Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy was last updated on 01 January 2024.

Sterling Raita is a webnovel series Author. He would much rather spend his time writing stories than stress over policies for his website and newsletter.

He has no desire to misuse anyone’s information. Your information is only used for communication, marketing, and/or to help you get the most out of the website. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at the bottom of any email. If you want your information deleted entirely, use the contact page to let Us know.

But if you do sign up for the newsletter you will receive webseries updates, exclusive giveaways, sales, and other promotions you may not have otherwise known about.

That sums up what he wanted to say. Below You can find the detailed version of the Site’s Privacy Policy.

Privacy Policy for sterlingraita.us.to

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use sterlingraita.us.to and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve Your visit to sterlingraita.us.to. By using sterlingraita.us.to, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We review Our privacy practices on an ongoing basis, and as such We may change this privacy policy from time to time. Please check this page frequently to ensure You are familiar with its current content.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation:

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions:

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

“You” means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Under GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User as You are the individual using the Service.

“Consumer”, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means a natural person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose, and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose.

“Company” (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to sterlingraita.us.to

For the purpose of the GDPR, the Company is the Data Controller.

“Data Controller”, for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), refers to the Company as the legal person which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.

“Website ” refers to sterlingraita.us.to, accessible from https//sterlingraita.us.to

“Service” refers to the Website: sterlingraita.us.to

“Country” refers to Sterling Raita’s Home Country.

“Cookies” are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a Website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that Website among its many uses.

“Device” means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cell phone or a digital tablet.

“Personal Data” is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

For the purposes of GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to You such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

For the purposes of the CCPA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.

“Usage Data” refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

“Service Provider” means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.

For the purpose of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.

“Do Not Track” (DNT)” is a concept that has been promoted by US regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing Internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across Websites.

“Sale”, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer’s personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data:

The moment at which We collect Your Personal Data

We collect information from You when You use the Service, subscribe to a newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form, comment on a blog post, or enter information on Our site.

Types of Data Collected:

Personal Data:

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You, Personally identifiable information may include but is not limited to:

Email address

First name and last name

Phone number

Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

Newsletter or Blog: If You voluntarily sign up for sterlingraita.us.to newsletter or blog, this Site will record Your email address, and name. You can refuse to supply personal information, but that will exclude You from certain related activities such as receiving newsletters, blog updates, and free offers.

When subscribers click on a link in one of Our emails or fill out a form, the site may record this information (see below how this information is used).

Subscribers may unsubscribe at any time. You may ask for all Your data to be deleted at any time.

Giveaways and Contests:

If You enter a giveaway and or contest, some of Your personal information will be collected. If You win a physical prize, You will be asked to give Your name and physical address.

Usage Data:

Usage Data is collected automatically when using sterlingraita.us.to.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of Our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit Our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies:

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies:A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of Our Service. Unless You have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, Our Service may use Cookies.
• Web Beacons:Certain sections of Our Service and Our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related Website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Tracking and Performance Cookies:

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Third-Parties

Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify You as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device You use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how Our users react to them.

Use of Your Personal Data:

Newsletter and blog subscribers’ names and emails will be used for receiving the newsletters, the blog, or communication from sterlingraita.us.to

Giveaway entrants will be sent emails only about the giveaway unless they also signed up for the newsletter or blog.

Information on which email links are clicked on the most will help sterlingraita.us.to choose links that interest readers in future emails.

Sterlingraita.us.to may use affiliate codes in some of the emails or on the Site.

The Company may also use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain Our Service, including to monitor the usage of Our Service.

To contact You: To contact You by email, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which We offer that are similar to those that You have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of Our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve Our Service, products, services, marketing and Your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of Our Service, to contact You.

We take Your privacy seriously and will not share Your Personal Data with others, except as permitted by applicable law or as set out below:

We share Personal Data as necessary with third parties Service Providers who provide services or functions on Our behalf and who require the information to provide those specific services to us. These third parties Service Providers may include social media advertising platforms such as Facebook and Google AdWords for the purpose of custom audience generation and the development of targeting criteria for other audiences. Please note that We have appropriate data privacy safeguards in place with third parties with whom We share Personal Data as described above and who are providing services or functions on Our behalf.

Third-party links: Occasionally, at Our discretion, We may include or offer third-party products or services on Our Website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Though, We seek to protect the reliability of Our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

We may use Google Analytics, fonts, and/or AdSense Advertising on Our Website.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on Our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Our users based on previous visits to Our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.

Opting out:

Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to You using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, You can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

Affiliate Marketing:

Some links on this Website are affiliate marketing links. One example is the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. See Our disclosure policy:  https://sterlingraita.us.to/affiliate-disclaimer/

Social Media Sharing:

Sharing buttons are used on blog posts and pages for various social media channels.

For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.

With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case We will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.

With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.

With Your Consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Retention of Your Personal Data:

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with Our legal obligations (for example, if We are required to retain Your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce Our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data:

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data:

Business Transactions: If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement: Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements: The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation.

Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company.

Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service.

Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public.

Protect against legal liability.

Security of Your Personal Data:

We do use vulnerability scanning and regular malware scanning. We only provide articles and information at this time, however, in the future We may sell on this Website. In that event, We will implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of Your personal information.

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all information is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology when You use https://sterlingraita.us.to/

We have implemented security policies and technical measures to safeguard the Personal Data We collect from accidental loss, destruction or damage and unauthorized access, use and disclosure.

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data:

The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

Analytics: We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of Our Service (Currently it’s Google). When We change or add a third-party Analytics Service Provider, We will update this Privacy Policy and include said changes.

Email Marketing: We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.

We use MailerLite to manage Our email marketing subscriber list and to send emails to Our subscribers. They are third-party providers, which may process Your data using industry-standard technologies to help Us monitor and improve Our newsletter.

MailerLite’s privacy policy: https://www.mailerlite.com/privacy-policy.

You can unsubscribe from Our newsletter by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the end of each newsletter.

Change of purpose

We will only use Your Personal Data for the purposes for which We collected it unless We reasonably consider that We need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. We will update this Privacy Policy adding the new purpose when it is applicable. If You wish to have an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us. If We need to use Your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose, We will notify You and We will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

GDPR Privacy Policy:

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR

We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:

Consent: You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.

Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.

Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.

Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect Your vital interests or of another natural person.

Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.

Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company.

In any case, the Company will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Use of the Website by Minors:

This Website and Our Services are aimed at Adults 18 years and older, in other words, legal Adults. We do not knowingly collect any Personal Data relating to Users under 18 years of age, and or children aged under 15 years old. If You are under the age of 18, please do not provide us with any of Your Personal Data, including Your email address.

Your Rights under the GDPR:

The Company undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data, Your rights under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:

Request access to Your Personal Data: The right to access, or delete the information We have on You. If You are unable to perform these actions Yourself, please Contact Us to assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of the Personal Data We hold about You.

Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You: You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about You corrected.

Object to processing of Your Personal Data: This right exists where We are relying on legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing and there is something about Your particular situation, which makes You want to object to Our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.

Request erasure of Your Personal Data: You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.

Request the transfer of Your Personal Data: We will provide to You, or to a third party You have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which You initially provided consent for Us to use or where We used the information to perform a contract with You.

Withdraw Your consent: You have the right to withdraw Your consent to using Your Personal Data. If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be able to provide You with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.

Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights:

You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation, and opposition by contacting Us. Please note that We may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try Our best to respond to You as soon as possible.

California Online Privacy Protection Act:

CalOPPA state law requires commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law requires any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared, for more please visit: https://consumercal.org/about-cfc/cfc-education-foundation/california-online-privacy-protection-act-caloppa-3/

We agree to the following according to CalOPPA:

Users can visit our site anonymously.

Once this privacy policy is created, We will add a link to it on our home page or as a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our website.

Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page specified above.

You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes:

On our Privacy Policy Page and/or Blog Post and/or email.

Can change your personal information:

By emailing us.

Handling Do Not Track signals:

We honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

Also, note that we allow third-party behavioral tracking.

CAN-SPAM Act:

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, and gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them.

We collect your email address to:

Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions

Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.

We agree to the following To be in accordance with CANSPAM:

Do not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.

Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.

Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.

Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.

Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.

If at any time You would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can follow the instructions at the bottom of each email.

Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly, so We will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.

Links to Other Websites:

Sterlingraita.us.to may contain links to other Websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites or services.

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control when it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old. The COPPA Rule spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.

We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.

Fair Information Practices:

The Fair Information Practices Principles form the pillar of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include play a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy:

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Your Acceptance of These Terms:

By visiting and using sterlingraita.us.to, You signify Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If You do not agree, You can simply not use the Website. Continued use of the Website means You accept the policy and any periodic changes.

Contact Us:

If You have any questions please contact us via contact form or,

By sending Us an email: raitasterling@gmail.com