What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Contact Information
When filling out a form on the site, you may be asked to provide your contact information. This personal information will only be used by Eric P. Caillibot to contact you as per your request and it will not be transferred, sold or provided to any other party unless required by law. You have the right to not provide your contact information, but by declining you may not be able to submit the contact form or use some of the services or features offered on this site.
We use SendFox to manage our email marketing subscriber lists and to send emails to our subscribers. SendFox is a third-party provider, which may process your data using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. Please note that you can unsubscribe from our newsletter by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the end of each e-mail.
If you subscribe to our newsletter, your name and email address will be kept private and saved on SendFox’s secure servers. We will only email you to send you news about Eric P. Caillibot’s latest publications and/or to offer free or discounted books from other authors you may enjoy, and/or general discussion topics. Your email address may also be used for remarketing purposes, such as running Facebook Ads to you, or generating “Lookalike” audiences based off your email address via “digital fingerprinting.” Note that this does not involve the sharing of your email address – it will never be shared.
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.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on this site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
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.
Analytics
This site uses Google Analytics to review user behaviour, in order to continuously improve the website’s design and usability. Google’s privacy policy can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
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.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.