Terms & Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 22, 2018

Loblolly Writer’s House, a sole proprietorship business, operates the https://charlsierussell.com website (the “Service”).

This page informs you of my policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information when you use my Service.

I will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

I use your Personal Information for providing and improving the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. The term Privacy Policy is interchangeable with Terms and Conditions accessible at https://charlsierussell.com

Information Collection and Use

While using my Service, I may ask you to provide me with certain personally identifiable information that I can use to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information will normally include, but may not be limited to, your email address and first name (“Personal Information”).

I collect this information for the purpose of providing the Service, identifying and communicating with you, responding to your requests/inquiries, servicing your purchase orders, and improving my services.

I will only collect and use your Personal Data where:

• I have lawful grounds to do so, including to comply with my legal obligations;
• I am performing a contract with you for my services; and
• I have legitimate interests in using your Personal Data and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”), I, Charlsie Russell am the “data controller”. If you have any questions about this policy or how I use your Personal Data, please contact me via my contact details at the end of this policy.

This policy is effective as of 16 May 2018. I review my privacy practices on an as required basis, and as such I may change this privacy policy from time to time. Please check this page frequently to ensure you are familiar with its current content. 

Personal Data I collect via my website, http://www.charlsierussell.com (the “Website”)

On my website, I only collect Personal Data where you choose to interact with me by signing-up to receive free content, including eBooks, videos and offers. The data I collect are:

• Email address
• First name

Log Data and Cookies

Mine is a WordPress website and may automatically collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit my Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of my Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. This information is not linked with your personal data.

It may also collect data automatically through its use of cookies, files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and transferred to your device. Here cookies are used to collect information in order to improve my services for you. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help feature on most browsers provides information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies, or to notify you when receiving a new cookie.

If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of my Service.

Do Not Track Disclosure

We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

Use of your Personal Data

I will only use your Personal Data in accordance with the law. Most commonly, I use your Personal Data to:

• Process and manage your use of my website;
• respond to your questions, comments and requests;
• where you have opted-in to receive marketing from me, deliver communications that are relevant to your preferences /may be of interest to you;
• improve my services and website through analysis of information.

Sharing of your Personal Data

I take your privacy seriously and will not share your Personal Data with others, except as required or permitted by applicable law or as set out below:

I share Personal Data as necessary with third parties who provide services or functions on my behalf and who require the information to provide those specific services to me (i.e. Mailchimp for subscriber services). These third parties may also include social media advertising platforms such as Facebook and Google Adwords for the purpose of custom audience generation and the development of targeting criteria for other audiences. Please note that the website has appropriate data privacy safeguards in place with these third parties with whom I share Personal Data as described above and who are providing services or functions on my behalf.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to me, and I strive to implement and maintain reasonable, commercially acceptable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information I store, in order to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.

However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and I am unable to guarantee the absolute security of the Personal Information I have collected from you.

International Transfer

Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to me, please note that I process the information, including Personal Information, in the United States, but I maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with applicable law, including the GDPR, to safeguard Personal Data from accidental loss, destruction, or damage and unauthorized access, use, and disclosure.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Links to Other Sites

My Service contains links to other sites that are not operated by me (i.e. retailers where you can purchase my books). If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. I have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites or services. If in doubt, I advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit, but I wouldn’t be sending you there if I had doubts.

Retention periods for use of your Personal Data

I will use and store your Personal Data only for as long as necessary, bearing in mind the uses of your Personal Data as described in this privacy policy and otherwise as communicated to you. I review the Personal Data I hold at regular intervals and delete permanently or anonymise any Personal Data which is no longer necessary.

Children’s Privacy

Only persons age 18 or older have permission to access my Service. My Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).

I do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you learn that your children have provided me with Personal Information, please contact me. If I become aware that I have collected Personal Information from a child under age 18 without verification of parental consent, I take steps to remove that information from my service.

Access to and Control Over Your Personal Data

You have legal rights under applicable law in relation to your Personal Data. You can ask the following questions, or take the following actions, at any time by contacting me via email or my postal address, both given at the end of this page:

• See what Personal Data I hold about you (if any), including why I am holding it, and who it could be disclosed to;
• ask me to change/correct your Personal Data;
• ask me to delete your Personal Data;
• object to the processing of your Personal Data;
• ask me to restrict the processing of your Personal Data;
• withdraw any consents you have given me to the processing of your Personal Data; and
• express any concerns you have about third parties’ use of the Personal Data I hold on you.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 16, 2018 and will remain in effect until provisions/regulations dictate a change, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. If I make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, I will notify you either through the email address you have provided me, or by placing a prominent notice on my website. Additionally, you should check my Privacy Policy periodically.

Your continued use of the Service after I post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact me by email at loblollywriter@aol.com or at my post box: Loblolly Writer’s House, P.O. Box 7438, Gulfport, MS 39506

And thanks for reading my stuff, including this Privacy Policy. My novels are even better :0)