This Privacy & Cookies Policy sets out how Carrie Austin-Malone uses and protects any information that you provide when using this website.
Privacy
What we collect
Carrie Austin-Malone may collect the following information from direct emails or via the Contact form on the website:
- name
- contact information including email address and phone number
What we do with the information
Carrie Austin-Malone requires this information to provide you with information and in particular for the following reasons:
- internal record keeping
- periodically sending emails about book reviews, signings, new releases, website updates or other information which we think you may find interesting or useful using the email address you have provided
- administration purposes including maintaining a database of contacts
- internal research and analysis including data from social media, website and other email campaigns
Carrie Austin-Malone is committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Carrie Austin-Malone will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties.
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.
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
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.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
How we will use information
We will only ever use your personal data with your consent, and for the purpose it was collected for or where it is necessary for our own lawful (business) interests.
Cookies
Cookies help make our website work, by continuing to use this website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. For more information, please read below.
Carrie Austin-Malone, like most websites, uses ‘cookies’ (small text files) to store information on your computer, both to help our site function properly and to give you the very best experience.
Some cookies are essential, and the site won’t work as expected without them. These cookies are set when you submit a form, login or interact with the site by doing something that goes beyond clicking on simple links, such as liking a page or links to social media.
We also use some non-essential ‘session’ cookies to track visitors or enhance your experience of the site. These cookies are temporary and used to collect data anonymously for web analytics and social sharing services. These do not collect any personal data about you, we do not store them and do not have direct access to the individual data collected.
If you’re not happy with this, you can change your browser settings to prevent websites from setting cookies. However, you may experience a loss of functionality across the internet as a result. Please refer to your own browser company for detailed instructions on how to regulate the setting of cookies on your devices.
For social sharing which you may use (e.g Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest), please refer to the individual site’s privacy policies for detailed information regarding their use of data and how you can opt-out from their services. Carrie Austin Malone cannot be held responsible how for these third parties may use your data. We use Google Analytics, Twitter, MeWe and Facebook.
Links to other websites
Carrie Austin-Malone’s website contains links to other websites. Once you have used these links to leave the site, we cannot be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting these sites and they are not governed by this privacy statement.
Controlling your personal information
You may request details of personal information which Carrie Austin-Malone holds about you under the GDPR/DPB. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please email: carrie@
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email as soon as possible, at the above address and we will amend the details immediately.
This Policy is effective from August 2019.