Our Privacy and Cookies Policy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors, readers, and service users.

Any data you send us will be used in a lawful way, we won’t do anything with it that we did not tell you about in advance, and it will all remain private unless you give us permission to send specific data to a third party for a good reason.

We use cookies, or pieces of code that record your preferences, on our website, but we will ask for your consent to their use when you first visit us.

There are laws around the world restricting what we can do with your data (your email address, name, phone number, and other identifying information), and the policy below complies with current laws.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We may process data about your use of our website through a third-party analytics tracking system, such as Google Analytics. This usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency, and pattern of your service use. We may process your account and profile data, which will include your name and email address and phone number and any other demographic information you voluntarily provided to us. This information is used only to provide you with our services and communicate with you. We may also process information you supply to us in contributing to our website or in transactions, including purchases of goods and services. Also, we may process information you gave us in subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters.

Providing your personal data to others

Financial transactions relating to our website and services may be handled by our payment services providers. We will share transaction data with them only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunds, and dealing with queries. Personal data that we process for any purpose will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose.

We may use third-party apps to fulfil orders, such as our Print-On-Demand distributors (BookVault and Kunakify), and it will be necessary for them to also have access to some transaction data strictly for the purpose of fulfilling orders.

Security of Personal Data

We will take appropriate technical and organizational precautions to secure your personal data and to prevent its loss, misuse, or alteration. We will store all your personal data on secure servers, personal computers and mobile devices, and in secure manual record-keeping systems.

Data relating to your enquiries and financial transactions that is sent from your web browser to our web server, or from our web server to your web browser, will be protected using encryption technology. You acknowledge that the transmission of unencrypted data over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee its security.

Your rights

Your principal rights under data protection law are:

• The right to access: You have the right to confirm the personal data we have on you and we must provide access if you request it. 
• The right to rectification: You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you corrected and to have any incomplete personal data about you completed. 
• The right to erasure: Also known as the “right to be forgotten,” you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay for any reason. There are a few exceptions to this right, though, if we are complying with a legal obligation or defending against a legal claim. 
• The right to restrict processing: In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. That could happen if you contest the accuracy of the data or we no longer need the data, but you would like it retained for legal reasons. 
• The right to object to processing: If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests. 
• The right to data portability: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose. 
• The right to complain to a supervisory authority: If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. 
• The right to withdraw consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent to handle your data at any time. 

Third party websites

We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and details of third party websites and the practices of third parties that we may link to from our website.

Personal data of children

Our website and services are targeted at persons over the age of 16. If we have reason to believe that we hold personal data of a person under that age in our databases, we will delete it.

About cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before then; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

We use cookies to identify you when you visit our website, determine if you are logged in, and maintain the status of your shopping cart.

They may also be used to help us to display advertisements relevant to you and to help us analyze the use and performance of our website and services.

Our service providers, such as Google Analytics and Google Adsense, use cookies that may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete them. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version.

Further Information

Answers to questions about laws concerning handling of data privacy can be found in this guide to General Data Protection Regulation for the European Union.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation- gdpr/individual-rights/

You are also welcome to send us an email with any questions: steven@stevencolborne.com