Privacy Policy

This privacy policy will explain how Alan Squire Publishing (ASP) uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website. For our Terms of Use click HERE.

Abstract:

Dear book lover,

Though what lies below might seem particularly complicated and even turgidly so, I assure you that the principles of it are quite simple: we do not exploit your data to sell you anything; we do not distribute (read: sell) your data to third parties neither for profit nor wantonly; we are not in the data business we are in the literature business, and though we partake in marketing and strategy, we never use visitor data beyond the geographical tags in Google Analytics (though, we do collect things like an email and name from people signing up for our email list and people who shop at our online store). Additionally, our site is run on private servers and we are https secured, so we have done what we can to secure any data that is logged by the site. Thank you for stopping by the privacy policy and supporting a transparent and free internet.

Warm regards,

ASP team

 

Contents:

1. What data do we collect and how do we collect the data?
2. How will we use your data?
3. How do we store your data?
4. What are your data protection rights?
5. What are cookies?
6. How do we use cookies?
7. What types of cookies do we use?
8. How to manage your cookies.
9. Private Policies of other websites.
10. Changes to our Private Policy.
11. How to contact us.
12. How to contact the appropriate authorities.

 

1. What Data do we collect and How?

A. Transaction Data

During transactions on our online shop we collect the data you give us for the purposes of payment and analytics. This includes, name, email address, phone number, credit card number and whatever other data you give us. This is only applicable if you buy through the Alan Squire Publishing online store which uses Square (https://squareup.com/us/en) to process payments. Square’s private policy is available here at https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/3796-privacy-and-security

Through Square, Alan Squire Publishing employees have access to the above specified transactional data at any time. You may request your data to be deleted at any time by emailing us at alansquirepr@gmail.com

B. Email List Data

When you sign up for our email list, we collect your name and email address and store them using MailChimp. This collection allows us to create an email master list to which we send our quarterly newsletter. You can request to be removed from the list at any time by contacting us or by following the link at the bottom of the quarterly newsletters. Your information can be deleted from MailChimp at any time as well. MailChimp’s private policy can be found here https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

C. Contact Form Data

When you fill out a contact submission form via the submissions page your email address is logged on our site gmail account, alansquirepr@gmail.com. In reply, when we ask if you would like to join the email list, and upon your consent, your email address and name are logged as above section I, subsection B. Upon non-consent we will delete the email and thus will no longer have access to your email address.

D. Cookies

The website, https secured, collects your IP address and geographic location automatically upon your landing on the site’s home page. It does so for each individual page for the sake only of analytical accounting of site visits through google analytics and for logging the individual user so as to remember which items they had in their cart upon subsequent website visits. No names, email addresses, or any other data is collected or stored by Alan Squire Publishing.

2. How will we use your data?

Alan Squire Publishing collects the data listed in section I so that we can:

• Process your orders through our shop.
• Email you our quarterly newsletters.
• Remember your shopping cart upon subsequent visits.
• Reply to any questions or concerns you might have.

3. How do we store your Data?

See section I for the specific instances where we store data offsite through Square and Mailchimp.

Otherwise, your data is stored securely on our website. Our servers are protected and overseen by https://www.sarachandlee.com/.

4. What are your data protection rights?

Alan Squire Publishing would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request ASP for copies of your personal data.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that ASP correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request ASP to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that ASP erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that ASP restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to ASP’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that ASP transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: alansquirepr@gmail.com

Call us at: 443-821-6153

Or write to us: 305 South Durham Street, Baltimore MD 21231

5. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we collect select information from you automatically through cookies.

For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.

6. How do we use cookies?

To understand more specifically how we use cookies, please see section I, subsection D.

7. What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

Functionality - Our Company uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.

Analytics - See section I, subsection D

Necessary - Necessary cookies enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions.

8. How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

9. Privacy policies of other websites

The ASP website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy. For more information on what third-party services we use, please refer back to section I.

10. Changes to our privacy policy

Our Company keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on August 14^th, 2019.

11. How to contact us

If you have any questions about Our Company’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at: alansquirepr@gmail.com

Call us: 443-821-6153

Or write to us at: 305 South Durham Street, Baltimore, MD 21231

12. How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Our Company has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, here is a USA government blog on how to make an official complaint to the FTC https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2015/08/want-privacy-tell-us-about-it

EU? Contact the Information Commissioner’s Office, https://ico.org.uk/