This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for Janus Publishing and our websites: http://rachel-grant.net, http://www.ratinformant.com/ and https://rachelsgrant.wordpress.com. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website, except where stated otherwise.
Information Collected
Among the types of Personal Data that this website collects through third parties, there are: Cookies and Usage Data. Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this website.
If you subscribe to Rachel Grant’s newsletter (either by signing up through the form embedded on this website or by specifically opting-in via a contest run outside of this website), you will be asked to provide basic contact information such as your name, email address, and country of residence. Other questions asked (e.g. preferred ebook format) is entirely optional.
How the Information is Used
An electronic newsletter is emailed to you using the contact information that you provided at sign-up on this website or through a contest.
- A third-party service, Vertical Response, maintains the contact information and deliverse-newsletters. This service gathers statistics around email opening and clicks per industry standards. For more information, please see Vertical Response’s privacy notice.
- The newsletter announces new releases, promotions, or general information about the author and books.
- Your contact information may be used in a random drawing from the list of newsletter subscribers in order to give you free books or other promotional items. All contests are announced in a newsletter.
- You can unsubscribe from the newsletter by clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of a newsletter. Your data will be deleted and you will receive no more newsletters.
Website traffic data may also be used at some point to help with marketing decisions. This does not include any data that can identify you personally. Instead, it could include things like the type of browser used to access this website, which pages are viewed, and whether any buy links are clicked. One of the industry standards for this type of data collection is Google Analytics. You can view their privacy policy to understand types of data collected: Google Analytics Privacy Policy.
In addition, data is collected by AddThis when the social media sharing buttons are used. For more information regarding this practice, please see https://www.sharethis.com/publisher/.
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Security
Personal identifying data is not stored, saved, or shared outside of the third-party newsletter service, Vertical Response. Website traffic statistical data is not shared outside of a third-party analytics service, such as Google Analytics or AddThis. Website security is maintained through the website design/update service (Naomi Raine) and hosting platform (Laughing Squid).
Links to other Websites
This website contains buy links to online book retailers. Clicking on a link takes you to one of those sites. From there, your privacy is controlled by those sites and you would have to refer to their privacy policies for further information.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
If this policy is updated, it will appear on this website along with the date of the change.
Contact Information
Janus Publishing
PO Box 4590
Rollingbay, WA 98061
Affiliate Link Disclosure
Last revised: May 14, 2018
This website uses affiliate links for some online retailers. If you purchase something via those retailers after clicking through from this website, a small advertising commission may be paid to the owner of this website. This does not affect the cost of the items purchased.
Affiliate Vendors:
Amazon
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Kobo
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