This privacy policy is written for www.bookfrolic.com. This policy explains how the owner of this website (the “Owner”) collects, manages and protects your personally identifiable information (“Personal Data”) data while you browse or use this website.
1. Your Personal Data collected via www.bookfrolic.com (the “Website”)
The Owner will only collect Personal Data where you choose to interact on the Website in the following ways:
– When you sign up for the RSS feed and/or newsletter
– When you enter contests, giveaways and promotions (first name, last name, email address, and if you win, your mailing address)
– When you use the Contact Form (name, email address, any personal data you provide in the Message box)
The Owner will use your Personal Data to:
– send you updates on blog posts, book news and giveaways
– respond to your questions, comments and requests
– administer a contest, giveaway and/or promotion
The data collected is by active consent that is received separately from all other requests, and it is not made with a condition to receive other products or services.
2. Retention periods for use of your Personal Data
The Owner will use and store your Personal Data only for as long as necessary, bearing in mind the uses of your Personal Data as described in this privacy policy. The Owner will review the stored Personal Data at regular intervals and permanently delete or anonymize any Personal Data which is no longer necessary.
The Owner use Google Analytics on this Website. Information collected by Google Analytics is stored for 14 months (by Google) and then deleted.
3. Sharing of your Personal Data
The Owner will not sell or trade your Personal Data to outside parties.
4. Cookies
This Website uses “cookies” to track visits for Google Analytics. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help improve access to the site and identify repeat visitors to the Website. Cookies can also enable the tracking and targeting of interests of users to enhance the experience on the Website. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on the Website.
This Website uses Google Analytics, which automatically collects certain information when you visit the Website – such as the type of browser and operating system you are using, your location and the domain name of your Internet service provider. This information is not linked with any Personal Data.
5. Site Commenting
If you leave a comment on this Website, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
When visitors leave comments on the site, the collected data includes the information shown in the comments form (name, email address and website URL), and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
6. Links, affiliate tracking & commissions
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that the Owner is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. The Owner encourages users to be aware when they leave this Website and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Any ad links and affiliate links on this site are clearly identified as such and are served through the Website’s advertising partners (Good Adsense, Amazon, the Book Depository or any others noted). Clicking on any ad and/or affiliate links may track your actions by using a cookie saved to your device. Your actions are usually recorded as a referral from this Website by this cookie. The Owner might earn a very small commission from the advertiser or advertising partner, at no cost to you, whether you make a purchase on their linked website or not.
7. Children
This Website is aimed at adults, and the Owner does not knowingly collect any Personal Data relating to children under the age of 13 years old. If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide this Website with any of your Personal Data, including your email address.
8. Contact the Owner
If you would like to:
– see what Personal Data the Owner holds about you (if any), including why the Owner is holding it and who it could be disclosed to;
– ask the Owner to change/correct your Personal Data;
– ask the Owner to delete your Personal Data;
please email the Owner at: stephanie@bookfrolic.com
This policy is effective as of December 1, 2018. The Owner regularly reviews this Policy and therefore this Privacy Policy may change from time to time.