Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how the independent website Zodiac Quill (“the site,” available at https://zodiacquill.com/) handles information. The operator can be reached at jinghaoa325@gmail.com. This policy matches the site as it exists today: a static educational publication without user accounts, supported by display advertising served by third-party vendors including Google.

Information collection

The site does not require an account and does not run a server-side contact database. If you email jinghaoa325@gmail.com, or use the contact form (which opens your own mail application), you choose to send whatever you put in that message. We use that correspondence only to reply.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that a website or a third party may store in your browser. The pages of this site do not set first-party tracking cookies by themselves. Cookies are set by third-party services loaded when you visit: Google Fonts, which delivers the typefaces used on this site, and Google and other advertising vendors, which serve the ads described below.

If you are in a region where consent is required by law, advertising and analytics cookies are set only after you accept them through the consent notice. You can withdraw consent at any time by clearing this site’s cookies in your browser.

See the Cookie Policy for the categories of cookies used and how to control them.

Analytics

The site does not currently embed Google Analytics or a similar first-party visitor-measurement tag. Advertising vendors, including Google, may collect measurement and reporting data in connection with the ads they serve, as described in the Advertising section below. If first-party analytics are added later, this section will be updated before or at the same time as the code change.

Log data

The host that serves files may keep ordinary server logs (IP address, user agent, date, requested URL). Those logs are controlled by the hosting provider’s practices. Zodiac Quill does not sell log data.

Third-party services

Pages load webfonts from Google Fonts, which is a third-party request made by your browser. Google also serves the advertising described above, subject to your consent where required. Images are stored on this site; their original authors are listed on Image Credits. Clicking an external link (for example Wikimedia Commons) leaves this site. No Google account or sign-in is needed to read the articles.

Advertising

Zodiac Quill is supported by display advertising. Ads on this site are served by third-party vendors, including Google. These vendors use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website and to other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the internet.

You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info, or, in the European Economic Area, at www.youronlinechoices.eu.

For details on how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services. A list of Google’s third-party ad vendors is published in Google’s advertising policies help.

Advertising is how this publication is funded. Ads are selected by the advertising vendors, not by Zodiac Quill, and the appearance of an ad on a page is not an endorsement of the advertiser, its products, or its claims.

Where the law requires consent for personalized advertising — including in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland — Zodiac Quill uses a Google-certified consent management platform to request that consent before personalized advertising cookies are set. If you decline, you may still see ads, but they will not be personalized.

User rights

You may request access to, or deletion of, personal information you sent by email, subject to legal retention needs (for example, a record of a completed correction). Send requests to jinghaoa325@gmail.com.

Your rights under GDPR and CCPA

If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have the right to access, correct, erase, restrict, or object to the processing of your personal data, the right to data portability, and the right to withdraw consent at any time. Our legal bases are consent, for advertising and analytics cookies, and legitimate interest, for operating the site and keeping it secure.

If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information is collected, to request its deletion, to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, and not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights. We do not sell personal information. Some advertising-related data collection may be treated as sharing under California law; you can opt out through Google Ads Settings.

To exercise any of these rights, email jinghaoa325@gmail.com. We aim to respond within 30 days.

Data deletion requests

Email jinghaoa325@gmail.com with the address you used and a description of the material. Correspondence copies in the operator’s inbox can be deleted on request.

Data retention

Email is kept only as long as needed to handle the request or as required by law. There is no member database to retain.

Security

Transmission of email is only as secure as your mail provider. The site is served over HTTPS when hosted at zodiacquill.com. No method of transmission is perfectly secure.

Children’s privacy

The site is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

External links

Articles may link to encyclopedias, museums, or other references. Their privacy practices are their own.

Privacy Policy updates

The date at the top of this page will change when the policy changes. Material changes — such as introducing display advertising, which this revision documents — are described in this document.

Contact information

jinghaoa325@gmail.com