Privacy Policy for Scrollytelling.ing
Last Updated: July 2, 2025
Your privacy is critically important to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how Scrollytelling.ing (“the Blog,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, maintains, and discloses information collected from users (“User” or “you”) of the scrollytelling.ing website.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information to provide and improve our services to you. The types of information we collect include:
- Non-Personal Identification Information: We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Blog. This may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users’ means of connection to our Blog, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information. This data is primarily gathered through analytics tools.
- Analytics Data: We use Google Analytics to understand how our users interact with the Blog. This includes data such as the number of active users, new users, events, and page views. This information helps us analyze traffic patterns and improve content delivery.
- Cookies: Our Blog may use “cookies” to enhance User experience. Your web browser places cookies on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about you. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, note that some parts of the Blog may not function properly.
- Direct Interaction Information (Optional): If you choose to contact us (e.g., via a contact form or email), you may provide us with personal identification information such as your name, email address, and the content of your message. This information is used solely to respond to your inquiries.
- Comment Data (If applicable): If our blog allows for 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.
2. How We Use Collected Information
Scrollytelling.ing collects and uses User information for the following purposes:
- To Improve Our Blog: We constantly strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you and through analytics. Understanding user behavior (e.g., page views, popular content) helps us identify high-performing content and traffic sources.
- To Personalize User Experience: We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our Users as a group use the services and resources provided on our Blog.
- To Manage Costs and Infrastructure: We utilize managed cloud services like AWS Lightsail to efficiently manage our hosting costs and reduce infrastructure burdens, which indirectly relies on usage data.
- For Monetization and Advertising: We aim to monetize the blog through various methods. This includes exploring advertising models like Google AdSense and affiliate marketing programs. Information from analytics helps optimize ad placements and identify potential direct advertisers.
- To Send Periodic Emails (If applicable): If you provide your email for specific services (e.g., newsletters), we may use the email address to respond to your inquiries, questions, and/or other requests.
3. How We Protect Your Information
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information and data stored on our Blog. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.
4. Sharing Your Personal Information
We do not sell, trade, or rent Users’ personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
5. Third-Party Websites
Users may find advertising or other content on our Blog that links to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors, and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Blog. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browse and interaction on any other website, including websites that have a link to our Blog, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.
6. Advertising
Ads appearing on our Blog may be delivered to Users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile non-personal identification information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
Scrollytelling.ing has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page. We encourage Users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.
8. Your Acceptance of These Terms
By using this Blog, you signify your acceptance of this policy and our [Terms and Conditions](link to your T&C page). If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Blog. Your continued use of the Blog following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Blog, or your dealings with this Blog, please contact us.