Who we are

Our website address is: https://kanabwritersconference.com. We are the Kanab Writers Conference. We provide quality educational experiences in the humanities, with literature, poetry, storytelling, and more. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

* 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.

* Storefront and Registration

When using our online registration portal, your personal information is collected, including, but not limited to name and email address. Our payment portal is not specifically connected to your information on this website.

* Contact forms

* 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

* 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

We do not share your data with any outside parties.

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. Personal information will be used to create registration lists and stored in a secured, encrypted file. Email addresses may be used to contact registrants with questions, reminders, and other items related to the conference.

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. Connections directly to paypal are initiated solely by the user and no information is collected or stored from purchase transactions.

Your contact information

Your information will be contained entirely within the conference’s website and accompanying account. No third parties or other groups will be given access to your information.

Additional information

How we protect your data

Your information will be protected in secured, encrypted files with the conference account.

What data breach procedures we have in place

In case of a data breach, affected parties will be notified.

What third parties we receive data from

We do not buy or receive information from third parties.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

When you purchase a conference registration, an automated email is sent to our conference account. Only the committee chair and registration department will have access to the information you provide.