Privacy Policy
Thank you for joining the community of readers who enjoy humor and food. Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to ellisweiner.com and Ellis Weiner and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Ellis Weiner include ellisweiner.com, Ellis Weiner, and Ellis Weiner’s Learning from Linguine. The Ellis Weiner’s Learning from Linguine website is a subscription humor blog featuring articles written by humorist Ellis Weiner. By visiting or subscribing to the Ellis Weiner website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. If you have any question or concerns about this privacy policy, or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us at ellis.weiner@gmail.com. If there are terms in this privacy policy with which you disagree, please discontinue use of our site immediately. Our cookie policies are discussed here.
Collection of your Personal Information
In order to better provide you access to full site content via subscription, Ellis Weiner may collect personally identifiable information, such as your first and last name and your email address for the following:
- To facilitate account (subscription) creation and logon process.
- When you choose to post comments
- To send administrative information to you, regarding your subscription status
- To manage user (subscriber) accounts
- To protect our services, e.g., fraud monitoring and prevention
- To respond to user (subscriber) inquiries or provide support
- To notify users (subscribers) of new posts
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to subscribe. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) sending us an email message; (c) submitting your credit card or other payment information when subscribing or extending your subscription. We will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to your subscription. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Account Information
If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can log in to your account settings and update your user account.
Payment Data
We may collect data necessary to process your payment when you subscribe to the website, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number) and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data are stored by PayPal. You may find their privacy notice link here https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/privacy/privacyhub.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Ellis Weiner. This information can include log and usage data: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Ellis Weiner website. We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our website and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our website, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Security of your Personal Information
Ellis Weiner secures your personal information (such as a credit card number) from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will delete your personal information from our records.: Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
- Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
- Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
- Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
- Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
Children Under Thirteen
Ellis Weiner does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
Email Communications
From time to time, Ellis Weiner may contact you via email for the purpose of announcing new posts, promotional offers, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Ellis Weiner or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Ellis Weiner, you may opt out of such communications by requesting via email to ellis.weiner@gmail.com.
Changes to this Statement
Ellis Weiner reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information
Ellis Weiner welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Ellis Weiner has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Ellis Weiner at ellis.weiner@gmail.com.
Effective as of April 1, 2021
Cookies
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are and how we use them, the types of cookies we use i.e, the information we collect using cookies and how that information is used, and how to control the cookie preferences. For further information on how we use, store, and keep your personal data secure, see our Privacy Policy.
You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us, and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
Your consent applies to the following domains: ewlearning.flywheelsites.com.
What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are used to store small pieces of information. They are stored on your device when the website is loaded on your browser. These cookies help us make the website function properly, make it more secure, provide better user experience, and understand how the website performs and to analyze what works and where it needs improvement.
How Do We Use Cookies?
As most of the online services, our website uses first-party and third-party cookies for several purposes. First-party cookies are mostly necessary for the website to function the right way, and they do not collect any of your personally identifiable data.
The third-party cookies used on our website are mainly for understanding how the website performs, how you interact with our website, keeping our services secure, providing advertisements that are relevant to you, and all in all providing you with a better and improved user experience and help speed up your future interactions with our website.
What Types of Cookies Do We Use?
Essential: Some cookies are essential for you to be able to experience the full functionality of our site. They allow us to maintain user sessions and prevent any security threats. They do not collect or store any personal information. For example, these cookies allow you to log-in to your account and add products to your basket, and checkout securely.
Statistics: These cookies store information like the number of visitors to the website, the number of unique visitors, which pages of the website have been visited, the source of the visit, etc. These data help us understand and analyze how well the website performs and where it needs improvement.
Functional: These are the cookies that help certain non-essential functionalities on our website. These functionalities include embedding content like videos or sharing content of the website on social media platforms.
Preferences: These cookies help us store your settings and browsing preferences like language preferences so that you have a better and efficient experience on future visits to the website.
The below list details the cookies used in our website.
| Cookie | Description |
|---|---|
| cookielawinfo-checbox-analytics | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". |
| cookielawinfo-checbox-functional | The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". |
| cookielawinfo-checbox-others | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". |
| cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance | This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". |
| viewed_cookie_policy | The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data. |
How Can I Control Cookie Preferences?
Should you decide to change your preferences later through your browsing session, you can click on the “manage cookies” link in the footer. This will display the consent notice again enabling you to change your preferences or withdraw your consent entirely.
In addition to this, different browsers provide different methods to block and delete cookies used by websites. You can change the settings of your browser to block/delete the cookies. To find out more about how to manage and delete cookies, visit wikipedia.org, www.allaboutcookies.org.