Privacy Policy

This is Sweet Savage Flame’s Privacy Policy Page. See also the Affiliate Disclosure Page and Licensing & Fair Use Policy Page.

About Sweet Savage Flame

Our website address is https://sweetsavageflame.com.

You may contact the site owner and webmaster at [email protected] if you have any questions.

Sweet Savage Flame aims to be a welcoming and informative site for readers of retro romance novels, especially books published in the last third of the 20th century.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on this site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with 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.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save 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.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. By selecting “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish a comment, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one day.

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 the 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How Long We Retain Your Data

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.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Media

While visitors are welcome to download and extract any images from SweetSavageFlame.com, please note that we do not hold the copyrights to many of the images featured on the website. These images are only used for educational, research, or critical purposes under Fair Use guidelines.

We make every effort to identify the illustrator, author, publisher, or other relevant parties associated with each image whenever possible.

Additionally, all images on our site are in WebP format.

Moderation Policy

SweetSavageFlame.com is a site designed for mature audiences who can participate in discussions about books with varying levels of sexual and violent content, as well as other age-sensitive topics. To ensure a positive and respectful environment for all, we provide spoiler warnings and category and tag designations with each post.

We strongly believe in the value of free speech and promoting the open exchange of ideas among adults. However, with freedom comes responsibility. Spam is not considered free speech and will be promptly deleted, with the corresponding IP address placed on our block list.

While Sweet Savage Flame encourages open discussions, we do not condone criminal activities, harm against minors, or comments that incite or threaten direct violence against individuals. Our moderators will delete any such statements. Depending on the severity of the comments, we may ban the poster and block the IP address from accessing our site.

We strive to maintain a welcoming and inclusive community that encourages respectful discussions and differences of opinion.

Sweet Savage Flame values your cooperation in respecting our moderation guidelines. We cherish our readers’ diverse perspectives and hope that we can all continue to have engaging conversations while appreciating the opinions and viewpoints of others.

Whom We Share Your Data With

If you request a password reset, we will send you a reset email, including your IP address.

We do not sell or distribute your data. Askimet checks comments for spam.

When clicking on any outside links, those websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.

You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where We Send Your Data

Visitor comments may be checked through Askimet, an automated spam detection service. We block spam, comments that violate our moderation policy, and comments with multiple links.