What will you do if I subscribe to your email list?
• Store your information securely until it is no longer needed or you ask for it to be removed.
• Send you welcome emails introducing myself and my work
• Send you periodic email newsletters featuring fiction excerpts, historical anecdotes, and occasional book bargains
• Send you occasional emails with relevant news, such as notifications of new releases.
• Track your involvement with the emails in order to help send you interesting information.
What data do you collect?
When a user signs up to my newsletter, they supply their email address and name. My email marketing campaigns contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include: where the user joined up from, the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity, and other similar information.
Please email author[at]elisabethgracefoley[dot]com from the subscribed email address to request a free copy of personal information held about you.
What do you do with the data?
This information is processed to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.
No personal details are passed on to any other parties, unless complying with a legal requirement (for instance a legitimate request from law enforcement). In the highly unlikely event of a breach of security, users will be informed as soon as reasonably practicable.
How long do you keep the data?
The data is kept until such time as it is no longer relevant. However, the user may at any time request that their data be deleted by sending an email to author[at]elisabethgracefoley[dot]com from the subscribed email address.
My email campaigns are sent via email provider MailChimp. For all further questions related to email data and security, please visit MailChimp’s own Privacy Policy.
How do I stop getting emails from you?
Click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any of my emails.
Website
This is the official website of historical fiction author Elisabeth Grace Foley, and independent publishing company Second Sentence Press. Our website address is: http://www.elisabethgracefoley.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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