Who we are
Our website address is: http://popularfictionmasterclass.com.
We collect your email address when you complete a sign-up form, for example to obtain a free download. We collect them so we can tell you about about special offers, new books and online content from time to time.
We also accept comments in reply to blog posts.
Sign-up forms
Your email address will be saved when you complete one of our sign-up forms, for example to obtain a free download.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, 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 is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Your page visits on this site will be captured using a pixel provided by Amazon Associates for the purposes of analysing site traffic and clicks on Amazon links. This analysis is carried out on the associates websites for Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
Your use of sign-up forms on this website and your interaction with emails that we send out is captured for the purposes of analysis on the Mailerlite website.
Who we share your data with
If you complete a sign-up form, your email address will be stored on the systems of Mailerlite (https://www.mailerlite.com/privacy-policy).
Website administrators can also see and edit that email address.
How long we retain your data
If you use a sign-up form, we retain your email address until you tell us to remove it from our systems. You can do this by clicking the appropriate link at the foot of one of our emails.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What rights you have over your data
There is a link at the foot of all our emails that you can use to request that we remove your email address from our systems.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Our sign-up forms and email service are provided by Mailerlite (https://www.mailerlite.com/privacy-policy).
Our Web hosting is provided by Bluehost (https://www.bluehost.com/terms/privacy-policy).
Links to Amazon product pages are provided by
Amazon US (https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=468496)
and Amazon Associates UK (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=502584)
The site contains links to Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation).
and Twitter (https://twitter.com/en/privacy).
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How we protect your data
We have done our very best to select partners who will keep your data secure.
What data breach procedures we have in place
If we become aware of a data breach, we will do our best to identify who it affects and notify them.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Our Mailerlite emailing system will automatically capture your email address when you complete a sign-up form.
When your email address is captured on completing a sign-up form, our Mailerlite systems will automatically send an email or emails to the address that you submitted.
Mailerlite also operates a number of automated algorithms that send additional emails to you based on time after completing a sign-up form or other behaviours such as interaction (or non-interaction) with our emails.
All emails from us will be identified as coming from ‘Popular Fiction Masterclass’.