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By Ted Folkman

Privacy Statement (US)

This privacy statement was last changed on November 7, 2024, last checked on November 7, 2024, and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United States.

In this privacy statement, we explain what we do with the data we obtain about you via https://lettersblogatory.com. We recommend you carefully read this statement. In our processing we comply with the requirements of privacy legislation. That means, among other things, that:

  • we clearly state the purposes for which we process personal data. We do this by means of this privacy statement;
  • we aim to limit our collection of personal data to only the personal data required for legitimate purposes;
  • we first request your explicit consent to process your personal data in cases requiring your consent;
  • we take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data and also require this from parties that process personal data on our behalf;
  • we respect your right to access your personal data or have it corrected or deleted, at your request.

If you have any questions, or want to know exactly what data we keep of you, please contact us.

1. Purpose and categories of data

We may collect or receive personal information for a number of purposes connected with our business operations which may include the following: (click to expand)

1.1 Contact – Through phone, mail, email and/or webforms

The following categories of data are collected

  • A first and last name
  • An email address
  • IP Address

Retention period

We determine the retention period according to fixed objective criteria: I retain commenters’ information until commenters ask to have their comments removed

1.2 Newsletters

The following categories of data are collected

  • An email address

Retention period

We retain this data upon termination of the service for the following number of months: 1

2. Sharing with other parties

We only share or disclose this data to other recipients for the following purposes:

Purpose of the data transfer: To allow the user to receive newsletters to which he or she has subscribed
Country or state in which this service provider is located: United States
Purpose of the data transfer: To allow Letters Blogatory to block malicious traffic
Country or state in which this service provider is located: United States of America
Purpose of the data transfer: To reduce spam on contact forms
Country or state in which this service provider is located: United States of America

3. Disclosure practices

We disclose personal information if we are required by law or by a court order, in response to a law enforcement agency, to the extent permitted under other provisions of law, to provide information, or for an investigation on a matter related to public safety.

If our website or organisation is taken over, sold, or involved in a merger or acquisition, your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and will be passed on to the new owners.

4. How we respond to Do Not Track signals & Global Privacy Control

Our website does not respond to and does not support the Do Not Track (DNT) header request field.

5. Cookies

Our website uses cookies. For more information about cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy on our Opt-out preferences webpage. 

6. Security

We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorized access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.

7. Third-party websites

This privacy statement does not apply to third-party websites connected by links on our website. We cannot guarantee that these third parties handle your personal data in a reliable or secure manner. We recommend you read the privacy statements of these websites prior to making use of these websites.

8. Amendments to this privacy statement

We reserve the right to make amendments to this privacy statement. It is recommended that you consult this privacy statement regularly in order to be aware of any changes. In addition, we will actively inform you wherever possible.

9. Accessing and modifying your data

If you have any questions or want to know which personal data we have about you, please contact us. Please make sure to always clearly state who you are, so that we can be certain that we do not modify or delete any data of the wrong person. We shall provide the requested information only upon receipt of a verifiable consumer request. You can contact us by using the information below. You have the following rights:

9.1 You have the following rights with respect to your personal data

  1. You may submit a request for access to the data we process about you.
  2. You may object to the processing.
  3. You may request an overview, in a commonly used format, of the data we process about you.
  4. You may request correction or deletion of the data if it is incorrect or not or no longer relevant, or to ask to restrict the processing of the data.

9.2 Supplements

This section, which supplements the rest of this Privacy Statement, applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of California (CPRA), Colorado (CPA), Connecticut (CTDPA), Montana (MCDPA), Nevada (NRS 603A), Texas (TDPSA), Oregon (OCPA), Utah (UCPA) and Virginia (CDPA)

California

Right to know what personal information is being collected about you

A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that collects personal information about the consumer disclose to the consumer the following:

  1. The categories of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
  2. The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
  3. The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
  4. The categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information.
  5. The specific pieces of personal information it has collected about that consumer.

The right to know whether personal information is sold or disclosed and to whom

A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that sells the consumer’s personal information, or that discloses it for a business purpose, disclose to that consumer:

  1. The categories of personal information that the business collected about the consumer.
  2. The categories of personal information that the business sold about the consumer and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to whom the personal information was sold.
  3. The categories of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer for a business purpose.

The Right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights


A consumer shall have the right to request that a business delete any personal information about the consumer which the business has collected from the consumer.


A business that receives a verifiable request from a consumer to delete the consumer’s personal information pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section shall delete the consumer’s personal information from its records and direct any service providers to delete the consumer’s personal information from their records.


A business or a service provider shall not be required to comply with a consumer’s request to delete the consumer’s personal information if it is necessary for the business or service provider to maintain the consumer’s personal information in order to:

  1. Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by the consumer, or reasonably anticipated within the context of a business’s ongoing business relationship with the consumer, or otherwise perform a contract between the business and the consumer.
  2. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity.
  3. Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
  4. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
  5. Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.
  6. Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the businesses’ deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if the consumer has provided informed consent.
  7. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
  8. To enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with the expectations of the consumer based on the consumer’s relationship with the business.
  9. Comply with a legal obligation.
  10. Otherwise use the consumer’s personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information.

Right to opt-out

You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you. For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.

Financial incentives

Selling of personal data to third parties

We have not sold consumers’ personal data in the preceding 12 months

We have not disclosed consumers’ personal information for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months.

    Colorado

    Right to Data Portability

    When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right no more than two times per calendar year.

    Right to opt-out

    You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.

    Under Colorado law this concerns the following purposes:

    1. targeted advertising;
    2. the sale of personal data; or
    3. profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.

    For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.

    Connecticut

    Right to Data Portability

    When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.

    We are not required to reveal any trade secret.

    Right to opt-out

    You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.

    Under the CTDPA this concerns the following purposes:

    1. targeted advertising; or
    2. the sale of personal data; or
    3. profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.

    For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.

    Montana

    Right to Data Portability

    When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.

    We are not required to reveal any trade secret.

    Right to opt-out

    You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.

    Under the MCDPA this concerns the following purposes:

    1. targeted advertising; or
    2. the sale of personal data; or
    3. profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.

    For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.

    Nevada

    Right to opt-out

    You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.

    For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.

    Oregon

    Right to Data Portability

    When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.

    We are not required to reveal any trade secret.

    Right to opt-out

    You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.

    Under the OCPA this concerns the following purposes:

    1. targeted advertising; or
    2. the sale of personal data; or
    3. profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.

    For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.

    Texas

    Right to Data Portability

    When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.

    We are not required to reveal any trade secret.

    Right to opt-out

    You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.

    Under the TDPSA this concerns the following purposes:

    1. targeted advertising; or
    2. the sale of personal data; or
    3. profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.

    For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.

    Utah

    Right to Data Portability

    When exercising the right to Access personal data, you have the right to obtain the personal data that you previously provided to us as a controller in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.

    Right to opt-out

    You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.

    Under the UCPA this concerns the following purposes:

    1. targeted advertising; or
    2. the sale of personal data.

    For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.

    Virginia

    Right to Data Portability

    When exercising the right to Access personal data , you have the right to obtain the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance. You may exercise this right no more than two times per calendar year.

    Right to opt-out

    You may submit a request directing us not to make certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about you.

    Under the CDPA this concerns the following purposes:

    1. targeted advertising;
    2. the sale of personal data; or
    3. profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning a consumer.

    For more information about the possibility of submitting an opt-out request, please refer to our Opt-out preferences page.

    10. Children

    Our website is not designed to attract children and it is not our intent to collect personal data from children under the age of consent in their country of residence. We therefore request that children under the age of consent do not submit any personal data to us.

    11. Contact details

    Theodore J Folkman
    10 New Park Ave
    Boston, MA 02131
    United States
    Website: https://lettersblogatory.com
    Email: tfolkman@lettersblogatory.com

    Phone number: +1 617-330-7135

    12. Data Requests

    For the most frequently submitted requests, we also offer you the possibility to use our data request form

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