Privacy Policy

This notice is for this website; http://www.nikolettstrachan.com owned by Nikolett Strachan and governs the privacy of those who use it. It explains how we control, process, handle and protect your personal data while browsing or using this website, including your rights under current laws and regulations. 

Definitions:

“I” or “The Website” refers to [author name]

“you”, “the user” refers to the user of the Website.

GDPR means General Data Protection Act.

Processing of your personal data

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control and process personal information about you electronically. We are exempt from registration in the ICO Data Protection Register because we only process personal data for core business purposes.

Lawful basis: Consent

  1. The reason we use this basis: You gave us consent to use your data when you bought or negotiated to buy a book from my website or signed up for our newsletter.
  2. We process your information in the following ways: To send you a book and keep you updated with special offers and news about our books.
  3. Data retention period: We will continue to process your information until you choose to unsubscribe.
  4. Sharing your information: We do not share your information with third parties.

Lawful basis: Legal obligation

  1. The reason we use this basis:  To pay my taxes correctly.
  2. We process your information in the following ways: I must maintain a list of clients with name, address, and purchases for tax inspections in line with [put your county or nation’s tax service name here]
  3. Data retention period: Six years
  4. Sharing your information: We do not share your information with third parties. / We do share your personal information with third parties and they include…
  5. If, as determined by us, the lawful basis upon which we process your personal information changes, we will notify you about the change and any new lawful basis to be used if required. We shall stop processing your personal information if the lawful basis used is no longer relevant.

Your rights

Under the GDPR your rights are as follows. 

  • the right to be informed;
  • the right of access;
  • the right to rectification;
  • the right to erasure;
  • the right to restrict processing;
  • the right to data portability;
  • the right to object; and
  • the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.

Internet cookies

 At this time, we do not use cookies on the Website, but this is subject to change.

Data security and protection

We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies provided by WordPress in how we store, access and manage that information. 

We use these companies to manage data:

Email marketing messages & subscription

Under the GDPR we use the consent lawful basis for anyone subscribing to our newsletter or marketing mailing list. We only collect certain data about you, as detailed in the “Processing of your personal data” above. Any email marketing messages we send are done so through an email marketing service provider. We use MailChimp email marketing. Here is their Privacy Policy. 

They collect:

Email address

I.P address

Subscription time & date

Facebook Privacy Policy

Google Privacy Policy

You can opt out of receiving emails or ask to see the data we hold for you, or request we remove your data at any time by the following methods:

  • Unsubscribe at the bottom of the email
  • Contact us at avakolett@gmail.com

UPDATED NOVEMBER 2022