Disclosures

Agape Amos is an actual human who has decided to follow in the thoroughly American footsteps of Silence Dogood, Publius, and Mark Twain. Hearkening back to the earlier days of the internet, the aim of the Agape Amos website is to make his original work accessible without charge or other monetization schemes. As such, there is no subscription model or tiered access to content involved in the design of this website. Furthermore, this website does not publish sponsored content nor run ads and is devoted to original work by Agape Amos only, who assumes full and exclusive responsibility for the original content of this website. As original work, the essays and other work on this website are not generated by AI in any way. Agape Amos does not make any money from this website or any other Agape Amos accounts. Needless to say, no statements by Agape Amos should be interpreted as financial, investment, legal, professional, or any other kind of advice.

Privacy Policy

Needless to say, your privacy is very important to me, Agape Amos. When it comes to data privacy, I have a few fundamental principles:

• I am thoughtful about the personal information I ask you to provide and the personal information that I collect about you through the operation of my Voluntary Services.
• I store personal information for only as long as I have a reason to keep it.
• I aim for full transparency on how I gather, use, and share your personal information.
• I do not sell your data or share it with advertisers.

Below is my Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles and applies to this website (agapeamos.com) and its associated newsletter, referred to collectively herein as “Voluntary Services.”

Information I Collect

I only collect information about you if I have a reason to do so — for example, to send out the email newsletter if you subscribe to it or to improve my Voluntary Services.

I collect this information from two sources: 

• if and when you provide information to me, and 
• information I collect automatically through the website and newsletter

Information You Provide to Me

It’s probably no surprise that I collect information that you provide to me. This includes:

• Contact information: There are various ways in which you may provide me with your contact information, including if you subscribe to my email newsletter or submit an inquiry through the contact web form on this website. 
• Communications with me: When you communicate with me via contact web form, email, or otherwise, I may store a copy of our communications.

Information I Collect Automatically

I also collect some information automatically:

• Log information: Like most online services, I collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.
• Usage information: I collect information about your usage of my Voluntary Services, such as page views, the dates and times you signed up for the newsletter or submitted a contact web form inquiry, or changed your subscription preferences. I may also collect tracking information when you open an email or click a link in an email. I use this information to get insights on how people use my Voluntary Services so I can make my Voluntary Services better. 
• Location information: I may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address.
• Information from cookies & other technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. I may use cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help me track usage and effectiveness of my Voluntary Services.

How and Why I Use Information

Purposes for Using Information

I use information about you for the purposes listed below:

• To provide my Voluntary Services. For example, to send newsletter emails to you and to respond to your inquiries to me. You can opt out of newsletter emails at any time.
• To protect my Voluntary Services. For example, by detecting security incidents; detecting and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; fighting spam; complying with my legal obligations; and protecting the rights and property of myself and others, which may result in me, for example, terminating Voluntary Services.
• To fix problems with my Voluntary Services. For example, by monitoring, debugging, repairing, and preventing issues.
• To customize the user experience. For example, to personalize your experience by using your name to address you in the opening of a newsletter email. 
• To communicate with you. For example, by emailing you to ask for your feedback. 

Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information

A note here for those in the European Union about my legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that my use of your information is based on the grounds that:

(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill my commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account — for example, in order to enable access to the website on your device; or

(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or

(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or

(4) I have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update my Voluntary Services; to improve my Voluntary Services so that I can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard my Voluntary Services; to communicate with you; and to understand my newsletter subscriber retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with my Voluntary Services; and to personalize your experience; or

(5) You have given me your consent.

Sharing Information

How I Share Information

I share information about you in limited circumstances and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy.

• Third-party vendors: I may share information about you with third-party vendors who need the information in order to provide their services to me, or to provide their services to you. This includes vendors that help me provide my Voluntary Services to you (cloud storage services, cloud service providers, email delivery services); or those that make tools to help me run my Voluntary Services (like programs that help me with email and other communications).
• Legal and regulatory requirements: I may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
• To protect rights, property, and others: I may disclose information about you when I believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of myself, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if I have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, I may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.
• With your consent: I may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction.
• Aggregated or de-identified information: I may share information that has been aggregated or de-identified, so that it can no longer reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, I may publish aggregate statistics about the use of my Voluntary Services.

I do not sell your data or share it with advertisers.

How Long I Keep Information

I generally discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which I collect and use it — described in the section above on How and Why I Use Information — and I’m not legally required to keep it.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, I work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so. I monitor my Voluntary Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

• Limit the information that you provide: For example, if you subscribe to the newsletter, you can choose not to provide the optional information.
• Opt out of newsletter communications: You may opt out of receiving newsletter emails. Just click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email, manage your email preferences in your account settings, or contact me to ask to be unsubscribed. 
• Set your browser to reject cookies: You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using this website, with the drawback that certain features of this website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain parts of the world, including some US states and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (aka the “GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, like the right to request access to or deletion of your data.

European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are located in a country that falls under the scope of the GDPR, data protection laws give you certain rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

• Request access to your personal data;
• Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
• Object to my use and processing of your personal data;
• Request that I limit my use and processing of your personal data; and
• Request portability of your personal data.

You also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

US Privacy Laws

Laws in some US states require me to provide residents with additional information about the categories of personal information I collect and share, where I get that personal information, and how and why I use it. You’ll find that information in this section (if you are a California resident, please note that this is the Notice at Collection I am required to provide you under California law).

In the last 12 months, I collected the following categories of personal information, depending on the Voluntary Services used:

• Identifiers (like your name, contact information, and device and online identifiers);
• Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as your usage of my Voluntary Services, like the actions you take on the website);
• Geolocation data (such as your location based on your IP address);

You can find more information about what I collect and sources of that information in the Information I Collect section above.

I collect personal information for the purposes described in the How and Why I Use Information section. And I share this information with the categories of third parties described in the Sharing Information section. I retain this information for the length of time described in our How Long I Keep Information section.

In some US states you have additional rights subject to any exemptions provided by your state’s respective law, including the right to:

• Request a copy of the specific pieces of information I collect about you and, if you’re in California, to know the categories of personal information I collect, the categories of business or commercial purpose for collecting and using it, the categories of sources from which the information came, and the categories or list of third parties I share it with;
• Request deletion of personal information I collect or maintain;
• Request correction of personal information I collect or maintain;
• Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information;
• Receive a copy of your information in a readily portable format; and
• Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights.

Right to Opt Out

I never sell your personal information.

I may share your information as necessary with third-party service providers to provide my Voluntary Services to you. I do not collect or process your sensitive (and potentially sensitive) personal information except where it is strictly necessary to provide you with my Voluntary Services, where the processing is not for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you, or for other purposes that do not require an option to limit under California law. I don’t knowingly sell or share personal information of those under 16.

Contacting Me About These Rights

You can contact me via the contact form on this website or responding to a newsletter email. When you contact me about one of your rights under this section, I’ll need to verify that you are the right person before I disclose or delete anything.

Appeals Process for Rights Requests Denials

In some circumstances I may deny your request to exercise one of these rights. For example, if I cannot verify that you are the account owner I may deny your request to access the personal information associated with your account. As another example, if I am legally required to maintain a copy of your personal information I may deny your request to delete your personal information.

In the event that I deny your request, in some US states you may refer the denial to the state attorney general if you believe the denial is in conflict with your legal rights.

Other Things You Should Know

Transferring Information

I am based in the United States and process personal data here.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, I may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. I encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to the Privacy Policy. If I make changes, I will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, I may provide additional notice (like adding a statement to the website banner or sending you a notification through email). Your further use of the Voluntary Services after a change to the Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.

Links to other websites and services

This website includes links to other websites and services. I do not control and am not responsible for the practices of those websites, and your interactions with those websites or services are subject to their policies.

License

This Privacy Policy was adapted from the one used by WordPress, and the one used by www.citationneeded.news. Both are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. This privacy policy is released under the same license, too, so you’re more than welcome to copy it, adapt it, and repurpose it for your own use. Just make sure to revise the language so that your policy reflects your actual practices. If you do use it, I’d appreciate a credit and link to this website somewhere on your site.

Changelog

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