Privacy Policy

Last updated: March 24, 2021

Who we are

We are Musuq Illa, a trilingual digital space (Runasimi-Spanish-English) for sharing oral and written versions of contemporary poetry written in runasimi (Quechua) by poets working in the Andes and in Quechua-Andean diaspora communities. Our website address is: https://musuqilla.info.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Depending on how you choose to interact with MusuqIlla.info, we may collect personal information from you, including, but not limited to: name, email address, city and country of residence. We collect this information in order to carry out correspondence with you, allow for commenting and collaboration on the MusuqIlla.info site as well as allowing for the submission of poems, audio files and images to be featured within MusuqIlla.info.

Comments

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

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

If you have made contact with us via the contact forms, any information that you have entered is maintained purely for the sake of correspondence between MusuqIlla.info and yourself. Any information submitted here, including your first and last name, email address, city/town and country of residence or the contents of your message will not be used for any other purpose beyond correspondence between MusuqIlla.info and yourself, nor will any of this information be provided to others without your express written consent.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving 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 also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “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 an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

The site utilizes cookies to improve the performance and delivery of content by tracking usage data. This allows content to be served from data sources closest to your location for faster access.

Social media cookies provide the possibility to connect you to your social networks to share content from or link to MusuqIlla.info through social media providers. In some cases, these cookies involve personally-identifiable data. Refusing these cookies may prevent your being able to link effectively with Facebook, Twitter, or other social media networks and/or precluding sharing of content on social media altogether.

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 in the exact 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.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

MusuqIlla.info has integrated Google Analytics (with anonymization function) into the site.

Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analytics are the processes of collation, collection and analysis of data about visitor behavior on websites. Some of the data that is collected includes from which website a visitor has come (“referrers”), which subpages of this website were visited, how often and for what length of time. Web analytics are primarily used to optimize the design of the user experience on this site.

The operator of the Google Analytics component is:

Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.

Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google might transfer the personal information collected via this technical procedure to third parties.

As IP anonymization is activated on our website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within Member States of the European Union or other states in agreement with the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by a Google server in the USA. On behalf of the operator of the website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and to provide further services related to website and internet use to us. The IP address transferred through your browser to Google Analytics will not be combined with other data held by Google.

In addition, this website uses the Analytics feature UserID to track interaction data. This User ID will be additionally anonymized and encrypted and will not be linked with other data.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible.

In addition, you may prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

This browser add-on informs Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data and information about website visits may be transmitted to Google Analytics.

In addition, a cookie already set by Google Analytics can be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.

Further information and Google‘s applicable privacy regulations can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/ The following link provides a further explanation of Google Analytics https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/.

Our website also uses Google Analytics performance reports relating to demographics and interests and reports on Google Display Network impressions. You can disable Google Analytics for display advertising and customize the ads on the Google Display Network by visiting the ad settings at this link: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences?continue=aHR0cHM6Ly9hZHNzZXR0aW5ncy5nb29nbGUuY29tL2Fub255bW91cw%3D%3D.

MusuqIlla.info does not sell or share your data for the sake of marketing, advertising, sales or for any purpose other than improving the user experience.

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 profile. 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.

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 are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service in order to prevent such content from overwhelming the site.