PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: October 15, 2026
1. Data Controller
The Data Controllers for piacenzavoice.com are the Co-founders (see About us). This website is an amateur, non-profit collective blog.
2. Data We Collect and Why
User Accounts & Registrations: When you register to write for us, we collect your username, email address, password, and IP address. This data is mandatory to create your profile, attribute your articles correctly, and manage website security.
Comments: When visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Analytics: We use native WPstatistics to monitor website traffic. This data is collected in an aggregated and anonymous form to understand how readers interact with our content.
3. Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal data based on your explicit consent (given when registering or leaving a comment) and for our legitimate interest in maintaining website security and managing authorship.
4. Data Retention and Your Rights
Registration data and comments are stored indefinitely unless you request deletion.
You have the right to request access to your data, correct it, or ask for its permanent deletion at any time by contacting us at contact@piacenzavoice.com.
Terms & Author Guidelines
TERMS OF SERVICE & AUTHOR GUIDELINES
By registering an account and submitting content to piacenzavoice.com, you agree to the following terms:
1. Content Responsibility & Copyright
Originality: You guarantee that all articles, poems, and stories submitted are your original work. Plagiarism is strictly prohibited.
Media Copyright: Any images or media included in your posts must be free of copyright or you must own the explicit rights to use them.
Legal Liability: You retain the intellectual ownership of your work, but you remain personally and legally responsible for the views, facts, and opinions expressed in your articles.
2. Content Moderation
The website administrators reserve the right to review, edit, or decline the publication of any submission that:
- Contains hate speech, discrimination, defamation, or offensive language.
- Infringes third-party copyright.
- Promotes commercial products or spam.