Privacy Policy
Minha Letra
In a nutshell
Port of Being uses the IP address provided during access only to determine the approximate geographic region from which the connection is coming.
After obtaining this information, the IP address is discarded by the system.
We do not use the IP address for commercial purposes, advertising, sending messages, creating individual profiles, or personally identifying visitors.
The purpose is simple: to allow the author of Port of Being to have a general understanding of where readers are accessing the site and which poems are being viewed.
We do not use cookies for tracking visitors.
The location obtained from an IP address is approximate and may correspond to the location of the visitor's Internet service provider or network infrastructure rather than the visitor's actual physical location.
1. What information do we collect?
When you access Port of Being, the IP address used for the connection may be received by the web server.
The IP address is used temporarily to obtain approximate geographic information, such as country, state, region, or city.
2. Why do we use this information?
Port of Being is an independent literary project. Geographic information is used by the author to gain a general understanding of where readers are accessing the site and to observe the geographic distribution of visits to poems and other published content.
There is no commercial purpose for this use of information.
3. Is the IP address stored?
No.
The IP address is used temporarily to perform the geographic lookup. After the necessary approximate location information has been obtained, the IP address is discarded by the system and is not retained in the Port of Being database for this purpose.
4. What do we not do with the IP address?
Port of Being does not use the IP address to:
- personally identify visitors;
- send emails or messages;
- perform targeted advertising;
- create individual profiles;
- sell information;
- commercialize personal information;
- track visitors across other websites.
5. Is the location exact?
No.
Location information obtained from an IP address is approximate. Depending on the connection being used, it may represent the location of the Internet service provider or network infrastructure rather than the visitor's actual physical location.
For this reason, information such as "California" or "Los Angeles," for example, should be understood only as an estimate of the origin of the connection.
6. Cookies and tracking
Port of Being does not use its own cookies to track or identify visitors.
We do not use the IP address or other information described in this Privacy Policy for cross-site behavioral advertising.
7. U.S. privacy laws
Privacy laws in the United States vary by state. Port of Being is committed to handling information consistently with applicable privacy laws and to limiting the collection and use of information to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
The IP address is used only temporarily for the limited purpose described above and is discarded after the approximate geographic information has been obtained.
8. California privacy rights
If applicable to your circumstances, California residents may have privacy rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).
These rights may include the right to know what personal information is collected and how it is used, the right to request deletion or correction of personal information, and certain rights concerning the sale or sharing of personal information.
Port of Being does not sell personal information and does not share the IP address for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Because the IP address is discarded after the approximate location lookup, we may not be able to retrieve or identify a particular IP address at a later time.
9. Your privacy rights
Depending on the laws applicable to you, you may have rights concerning personal information collected about you, including rights to access, delete, correct, or obtain information about the processing of your personal information.
You may contact Port of Being through the contact channel made available on this website to ask questions about the processing of information or to exercise any rights available to you under applicable law.
Because the IP address is discarded after the geographic lookup, we may be unable to retrieve or associate a specific IP address with a particular visitor.
10. Do Not Track
Port of Being does not use cross-site tracking technologies or behavioral advertising.
Because the site does not engage in this type of tracking, there is no separate tracking preference that visitors need to configure through this Privacy Policy.
11. Security
Port of Being takes reasonable measures to protect the information it processes and to limit its use to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
One of these measures is the disposal of the IP address after the necessary approximate geographic information has been obtained.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated if there are material changes to the way information is collected, used, or handled.
The most recent version will always be available on this page.
Minha Letra
Literary website by Maurício de Oliveira