Privacy Policy
Our website address is: https://carouselthirteen.com.
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.
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.
Media
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.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Children’s Privacy
If you are under 13 years of age, you are not allowed to register for Carousel Thirteen. We never knowingly collect personal information from persons under the age of 13. If we learn that we have any information or content from anyone under the age of 13, we will delete that information immediately.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We may periodically modify, alter, or update this Privacy Policy. We will alert readers to any material changes to this policy by posting the revised information here. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy on a regular basis to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect. Your continued use of Carousel Thirteen constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.
Terms of Use
The data and materials on the Site, except User Submissions (as defined below), as well as the selection, organization, coordination, compilation and overall look and feel of the Site (collectively, the “Content”) are the intellectual property of Carousel Thirteen. The Content is protected by copyright and other intellectual laws and all ownership rights remain with us, our licensors or our contributors, as the case may be.
User comments
Users must register to comment on Carousel Thirteen. A user must be at least 13 years old to register for Carousel Thirteen. For more on this, please read the above Privacy Policy. Do not use your last name when choosing a display name – use your first name or an alias. Do not enter your street address. Users should include no information that makes them publicly identifiable. All comments are moderated by Carousel Thirteen, and we reserve the right to refuse comments and to remove comment accounts entirely at our discretion, including but not limited to for alleged violation of Terms of Use.
User submissions
Carousel Thirteen permits the submission of communications, including images, comments, and text and the hosting, sharing, and/or publishing of such User Submissions. No personally identifiable information, aside from the author’s first and last name (should they choose to include either), is permitted for submissions. Your user submissions will go only to Carousel Thirteen and, like user comments, will be moderated. What this means: We reserve the right to not publish your comments.
You agree that if you submit a User Submission to the Site that you shall be solely responsible for your own User Submission and the consequences of posting or publishing such. In connection with User Submissions, you affirm, represent, and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to use and authorize us to use all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to any and all User Submissions to enable inclusion and use of the User Submissions in the manner contemplated by the Site and these Terms of Use.
You retain all of your copyright rights in your User Submissions, except as set forth herein. By submitting User Submissions to Carousel Thirteen, you (1) hereby grant Carousel Thirteen a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub-licenseable, assignable and transferable license to display, perform, use, reproduce, distribute, publish, create derivative works of, perform, edit and disseminate by all media, whether now known or hereafter devised, create derivative works based thereon, and/or insert the User Submissions in connection with Carousel Thirteen’s (and our subsidiaries’, derivatives’, or successor’s) business (what this means in short: you continue to own the work, and are legally responsible for it and any and all copyright and consent issues, and Carousel Thirteen has the right to feature that submission on our site and in any Carousel Thirteen-branded derivative work in perpetuity); (2) grant each user of the Site a non-exclusive license to access your User Submissions through the Site, and to use, reproduce, distribute, publish, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform such User Submissions as permitted through the functionality of the Site and under these Terms of Use; (3) you are not entitled to any compensation for any User Submissions for any reason, unless expressly agreed to by the written consent of all parties; (4) we do not endorse any User Submission or any opinion, recommendation, or advice expressed therein, and we expressly disclaim any and all liability in connection with User Submissions.
We will remove all Content and User Submissions if properly notified that such Content or User Submission infringes on another’s intellectual property rights. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to remove Content and User Submissions without prior notice.
What all this means: In sending submission content to Carousel Thirteen, you are giving us the right to feature it on our site and in any Carousel Thirteen branded derivative work (eg: print publications or videos) in perpetuity. Carousel Thirteen also reserves the right to take down submissions at any point.
Image and Video Terms of Use
Carousel Thirteen often displays images, audio, and video material. The types of Material editors are authorized to use on Carousel Thirteen include Material commissioned by Carousel Thirteen, embedded material, credited material captioned with links to their personal websites or social profiles when applicable, or material we believe to be covered by the Fair Use Doctrine, taking into account factors such as: (1) the purpose and character of the use (i.e. transformation from the original, use for criticism, satire or parody; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work (i.e. factual or newsworthy versus creative works); (3) the effect on the potential market for the copyrighted work (for example, use that is not substitutive for the original, or would never be licensed in any event), material from photographic archive and video vendors, Material supplied to our editors or released into the public domain by public relations and marketing companies for press purposes, reader-submitted Material, with the implied representation that the person submitting the material owns the copyright in the material and the right to give it to us for use on Carousel Thirteen (see above under “User submissions”).
Copyright Notices
If Carousel Thirteen publishes Material you think infringes your copyright, please email us at carouselthirteen@gmail.com and we’ll address your concerns. If we determine we’ve made a mistake, we’re sorry and we’ll take it down.
However, if the material falls into one of the categories listed above, we believe that our use is legitimate and we may not remove it from the site. If you’ve corresponded with Carousel Thirteen and thereafter choose to pursue a copyright notice, please note that we’ll respond only to notices of alleged infringement that comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The text of the Act can be found at the U.S. Copyright Office Web Site.
To file a notice of infringement with us, you must provide a written communication (by email—carouselthirteen@gmail.com—with an attached and signed PDF) that sets forth the items specified below. If we do not respond in 10 business days, please write again.
To enable us to address your concerns, please provide the following information:
– For each alleged infringement that you wish to have removed, please provide the exact URL for the page containing the material.
– Provide information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you: an email address is preferred.
Accuracy of Information
While we strive for accuracy, information on the site may contain errors or inaccuracies; Carousel Thirteen does not make any warranty as to the correctness or reliability of the site’s content.
Links
Carousel Thirteen may contain links to and quotation of material from other sites. Please know that Carousel Thirteen is responsible for neither the content of nor the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave Carousel Thirteen and to read the privacy statements of any website that collects personally identifiable information.
Changes to our Terms of Use
We may periodically modify, alter or update the Terms of Use. We will alert readers to any material changes to this policy by posting the revised information here. We encourage you to review our Terms of Use on a regular basis to stay informed. Your continued use of Carousel Thirteen constitutes your agreement to these Terms of Use and any updates therein.