Privacy Policy
The Quick Version
I take your privacy very seriously, as seriously as I take my own. As such, I want to assure you that I will use information collected for no purposes other than providing service to you. I also strive to not collect any more information on you than I need for fulfilling orders, sending opted-in newsletter subscriptions, or sending accepted email contact.
I will never give or share the information collected with outside parties and I will never send you spam. All subscriptions to my newsletter are done on an opt-in basis, meaning you must confirm you want to receive it to get it.
The Long Legal Version
This privacy policy is for katejonesauthor.com, served by Krystal UK, and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. It sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website, and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores, and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.
The Website.
This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with all United Kingdom and EU laws regarding requirements for user privacy.
Use of Cookies.
This website uses cookies to better the user’s experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer/device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer/device.
Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computer hard drive that track, save, and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computer’s hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information.
Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links, or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved, or collected and we have no access to or control over these cookies.
Contact & Communication
Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use. Every effort has been made to ensure any form submissions are done through a safe and secure process but advise users using any forms to submit inquiries that they do so at their own risk.
This website and its owners may use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products/services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates, but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting your inquiry or when placing an order and always with a secondary confirmation required before the subscription is completed.
We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill a request, e.g. fulfill an order, or to provide other services through contracted companies that agree not to utilize any private data for their own purposes, e.g. newsletter subscriptions.
External Links
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe, and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should, therefore, note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement, and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are customized to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.
This website may use social sharing buttons that help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
Shortened Links in Social Media
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs (i.e. web addresses) in a way that obfuscates the original address. For example, http://tinyurl.com/jfpjnyn.
Users are advised to take caution and good judgment before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published, many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
Privacy Policies for Third-Party Vendors and Partners
These are the primary third-party vendors with whom user information may be shared or who may collect user information on behalf of KateJonesAuthor.com for the purposes of communication, order fulfillment, and email newsletter subscriptions.
FloDesk Privacy Policy – provides all newsletter subscription management and delivery services.
These are the social media platforms through which KateJonesAuthor.com and its associates have official “channels” or “pages” for communicating and interacting with users. All communication and interactions on these platforms are governed by those specific platforms terms of services and privacy policies, in addition to our own.
Changes to Privacy Policy
Kate Jones Author may, in its sole discretion, modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time, and so you should review this page periodically. When we change the policy, we will update the ‘last modified’ date at the bottom of this page. Your continued use of the Site after the posting of any changes to this policy means you accept such changes.
This Privacy Policy was first published and made effective on January 09 2023.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via our contact form, or by email: kate@katejonesauthor.com