Privacy policy.
1. Introduction
This is the website of author Parker Finch.
When you use the website or sign up to receive blog email updates from Parker Finch, Parker Finch Publishing is the “data controller”. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use personal data about you. It also means that we are required to provide you with the information contained in this privacy notice in respect of the website.
We are 100% committed to maintaining your trust and privacy when you visit the website or subscribe to our email updates. If you have any questions about how we protect your privacy, please drop us a line at hello AT authorparkerfinch DOT com
Third-party Links
This website and our email updates may include contact details of third parties or links to third-party websites. Some of the web pages of the website may also contain embedded objects such as YouTube videos and Instagram photographs.
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.
2. When do we collect your personal data?
We collect, store, and use the following categories of personal data about you:
When you visit authorparkerfinch.com we use cookies in your web browser to collect data analytics such as the geolocation of visitors and which pages of the website you access.
When you sign up to receive email updates we collect your email address.
If you contact us through the form on the contact page or email us directly about the website, our emails to you, this privacy notice, or just to say hello.
We do not collect any sensitive personal data about you.
3. How and why do we use your personal data?
This website and our newsletter were created to keep fans of Parker Finch books up-to-date with the latest news. To enable you to use the website and subscribe to the blog, we have to process some limited personal data about you. We will not process your personal data unless we have a legal basis to do so under data protection law and we will not process your personal data in a way you would not expect.
Below we set this out in detail, showing you what we do with your personal data and why:
Website Analytics
To pursue the legitimate interests of maintaining a website for fans we need to use website cookies to improve the experience of visitors to the website, for example letting you navigate through the webpages efficiently. Please read our Cookies Policy for further information.
We also use website analytics to find out things such as the number and geolocation of visitors to the different pages of the website. This data is aggregated and processed in a way that does not identify anyone and therefore is not considered to be personal data in law.
Email Updates
When you subscribe to the updates mailing list you are consenting to receive updates from us.
Enquiries
When you send us an email about the website, blog, this privacy notice, or just to say hello, this is your consent for us to consider and respond to your enquiry.
4. Sharing your data
We only share your personal data as an essential part of being able to maintain the website and our emails, as set out in this privacy notice:
MailerLite
MailerLite is the email delivery provider we use to collect and store the email addresses of subscribers to our email updates and to deliver those updates to your email inbox.
We may also share your personal data with third parties where required by law or where we have another legitimate interest in doing so.
5. Transferring your personal data outside the USA
We use MailerLite for our email updates, and MailerLite is based in Lithuania. They collect and store the email addresses of subscribers to the email update and deliver the updates to our subscribers’ email inboxes.
6. How do we keep your data secure?
We have implemented security policies and technical measures to safeguard the Personal Data we collect. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with applicable law, including the GDPR, to safeguard your Personal Data from accidental loss, destruction or damage, and unauthorized access, use, and disclosure. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
7. Unsubscribing
We retain your email address for as long as you are a subscriber to our email updates.
You can unsubscribe from our email updates at any time by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of any email update or by contacting us: hello AT authorparkerjames DOT com
8. Your rights
You have legal rights under applicable law in relation to your Personal Data. You can ask the following questions, or take the following actions, at any time by contacting us via email at hello AT authorparkerjames DOT com:
Request Access to see what Personal Data we hold about you (if any), including why we are holding it and to whom it could be disclosed
Request Correction to change or correct your Personal Data
Request Erasure by asking us to delete your Personal Data
Object to the Processing of your Personal Data
Restrict the processing of your Personal Data by asking us to stop processing your personal data
Withdraw Consents you have given us to the processing of your Personal Data
Express Concerns you have about third parties’ use of your Personal Data
9. Minors
This Website and our services are aimed at adults, and we do not knowingly collect any Personal Data relating to children aged under 18 years old. If you are under the age of 18, please do not provide us with any of your Personal Data, including your email address.
10. Surveys & Contests
From time to time, our site or email update may request information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address,) and demographic information (such as zip code, age, or preferences.) Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site and our email updates
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is effective as of 12 May 2022, and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
WE VALUE YOUR PRIVACY
If, after reading all of the above, you have any questions about how we protect your privacy, please drop us a line at hello AT authorparkerfinch DOT com. Thank you