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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is intended to provide you with information about what personal data The Island Drum collects about you and how it is used.

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The Island Drum readers are given the option to subscribe to our email newsletter. In doing so we may collect and store personal information from you, such as your name and email address. Newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. These pixels are embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns.

Because of these tracking pixels, we can see if and when you open an email as well as which links within the email you click. This also allows us to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the subscribers. This information won’t be passed on to third parties. You can request to be removed from our email list at any time by following the unsubscribe links in the emails or contacting us at [email protected].

The Island Drum emails are serviced by Mailchimp and you can refer to their privacy policy for more information.

Your rights related to your personal information

At any time you have the following options relating to your personal information.

Opt-out – You can opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at [email protected] to be removed from our mailing list.

Access – You can access the information we have about you by submitting a request to [email protected]

Amend – You can contact us at [email protected] to amend or update your personal information.

Forget – In certain situations, you can request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to [email protected]

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

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The Island Drum uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences and record user-specific information on what pages they visit. This is to ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customized website content based on browser type or other information that the visitor sends.

Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics. This service tracks website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. Read more about how Google uses data when you use their partners’ sites or apps.

We don’t share any personal information with third parties nor do we store any information about your visit to this website other than to analyze and optimize the content and improve your reading experience through the use of cookies. You can turn off the use of cookies at anytime by changing your specific browser settings.

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The Island Drum uses third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the website. These third party advertisers use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website. These cookies enable them and their partners to serve ads based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

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The Island Drum engages in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

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The Island Drum often provides links to other websites for the reader’s benefit. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services.

Terms of Use

We do our best to provide honest and accurate information on The Island Drum. However, we aren’t liable for any errors or omissions in our information. The owner will not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the display or use of this information. We aren’t responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without our permission.

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No part of this website or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied, modified or adapted, without the prior written consent of The Island Drum.

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Contact

You can contact us at any time with questions related to this privacy policy at [email protected]

This privacy policy is subject to change without notice, and was last updated on November 20, 2021.

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