena or court order” to “subpoena or other court order” (mostly for consistency, and because a subpoena is technically a type of court order). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated two of the bullet points under “Commercial information” to add the word “scores” to the bullet point about sports, games, hobbies, and/or other pastimes (where it more logically belongs) and delete that word from the subsequent bullet point on sweepstakes, lotteries, raffles, and games of chance or skill (where it doesn’t make as much sense). Also revised the bullet point on “Authorship, other credits, and/or rights holder information” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to change “creative works” to “creative works, literary works, journalistic works, scientific works” and changed “other types of intellectual property such as …” to “other types of intellectual property, such as (though not necessarily limited to) …” (mostly for the avoidance of doubt; the listed examples should give a reasonable sense of the broad intended scope of this bullet point!). Updated the Cookie Notice to make a minor clarification to the Privacy and Cookie Preferences section, changing “unless they access the publicly visible portions of the website” to “unless they access the publicly visible portions of the website and/or update their consent settings — e.g., by accepting an updated version of the Privacy Policy.” Also amended the Administrative and Login Cookies section to change “two-factor authentication” to “multi-factor authentication” for consistency with the Privacy Policy and clarify the language regarding the related cookie, changing “that verifies that the user has entered a valid authentication code” to “that verifies that the user has entered valid user credentials pending receipt of the proper authentication code”. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 5, 2021: In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, made some minor clarifications to the wording of the paragraph regarding messages exchanged via third-party sites or services. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the bullet point on contractual obligations to insert additional instances of the parenthetical phrases “(but without limitation)” and “(again without limitation)” for emphasis. (The bullet point already clearly stated that the examples presented are intended to be representative, not exhaustive, but we want no ambiguity about that.) Also updated the subsequent bullet point about disclosures to protect property, rights, security, and/or safety to add “(again without limitation)” after “Additionally” for the same reason.
November 4, 2021: In Information Captured by Service/Software/App/Device Telemetry, changed “with current versions of reCAPTCHA …” to “with recent versions of the reCAPTCHA service …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. to change “as well as their associated software and drivers” to “as well as their associated drivers and/or software” for wording consistency. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added a bullet point to the examples under “Other types of personal information”: “Information about individuals’ dreams (literal and/or figurative), hopes, aspirations, fears, and/or worries (of whatever type(s) and/or nature)”.
November 3, 2021: In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, changed “a third-party website or service such as social media, …” to “a third-party website or service, such as a social media platform, …” In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, revised the paragraph regarding content-related information to add “actors and/or other performers” to the listed examples (after “musicians and/or composers”) and change “illustrators” to “illustrators and/or other artists” for completeness. In Additional Information About Data Retention, changed instances of “social media services” to “social media platforms” for consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “Social media services” to “Social media platforms and/or other social networking services” and updated some wording in that bullet point to better reflect how various platforms and services describe themselves. Also tinkered with the wording of the LiveJournal trademark notice. Amended the reference in a later bullet point in that section to taxi, livery, shuttle, carpool, and/or rideshare services to change the parenthetical explanation from “which we may use if we use and/or arrange …” to just “if we use and/or arrange …” in the interests of less-awkward grammar. In the bullet point on contractual obligations later in that section, changed “such as social media” to “such as social media platforms” for consistency. In the text following the bullet-pointed list, changed “social media services” to “social media platforms.” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point on “Information about cars and/or other vehicles” (under “Commercial information”) to read “Information about cars and/or other vehicles an individual or household has driven or otherwise operated; owns or has owned, rented, leased, purchased, borrowed, otherwise obtained, and/or considered; desires to drive or otherwise operate; wants and/or intends to own, rent, lease, purchase, borrow, and/or otherwise obtain; and/or is considering” for clarity and completeness. Revised the subsequent bullet point (on art, books, etc.) to change “desires/intends …” to “desires and/or intends …” Revised the bullet point on “Publishing histories/bibliographies/ …” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to add “actors” to the listed examples (mostly for the avoidance of doubt, since “performers” would reasonably encompass actors as well as other types of performers, and in any event, the examples listed aren’t intended to be an exhaustive list of the various types of professionals to which that bullet point refers). In the Collection Sources subsection of the of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (also on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point beginning “Subject matter experts …” to change “illustrators” to “illustrators and/or other artists” and add “actors and/or other performers” for internal consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 2, 2021: In Notice to Parents Regarding Children Under 18, changed “any personally identifying information …” to “any personal information …” In Definitions, amended the definition of “Other contact information” to read “This is a blanket term intended to encompass any type of contact information other than email addresses, e.g., someone’s telephone number(s) and/or postal mailing address(es).” Also updated the “Images and/or other media” definition to change “broadcasts or streams” to “broadcasts and/or streams” for wording consistency. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point on membership in guilds, trade unions, and/or professional organizations (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to add “labor unions” (mostly for the avoidance of doubt; we would generally regard “labor union” and “trade union” as synonymous). Also updated the bullet point about legal information (under “Other types of personal information”) to change “(or alleged victim)” to “(or an alleged victim)” for grammatical consistency. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
November 1, 2021: In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the wording of the list of rights to clarify that they also apply to personal information about your household, as the law and its associated regulations define that term. (We further revised this wording after initial publication.)
October 31, 2021: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point about personal property, products, goods, and/or services (under “Commercial information”) to change “owns, rents, leases, has otherwise obtained, and/or uses” to “owns, rents, leases, otherwise obtains, and/or uses” (for greater grammatical consistency). Added a bullet point under “Other types of personal information”: “Information about an individual or household’s permits and/or licenses, other than professional and/or business permits and/or licenses (e.g., parking permits; licenses or permits to own certain animals; hunting and/or fishing permits; amateur radio licenses; permits to use certain public spaces or facilities; and/or licenses or permits to own and/or carry firearms or other weapons)”. Tinkered a bit with these additions after initial publication.
October 30, 2021: Moved the “Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information” section to after “Definitions” rather than before it. Updated the Table of Contents accordingly. In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list in the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the “Fulfilling a contractual obligation” bullet point to change “to meet the requirements of a contract or legal agreement, whether with you or with a third party” to “to honor our obligations under our contractual agreements, whether with you or with a third party.” Updated the “Legal compliance or audit” bullet point to change “We use the information to ensure our compliance with applicable laws and/or regulations, and/or so that we can demonstrate our compliance to an auditor or investigator if needed” to “We use the information to ensure our compliance with applicable laws and/or regulations; so that we can demonstrate our legal and/or regulatory compliance to auditors or investigators if needed; and/or to otherwise fulfill our legal obligations (e.g., to answer subpoenas or other court orders).” In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “We may share …” to “To achieve the purposes listed in “Collection Purposes” above, we may share …” (also adding an internal link to the preceding section). Later in that same paragraph, changed “Also, as noted elsewhere …” to just “As noted elsewhere …” and changed “which, as noted above, applies to the owner’s automotive website …” to “which applies to the owner’s automotive website and/or its related services …”
October 29, 2021: Throughout this page and the Cookie Notice, amended various references to Google policy and information pages to make some minor wording changes for clarity, currency, and consistency; adjust capitalization and stylization (to better reflect how Google describes those pages); update some outdated links; and reorder certain links. Also in the Cookie Notice, updated the reference to the Optimizely cookies help page in the Vimeo Videos section to change the phrase “while the …” to “while their …” for wording consistency. In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list in the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the “Research and publishing” bullet point to change “other writing/editing/writing consulting work” to just “writing/editing/writing consulting work” and change “decide what content and/or other work to create and/or publish” to “decide what content, work, and/or creative endeavors to create and/or publish” (mostly for internal consistency). In Online Tracking, added an additional paragraph break in the interests of readability and changed “business users of certain Google services” to “business users of certain Google products and services” for internal consistency. In the paragraph regarding the Google data processing amendment, changed “that applies to the processing of personal data from areas subject to European data protection laws and/or certain other region-specific privacy and/or data protection laws” to “that applies to the processing of personal data from areas subject to certain region-specific privacy and/or data protection laws” (since the DPA is no longer European-specific). In Embedded Content, made some additional wording changes to the bullet points regarding Google services for clarity and consistency and updated certain links to Google policies. In Embedded Content, updated the bullet point on Google API services to change “Google Hosted Libraries API(s)” and “Google Hosted Libraries API” to just “Google Hosted Libraries”; changed “content delivery networks” to “a content distribution network” (which is how Google describes it); and changed “asserts that the Google Hosted Libraries servers …” to “asserts that the Google Hosted Libraries system …” (again for consistency with Google usage). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “Google Hosted Libraries API(s)” to “Google Hosted Libraries” and amended the reference to museums, libraries, archives, and/or databases to change “including but not limited to the …” to “including, but not limited to, the …” for consistency. Removed some extraneous whitespace throughout this page.
October 28, 2021: In Online Tracking, updated the paragraph about the Google Ads Data Processing Terms to change the phrase “Google indicated that the effective date of these revisions for us would be October 27, 2021” to “the effective date of the updated terms for us was October 27, 2021” (since that date is now past). In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, revised the paragraph regarding content-related information to add “playwrights, musicians and/or composers” (after “filmmakers”) and “plays and/or theatrical productions” (after “films and/or other videos”) to the listed examples. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, fixed a minor punctuation error in the title attribute of the link to the PDF-XChange Co. Ltd. & Tracker Software Products (Canada) Ltd. Privacy Policy. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point beginning “Information about art, books, …” (under “Commercial information”) to add “performances and/or exhibitions” after “films and/or other videos”. Revised the “Publishing histories/bibliographies/discographies/ …” bullet point (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to add “playwrights” to the listed examples. In the subsequent bullet point on “Authorship, other credits, and/or rights holder information …” added “plays and/or theatrical productions” to the listed examples. In the Collection Sources subsection (also on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Our automated systems and/or devices (e.g., through certain security features of our smartphone(s), and/or through other autonomous or semi-autonomous security systems)” to “Our devices and/or automated systems (e.g., certain security features of our smartphone(s), and/or other autonomous or semi-autonomous sensors and/or security systems)”. Also revised the bullet point on “Published and/or publicly available sources” to add “plays and/or theatrical productions” the listed examples; revised the subsequent “Nonpublic documents, records …” bullet point to change “from film, television, radio, and/or other media projects” to “from film, theatrical, television, radio, music, and/or other media projects”; and revised the subsequent bullet point beginning “Subject matter experts, other writers, …” to add “playwrights, musicians and/or composers,” to the examples (mostly for internal consistency). Tinkered a bit with these changes after initial publication.
October 27, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the Google bullet point and the reference to Google advertising services to change “don’t use on this website” to “don’t currently use on this website” and change “but may be used by some websites, apps, and/or services we use in the course of our business, and/or may serve advertising through embedded YouTube videos, …” to “but may be used by some apps, websites, and/or online services we use and/or access, and/or may show advertising through certain embedded content, …” Later in that same bullet point, also changed “various websites and/or online services we access and/or use in the course of our online activity, …” to “various websites and/or online services we use and/or access, …” Later in that section, updated the reference to Cloudflare services to change “may access and/or use” to “use and/or access” and updated the reference to CAPTCHA and human verification services to change “access and/or use” to “use and/or access” for internal consistency.
October 26, 2021: In Security Scans, revised a parenthetical example about our mobile carrier to read “(For example, but without limitation, our current mobile carrier sometimes warns us that certain incoming voice calls and/or text messages could be associated with a scam of some kind.)” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), voice chat, teleconferencing, and/or video chat apps, clients, platforms, and/or services” to “Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), voice chat, teleconferencing, video conferencing, and/or video chat apps, clients, platforms, and/or services” and changed “providers of public computers and/or wireless networks we may periodically use” to “providers (public and/or private) of third-party telephones, telephony services, computers and/or mobile devices, other electronic devices, computer networks, wireless networks, and/or other Internet connections we may periodically use” for completeness. Also added “gift registries of whatever type” to the listed examples of other types of vendors and/or service providers.
October 20, 2021: In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the first bullet point to read “You, whether through your interactions with us; through your use of this website; through public disclosures you make (e.g., blog and/or social media posts); through your participation in public events and/or activities taking place in public spaces; incidentally by virtue of your physical proximity to us (e.g., where you appear in the background of a photo or video we take); and/or in some other manner” (since these are representative examples, not an exhaustive list of possible scenarios) and split “Your employees, independent contractors, interns, agents or other authorized representatives, business partners, vendors, and/or service providers (as applicable)” into a separate bullet point. Also added an additional bullet point to that list: “Our automated systems and/or devices (e.g., through certain security features of our smartphone(s), and/or through other autonomous or semi-autonomous security systems)”.
October 18, 2021: In Definitions, updated the “Embedded content” definition to change “loaded and run in your browser” to “loaded and run in your browser or other user agent”; change “in your browser” to “on your device”; and change “your browser” to “your browser (or other user agent)”. In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs and Data Related to Administrative Users, changed “two-factor authentication” to “multi-factor authentication”. In the latter section, adjusted the description of such authentication to also mention authenticator apps. In Security Scans, changed “might record that visitor’s IP address, user agent information, and other device/browser details” to “might record that visitor’s IP address; their user agent information; and other details about their device and/or browser or other user agent”. In Embedded Content, changed “when you access their content through another website or online service” to “when you access their content through a website or online service” for greater clarity. Updated the Google Fonts and Google Hosted Libraries bullet point to change “resources from …” to “scripts and/or other content from …”; change “specific resources” to “specific content”; change “loads” to “requests”; change “what resources” to “which content”; and change change “how long stored information may remain in your browser” to “how long stored information may remain on your device”. Updated the BootstrapCDN bullet point to change “Fonts, styles, scripts, and/or icons” to “Fonts, styles, scripts, icons, and/or other content”. Updated the Font Awesome bullet point to change the first instance of “icons” to “icons, fonts, and/or other content” and change “which specific icons your browser requests and/or accesses and the website or URL from which your browser requested and/or accessed them” to “which specific content your browser requests and/or accesses and the website or URL from which your browser requested and/or accessed that content”. Updated the Sucuri Security bullet point to change “and of course the specific content …” to “and of course which specific content …” (mostly for wording consistency). Throughout that section, changed numerous instances of the phrase “device and browser” to “device and browser (or other user agent)” and changed numerous instances of the phrase “your browser” to “your browser (or other user agent)” for internal consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to Roundcube webmail client software to make a wording clarification (changing “associated libraries” to “associated resources” and rearranging the placement of that phrase for greater clarity). Updated the bullet point on Google services to add the Google Authenticator app to the listed examples. Updated the bullet point on landlords to add language about sharing information as part of and/or in connection with the application process to rent, lease, and/or otherwise obtain residence(s), space(s), and/or facilities (e.g., to provide proof of employment and/or income). Updated the reference to Signal services to fix a minor punctuation error. Added “credit bureaus” to and “credit monitoring and/or identity theft protection services” the enumerated examples of other types of vendors and/or service providers later in that section. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
October 14, 2021: In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, changed “uses certain site features, such as the Contact Form” to just “uses certain site features”. In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “If your transaction is via a third-party payment processing service, much of this information, including payment details such as bank account or credit card numbers, will be collected and processed by the payment processor …” to “If your transaction is via a third-party payment processing service or other service provider (e.g., a wire transfer or other funds transfer service), much of this information, including payment details such as bank account or credit card numbers, will be collected and processed by the payment processor or service provider …” Also changed “contractual obligations to the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s), and/or other relevant third parties …” to “contractual obligations to the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), other financial institution(s), and/or service provider(s), and/or to other relevant third parties …” In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, updated the bullet point beginning “To the applicable payment processor(s) …” to change “To the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), and/or other financial institution(s)” to “To the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), other financial institution(s), and/or wire transfer and/or funds transfer service(s)”; add the word “respective” before “legal counsel …”; and change “such payment processor(s), bank(s), and/or other financial institution(s)” to “such payment processor(s), bank(s), financial institution(s), and/or services”. In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, changed “contractual obligations to the applicable third-party vendor or service and/or any other relevant third parties …” to “contractual obligations to the applicable third-party vendor(s) and/or service provider(s), and/or to other relevant third parties …” for consistency. In Additional Information About Data Retention, changed “Vendor(s), service provider(s), payment processor(s), bank(s), and/or other financial institution(s) involved in a given transaction …” to “Vendors and/or service providers involved in a given transaction (e.g., the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), and/or other financial institution(s)) …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to banks, other financial institutions, and/or payment processors to remove the parenthetical statement. Also updated the subsequent reference to funds transfer services to change “other wire transfer and/or other funds transfer services” to “other wire transfer and/or funds transfer services” and reordered the reference to online time servers. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised several of the bullet points under “Commercial information”: changed “participation and/or interest in sports, games, …” to “interest, participation, and/or achievements in sports, games, …” and changed “and/or other games of chance or skill” to “and/or games of chance or skill” (mostly for clarification). In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection (also on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “tax preparer(s) and/or other financial and/or legal professionals for administrative and/or compliance purposes …” to “tax preparer(s) and/or other financial and/or legal professionals (e.g., our legal counsel).” Fixed an error with the date of this entry. Revised the August 19, 2021 entry below to clarify certain points about the Google Ads Data Processing Terms and the updated Standard Contractual Clauses. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
October 13, 2021: In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, changed “reverse telephone directory” to “reverse telephone lookup service”. In Data in Submitted Images, changed “the recognizable image and/or identifiable likeness of any individual person in images and/or other media (and/or their audible voice in a video or audio recording, broadcast, or other media)” to “the recognizable image and/or identifiable likeness of any individual person (and/or their audible voice, e.g., in a video or audio recording, broadcast, or other media)”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the Google bullet point to add a hyperlink to the reference to the Google Safe Browsing API; updated the reference to Bitdefender apps to make some minor wording and punctuation adjustments to the references to the Crashlytics crash reporter, Firebase platform, and Google Safe Browsing API; and updated the reference to the Mozilla Firefox browsers to fix a punctuation issue and add a hyperlink to the reference to the Google Safe Browsing API. Also updated the reference to the QuickHash GUI utility to correct the name of the utility and add a link to the privacy policy (although it currently applies only to the QuickHash GUI website). Added telephone directory, business directory, and/or reverse telephone lookup services to the examples of other types of service providers. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “phone’s geolocation services …” to “phone’s location services …” Adjusted this entry in the recent revision list to clarify the date: For reference, this update was technically first posted very late on October 12, 2021, although the effective date is October 13, 2021. Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
October 9, 2021: In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “The following are some representative examples of this information-gathering:” to “The following are some representative examples:” In the second paragraph (beginning “As noted in the …” and referring to people who contact us), changed “in addition to whatever information was provided by the person” to “in addition to any information provided by the person” for wording consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the Microsoft bullet point to reorder the enumerated examples, adjust some trademark information, and make some minor wording adjustments. Also made some minor adjustments to the Microsoft trademark information elsewhere in that section. Updated the reference to the gitg client to remove the developer name (as that was actually only one of the developers) and reorder that reference accordingly. Made a minor correction to the October 8, 2021 entry in this Recent Revisions list (“the phpMyAdmin and gitg projects …” should have been “the phpMyAdmin project, the gitg client …”). Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
October 8, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, made some minor wording adjustments to the references to specific web browsers and their associated browser extensions, themes, and/or other add-ons, mostly for wording consistency. Also updated the references in that section to the phpMyAdmin project, the gitg client, the Librera app, and VLC media player software to make some minor wording and/or punctuation adjustments (mostly for clarification) and update the trademark information.
October 7, 2021: In the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, made a minor adjustment to the Google trademark notice. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, made a minor wording adjustment to the reference to Flickr Inc. and updated the trademark notices for Oath Inc.
October 5, 2021: In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “the owner of a particular domain registration and/or the geographic location associated with a particular IP address” to “the registered owner of a particular domain registration; the geographical location of a particular IP address; and/or the Internet service provider or other network operator with which a particular IP address or range of IP addresses is associated.” Also added the phrase “and/or other WHOIS/RDAP lookup services” after “IPinfo API services”. In Additional Information About Data Retention, updated the bullet point on published works to add “newspapers” after “magazines”; change “inventories, catalogs, and/or lists” to “inventories, catalogs, databases, lists, and/or other tools” for completeness; and change “naturally, copies of published works …” to “naturally, copies …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to the NetGuard firewall app to add the phrase “and/or other WHOIS/RDAP lookup services” after “IPinfo API services” for internal consistency and add the word “our” before the phrase “mobile apps connect …” for clarity. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “useful article(s), and/or other object(s)” to “useful articles, and/or other objects” (which is more grammatically correct in that instance). In Other Information I Receive from Third-Party Sources; the bullet point on publicly available information in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information; and the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added “press releases and/or promotional materials” to the enumerated examples of publicly available sources. In the bullet point in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, also changed “about the person(s) to whom the information pertains” to “about the person(s) to whom the information pertains and/or their work”. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “copies of books, magazines, and/or other published works” to “copies of books, magazines, newspapers, CDs, DVDs, and/or other published works” for wording consistency. Tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
October 4, 2021: In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, changed “logs into or otherwise accesses the administrative dashboard …” to “logs into, otherwise accesses, or attempts to log into or otherwise access the administrative dashboard …” Updated the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy to add a California Civil Code § 1789.3 notice. Also changed the phrase “or need help with a purchase or other transaction involving 6200 Productions” to “need help with a purchase or other transaction involving 6200 Productions, or have a complaint” (set off with a comma) and changed “You can also contact …” to “Alternatively, you can contact …”
October 3, 2021: In Online Tracking, made some minor wording adjustments to the paragraph beginning “If you have any questions about the above methods …” and replaced the reference to the Contact Form with a reference to the Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us section for internal consistency. In Comments, changed “please contact us via email (to admin (at) 6200productions (dot) com), through one of the …” to “please contact us via email at admin (at) 6200productions (dot) com, via one of the …” In the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “via postal mail:” to “via postal mail at:” In Reports and Aggregated Statistics, changed “to the extent required and/or otherwise permitted by applicable law …” to “to the extent permitted — and/or required — by applicable law …” (The main reason that paragraph is included at all is that certain businesses may actually be required to periodically disclose statistics about the privacy requests they receive.) In Additional Information About Data Retention, revised the bullet point on communications made via client- or employer-provided accounts, systems, and/or devices to add a hyphen to “employer-provided” and change “regardless of what data the client or employer may retain” to “whether or not the client or employer separately retains such communications, files, and/or data” for clarity. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to BlackBerry Limited to change “many of its associated accessories” to “many of their associated accessories” and change “of both smartphones” to “of those smartphones” (since we do technically still have a third, much older BlackBerry smartphone, although it’s basically a museum piece at this point and is gathering dust in a drawer). In Nevada Consumer Opt-Out Rights and Information-Sharing Disclosures (Shine the Light Law), updated the paragraph on how to submit a request to include an administrative email address as well as the existing references to the Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us section, also making some minor wording adjustments to accommodate this addition. In the latter section, also added a link to the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page and noted that you can now use the California Privacy Request Form to request a disclosure. (We tinkered with the wording after initial publication.) At the end of that section, changed “to learn more about other types of information we collect and how we use it” to “to learn more about the types of information we collect and how we may use, share, release, and/or otherwise disclose that information” for internal consistency. Made the same changes to the version of the Information-Sharing Disclosures (Shine the Light Law) section that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page for consistency. In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “provided that you have a current California residence” to “provided that you are a current California resident” and changed “The CCPA regulations issued …” to “The current CCPA regulations issued …” On this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page, renamed the CCPA Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) subsection “California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures)”; renamed the CCPA Request Metrics for the 2020 Calendar Year subsection “California Privacy Request Metrics for the 2020 Calendar Year”; renamed the Record-Keeping Disclosure Methodology subsection “California Privacy Request Metrics Methodology”; and updated other internal references accordingly (except in this Recent Revisions list, for the sake of posterity). In California Privacy Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Under Section 999.317(g) of the CCPA regulations, …” to “Under Section 999.317(g) of the implementing regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), …” In the version of Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, updated the final paragraph to match the current version of that paragraph that appears on this page. (We had intended to make this change yesterday — October 2, 2021 — but somehow failed to do so. We adjusted the entry for October 2, 2021 below to reflect the original error.) In both versions of that section, changed “via postal mail to that address, via email to …” to “via postal mail at that address, via email at …” for wording consistency and changed “or using any other method that may be specified …” to “or via any other method that may be specified …” Did the inevitable tinkering with these revisions after initial publication.
October 2, 2021: In the preamble, changed “use and/or share that information” to “use, share, release, and/or otherwise disclose that information” (mostly for the sake of wording consistency). In Contact Forms, changed “If you use the California Privacy Request Form on the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page to submit a request to exercise your privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) (see “Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA)” below for more information about this law)” to “If you use the California Privacy Request Form on the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page to submit a request to exercise your privacy rights under California law (see “Your California Privacy Rights” below for more information about these rights)” and updated the internal link; changed “may share information related to CCPA requests …” to “may share or otherwise disclose information related to California privacy requests …”; and changed “to respond to subpoenas or other court orders” to “to fulfill a legal obligation (e.g., to respond to a subpoena or other court order)”. In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests and Additional Information About Data Retention, added language about the use of accounts, systems, and/or devices provided by a client or employer. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to other Cloudflare services to include a link to the Cloudflare Cookie Policy as well as their Privacy Policy and DPA, making some minor wording and punctuation changes to accommodate the addition. Also updated the reference to Epic Browser to also reference its “associated encrypted file vault and/or other browser features” and updated the reference to the DOI system to make a number of minor corrections and clarifications. In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the paragraph beginning “Please note that in addition to any exemptions …” to delete the phrase “to the rights provided by the CCPA” and changed “with regard to the deletion of your personal information” to “with respect to the deletion of personal information” (mainly for wording consistency). In Opting-Out or Submitting Other California Privacy Requests (Do Not Sell My Personal Information Page) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “your other rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) …” to “your other rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) or other California privacy laws …” and set off the subsequent clause with em dashes rather than commas. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “can also submit CCPA requests on behalf of …” to “can also submit privacy requests on behalf of …” In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) …” to “your privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) or other California privacy laws …” and set off the subsequent clause with em dashes rather than commas. In Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us, changed “your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) …” to “your privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) or other California privacy laws …”; set off the subsequent clause with em dashes rather than commas; and changed “please do not use the regular Contact Form for CCPA requests!” to “please do not use the regular Contact Form for these requests.” Also made the latter change to the version of that paragraph that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page. Did the inevitable tinkering with these revisions after initial publication.
October 1, 2021: In Comments, revised the paragraph regarding notifications to clarify that comment notification emails are sent both to the site administrator and the author of the post or page on which the comment was submitted (if the author is an administrative user other than the site administrator or has an email address different from the primary site administration email address). Also removed the parentheses around the note about spam and/or malware scans. Later in that section, changed “retain the email address along with the comment” to “retain the email address originally submitted with each comment (which is stored in the website database as part of that comment)” for clarity. In Data Related to Administrative Users, added an additional paragraph about contact information and automated email notifications. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, updated the reference to IPinfo to change “retrieves such info via IPinfo” to “can look up such information via IPinfo API services” for clarity. Updated the reference in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information to change “may also connect to IPinfo to obtain information about IP addressed and/or domains to which mobile apps attempt to connect” to “may also connect to IPinfo API services to look up information about IP addresses and/or domains to which mobile apps connect and/or attempt to connect” (mostly for internal consistency). Tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
September 30, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identify Information, made some minor clarifications to the references to Avast Software and Piriform Software Ltd., including adding a link to the Avast Product Policy, which describes what types of data Avast products may gather; made a couple of minor clarifications to the descriptions of TinyWall firewall software and the NetGuard mobile firewall app; made a minor adjustment to the reference in that section to Disconnect, Inc.; and updated the trademark information for the DuckDuckGo search engine(s). Also revised references to Yahoo! services to update the policy links and trademark information, remove references to Verizon Media, and clarify that we may also use other Yahoo! and/or AOL services besides search services. (We no longer have any Yahoo accounts and are unlikely to create new ones, but we have in the past.) Removed some extra spaces.
September 28, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the Google bullet point to change “which provides various …” to “which provides (directly and/or through its various subsidiaries and/or affiliates) some of the …” and fix an editorial error in the trademark notice. Updated the reference to the CompanionLink Data Processing Agreement to change “European Union data protection laws” to just “European data protection laws.” Added the ProtonMail email service and related ProtonMail Bridge app to the examples of “Other types of vendors and/or service providers” later in that section.
September 27, 2021: In Security Scans, updated the parenthetical reference to the list of Sucuri Security plugin features to also refer to the Sucuri documentation (which provides more detailed information about how each feature works). Updated references to GoDaddy throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page to correct the stylization of “Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC” (since the formal legal name of the company appears to include a space we had previously assumed was a typo). In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made some minor clarifications to the bullet point beginning “If in the course of our business we access any website or online resource …” and removed some duplicative text in that bullet point.
September 26, 2021: Updated references to the DreamHost Customer EU Data Processing Addendum in Who We Are; Website Server, Error, and Security Logs; and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information to change “and, where applicable, the …” to “and/or, where applicable, the …” In Online Tracking, amended the sentence beginning “We have not authorized Google to share or link our Google Analytics data with other Google products or services …” to add a parenthetical clause with links to the additional terms that would apply to such sharing or linkage, were we to authorize it. (This addition is mostly for our future reference.) In Security Scans, changed “any data processed and/or stored by Sucuri …” to “data processed and/or stored by Sucuri …”; changed “and the Data Processing Addendum …” to “and/or the Data Processing Addendum …”; and added the phrase “as applicable” to the end of that sentence, set off with a comma. Updated the reference to Cloudflare policies to change “and” to “and/or” and add the phrase “as applicable” to the end of that sentence, set off with a comma. Made similar changes throughout the Embedded Content section for consistency. Also in Embedded Content, updated the bullet point on Google API services to change “Google API services are also subject to the …” to “Google API services are also subject, where applicable, to the …” and changed “apply to personal data the API services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to …” to “apply to the processing of personal data that may be subject to …” Also updated the Yoast bullet point to add a reference and link to the Algolia Data Processing Addendum; add the word “their” before “‘Cookies’ policy”; and add a reference and link to the Semrush Data Processing Addendum. In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, revised the paragraph regarding third-party sites or services to change “(and, where applicable, any other terms and policies that apply to the use of the Google Voice service, …” to “other service-specific additional terms and policies (e.g., the Gmail Program Policies and/or the various terms and policies that apply to the use of the Google Voice service, …” set off with a semicolon, also adding links to a list of service-specific terms and the aforementioned Gmail Program Policies. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to Sucuri Security for consistency with the changed made in Security Scans and Embedded Content and to fix a punctuation error with the trademark notice. Updated the Google bullet point to add links to the Data Processing Addendum for Products where Google is a Data Processor and its region-specific addenda. Also updated the recently added references to the Microsoft Products and Services Data Protection Addendum to change “and, where applicable, the …” to “and/or, where applicable, the …” Inevitably tinkered with these revisions after initial publication.
September 25, 2021: In Online Tracking, changed “(e.g., the brands and models of mobile devices used, advertising identifiers, and/or other identifiers specific to individual mobile devices)” to “(e.g., certain privacy-related browser settings; the brands and models of visitors’ mobile devices; and/or the advertising identifiers and/or other universally unique identifiers of visitors’ smartphones, tablet computers, desktop computers, or other devices)”. In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs; Security Scans; and Embedded Content, changed “(e.g., the advertising identifier and/or other universally unique identifiers of a smartphone or tablet computer)” to “(e.g., advertising identifiers and/or other universally unique identifiers of a smartphone, tablet computer, desktop computer, or other device)” (since device identifiers are not exclusive to mobile devices). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the Microsoft bullet point to change “gathers certain information about and/or related to …” to “may gather and use certain information through, about, and/or related to …”; add a link to the Microsoft Products and Services Data Protection Addendum; and change “many other Microsoft products and/or services” to “many other Microsoft products and services.” Also updated the reference to Adobe Inc. to change “may collect information about and/or related to …” to “may gather and use certain information through, about, and/or related to …”
September 22, 2021: In Data Related to Administrative Users, added a link to the Cookie Notice as well as a textual reference. Also corrected a reference to the “Advertising” section, which should have read “Ads on 6200 Productions” (the actual title of that section), and added the word “above” after that reference. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, made a clarification to the reference to the StevenBlack/hosts file, fixed a typo in the trademark notice for The Spamhaus Project, and reordered those and several adjacent items.
September 21, 2021: In Browser Tests, updated the Data retention bullet point to change “Your current visit” to “Your current visit or current browser session.” In Online Tracking, updated the paragraph about the Google data processing terms to note the latest update to those terms (of which we were notified today). In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, added “generates or attempts to generate authentication codes for two-factor authentication (which may be used for administrative logins and/or certain other site functions)” to the examples of logged events. In Security Scans, changed “no online website, …” to “no website, online service, …” Added a new section: Data Related to Administrative Users. Updated the Cookie Notice to further adjust the wording of the Administrative and Login Cookies section and add an additional cookie (related to two-factor authentication) to the ones already described in that section. Also added language to the Browser Tests section clarifying how long stored information normally remains on your device. Tinkered with these updates after initial publication.
September 20, 2021: In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “The right to make a complaint to a state government supervisory authority” to “The right to make a complaint to the applicable state government authority” for clarity.
September 19, 2021: In Who We Are, updated the reference to our web host to make some minor wording adjustments and add a link to their Customer EU Data Processing Addendum. Also added that link to the references to their privacy policy in Website Server, Error, and Security Logs and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. Also made some minor wording adjustments to the main reference to our web host in the latter section to present the privacy policy link more clearly. In Ads on 6200 Productions, changed “plugins, themes, and/or other components” to “plugins, themes, and/or other add-ons” for internal consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed several instances of the phrases “plugins, themes, and add-ons” and “plugins, themes, and/or add-ons” to “plugins, themes, and/or other add-ons” for consistency. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Therefore, DreamHost has full administrative access to most files, messages, and data processed by or stored on those servers” to “Therefore, DreamHost has full administrative access to most files, data, and/or messages processed by and/or stored on those servers” and changed “deliberately share with DreamHost for purposes such as troubleshooting or security” to “share with DreamHost for purposes such as troubleshooting and/or security” for wording consistency. Removed some extra spaces throughout this page.
September 18, 2021: In Security Scans, updated the reference to the Sucuri Security plugin to change “and the Data Processing Addendum to their Terms of Service” to “and the Data Processing Addendum to their Terms of Service (which applies to personal data Sucuri services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws)” and change “(which applies to personal data Cloudflare services process on behalf of their customers)” to “(which applies to personal data Cloudflare services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws)”. Made the same changes in Embedded Content for internal consistency. Also in Embedded Content, updated the Google API services bullet point to change “and apply to the API services’ processing of personal data from areas subject to certain region-specific privacy and/or data protection laws” to “and apply to personal data the API services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws” and updated the references to the StackPath Data Processing Addendum to change “(which applies to personal data StackPath processes on behalf of its customers)” to “(which applies to personal data StackPath services process on customers’ behalf that may be subject to certain regional privacy and/or data protection laws)” for the same reason. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, made the same change to the reference to Sucuri Security, added a reference to the Cloudflare Data Processing Addendum in the references to Cloudflare services, made some minor wording and punctuation adjusts to those references for clarity and made a minor wording change to the reference to the CompanionLink Data Processing Agreement for internal consistency. Also updated the trademark notices for GNU throughout that section and updated the reference to dnscrypt-proxy to fix the capitalization and add the words “DNS proxy” after the name. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added a bullet point under “Professional or employment-related information”: “Fictitious business name(s) and/or trade name(s)”. Revised the existing bullet point beginning “Information about professional clients …” to read “Information about professional clients, clientele, customers, users, advertisers and/or sponsors, vendors, service providers, and/or subcontractors”. In the existing bullet point on “Information about other professional relationships …” changed the parenthetical examples to read “(such as, without limitation, publishing and/or licensing deals; management and/or representation; endorsement, sponsorship, and/or affiliate relationships; contractor and/or subcontractor relationships; professional relationships with colleagues and/or coworkers; mentor/mentee relationships; and/or professional collaborations, partnerships, and/or joint ventures)”. Also changed the bullet point on “Membership in and/or affiliation with other organizations and/or groups” to read “Membership in and/or affiliation with guilds, trade unions, and/or other professional organizations and/or groups”. Updated the Cookie Notice: In the Categories of Cookies Used section, changed “certain portions of the website’s administrative dashboard (which is not normally accessible except …” to “certain portions of the website’s administrative dashboard and/or login page (which are not normally accessible except …” Updated the Vimeo Videos section to make a minor wording change to the reference to the Optimizely Data Processing Agreement for wording consistency. Also amended the Administrative and Login Cookies section to make a number of minor clarifications and updates, including updating the trademark information.
September 16, 2021: Fixed a typographical error in the Effective Date section of the preamble. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to The Khronos Group to clarify that their software, software development kits, and/or software components may be installed in conjunction with and/or incorporated into various software and/or devices (not just display drivers, although that appears to be the most common application). Also made some minor adjustments to the stylization of the name and adjusted the anchor text for the privacy link accordingly.
September 14, 2021: In Definitions, updated the definition of “Embedded content” for greater clarity and internal consistency (e.g., changing “resides on” to “is hosted on”). In Embedded Content, updated the first paragraph to change “web host” to “web host and/or its subprocessors” [this was initially “its affiliates,” but “its subprocessors” better expresses the intent] and change “If you access a portion of this website that contains embedded content, the embedded content provider can collect information about you” to “If you access a portion of this website that contains embedded content, your browser requests that content from the respective content provider(s), which enables those embedded content provider(s) to collect information about you.” Updated the second paragraph (about information embedded content providers typically gather) to emphasize that embedded content providers can almost always determine which specific embedded content you requested and/or accessed. Made various clarifications and corrections throughout the listed bullet points. Added a bullet point regarding Creative Commons images and/or other content (e.g., the logos, buttons, and/or icons associated with Creative Commons licenses and/or public domain dedications). Tinkered further with these changes after initial publication. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to The Document Foundation to adjust the trademark information. Made a minor correction to the September 13, 2021 entry in this Recent Revisions list.
September 13, 2021: In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, updated the Creative Commons trademark notice. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added a trademark notice for WebAIM. Updated the trademark information for the GNU mark and for the Wikimedia Foundation projects mentioned in that section. (We tinkered further with these changes after initial publication.)
September 12, 2021: In Online Tracking, updated the trademark notice at the end of the section. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, further adjusted the trademark information for Avast, Piriform (CCleaner), Spybot, and The Spamhaus Project. Also adjusted the attributes of the Avast privacy policy link. Added trademark notices for Crashlytics and GNU. Added “video stores and/or video rental services” to the examples under “Providers of other search engines and/or other research and/or reference tools, services, facilities, and/or resources”.
September 11, 2021: Adjusted the anchor text for certain privacy policy links throughout this page, for greater clarity and in an attempt to instill some stylistic consistency. In Security Scans, changed “A representative sampling of the providers of these tools and security measures is included among the examples of third-party service providers listed under “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” below” to “A representative sampling of providers of such tools and security measures is included among the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers that appear in the “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” section below” and changed “this is not an exhaustive list” to “those examples should not be regarded as an exhaustive list.” In Embedded Content, changed “such as ad blockers” to “(e.g., ad blocker extensions)” for clarity. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, removed the list of specific examples of information sources (in the interests of space and limiting repetition), replacing it with a reference to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added a trademark notice for phpMyAdmin. Updated the Google bullet point to add Widevine technology to the listed examples of Google products and/or services. Updated the Akamai Technologies trademark notice. Revised the reference to Spybot software to update the trademark information (since the entity that owns the trademarks is different in the U.S. than in the EU). Removed the privacy policy link for Toshiba Corporation (each of their corporate affiliates has its own and there doesn’t seem to be a central hub to find which one applies in a given situation), instead adding a link to their central corporate site. Updated the references to our Internet service provider and mobile carrier(s) to add the parenthetical phrase “(in addition to any information we may share with them for security, support, and/or troubleshooting purposes)” to the end of each. Also updated the T-Mobile disclaimer language. Revised the reference to The Spamhaus Group to note that the Spamhaus trademark is registered in the EU (it doesn’t currently appear to be in the U.S.). Amended the reference to Simple DNSCrypt to fix the stylization of DNSCrypt-Proxy and add a trademark notice. Revised the reference to Epic Privacy Browser to update the trademark notice. Added Cisco Systems (whose OpenH264 Video Codec many web browsers use for encoding and decoding certain types of audiovisual content) to the listed examples. Updated the reference to Opena11y Toolkit and tota11y to add information about the “A11Y” trademark (which is owned by the Bureau of Internet Accessibility, Inc.). Amended the reference to the Adblock Plus extension to update the trademark information and make a minor wording clarification. Added a trademark notice for Mp3tag. Added “online publishing services and/or platforms” to the examples under “Providers of other search engines and/or other research and/or reference tools, services, facilities, and/or resources” and changed “other services or platforms for sharing images and/or other media” to “other services and/or platforms for sharing images and/or other media”. Also fixed a technical error (misspelled link attribute) in an external link in that section. Tinkered with some of these changes after initial publication. Updated the Cookie Notice to change “same Definitions” to “same definitions” and adjust the anchor text for certain external links for clarity and stylistic consistency.
September 10, 2021: Further adjusted various Google trademark notices to fix some inconsistencies and editorial errors. In Security Scans, Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended the references to iThemes Security, mostly to update the trademark notices, add a privacy policy link to the reference in Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, and adjust the privacy policy link anchor text in the other two sections. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the Facebook trademark notice and the trademark notice for Lulu.com. Made some minor amendments to the September 9, 2021 entry on this Recent Revisions list to clarify the changes made on that date.
September 9, 2021: As a global change, updated all of the various Google trademark notices throughout this page, the Your California Privacy Rights page, and the Cookie Notice. In Certificate Authority Checks, moved the certificate authority trademark notices to after the second paragraph rather than after the first paragraph. In Online Tracking, updated and consolidated the Google trademark notices to place them at the end of that section, also swapping the order of the two final paragraphs and removing the parentheses from the paragraph beginning “Obviously …” In Embedded Content, further updated the bullet point on the FeedBurner services to note that the feeds record your activity (e.g., what feeds you’ve viewed) and may contain targeted advertising, the presence of which is controlled by the respective publishers of the blogs accessed through such feeds; added a link to the Google “Advertising” page; and made some minor wording adjustments for clarity and consistency. Also updated certain other trademark notices. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “the Google Play Protect feature of …” to “the Google Play Protect security services of the Google Play Store and the Android platform …” and added a link to an information page about those services. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the references to Cloudflare services to make some adjustments to the trademark information. Removed some extra spaces on this page and throughout the Cookie Notice.
September 8, 2021: In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs and Security Scans, added language indicating that logs and/or security scans may sometimes collect device identifiers. Also in Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, changed “the login credentials for certain …” to “the login credentials for …” Also in Security Scans, removed the examples of device security providers and replaced them with a reference to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. In Embedded Content, made many clarifications and wording adjustments throughout (most of them relatively minor), with some further tinkering after initial publication. In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, updated the paragraph about third-party services to make some wording clarifications and add references to the Google Terms of Service as well as their privacy policy. In the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, added additional links to Google policies pertaining to the Google Voice service. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, added “various public officials and/or public agencies” just before “and/or other sources not specified above.” In Additional Information About Data Retention, added a bullet point about other activity history on third-party sites and/or services. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, clarified that Flickr is now owned and operated by Flickr, Inc., which is in turn owned by SmugMug, Inc., and adjusted the trademark notice. Removed some extra spaces throughout this page.
September 7, 2021: In Definitions, updated the “User agent information” definition to remove the reference to a third-party organization. In Online Tracking, updated the paragraph regarding the browser add-on to disable Google Analytics tracking to change “We take no responsibility for these terms, or for the functionality of this or any other tools offered by Google, which are entirely outside of our control — this link is provided purely as a convenience for our users and is not an endorsement” to “Please note that this tool is offered by Google, not by us, and is entirely outside of our control. We offer no warranties whatsoever and accept absolutely no liability of any kind with respect to this or any other software or tools offered by Google. This link is provided purely for our visitors’ information and is not an endorsement.” In the last paragraph of that section, changed “Aggregated analytics data and reports (which do not contain personally identifying information) may be retained indefinitely …” to just “Aggregated analytics data and reports may be retained indefinitely …” In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs; Security Scans; Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information; and the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), adjusted the anchor text for the links to the Sucuri website. In Security Scans, Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, simplified most of the various trademark notices for BlackBerry Limited to limit the disclaimer of affiliation to the primary reference to that company that appears in the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers in the latter section. (It seemed excessive to repeat the disclaimer over and over.) In Security Scans; Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests; and Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, condensed the references to the Google Voice service in the interests of space and linked the name to the Google “How Google Voice works” page. In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, also added the phrase “in addition to this Privacy Policy” after the Google policy links. Also added the “How Google Voice works” link to the reference in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. In Embedded Content, updated the Cloudflare bullet point to make some minor editorial adjustments. Updated the Font Awesome bullet point to change “the service” to “this service”; change “accesses or downloads” to “accesses and/or downloads”; and add information about the Cloudflare CDN, which Font Awesome may use to provide its CDN service. In Comments and Contact Forms, changed “such as the trade names of …” to “such as the names of …” In Financial Transactions Policy, renamed the “Checks and Money Orders” subsection to “Acceptable Payment Types” and added language about types of transactions for which we do and do not accept payment via PayPal services. Moved that section so that it precedes rather than follows the “Currency” subsection. In the Customer Service subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, made some wording and punctuation adjustments to the language about Google Voice, condensing some of it (in part by linking the first instance of the name to the “How Google Voice works” page), and adding a disclaimer of affiliation to the trademark notice. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, updated the EFF trademark notice to reorder the listed marks so that the full name of the organization comes first. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the Google and Microsoft bullet points and the reference to Adobe to add disclaimers of affiliation after the respective trademark notices. (Since those references mention “software, apps, tools, and services we may use and/or offer,” additional disclaimers seemed appropriate.) Adjusted the anchor text for the links to the respective downloads pages of The GIMP Website and the FileZilla Project for stylistic consistency. Updated the references to the DuckDuckGo and Startpage.com search engines to also mention their associated browser extensions. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the reference to the Google Analytics service to change “to learn more about what information that may include” to “to learn more about what information that service may collect” for greater clarity. Much tinkering with all of the above after initial publication. Also made a correction to the September 6, 2021 entry below (which had identified a paragraph as beginning with “By making a payment or contribution …” where that paragraph actually began “By making a payment …”).
September 6, 2021: In Embedded Content, updated the Yoast SEO bullet point to add links to the Algolia and Semrush cookie policies, adjust the anchor text for some of the links, and update certain trademark notices. Also changed “To learn more about what user information such third-party websites or services collect …” to “To learn more about what personal information such third-party websites or services may collect …” In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, changed “may come directly from the applicable individual(s) or entity and/or from third-party sources …” to “may come directly from the applicable individual(s) or entity — with whom we may of course communicate via email, phone, and/or various other means as we deem appropriate in the particular circumstances — and/or from third-party sources …” In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, updated the paragraph beginning “By making a payment, you also grant …” to change “to contact you via email and/or postal mail to acknowledge, complete, and/or address questions or issues related to your transaction(s) with us, and, if you call or text us regarding your transaction, to respond to your calls and/or texts via the same means …” to “to communicate with you regarding your transaction via email and/or postal mail (e.g., to acknowledge, complete, and/or address questions and/or issues related to your transaction), and/or, if you call or text us regarding your transaction and/or ask us to call or text you, to communicate with you regarding your transaction by phone and/or via text message …” Also cleaned up some redundant formatting in that paragraph. In Additional Information About Data Retention, changed “but some of our current devices and apps no longer provide that functionality, at least not in the same global manner” to “but not all the devices and apps we currently use provide that functionality, at least not in the same global manner”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated some attribution and trademark notices in the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers; updated the Microsoft bullet point to make some minor wording adjustments and add a reference to BitLocker encryption and data protection features; updated the reference to Gpg4win to make some minor clarifications and rearrange the trademark notices in a more logical order; updated the reference to Tracker Software Products to adjust the privacy policy link and add references to the ABBYY FineReader Engine that powers the PDF software’s optical character recognition plugin; added “press and/or public relations representatives” to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers under the “Providers of other search engines and/or other research and/or reference tools, services, facilities, and/or resources” bullet point; and changed “photo-sharing services, other services or platforms for sharing images and/or other media …” to “photo-sharing services, stock photo services, other services or platforms for sharing images and/or other media …” for completeness. Updated the bullet point beginning “If the person(s) to whom the information pertains …” to change “respective assigns, heirs, and/or successors” to “respective heirs, successors, and/or assigns” for wording consistency. Made the same change in the equivalent bullet point in the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (also on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added a bullet point to the examples of “Professional or employment-related information”: “Work schedule(s), location(s), and/or assignment(s)”. Tinkered a bit with these additions after initial publication.
September 4, 2021: Updated the September 3, 2021 entry in this Recent Revisions list to make a number of clarifications and corrections about the changes made on that date. Also made some minor changes to this page’s metadata. In Definitions, updated the “Administrative dashboard/backend” definition to change “authorized administrators” to “authorized administrative users” for internal consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “other informational and/or instructional resources related to web development and/or web security, including (without limitation) tutorials, guides, recommendations, warnings, suggestions, examples, and/or discussion …” to “other sources of informational and/or instructional resources related to web development, online security, and/or the various aspects of operating and/or maintaining online systems, including (without limitation) providers of tutorials, guides, wikis, help files, online documentation, knowledge bases, technical consulting services, articles, and/or white papers offering recommendations, warnings, suggestions, examples, and/or discussion …” for completeness and change “and/or related software …” to “and/or other software …” Changed “online forums, message boards, discussion groups, chat rooms, mailing lists, wikis, and/or similar venues for investigating, troubleshooting, resolving, and/or preventing technical problems and/or suspicious and/or malicious activity, and/or otherwise discussing and/or researching …” to “online forums, message boards, discussion groups, chat rooms, mailing lists, technical consulting services, wikis, help files, online documentation, knowledge bases, and/or other online venues and/or resources for investigating, troubleshooting, resolving, and/or preventing technical problems and/or suspicious and/or malicious activity, and/or otherwise discussing and/or researching …” Changed “websites, wikis, blogs, …” to “websites, wikis, help files, online documentation, knowledge bases, blogs, …”
September 3, 2021: As a global change throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page, updated the links to the DreamHost Privacy Policy to remove the “title” attribute. Also adjusted the anchor text for certain of those links. In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection and the equivalent list in the version of the Collection Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, fixed a typo in the “Advertising and other commercial purposes” bullet point (“use the information help us promote …” was obviously supposed to read “use the information to help us promote …”). In Cookies and Similar Technologies, changed “The use of cookies and/or similar technologies by third-party sites and/or services is subject to the applicable site or service’s privacy policy and/or cookie policy …” to “The use of cookies and/or similar technologies by third-party sites and/or services is subject to those sites and/or services’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use …” Made the same change to the similar sentence that appears in the second paragraph of the Cookie Notice. In Certificate Authority Checks, updated the link to the Let’s Encrypt “How It Works” page to adjust the anchor text and put the title in quotation marks. In Online Tracking, updated the paragraph containing links to Google privacy information to adjust wording and the anchor text of certain links for greater clarity. Updated the paragraph about the Google Ads Data Processing Terms to change “processing of data” to “processing of personal data” and change “this help page” to the title of the linked page, also adjusting the anchor text of that hyperlink. Added a link to the “Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites” page, which provides detailed information about the cookies the analytics service uses. (The title of this page changed during the course of the day while we were making these edits.) Added this link to the applicable section of the Cookie Notice, also adjusting the anchor text of the other privacy links for consistency with the Online Tracking section. In Security Scans, updated the paragraph on the Sucuri Security plugin to add links to the Sucuri Cookie Policy, the Cloudflare Data Processing Addendum, the Cloudflare Cookie Policy, and the WordPress.org Cookie Policy. Also added the latter link to the subsequent paragraph on the iThemes Security plugin. Updated the paragraph about other device security measures to change “whose products and services” to “whose products and/or services”; add a link to the Google “Technologies” pages, which provide additional information about how Google uses cookies and/or other technologies that may collect and/or process personal information; and change “similar features” to “comparable security measures”. In Embedded Content, updated the bullet points pertaining to Google services to change the phrase “processing of data” to “processing of personal data” and add a link to the Google “Technologies” pages, which provide additional information about how Google uses cookies and/or other technologies that may collect and/or process personal information. Updated the bullet point about BootstrapCDN to note that the jsDelivr service currently says it does not use cookies, but does use various third-party service providers, who may have access to data the service collects and/or processes. Updated the bullet point about the jQuery CDN and jQuery API services to note that those services’ cookie policy links appear to point to the cookie policy of a different organization and it’s not clear whether or not this is intentional. Also added a link to the StackPath Data Processing Amendment; fixed the links to the StackPath GDPR page and California Privacy Rights page, which were incorrectly configured; and adjusted the anchor text for those links. Updated the bullet point about the Cloudflare CDN to revise the anchor text for the link to the Cloudflare GDPR page and add links to the Cloudflare Data Processing Addendum and the Cloudflare Cookie Policy. Updated the bullet point about the Font Awesome CDNs to note that they don’t appear to have a cookie policy. Updated the bullet point about PayPal buttons to clarify that the Statement on Cookies and Tracking Technologies is linked from within the applicable PayPal Privacy Statement (it doesn’t appear to be listed in the main legal hub) and put “Legal Agreements for PayPal Services” in quotation marks. Made the same changes to the applicable section of the Cookie Notice. Also updated that section to add a link to the Akamai “Privacy and Policies” page in addition to the existing Privacy Trust Center link, also changing “processes personal data” to “may collect, process, and/or use personal data”. Updated the bullet point on embedded YouTube video players to note that embedded video players may collect device identifiers, clarify some wording, replace the link to the Google cookies page with a link to their “Technologies” pages (which include the cookie page as well as other potentially relevant information), and add links to the Google “Advertising” pages. Also updated the trademark notice. Made most of the same changes to the “YouTube Videos” section of the Cookie Notice and made a number of other minor clarifications to that section. Updated the bullet point about Vimeo videos to change the word “Visit …” to “See …”; add information about the Vimeo Cookie Policy; and note that the “Vimeo Videos” section of the Cookie Notice includes additional information about certain Vimeo analytics and/or advertising providers (although that shouldn’t be regarded as an exhaustive list). Also revised the “Vimeo Videos” section of the Cookie Notice to add some additional privacy links pertaining to Vimeo service providers, mention that the Vimeo Cookie Policy provides information on how people with Vimeo accounts can control the use of third-party advertising and/or analytics services in connection with embedded video players, and make some wording adjustments. Updated the bullet point about the Gravatar API to add a link to the Automattic Cookie Policy. Updated the bullet point about the Sucuri Security plugin to add links to the Sucuri Cookie Policy, the Cloudflare Data Processing Addendum, and the Cloudflare Cookie Policy. Updated the bullet point about the WordPress.org websites to change “for more information on …” to “for more information about …” change “please review …” to “see …”; and add a link to their Cookie Policy. Removed some extra spaces throughout that section. In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests and the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, added a link to the “How Google Voice Works” page. In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, updated the paragraph beginning “Transactions made via PayPal® services …” to change the word “made” to “conducted”; change “policies and/or requirements” to “policies, terms, and/or conditions”; replace the existing policy links to the PayPal legal agreements hub (as there may be different agreements and policies depending on the parties’ respective locations), again noting that the Statement on Cookies and Tracking Technologies is linked from within the applicable PayPal Privacy Statement. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the references to Spybot – Search & Destroy software to change “the Spybot – Search & Destroy® suite and/or its associated software and/or services” to “Spybot – Search & Destroy® security software and/or its associated apps, tools, and/or services”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the Google bullet point to add a clearer link to the Google Privacy Policy and a link to their “Technologies” pages. Updated the reference to Adobe Inc. to change the privacy policy to a link to the Adobe Privacy Center (which includes the Adobe Privacy Policy and other related policies, e.g., their “Cookies” page). Updated the reference to the Sucuri Security plugin to add a link to the Sucuri Cookie Policy. Updated the reference to Cloudflare Resolver for Firefox to change the anchor text to the privacy link (it’s not really a privacy policy so much as a discussion of the unique privacy practices that apply to that service). In Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), changed “for a list of European data protection authorities, see the European Data Protection Board Members page” to “for a current list of European national data protection authorities, see the “Our Members” page of the European Data Protection Board website,” adjusting the anchor text of the hyperlink accordingly. Did the usual tinkering with these changes after initial publication.
September 2, 2021: In the preamble, changed “the respective privacy policies and terms of use/terms of service, if any, of those sites or services” to “those sites or services’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use”. In Embedded Content, changed “is collected and processed by the applicable embedded content provider, not by us, and is subject to the provider’s terms of service/terms of use and privacy policy, which are …” to “is collected and processed by the applicable embedded content providers, not by us, and is subject to such providers’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use, which in most cases are …”; changed “please visit the applicable site and review their privacy policy and associated terms and conditions” to “you should review those sites or services’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms”; and changed “See the applicable website or service’s privacy policy for more information” to “See those websites or services’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use for more information.” In Ads on 6200 Productions, changed “their respective privacy policies” to “their respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use”. Also changed “our advertisers’ individual privacy policies” to “our advertisers’ respective privacy policies” for consistency. In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, changed “messages exchanged via a third-party site or service are subject to the terms of service/terms of use and privacy policy of the applicable service” to “messages exchanged via third-party sites or services are subject to those sites or services’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use” and changed “any third-party websites or services you use to contact us …” to “any third-party websites or services you may use to contact us …” In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, changed “may be subject to the individual policies of the applicable third parties, which in many cases is …” to “is subject to the respective policies of such third parties, and in many cases is …” In the Data Retention subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy; Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties; Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources; and Additional Information About Data Retention, changed “is subject to the individual policies of the applicable third parties, and in most cases is outside …” to “is subject to the respective policies of such third parties, and in many cases is outside …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “in their respective privacy policies” to “in their respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use”. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “The collection, use, and/or retention of personal information by third-party services are subject to the applicable service’s privacy policy and terms of use/terms of service, and are outside” to “The collection, use, and/or retention of personal information by third-party services is subject to such services’ respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use …” In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection (again on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “in their respective privacy policies” to “in their respective privacy policies, cookie policies, and/or terms of service/terms of use” for consistency.
September 1, 2021: In Credits and License for This Policy and the similar license information on the Your California Privacy Rights page, the Cookie Notice, and the Older Privacy Policy Revisions page, made some minor wording adjustments to the references to the Automattic Privacy Policy and the trademark notice. Updated references to Automattic in Embedded Content and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information to make similar adjustments. Updated the trademark notices for WordPress throughout this page and the Cookie Notice (to specify that “WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries). In Embedded Content, revised the bullet point on the jQuery CDN and jQuery API to correct some company name and trademark information. Revised the bullet point on the Yoast SEO plugin to clarify a number of points, fix some stylization, and update the trademark information. Revised the Twitter bullet point to clarify some wording and add additional links with information about what data the Twitter services may collect through Twitter content integrated into other websites. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added following the reference to developers of WordPress plugins, themes, and/or add-ons “other informational and/or instructional resources related to web development and/or web security, including (without limitation) tutorials, guides, recommendations, warnings, suggestions, examples, and/or discussion of how to use, manage, maintain, develop, customize, troubleshoot, and/or secure the WordPress content management system; its various plugins, themes, and/or add-ons; and/or related software, apps, tools, services, and/or code (WordPress is a registered trademark of the WordPress Foundation in the United States and other countries)”. Updated the reference to the GNU Image Manipulation Program to change “the open source …” to “The GIMP Team, which maintains the open source …”; change “which doesn’t …” to “aka GIMP, which doesn’t … change “from their downloads page” to “from the downloads page of The GIMP Website”; and change “and plugins for it, such as …” to “The GIMP Help Team, which maintains the GIMP documentation; and/or the developers and/or maintainers of the software’s various associated plugins, scripts, brushes, filters, and/or other add-ons, such as …” (set off with a semicolon). Made a minor wording adjustment to the reference to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Changed “other retailers, vendors, marketplaces, auction services, distributors, and/or providers” to “other retailers, vendors, merchants, resellers, marketplaces, auction services, distributors, and/or providers”. Changed “wholesalers/resellers” to “wholesalers; resellers”. Changed “marketplaces, auction services, resellers, consignment sellers …” to “marketplaces, auction services, merchants, resellers, consignment sellers …” Updated the about convention centers, conference centers, and other such venues to change “for purposes of attending …” to “for purposes of and/or in the course of attending …” for completeness. Did the usual tinkering with these changes after initial publication.
August 31, 2021: In Security Scans, changed “Microsoft® software, apps, tools, and/or services to “software, apps, tools, and/or services offered by Microsoft”. In Comments, updated the paragraph about gathering additional information about commenters to change “additional personal information about you” to “additional information about you” and add a sentence: “In many cases, such additional information comes from publicly available sources, but we may sometimes also seek additional nonpublic information about you, which may from a variety of sources, depending on the specific context and circumstances.” Made the same changes to the similar paragraphs in Comment Forms and Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests. In Data in Submitted Images, updated the paragraph beginning “We typically also gather additional information …” to change “Such information may come from a variety of sources depending …” to “Such information may come from a variety of publicly available and/or nonpublic sources depending …” In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, updated the paragraph beginning “In some cases, we may seek additional information …” to add a final sentence: “Such additional information may come from a variety of publicly available and/or nonpublic sources depending on the specific context and circumstances.” In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “the Microsoft® Windows® operating system and/or its associated software and/or services” to “the Microsoft® Windows® operating system and/or other software, apps, tools, and/or services offered by Microsoft”. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “may vary considerably depending on the context and circumstances” to “may vary considerably depending on the specific context and circumstances.” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point regarding Microsoft to adjust some trademark information and change “and/or other Microsoft products and/or services mentioned and/or described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy” to “and/or the other software, apps, tools, and/or services offered by Microsoft that are mentioned and/or described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy”.
August 30, 2021: In Security Scans, updated the paragraph on the Sucuri Security plugin to add “a blocklist-checking feature that warns if this website has been flagged for malicious activity by search engines and/or Internet security services (an obvious sign that a site may have been hacked and/or infected with malware)” to the list of the plugin’s features and added the sentence “Communications with any other third-party services are subject to the respective privacy policies of those services.” In Embedded Content, updated the Vimeo trademark notice. Made the same change to the Vimeo Videos section of the Cookie Notice, also updating the reference to and trademark notice for the Optimizely platform mentioned there, adding a link to additional information about the functions of the cookies and/or similar technologies that platform may use, and making a minor clarification to the reference to the Vimeo Cookie Policy. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to change “LibreOffice® office productivity suite” to “LibreOffice® office productivity suite and/or its associated repository of extensions, themes, and other add-ons”; add “speakers and/or sound systems” to the examples in the “Manufacturers of other electronic devices” bullet point; rearrange the order of some of those examples; change “refrigerator, air conditioner, dehumidifier” to “refrigerator, air conditioner, dehumidifier, vacuum cleaner(s)”; change “proprietary software, if any” to “proprietary software and/or apps, if any”; and remove the references to Sansui Electric. (We do still have an elderly Sansui analog television, but the company that manufactured it went out of business in 2014, and the present owners of that brand and trademark have no substantive connection with our ancient, non-Internet-capable TV.)
August 29, 2021: In the preamble, updated the second paragraph to change “of those sites or services” to “of those sites or services, which may apply in addition to or instead of this policy and/or the Terms of Use of this website.” Linked the phrase “Terms of Use” to that page. In Security Scans, further updated the reference to the Google Voice service to more clearly present the link to the Google Telephony Services Privacy Disclosure. In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, updated the paragraph beginning “Keep in mind that messages exchanged via a third-party site or service …” to add the phrase “and which may apply in addition to or, in some cases, instead of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use of this website” to the end of the first sentence and add a new second sentence: “For example, if you send us a message related to our professional writing/editing/writing consulting business via a third-party messaging service, this Privacy Policy will govern how we use and/or retain that message and the information it contains, but the applicable messaging service’s policies will govern how that service uses and/or retains information from and/or related to that communication.” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, further updated the reference to the Google Voice service to change “whose use may be subject to the Google Telephony Services Privacy Disclosure as well as the Google Privacy Policy linked above” to “which is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and, where applicable, the Google Telephony Services Privacy Disclosure” for wording consistency.
August 28, 2021: In Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information and Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), changed “(aka the “GDPR” or “EU GDPR”)” to “(GDPR, now sometimes called the EU GDPR to distinguish it from the similarly named regulations of other regions)” for clarity and stylistic consistency. In Security Scans; Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests; the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy; Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes; Additional Information About Data Retention; and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, further updated the references to the Google Voice service, mostly to fix the links to the current Google Telephony Services Privacy Disclosure, which hadn’t been set up correctly, and further adjust the trademark notices. In the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, also changed “may be forwarded to us via email” to “may be transmitted via email.” Added Google Workspace productivity and collaboration tools to the examples of Google services in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information (since those tools are referenced in the aforementioned privacy disclosure). Also in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended the reference to the Artifex SmartOffice app to adjust the anchor text for one of the hyperlinks. In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made a further minor wording adjustments to the list of CCPA rights: Changed “the right to request deletion of personal information about you that we have collected or maintain in the course of our business …” to “the right to request deletion of personal information about you that we have collected in the course of our business …” (for greater internal consistency with this policy and our related documents — obviously, these nitpicking wording changes don’t alter anyone’s legal rights!) Updated the section of the Cookie Notice on PayPal cookies to fix some text that had inadvertently become garbled in a recent revision and make minor wording adjustments to the reference to the Akamai Privacy Trust Center.
August 27, 2021: Throughout this page, the Your California Privacy Rights page, and the Cookie Notice, updated (and in some cases relocated) various trademark notices pertaining to Google services, also making some minor wording adjustments to the adjacent references to those services. In Online Tracking, changed “If you consent to Google Analytics tracking …” to “If you consent to tracking by the Google Analytics service …” and placed “cookieconsent_status” in italics for stylistic consistency with the description in the Cookie Notice. In the Cookie Notice, updated the Disable Google Analytics Tracking category to place “Disable Google Analytics Tracking” in quotation marks for consistency with the description in the Online Tracking section. In Embedded Content, updated the YouTube bullet point to change “is now owned by Google” to “is owned by Google LLC” and remove a redundant link to their privacy policy. Also updated the YouTube Videos section of the Cookie Notice to change “is owned by Google” to “is owned by Google LLC” for consistency. In Security Scans; Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests; the Customer Service Information subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy; Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes; Additional Information About Data Retention; and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the references to the Google Voice service (and, in Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, also to the Gmail email service) to fix some stylization, clarify some wording, and update the link to the additional privacy disclosure for the Google Voice service (as that disclosure has been renamed). Also in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, made some further wording adjustments and clarifications to the references to the Blogger, LiveJournal, and Twitter services. Added a trademark notice for the LiveJournal service and clarified that the service doesn’t appear to have a privacy policy. Later in the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers, changed “automotive history and information sites, forums, and/or message boards, such as …” to “automotive forums, chat rooms, bulletin boards, discussion groups, wikis, and/or similar online forums that we may use to research, promote, and/or discuss our automotive content (and/or content from the owner’s automotive website, Ate Up With Motor; Ate Up With Motor is a trademark of Aaron Severson dba Ate Up With Motor)” and removed the list of examples, which more appropriately belong (and are still presented) in the Ate Up With Motor Privacy Policy. Also updated the reference to Audacity audio editing and recording software to make some clarifications and correct the name of the privacy notice (which has recently changed). In Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made several minor wording adjustments to the list of CCPA rights: Changed “The categories of business and/or commercial purposes for which we collected and used the information …” to “The categories of business and/or commercial purposes for collecting and using that information …” and changed “the right to request the deletion of personal information we have collected about you in the course of our business …” to “the right to request deletion of personal information about you that we have collected or maintain in the course of our business …”
August 26, 2021: In Certificate Authority Checks and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, made a minor adjustment to the trademark notices for this website’s certificate authority. Also in Certificate Authority Checks, changed “These encryption certificates …” to “These certificates …” (which is more technically correct); adjusted some punctuation; and changed “The Let’s Encrypt CA service may log and use such data for operational, troubleshooting, and security purposes and/or in compiling de-indentified, aggregated statistics, as described …” to “The Let’s Encrypt CA service may log and use such data as described …” In Online Tracking, updated the paragraph regarding the data processing amendment to change the phrase “that applies to data from areas subject to European data protection laws and/or, beginning in 2020, certain other region-specific privacy laws” to “that applies to the processing of data from areas subject to European data protection laws and/or certain other region-specific privacy and/or data protection laws” and placed the succeeding subclause in parentheses rather than set off with a semicolon, for stylistic consistency. In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed various instances of the phrase “perform services” to “provide services” for internal consistency. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, changed “perform specific tasks or functions” to “perform specific tasks and/or functions” and changed “performs background checks” to “conducts background checks”. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “the services they perform …” to “the services they provide …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “and/or the open source VeraCrypt disk encryption tool …” to “the open source VeraCrypt disk encryption tool …” and added to the end of that bullet point “and/or online forums, message boards, discussion groups, chat rooms, mailing lists, wikis, and/or similar venues for investigating, troubleshooting, resolving, and/or preventing technical problems and/or suspicious and/or malicious activity, and/or otherwise discussing matters pertaining to the operation, function, and/or security of our system(s), device(s), and/or data.” Updated the reference to tota11y to change “developed by Khan Academy®” to “created by Khan Academy® developers” and change “in a website” to “in online content”. Updated the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to add “organizations, services, and/or resources (public and/or private) that publish, catalog, offer, and/or otherwise make available public records and/or public information of whatever type(s)” to the bullet point on “Providers of other search engines and/or other research and/or reference tools, services, facilities, and/or resources …” and add “wikis” to the list of examples in that section beginning with “other online information and/or reference services …” Also changed “repair, maintenance, installation, and/or technical service providers” to “repair, maintenance, installation, and/or technical service providers and/or resources”. Completed the relocation of the reference to the Microsoft Bing search engine(s) begun on August 25, 2021 (as noted below). Removed an extra space.
August 25, 2021: Added Ate Up With Motor trademark notices to the preamble; the Financial Transactions Policy; Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources; Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information; the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page); the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (also on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page); and the CCPA Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (also on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), also making some punctuation adjustments to the adjacent text. Added “email header information*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet points of Website Server, Error, and Security Logs; Security Scans; Consents and Agreements; Data in Submitted Images; Information Provided by Social Media Services; Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes; and Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources. In Definitions, updated the definition “Administrative dashboard/backend” to change “The content management system WordPress …” to “The WordPress content management system …” In Online Tracking, changed the words “a small black box in the upper right-hand corner of the screen” to “a narrow gray box near the upper right corner of your browser window” to better describe how the “Reopen Analytics Banner” button currently appears. In Security Scans, changed several instances of “associated with WordPress.org” to “associated with the WordPress.org websites” and changed “the WordPress Privacy Policy” to “the WordPress.org Privacy Policy”. In Embedded Content, changed “The Gravatar service — like WordPress.com, with which it’s now apparently being integrated — is a venture of Automattic Inc. and is subject to their Privacy Policy and the same Terms of Service as WordPress.com” to “The Gravatar service — like the WordPress.com services, with which it’s now apparently being integrated — is a venture of Automattic Inc. and is subject to the Automattic Privacy Policy and the WordPress.com Terms of Service.” Also changed various instances in that section of “WordPress.org” to “the WordPress.org websites” (changing the verb tenses and/or articles of the surrounding text accordingly); changed “WordPress-related information” to “information related to the WordPress content management system”; and changed “the WordPress Privacy Policy” to “the WordPress.org Privacy Policy” for clarity. In Contact Forms, changed “(e.g., the WordPress support forums)” to “(e.g., the WordPress.org support forums)”. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “the support forums on WordPress.org” to “the WordPress.org support forums”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point on employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners to set off the phrase “if any” with commas rather than putting it in parentheses, mostly for stylistic consistency. Also made various minor updates to the examples of social media services and automotive history and information sites, forums, and/or message boards to clarify some wording, tidy up the punctuation, restore a couple of references that were apparently accidentally removed or partially deleted, add the IntenseDebate comment system to the listed examples, add some trademark notices, and update certain privacy policy links. Also revised the beginning of the social media bullet point to change “This may include, but is not necessarily limited to, …” to “such as (without limitation) …” and that part of the preceding sentence. Later in that section, changed the words “WordPress.org” and “the WordPress.org website” to “the WordPress.org websites” for consistency (also changing “its” to “their” for grammatical reasons); updated the title attribute of the link to the WordPress.org Privacy Policy; changed “aforementioned WordPress forums” to “aforementioned WordPress.org forums”; and updated the reference to the Notepad++ editor to make some minor wording changes, correct the name of one of the included plugins, and add trademark information for that plugin. Updated the references to the Epic Privacy Browser search functions to condense and clarify the wording, fix the stylization of the search engines mentioned, and rearrange and update the applicable trademark notices. Also updated the references to search engines in the “Providers of other search engines …” bullet point to make some wording adjustments (mostly for greater consistency), present the respective privacy policy links in a more coherent way, add the Yandex Search search engine(s) to the listed examples, and move the reference to the Microsoft Bing search engine(s) to the earlier bullet point on Microsoft services. Also changed “cleaning and/or janitorial services” to “cleaning, janitorial, and/or laundry services”. In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners (as applicable)” to “employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners, if any (and as applicable)” for consistency. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “… to editors, agents, and/or publishers” to “… to editors, literary agents, and/or publishers” for clarity. [Inevitably tinkered with these additions after initial publication.]
August 23, 2021: In Embedded Content, updated the Font Awesome bullet point to change “Font Awesome may use the data their services collect for service optimization, troubleshooting, and security purposes; to compile usage statistics; to calculate fees for users of their paid accounts (which we are not); and/or as otherwise described in their …” to “To learn more about how data the Font Awesome content delivery networks collect may be used, see the Font Awesome …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed several instances of the phrase “as described in their …” to “as described in the …” and adding the applicable entity’s name. Updated the reference to Rosewill, Inc. to change “and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates” to “and/or its parent company, affiliates, and/or subsidiaries”. Updated the reference to the Artifex SmartOffice Privacy Policy to change “Artifex Software, Inc.” to “Artifex Software Inc.” (as the company appears to no longer use the comma); change “as described in their App Privacy Policy” to “as described in the SmartOffice Privacy Policy” (the policy carries both titles, but the latter seems most appropriately descriptive in this context); and add “and/or the Artifex.com Privacy Policy, as applicable” (also adding a link to the latter policy).
August 21, 2021: In Online Tracking, further tinkered with the wording of the sentence beginning “In general, the Google Analytics service does not enable us …” in the interests of greater clarity. Added a sentence to the end of that paragraph about taking steps to exclude the information of known administrative users (including us) from the analytics results. As a global change, changed the category “special: device identifiers for mobile devices*” to “special: device identifiers*”. In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, added “special: device identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point. In Security Scans, added “special: device identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point and reordered several of the items for internal consistency. In Embedded Content, removed “special: the presence of other cookies*” and “special: login status for certain other websites/services (determined based on cookies)*” from the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point (since these are probably reasonably encompassed by “special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*” and are explained in the text of that section) and added “domain names” and “errors and suspicious activity*” to the categories. In Consents and Agreements, added “domain names*” and “special: other identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point. Changed “are usually maintained” to “are usually retained” (which is what that was supposed to say). Added a paragraph about the duration of consents stored in cookies. In Comments, added “domain names*”; “special: device identifiers*”; “special: other identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point. In Contact Forms, added “domain names*”; “special: device identifiers*”; “special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*”; and “special: other identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point. In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, added “domain names*”; “special: device identifiers*”; “special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*”; and “special: other identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point and changed “special: identifiers and/or other information provided by and/or specific to third-party services (as applicable)*” to “special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*”. In Data in Submitted Images, added “IP addresses*”; domain names*”; user agent information*”; “special: device identifiers*”; “metadata”; and “special: other identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point; changed “special: identifiers and/or other information provided by and/or specific to third-party services (as applicable)*” to “special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*”; and changed “special: other visible and/or audible identifiers and/or potentially personally identifying information (such as (without limitation) a pictured car’s license plate and/or vehicle identification numbers)*” to “special: other visible and/or audible information that may be personally identifying and/or potentially personally identifying (e.g., a pictured car’s license plate and/or vehicle identification numbers)*”. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, added “domain names*”; “special: device identifiers*”; “special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*”; and “special: other identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point and changed “special: identifiers and/or other information provided by and/or specific to third-party services (as applicable)*” to “special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*”. In Financial Transactions Policy, added “domain names*”; “special: mobile phone types/models (determined from user agent information)*”; “special: device identifiers*”; “special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*”; and “special: other identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point and changed “special: identifiers and/or other information provided by and/or specific to third-party services (as applicable)*” to “special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*”. In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection, changed “If payment for a transaction is completed via PayPal services …” to “If a transaction is completed via PayPal services …” In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, added “IP addresses*”; “domain names*”; “user agent information*”; “special: mobile phone types/models (determined from user agent information)*”; “special: device identifiers*”; “special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*”; and “special: other identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point and changed “special: identifiers and/or other information provided by and/or specific to third-party services (as applicable)*” to “special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*”. In Information Provided by Social Media Services, added “IP addresses*”; “domain names*”; “user agent information*”; “errors and suspicious activity*”; “special: mobile phone types/models (determined from user agent information)*”; “special: device identifiers*”; “special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*”; and “special: other identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point and changed “special: identifiers and/or other information provided by and/or specific to third-party services (as applicable)*” to “special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*”. Also added a note to that bullet point: “(Please note that the applicable service(s) may also collect other types of information from and/or about users beyond that listed here.)” In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, added “special: mobile phone types/models (determined from user agent information)*”; “special: device identifiers*”; “special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*”; “special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*”; “special: other identifiers*”; and “special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, added “IP addresses*”; “domain names*”; “user agent information*”; “special: mobile phone types/models (determined from user agent information)*”; “special: device identifiers*”; “metadata*”; “special: information collected via cookies and/or similar technologies*”; “special: usernames, user ID numbers, and/or other identifiers associated with administrative users*”; and “special: other identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point; changed “other contact information*” to “other contact information (e.g., phone numbers, postal mailing addresses, and/or other street addresses)*”; and changed “special: identifiers and/or other information provided by and/or specific to third-party services (as applicable)*” to “special: identifiers and/or other information specific to third-party services (as applicable)*”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the references to and trademark notices for the manufacturers of our wireless routers. Updated the reference to services of Cloudflare, Inc. to make some minor wording and punctuation changes. Updated the reference to Mozilla browsers to adjust the trademark information. Made minor wording adjustments to the references to the hCaptcha service and the Abine Blur browser extension.
August 20, 2021: In Online Tracking, In Online Tracking, added “special: other identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point and further updated the paragraph beginning “We have not authorized Google …” to change “may wish to review the Google “Google Business Data Responsibility” pages …” to “may wish to review the “Google Business Data Responsibility” pages …” (to eliminate the repeated word). In Embedded Content, added “special: device identifiers for mobile devices*” and “special: other identifiers*” to the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point. Updated the second paragraph of the section (beginning “At a minimum …” to also mention those additions. Updated the paragraph beginning “Embedded content providers may use various third-party service providers …” to change “to end users like us” to “to us” (since some embedded content providers define “end users” to mean visitors to a website that uses their services, rather than the operators of that site) and change “is entirely outside …” to “in most cases is entirely outside …” Updated the bullet points on Google APIs and YouTube embedded video players to change “the “How Google Uses Information from Sites or Apps That Use Our Services” section of the Google Privacy Policy” to “the “How Google Uses Information from Sites or Apps That Use Our Services” page and the Google Privacy Policy” (since these are now separate documents). In the former bullet point, changed “The API may also store …” to “The Google Fonts API may also store …” revised the reference to the Google Fonts FAQ to change “For more information, visit …” to “To learn more about how it works (including how long stored information may remain in your browser), see …” and updated the link. Changed “The Google Hosted Libraries API may use cookies and/or similar technologies to track and/or identify you and/or store potentially personally identifying information on your device in addition to logging certain information such as (without limitation) your IP address and user agent information” to “The Google Hosted Libraries API may use cookies and/or similar technologies and/or store potentially personally identifying information on your device in addition to collecting information such as (without limitation) your IP address and user agent information. Google asserts that the Google Hosted Libraries servers remove referring site information from the request logs (so the logs indicate what resources your browser requested, but not the websites or online services you visited).” Also added language to that bullet point about the Google Controller-Controller Data Protection Terms and related addenda, which apply to the processing of data by Google API services from areas subject to certain region-specific privacy and/or data protection laws. In the YouTube bullet point, also changed “Their “Businesses and Data pages …” to “The “Google Business Data Responsibility” pages …” and added a link to the page about data shared with YouTube content creators. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “security features, firmware, software, and/or services” to “security features, software, and/or services” for internal consistency (since firmware is obviously a type of software). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed various instances of the word “about” (as in the phrase “about the use” or similar phrases) and “related to” to “about and/or related to” to be more broadly applicable. Updated the trademark notice for Blacklight and The Markup. Changed “the WordPress website” to “the WordPress.org website” for clarity. Updated the bullet point on Microsoft to change “Microsoft®, which provides …” to “Microsoft, which provides (directly and/or through its various subsidiaries and/or affiliates) …” Made a variety of minor wording changes to the examples listed in the “providers whose services enable us to operate and/or secure our system(s), device(s), and/or data” bullet point for greater internal consistency and to fix some typos. Changed “TCL Communication Ltd. (a.k.a. TCT), the manufacturer of …” to “TCL Communication Ltd. (a.k.a. TCT) and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates, which manufactured …” Added Renesas Electronics Corporation and Toshiba Corporation to the examples listed in that bullet point. In the “Other providers of software, apps, tools, and/or services” bullet point, updated the reference to Cannaverbe Limited to change “in connection with …” to “through and/or in connection with …” and updated the reference the Handbrake video transcoder to rearrange the text slightly and fix a typographical error in the link attributes for the privacy policy link. In the bullet point about “Manufacturers of other electronic devices we may use,” changed “these devices’ proprietary software (if any)” to “these devices’ proprietary software, if any (obviously excepting firmware necessary for a device to function)”. In the “Other types of vendors and/or service providers” bullet point, changed “Discord” to “the Discord services” and changed “Signal (a service of Signal Messenger LLC whose …” to “the Signal services (which are offered by Signal Messenger LLC, and whose …” Throughout the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers, similarly added the phrase “and/or its affiliates” or “and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates” after the names of certain of the companies listed throughout that section, also making some minor wording changes to certain company names and adjusting some punctuation. Also updated some trademark notices. [We tinkered a lot with these updates after initial publication.] In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “Information about an individual or household’s involvement in and/or connection with an accident …” (under “Other types of personal information”) to change “an accident, natural disaster(s), and/or other catastrophic event(s)” to “accident(s), natural disaster(s), and/or other catastrophic event(s) or hardship(s)”. In the Collection Sources subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point on “Published and/or publicly available sources” to add “news reports” to the parenthetical examples, making it first in that list. Amended the Cookie Notice to update the links to Google privacy information in the YouTube Videos section. Revised the August 18, 2021 entry in this Recent Revisions list to remove some inadvertently duplicated text.
August 19, 2021: In Certificate Authority Checks, added a final paragraph noting that the setup, maintenance, and renewal of the site’s DV certificates is administered by our web host, although so far as we are aware, they don’t have access to the certificate authority’s public repository server logs. In Online Tracking, updated the paragraph beginning “We may use this service …” to add “to help us sell the site itself, if we ever elect to do so” to the list, set off with a semicolon. Updated the paragraph beginning “The Google Analytics service uses cookies …” to make some minor wording adjustments (mostly for more consistent grammar). In the paragraph beginning “The analytics service …” deleted the word “then”. In the “Special Note” paragraph, changed “although any analytics data we share with third parties …” to “although in most cases, any analytics data we share with advertisers, sponsors, and/or other commercial partners …” added a sentence: “(The most likely exception would be in the event we sell or transfer control of the site or its assets to a third party, in which case analytics data would likely be included among the assets sold or otherwise transferred”; incorporated the paragraph beginning “We may disclose analytics data …” (previously at the end of this section) into the former paragraph; changed “We may also disclose analytics data as described …” to “We may also share, release, and/or otherwise disclose analytics data as otherwise described …”; and enclosed that sentence within the same parentheses as the sentence beginning “(The most likely exception …” In the paragraph beginning “We have not authorized …” changed “to share …” to “to share or link …” (since the service treats sharing and product linking separately and we have done neither). Later in the same sentence, changed “as otherwise required by law” to “as required by law.” In the paragraph about the Google Ads Data Processing Terms, moved the sentence about the addition of Standard Contractual Clauses to an earlier point in the paragraph and revised the language to clarify that the Standard Contractual Clauses update actually went into effect on August 12, 2020. (We had misread the applicable notice and erroneously believed that update was still forthcoming, since other updates to the terms have required us to accept the revisions rather than going into effect automatically as that update did. [ETA: On September 21, 2021, we were indeed notified of a further update to the terms to incorporate the newest versions of the Standard Contractual Clauses; we reflected this information in Online Tracking on that date, as noted in the above entry for that date.]) Also made a few minor wording changes to that sentence for greater accuracy. In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, changed “Otherwise, we only disclose website log data as described …” to “We may also share, release, and/or otherwise disclose website log data as otherwise described …” In Security Scans, changed “need technical assistance, consider such disclosure appropriate …” to “need technical assistance and/or consider such disclosure appropriate …” and changed … , and/or as otherwise described …” to “We may also share, release, and/or otherwise disclose information from security scans and/or other security measures as otherwise described …” In Consents and Agreements, changed “disclose saved consent and/or agreement data …” to “share, release, and/or otherwise disclose saved consent and/or agreement data …” and added a parenthetical sentence to the final paragraph: “(Naturally, the ways we use, share, release, and/or otherwise disclose such data may depend on the nature and purpose(s) of the specific consent(s) and/or agreement(s) in question.)” In Comments, changed “Except as otherwise indicated above, we may disclose personal information we receive through and/or in connection with user comments as described …” to “We may also share, release, and/or otherwise disclose personal information we receive through and/or in connection with user comments as otherwise described …” In Contact Forms and Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, changed “may disclose personal information” to “may share, release, and/or otherwise disclose personal information”. In Other Information You Provide to Us, changed “only disclose such information” to “only share, release, and/or otherwise disclose such information”. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, changed “share or disclose such information” to “share, release, and/or otherwise disclose such information”. In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “and/or as part of and/or in connection with reviews …” to “and/or share, release, and/or otherwise disclose relevant information as part of and/or in connection with reviews …” In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, changed “and/or as part of and/or in connection with reviews …” to “and/or share, release, and/or otherwise disclose relevant information as part of and/or in connection with reviews …” for consistency and changed “may disclose such information as described …” to “may share, release, and/or otherwise disclose such information as indicated above and/or as otherwise described … In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “share or otherwise disclose such information …” and “disclose such information” to “share, release, and/or otherwise disclose such information …” In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “articles or other content” to “articles and/or other content”. In Reports and Aggregated Statistics, changed “We may publicly display such reports and/or aggregated statistics …” to “We may publish such reports and/or aggregated statistics …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point on sales or transfers of control to add “As part of a business transfer” to the beginning (making that boldface and removing the boldface from the existing text) and reworded the rest of the text to make it less cumbersome and more consistent with the equivalent bullet point in the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice. In Nevada Consumer Opt-Out Rights, changed “disclose to service providers …” to “share with service providers …” In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “As part of a business transfer” to align it with the wording changes to the equivalent bullet point in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information and separate the parenthetical examples with semicolons rather than commas.
August 18, 2021: In Definitions, updated the definition of “Cookies and similar technologies” to change “are sometimes also used to help the service to identify you” to “are sometimes also used to help websites and/or services identify you.” In Online Tracking, added “special: device identifiers for mobile devices*” to the categories of information gathered and updated the “Data retention” bullet point to change the listed retention period for user and event data from 26 months to 14 months, as it currently says in the main text of this section (we forgot to update the bullet point when we reduced the retention interval). Deleted the paragraph beginning “Note: Portions of this …” Updated the trademark notice in the paragraph beginning “When you first visit …” Updated the subsequent paragraph to change “uses cookies (specifically, first-party “tracking cookies”) and scripts” to “uses cookies (specifically, first-party “tracking cookies”), device identifiers, and/or similar technologies”; changed “(e.g., the brands and models of mobile devices used)” to “(e.g., the brands and models of mobile devices used, advertising identifiers, and/or other identifiers specific to individual mobile devices)”; added “other information about visitors’ activity on the site” to the examples of information gathered, set off with a semicolon; and changed “and any related search terms or queries” to “and/or any related search terms or queries.” Updated the Special Note paragraph to add the parenthetical phrase “(such as, though not limited to, a prohibition on sending what Google calls Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to the Google Analytics service)” after the phrase “regarding permissible data collection”; adding a link to the Google Analytics Help page explaining how Google contracts define PII (which, as the linked page notes, may differ from what different jurisdictions’ privacy and/or data protection laws regard as personal information). Updated the sentence beginning “In some cases, our use of analytics data may also be subject to other contractual obligations …” to add the a new final clause: “although any analytics data we share with third parties in connection with such contractual obligations is only in aggregated and/or otherwise de-identified form” (set off with a comma). Moved that entire paragraph to a later part of the section. In the following paragraph, changed “6200 Productions does not use this analytics service or the data it gathers to personally identify our visitors, nor do we knowingly link or associate data gathered by the Google Analytics service with personally identifying or potentially personally identifying information (which the Google Analytics Terms of Service forbid)” to “In general, the Google Analytics service does not enable us to personally identify people who visit this website, and we do not disaggregate or attempt to disaggregate data the analytics service reports to us in aggregated form.” (The language in the terms about such associations is now specific to integrations between the Google Analytics service and Google advertising services — which we don’t currently use — and is more complicated than the now-deleted parenthetical statement described.) Moved the sentence about partially anonymizing IP addresses to the end of the earlier paragraph beginning “Please note that …” (where it more logically fits). Added a new sentence to the end of that paragraph: “Nevertheless, in certain cases, there may be an obvious association between analytics data and specific identifiable individuals — for example (but without limitation), if someone posts a link to this website on their personal web page or social media feed, that link will likely appear among the referring sites shown in our analytics reports, and if someone leaves a comment on a newly published post for which the analytics reports show only a single view, it would be difficult to avoid inferring an association.” In the paragraph beginning “The data the Google Analytics service gathers …” changed “The data the Google Analytics service gathers is transmitted to and is stored and processed on Google servers located in the United States and elsewhere. Google may also subcontract some analytics data processing and related tasks to third parties (subprocessors), who …” to “Data the Google Analytics service gathers may be processed and/or stored on servers owned by Google, its subsidiaries, and/or third-party subprocessors, which …” Removed the semicolon and placed the clause about subprocessor locations in parentheses instead. In the paragraph beginning “We have not authorized …” changed “Google may access, use, and/or transfer the data to third parties for subcontracted data processing and/or related tasks (such as, again without limitation, support, troubleshooting, and/or service improvement), and/or for legal reasons” to “Google may transfer and/or otherwise disclose the data to third parties for subcontracted data processing and/or tasks such as (again without limitation) billing and/or data storage; if Google has a good faith belief that the disclosure of the data is reasonably necessary to protect rights, property, and/or safety; and/or as otherwise required by law.” Also in that paragraph, changed “uses the information collected …” to “uses information collected …”; changed “… help page and in the “How Google Uses Information from Sites or Apps That Use Our Services” section of the Google Privacy Policy” to “… help page, the “How Google Uses Information from Sites or Apps That Use Our Services” page, and the Google Privacy Policy” (as the former is now separate from the Google Privacy Policy); changed “the Google “Businesses and Data” pages” to the “Google Business Data Responsibility” pages” (which is what those pages are now called); and changed “the page on restricted data processing” to “the section about restricted data processing” (also adjusting the anchor text for that link). Moved the paragraph beginning “As of July 9, 2020, we have configured …” to a later point in this section and changed the phrase “which are not personally identifying” to “which do not contain personally identifying information”. Added a new final paragraph indicating that we may disclose analytics data as described in Reports and Aggregated Statistic and/or Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. In Reports and Aggregated Statistics, added a new final sentence to the first paragraph: “The data contained in such reports and/or statistics will be de-identified, anonymized, redacted, and/or aggregated such that it could not reasonably be used to identify specific person(s) and/or household(s) (other than us, if we are somehow included in that information and elect not to de-identify, anonymize, redact, and/or aggregate our own information).” In the second paragraph, changed “de-identified information and/or statistics” to “aggregated, de-identified information and/or statistics”. Changed the third paragraph to “We may publicly display such reports and/or aggregated statistics and/or otherwise share them with third parties such as (as applicable, but without limitation) our current and/or prospective advertisers, clients, employers, and/or commercial partners (e.g., with prospective buyers in connection with the possible sale of our business); our employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners, if any; and/or our vendors and/or service providers.” In the Cookie Notice, changed “are sometimes also used to help the service to identify you” to “are sometimes also used to help websites and/or services identify you” for consistency with the updated Definitions. Updated the Google Analytics section to change “offers more information about how the analytics service works and describes some ways you can disable analytics tracking” to “offers more information about how the analytics service works, how we use the data it collects, and how you can disable analytics tracking”; change “how Google uses the information collected …” to “how Google uses information collected …”; and adjust the references to various Google information pages to reflect the updated wording and links in Online Tracking above. [We tinkered a lot with these changes after initial publication.]
August 17, 2021: In Online Tracking, changed “provided by Google” to “provided by Google LLC.” Updated the “Special Note” paragraph to capitalize “Terms of Service” and link the phrase “Google Analytics Terms of Service” to those terms and change “regarding permissible data collection and how we configure and/or interact with the analytics service” to “regarding permissible data collection, how we may configure and/or interact with the analytics service, and how we are permitted to use data the service gathers.” In the following paragraph, changed “link or associate such information with personally identifying or potentially personally identifying information …” to “knowingly link or associate data gathered by the Google Analytics service with personally identifying or potentially personally identifying information (which the Google Analytics Terms of Service forbid) …” In the subsequent paragraph beginning “We have also accepted …” updated the link to the Google Analytics Terms of Service, which has changed.
August 16, 2021: In Browser Tests, updated the paragraph beginning “The results of such tests …” to add “(again without limitation)” after the phrase “such as” and change “with some site features” to “with certain site features.” In Online Tracking, changed “how Google processes data from their business users” to “how Google processes data from business users of certain Google services.” In Embedded Content, changed various instances of the words “record,” “records,” and “recording” (in the sense of recording information) to “collect,” “collects,” or “collecting” for internal consistency. Also updated the bullet point on Google Hosted Libraries to change the phrase “which may gather and/or place information in certain comparable ways” to “which may collect information about and/or store potentially personally identifying information on your device in certain comparable ways” for greater clarity and revised references to the Google Privacy Policy in that bullet point and the FeedBurner bullet point to change “what information Google collects and how they use it” to “what information Google services collect and how that information may be used”. Updated the bullet point on BootstrapCDN to adjust the anchor text for the link to the jsDeliver Privacy Policy. Updated the bullet point on the Cloudflare CDN to change “their GDPR page” to “the Cloudflare GDPR page” (adjusting the anchor text of the link accordingly) for clarity and changed “to learn more about how they use the information they collect” to “to learn more about how information collected by Cloudflare services may be used”. Updated the bullet point on Font Awesome to change “the data they collect” to “the data their services collect,” change “and in some cases to calculate …” to “to calculate …” and change “as described in …” to “and/or as otherwise described in …” (set off with a semicolon rather than a comma). Updated the YouTube bullet point to change “what information Google collects and how they use it” to “what information the YouTube platform and other Google services collect and how that information may be used” and change “what data Google may share with YouTube content creators/publishers” to “what data the YouTube platform may share with YouTube content creators/publishers”. Updated the Vimeo bullet point to change “what information Vimeo collects and how they use it” to “what information the Vimeo platform collects and how that information may be used” for consistency. Updated the Twitter bullet point to change “from Twitter” to “from the Twitter social media platform” and change “what information Twitter may collect and how they use it” to “what information Twitter services collect and how that information may be used.” Updated the bullet point on Yoast to change “the Yoast-served content” to “content served by Yoast”; change “any information they collect” to “information they collect”; and change “by Algolia” to “by the Algolia search platform”. In the paragraph following the bullet-pointed list, changed “To learn more about what user information such third-party websites or services may collect and how they use it …” to “To learn more about what user information such third-party websites or services collect and how that information may be used …” for consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, the reference to TCT to change “of that device” to “of that smartphone” and change “the device’s Privacy Policy, which is no longer available online” to “the Privacy Policy presented in the legal information on the smartphone itself, and the latter version is apparently no longer available on the TCT website”; updated the reference to BlackBerry Limited to change several instances of the word “devices” to “smartphones” for consistency; and changed “the older of those smartphones” to “the older of those smartphones (and many of its associated accessories)”. Further revised the Cookie Notice: Updated the Google Analytics category to delete the phrase “a Google-supplied browser add-on” and added the word “although” before the phrase “this does not (and cannot) …” to fix a grammatical error. Updated the YouTube videos category to change “Some cookies Google sets in connection with your Google account and/or advertising served through the YouTube platform …” to “Some of the cookies that may be set in connection with your Google account and/or advertisements served through the YouTube platform …”; change “See the Google …” to “See their …”; change “the functions of their various cookies” to “the functions of the various cookies that may be set by Google services (including, though not limited to, the YouTube platform)”; and changed “how Google uses the information they collect” to “what information the YouTube platform and other Google services collect and how that information may be used”. Updated the Vimeo Videos category to change “For more information about how Vimeo uses the information they collect …” to “To learn more about what information the Vimeo platform collects and how that information may be used …” Also updated the Browser Tests section to change “may be stored in your browser’s local storage” to “may be stored in your browser’s web storage”; add “(again without limitation)” after the phrase “such as”; and change “with some site features” to “with certain site features.”
August 15, 2021: In Definitions, made a minor punctuation edit to the definition of “User agent” and updated the definition of “Images and/or other media” to change “audio, visual, or multimedia content” to “audio, visual, audiovisual, and/or multimedia content” for completeness. In Embedded Content, updated the bullet point regarding PayPal to change “For more information on what data PayPal collects and what they do with it, visit their …” to “For more information about what data PayPal services collect and how that data may be used, visit the …” In Financial Transactions Policy, updated the “Categories of information gathered” bullet point to change “Please note that the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), and/or other financial institution(s) …” to “Please note that payment processor(s), bank(s), other financial institution(s), and/or other applicable third-party service(s) …” Updated the paragraph beginning “Please note that this policy applies only &helllip;” to delete the word “marketplaces”. Also updated the paragraph beginning “If your transaction is pursuant to …” to add language about transactions involving third-party services whose policies may take precedence over the Financial Transactions Policy. In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection, changed “If your transaction is via a third-party payment processing service such as PayPal® …” to “If your transaction is via a third-party payment processing service …” Later in that paragraph, added the parenthetical phrase “(but without limitation)” after “For example …” In the following paragraph, changed “via PayPal®” to “via PayPal® services”; changed “depending on where you are” to “depending on your location” for clarity; changed “PayPal may also …” to “The PayPal services may also …”; and changed various subsequent instances of “PayPal” to “PayPal services” (adjusting surrounding language for grammatical correctness where appropriate). Also changed “If you make a payment to us via PayPal …” to “If payment for a transaction is completed via PayPal services …”; changed “we receive …” to “we may receive …”; changed “your payment(s)” to “the payment(s)”; changed “any notes or additional instructions you provided” to “any notes or additional instructions that may have been specified”; changed “your payment was” to “the payment(s) were”; changed “your bank account …” to “bank account …”; and changed “do not have access to the credit card or bank information” to “do not have access to any credit card, bank account, or other financial institution account information”. Later in that section, changed “via a third-party service” to “via and/or otherwise involving a third-party service” for consistency. In the Currency subsection, changed “including PayPal” to “including many PayPal services”; changed “via PayPal” to “via PayPal services”; and changed “unless PayPal warns …” to “unless the applicable PayPal service warns …” In the Refunds and Returns subsection, changed various instances of “and/or other financial institution(s)” to “other financial institution(s), and/or other applicable third-party service(s)” for consistency with the new language noted above. In the final paragraph of that subsection, replaced the reference to PayPal services with a generic example. In the Information Sharing subsection, changed “(whether by check or money order, via PayPal, or by any other means)” to “(by whatever means)” and changed “PayPal and/or other payment processor transaction reports” to “payment processor transaction reports (if applicable)”. In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, updated the paragraph beginning “If we offer goods, products, services, and/or content through some third-party vendor or service …” to add an additional parenthetical example. In the subsequent sentence beginning “Similarly, such vendors or services …” changed “vendors or services” to vendors and/or services”; added “bidding on an item offered at auction” to the listed examples, set off with a semicolon; and changed “the specific vendor or service involved …” to “the specific vendor(s) and/or service(s) involved …” In the following paragraph, changed “the applicable vendor or service” to “the applicable vendor(s) and/or service(s)” for consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “and/or streaming services or platforms” to “and/or streaming services and/or platforms” for completeness. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point on “Records of financial transactions” (under “Additional categories of personal information”) to change “bank account information” to “bank account and/or other financial institution account information” and change “do NOT collect any bank account or credit card information in connection with PayPal® transactions” to “do NOT receive any credit card, bank account, or other financial institution account information in connection with PayPal® transactions” for internal consistency. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “Most payments we receive are processed …” to remove references to PayPal. Updated the references to PayPal services in the Cookie Notice to better reflect the updated language in Embedded Content and the Financial Transactions Policy on this page.
August 14, 2021: In Certificate Authority Checks, made some minor wording adjustments to the references to the Let’s Encrypt CA service and added a suggestion that questions about the service’s use and/or retention of log data be directed to the certificate authority via the contact information listed in the Let’s Encrypt Privacy Policy. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to the Let’s Encrypt service accordingly and updated the reference to the Certificate Authority Checks section for stylistic consistency. Also updated the reference to the Guardian Project apps to put that text in a more logical order; change “their Orbot app and Tor Browser apps” to “the Orbot app and/or the Tor Browser for Android app”; adjust the anchor text for the links; and update the trademark notice. Updated the reference to Startpage to also mention their new Private Currency Converter feature, Private Language Translator feature, Private Shopping Feature, and/or other associated features and change the abbreviation “B.V.” to “BV” (both are probably correct stylistic variations, but the company seems to favor the latter).
August 13, 2021: Made assorted minor wording adjustments in Online Tracking and in the sections of the Cookie Notice pertaining to the Google Analytics service and the Google AdSense advertising service. Also in Online Tracking, updated the paragraph regarding the Google data processing amendment to add an internal link to the Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA) section of this policy. In Embedded Content, updated the descriptions of Google Fonts, Google Hosted Libraries, and FeedBurner services and rearranged the trademark notices in the latter bullet point. Also made some minor wording adjustments to the description of the Gravatar service in that section. In Subscribing via Web Feed (Atom and RSS), made a few minor wording changes. (The most substantive was to add the parenthetical phrase “(There are services that provide such information about subscribers, but we don’t currently use any of them in connection with this website.)” at the end of the paragraph beginning “If you “subscribe” in this manner …”) Made a number of minor wording changes to the references to Google services in Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, made some minor wording adjustments to the references to Google services (including removing a redundant reference to Bitdefender). In Additional Information About Data Retention, made minor wording adjustments to the references to the Google Voice service. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added the Blogger service to the examples of social media services and Google services, including mentioning that the owner previously had an Ate Up With Motor blog on that service; updated the reference to Bitdefender to change several instances of “and” to “and/or”; and updated the references to certain Google services to make some wording changes, add some updated information, rearrange the text for more logical progression, and adjust the trademark notices. In the references in that section to Google and Microsoft software, apps, tools, and/or services, changed “too numerous to list here” to “too numerous to fully enumerate here”. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice, updated the reference to the Online Tracking section (on this page only) for greater internal consistency. (The version on the Your California Privacy Rights page, which is worded a bit different, did not change.) Also updated the trademark notice for the Google Analytics service in that paragraph to make it consistent between this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page. Updated the YouTube trademark notice later in that section (on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page) for internal consistency. Fixed a minor error in the June 12, 2020 entry in this Recent Revisions list.
August 12, 2021: In Embedded Content, fixed a typographical error (“mayuse” was supposed to be “may use”) and amended the reference to the Google Maps service to change “in similar ways” to “in certain comparable ways”. In Additional Information About Data Retention, revised the recently added language in the first bullet point to add the parenthetical phrase “(again without limitation)” after “generally also retain” for the avoidance of doubt. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point on Google services to change “described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy” to “mentioned and/or described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy”. Updated the bullet point on Microsoft products and/or services to change “… use and the Microsoft Office suite of software and services” to “use; the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software and services; and/or other Microsoft products and/or services mentioned and/or described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy” for completeness. Updated the reference to Mozilla Corporation to change “web browsers (whether for desktop, mobile, or both) as described in …” to “web browsers (whether for desktop, mobile, or both) and/or browser extensions, themes, and/or other add-ons as described in …” Updated the reference to Opera web browser to change “the Opera web browser and/or its integral VPN/proxy service (for desktop, mobile, or both) …” to “the Opera web browser (for desktop, mobile, or both), its integral VPN/proxy service, and/or associated browser extensions and/or themes …” Also changed “the providers and/or developers of browser add-ons” to “the providers and/or developers of browser extensions, themes, and/or other add-ons”; added aka_StephanAS and damagnat to the listed examples of add-on developers; updated the reference to the Nodetics Cookiebro extension to eliminate the possessive (add the definite article instead); and added Jefferson Scherr’s userChrome.org to the end of that list. Removed some extra spaces.
August 11, 2021: In Embedded Content, updated the reference to Akamai Technologies, Inc. to change “and” to “and/or” and update the trademark notice. Updated the Cookie Notice to further adjust the Akamai trademark notice, change “is owned by Akamai” to “is owned by Akamai Technologies,” and change “probably to facilitate …” to “possibly to facilitate …” (We’ve actually never gotten a definitive explanation of the purpose(s) of the 01A1 cookie set by the abmr.net domain.) In Financial Transactions Policy, changed “Please note that the applicable payment processor(s) and/or bank(s)/financial institution(s) …” to “Please note that the applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), and/or other financial institution(s) …” In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection, changed “relevant bank(s) …” to “applicable bank(s) …”; changed “payment processor(s) and/or bank(s)/financial institution(s)” to “payment processor(s), bank(s), and/or other financial institution(s)”; and changed several instances of “bank(s)/financial institution(s)” to “bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s)”. In the Returned Check Fees subsection, changed “our financial institution(s)” to “our bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s)” and changed “bank(s)/financial institution(s)” to “bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s)”. In the Refunds and Returns subsection, changed several instances of the phrase “applicable payment processor(s) and/or bank(s)/financial institution(s)” to “applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), and/or other financial institution(s)”. In the Information Sharing subsection, changed “applicable payment processor(s) and/or bank(s)/financial institution(s)” to “applicable payment processor(s), bank(s), and/or other financial institution(s)” and changed “such payment processor(s) and/or bank(s)/financial institution(s)” to “such payment processor(s), bank(s), and/or other financial institution(s)”. In the Data Retention subsection, changed “bank(s)/financial institution(s)” to “bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s)”. In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, changed “our bank or other financial institution” to “applicable bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s)”. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “bank(s)/financial institution(s)” to “bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s)”. In Additional Information About Data Retention, added a note to the first bullet point about calendar and/or journal entries and related notes. Also updated the subsequent bullet point to change “and/or bank(s)/financial institution(s)” to “bank(s), and/or other financial institution(s)”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to HP Inc. to change “printers, scanners, copiers, and/or other devices and/or their associated drivers, software, and/or services” to “printers, scanners, copiers, and/or other devices; their associated ink, toner, and/or other consumable supplies; and/or their associated drivers, software, and/or services”changed (in the “Other types of vendors and/or service providers” bullet point) “bank(s), financial institution(s), …” to “bank(s), other financial institution(s), …”; and updated the reference to museums, libraries, archives, and/or databases to change “use of their collections, holdings, catalogs, databases, computers, and/or other systems and/or services — some of which may be provided by, powered by, and/or otherwise supported by third parties, some of which may have their own privacy policies — and/or our communications with their librarians, archivists, docents, guides, other staff, workers, and/or volunteers …” to “use of their collections, holdings, exhibits, galleries, catalogs, databases, computers, equipment, and/or other systems and/or services (some of which may be provided by, powered by, and/or otherwise supported by third parties, which may have their own privacy policies); through our attendance at and/or participation in their tours, presentations, classes, programs, and/or events; and/or through our communications with their librarians, archivists, docents, guides, other staff, employees, workers, and/or volunteers …” for completeness. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “full and/or partial card information” (under “Additional categories of personal information …” to “full and/or partial credit card information” for clarity. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “are processed by our bank(s) (or other applicable financial institution(s))” to “are processed by our bank(s) and/or other financial institution(s)” for consistency.
August 10, 2021: In Embedded Content, Financial Transactions Policy, and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated certain of the PayPal trademark notices. Also updated the PayPal and Akamai trademark notices that appear in the Cookie Notice. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, also updated the bullet point on photos, images, and/or other media to tinker with the new language added to that bullet August 9, 2021, changing “with others and/or otherwise seek to learn more …” to “with others and/or take other steps to find out more …” In the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers, updated the bullet point regarding Google services to revise the reference to Android SDK Platform-Tools to be more consistent with the official description and delete the reference to the Android Debug Bridge (adb) (which is just one of tools included in the SDK Platform-Tools package, albeit the one we’ve used most frequently to date). In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “Any individual or entity …” to change “communicate, consult, and/or collaborate …” to “communicate and/or consult …” and change “who communicates, consults, and or collaborates …” to “who communicates and/or consults …” In the subsequent bullet point beginning “Editors, publishers, clients, …” changed “with whom we may collaborate and/or offer to collaborate in performing our services and/or work” to “with whom we may collaborate and/or offer to collaborate in performing and/or offering our services and/or in researching, creating, editing, performing, and/or offering our content, other creative work, and/or other creative endeavors” to better align with the equivalent bullet point in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. In the bullet point beginning “The public, through …” added the parenthetical phrase “(and/or public discussion of the process of researching, creating, and/or editing such content and/or creative endeavors)” after “…” consult and/or otherwise collaborate” and before the first semicolon.
August 9, 2021: In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed two instances of the phrase “(and/or on which we consult)” to “(and/or on which we consult and/or otherwise collaborate)”. Also changed “in the course of our business, and also of many of our other creative endeavors (professional or otherwise)” to “in the course of our business and/or other creative endeavors (professional or otherwise)” and changed “relevant to that content and/or such creative endeavors” to “relevant to such content and/or creative endeavors”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point regarding photos, images, and/or other media to add language regarding sharing photos and/or other media and/or information about them with others and/or otherwise seeking to identify and/or learn more about the subjects, settings, and/or circumstances (e.g., to try to identify a visible individual and/or determine who owns a pictured car). In the last sentence of that bullet point (which follows this new insertion), changed “recognized yourself (or your information) …” to “recognized yourself (and/or your information) …” and changed “have published …” to “have published and/or shared …” Updated the bullet point beginning “As part of and/or in connection with our content …” to change “our content and/or other creative endeavors — and/or content we write and/or edit (and/or on which we consult) for others” to “our content and/or other creative endeavors; content we write and/or edit for others; and/or content and/or other creative endeavors on which we consult and/or otherwise collaborate” and change “the process of researching, creating, and/or editing such content and/or creative endeavors (and/or consulting on others’ content and/or creative endeavors)” to “the process of researching, creating, and/or editing (and/or consulting and/or otherwise collaborating on) such content and/or creative endeavors”. Updated the bullet point beginning “To editors, publishers …” to change “otherwise work and/or provide services” to “otherwise work, provide services, and/or offer to work and/or provide services”; add “with whom we may collaborate and/or offer to collaborate in performing and/or offering our services and/or in researching, creating, editing, performing, and/or offering our content, other creative work, and/or other creative endeavors” (set off with semicolons); change “elect or be requested or directed …” to “elect and/or be requested or directed …”; change “such services, content, and/or work (and/or the offer thereof)” to “such services, content, creative endeavor(s), collaboration(s), and/or work (and/or the offer thereof)”; and change “otherwise pertains to such services, content, and/or work (and/or the offer thereof)” to “otherwise pertains to such services, content, creative endeavor(s), collaboration(s), and/or work (and/or the offer thereof)”. In the paragraph later in that section beginning “Third, …” changed both instances of “(and/or on which we consult)” to “(and/or on which we consult and/or otherwise collaborate)” for consistency; changed “are a public figure or were involved in some newsworthy event” to “are a public figure and/or were involved in some newsworthy event”; and changed “some other format or medium” to “some other format(s) and/or medium(s)”. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “(and/or on which we consult)” to “(and/or on which we consult and/or otherwise collaborate)” for internal consistency. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “Any individual or entity with whom …” to change “researching and developing” to “researching, creating, and/or editing” and change “and/or who communicates and/or consults with us regarding their content, work, and/or creative endeavors” to “and/or who communicates, consults, and or collaborates with us in the course of researching, creating, and/or editing their content, work, and/or creative endeavors”. In the bullet point beginning “Editors, publishers …” changed “otherwise work and/or provide services” to “otherwise work, provide services, and/or offer to work and/or provide services”; added “with whom we may collaborate and/or offer to collaborate in performing our services and/or work” (set off with semicolons); changed “elect or be requested or directed …” to “elect and/or be requested or directed …”; and changed “such services, content, and/or work (and/or the offer thereof)” to “such services, content, creative endeavor(s), collaboration(s), and/or work (and/or the offer thereof)”. In the subsequent bullet point beginning “The public, …” changed “our content and/or other creative endeavors (and/or content we write and/or edit (and/or on which we consult) for others)” to “our content and/or other creative endeavors, content we write and/or edit for others, and/or content and/or other creative endeavors on which we consult and/or otherwise collaborate” for internal consistency.
August 8, 2021: In Online Tracking, changed “periodically inform advertisers or sponsors of current website traffic or other trends” to “periodically inform advertisers and/or sponsors of current website traffic and/or trends in site usage”. In Website Server, Error, and Security logs, added “Providing services” to the Purpose(s) bullet point. In Security Scans, added “Functionality” and “providing services” to the Purpose(s) bullet point (also updating the capitalization of the existing items accordingly). (Neither of these additions represents any substantive change in how or why we collect and use personal information; upon reviewing the contents of those sections, we decided their purposes would more accurately described if we also listed those categories.) Also in Security Scans, deleted the sentence beginning “Furthermore, tampering with the normal operation of such services or tools …” and replaced it with a new paragraph beginning “Special Note:” to better explain the rationale for listing “fulfilling a contractual obligation” among the possible purposes for that section. In Consents and Agreements, updated the Purpose(s) bullet point to remove one instance of “advertising and other commercial purposes” (which had been inadvertently duplicated; it’s still listed, it just wasn’t supposed to be listed twice!). In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, added “advertising and other commercial purposes” to the Purpose(s) bullet point (since some of the business relationships that section is intended to encompass — e.g., joint ventures — might be regarded as commercial endeavors). In Financial Transactions Policy and Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, added “Functionality” to the Purpose(s) bullet point (since these sections can pertain to specific site functions) and updated the capitalization of the remaining items in that bullet point. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, added “Functionality; providing services” to the Purpose(s) bullet point for the same reason we added those purposes to Security Scans above. Also updated the reference to Safer-Networking Ltd. to change “their Spybot® security and privacy software/tools” to “their Spybot® security and privacy software and/or tools, such as (though not necessarily limited to) the Spybot – Search & Destroy® suite and/or its associated software and/or services” for clarity and changed “firewalls and/or other security applications/software/services” to “firewalls and/or other security applications, software, and/or services”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to Safer-Networking Ltd. to change “whose Spybot® security and privacy software/tools we may use on some or all of our systems and devices” to “whose Spybot® security and privacy software and/or tools (such as, though not necessarily limited to, the Spybot – Search & Destroy® suite and/or its associated software and/or services) we may use on some or all of our systems and devices” and changed “developers of Internet firewall applications/software/services” to “developers of Internet firewall applications, software, and/or services” for consistency; updated the reference to the Guardian Project to revise the punctuation and change “which is subject …” to “which are subject …” for better grammar; updated the reference to Hidden Reflex to add the phrase “(for desktop, mobile, or both)” after “Epic Privacy Browser” and change “and/or other extensions and/or themes, which we may use on some or all of our systems and devices” to “and/or other browser extensions and/or themes”; updated the reference to the Opera web browser to add the phrase “(for desktop, mobile, or both)” after “the Opera web browser and/or its integral VPN/proxy service”; and updated “providers of other web browsers we may use” to add the parenthetical phrase “(whether for desktop, mobile, or both)” for internal consistency. In Comments; Contact Forms; and Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests; and Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, updated the Purpose(s) bullet points to fix the capitalization of “providing services” for stylistic consistency. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the first bullet point under “Identifiers” to change “First and/or last names …” to “Real names …” Also updated the bullet point beginning “Unique personal identifiers …” to change “device, identifiers” to “device identifiers” (the comma was a typographical error). In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “firewall or other security software” to “firewalls and/or other security applications, software, and/or services” for internal consistency.
August 6, 2021: In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list in the version of the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the “Providing services” bullet point to separate the items with semicolons rather than commas; add “respond to comments, inquiries, and/or other messages” after “perform some action you have asked us to perform”; and change “and/or conduct …” to “and/or otherwise conduct …” (The first addition is mainly for the avoidance of doubt — it would be reasonably encompassed by the existing text, but it seemed clearer to spell it out — and the latter is a wording adjustment.) In the bullet point on “Advertising and other commercial purposes,” changed “promote and/or advertise …” to “promote, pitch, and/or advertise …” for completeness. (None of these wording changes represents any substantive change in how or why we collect and use personal information, just our ongoing effort to appropriately describe it.) In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, in the bullet point regarding Google, changed “the Android platform and related Google services, applications, APIs, and infrastructure (such as, though not limited to, the Google Location Service infrastructure)” to “the Android platform and related apps, services, APIs, and infrastructure (e.g., the Google Location Service infrastructure)”. Also updated the reference to Simple DNSCrypt to change “when we browse the web from our …” to “on our …” and updated the reference to the KDE Community (to reposition the registered trademark symbol), further adjusted the Motor Trend Group trademark notice, and updated the reference to Jalopnik to remove outdated information. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Unique personal identifiers, online identifiers, and/or other similar identifiers” to “Unique personal identifiers, device, identifiers, online identifiers, and/or other similar identifiers” for completeness. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed both instances of the phrase “compensation or consideration” to “compensation or other valuable consideration” for consistency. Also in that section, changed “and/or other service providers” to “and/or other vendors and/or service providers” for internal consistency; changed “(e.g., your IP address, your geographical location (estimated from your IP address), information about your Internet activity, device identifiers and/or online identifiers, and information related to cookies and/or similar technologies)” to “(e.g., your IP address, device identifiers and/or other identifiers, information collected through cookies and/or similar technologies, commercial information (e.g., what web browser you use), information about your Internet activity, and/or geolocation data)”; and changed “for using and/or sharing such content and/or services” to “for using and/or sharing such content and/or services (other than being able to use and/or access the applicable content and/or the applicable service(s))” to better illustrate the intended point.
August 5, 2021: In Embedded Content, updated the bullet point on PayPal to change “It may also use …” to “That content may also use …” for clarity and made some minor wording adjustments to the bullet points on YouTube and Vimeo. Also updated the Cookie Notice to make similar wording changes to the sections on the YouTube and Vimeo services, remove some potentially confusing outdated information, and remove an extra space. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, adjusted the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to change “the Firebase platform” (in the bullet point regarding Google services) to “the Firebase platform mentioned elsewhere in this policy”; update the reference to Seagate to change “hard drive(s)” to “hard drive(s) and/or other memory storage device(s)”; update the reference to Western Digital to change “hard drives and memory storage devices” to “hard drive(s) and/or other memory storage device(s)” for consistency and update the trademark notice; and update the trademark notices for CarDomain and Motor Trend Group; Hemmings; The Jalopy Journal; and Team Buick. Also in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “no control over how YouTube uses information they collect &helllip;” to “no control over how video hosting platforms use the information they may collect …” and changed “how companies such as search engines or social media services use data they gather through the use of their services” to “how companies such as search engines or social media services use data they may gather through their services.” In Ads on 6200 Productions, changed “… as described in their respective privacy policies (and may be able to tell that you came from this website), which is outside of our control” to “… as described in their respective privacy policies, which is outside of our control. Such advertisers may also be able to tell that you clicked on an ad on this website.” Made the same change in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, also adding a clause to the following sentence in that paragraph “(and even though we obviously can’t control whether or not you click on an ad link).” Made those same changes to the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page). In the following paragraph of the latter subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “if you accessed a YouTube video we shared, particularly if you were logged into a Google Account at the time, YouTube may have shown you advertisements and likely added your viewing history to the repository of data Google (which owns YouTube) has compiled about you, much of which is used for commercial purposes” to “if you watched a video we shared via an embedded YouTube video player, the embedded video player probably collected information about you that the CCPA would consider personal information (e.g., your IP address, your geographical location (estimated from your IP address), information about your Internet activity, device identifiers and/or online identifiers, and information related to cookies and/or similar technologies) and may have used that information for what the CCPA would probably regard as commercial purposes (e.g., showing you personalized advertising).” In the following sentence, inserted the phrase “and, unless otherwise expressly indicated, we receive no compensation or consideration for using and/or sharing such content and/or services,” before “this too could be deemed …” and adjusted the punctuation of the adjacent trademark notice. Tinkered with the wording of these changes after initial publication.
August 4, 2021: In Definitions, updated the “Websites/URLs” definition to fix a typo (“the URL such as …” was supposed to be “a URL such as …”) and added a sentence after that one: “(Those are just two obvious examples; there various possible scenarios in which a URL might contain and/or constitute personal information.)” In Security Scans, Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, Information Captured by Service/Software/App/Device Telemetry, and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended references to Microsoft and/or Microsoft products and/or services to update the trademark notices and made some minor punctuation adjustments to adjacent text for clarity. In Security Scans, also changed “security features of products and/or services provided by Microsoft®” to “various Microsoft® software, apps, tools, and/or services” for consistency with the wording in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, removed references to Yahoo! services (since the existing ones are no longer relevant) and made assorted minor revisions to the remaining text to make it clearer and remove outdated information and extraneous trademark references. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the references to Flickr to remove outdated information and adjust the trademark notice; updated the bullet point regarding Google services to revise the order of several of the mentioned services and make some minor wording changes; fixed the Intel trademark notice, which had been inadvertently shifted to the wrong position in the text; added the Khronos Group to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers (under the bullet point on “Other providers whose services enable us to operate and/or secure our system(s), device(s), and/or data”); revised the references to Yahoo! services to remove some outdated information, update the privacy policy links, and try to clarify the trademark notices (which are probably about to change again in any event); updated the reference to the Guardian Project to change “through our use of …” to “through and/or in connection with our use of …” updated the reference to Mozilla Corporation to change “about our use of …” to “through and/or in connection with our use of …” for consistency; added a trademark notice for calibre; updated and simplified the reference to the Microsoft Bing search engine(s); and made a minor wording adjustment to the reference to Wikimedia Foundation projects as well as further adjusting its trademark notice.
August 3, 2021: In Definitions, rewrote the definition of metadata to be clearer and more broadly applicable, and further revised the trademark disclaimer. [We went through several iterations of this.] In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “developed by Hidden Reflex Inc. for …” to “developed by Hidden Reflex for the …” and updated the trademark notice. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “Hidden Reflex Inc.” to just “Hidden Reflex”; changed “use of their …” to “use of the …”; and updated the trademark notice. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Information about real property, residence(s), and/or lodgings an individual or household owns, rents, leases, and/or otherwise uses (and/or is considering purchasing, renting, leasing, and/or otherwise using), and/or information about who owns, manages, administers, sells, rents, leases, and/or otherwise offers for commercial advantage particular lodgings; a particular residence; and/or a particular building, lot, or other real property” (under “Commercial information”) to “Information about lodgings, residence(s), office space(s), and/or other real property an individual or household owns, rents, leases, and/or otherwise uses (and/or is considering purchasing, renting, leasing, and/or otherwise using), and/or information about who owns, manages, administers, sells, rents, leases, and/or otherwise offers for commercial advantage particular lodgings; a particular residence; and/or a particular building, lot, office space, industrial facility, or other real property” for completeness. Also under “Commercial information,” changed “Information about stocks and/or securities ownership and/or purchases/transfers … to “Information about stock and/or securities ownership, purchases, sales, and/or transfers …” Under “Professional or employment-related information, reworded one of the bullet points to change “Business ownership/registration information (e.g., whether an individual has some ownership interest in and/or is an officer of a corporation or other business entity)” to “Business or organization ownership, officership, and/or registration information (e.g., whether an individual has some ownership interest in and/or is an officer of a corporation, some other business entity, or a nonprofit organization)” (for completeness, since a corporation may be a nonprofit organization, but by definition a nonprofit is not a business).
August 2, 2021: In Definitions, added a parenthetical note to the definition of metadata regarding the “Metadata” trademark. (Tinkered with this a bit after initial publication.) In Security Scans, made some further clarifications to the paragraph on the Sucuri Security plugin: changed “which includes …” to “whose available features (not all of which are necessarily used on this website) include, but are not necessarily limited to, …”; added “a security logging feature that allows certain security audit log data to be stored remotely to deter tampering” and “a remote firewall service intended to block certain forms of suspicious and/or malicious activity” to the listed features; changed “A complete list of the features of the plugin …” to “A list of the features of the plugin …” and added the phrase “(not all of which we necessarily use on this website)” after that phrase; changed “data gathered through this plugin and/or the scanning service” to “data collected and/or processed by this plugin, the remote scanning feature, and/or other associated features and/or tools”; and changed “and is subject to …” to “any data processed and/or stored by Sucuri is subject to …” set off with a semicolon. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added another example (Chris Antaki’s Disable WebRTC extension) to the list of examples of third-party browser extensions.
August 1, 2021: In Embedded Content, amended the first sentence to change “embedded content is content hosted on …” to “this policy defines embedded content as content hosted on …” Fixed a typo in the paragraph beginning “Embedded content providers may use various third-party service providers …” (“third-part” was supposed to be “third-party”). Updated the bullet point for Google Fonts and Google Hosted Libraries to change “and other Google services” to “and/or other Google services”); change “such as embedded maps” to “e.g., embedded maps”; relocate the trademark notice to the end of the bullet point. Also updated the bullet point for Vimeo videos to update its trademark notice. Revised the bullet point on the Yoast SEO plugin to update references to Algolia search features (the existing language referred to an earlier Algolia integration that has been removed; newer versions of the Yoast SEO plugin offer a more elaborate site search integration as a premium feature, which we don’t use); added a link to the Algolia Privacy Policy; and added a trademark notice for Algolia. Also in that bullet point, changed the phrase “finally disabled the applicable component entirely” to “finally found a means to disable the applicable component entirely” and revised the anchor text for the hyperlink accordingly. (The linked solution wasn’t ours, but rather one we found online that resolved our concern.) Tinkered a bit with the wording after initial publication. Revised the Cookie Notice to update the trademark notice for Vimeo. (We’re unsure if the latter has recently changed its corporate name, which is now listed differently on different portions of their website.)
July 31: Revised the references to Sucuri Inc. throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page to update the trademark notices. In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, revised the reference to Sucuri Security to change “Security audit log data stored by …” to “Some security audit log data recorded by …”; add the statement about their ownership from Security Scans; and note that certain data may be stored remotely as well as locally. (This was already explained in Security Scans.) Also amended the paragraph about retaining log data for longer periods to add a final sentence: “Certain security-related log data, such as (again without limitation) records our website security features compile of administrative logins and/or failed attempts to log in as an administrative user, may be retained indefinitely unless manually deleted.” [We tinkered with the wording a bit after initial publication.] In Security Scans, updated the paragraph about Sucuri Security to remove references to the Privacy Shield Framework; restructured the reference to the Cloudflare CDN (adding a link to the Cloudflare Privacy Policy for ease of reference); changed “Data gathered through this plugin and/or the scanning service …” to “Some data gathered through this plugin and/or the scanning service …”; changed “Communications with API servers and/or other repositories or content delivery networks …” to “Communications with API servers, repositories, and/or content delivery networks …” for less painful grammar; and updated the reference to Sucuri Security log retention to change “log data stored by Sucuri” to “security audit log data stored by Sucuri via the Sucuri Security plugin” and add a comma after “about 90 days”. (The Sucuri Security plugin offers a number of different logging functions, but only the audit logs are stored remotely, and only if that option is activated.) In Embedded Content, updated the bullet point on Sucuri Security to remove references to the Privacy Shield Framework and restructured the reference in that bullet point to the Cloudflare CDN (adding another link to their Privacy Policy). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the trademark notice for the GNOME name; updated the trademark notice for the reference to Wikimedia projects and changed “other Wikimedia projects and services” to “other projects of the Wikimedia Foundation”; fixed an erroneous reference to Ate Up With Motor; and removed the references to the Privacy Shield Frameworks. (European court rulings in 2020 effectively invalidated these frameworks as means of GDPR compliance, although a successor framework is apparently being negotiated.) In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the reference to Sucuri to change “some website security log data is also stored by Sucuri” to “some website security audit log data may be processed and/or stored by GoDaddy Media Temple, Inc. d/b/a Sucuri, a subsidiary of GoDaddy Operating Company, LLC (Sucuri) through our use of certain features of the Sucuri Security plugin” for greater clarity. Also changed “The collection of information on website visitors by the Google Analytics service …” to “We believe that the collection of information on website visitors by the Google Analytics service …” (It seems like it should, and the data processing terms are intended for that purpose, but we wouldn’t want to appear to render a legal opinion, which we’re not qualified to do.)
July 29, 2021: In Definitions, updated the definition of “Personal information/personally identifying information” to rename it “Personal information/personally identifying information/personal data” and note that this policy treats all three terms synonymously. In Security Scans, amended the paragraph about iThemes Security to update the privacy policy link, ownership information, and trademark notices. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, updated the outgoing link (to point to the plugin homepage) and trademark notice for iThemes Security and fixed a typographical error (an unnecessary repetition of the word “plugin”). In Additional Information About Data Retention, changed “personal data” to “personal information” for internal consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the first sentence to change “share, release, or otherwise disclose …” to “share, release, and/or otherwise disclose …” and updated the reference to iThemes with current ownership information, links, and trademark notices, and to note that we may also use other of their plugins. (We don’t currently, but we conceivably might at some future point.) Also updated the trademark notice for Avast Software and Piriform (CCleaner); updated the references to The Document Foundation and LibreOffice to change “LibreOffice suite of open source office software” to “open source LibreOffice office productivity suite” (which is closer to how the developers officially describe the software), add a link to The Document Foundation homepage, and add registered trademark symbols; changed “food and/or grocery delivery services” to “other food delivery and/or grocery delivery services” for clarity; and removed an extra space. In Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), changed “with respect to your personal data” to “with respect to your personal information (which some jurisdictions call “personal data”)” for consistency and updated the paragraph beginning “If you have questions or would like …” to clarify that the data tools on the Privacy Tools page are intended for residents of countries outside the U.S. (The vagaries of state law make those tools troublesome for use by U.S. residents; under California law, for instance, access, export, or deletion requests submitted using those tools would still be subject to CCPA identity verification and record-keeping requirements.) Also condensed the language about the technical limitations of those tools (which are explained on the Privacy Tools page itself) and added a sentence stressing that those tools aren’t intended for U.S. residents. [Tinkered with the revised wording after initial publication.] In the following paragraph, changed “applicable law/regulation” to “applicable law/regulations” for internal consistency. Renamed California Privacy and Data Protection Rights to “Additional California Privacy Rights (CCPA)” (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updating other internal references accordingly. In that section, changed “California’s data protection laws” to “California privacy laws,” and changed “personal data” to “personal information.” In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “personal data” to “personal information” for consistency. Also changed the phrase “almost any disclosure or transmission” to “almost any disclosure” for clarity. In the subsequent paragraph, changed “disclose personal information …” to “share, release, and/or otherwise disclose personal information …”; changed both instances of “necessarily disclose …” in that same paragraph to “necessarily share, release, or disclose …”; and changed “of a given type” to “within a given category.” Later in that subsection, changed “may also share personal information …” to “may also share, release, and/or otherwise disclose personal information …” and changed “might disclose information in the above contexts …” to “might disclose information in the above contexts …” In the second-to-last paragraph in that subsection, changed “may share or otherwise disclose …” to “may share, release, and/or otherwise disclose” for wording consistency. (These wording changes are to better align this notice with the wording in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information.)
July 28, 2021: In Certificate Authority Checks, changed “(via HTTPS rather than HTTP)” to “(that is, via encrypted connections)” (which is more broadly correct). In Embedded Content, changed “secure (HTTPS) connections” to “secure (encrypted) connections” for the same reason. In Contact Forms, changed “determine how to address or repair the problem you identified” to “troubleshoot and/or resolve the problem you identified” (for wording consistency). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point on employees, independent contractors, interns, agent, and/or business partners to change “repair/maintenance/service” to “repair/maintenance/installation/technical service” (for consistency with the wording in the subsequent bullet point on third-party vendors and/or service providers, which refers to “repair, maintenance, installation, and/or technical service providers”). Also in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “improve the accessibility of this website and its contents” to “improve the accessibility of this website and/or our content”. At the very end of the Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information section, updated the reference to Microsoft to change “as are the names of many other Microsoft products and services” to “as are the names of many other Microsoft products and/or services” for wording consistency and changed “encrypted (HTTPS) connections” to just “encrypted connections” (which again is more correct). In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “for certain specified purposes, including:” to “for certain specified purposes, which the law divides into the following categories:” for greater clarity. Later in that section, changed “applicable telephone companies or mobile carriers” to “applicable telephone companies and/or mobile carriers”; deleted the phrase “(i.e., via an HTTP rather than HTTPS connection)” (since those aren’t the only types of encrypted or unencrypted connections); changed “DNS (domain name system) server and …” to “DNS (domain name system) resolver service and/or …”; removed several of the examples in the bullet-pointed list following the sentence beginning “Actions like the following could also be deemed …” (as they probably didn’t actually belong there under the law’s definitions); changed “face to face” to “face-to-face” for grammatical reasons; changed “lookup on an IP address from the website’s security or error logs” to just “lookup on an IP address”; and changed “Even if disclosures like these are NOT deemed to be “for commercial purposes” (or “sales”) by the CCPA definitions, they are certainly for business purposes” to “Even if disclosures like these are NOT deemed to be “for commercial purposes” (or “sales”) by the CCPA definitions, they are certainly for business purposes, whether the CCPA would define them as such or not.” In the version of that subsection that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, replaced the quote tags with quotation marks to avoid formatting problems. (We had previously made that change on this page.) In Privacy Policy Changes, changed the phrase “its Privacy Policy” to “this Privacy Policy” for greater clarity.
July 26, 2021: In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, revised the wording of the references to IPinfo and updated the trademark notices.
July 25, 2021: In Credits and License for This Policy, changed “If you elect to use or further adapt our version …” to “If you elect to use or further adapt this policy …” and changed “please credit Automattic” to “please credit Automattic Inc.” Also made some clarifications to the information about revision histories and added a link to this Recent Revisions list for easier reference. In Definitions, further updated the definition of Cookies and similar technologies to change “how you can manage or delete them on different browsers …” to “how you can manage or delete them in different browsers …”; change “data stored in web storage (such as so-called local shared objects) isn’t a cookie …” to “data stored in your browser in such ways (such as so-called local shared objects) aren’t cookies …”; and add a comma before the phrase “while cookies set by other services or domains …” Made the same changes in the Cookie Policy, also fixing a typographical error later in the same paragraph of that policy. Also in the Cookie Policy, renamed the heading “Cookies and Other Technologies” to “Cookies and Similar Technologies” and renamed the heading “How This Website Uses Cookies and Other Technologies” to “How This Website Uses Cookies and Similar Technologies” for internal consistency, and revised the credits and licensing statement beginning “Note: Because …” to clarify that certain portions of the Cookie Notice were also adapted from the Automattic Privacy Policy (since some of the same language about cookies and similar technologies from this page, portions of which were borrowed and/or adapted from the Automattic language, also appears in the Cookie Notice). Also added a sentence (“(If you elect to use or further adapt this notice, please credit Automattic Inc. as well as us.)”); removed the trademark notice for the WordPress Foundation (since it’s not applicable there); and made some minor punctuation adjustments to that paragraph. In Certificate Authority Checks, changed “enable your browser to confirm …” to “enable a web browser or other user agent to confirm …” and changed “the correct website” to “the correct domain” (which is more technically correct). In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, changed “temporary or permanent employees, interns, and/or independent contractors” to “temporary or permanent employees, independent contractors, and/or interns” (to establish a more consistent order); changed two instances of “prospective employees, contractors …” to “prospective employees, independent contractors, interns …”; and “… business partners, and/or other proposals or business ventures” to “… business partners, business proposals, and/or business ventures” for greater clarity. In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “independent contractors, employees, agents …” to “employees, independent contractors, interns, agents …” for consistency. Made the same change to the applicable bullet point in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information to match (also changing “these contractors, employees, agents, and/or partners …” to “such employees, independent contractors, interns, agents, and/or business partners …” in that same bullet point). In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “employees, independent contractors, agents …” to “employees, independent contractors, interns, agents …” and changed “their collaboration …” to “their collaboration(s) …” In a subsequent paragraph in that section, changed “their employees, independent contractors, agents …” to “their employees, independent contractors, interns, agents …” (mostly for wording consistency). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, also changed “regarding current and/or prospective employees, independent contractors, interns, and/or business partners” to “regarding current and/or prospective employees, independent contractors, interns, business partners, business proposals, and/or business ventures” for consistency; updated the reference to vDos to change “DOS emulator” to “MS-DOS emulator” and add a trademark notice; and changed “videodisc and/or phonorecord production” to “the production of optical discs and/or phonorecords of whatever type”. In the preamble to the Your California Privacy Rights page, added a sentence to the paragraph about credits and licensing information: “(If you elect to use or further adapt this page, please credit Automattic Inc. as well as us.)” Also made some minor punctuation adjustments to that paragraph. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Information about an individual or household’s employees, agents, representatives, and/or service providers” to “Information about an individual or household’s employees, independent contractors, interns, agents or other authorized representatives, and/or service providers” (mainly for greater consistency with the updated language elsewhere in this policy, here omitting vendors and business partners because for purposes of this section, those fall under the “Commercial information” and “Professional or employment-related information” categories respectively). In the Collection Sources subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed both instances of “independent contractors, employees, agents …” to “employees, independent contractors, interns, agents …” Made the same change in the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page). In the latter subsection, changed also changed “regarding current and/or prospective employees, independent contractors, interns, and/or business partners” to “regarding current and/or prospective employees, independent contractors, interns, business partners, business proposals, and/or business ventures” for internal consistency. Tinkered with the wording of some of these revisions after initial publication.
July 24, 2021: In Definitions, updated the Cookies and similar technologies definition to change “not affiliated in any way with that website, which is run by the law firm Pinset Masons LLP, and offer …” to “not affiliated in any way with that website or with the law firm that runs it, Pinset Masons LLP, and offer …” for clarity. Made the same change in the Cookie Notice for consistency. Also in the Definitions for Cookies and similar technologies, changed “such as storing certain information in your browser’s local storage and/or plugins; local storage information and so-called “local storage objects” aren’t cookies in the usual sense, but they may perform …” to “such as storing certain information in your browser’s web storage (sometimes called local storage, which is technically just one type of web storage) and/or plugins; data stored in web storage (such as so-called local shared objects) isn’t a cookie in the usual sense, but may perform …” (which is more technically correct). Made a similar change to the language in the Cookie Notice, changing “such as storing certain information in your browser’s local storage and/or plugins; local storage information and so-called “local storage objects” aren’t cookies in the usual sense, but they may perform …” to “such as storing certain information in your browser’s web storage and/or plugins; data stored in web storage (such as so-called local shared objects) isn’t a cookie in the usual sense, but may perform …” In Cookies and Similar Technologies, changed “(e.g., local storage objects)” to “(e.g., storing local shared objects and/or other data in your browser’s web storage)” for consistency. In Browser Tests and Embedded Content, changed “local storage” to “web storage” throughout, again for consistency. (This is an effort to more precisely describe a technical subject of which our understanding is not robust.) Updated the references to Cloudflare in Security Scans, Embedded Content, and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information to make some minor wording adjustments, update the trademark notices, and update certain privacy policy links. Also in Embedded Content, updated the bullet point on BootstrapCDN to reflect their current ownership, update the privacy policy information, and remove outdated company references. Also revised the jQuery CDN bullet point to update the StackPath trademark notice. In Information Captured by Service/Software/App/Device Telemetry, changed “reCAPTCHA security service” to “reCAPTCHA human verification service” (which is arguably a more accurate description). Made the same change in the reference to reCAPTCHA in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, and also changed the phrase “which is found on various websites and/or online services we use in the course of our business and which can gather information about our online activity in those contexts, as noted …” to “which may be used by various websites and/or online services we access and/or use in the course of our online activity, and which can gather information about our online activity in those contexts, as described …” (to better express that service’s ubiquity). Also in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended the reference to hCaptcha to present it as an example of CAPTCHA and/or comparable human verification services (of which there are now quite a few) and updated the trademark notice. Moved that and the subsequent reference to link shorteners and hyperlink redirection services and/or tools to a slightly earlier spot in the same bullet point. Also updated the references to the plugins for Notepad++ to fix a typographical error that had broken one of the hyperlinks.
July 23, 2021: In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “to verify your ZIP Code or other postal code” to simply “to verify your postal code”. In Additional Information About Data Retention, made a minor amendment to the bullet point on “Copies of published works”: changed “collection of such works” to “collection(s) of such works.” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, made some minor adjustments to the trademark notices in the reference to Apple and Signal (the latter mostly to align the Amazon Web Services trademark notice with the others in this document); changed “Los Angeles Public Library and L.A. County Library” to “Los Angeles Public Library and/or L.A. County Library” (mostly for grammatical consistency); and changed “other retailers, vendors, marketplaces, distributors, and/or providers” to “other retailers, vendors, marketplaces, auction services, distributors, and/or providers” for completeness. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “and/or other government-issued identification information” (under “Identifiers”) to “and/or other government-issued identification numbers”. In “Biometric information,” changed “information about your sleep and/or exercise habits” to “information about your health, sleep, and/or exercise habits”.
July 22, 2021: Fixed a typo in Website Server, Error, and Security Logs. In Consents and Agreements, changed “requests removal of their data” to “requests deletion of their data”. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “looking up names and other relevant personal details in sources such as (as applicable, but without limitation) books; magazines; newspapers; films and/or other videos; audio recordings; broadcasts of whatever type; and/or online or offline electronic resources such as search engines, library catalogs, websites, and/or databases” to “looking up names and/or other relevant personal details in sources such as (as applicable, but without limitation) books; magazines and/or journals; reports, white papers, and/or other such documents; newspapers and/or other news reports; films and/or other videos; audio recordings; broadcasts of whatever type; public records; and/or online or offline electronic resources such as (again without limitation) websites, search engines, library catalogs, repositories, and/or databases.” In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added “reports and/or white papers” and “websites” to the examples of “Published and/or publicly available sources” and changed “online databases” to “online databases and/or repositories” (mostly for consistency). In the Record-Keeping Disclosure Methodology subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “By law, an opt-out request …” to “Under California law, an opt-out request …” for greater clarity. Inevitably tinkered with these changes after initial publication.
July 21, 2021: Added a new “Nevada Consumer Opt-Out Rights” section after Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws). [We inevitably tinkered with the wording of this new section after initial publication.] In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, changed “Like most websites, 6200 Productions and our web host maintain various logs …” to “Like most websites, 6200 Productions maintains various logs (some of which we administer directly and some of which are administered by our web host) …” for greater clarity and less awkward grammar. Also split that paragraph at the sentence beginning “The information these logs record …” In Security Scans, changed “initiate manual scans or request …” to “initiate manual scans and/or request …”; added a paragraph regarding email alerts, similar (though not identical) to one in Website Server, Error, and Security Logs; and added a comment about such email alerts to the paragraph about data retention toward the end of that section. In Subscribing via Web Feed (Atom and RSS), updated the first two sentences to fix some factual and punctuation errors about web feeds and add hyperlinks to the specifications for the protocols mentioned. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, changed “news stories” to “news reports”. Amended the references in Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information to Have I Been Pwned to update the links, note that it is a project of Troy Hunt (adding a link to his website), and add a trademark notice. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “read a news or historical article” to “read a news report or historical article”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended the bullet point beginning “If that information otherwise is or was already publicly available …” to change “that appears in published interviews or in books, articles, or other works about the person(s) to whom the information pertains” to “that appears in published interviews with and/or books, news reports, articles, and/or other published works about the person(s) to whom the information pertains” for greater clarity. Also updated the reference to Logitech to change “peripheral devices” to “devices, peripheral devices, and/or other components”; updated the reference to Qualcomm to change “such hardware” to “such components”; added Staples to the listed examples; amended the reference to Audacity to update some listed information (some of which has changed since last the last update); and updated the reference to HashCheck Shell Extension to correct the developer credits and move that reference to maintain the (more or less) alphabetical order. In the paragraph following the big bullet-pointed list in that section, beginning “In general …” changed “Some local privacy laws …” to “Some jurisdictions’ privacy laws …” and changed “… for more information on this issue” to “… for more information on this issue as it relates to California law.” In Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), updated the first sentence to also reference the new Nevada section, including a link to it; changed “the rights provided by the GDPR include …” to “the rights provided by the EU GDPR and UK GDPR include …” for greater clarity; and changed “If you have questions or would like to exercise these rights …” to “If you have questions or would like to exercise your privacy rights under applicable national and/or state law …” In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “The public, through …” (in the second bullet-pointed list) to change “news articles” to “news reports” for internal consistency. In the fifth bullet-pointed list in that subsection, changed “links to a news article” to “links to a news report” (again for consistency). In the CCPA Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) subsection (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the final paragraph beginning “Section 999.317(h) of the regulations …” to make some clarifications regarding the distinction between requests from consumers and requests from all individuals. Updated Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us to also mention the new Nevada opt-out section, and changed “… above, you can reach …” to “above (and/or any other privacy rights you may have under applicable national and/or state law), you can reach …” for consistency. In the version of that section that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, changed “If you have questions about this policy or our use of personal information …” to “If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, the disclosures on this page, and/or our use of personal information …” and added an additional link to this Privacy Policy for ease of reference. In the version of the Information-Sharing Disclosures (Shine the Light Law) that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, changed “See the other sections of this Privacy Policy …” to “See the other sections of the Privacy Policy …” and added a link to the main Privacy Policy. As a global change, changed all instances on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page of the phrase “via one of the methods” to “via any of the methods” for internal consistency. Inevitably tinkered with many of these changes after initial publication.
July 19, 2021: In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, updated the first reference to HackRepair.com to add a trademark notice [which we revised after initial publication], also removing the second reference later in that section (a parenthetical aside in the paragraph beginning “In many cases, such data …”), and updated the reference to Perishable Press to link to their Privacy Policy (rather than the page for one of their security plugins). Made the same changes to the references to those entities in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information for consistency. Also in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to Tracker Software Products to change “the suite of PDF creation and editing software” to “the suite of PDF creation and editing software and tools” for completeness, and updated the company and trademark information. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed the bullet point reading “Information about an individual or household’s scores, achievements, winnings, and/or prizes in games of chance or skill” (under “Commercial information”) to “Information about an individual or household’s participation, scores, achievements, winnings, losses, and/or prizes in sweepstakes, lotteries, raffles, contests, wagers, other forms of gambling, and/or other games of chance or skill” for completeness and to clarify the intended scope of that bullet point.
July 18, 2021: In Definitions, updated the definition of “errors and suspicious activity” to change “any action or activity …” to “any visitor activity that generates an error message …” for greater clarity. Updated the “categories of information gathered” in various sections of this policy: In Consents and Agreements; Comments; Contact Forms; Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests; Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships; Financial Transactions Policy; and Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, added “errors and suspicious activity*”; in Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, added “visitor activity*; errors and suspicious activity*; names*”; in Data in Submitted Images and Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, added “Visitor activity*; errors and suspicious activity*”. (For the most part, these additions aren’t really new, but represent our belated realization that there were certain things that were SO obvious we didn’t think to include them initially, like the fact that security information might include “errors and suspicious activity”!) Adjusted the capitalization of the existing text as appropriate with these additions, to maintain a consistent order and format. In Embedded Content, updated the trademark notice for Twitter.
July 17, 2021: In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection, changed “the categorical purpose or purposes for which …” to “the categories of purposes” (which is much less awkward). In the Collection Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “one or more of the following purposes” to “one or more of the following categories of purposes” for consistency and clarity and changed “These purposes are defined …” to “These categories of purposes are defined …” (on this page only; that sentence doesn’t appear in the version of that text on the Your California Privacy Rights page). As a global change, changed all instances of “Providing a service” to “Providing services” (which we had intended to do in February 2020, but wasn’t implemented). (We also updated the Feb. 10, 2020 entry on this Recent Revisions list to remove the reference to this change, which obviously didn’t happen at that time!) In the list of categories of purposes (in that section and the equivalent list in the version of the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point on “Providing services” to change “running our business and offering our services” to “running our business and/or offering our services”; amended the bullet point on “Fulfilling a contractual obligation” to change “some contract or legal agreement, whether with you or a third party” to “a contract or legal agreement, whether with you or with a third party”; amended the bullet point on “Legal compliance or audit” to change “with applicable laws or regulations” to “with applicable laws and/or regulations”; amended the bullet point on “Security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement” to change “and/or other threats (and/or possible threats) to …” to “safeguard …” set off with a semicolon, and changed “quality and functionality” to “quality and/or functionality”. (Obviously, these are minor wording adjustments that do not represent any substantive change in our purposes for collecting personal information.) At the end of the Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection section, added a new final paragraph explaining that the “Categories of information gathered” listed in the subsequent sections, which are based on our definitions (described in “Definitions”), may differ from the categories defined by law in jurisdictions such as California, referring visitors to the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice to learn more about how the personal information we collect could be categorized under California law. Added internal links in that new paragraph to the applicable sections. Inevitably tinkered with the wording after initial publication. In Online Tracking, changed the phrase “a complete list of Google third-party subprocessors and their respective locations” to “a complete list of third-party subprocessors Google uses in connection with Google Analytics, including those subprocessors’ respective locations” (as the linked page lists only analytics and advertising service subprocessors, not all Google subprocessors). In Embedded Content, deleted the link to Google third-party subprocessors, as the linked page only lists subprocessors Google uses in connection with its advertising and analytics services, not the services mentioned in Embedded Content, and thus isn’t relevant to that section. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, amended the paragraph about receiving personal information about someone through their employees, independent contractors, agents or other authorized representatives, business partners, vendors, and/or service providers to change “Vendors and/or service providers …” to “Someone’s vendors and/or service providers …” In the following sentence, added an additional example of that, and split that sentence at “further more, in some jurisdictions …” for better readability.
July 16, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended the reference to HP to change “HP” to “HP Inc.” (as the company reportedly prefers in such contexts) and change “HP printer, scanner, and/or copier devices” to “HP printers, scanners, copiers, and/or other devices”; also amended the reference to SanDisk to change “audio player(s)” to “portable audio player(s)” for clarity. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point beginning “Information about food …” (under “Commercial information”) to change “food, groceries, meals, recipes, and/or cuisine(s)” to “food, beverages, groceries, meals, recipes, drinks, and/or cuisine(s)” for completeness.
July 15, 2021: In Definitions, updated the definition of “Malicious activity” to change “consider spam to be …” to “consider spamming to be …” for greater clarity. In Comments and Contact Forms, changed “spam/abuse” to “spam and/or abuse”; changed “used to spam this website” to “used in spamming this website”; and changed “discourage spam” to “discourage spamming”. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “spam and/or attempts to transmit …” to “spamming and/or attempts to transmit … and changed “email addresses associated with spam or telephone numbers …” to “email addresses associated with spamming, and/or telephone numbers …” Also in that section, added Epic AdBlocker to the list of examples of sources of security-related information. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the references to Epic Privacy Browser to also mention the Epic AdBlocker extension (which has just been added as of this writing); change “encrypted proxy/VPN service browser extension” to “associated proxy/VPN browser extension”; and rearrange the anchor text for the link to their privacy policy. Also in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, further amended the reference to BlackBerry Limited to correct the capitalization of Research In Motion Limited and change “the older of those devices” to “the older of those smartphones” for clarity; amended the reference to Dell to change “their U.S. Privacy Statement” to “the “Dell U.S. Privacy Statement” (also adjusting the anchor text of the link to that privacy statement accordingly); amended the reference to Intel to change “hardware” to “components” and change “of that hardware and its associated drivers and/or software” to “of those devices and/or components and/or their associated drivers and/or software”; amended the reference to Nuance Communications, Inc., to change “the voice dialing system installed on …” to “the voice recognition software used by …” for clarity and update the trademark notice; amended the reference to Qualcomm to change “smartphone and …” to “smartphone and/or …”; amended the reference to Mozilla browsers to change the phrase “of their” to “of the”; and updated the reference to DataViz to further adjust the trademark notice and fix a minor punctuation issue. Updated the July 14, 2021 entry in this Recent Revisions list to change “hair-splitting” to “hairsplitting.” Inevitably tinkered a bit with these changes after initial publication.
July 14, 2021: In Security Scans and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, made some further adjustments to the trademark notices for BlackBerry Limited and changed the phrase “BlackBerry® devices” to “BlackBerry® smartphones”. In the latter section, updated the reference to CompanionLink Software, Inc., to adjust the punctuation so the parentheses are nested in a more logical way, delete “and their associated service processors,” and change “applies to data their services process …” to “applies to data their services (and/or their associated subprocessors) process …” for greater clarity. Also adjusted the wording of the references in that section to DataViz, Inc., principally to update the trademark notices, and made further wording adjustments to the references TCL Communication (whose corporate structure we don’t fully grasp, making it hard to know which entity to refer to). Amended the July 13, 2021 entry in this Recent Revisions list to change the phrase “references to BlackBerry®” to “references to “BlackBerry Limited”. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point on “Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information” to rename it “Sensory data (audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information)”; amended the bullet point on “Geolocation information” to rename it “Geolocation data” and change the phrase “geographical location and/or movements” to “physical location and/or movements”; amended the “Education information” bullet point to rename it “Nonpublic education information” and revised the wording of the enumerated examples to be more consistent with the statutory definitions; and amended the bullet point after that to change “Inferences we make based on other data …” to “Inferences we draw from other personal information …” (These wording adjustments are mostly just hairsplitting to better align the listed categories with the way they’re described in the applicable statutes and associated regulations.) Added major(s), graduation date(s), and information about student loans and/or financial to the listed examples of education information (and removed “theses” and “readings,” which were redundant). Under “Professional or employment-related information,” changed “Professional certifications and/or licensure” to “Professional certification(s) and/or license(s)” (the latter word being more correct than “licensure” in this context); changed “Job title(s) and/or position(s)” to “Job title(s), position(s), role(s), duties, and/or responsibilities”; and added a bullet point: “Training, professional development, career goals, and/or professional aspirations.” In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made some changes to the first bullet-pointed list: In the bullet point beginning “Nonpublic documents …” changed “school transcripts” to “school transcripts and/or other school records”; in the bullet point beginning “Subject matter experts …” added the phrase “(whether yours, ours, and/or someone else’s)” after “personal and/or professional acquaintances” for clarity and added “current and/or past employers and/or supervisors” to the listed examples of such personal and/or professional acquaintances. Tinkered a bit with the revised wording after initial publication.
July 13, 2021: Made some minor adjustments to the various references to BlackBerry in Security Scans, Information We Receive From Third Parties for Security Purposes, and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, principally to reflect that the former BlackBerry Privacy Policy has been renamed “BlackBerry Privacy Notice”; update the links to that notice (although the old ones still redirect); and update the trademark notices. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, adjusted the references to TCL Communication to update the trademark notice and clarify that the privacy policy available online does not match the one on the device in question (which is no longer manufactured) and added a trademark notice for Nuance Communications. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the first sentence to change the phrase “for any of the following purposes:” to “for certain specified purposes, including:” Also amended the paragraph beginning “Even if disclosures like these are NOT deemed …” (following the sixth bullet-pointed list in that section), removing the quotation marks around “for business purposes” and adding two final sentences: “(In certain cases, such disclosures might reasonably be regarded as part of our acting as a business service provider for someone else, particularly where the personal information involved is supplied mainly by the client rather than by us (e.g., in a manuscript we’ve been hired to edit). However, under the CCPA, being a “service provider” requires a written agreement that directs the service provider to collect and/or process personal information on the client or customer’s behalf for certain specific business purposes while restricting the service provider’s further use of that information; it’s possible to provide professional services, even to other businesses, without necessarily being considered a “service provider” as the CCPA and its associated regulations define that term.)”
July 12, 2021: In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list in the version of the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point on “Advertising and other commercial purposes” to separate the items with semicolons rather than commas; change “to promote or advertise our content or services” to “help us promote and/or advertise our content, services, and/or other creative endeavors”; and change “monetize the site and/or our content” to “otherwise monetize the site, our content, our other writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or our other creative endeavors” for wording consistency with the “Research and publishing” bullet point in that list. (These changes don’t reflect any substantive change in how or why we collect and use information; the goal is to wrestle some kind of consistency out of the increasingly labyrinthine language herein.) In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, added a comma after the phrase “who are the subjects of and/or otherwise relevant to that work” for readability and changed “the applicable vendor(s) or service provider(s) could also be said …” to “the applicable vendor(s) and/or service provider(s) could also be said …” for internal consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, further updated the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers: Added a trademark notice for Hemmings (which we tinkered with after initial publication) and updated the outgoing link to AROnline.co.uk to point to their homepage (which is where links to their various policies can be most easily found) and add “co.uk” to the anchor text. Added a comma after the phrase “via telemetry features incorporated into those plugins, themes, and/or add-ons and/or through …” for readability; changed the phrase “are typically but not always via …” to “are frequently, though not necessarily exclusively, via …” updated the reference to PayPal® to change the phrase “processes certain payments …” to “may process certain payments …” Further updated the references to and trademark notices for our home Internet service provider and mobile carrier. Renamed the bullet point on services and/or service providers that help us promote and/or sell our content and/or services from “Services and/or service providers that help us promote and/or sell (and/or otherwise offer for commercial advantage) …” to “Vendors, services, and/or service providers that help us promote, monetize, sell, and/or otherwise offer for commercial advantage …” [wording we adjusted after initial publication]; revised the text of that bullet point to separate the items with semicolons rather than commas; added to the listed examples other types of platforms and/or services for publishing and/or distributing written content and/or images; added the phrase “and/or other media” after “audiovisual content”; and added to the listed example vendors and/or service providers through which we may create and/or offer 6200 Productions merchandise and/or other merchandise related to our services, content, and/or creative endeavors. In California Privacy and Data Protection Rights (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added a paragraph regarding certain types of extremely sensitive personal information the regulations prohibit us from disclosing in response to a request to know. (This regulatory stipulation was already explained on the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page, but it seemed appropriate to mention it here as well.) In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the second bullet-pointed list to change “Our service providers and/or vendors” to “Our vendors and/or service providers” (for wording consistency) and change the period at the end of each of the bullet points in that list except the last one to a semicolon followed by the phrase “and/or:” (for formatting consistency with the following list in that subsection). Also changed the fourth bullet point in that list from “Any individual or entity with whom we communicate and/or collaborate in the process of researching and developing our content, writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or other creative endeavors …” to “Any individual or entity with whom we communicate, consult, and/or collaborate in the course of researching and developing our content, writing/editing/writing consulting work, and/or other creative endeavors, and/or who communicates and/or consults with us regarding their content, work, and/or creative endeavors …” (We had initially omitted the latter phrase from this bullet point because it’s largely encompassed by the following bullet point on “Editors, publishers, clients, employers, and/or other third parties …” However, we decided to add it for greater consistency between the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notices in this policy, the Ate Up With Motor Privacy Policy, and the aaronseverson.com Privacy Policy.) In the sixth bullet point in that same list, changed “promote and/or sell (and/or otherwise offer for commercial advantage)” to “promote, monetize, sell, and/or otherwise offer for commercial advantage” for internal consistency with the change made in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. (The rationale for this change is that the “Advertising and other commercial purposes” bullet point in Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list in the version of the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page) uses the word “monetize,” which didn’t otherwise appear in the text and isn’t categorically synonymous with “offer for commercial advantage.) In the sixth bullet-pointed list in that subsection, amended the bullet point beginning “Presenting and/or discussing examples …” to change “offering for commercial advantage” to “offering in a professional capacity and/or for commercial advantage” (since these aren’t necessarily synonymous) and revised the bullet point beginning “Sharing, exchanging, or discussing with clients …” to change the phrase “for commercial advantage” to “in a professional capacity” (which better expresses the intended meaning).
July 11, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Information, added Disconnect (which was already listed in Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes) to the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers. Elsewhere in that list, tinkered with the references to our home Internet service provider and mobile carrier(s) to fix some awkward punctuation, rearranged the position of those references’ trademark notices in the text for greater clarity, updated the trademark notice for our ISP (including removing an outdated reference to that service provider’s former trade name), and added the word “currently” before the name of our present ISP.
July 10, 2021: In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering and Returned Check Fees subsections of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed instances of the phrases “financial institution(s)”; “financial institutions”; and “banks or other financial institutions” to “bank(s)/financial institution(s)” for consistency. In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection, also updated the sentence about service agreements to change the phrase “payment processors” to “payment processor(s).” In the Refunds and Returns subsection, changed the phrase “the applicable payment processor(s) and/or financial institution(s)” and an instance of the phrase “the applicable payment processor(s)” to “the applicable payment processor(s) and/or bank(s)/financial institution(s)” for wording consistency. (Obviously, a bank is a financial institution, although not all financial institutions are banks.) In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, updated the sentence beginning “From time to time, we may also receive additional security-related information from …” to fix the inconsistent punctuation and change “and/or banks(s)/financial institutions(s)” to “payment processor(s); bank(s)/financial institution(s)”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the trademark notices for Seagate and SanDisk and updated the trademark notice for Western Digital and updated the reference to talent and literary agents or agencies (in the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers) to change “literary or talent agents or agencies” to “talent and/or literary agents and/or agencies” (mainly for wording consistency). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added “Email header information” to the examples of “Internet or similar network activity information” (mostly for the avoidance of doubt, since such information would reasonably be encompassed by the “Other information about an individual or household’s use of and/or interactions with …” bullet point and/or the examples already listed in the other categories). For the same reasons, amended the “Network, shared device, and/or online service information” bullet point to add “databases” after “shared printers and/or other devices” and added “scientific and/or engineering studies” to the listed examples in the “Authorship, other credits, and/or rights holder information” bullet point (under “Professional or employment-related information”).
July 9, 2021: In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “EasyList” to “the EasyList authors” and changed “adblock-nocoin-list” to “NoCoin adblock list” (which is the proper title of that list). In the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed the phrase “the various EasyList adblocking and other filter lists” to “the various ad-blocking and other filter lists by the EasyList authors” for consistency and updated the reference to Notepad++ to also include its various plugins. Elsewhere in that list, updated the bullet point in that list on “Other types of service providers” to rename it “Other types of vendors and/or service providers” (which is a more accurate summation of its contents) and added language about vendors, service providers, charitable organizations, and/or other organizations and/or entities through which and/or to which we sell, offer, donate, and/or dispose (and/or advertise and/or announce the sale, offer, donation, and/or disposal) of our copies of published works, other personal property and/or goods, and/or vehicles. In California Privacy and Data Protection Rights (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the paragraph on identity verification to add a sentence about the regulatory restrictions on the use and retention of any additional personal information we may request for identity verification purposes and split that paragraph at “Also, please note …” (changing the beginning of that sentence to “Please note …” for better flow). Also fixed an instance of incorrect capitalization of “DVDs” in the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (again, on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page) and the Jan. 17, 2021 entry in this Recent Revisions list (which was apparently when that error originally occurred).
July 7, 2021: In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “the Play Protect feature of Google Play” to “the Google Play Protect feature of Google Play” and updated the Google trademark notice to note that the names of many other Google products and/or services are also trademarks of Google LLC. Updated the similar statement in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information to make them consistent. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to Dell to change “devices” to “devices, displays, peripheral devices, and/or other components”; updated the reference to HP to change “and their associated software and/or services” to “and/or their associated drivers, software, and/or services”; and updated the reference to LG to change “LG Electronics” to just “LG”; change “displays and/or other peripheral devices” to “devices, displays, peripheral devices, and/or other components”; and add a trademark notice. (This is all hairsplitting, but we’re trying to maintain some semblance of wording consistency in this unwieldy list.) Also fixed some minor punctuation issues in that section. In Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), split the first paragraph at “For example, the rights provided by the GDPR …” for greater clarity. In Data in Submitted Images, Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, Your Rights (GDPR and Other National or State Privacy Laws), and Information-Sharing Disclosures (Shine the Light Law) (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed the phrase “through one of the methods” to “via any of the methods” for wording consistency. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes and Record-Keeping Disclosure Methodology subsections of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice and in Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us (again, both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), also changed “using any of the methods” to “via any of the methods” for wording consistency. In the version of Controllers/Responsible Parties, Questions, and How to Reach Us that appears on this page (not the Your California Privacy Rights page), also changed the phrase “regarding the rights mentioned in …” to “regarding any of the rights described in …” In both versions of that section (i.e., on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “your rights under the CCPA” to “your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA)” for clarity.
July 6, 2021: In Embedded Content, changed “Third-party embedded content on 6200 Productions …” to “Third-party embedded content on the 6200 Productions website …” for greater clarity. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. to change the phrase “devices and peripherals” to “peripheral devices and/or other components” for wording consistency.
July 5, 2021: Added two paragraphs to Embedded Content referring visitors to the Cookie Notice for information about cookies that may be set by embedded content providers and explaining that embedded content providers may use their own third-party service providers, which are not necessarily listed in that section or in the Cookie Notice (being outside of our control). In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “determining what products and/or services to offer in the future” to “determining what products, services, and/or content to offer in the future”. In the Refunds and Returns subsection, changed “goods or services” to “goods and/or services”; changed “prior to the delivery by us of the applicable good(s) or the performance by us of the applicable service(s)” to “prior to the delivery by us of the applicable good(s) and/or the performance by us of the applicable service(s)” and changed “the applicable good(s) or service(s) have been delivered or performed” to “the applicable good(s) and/or service(s) have been delivered and/or performed”. In the Information Sharing subsection, changed “products and/or services” to “goods, products, services, and/or content”. In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, changed the various instances of “products and/or services” to “goods, products, services, and/or content” for completeness and changed “completed sales or transactions” to “completed transactions” (since obviously a sale is a transaction). In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, amended the parenthetical reference to the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice to add a sentence clarifying that the definitions and categories listed in that notice are based on California law, and other jurisdictions may have different definitions and/or categories. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to Audacity to include a link to their worrisome new privacy notice. Also updated the trademark notice. In California Privacy and Data Protection Rights (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “in the past 12 months” to “in the preceding 12 months” for internal consistency; deleted the phrase “up to two times in a given 12-month period” (since this limit appears to no longer be included in the regulations); changed “You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information” to “You have the right to request the deletion of personal information we have collected about you in the course of our business”; and changed “The right to not be discriminated against or penalized …” to “The right to not receive discriminatory treatment …” (for consistency with the regulatory wording). Added a sentence to the paragraph beginning “In order to better safeguard your privacy …” noting that more information about the identity verification requirements can be found in the applicable section of the Do Not Sell My Personal Information page. Made some clarifications to the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page): Changed the first sentence from “The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) also requires certain businesses to disclose the categories of information that the business has collected about individuals or households during the preceding 12 months; that the business disclosed for business purposes during the preceding 12 months; and that the business disclosed for commercial purposes during the preceding 12 months” to “The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) also requires certain businesses to provide California residents with additional information about the categories of personal information the business collects, the sources from which the business gets that personal information, and how and why the business uses and/or shares that personal information.” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection, revised the first sentence to change “The following list summarizes the categories of personal information we have collected …” to The “following list summarizes the categories of personal information we collect and/or have collected …” In the second paragraph (beginning “Please note that …”), inserted the phrase “and/or our other creative endeavors” after “(and/or on which we consult)” and added a parenthetical sentence after “about site visitors”: “(Simply reading a single magazine article or encyclopedia entry about some public figure as part of our research can sometimes provide us with most if not all of the categories of information listed here!)” In the paragraph beginning “The statutory definitions …” changed “in the applicable statutes” to “in the applicable statutes and/or regulations.” In the paragraph beginning “The examples listed for each category …” changed “may have gathered” to “may gather and/or have gathered” and “have collected on …” to “collect and/or have collected about …” (This notice is intended to encompass both aspects, which these changes hopefully make clearer.) In the following paragraph, changed “During the past 12 months …” to “In the last 12 months …” In the Record-Keeping Methodology subsection, changed “requester” to “requestor” (which is how the regulations spell it) and changed “until the requestor opts-in” to “until the consumer opts-in” (again for consistency with the regulatory framing.
July 3, 2021: In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “To our independent contractors, employees, agents, and/or business partners (if any) …” to “To our independent contractors, employees, agents, business partners, vendors, and/or service providers (as applicable) …” (Technically, vendors and/or service providers were already covered there under the “As otherwise described …” bullet point, but this is hopefully clearer.) In another bullet point in that same list, changed “for a dispute or fraud investigation” to “in connection with a dispute or fraud investigation” and changed “contractual agreements with said payment processor(s) …” to “contractual agreements (if any) with such payment processor(s) …” In the paragraph following that list, changed “may also use relevant portions of that information as part of and/or in connection with reviews and/or other commentary” to “may also use and/or disclose relevant portions of that information in connection with customer service, support, warranty, and/or insurance matters, and/or as part of and/or in connection with reviews and/or other commentary” and added an additional illustrative example to the last sentence of that paragraph. Made the same changes to the equivalent language in Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties. [We further revised both sections after initial publication, as we’d initially omitted the warranty and insurance parts.] In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added Rosewill and Sabrent to the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers (in the “Other providers whose services enable us to operate and/or secure our system(s), device(s), and/or data” bullet point). Did some further refinement of the CCPA Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) subsection of the of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changing “subsequently were able to verify the requester’s identity to sufficient certainty” to “subsequently verified the requester’s identity to a degree of certainty sufficient”. Updated the various references to CCPA rights on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page to change the capitalization of “Right to Access” to “right to access” in hopes of reducing confusion. (The law uses that term synonymously with “Right to Know,” which is the term used in the CCPA regulations.)
July 2, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to CompanionLink Software to change “products/services” to “products and/or services”; change “mobile device(s)” to just “device(s)”; and change “data the service processes” to “data their services process” (for better grammar). Also added “electronic signature and/or agreement services” to the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers (in the “Other types of service providers” bullet point) and updated the bullet point on services and/or service providers that help us promote, sell, and/or offer our content, services, and/or other creative endeavors to change “booksellers and/or other retailers and/or marketplaces” to “booksellers, other retailers, marketplaces (of whatever kind)” (mainly for less awkward grammar). In California Privacy and Data Protection Rights (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the “Right to Know” bullet point to be more consistent with the language of the applicable regulations. Also updated other references to the CCPA rights throughout this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page to make clearer that “Right to Access” is an alternative term for “Right to Know” so far as the law and its regulations are concerned. Removed some duplicate text we discovered adjacent to those references. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the second bullet point under “Characteristics of classifications protected by law” to change “Race, color, ancestry, national origin, and/or citizenship status” to “Race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, and/or residency”. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Individuals or entities …” to “Individuals and/or entities …” Added a new CCPA Request Metrics (Record-Keeping Disclosures) subsection to the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page) disclosing the number of CCPA requests received in the previous calendar year. (It is very unlikely that we could be deemed to even approach the threshold where these disclosures would be required, but we add it so that no one yells at us about it.) Updated the Table of Contents accordingly. (We did a lot of tinkering with these additions after initial publication.) Throughout this document (and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed various instances of the phrase “or otherwise offer” to “and/or otherwise offer” for wording consistency.
July 1, 2021: In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list in the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the “Security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement” bullet point to change “of others and/or the public at large” to “of others and/or of the public at large” for internal consistency. In Comments, changed “widgets” to “Widget(s)” for correct stylization and because the number may vary. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the “required by law” bullet point to change “or in connection with an audit …” to “and/or in connection with an audit …” Also updated the “contractually obligated” bullet point to add client(s), licensor(s), and licensee(s) (since this bullet point could also apply to disputes related to agreements for our services and/or license agreements pertaining to the use of intellectual property); changed “third-party service(s) to “service provider(s)” for internal consistency; added the parenthetical phrase “(as applicable)”; changed “a dispute, investigation, or audit” to “a dispute, an investigation, an audit, and/or arbitration” and deleted the remainder of that sentence; changed “social media websites” to just “social media”; added an additional example regarding binding arbitration; and added a final parenthetical note clarifying that these are representative examples, not an exhaustive list of possible scenarios. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point beginning “Any government agency, investigator …” to change “that requires or compels” to “that legally requires or compels” for greater clarity. In the subsequent bullet-pointed list in that section (again, on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), split the “legally or contractually obligated” bullet point into two separate bullet points (“required by law” and “contractually obligated,” respectively), also updating the wording of those bullet points to better align them with the current wording of the equivalent bullet points in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. Removed some extra spaces. Tinkered with today’s revisions after initial publication in the interests of clarity and better grammar.
June 30, 2021: In Definitions, updated the definition of “Malicious activity” to add “our business” between “our system(s) and/or device(s)” and “us” for completeness and internal consistency. In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list in the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the “Security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement” bullet point to change the phrase “from malicious activity” to “from malicious activity and/or other threats (and/or possible threats) to our property, rights, security, and/or safety, and/or the property, rights, security, and/or safety of others and/or the public at large” for greater consistency with the existing language in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information and the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice. In Financial Transactions Policy, changed “third-party vendors, retailers, or services, which are outside of our control” to “third-party vendors, retailers, marketplaces, or services that are outside of our direct control” for greater clarity and completeness. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to VideoLAN to change “the open source VLC media player developed by VideoLAN” to “the VLC media player and/or other open source multimedia software projects of VideoLAN” and add a link to the repository for all VideoLAN open source projects (slightly adjusting the existing wording of the parenthetical aside for greater clarity with this addition). Later in that section, changed “other retailers, vendors, distributors, and/or providers” to “other retailers, vendors, marketplaces, distributors, and/or providers” and changed “booksellers or other retailers” to “booksellers and/or other retailers and/or marketplaces” for completeness and internal consistency. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Information about retailers, vendors, and/or service providers” (under “Commercial information”) to “Information about retailers, vendors, marketplaces, and/or service providers” for internal consistency. (The addition of “marketplaces” is mainly for the avoidance of doubt; to the extent that a marketplace could be considered something other than a retailer or vendor, it would certainly qualify as a service provider!) Fixed a typo in this entry in the revisions list.
June 29, 2021: Updated Security Scans, Embedded Content, and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information to reflect that Media Temple, Inc. d/b/a Sucuri is now called GoDaddy Media Temple, Inc. d/b/a Sucuri. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, also updated the trademark notice for Khan Academy.
June 26, 2021: Made some minor updates to certain PayPal trademark notices throughout this page and the Cookie Notice. Also fixed punctuation errors in the trademark notices for Akamai and Opera in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. Updated the Cookie Notice to indicate that the domain abmr.net is owned by Akamai and add a link to their Privacy Trust Center. In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, made some minor clarifications to the paragraph describing the contents of PayPal transaction reports. Throughout the text, changed various instances of the phrase “for us or on our behalf” to “for us and/or on our behalf” for greater wording consistency.
June 25, 2021: In Online Tracking, updated the first bullet point in the list of options for disabling Google Analytics to remove a now-inapplicable reference to the right sidebar and changing the reference to a pressing button to clicking a link, to better reflect how that option is currently configured. In Comments, changed “or suspicious code; or if you posted …” to “and/or suspicious code; and/or if you posted …” and changed the phrase “certain types of HTML/PHP or other code” to “certain types of HTML and/or other code”. In Contact Forms, changed “or suspicious code” to “and/or suspicious code”; changed “flagged as spam or automatically deleted” to “flagged as spam and/or automatically deleted”; changed “contains HTML/PHP code” to “contains HTML and/or other code”; and changed “may be removed” to “may be automatically removed” for clarity. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to phpMyAdmin to add an additional trademark notice. Under the “Manufacturers of other electronic devices we may use” bullet point in the same list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers in that section, changed “various USB drives, memory cards, or drive enclosures” to “various USB flash drives, memory cards, hubs, and/or drive enclosures”. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Other group and/or organization membership and/or affiliation information” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to “Membership in and/or affiliation with other organizations and/or groups” for greater clarity.
June 23, 2021: In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection and the equivalent list presented in the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, clarified the “Research and publishing” bullet point by changing “as part of the research involved in creating and/or publishing …” to “in researching, creating, and/or publishing …” (This revision doesn’t reflect any substantive change in how or why we use information, just our ongoing efforts to properly describe it!) In the “Recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships” bullet point in those same lists, changed both instances of the phrase “formal professional relationships” to just “professional relationships” (again, mainly for clarity and to better describe the intended scope). In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, amended the last sentence of the first paragraph to add the phrase “(but without limitation)” after “for example,” for greater emphasis.
June 21, 2021: Updated the Financial Transactions Policy to remove some redundant text from the Data Retention subsection (most of which is already stated nearly verbatim in the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection), moved the language about service agreements with payment processors and/or financial institutions to the earlier subsection (where it more logically belongs), and revised the remaining text of the Data Retention subsection to note that we generally must indefinitely retain records of our business-related transactions for bookkeeping and compliance purposes (as also explained in the subsequent Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties and Additional Information About Data Retention sections). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to link shorteners to change “link shorteners and/or other hyperlink redirection services or tools” to “link shorteners and/or other hyperlink redirection services and/or tools” for completeness.
June 16, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the references to Google in the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to fix a punctuation issue and incorrectly nested parentheses.
June 14, 2021: In Who We Are, changed “DreamHost’s Privacy Policy” to “the DreamHost Privacy Policy” (adjusting the anchor text accordingly). In Online Tracking, Embedded Content, Information Captured by Service/Software/App/Device Telemetry, and Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, adjusted some references to Google to omit the possessive. Similarly adjusted references to Google in the Cookie Notice, also adding links to the Google Privacy Policy and related Google help pages to the Google Analytics section. Also similarly removed the possessive in the references to Twitter in Embedded Content and slightly adjusted the trademark notices in the bullet point on YouTube videos. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “The Jalopy Journal’s The Hokey Ass Message Board (aka The H.A.M.B.)” to “The Hokey Ass Message Board (aka The H.A.M.B.) of The Jalopy Journal” and corrected a typographical error in the Vertical Scope trademark notice. Throughout the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “CCPA’s” to “CCPA” (which may be more precise, given the morass of regulations the law has spawned beyond the actual text of the statutes). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the bullet point beginning “Other information about an individual or household’s use of and/or interactions with …” (under “Internet or similar network activity information”) to add “messages” to the enumerated examples. In the bullet point beginning “Publishing histories/bibliographies …” (under “Professional or employment-related information”, added “translators” to the enumerated examples.
May 30, 2021: In the “Other types of service providers” bullet point under Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “other applicable telephony services and/or email providers” to “other applicable telephony and/or email services”. Also added HandBrake and MakeMKV to the list of examples in the “Other providers of software, apps, tools, and/or services …” bullet point in that section. (Amended shortly after initial publication to correct capitalization.)
May 28, 2021: In the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers in Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “film and/or photo development, film and/or photo processing, video conversion, and/or other processing services for audiovisual materials” to “processing, conversion, and/or duplication services for photos, film, video, audio recordings, other audiovisual materials, and/or other such content, such as (without limitation) film and/or photo development and/or processing, photo printing, video and/or audio conversion, and/or videodisc and/or phonorecord production”.
May 26, 2021: In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (and the equivalent list in the version of the Collection Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice, both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), renamed the Security, troubleshooting, quality control, and technical improvement bullet point “Security, troubleshooting, quality control, and service improvement” and changed the phrase “troubleshoot and resolve technical problems” to “troubleshoot and/or resolve technical problems”. Made the former change to the “Purpose(s)” bullet points throughout this page for consistency. In Online Tracking, changed “for troubleshooting and service improvement purposes” to “for troubleshooting and/or service improvement purposes” for internal consistency. In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, changed “troubleshooting, and/or technical improvement purposes and/or for legal reasons” to “troubleshooting, and/or service improvement purposes, and/or for legal reasons,” also for consistency. In Security Scans, changed “for ongoing security, troubleshooting, and/or technical improvement purposes and/or for legal reasons, and/or if it pertains …” to “for ongoing security, troubleshooting, and/or service improvement purposes; for legal reasons; and/or if it pertains …” for consistency and better grammar. In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, updated the last paragraph to change “for service improvement purposes” to “to troubleshoot and/or resolve technical problems, and/or for service improvement purposes” (something that was already indicated by the Purpose(s) bullet at the beginning of this section, but which we realized was inadvertently omitted from the narrative list). In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, changed “for service improvement and/or troubleshooting purposes” to “to troubleshoot and/or resolve technical problems, and/or for service improvement purposes” for internal consistency.
May 25, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to gitg to correct the capitalization of Git and add appropriate trademark notices.
May 21, 2021: In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, updated the sentence beginning “From time to time, we may also receive additional security-related information from …” to add three clauses (set off with semicolons) to the existing list: “other web hosts and/or email services; online services and/or online accounts; other vendors and/or service providers”.
May 18, 2021: In the Transaction-Related Information Gathering subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy section, added a sentence to the paragraph beginning “If you make a payment to us via PayPal …”: “The receipts, payment confirmations, and/or other transaction-related notices we receive when we make payments and/or purchases via that service may contain personal information similar to that found in the transaction reports for payments we receive via PayPal.” In the last paragraph of that subsection, changed “process and complete your transaction(s)” to “process and/or complete the applicable transaction(s)” and added a new clause to the last sentence after “a particular business or commercial decision,” set off with a comma: “and/or describing our experience with a specific transaction as part of a review of the applicable vendor(s).”
May 16, 2021: In Definitions, simplified and clarified the definition of “Errors and suspicious activity.” In Security Scans, revised the paragraph beginning “In addition, our web host also hosts the email servers for many of our email addresses …” for greater clarity. In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy section, changed “and/or for our legal protection” to “for legal compliance and/or audit purposes, and/or for our legal protection” (set off with a comma) for greater clarity. (We’ve always intended the latter phrase to encompass the former, as well as other legal situations that might not be as clear cut, but this hopefully makes the intent clearer.) Later in that same section, changed “or if we have received a subpoena …” to “and/or if we have received a subpoena …”
May 14, 2021: In the Refunds and Returns subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, added a paragraph after the bullet-pointed list to clarify that payments shall be eligible for refunds and/or returns to the extent required by the policies of the applicable payment processor(s) and/or financial institution(s) or as otherwise required by law. In the Collection Sources subsection of the of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the “Nonpublic documents, records, collections, and/or archives” bullet to change “unreleased scripts, outtakes, and/or other materials from film, television, radio, and/or other media projects” to “unreleased versions, outtakes, scripts, and/or other materials from film, television, radio, and/or other media projects” and change “internal business records, reports, and/or documents” to “internal business and/or organizational records, reports, memoranda, documents, and/or other materials”.
May 12, 2021: As a global change, changed the spelling of “non-public” to “nonpublic” throughout (except for past entries in this Recent Revisions list). In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed various instances of the phrase “public and/or private” to “public and/or nonpublic” for greater clarity. In Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships, changed “background check services” to “fingerprinting and/or background check services”; changed “professional references or information about previous clients and/or business ventures” to “professional references and/or information about current and/or previous clients, customers, and/or business ventures”; and changed “professional references or previous clients …” to “current and/or past colleagues and/or coworkers, current and/or past clients and/or customers, current and/or past business partners, professional references, current and/or past instructors and/or students …” In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to similarly change “background check services” to “fingerprinting and/or background check services” for completeness. (For the record, we’ve heretofore never used fingerprinting services in the course of our business, but we can envision a number of scenarios in which we conceivably might, hence the addition.) In the Categories of Personal Information Collected of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the “Education information” bullet point to change “information about instructors, coursework, readings, academic projects, and/or theses” to “information about instructors, students, coursework, readings, academic projects, and/or theses”. In the Collection Sources subsection (again, both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “Subject matter experts …” to change “possibly including (again without limitation) other members of a given household and/or family” to “such as (again without limitation) friends, current and/or past colleagues and/or coworkers, current and/or past clients and/or customers, current and/or past business partners, professional references, current and/or past instructors and/or students, and/or other members of a given household and/or family”. Added a bullet point to that list: “Nonpublic documents, records, collections, and/or archives (e.g., unpublished correspondence, manuscripts, and/or interviews; unreleased scripts, outtakes, and/or other materials from film, television, radio, and/or other media projects; internal business records, reports, and/or documents; school transcripts)”. (Tinkered a bit with the precise wording of these changes after initial publication.)
May 11, 2021: In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, further adjusted the references to EFF to remove the duplicate policy link and again reorder the trademark notice. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, updated the paragraph beginning “From time to time, site visitors …” to change “site visitors or personal and/or professional acquaintances” to “site visitors and/or personal and/or professional acquaintances” (since site visitors and acquaintances are obviously not mutually exclusive!). In the Collection Sources subsection of the of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), briefly revised the bullet point beginning “Subject matter experts …” to change “(which in some cases may include (without limitation) personal and/or professional acquaintances, possibly including (again without limitation) other members of a given household and/or family)” to “(which in some cases may include (without limitation) personal and/or professional acquaintances and/or other members of a given household and/or family),” but then reconsidered and restored the original wording after initial publication. In the last bullet point in that same list (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “publishers or other third parties” to “publishers and/or other third parties” (mostly for internal consistency).
May 10, 2021: In the Taxes subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “VAT, or other tax” to “VAT, GST, and/or other taxes”. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “Privacy Badger and/or other browser add-ons or privacy tools Electronic Frontier Foundation” to “Privacy Badger® and/or other browser add-ons or privacy tools offered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation® (EFF®)”; added a parenthetical note that those add-ons and/or tools may incorporate and/or otherwise use information and/or rules sets provided by other third parties; and updated the trademark notice to place the listed marks in a more consistent order. In the Taxes subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “VAT, or other tax” to “VAT, GST, In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added some additional examples to the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers: “photography, videography, and/or filming services and/or studios”; “recording, editing, and/or mixing services for audio, video, and/or audiovisual content”; “sound and/or lighting technical and/or engineering services”; and “convention centers, conference centers, meeting rooms, exhibit and/or exhibition halls, concert halls, stadiums, arenas, places of worship, and/or other such venues, and/or ticket brokers and/or other vendors who sell or otherwise provide tickets for and/or admission to such venues (for purposes of attending, obtaining tickets for and/or admission to, arranging, organizing, and/or otherwise accessing and/or utilizing conventions, conferences, meetings, exhibitions, screenings, public performances, athletic events, ceremonies, services, and/or other such events, and/or the facilities therefor); event planning, management, and/or organization services; private security services”. Also changed “photo development, photo processing” to “film and/or photo development, film and/or photo processing”; updated the references to Logitech to change “… and Website Privacy Statement” to “and/or their Website Privacy Statement”; added a registered trademark symbol to the reference to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, added “(EFF®)” parenthetically after it, and updated the trademark notice to put the listed marks in consistent order; updated the reference to Epic Privacy Browser to change “integrated proxy/VPN service” to “encrypted proxy/VPN service browser extension; and added a trademark notice for ImgBurn. Updated the Cookie Notice to clarify that disabling Google Analytics tracking by this website doesn’t prevent the use of Google Analytics by our third-party embedded content providers and that there may be multiple versions of certain administrative and login and/or password-protected posts cookies. Also fixed a typographical error in the Google Analytics section (removing an extra comma and space left over from a prior revision) and made a couple of other minor punctuation adjustments.
May 9, 2021: In Information You Provide to Us, changed “financial or legal matters” to “financial and/or legal matters”. In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy section, changed “accountant/bookkeeper, tax preparer, and/or tax attorney” to “accountant/bookkeeper(s), tax preparer(s), and/or tax attorney(s)” (mostly for wording consistency with the rest of that list). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), revised the “Records of financial transactions” bullet point (under “Additional categories of personal information”) to change “including, as applicable, but without limitation, transaction ID numbers, tax-related information, and/or check/bank account information” to “including, where applicable, but without limitation, transaction ID numbers, tax-related information, billing addresses, full and/or partial card information, check information, bank account information, and/or other account details”. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “tax preparer and/or other financial or legal professionals for administrative and compliance purposes” to “tax preparer(s) and/or other financial and/or legal professionals for administrative and/or compliance purposes” for internal consistency.
May 8, 2021: In the Disclosure of Personally Information, updated the reference to LiveJournal in the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to also refer to the archiving tool we’ve used with that service. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, fixed a typographical error in the “Other financial information” bullet point (“assets, benefits income, and/or liabilities” was supposed to be “assets, benefits, income, and/or liabilities,” matching the text of the equivalent bullet point on this page).
May 5, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added “cryptographic key servers and/or other encryption key management services and/or tools” to the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers.
May 3, 2021: In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, added a sentence to the paragraph beginning, “As explained in the …”: “We (and/or our applicable service providers) may also perform other types of automated tests on messages we receive — for example (but without limitation), we may automatically filter, flag, and/or categorize certain types of messages to help us better organize and manage our inbox(es).” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added a bullet point under “Other types of personal information”: “Information about social class, rank, position, title, and/or investiture, of whatever type(s) and/or source(s)”.
May 2, 2021: In the Financial Transactions Policy, added “research and publishing” to the Purposes bullet point; rearranged the Transaction-Related Information Gathering section to put certain text in more logical order (making some minor text edits to suit the revised structure); and added additional language regarding other uses of transaction-related data, particularly aggregated data such as total sales and/or revenue. Also added similar language to Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties and added “research and publishing” to the Purposes bullet point of that section for consistency. (These revisions don’t represent any substantive change in how or why we collect and/or use information in these contexts; the changes are intended for clarification and to spell out certain things we had previously assumed would be reasonably self-evident.)
April 30, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to change “other search engines and/or other research tools” to “other search engines and/or other research and/or reference tools, services, facilities, and/or resources” for completeness. Later in that list, also updated the trademark notice for Microsoft Bing Search to include Bing Maps and updated the trademark notice for the International DOI Foundation marks to add an additional registered trademark symbol. Also changed “ride-share” to “rideshare” (since the latter is now generally accepted as a word) and changed “travel via such means and/or arrange such transportation for someone” to “use and/or arrange such transportation” for clarity and conciseness. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “Authorship, other credits, and/or rights holder information” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to add “choreography” to the parenthetical examples.
April 26, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to museum, libraries, archives, and/or databases in the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to change “their computers, catalogs, databases …” to “their collections, holdings, catalogs, databases, computers …” and changed “librarians, archivists, and/or other staff” to “librarians, archivists, docents, guides, other staff, workers, and/or volunteers, as applicable” for the avoidance of doubt. (Hopefully, this was all already reasonably self-evident!).
April 25, 2021: In the Taxes subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “such as sales or use tax” to “e.g., sales or use tax”; changed “or other tax” to “and/or other tax”; changed the word “collect” to “collect and/or withhold” throughout that subsection; and changed “are your sole responsibility” to “are your sole responsibility, as are any tax returns and/or other documents you may be required to submit to the applicable tax agency or agencies in connection with such transactions.” In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “or in connection with audits …” to “and/or in connection with audits …” In the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers under Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “restaurants, meal delivery, and/or food/grocery delivery services” to “restaurants, caterers and/or other food preparation services, meal delivery services, and/or food and/or grocery delivery services” for completeness. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added a bullet point under “Professional or employment-related information”: “Information about professional clients, clientele, customers, users, advertisers, vendors, suppliers, contractors, subcontractors, and/or service providers”. In the bullet point about other professional relationships, changed “including, but not limited to” to “such as, without limitation” and changed “and/or partnerships” to “endorsement deals, contractor and/or subcontractor relationships, colleagues, coworkers, mentor/mentee relationships, professional collaborations, joint ventures, and/or partnerships” for more thorough illustration.
April 24, 2021: In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, updated the second bullet point to change “common carrier, or shipping agency” to “common carrier(s), and/or shipping agency (or agencies)” and change “in the event we must mail, ship, or deliver anything in connection with your transaction” to “for purposes of sending, receiving, and/or tracking the status of transaction-related correspondence, shipments, and/or deliveries” for greater clarity and completeness. In the subsequent bullet point, changed “the applicable third party or parties” to “the applicable person(s) or entity” and changed “made as a gift for someone” to “you make as a gift for someone else” for greater clarity. In Additional Information About Data Retention, changed “SMS/MMS text messages” to “text messages” (since not all modern text messages use the SMS or MMS protocols, and it makes little sense to try to enumerate different text message protocols in this policy). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added “data recovery services” to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers and changed “data and/or document destruction/shredding services” to “data and/or document destruction and/or shredding services” for greater clarity. Amended the April 8, 2021 and April 10, 2021 items in this Recent Revisions list to change erroneous references to the “Disclosure of Personal Information” section to “Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information” (the correct name of the applicable section).
April 21, 2021: In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, updated the paragraph beginning “In some cases, we may perform WHOIS, RDAP …” to change “on visitors’ IP addresses and/or domain names” to “on certain IP addresses and/or domain names” and change “directed at the website or at us” to “directed at and/or otherwise involving this website, our business, and/or us.” In the next sentence, changed “or” to “and/or”. In the following sentence, changed “to which our devices connect or try to connect” to “to which our devices and/or systems connect or attempt to connect (and/or that connect or attempt to connect to our devices and/or systems).” In the last sentence of that paragraph, changed “make or attempt to make” to “make and/or attempt to make”. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “WHOIS and/or RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol) lookup providers” to “WHOIS, RDAP (Registration Data Access Protocol), and/or similar lookup providers” and changed “an IP address or a domain registration” to “IP addresses and/or domain registrations” for internal consistency. Elsewhere in that section, amended the bullet point beginning “If the information is contained in and/or otherwise incorporated …” to change “or a useful article” to “a useful article, or some other object”; change “to such work(s), copies, or article(s)” to “to such work, copy, article, or object”; change “without damaging the item or article in question” to “without damage and/or defacement”; and change “those items or articles” to “that work, copy, article, or object.” In the text following the bullet-pointed list in that section, changed “and/or useful article(s)” to “useful article(s), and/or other object(s)” and changed “and/or such useful article(s)” to “and/or such article(s) and/or object(s)” for consistency. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), similarly revised the bullet point beginning “If the information is contained in and/or otherwise incorporated …” and, in the subsequent paragraph beginning “As noted in …” changed “and/or useful article(s)” to “useful article(s), and/or other object(s)” for consistency. (These are just clarifications, taking into account that some objects these provisions would reasonably encompass wouldn’t necessarily qualify as “useful articles.”)
April 17, 2021: In Definitions, updated the “Domain name” definition to change “of the Internet service provider or mobile carrier” to “of the Internet service provider, mobile carrier, or server” (which is more correct). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Property Rights page), rearranged the order of several bullet points under “Other types of personal information” to change “Information about membership in and/or affiliation with other types of groups and/or clubs” to “Information about membership in and/or affiliation with clubs, societies, fraternal orders, and/or other types of groups” for greater clarity and illustration. (We tinkered with this revised wording after initial publication.)
April 14, 2021: In Definitions, revised the definition of user agent information to clarify that web browsers, email clients, and search engine crawlers are just examples of user agents, not an exclusive list, and change “access web content” to “access and/or retrieve online content” (which is more accurate). Also changed “At a minimum, a browser’s user agent information typically reveals …” to “The information that may be revealed in this way naturally varies depending on the specific user agent involved. A web browser’s user agent information typically reveals, at a minimum, …” for clarity and changed “their specific combination of browser characteristics” to “their specific combination of user agent characteristics” (which is a bit more precise). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the recently added bullet point regarding landlord(s) to add the parenthetical phrase “(and/or their respective employees, contractors, and/or agents)” for the avoidance of doubt.
April 12, 2021: In the Refunds and Returns subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, amended the “Other Purchases” bullet point to note that for services that we have partly performed, but not yet wholly completed, we reserve the right (except as otherwise required by law or the applicable payment processor(s) and/or financial institution(s)) to calculate refunds on a pro rata basis, depending on the nature of the service and the percentage or proportion already performed or otherwise completed. (We initially said “partially performed,” but changed it to “partly performed” and made some minor punctuation changes after initial publication.) Rearranged the language of that bullet point for clarity with this addition. Also amended the final sentence of each bullet point in that subsection to clarify that we may refund purchases or transactions in whole or in part, and to add a comma before “at our sole discretion” where there wasn’t one already. In the final bullet point in that subsection, also changed “any individual transaction” or “any individual transaction or transactions” for consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added “copying and/or facsimile services” to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers (in the “Other types of service providers” bullet point). Elsewhere in that list, changed “encyclopedias and/or dictionaries, calculators and/or unit conversion tools …” to “encyclopedias and/or dictionaries, almanacs, calculators and/or unit conversion tools …”
April 10, 2021: In Definitions, changed “videos” to “films and/or other videos”. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “films or other videos” to “films and/or other videos” and changed “videos, audio interviews, and/or podcasts” to “films and/or other videos, audio interviews, and/or podcasts” (mostly for the avoidance of doubt). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added “icon generators” and “font and/or typeface providers and/or repositories” to the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers; changed “other retailers or vendors” to “other retailers, vendors, distributors, and/or providers”; and changed “search for and/or purchase materials …” to “search for, purchase, and/or otherwise obtain and/or access materials …” Also added a bullet point to that list pertaining to our landlord(s) and updated the trademark notice for Jalopnik. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “Information about art, books …” (under “Commercial information”) to change “films, videos” to “films and/or other videos”; updated the bullet point about real property (also under “Commercial information”) to change “real property and/or lodgings” to “real property, residence(s), and/or lodgings” and change “particular lodgings and/or …” to “particular lodgings; a particular residence; and/or …” (mostly for clarification — “lodgings” was always intended to encompass residential accommodations as well as short-term lodgings); updated the bullet point on “Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information” to change “videos” to “films and/or other videos”; and updated the bullet point beginning “Authorship, other credits …” (under “Professional or employment-related information”) to change “videos” to “films and/or other videos” for consistency. In the Collection Sources subsection, updated the bullet point beginning “Published and/or publicly available sources to change “film, videos television programs” to “films and/or other videos, television programs” for consistency and to fix a punctuation error. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection, updated the list following the sentence beginning “Actions like the following …” to change “names, photographs, videos, or biographical information” to “names, images depicting recognizable individuals, and/or biographical information” for clarity.
April 9, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to change “search for and/or purchase materials” to “search for and/or purchase materials, equipment, software, and/or supplies” for completeness. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the last bullet point under “Internet or similar network activity information” to change “applications, devices” to “applications, software, devices” for the avoidance of doubt.
April 8, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added “sanitation, waste disposal, trash disposal, waste reclamation, and/or recycling services” to the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers (in the “Other types of service providers” bullet point).
April 7, 2021: In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection, updated the “Research and publishing” bullet point to change “creating and publishing our content” to “creating and/or publishing (and/or performing, broadcasting, exhibiting, and/or otherwise disseminating, as applicable) our content” and change “to create and/or publish” to “to create and/or publish (and/or perform, broadcast, exhibit, and/or otherwise disseminate)” to better align with the current language elsewhere in this policy. (These changes don’t reflect any actual change in how or why we collect and use information!) Made the same changes to the equivalent bullet point in the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page for consistency. In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, changed “may be published or disclosed in that context” to “may be published and/or otherwise disclosed in that context” for internal consistency. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “is intended for eventual publication (and/or public performance, exhibition, and/or broadcast, as applicable)” to “is intended for eventual publication (and/or public performance, broadcast, and/or exhibition, as applicable)” and changed “may be published and/or disclosed” to “may be published and/or otherwise disclosed” for wording consistency. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the second-to-last bullet point under “Internet or similar network activity information” to change “electronic devices, files, and/or data” to “electronic devices, files, messages, communications, and/or data” for completeness.
April 6, 2021: In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, updated the paragraph referencing the Security Scans section to change “messages we send or receive via text or email …” to just “messages we send or receive …” and change “forwarded to us via email or text message” to “forwarded to us via some other means.” In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, made a similar change in the paragraph referencing the Security Scans section, changing “send or receive via email or text” to “send or receive” for consistency. In those two sections and the Website Server, Error, and Security Logs; Comments; and Contact Forms sections, also changed “scanned for spam and/or malware” to “scanned for suspected spam, malware, and/or other suspicious activity” for wording consistency. In Data in Submitted Images, changed “When the image or media file is published …” to “If the image or media file is published …”
April 5, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the trademark notice for Apple Inc. in the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers. Also made a number of minor wording changes to the bullet point on photos, images, and/or other media (changing “associate the photos and/or other media in which they appear” to “associate photos, images, and/or other media in which they appear” and changing “in a photo or other media” to “in a photo, image, or other media”) for consistency. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, further updated the examples in the list beginning “subject matter experts …” to add “publicists and/or promoters, public relations representatives and/or other press contacts” to the enumerated examples (after “other media creators”). In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made the same addition to the bullet point beginning “Subject matter experts …” for internal consistency.
April 4, 2021: In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “subject matter experts, other writers, historians, biographers, researchers, instructors and/or coaches, academics, scientists and/or engineers, journalists, critics, reviewers, enthusiasts, collectors, librarians and/or other library staff, archivists, photographers, videographers, filmmakers, illustrators, podcasters, other media creators, observers, eyewitnesses, and/or other knowledgeable parties …” to “subject matter experts, other writers, historians, biographers, researchers, instructors and/or coaches, academics, scientists and/or engineers, journalists, critics, reviewers, enthusiasts, collectors, librarians and/or other library staff, archivists, translators, photographers, videographers, filmmakers, illustrators, podcasters, other media creators, observers, eyewitnesses, and/or other knowledgeable parties …” In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made the same change in the bullet point beginning “Subject matter experts …” for internal consistency.
April 2, 2021: Made a clarification to the April 1, 2021 entry in this Recent Revisions list. In Comments, changed “The email address you entered in the “Email” field will not be published, nor will your IP address, although any contact information you may have included in the “Comment” field will be, as will any images and/or other media files you include …” to “The email address you enter in the “Email” field will not be published with your comment, nor will your IP address, although any contact information you include in the “Comment” field may be, as may any images and/or other media files you include …” and revised the last sentence to change “We may disclose non-public information related to user comments …” to “Except as otherwise indicated above, we may disclose personal information we receive through and/or in connection with user comments …” In Contact Forms, similarly amended the last sentence to change “may disclose information” to “may disclose personal information” for consistency.
April 1, 2021: In Definitions, updated the definition of domain name to change “sometimes also record a domain name in connection with that IP address; this is typically the domain name of …” to “may also record a domain name, sometimes called a hostname, along with the IP address; this hostname is typically a domain name of …” for greater clarity. (Generally, the website’s server logs don’t collect such information (although there are exceptions, e.g., search engine bots that have a feedback email address included in their user agent information), but some administrative or security logs may — for example, in connection with administrative user logins.) In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to change “transcription and/or translation services, automated or otherwise” to “transcription, captioning, subtitling, and/or translation services, automated or otherwise” for completeness. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the “Education information” bullet point to change “degrees and/or credentials” to “degrees, certifications, and/or credentials” and change “information about academic projects and/or theses” to “information about instructors, coursework, readings, academic projects, and/or theses” (again for completeness).
March 31, 2021: In Website Server, Error, and Security Logs, changed “may retain certain specific information from the website’s logs if it is still needed for ongoing security, troubleshooting, and/or technical improvement purposes” to “may retain certain specific information from the website’s logs for longer periods if it is still needed for ongoing security, troubleshooting, and/or technical improvement purposes and/or for legal reasons” for greater clarity. In Security Scans, added “names*” to the categories of information gathered and updated the paragraph on data retention to add “although we may retain certain information for longer periods if it is still needed for ongoing security, troubleshooting, and/or technical improvement purposes and/or for legal reasons, and/or if it pertains to administrative resources or controls that are normally off-limits except to authorized administrative users” (set off with a comma) after “… is typically retained for 30 days or less” for consistency and to reiterate the point. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point on independent contractors/employees/agents/business partners to change “confidentiality policies” to “confidentiality policies and/or confidentiality agreements” (mostly for the avoidance of doubt — obviously, a confidentiality policy may be established by agreement as well as by unilateral decision, so we’ve always regarded these terms as essentially synonymous for the purposes of this provision); added “educational and/or instructional resources and/or services, tutorials and/or other training resources and/or services” to the list of examples of third-party vendors and service providers (in the search engine and/or research tool bullet); and changed “teachers, instructors, trainers, tutors, and/or other educators” (in the other types of service providers bullet) to “teachers, instructors, trainers, tutors, coaches and/or other educators” for completeness.
March 30, 2021: In the first sentence of the preamble, added a comma before “and how we may use …” to improve readability. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “instructors and/or academics …” to “instructors and/or coaches, academics …” In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made the same change in the bullet point beginning “Subject matter experts …” for internal consistency.
March 29, 2021: In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “other Google services” to “other Google products and/or services” (since not all their products are necessarily services). In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “through their employees, independent contractors, agents, business partners, vendors, and/or service providers” to “through their employees, independent contractors, agents or other authorized representatives, business partners, vendors, and/or service providers” for greater consistency within that paragraph. In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “and/or through your employees, agents, representatives, vendors, and/or service providers (as applicable)” to “and/or through your employees, independent contractors, agents or other authorized representatives, business partners, vendors, and/or service providers” to match the current language in Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources. In that same bullet point, also changed “through your direct interactions” to “through your interactions” and changed “through other public disclosures you’ve made” to “through public disclosures you make” for greater clarity and better grammar. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (again, both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added a bullet point under “Commercial information” about “Information about food, groceries, meals, recipes, and/or cuisine(s) an individual or household purchases, otherwise receives and/or obtains, prepares, consumes, prefers, and/or disdains” and updated the “Information about specific vehicles” bullet point (under “Other types of personal information”) to change “… and/or other identifying characteristics …” to “… vehicle position(s) and/or location(s); and/or other identifying characteristics …” set off with a semicolon rather than a comma. Fixed a typographical error in the March 28, 2021 entry below (“In Collection Sources section” was supposed to be “In the Collection Sources subsection”) and removed an extra space in the February 3, 2021 entry.
March 28, 2021: In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “and/or through your employees, agents, representatives, and/or service providers (as applicable)” to “and/or through your employees, agents, representatives, vendors, and/or service providers (as applicable)” for internal consistency. (The Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources section already referred to information that might be provided by vendors and/or service providers, so this is just a matter of better aligning the wording.)
March 27, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the list of examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to change “and/or audiovisual streaming services or platforms” to “online and/or satellite radio and/or television services, and/or streaming services or platforms (of whatever type)” (mostly for greater clarity). (We initially said “radio and/or television stations,” but changed “stations” to “services” later in the day.) Elsewhere in that list, also corrected some minor punctuation errors in the reference to Epic Privacy Browser; changed “and associated” to “associated”; added the words “search extension” after “EpicSearch.in” for clarity; and added “and/or other extensions and/or themes” to the end of that reference. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “other automotive writers or historians …” to “other writers, historians …” and added “photographers, videographers, filmmakers, illustrators, podcasters, other media creators” to the listed examples. Made the same changes in Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page) for consistency. In the latter section, also deleted the separate bullet point on “Photographers, videographers, illustrators, podcasters, and/or other media creators” (which the other changes made redundant).
March 26, 2021: In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, added a paragraph about other types of third-party service providers and/or vendors that may provide us with transaction-related information. In the paragraph beginning “Where we receive …” changed “process and complete the relevant transactions” to “process and complete the relevant transaction(s) (and/or resolve transaction-related problems)” and change “service improvement purposes” to “service improvement and/or troubleshooting purposes” (mostly for clarity). In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, revised the examples of third parties with whom we may discuss and/or share information related to our content and/or creative endeavors to change “historians, researchers and/or other academics, journalists, enthusiasts/collectors, librarians, archivists, observers, eyewitnesses …” to “historians, biographers, researchers, instructors and/or academics, scientists and/or engineers, journalists, critics, reviewers, enthusiasts, collectors, librarians and/or other library staff, archivists, observers, eyewitnesses …” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated a bullet point under “Other types of personal information” to change “Information about an individual’s style(s), themes, influences, tendencies, development, and/or achievements in writing, art (in whatever medium(s)), music, fashion, and/or other creative endeavors (professional or otherwise)” to “Information about an individual’s style(s), themes, influences, tendencies, development, and/or achievements in writing, art (in whatever medium(s)), photography, filmmaking, music, fashion, design, architecture, and/or other creative endeavors (professional or otherwise)” (mostly to better illustrate the point). In the Collection Sources subsection (again on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point beginning “Subject matter experts …” to match the revised examples listed in Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, for greater internal consistency.
March 19, 2021: In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, added a paragraph after the one about hiring and employment, regarding information we may gather about prospective clients, employers, and/or other individuals or entities for whom we might provide services, license/sell/otherwise offer our content, and/or otherwise work. (We also made a couple of minor wording adjustments to the new paragraph after initial publication.) In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information and the equivalent bullet point in the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet point regarding editors, publishers, clients, employers, etc., to change “as we may reasonably be requested or directed to do as part of and/or in connection with such services …” to “as we may reasonably elect or be requested or directed to do as part of and/or in connection with such services …” Also updated the reference to local library systems (in the list of examples of third-party vendors and service providers) to change “communication with their librarians …” to “communications with their librarians …” for better grammar. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (also on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated a bullet point under “Professional or employment-related information” to change “Other professional relationships (e.g., …”) to “Information about other professional relationships (including, but not limited to, …” for greater clarity and to fix an HTML error (unclosed list item tag). Added a bullet point under “Other types of personal information”: “Information about an individual’s style(s), themes, influences, tendencies, development, and/or achievements in writing, art (in whatever medium(s)), music, fashion, and/or other creative endeavors (professional or otherwise)”. (This is really just spelling out more clearly a range of information that would probably be reasonably encompassed by several of the examples already listed.)
March 18, 2021: In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, updated the paragraph beginning “In the same way …” to change “about other individual(s) or entities involved in the transaction” to “about other individual(s) or entities involved in or otherwise connected with the transaction” for completeness. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information and the equivalent bullet point in the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “for the use of their photos, fonts, themes/plugins, or other content or intellectual property” to “for the use of their images, other media, fonts, themes/plugins, and/or other content or intellectual property” (mainly for greater internal consistency). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (also on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the bullet on “medical information” (under “Additional categories of personal information”) to add “healthcare providers and/or organizations visited, consulted, and/or otherwise used or seen” to the listed examples and updated the second bullet point under “Commercial information” to change “Information about art, books, other publications, films, videos, and/or other media an individual or household has considered, read, watched, and/or otherwise consumed; desires/intends to consume; and/or is considering consuming” to “Information about art, books, other publications, films, videos, music, and/or other media an individual or household has read, watched, viewed, listened to, and/or otherwise consumed; desires/intends to read, watch, view, listen to, and/or otherwise consume; and/or is considering reading, watching, viewing, listening to, and/or otherwise consuming” (mainly for consistency and the avoidance of doubt; the gist of this bullet point was hopefully already reasonably apparent). Further updated the bullet point on “Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information” to add “live streams” to the listed examples and change “voice and/or video calls” to “voice and/or video calls or chats” for completeness. Under “Professional or employment-related information,” revised the bullet point on publishing histories/bibliographies/etc. to change “engineers, scientists, inventors” to “researchers, scientists, engineers, inventors” for completeness (and a slightly more logical order). Under “Other types of personal information,” changed “Information about other beliefs, opinions, attitudes, and/or viewpoints” to “Information about other beliefs, opinions, feelings, predispositions, attitudes, and/or viewpoints” and updated the bullet point beginning “Handwritten notes and/or documents …” to separate the principal listed examples using semicolons rather than commas (for grammatical reasons).
March 17, 2021: In Data in Submitted Images, changed “in a video or audio recording, broadcast, other media” to “in a video or audio recording, broadcast, or other media” for grammar. Updated the paragraph beginning, “Naturally, if you submit …” to change “contained in the image or media file and its metadata” to “contained in the image or media file and its metadata, as well as any other information you provide to us about the image or media file, its subject(s) and/or setting(s), and/or the context in which it was created.” In the paragraph beginning “If we use your images …” changed “the provenance of the media files we use” to “the provenance of the images and/or media files we use” for wording consistency. In the paragraph beginning “We typically also gather additional information …” changed “… any subjects and/or settings they depict or illustrate so that we can correctly identify and describe them” to “… any subject(s) and/or setting(s) they depict or illustrate so that we can correctly identify and describe them (and/or so we can understand and/or accurately describe the circumstances under which the images and/or other media were created — e.g., where and when a particular photograph was taken).” Also added a new final sentence to that paragraph: “Such information may come from a variety of sources depending on the nature of the images and/or media files and the context in which we obtained them.” In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, changed “similar information or lists” to similar information and/or lists” and changed “if we need additional technical assistance” to just “if we need technical assistance” for consistency and clarity. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), updated the “Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information” bullet point to add “voice and/or video calls” to the listed examples (mainly for the avoidance of doubt; we would hope it would be reasonably self-evident that a voice call would involve audio information, for instance!). Under “Professional or employment-related information,” also updated the bullet point on publishing histories/bibliographies/etc. to fix a typographical error (changing “producers developers” to “producers, developers”); add “photographers” and “editors” to the examples listed in that bullet point; and change “other professionals” to “other such professionals” for clarity. Made a couple of minor clarifications to the wording of the present entry in this Recent Revisions list.
March 16, 2021: In the preamble, amended the paragraph regarding third-party websites or services to change “is subject to the individual privacy policies …” to just “is subject to the respective privacy policies …” for greater clarity. In Online Tracking, updated the last sentence of the paragraph regarding the Google Ads Data Processing terms to change “will shortly also be updated” to “will be further updated” (since it’s now been almost six months since we added that sentence and no additional updates have yet been presented to us). Added the Have I Been Pwned data breach notification service and/or other data breach notification and/or identity theft protection services to the examples listed in Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes and the examples of third-party vendors and service providers listed under Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information. In the latter section, changed “secure our devices and/or data” to “secure our system(s), device(s), and/or data” for internal consistency. Elsewhere in that section, updated the bullet point on Google to change “apps, services, and/or tools” to “software, apps, tools, and/or services”; updated the bullet point on Microsoft to change both instances of the phrase “software, apps, tools, and services” to “software, apps, tools, and/or services”; changed “Other providers of apps, tools, and/or services” to “Other providers of software, apps, tools, and/or services”; and updated the reference to Adobe to change both instances of “apps, software, and other services and/or tools” to “software, apps, tools, and/or services” for internal consistency. Deleted the now duplicative reference to identity theft protection services under the “Other types of service providers” bullet point. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Property Rights page), revised the “Education information” bullet point to add “information about academic projects and/or theses” to the listed examples and revised one of the bullet points under “Other types of personal information” to change “Handwritten notes, documents …” to “Handwritten notes and/or documents …” for greater clarity. Made a minor amendment to this entry in Recent Revisions for clarity and consistency and made a minor clarification to the Jan. 2, 2020 entry to avoid potential misunderstanding.
March 15, 2021: In Definitions, changed a reference to “our system and device(s)” to “our system(s) and/or device(s)”. In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection (both on this page and the equivalent Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, updated the bullet point on security, troubleshooting, quality control, and technical improvement to change “our systems/devices” to “our system(s) and/or device(s)” for internal consistency. In Security Scans, changed “and/or our system and devices periodically supply …” to “and/or our system(s) and/or device(s) may periodically supply …” (again for consistency). (These revisions are nitpicking language adjustments, and don’t reflect any actual change in how or why we collect and use information.) In the data retention bullet point in Comments, changed “IP address and user agent information” to “IP addresses and/or user agent information” for grammar and more precise wording.
March 14, 2021: In the preamble, amended the Important Note paragraph to change “pertaining to our use, disclosure, and/or retention …” to “pertaining to the use, disclosure, and/or retention …” to reduce the potential for confusion and to be more broadly applicable. In Security Scans, added “special: fingerprint data*” to the categories of information gathered; changed “Some of the security measures we use to protect our device(s) from loss or theft may …” to “Some of the security measures we use to protect our device(s) may …”; changed “anti-theft/loss-protection features” to “security features”; and added “scan the user’s fingerprint” to the examples of the information that those features might gather in certain circumstances. In the final paragraph of Security Scans, changed “and/or post such information publicly” to “and/or publicly disclose such information” and changed “need additional technical assistance” to just “need technical assistance” for clarity. In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, revised the last sentence of the paragraph beginning, “Naturally, our security software and/or services …” to change “regarding third-party data breaches” to “regarding data breaches and/or suspected intrusion attempts” and “to malicious actors” to “to unauthorized persons and/or malicious actors” for clarity. In the examples of third-party vendors and service providers under Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “encyclopedias and/or dictionaries” to “encyclopedias and/or dictionaries, calculators and/or unit conversion tools” for completeness. Also corrected a punctuation error (incorrectly nested parentheses) elsewhere in that list and added “link shorteners and/or other hyperlink redirection services or tools” to the listed examples (in the “accessing the Internet” bullet point). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the examples listed in the bullet point on “Biometric information” to note that our smartphone(s) and/or other devices may be configured to be unlocked using a fingerprint (which the law regards as biometric information).
March 13, 2021: Updated the “Important Note” paragraph of the preamble, changing “in the event you hire us to perform writing, editing, and/or writing consulting work pursuant to a contract or written agreement that includes provisions pertaining to our use, disclosure, and/or retention of information related to such work (e.g., confidentiality or nondisclosure provisions), the terms of that contract or agreement …” to “in the event you make some separate written agreement with us pertaining to this website, our content, and/or our writing/editing/writing consulting business (such as, without limitation, a contract for professional services, an advertising or endorsement agreement, or a license agreement for the use of our content) that includes provisions pertaining to our use, disclosure, and/or retention of certain information related to such agreement and/or the subject(s) thereof (e.g., confidentiality or nondisclosure provisions, and/or stipulations to not disclose certain information prior to a specific date/time), the terms of that agreement …” In Definitions, updated the definition of “Malicious Activity” to change “… our visitors/users, our system and device(s), and/or us, or defraud or attempt to defraud us, our service providers and/or vendors, and/or our visitors/users” to “… our visitors/users, our system and device(s), us, and/or others, or defraud or attempt to defraud us, our service providers and/or vendors, our visitors/users, and/or anyone else. (We consider spam to be a form of malicious activity.)” In Security Scans, changed “a variety of other anti-malware tools and security measures to protect our device(s), software, and data” to “a variety of other tools and security measures to protect our device(s), software, and data.” In the following paragraph, changed “suspected spam and/or malware” to “suspected spam, malware, and/or other suspicious activity” and changed “scan for different types of suspicious activity” to “scan for suspected spam, malware, and/or other suspicious activity” for clarity and consistency. In Financial Transactions Policy, changed “a contract for our professional services” to “a contract for professional services” for consistency. In Additional Information About Data Retention, updated the bullet on contact information and other details to add “their job title (if any)” to the listed examples of other personal details and added a comma after “for example (but without limitation)” for grammatical reasons. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added two bullet points under “Other types of personal information”: “Information about individuals’ places of birth and/or upbringing” and “Information about an individual or household’s involvement in and/or connection with an accident, natural disaster(s), and/or other catastrophic event(s) (of whatever type(s) and/or cause(s))”. Under “Commercial information,” changed “participation in sports, games, hobbies, and/or other pastimes” to “participation and/or interest in sports, games, hobbies, and/or other pastimes” and split “Opinions, critical judgments, tastes, preferences, and/or other information about an individual or household’s purchasing and/or consuming history and/or tendencies” into two bullet points: “Information about an individual or household’s critical judgments, tastes, opinions, and/or preferences” and “Other information about an individual or household’s purchasing and/or consuming history and/or tendencies” (mostly for consistency of wording). Under “Professional or employment-related information,” updated the bullet point on publishing histories/bibliographies/etc. to add filmmakers, musicians, and producers to the listed examples. (This is just for clarification, as the inclusion of such professionals was already implied.)
March 11, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, changed “… news services, online publications, websites …” to “… news services, newsletters, online publications, websites …” for completeness.
March 5, 2021: In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection and the equivalent Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page, amended the bullet point on “Security, troubleshooting, quality control, and technical improvement” to change “its users” to “its users/visitors” and change “… and/or us” to “… us, and/or others”. (These adjustments are just clarifications, made mostly for the sake of internal consistency, and don’t reflect any actual change in how or why we collect and use information.)
March 4, 2021: Made two minor clarifications to Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection and the equivalent Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page: In the “Providing services” bullet point, changed “provide our services” to just “provide services” and in the “Completing a transaction” bullet point, changed “conduct or complete financial transactions with you” to just “conduct or complete financial transactions”. (These revisions are nitpicking language adjustments, and don’t reflect any actual change in how or why we collect and use information.) In the latter bullet point, also changed the example “such as a contribution made through the payment button” to “such as (without limitation) payments for our professional services” (since this site doesn’t currently have a payment button; that reference was an artifact accidentally transferred from the Ate Up With Motor Privacy Policy in a past revision).
March 2, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the examples of third-party vendors and/or service providers to change “other online information services, repositories, news services …” to “other online information and/or reference services, encyclopedias and/or dictionaries, catalogs, repositories, news services …” In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the last bullet point under Internet or similar network activity information to change “use of and/or interactions with websites, applications, electronic systems and/or services (online and/or otherwise), and/or online advertisements, including, but not limited to, errors and/or suspicious activity” to “use of and/or interactions with websites, applications, devices, electronic systems and/or services (online and/or otherwise), and/or advertisements, including, but not limited to, information about errors and/or suspicious activity” for completeness and greater clarity.
February 27, 2021: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point on “Other physical characteristics and/or descriptions of individuals” to change the parenthetical examples from “(e.g., height, weight, hair color)” to “(e.g., height, weight, hair color, distinguishing marks and/or distinguishing features)” for completeness. (This is really just a clarification, since distinguishing marks or features would reasonably fall within the scope of this bullet point in any event.)
February 23, 2021: In Financial Transactions Policy, updated the first sentence of the Customer Service Information subsection to change “a transaction with 6200 Productions” to “a purchase or other transaction involving 6200 Productions” and added a new final paragraph to that subsection to clarify that questions or purchase/transaction-related inquires may also be submitted via any other contact method we may reasonably designate or make available to you for that purpose (e.g., the contact information listed on an invoice we submit to you or that is specified in an applicable written agreement or other business communication with us). (The contact information shown in Customer Service Information is intended as a general default, not a requirement for people with whom we already have some business relationship!) Made some minor clarifications to this entry in the Recent Revisions list to better explain the changes made.
February 13, 2021: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), added a bullet point under “Other types of personal information”: “Information about other beliefs, opinions, attitudes, and/or viewpoints”.
February 11, 2021: In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended a bullet point under Internet or similar network activity information to change “about an individual or household’s interactions with websites, applications, and/or online advertisements …” to “about an individual or household’s use of and/or interactions with websites, applications, electronic systems and/or services (online and/or otherwise), and/or online advertisements …” and removed the parentheses around “including, but not limited to, errors and/or suspicious activities,” setting off that clause with a comma instead. Under Other types of personal information, changed “Information about wills, estates, executorship, inheritance, trusts, trusteeship, and/or guardianship” to “Information about wills, estates, executorship, inheritance, trusts, trusteeship, conservatorship, and/or guardianship” for completeness.
February 7, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, amended the bullet point beginning “To editors, publishers, clients, employers …” to change “where the information is part of and/or otherwise pertains to such services, content, and/or work” to “where the information is part of and/or otherwise pertains to such services, content, and/or work (and/or the offer thereof)” for internal consistency and the avoidance of doubt.
February 6, 2021: In Information We Receive from Third Parties for Security Purposes, updated the paragraph referencing the “Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Professional Partnerships” section to change “we may also commission background checks on candidates we are considering hiring and/or individuals or entities with whom we are considering entering a business partnership or other formal professional relationship, to help us make informed decisions about whether that hire or relationship would present an undue risk to our security” to “if we hire, contemplate hiring, or enter into or contemplate entering into a business partnership or other professional relationship with some individual(s) or entity, we may conduct and/or commission background checks on such individual(s) or entity to help us make informed decisions regarding any potential security risks a particular individual or entity might present” (mostly for internal consistency). Corrected a typographical error in this entry.
February 3, 2021: Changed “recruitment/hiring” to “recruitment/hiring/employment” throughout this policy and the Your California Privacy Rights page, updating the Table of Contents accordingly. In Categories of Information and Purposes for Collection, updated the description of “Recruitment/hiring/employment or business partnerships” to change “and/or in entering or considering entering business partnerships or other formal professional relationships with someone” to “in entering or considering entering business partnerships or other formal professional relationships with someone; and/or in making other types of employment decisions and/or business decisions regarding formal professional relationships” (set off with a semicolon) for completeness. Made the same change in the Collection Purposes subsection of the version of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice that appears on the Your California Privacy Rights page for consistency. In the (renamed) Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Business Partnerships section, changed “some other individual or entity” to “some other individual(s) or entity” for completeness. Also changed “a broad range of personal information about any prospective employees, contractors, or business partners” to “a broad range of personal information about any current and/or prospective employees, contractors, and/or business partners” for completeness (obviously, if we decide to hire or otherwise go into business with someone, we will collect other information from them after the initial recruitment/hiring/decision-making stage — e.g., tax forms and payroll documents) and changed “may come from the candidates/applicants/contractors/prospective partners themselves and/or from a variety of third-party sources …” to “may come directly from the applicable individual(s) or entity and/or from third-party sources … for greater clarity. Later in that section, changed “information pertaining to prospective employees, contractors, business partners …” to “information pertaining to current and/or prospective employees, contractors, business partners …” (for similar reasons). In the last sentence of that section, changed “share or disclose the information” to “share or disclose such information” for clarity. In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, updated the reference to the Data Related to Recruitment/Hiring/Employment or Professional Partnerships section to change “contemplate hiring or entering into a business partnership or other professional relationship with someone” to “hire, contemplate hiring, or enter into (or contemplate entering into) a business partnership or other professional relationship with some individual(s) or entity” and change “the individual candidate(s) or prospective partner(s) themselves” to “the applicable individual(s) or entity” (to better align with the amended language of the referenced section and for clarity). In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the corresponding bullet point to change “regarding prospective employees, independent contractors, and/or business partners” to “regarding current and/or prospective employees, independent contractors, and/or business partners” for internal consistency. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), made the same change to the corresponding bullet point in the third bullet-pointed list, again for consistency. (We tinkered with the extent and wording of many of these changes after publishing our initial update.)
February 2, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to the Information Captured by Service/Software/App/Device Telemetry section to add a hyperlink to that section. Also changed “information related to 6200 Productions” to “information related to this website and/or its content, our professional writing/editing/writing consulting work, the management of our business operations, and/or our other creative endeavors” for greater clarity and internal consistency. (We tinkered with this wording after publishing the initial update.)
January 31, 2021: In Additional Information About Data Retention, changed “repeatedly or regularly correspond” to “repeatedly or regularly correspond and/or otherwise communicate” for greater clarity and internal consistency with the language of the rest of that bullet point. In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), fixed a technical issue with the link to the Ate Up With Motor Privacy Policy in the first paragraph. (The link itself didn’t change.)
January 29, 2021: In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, further adjusted the paragraph beginning “As should come as no surprise given our vocation and the nature of our services …” to change “discussing and sharing such information” to “discussing and/or sharing such information”; change “in the case of work we perform for others, the applicable client(s) or employer(s)” to “in the case of work we perform, propose to perform, and/or consider performing for others, the applicable client(s), employer(s), and/or prospective client(s) or employer(s)” for completeness; and change “If you are or were somehow involved with the subject(s) of one or more of our automotive articles and/or other content, if you are or were otherwise relevant to such articles and/or other content …” to “If you are or were somehow involved with the subject(s) of one or more of our automotive articles and/or our other content and/or creative endeavors, if you are or were otherwise relevant to such articles and/or other content and/or creative endeavors …” for internal consistency. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point beginning “As part of and/or in connection with our content and/or other creative endeavors …” to change “sharing and discussing relevant information” to “discussing and/or sharing relevant information” for consistency.
January 26, 2021: In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, in the paragraph beginning “From time to time, site visitors …” changed “or other personal or professional acquaintances …” to “or personal and/or professional acquaintances …” for internal consistency. Also amended the paragraph beginning “As should come as no surprise given our vocation and the nature of our services, we routinely gather …” to change “If you are or were somehow involved with the subject(s) of our content, and/or are a public figure …” to “If you are or were somehow involved with the subject(s) of our content, if you are or were otherwise relevant to such content, and/or if you are a public figure …” for completeness. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the hyperlink to the Audacity source code.
January 22, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, added “environmental remediation and/or inspection services” to the listed examples of third-party service providers.
January 20, 2021: In the Information Sharing subsection of the Financial Transactions Policy, changed “information pertaining to payments we make to you on behalf of …” to “information pertaining to payments we make to you (and/or transactions with which we are involved in some other way) on behalf of and/or otherwise involving …” and changed “pertains to our purchase of products or services (or some other, similar transaction(s)) …” to “pertains to our purchase of products and/or services (and/or some other, similar, comparable, and/or related transaction(s)) …” to be more broadly applicable. In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, changed “if we offer products or services …” to “if we offer products and/or services …”; changed “who purchase our products or services …” to “who purchase our products and/or services …”; and changed “our offered products or services …” to “our offered products and/or services …” In the following paragraph, changed “if we purchase products and/or services through a third-party vendor or service, or complete some other financial transaction via such means …” to “if we purchase products or services through a third-party vendor or service, conduct some other financial transaction(s) via such means, and/or are otherwise involved with such transaction(s) on behalf of and/or otherwise involving 6200 Productions …” for consistency. [Our initial revision said “complete some other financial transaction(s) conducted via such means,” but after publication, we realized “conduct some other financial transaction(s) via such means” would be better wording.] In the following paragraph, changed “pertains to our purchase of products or services (or some other, similar transaction(s)) …” to “pertains to our purchase of products and/or services (and/or some other, similar, comparable, and/or related transaction(s)) …” In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “their products or services” to “their products and/or services” (mostly for consistency). In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection (again, both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “Information about wills, estates, executorship, inheritance, trusts, and/or trusteeship” to “Information about wills, estates, executorship, inheritance, trusts, trusteeship, and/or guardianship” for completeness.
January 17, 2021: In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, updated the paragraph beginning “Published works …” to add newspapers and “broadcast radio and/or television programs, streaming media, other publicly available online content, and/or theatrical movies” to the parenthetical examples, mainly for the avoidance of doubt. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the bullet point on photographs, images, and/or other media to change “publish and/or collect for publication, on this website and/or elsewhere” to “use and/or collect for use on this website and/or elsewhere” (to avoid hairsplitting about any possible distinction between publication, public performance, broadcast, etc.). (We tinkered with this language after initially publishing the update after realizing we’d created a confusing wording inconsistency.) In the Categories of Personal Information Collected subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (on this page and the Your California Property Rights page), updated the bullet point on “Records of financial transactions” to change “transactions with” to “transactions with and/or otherwise involving” and change “including, as applicable …” to “including, as applicable, but without limitation …” (since transaction-related information may take a variety of different forms depending on the context). In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (again, both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “books, magazines, CDs, DVDs” to “books, magazines, newspapers, CDs, DVDs” and (in the following sentence) changed “copies of published books, magazines, CDs, and/or DVDs” to “copies of published books, magazines, newspapers, CDs, and/or DVDs” for internal consistency. (There’s obviously no question that a newspaper constitutes a published work!)
January 15, 2021: In Other Information We Receive from Third-Party Sources, changed “From time to time, our visitors or other personal or professional acquaintances may provide us with personal information about someone” to “From time to time, site visitors or other personal or professional acquaintances (which may include, but obviously are not limited to, other members of a given household and/or family) may provide us with personal information about some individual and/or household, whether directly or indirectly.” In the final sentence of that paragraph, changed “someone might provide us with pictures of it …” to “someone might provide us with pictures of and/or information about it …” In the subsequent paragraph in that section beginning “As should come as no surprise given our vocation and the nature of our services, we routinely gather …” updated the final sentence to change “if you have disclosed the information in some context known to us” to “if you have disclosed the information publicly and/or in some other context known to us” for greater clarity. In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, corrected a misspelling of “anonymize.” In the Collection Sources subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point beginning “You, whether …” to change “your direct communications with us” to “your direct interactions with us” and amended the bullet point beginning “Subject matter experts …” to change “… and/or other knowledgeable parties” to “… and/or other knowledgeable parties (which in some cases may include (without limitation) personal and/or professional acquaintances, possibly including (again without limitation) other members of a given household and/or family)” for clarity and internal consistency. (We initially made this “your personal and/or professional acquaintances and/or other members of your household and/or family,” but subsequently decided to make it more consistent with the revisions made to the earlier section noted above.) Also deleted “whether directly or indirectly” from the “other visitors/users” bullet point and added that phrase to the end of the sentence immediately preceding that list. In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection (again, both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), fixed another misspelling of “anonymize.”
January 13, 2021: In Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information, updated the reference to Cloudflare in the examples of third-party vendors and service providers to fix a typographical error (improperly nested parentheses).
January 6, 2021: In Other Inquiries, Messages, and Support Requests, changed “… that you otherwise make visible …” to “… that you make visible or otherwise accessible …” In Transaction-Related Information We Receive from Third Parties, changed “…” and/or that the person or entity has otherwise made visible to us through their individual settings” to “…” and/or that the person or entity makes visible or otherwise accessible to us.” In Information Provided by Social Media Services, changed “… and/or that the person or entity has otherwise made visible to us through their individual settings” to “… and/or that the person or entity makes visible or otherwise accessible to us.” (This is mostly nitpicking, for the sake of generality and consistency.)
January 2, 2021: In the Information Shared for Business or Commercial Purposes subsection of the CCPA Information Collection and Sharing Notice (both on this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), amended the bullet point beginning “The public …” to change “information that is already publicly available” to “information that otherwise is or was already publicly available” for greater consistency with the wording of the Disclosure of Personally Identifying Information section and the first bullet point of the subsequent list. In the first bullet point of the subsequent list (also on both this page and the Your California Privacy Rights page), changed “right to share, disclose, and/or discuss …” to “right to share, discuss, and/or otherwise disseminate …” again for more consistent wording.

For space reasons, we have moved the older entries in this revision list to a separate Older Privacy Policy Revisions page.