Our website address is: http://www.morningseditionists.com/msblog2. Which you probably already knew, ‘cuz here you are. As for “we,” we is me, but this page is (mostly) boilerplate and I don’t feel like changing all the wording.
I think we’re supposed to have one of these to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is something that crazy EU came up with because they actually give a shit about personal privacy. For my fellow Americans, never mind – privacy is one of the many things that our government doesn’t even pretend to care about anymore.
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We don’t share your contact information, or use it for anything except for automated forgotten password responses. If somebody wants to get in touch with you, we may pass along an e-mail to you to let you decide if you want to reply to them. That would be pretty rare, though, and in any case we’d never share your information directly.
Mostly, we try to keep WordPress updated, and we don’t share your information. Just keep in mind that anything you post in a comment is public. If you somehow lose you mind and post your phone number or your credit card information or something, let us know when you sober up and we’ll delete it. But the horse is kind of out of the barn at that point, so, you know, don’t do that. Also, don’t post anybody else’s private information here either.
Even though there are only maybe two or three people who still wander by here (including me), there are spiders and robots (and Russian spies) who crawl through the web (who may or may not be working on behalf of that fat pussy-grabbing guy in the White House), and everything you post will most likely survive forever (and nobody’s gonna believe you were hacked). So play nice, and don’t be dumb.