Privacy & Cookie Policy

  • Last revision 13th April 2018
  • Author – Dr. William Clark

OUR PRINCIPLES REGARDING USER PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION

  • User privacy and data protection are human rights.
  • We have a duty of care to the people within our data.
  • Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary.
  • We will never spam.
  • We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information.

RELEVANT LEGISLATION

Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer (details of whom can be found below) for clarification.

PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

Site visitation tracking

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor.

GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. FYI our website uses the analytics.js implementation of GA.

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users 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.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers 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.

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.

Contact forms and email links

Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact us page the data that you supply will be stored by this website. We will never pass your data to any of the third party data processors. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

Ecommerce

We will ask for your personal details so we can process your order and receive your payment for books sold in this website. Your personal information is held on our secure server for 180 days in case there’s a requirement to revisit your order during this time.

HOW WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The only personal data we may hold is as a result of a form fill or a book purchase. If you submit a form on this website some personal information will be sent via email to the site owners. This data will be used to respond to your question and once the email thread has been completed will be deleted. Personal data supplied by you during the order process is handled as per the previous paragraph.

ABOUT THIS WEBSITE’S SERVER

All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.

OUR THIRD PARTY DATA PROCESSORS

We may use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties comply with the legislation set out in the General Data Protection Regulations. Both of these third parties are based in the USA and are EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant.

DATA BREACHES

We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

Data Controller

The data controller is Dr William CLark

Data Protection Officer

Dr. William Clark

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy may change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.

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