Privacy Notice
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- Introduction
- Third Party Links
- Your personal data: When your data are collected
- Your personal data: How your data are processed and why your data are processed this way
- Data Sharing
- Transfer, storage and security of your personal data
- Option to Unsubscribe at any time
- Your rights
- Changes to this Privacy Notice
- Introduction
This is the website of S. C. Ashby, the author of the Along the River Road.
When you use the website or sign up to receive blog email updates from S. C. Ashby, the entity controlling the data is _____. This means that ____ is responsible for deciding how personal data about you is stored and used. It also means that ___ are required by US data protection laws to provide you with the information contained in this privacy notice concerning this website.
- C. Ashby and _____ are devoted to the maintenance of your trust and privacy whenever you visit this website or subscribe to the blog’s email updates. If you have any questions about how we protect your privacy, please drop us a line at webmaster email address goes here.
- Third Party Links
Third-party Links are located on this webpage
The website along with the blog email updates may include contact details of third parties or links to third party websites. Some of the webpages of the website might also contain embedded objects such as Instagram photographs, Pinterest links, or YouTube videos.
Contacting those third parties or clicking on those links or using the embedded objects may allow third parties to collect or share personal data about you. We do not control these third-parties and are not responsible for their privacy statements or processing activities.
- Your personal data: When your data are collected
Some of your personal data is collected on this website. We collect, store, and use the following types of your personal data:
- When you visit scashby.com we use cookies in your web browser to collect data analytics such as the geolocation of visitors. Also collected, are the sections of the webpage you are accessing.
- And, of course, when you sign up to receive blog email updates, your email address is also collected.
- If you happen to send us an email about the website or blog or this privacy notice, we will have any information you freely offer in that email.
- No sensitive personal data is collected through this website. Note: Sensitive personal data is known as special category personal data in the US Protection Regulations, and the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 2016), and concerns such data as details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data, any criminal convictions and offenses.
- Your personal data: How your data are processed and why your data are processed this way
This author’s website and blog were created to keep readers updated with the latest news regarding the books various characters and new books or pre-quels and sequels on the way. To offer you a free blog subscription and to enable you to use the website, some limited personal data about you needs to be processed on our side of the digital fence. We will not process your personal data unless we have a legal basis to do so under data protection law. Also, we will not process your personal data in a way outside of what we explain to you here. Your data will not be processed in a way that a typical user would not expect.
Below, we describe all that we do with your personal data and why it is done like that:
- Website Analytics
To pursue the legitimate interests of maintaining a website for our supporters and enthusiasts, we need to use website cookies to improve the experience of the visitors to this website. For example, to make your experience on the website more efficient, we compile tracking data while you visit this website only. Please, read our Cookies Policy for further information.
Website analytics is also employed to find out things such as the number and geolocation of visitors to the different webpages of the website. These data is aggregated and processed in such a way that no user’s identity is revealed in the data storage and, thus, is not considered to be personal data by US law.
- Blog Email Updates
Upon subscribing to the blog mailing list, you are consenting to the receipt of a free PDF and have an option to receive updates from the blog.
- Inquiries
When you send an email about the website, blog or this privacy notice to this website’s webmaster, this is your consent for us to consider and respond to your inquiry.
- Data Sharing
We only share your personal data as an essential part of being able to maintain the website and the blog, as set out in our privacy notice:
- ConvertKit: this is the website’s email delivery provider which is used to collect and store the email addresses of subscribers to the blog. It, also, automatically delivers the blog updates to your email inboxes.
- We may also share your personal data with third parties where required by law or compelled to by a change in contractual obligations. If that arises, ALL subscribers will be informed of the change and give the option to opt out of being a subscriber.
- Transfer, storage and security of your personal data
We use ConvertKit which is based in the US to collect and store the email addresses of subscribers to the blog and to deliver the blog updates to our subscribers’ email inboxes.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
- Option to Unsubscribe at any time
We retain your email address for as long as you are a subscriber to the blog.
You can unsubscribe from the blog at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any blog email update or by contacting the Webmaster: webmaster@eljamesauthor.com.
- Your rights
Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to:
- Request access to your personal data (typically referred to as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that it is being processed lawfully.
- Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
- Request removal or erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to remove or delete personal data where there is no adequate reason for your personal data to be stored and processed by this website.
- Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object on this ground to such data processing. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
- Request the restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data. For example, if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
- Request the transfer of your personal data to another party.
If you want to review, verify, correct or request removal or erasure of your personal data, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal data to another party, please contact the webmaster: webmaster@email address goes here.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights listed above). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request for access is clearly unfounded or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with the request in such circumstances.
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the following entities:
- In the US:
- Federal Trade Commission: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/
- Better Business Bureau: https://www.bbb.org
- In Europe, a list of contacts per country for the National Data Protection Authorities can be found at:
- In the United Kingdom:
- Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO): ico.org.uk
- We would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO, so please contact us and give us first the opportunity to address your concerns.
- Changes to this Privacy Notice
As rules and regulations continue to evolve regarding the use of the Web, we reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time. Whenever that happens you will receive an email with the updates or changes made as well as a link. We may also notify you from time to time about the processing of your personal data.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, please contact the Webmaster by emailing webmaster@scashby.com.