The Short Version
We are a small independent blog. We write deep dive true stories and we publish them here for free. We are not in the business of collecting your personal information, selling your data, or doing anything shady behind the scenes. This Privacy Policy exists to be straight with you about what happens when you visit this site, nothing more and nothing less.
Read through it. It is not going to take long.
Who We Are
Mason Wright Digital is an independent content website based in the United States. We publish long form narrative articles covering true historical events, investigative stories, and real world accounts across a range of topics. The site is operated by Mason Wright and is accessible at masonwrightdigital.blogspot.com.
If you have any questions about this policy or anything related to how this site handles your information, you can reach us at the contact information provided on our Contact page.
What Information We Collect
Here is the honest answer. We do not run a membership system. We do not have a login portal. We do not ask you to create an account or hand over your email address just to read an article.
When you visit this site, a few things happen automatically through the platforms and tools that power it.
Blogger, which is the platform this site runs on and is owned by Google, automatically collects certain technical data when you visit any page. This includes things like your IP address, browser type, device type, the pages you visited, how long you stayed, and where you came from before landing here. This data is collected by Google and governed by Google's own Privacy Policy. We do not store this data ourselves and we do not have direct access to it in any personally identifiable form.
If this site displays Google AdSense advertisements, Google may use cookies to show you ads based on your previous browsing activity. This is standard across most websites you visit and is controlled entirely by Google.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that get placed on your device when you visit a website. They help platforms remember certain things about your visit.
Blogger and Google use cookies to operate this site and to serve relevant advertising if ads are enabled. We do not place any cookies on your device ourselves beyond what Blogger and Google handle automatically as part of running the platform.
If you want to manage or disable cookies, you can do that through your browser settings. Keep in mind that disabling cookies may affect how some parts of websites function, though it should not affect your ability to read content on this site.
Google Analytics and Third Party Services
This site may use Google Analytics to understand general traffic patterns, meaning things like which articles get the most readers, where visitors come from geographically in a broad sense, and what devices people are using. This helps us understand what kind of content is most valuable to our readers.
Google Analytics collects data in an anonymized and aggregated form. We do not use it to identify individual visitors. If you want to opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites, Google provides a browser add on that lets you do exactly that.
Links to Other Websites
Some of our articles include links to external websites, news sources, tools, or resources that we reference or recommend. Once you click one of those links and leave this site, this Privacy Policy no longer applies. Those external sites have their own privacy policies and we have no control over how they operate.
We try to only link to reputable sources but we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of any site we do not own.
Children's Privacy
Your Rights
Depending on where you are located, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data, including the right to request access to whatever data may have been collected about you, the right to request deletion, and the right to opt out of certain types of data collection.
Since most of the data collection on this site happens through Google's infrastructure rather than our own, many of these rights would be exercised directly through Google. For anything specific to this site, you are welcome to reach out to us through our Contact page and we will do our best to help.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time if something changes about how the site operates or if platform policies shift in a way that affects how we need to communicate with our readers. When that happens, we will update the date at the top of this page.
We are not going to send you an email about it because we do not have your email. But if you want to stay current, you can check back on this page whenever you feel like it.
Contact Us
If you have a question, a concern, or just want to get in touch about anything related to this policy or the site in general, head over to our Contact page and send us a message. We read everything and we will get back to you.
Thanks for taking the time to read this. Now go read something interesting.
