Adapted with love and thanks to the folks at Writers’ HQ, who have granted us permission to use their Privacy Policy.
We’re a tiny, overstretched business and we don’t have the time or energy to do anything nefarious with your data.
We collect and store the info we need to provide you with the service you buy from us. We might occasionally stalk you via Facebook adverts. That’s really it.
COOKIES
Seriously who actually cares? Do you even know what a cookie is or does? Well then.
STALKY VISITOR TRACKING
We use Google Analytics, primarily to stare at the real time stats because they’re cool but also to see what people are looking at so we can write more of what you like.
None of these things store any super personal data about you but probably they nab your IP address, not that we’d know where to look for it or what to do with it. All we see is that a person or many people have interacted with the website in a particular way. You can mess with us by doing something totally unexpected on the website and skewing our stats.
DATA STORAGE
So. We store your data in a few different places and use it in a couple of different ways. You ready for this?
Here on this website! If you register with the site we will store your name and email address, and the profile info you give us. We don’t store any credit card or purchase data because we don’t collect that info. We obviously go to the maximum effort to keep any data we have secure.
Mailchimp! If you’ve signed up as a user on our site or for our mailing list your name and email address may make its way over to Mailchimp, which is the system we use to manage our newsletters and emails. They are (allegedly) GDPR compliant. You can unsubscribe from emails at any time by hitting the unsubscribe button. We really don’t use this much, but we should do it more often
EMAIL MARKETING THINGIES AND NEWSLETTERS
If you sign up to our newsletter, we will send you a newsletter – generally around one or two a month. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button in every email. Your name and email address are stored securely in Mailchimp.
Mailchimp automatically adds tracking things to links so if you click on a link WE KNOW. If you open an email WE KNOW.
The most important thing about this is we have neither the time nor inclination to actually look at or do anything with these stats.
YOUR RIGHT TO BE DELETED
If you want to go undercover, just send us an email and we’ll delete all the info we have on you from our systems while wondering what we could have possibly done wrong.
SOCIAL MEDIA AND ALL THAT STUFF
We use social media a little bit, mostly posting interesting things you might be interested in.