Privacy Policy
Updated on December 25, 2020.
Information collected
This website (frostwriter.com) is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
Email addresses (only if you wish to get updates about Frost’s features)
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. Review their Privacy Policy here - https://www.squarespace.com/privacy.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
Ads
We do not place on our website whatsoever.
Audio on Website
For Audio on website, Frost uses audio integration from Soundcloud via their embeded player. Please visit their website to learn more about their privacy policy (https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy)
CalOPPA
According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following-
Once the privacy policy is made, we shall add a link to it on our website where it is significantly visible.
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word 'Privacy' and can easily be found on the page specified above.
You can visit this page whenever you wish to learn about the changes to the privacy policy.
Email addresses
We ask for your email address only if you wish to learn more about updates to Frost themes or features through our website.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old and neither do we specifically collect information from anyone under the age of 13.
Cookies
The following cookies are being used on Frost. We do not collect any of your personal data except the ones which are critical to monitor website traffic and give you the best experience possible.
ss_cid - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
ss_cvr - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
ss_cvisit - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
ss_cvt - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
ss_cpvisit - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
LockedPrevents the password-protected screen from displaying IF a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.
Crumb - Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF)*.
Apart from the above, the text you type on Frost is stores on your browser’s local storage. It is done so to auto-save whatever your type on Frost so that it’s not lost even when you close the browser. The script stores text data to the local storage of the user’s browser and restores it when the you reload or reopen the page or open the page in a new tab. Learn more about the script used for autosave functionality here - https://github.com/simsalabim/sisyphus.
*Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
CSRF is an attack vector that tricks a browser into taking unwanted action in an application when someone’s logged in.
You can choose to have your computer device warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You can do this through your browser settings. Since every browser is different, look at your browser's help menu or support website to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
