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Denis M. Garrison publishes HAIKUHARVEST webzines website,
which includes Haiku Harvest, Ku Nouveau, Haiku Noir. Templar Phoenix Literary Review, and
Gunpowder River Poetry webzines, and the Haiku Cycles
e-books, including Saijiki-X (hereinafter, "our webzines" refers to all the
webzine publications on this website). We are committed to safeguarding your
privacy online. Please read the following
policy to discover how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our
offerings. This policy may change periodically so please check back from time to time. Read about
how we treat children's privacy.
This privacy policy will tell you:
1. What personally identifiable information do we collect from you?
We collect some personal information if and when you use our online submission
form to submit a work for consideration for publication in one of our webzines.
In that process, we ask for
your name, your city and your country, and your email address; for whether you are younger than
16 years of age or older; and for the submission itself. This
information is used to decide whether or not to publish your work and, if your work is published,
to provide information you volunteer about yourself to the reading public, particularly, the email
address at which you can be contacted for requests for reprint permission and any other requests
or feedback and information for your biographical sketch. Once you make a submission by email,
you are no longer anonymous to us. Once you are published in our webzines, your name and email
address will be public information, as well as any
information included in your biographical sketch (pertinent to 2000-2002 publications only),
which may include, amongst other information you supply for that purpose, your personal
website URL and your email address. If you contact
us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. Wherever we collect personal information,
we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.
2. What are cookies and how do we use them?
A cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on
your computer's hard drive. We do not use cookies to store or track information about you.
3. How do we use your information?
Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to decide whether to publish
your work and, if we do so, to publish basic identifying information about you so that the readers
of the webzine(s) in which we publish your work will know something about you. We do not
require any elements of your information other than your name to be published with your work;
however, we recommend publication of your email address for feedback purposes and publication
of at least minimal biographical information and we will publish such information that you
voluntarily provide us unless you direct us not to do so.
4. Who is collecting information?
When you are on the HAIKUHARVEST webzines site and are asked for personal information,
you are
sharing that information with us alone, unless your work is published, in which
case, your information may be published as described above. Please be aware that other web sites
that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The
information practices of those Internet web sites linked to HaikuHarvest.com are not covered by
this privacy statement.
5. With whom do we share your information?
We will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we
publish your work as described above, or in special cases when we have reason to believe that
disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone
who may be violating our Terms of Service or may be causing injury to or
interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property,
other HAIKUHARVEST users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities.
We may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law
requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service,
and improve our products and services.
6. What are your choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information?
We do not sell or rent user information to anyone. Publication in our webzines is dependent and
contingent upon publishing your work and your name as an
absolute minimum. If you do not wish to allow any of your information to be made public, you
can choose not to seek publication in our webzines.
7. What is our policy on allowing you to update, correct, or delete your personally
identifiable information?
You may update, correct, or delete your HAIKUHARVEST information at any time by notifying
the owner of HAIKUHARVEST at dmg (at) haikuharvest (dot) org.
8. How do we protect your personal financial and health-related information?
We do not collect your personal financial or health-related information, and
therefore do not use it and do not protect it in any way.
9. What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your
information?
We do not collect information for which special security precautions are
reasonable and necessary. We rely upon the security features of our host server and of our email
providers for normal security of online files and email. We delete email after the publication of an
issue is complete and contributors have received final communications in that regard. It is a
regrettable fact that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
As a result, while we try to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or
warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once
we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
10. What about children's privacy?
The safety of children is of concern to all of us. HAIKUHARVEST is a website for
persons aged 16
and older. While our content is not expected to be offensive to any adult, it is not meant for
young children. Our submission pages emphasize that children - specifically anyone
younger than 16 - should exit the website. Our exit links lead to the highly regarded
"Yahooligans!" web guide designed especially for kids ages 7 to 12. Sites listed on
"Yahooligans!" have all been selected by educators to ensure that they are fun and
age-appropriate for younger audiences. HAIKUHARVEST is a general audience web site that
complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. When a child under age 16 (whether
self-identified or discovered by us to be under 16) attempts to make a submission
to HAIKUHARVEST, despite having been directed not to do so and despite having been directed to
exit the website, we will refuse their submission and delete their submission email from our
records. If a parent wishes to advise us that their child has and/or will attempt to
make a submission to HAIKUHARVEST, that parent can send an email to the Editor at
Email: dmg (at) haikuharvest (dot) org to request that their
child's submission be rejected, which it will be. Under the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act, no web site operator is permitted to require a child under the age of 13 to disclose more
information than is reasonably necessary to participate in an activity as a condition of
participation. We abide by this requirement by refusing to deal at all with children
under the age of 16. We do not collect or share personally identifying information
about users who are under the age of 16 with anyone. We will not knowingly
contact users who are under the age of 16 about anything other than to reject submission requests
from them. We will not knowingly accept submissions for publication from users
who are under the age of 16.
11. What else should you know about your privacy?
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for
example on message boards, through email, or in chat areas - that information can be collected
and used by others. If you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you
may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return. Ultimately, you are solely
responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your online passwords and/or account information.
Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online. In order to reduce the possibilities
for disclosure, We have removed our guest book and online forum.
Additional Information
If you have a question that was not addressed in this privacy policy you may contact
us by e-mail at: dmg (at) haikuharvest (dot) org.
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