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PRIVACY POLICY

At victoriajbest.com we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy describes in detail the types of personal information collected and recorded by victoriajbest.com and how we use it.

 

PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control and process personal information about you electronically.

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Lawful basis: Consent

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  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.

  2. We process your information in the following ways: To send you a book and keep you updated with special offers and news about my books.

  3. We will continue to process your information until you unsubscribe from the mailing list or five years after you do business with this site.

  4. We do not share your information with third parties, except as needed for ordinary business uses, such as newsletter distribution through wix.com. Your website activity (pages visited, time on site) is also recorded through Google Analytics and Wix (our website host).

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Lawful basis: Legal obligation

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  1. The reason we use this basis:  To conduct ordinary business and promotions of novels.

  2. 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.

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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.

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INTERNET COOKIES

victoriajbest.com uses cookies to store information about visitors' preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors' browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

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DOUBLECLICK DART COOKIES

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on victoriajbest.com.  Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site's visitors based upon their visit to victoriajbest.com and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL - http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

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LOG FILES

Like many other Web sites, victoriajbest.com makes use of log files. These files simply logs visitors to the site - generally a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

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DATA SECURITY AND PROTECTION

We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage. Our storage is managed and accessed through wix.com.

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THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on victoriajbest.com and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site's third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.

victoriajbest.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.  You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.  victoriajbest.com privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of other advertisers or web sites.

 

MINOR’S INFORMATION

It is important to provide added protection for children online. Therefore, victoriajbest.com does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.  If a parent or guardian believes that victoriajbest.com has in its database the personally-identifiable information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately (using the contact information below) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

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EMAIL MARKETING & 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 wix.com.

 

Here is their Privacy Policy: Wix privacy policy

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CONSENT

By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.

If you require any additional information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at victoria@victoriajbest.com

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UPDATED APRIL 2019

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