Terms, Privacy Policy, and Copyright

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.jtzieglerauthor.com.

Privacy Policy for the Processing of Personal Data

Personal information collected on my site—including but not limited to your name and email address—will never be shared or sold to anyone or any business. I deeply appreciate you for signing up for the newsletter, and I will never betray your trust by sharing your information. Please note the following third-party software I use.

Involve.Me
I use involve.me as my platform for the interactive quiz. By completing the quiz, you acknowledge that the information you provide will be transferred to involve.me for processing in accordance with their Privacy Policy and Terms. involve.me is a service provided by stereosense GmbH. Place of processing: Germany, EU.

Google Analytics
The services contained in this section enable the Content Publisher to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. For more see the Google privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. Opt Out from Service: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

MailerLite
I use MailerLite to provide email marketing and automation software as a service. By accessing our Services, you accept our Privacy Policy and TOU, and you consent to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. In addition, by using our Services you are accepting the policies and practices described in this Privacy Policy. Each time you visit our website or use the mobile app or the Service, and any time you voluntarily provide us with information, you agree that you are consenting to our collection, use, and disclosure of the information that you provide, and you are consenting to receive emails or otherwise be contacted, as described in this Privacy Policy. Whether or not you register or create an account with us, this Privacy Policy applies to all users of the website, mobile app, and Services. MailerLite collects both “Personal Data” and “Non-Personal Data” about you. MailerLite Limited, an Irish registered company at Ground Floor, 71 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2, D02 P593, Ireland, if the Customer’s billing address on the applicable Order Form is located in the EEA, UK or Switzerland. MailerLite, Inc., a Delaware corporation at 548 Market St, PMB 98174, San Francisco, CA 94104-5401, United States, if the Customer’s billing address on the applicable Order Form is located anywhere else in the world. For me see the MailerLite privacy policy: https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy. Opt out of marketing emails by unsubscribing directly in the J.T. Ziegler newsletter, contacting J.T. Ziegler and opt out of receiving targeted advertising here: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

Copyright

The Collective is a book written and owned by Jennifer Ziegler. Any content on this site in relation to The Collective—including but not limited to book blurbs, summaries, and quiz content—may not be reproduced, distributed, or used in any manner without written permission of the copyright owner.

Jennifer Ziegler owns the copyright to all intellectual property about The Collective posted on this site and its corresponding platforms—including but not limited to social media, email newsletters, the involve.me quiz—unless otherwise stated.

The Collective is a work of fiction. Names, characters, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Certain locales and long-standing institutions and public offices are mentioned, but the characters involved are wholly imaginary.

Comments & Media

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.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Embedded content from other websites

Pages 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.

Image Attribution and Citations

All images and videos found on this website and associated sites, including but not limited to Involve.Me, MailerLite, and social media, are royalty free and can be used for commercial and non-commercial purposes. All these media can found on Unsplash, Pexels, and Canva.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.