Who we are
Our website address is: https://shimmeringstrings.com.
Privacy Policy and terms
We respect your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your privacy while online at our site. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site.
Privacy Policy
Privacy issues are a high priority for us at Shimmering Strings. This Privacy Policy is aimed at helping you understand how we collect and use your personal information. It is also aimed at assisting you in taking informed decisions when you use this site, and its services. By using the shimmeringstrings.com website, you agree to the collection and use of your personal information. The following information will explain the policies and practices of shimmeringstrings.com regarding the use and protection of your personal information.
Privacy Statement
shimmeringstrings.com collects information when you register on the website, subscribe to its newsletter, respond to a survey or fill out a form. When registering on this website, as appropriate, you may be asked for details such as your name, e-mail address, and other personally identifiable information.
Information Collection
What information do we collect –
- Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: The Website may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.
- Automatically-Collected Information: The Website automatically collects certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, The Website will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. The Website may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.
- Cookies: The Website may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. The Website may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.
Use of Information
Any information ShimmeringStrings.com collects from you may be used in one of the following ways:
- To provide content relevant to your profile
- To improve customer service and Website performance and usability
- To operate and maintain the Website;
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To provide you with user support;
- To track and measure advertising on the Website; or,
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent.
Third party use of Personal Information
The Website may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information. Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies. The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
- Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
- Google Adsense – Some of the ads may be served by Google. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. DART uses “non-personally identifiable information” and does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, etc. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.
- At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.
Information Sharing
All content you contribute to ShimmeringStrings.com is in the public domain and will be visible to both visitors and members. This content will include the comments or ratings or any blog posts done by you, or the information provided in the listings by you (as a provider), or any other user generated content.
Rules of Conduct – Safe Internet Experience
ShimmeringStrings.com is committed to ensuring a safe and friendly online community for all our members. All users are expected to abide by the following rules:
- Do not use the website to harass, threaten or verbally abuse or intimidate anyone, or behave in any manner that would cause annoyance or distress to other members.
- Do not post any material that is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful or embarrassing towards other members.
- Do not divulge the details of your identity or personal information in your posts. Anything posted online is accessible to the entire internet community and ShimmeringStrings.com is not liable in cases where such information is misused.
- Be aware of the dangers of online information sharing like identity theft, phishing and other fraudulent activities.
Log Files
Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. Our site use cookies to improve your experience. Some of our business partners also use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising. If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options.
Links
This Website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Website.
Advertisers
We use outside ad companies to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies and/or web beacons to collect data in the ad serving process and are collected by our ad companies; we do not have access to this information. We work with many ad companies: e.g. Amazon, Google adsense, and others, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site.
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on https://www. shimmeringstrings.com/ and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.
Affiliate Program Participation
ShimmeringStrings.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.in. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
Newsletters
On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, Shimmering Strings may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows us to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.
Rights related to your personal information
Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at our email address to be removed from our mailing list.
Access – In certain situations, you may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to our mail I’d.
Amend – You may contact us at our mail I’d to amend or update your personal information.
Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to our mail I’d.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
This website is run from and intended for an audience in India. It was not created to serve, nor does it actively market to residents of the European Union.
Service Description
ShimmeringStrings.com, is an India based individual blog.
As a condition to using the Service, you agree and understand that we will display ads and other information adjacent to and related to the content it services. These include, but are not limited to, sponsored ads, Google AdSense Ads, as well as ads from other ad providers.
Charging for Use of the Services
No application fee or subscription fee is charged for the users. A fee will be charged for Featured Listings, for publishing sponsored content such as blogs, or interviews, for providing payment gateway services. ShimmeringStrings.com will enter into individual agreements with such providers or merchants.
Rights to Content
Users retain their rights to any Content they submit, post or display on or through the Service unless the authors have been paid for an article. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you (the user) grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to process such Content in any way necessary to perform the Service.
ShimmeringStrings.com may modify or adapt your Content in order to transmit, display or distribute it over computer networks and in various media and/or make changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to any requirements or limitations of any networks, devices, services or media.
ShimmeringStrings.com respects your right to privacy and will not access the Content. This license is only about you (the user) authorizing ShimmeringStrings.com to manage or broker your Content.
Use of Content
ShimmeringStrings.com allows its original content to be made available for non-commercial reproduction with a mandatory credit to the Website ShimmeringStrings.com with both a link to the website and logo displayed. You may also reproduce extracts or images or screenshots with a mandatory credit to the Website ShimmeringStrings.com with both a link to the website and logo displayed.
RSS Feeds
The Website provides an RSS Feed for ShimmeringStrings.com. Should you use the RSS feed in any part whatsoever, we ask that you do not modify it in any way, including removing or modifying advertisements or adding content including advertisements and promotional content. ShimmeringStrings.com may terminate its distribution of the RSS feeds or change the content or formatting without notice. It also reserves to the right to require a party from ceasing to use the RSS feed at any time.
A reproduction of a screenshot in print form is permissible if and only if the URL, Website name and Logo is fully visible or included. The content may also be reproduced in print form if and only if it is rightfully and clearly referenced as being from the Website including the Website name, URL and Logo in references.
The print medium shall not promote adult content (pornography), hate, racism or any illegal content.
Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on any of our sites.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Notification of Changes
Whenever we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy page, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Contact Information
If users have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us.