This website is a labor of love. We work to keep it updated, write new content, and continually maintain it. We are proud of our home state of Mississippi and all of its actors, writers, dancers, artists, and musicians. We hope that you enjoy this website and find the information interesting.
We spend hundreds of hours each year working on this website. As a result, we have costs associated with the upkeep and maintenance of this website. To support the maintenance, hosting, domain registration, and other services required for this website, we participate in the use of Google Adwords.
Use of Cookies
By using or accessing our website with web browser settings allowing the use of cookies, you are consenting to the use of cookies. You can opt out of cookies by using some of the links listed below.
Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel
This website uses Google Analytics to measure traffic to the website. This helps us determine how well the content we create is serving our customers and what we need to do to improve our website. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by using this browser add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. Find out more about the information collected by Google Analytics here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to this site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You can disable cookies in your browser to prevent this service from collecting information about your visits.
You can opt out by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.
We have implemented the following applications:
- Demographics and Interests Reporting
- Facebook Pixel for custom audience advertisement retargeting
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google and Facebook, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website. This website may also allow third-party behavioral tracking.
Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from your websites and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. This information may be used to provide us with insights about the effectiveness of our ads, to create custom audiences for advertising, and to enable better targeting for our ads. You can disable cookies in your browser to prevent this service from collecting information about your visits.
Facebook Pixel conversion tracking helps us measure the effectiveness of our Facebook ads and the return on investment for these ads by reporting actions people take after viewing those ads. No personal information is collected as a result of the use of these pixels.
You may access a mechanism to exercise your choice about data collection by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices or http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
Google Ads – The DoubleClick cookie
The DoubleClick cookie is used by Google in the ads served on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying AdSense ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a partner’s website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website.
- Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to visitors based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ads Settings.
- Users may opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest based advertising by visiting aboutads.info.
Third-party advertisers may also place and read cookies on your browser and/or use web beacons to collect information. Mississippi Writers and Musicians has no access or control over these cookies. You should review the respective privacy policies on any and all third-party ad servers for more information regarding their practices and how to opt-out.
Information You Voluntarily Provide to Us
When you voluntarily provide us with information about yourself, you are consenting to this information being collected, used, disclosed, and stored by us. This information may be stored with our third-party vendors (example: MailChimp) so that we may utilize their services.
For example, if you sign up for our newsletters, we will create an email list through our third party email management vendors and send you our newsletter. This information may include your email address and your name. You can stop receiving our email newsletters by following the unsubscribe instructions included in every email (usually at the bottom of each email). You will not receive spam from us by signing up for our email newsletter.
When you fill out a form on our website, you are consenting to us utilizing, storing, collecting, and disclosing this information for the purposes of communicating about the service or event you are interested in. We will use this information to provide services, communicate with you, improve our services, improve our marketing, target online ads for our services or events, responding to your request or inquiry, and other uses that help us improve Tara Wildlife. We will not sell your information.
Comments
If you leave a comment on this blog, it requires that you fill out your email address and a name or user ID. It also collects an IP address for you and you can fill out a website or not. I don’t do anything with this information but utilize it to see if you are who you say you are and whether or not your comment is appropriate for this blog. I do not sell or send your information anywhere else. If you are concerned about this, it’s simple – don’t leave a comment. 🙂
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 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
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
External Links
This website may contain links to other parties’ websites. Please be aware that Mississippi Writers and Musicians is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website.
Data Retention Time
- Website analytics: Website analytics information is retained for 26 months. The analytics data is anonymized and does not collect IP addresses.
- Comments: 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.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the following information:
Kathy Jacobs
Mississippi Writers and Musicians
[email protected]
Privacy Policy Revision Date
Last edited on May 23, 2022