Who we are
The website, Dickens of a Blog (https://dickens.wyrmis.com), is the personal blog of William Doug Bolden (aka, Doug) and is only intended as a place for Doug for post his own entries. It is not associated with any organization on any level.
All views, writings, and other media on this site can be blamed on Doug alone. Third party content is included in some posts {e.g., screenshots, media embeds, links} but these should be clearly labeled.
Sponsors, Affiliate Links, Links Exchanges, etc
I do not accept sponsorships.
I do not accept free stuff in exchange for reviews. I might take free stuff and if I do review it I will claim such but I also have no interest in the concept, really. I’d rather you make stuff and I buy it and support you. At no point in time will I promote a product simply for any type of remuneration.
I do not engage in affiliate linking practices. I get no benefit for the links I share.
I do not engage in link exchanges.
I do not engage in post exchanges or other practices that might conceal the origin of the content. I do not accept any sort of remuneration in order to allow guest posts. I know this will not spammers from asking.
I do not participate in any sort of practices that might send readers and users of this site to a third party site without making it as clear as possible.
Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (primarily videos though other types might exist). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These sites and services 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.
Comments
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.
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.
I absolutely reserve the right to delete any and all comments for any reason.
Data Retention in General
It is my intention that very little to no actual data is stored about my readers outside of a general “how many views did this get” type count. Frankly, I have been doing this long enough that I don’t even really care about how many views it will get. I do not have any non-default tools to track such. The closest I have is monitoring Google’s Search Console but that is tended to be tracked technically before you get here.
I am pretty open about who I am and post details about my day. While I hope you have a good day and enjoy reading what I write, I have no interest in infringing upon your privacy.
In fact, I openly encourage you to do whatever you need to protect your privacy including using secure browsers as well as any other blockers you might wish to use.
Length of Retained Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so the blog’s software can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Other third-party-collected-data is entirely up to the third party in question.
What rights you have over your data
If you 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
As of right now, absolutely nowhere. Again, outside of comments which can be read by anyone viewing the blog and all that entails (web scrapers, web archivers), I don’t even send user data to my own eyes.