Privacy Policy
Effective Date: October 4, 2026
Flash Fiction (“Flash Fiction,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected when you visit and use the Flash Fiction website at https://hasanstorywriting.blogspot.com/ (the “Website”), how that information may be used, and the choices available to you.
By using the Website, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy. Where applicable law requires consent for a particular use of information, we will request that consent separately.
1. Who We Are
Flash Fiction is a personal fiction and creative-writing website operated by Mohammad Hasan.
For privacy-related questions, requests, or concerns, please contact us using the contact information provided on our Contact page.
2. Information We May Collect
2.1 Information You Choose to Provide
We may receive personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:
- Your name or other identifying information that you choose to provide.
- Your email address when you contact us.
- The contents of messages, questions, feedback, or other communications you send to us.
- Information you voluntarily submit when interacting with any commenting or communication features made available on the Website.
Please do not submit passwords, financial information, government identification numbers, or other sensitive personal information through the Website's contact or comment features.
2.2 Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Website, certain technical and usage information may be processed automatically by the Website's hosting platform, Google services, advertising services, security systems, or other service providers used by the Website.
Depending on the services active on the Website, this information may include:
- IP address or similar network information.
- Browser type and version.
- Device or operating-system information.
- Pages visited and links or elements interacted with.
- Date and time of visits.
- Referring and exit pages or URLs.
- General usage and diagnostic information.
- Information stored or accessed through cookies, local storage, or similar technologies.
Google explains that websites using Google services such as advertising or analytics may share information such as the page URL and IP address with Google, and Google may use cookies or read cookies already stored in a browser. Google Policies
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
The Website and third-party services used on the Website may use cookies, local storage, web beacons, pixels, or similar technologies.
These technologies may be used to:
- Operate and maintain the Website.
- Remember preferences or settings.
- Understand how visitors use the Website.
- Measure performance and usage.
- Help prevent fraud, abuse, and security problems.
- Deliver and measure advertising when advertising services are enabled.
A cookie may be stored on your device or read from your device when you visit a page containing services that use cookies.
You can manage or block cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect some Website functionality.
4. Advertising and Google AdSense
Flash Fiction may display advertising through third-party advertising services, including Google AdSense, when such services are enabled on the Website.
When Google advertising services are used, Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, or similar identifiers to serve, measure, personalize, or otherwise support advertising. Google states that advertising cookies may be placed or read when a user visits a page containing Google advertising services. Google Support
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user's prior visits to this Website or other websites. Google provides controls that allow users to manage or opt out of personalized advertising through its advertising settings. Google Support
You can learn more about how Google uses information from websites and apps that use Google's services here:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
You can manage Google's advertising personalization settings through:
https://adssettings.google.com/
You may also learn more about advertising choices through industry resources such as:
European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland
Where required for advertising, Flash Fiction will use an appropriate consent-management solution to obtain and manage consent for cookies, local storage, personalized advertising, and related processing.
Google currently requires publishers using AdSense, Ad Manager, or AdMob to use a Google-certified CMP integrated with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework when serving personalized ads to users in the EEA, UK, or Switzerland. Google Support
Your advertising choices may affect which types of advertisements are shown to you.
5. How We Use Information
Information processed in connection with the Website may be used for legitimate purposes including:
- Providing and maintaining the Website.
- Publishing and delivering stories and other content.
- Responding to questions and messages.
- Improving Website content, navigation, performance, and usability.
- Understanding aggregate Website usage and performance.
- Detecting, preventing, and investigating fraud, abuse, spam, or security incidents.
- Complying with legal obligations.
- Serving, measuring, and improving advertising when advertising services are enabled.
- Protecting the rights, safety, and security of Flash Fiction, our users, and others.
We do not sell your personal information as a standalone product.
6. How Information May Be Shared
We may share information with service providers and third parties where reasonably necessary to operate the Website or provide requested services.
These may include:
- Google/Blogger, which provides the Website hosting and related infrastructure.
- Advertising providers, including Google, when advertising services are enabled.
- Analytics or measurement providers, if such services are enabled.
- Security, hosting, technical, or infrastructure providers, where applicable.
- Authorities or other parties when legally required, such as to comply with valid legal process or protect rights, safety, or security.
Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and applicable contractual or legal obligations.
For information about Google's handling of information collected through partner sites and services, see:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
7. Third-Party Websites and Services
The Website may contain links to third-party websites, platforms, services, or resources.
We do not control those third parties and are not responsible for their privacy practices, security, content, or policies.
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party service before providing it with personal information.
8. Data Retention
We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, to provide requested services, maintain appropriate records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, protect the Website, or comply with legal obligations.
The retention period may vary depending on the nature of the information and the reason it was collected.
Technical information collected by third-party platforms such as Google may be retained according to those providers' respective policies.
9. Data Security
We take reasonable steps to protect information under our control against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
However, no internet transmission, website, electronic storage system, or security measure can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Accordingly, we cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted to or through the Website.
10. Your Privacy Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning personal information processed about you. These may include, where applicable:
- Requesting access to personal information.
- Requesting correction of inaccurate information.
- Requesting deletion of personal information.
- Requesting restriction of certain processing.
- Objecting to certain processing.
- Withdrawing consent where processing is based on consent.
- Requesting a copy of certain information in a portable format.
- Making a complaint to the relevant data-protection authority.
Some of these rights are subject to applicable legal limitations and exceptions.
To exercise a privacy request, contact us using the information on our Contact page. We may need to verify the request before acting on it.
You can also manage certain Google advertising and privacy settings directly through Google's controls, including Google Ads Settings:
https://adssettings.google.com/
11. Children's Privacy
Flash Fiction is not knowingly directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly request or collect personal information from children under 13 through the Website.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.
Where applicable law establishes a different minimum age for consent or imposes additional requirements, those requirements will apply.
12. International Visitors and Data Transfers
Flash Fiction may be accessed by users from countries around the world.
Because the Website uses services provided by companies such as Google, information may be processed or stored in countries other than the country in which you are located.
Where applicable, such processing and transfers will be handled in accordance with the requirements of applicable data-protection law and the policies of the relevant service providers.
13. Third-Party Privacy Policies
This Privacy Policy describes Flash Fiction's Website-level practices. Third-party services integrated into or linked from the Website may have their own privacy policies and terms.
For Google services, you can review Google's Privacy Policy here:
https://policies.google.com/privacy
You can also review Google's explanation of how it uses information from sites and apps that use Google services here:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the Website, services we use, applicable legal requirements, or our privacy practices.
When we make changes, we will update the Effective Date at the top of this page.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
15. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, wish to make a privacy request, or have concerns about how information is handled, please contact Flash Fiction through our Contact page:
