PRIVACY NOTICE
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Lydia Chelsea (“she”, “her”) values the privacy of all visitors to this website (“site”, “website”). This notice on privacy is effective 7/25/2020 and explains what information may be collected from registered users or other visitors (“you”), and what she will and will not do with it.
Please note that this privacy policy does not govern the collection and use of information by companies that Lydia Chelsea does not control, (such as but not limited to any or all of the following: Amazon, including the affiliate program, and any other booksellers the author may sell through, author marketing companies like StoryOrigin or Bookfunnel, and web design and hosting companies such as Wix, Mailchimp or Google.)
If you visit a Web site that she mentions or links to, be sure to review their privacy policy before providing such sites with information. Lydia Chelsea is not in control of any linked site and is not responsible for your failure to respond to any other website’s privacy, cookie, or Do Not Track notices or controls.
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You can follow Facebook, Twitter, or other social media links provided by the author to her personal pages. She has no control of the privacy measures offered by such sites, however, and you are using those sites at your own risk.
Ways that your personally identifiable information may be used:
You may voluntarily provide your email address to sign up for Lydia Chelsea’s newsletter. Lydia Chelsea does not sell, rent, or make your email address available to any other entities or companies, but your computer’s domain name and IP address are also captured during this process and is included in personally identifiable information, as indicated above. She may choose to promote other authors within her newsletter and may provide links within the newsletter to the websites of other authors and/or their product pages. These you also follow at your own risk and those sites are responsible for their own content warnings, privacy notices, and the like.
If you follow a link provided by the author to a sales website (including but not limited to Amazon or other booksellers or Amazon Affiliate links), you will be redirected to a website that Lydia Chelsea does not own, run, or control in any way, and it is the responsibility of that other website to provide you with their privacy policy. You agree that you utilize any links offered on this website at your own risk and with your own cognizance.
For all personally identifiable information, she will:
take commercially reasonable precautions to protect the information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction;
not use or disclose the information;
not use the given information in ways other than described in this privacy policy or in ways which you have not otherwise consented;
There are ways in which the author may use your information in the aggregate with other user information, such as for statistical analysis (such as but not limited to reporting to the author how many unique visitors to the site there are.) However, the data will be used in such a way that your personal identity cannot reasonably be determined;
She will, as required by law, surrender any data you have provided directly or by your use of the website, in response to a subpoena or search warrant;
Or to outside auditors who have agreed to keep the information confidential;
Your privacy responsibilities:
To help protect your privacy, be sure:
to take customary precautions to guard against “malware” (viruses, Trojan horses, bots, etc.), for example by installing and updating suitable anti-virus software.
Notice to European Union users
Lydia Chelsea’s domicile and computing operations are physically located in the United States. If you provide information to her, the information will be transferred out of the European Union (EU) to the United States. By providing personal information to us, you are consenting to its storage and use as described herein.
Information collected from children:
You must be at least 13 years old to use Lydia Chelsea’s Web site(s) and service(s). It is recommended, however, due to the adult content of the website and/or its offered products and information, that only adult users (18 or older) enjoy the books referred to /or sold on or through this website.
Lydia Chelsea does not knowingly collect information from children under 13. (See the [U.S.] Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.)
CalOPPA Compliance:
This website does not honor Do Not Track requests.
As prior noted in this privacy document, the author does not sell, rent, trade or otherwise disclose personally identifiable data that you provide during your use of the lydiachelsea.com website. If at any time you wish to unsubscribe from the author’s newsletter, simply send that request to admin@lydiachelsea.com and please allow up to 7 business days for the removal to become effective. As newsletters and other promotional emails can be automated and scheduled in advance through services in use by the author, including but not limited to automation services such as Mailchimp, StoryOrigin, or Book Funnel, it is possible you will receive such scheduled email from the author after requesting to unsubscribe.
Future changes to this privacy policy:
She reserves the right to change this privacy policy as necessary or appropriate to comply with changing legal compliance requirements or changes in her own business practices. If you have provided her with an email address, she will use that email address in good faith to notify you of any material change in how she will use personally identifiable information.
Questions or comments?
If you have questions or comments about Lydia Chelsea’s privacy policy, send email to admin@lydiachelsea.com.
Thank you for supporting Lydia Chelsea!