privacy policy
Here’s everything you need to know about the data we collect when you engage with EGG+FROG. All the information we collect we truly believe that we need to run a decent, honest and fruitful website. We don’t sell data on. We’re not interested in spying on anyone. If you have any questions that we haven’t answered below, you can contact us here, and we’ll try our best to answer as quickly as we can.
What information do you have?
This depends if you’re a writer who has submitted to us, or are just visiting the website.
If you’re just visiting, we don’t collect any data. It’s possible that one of the internet companies we’re connected to in order to run this site – Hostinger, WordPress – or one of the plug-ins we use does some arcane collection and calculation to work properly. But it’s not in our purview; we certainly don’t know anything about the visitors to EGG+FROG, including how many (or how few)! We used to track these numbers but, apart from the blow to the ego, we realised that it actually didn’t matter. We do this for the love of reading and writing, and have no grand plans to monetise or change what we do based on the characteristics of our readership. So believe us when we say all the tracking and cookies and data harvesting is really not interesting to us in the least. But it might be to the techno giants on whose infrastructure we rely to run this website.
If you submit work to us, we keep a copy of the work until we’ve assessed if we would like to pursue publication or not. If the submission is not successful, we delete the file (and let the writer know). If we want to take the work further, we keep copies of drafts and the final text for our archives.
why do you need my information?
We keep photos of our contributing writers as well as backed-up copies of their work. Both for the same reason: to guard against the worst case scenario. Should something happen to the site, we’d be able to reupload it all.
do you share my information with anyone?
No. However, there may be some ways in which the software (Hostinger, WordPress) we use makes use of the data.
Writers who submit keep the copyright of their work. So, outside of what we agree with them – allowing us to host their work in perpetuity – it remains entirely their property. We wouldn’t pass around their car keys; we don’t pass around their work.
Where is my information kept?
We use Hostinger to host our website online and WordPress to produce it. They host backups of the site. We also keep a backup in physical form and using a private cloud service. All of these are protected as you’d expect.
how long will you keep my information?
As we said above, if we receive work that we choose not to publish, we delete the files immediately. For work we publish, we’ll keep a backup stored only as long as the writer allows us to host it at EGG+FROG.
Who can I ask to delete my information?
If you want your work removed from the site (and therefore from our backups), contact us.