Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY
1. Privacy Summary
The Data Controller, Authoright PR Limited, a company registered in the United Kingdom (Registered No. 06957718) at 53-59 Chandos Place, London, WC2N 4HS is committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 (the ‘Act’) and the General Data Protection Regulation (the ‘GDPR’). If you have any questions about this policy, the representative responsible for Data Protection can be contacted by sending an email to info@authoright.com.
Authoright PR Limited and its publishing imprint Clink Street Publishing is the leading professional self publishing and book marketing company for authors. In order to operate the services we offer, Authoright PR Limited (‘Authoright’, ‘our’, ‘us’ or ‘we’), must ask you to provide us with information about yourself. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect (including through our websites www.authoright.com, www.clinkstreetpublishing.com and www.bookpublishing.co.uk and other means) and and how we use that information.
We take the processing of your information very seriously and will use your information only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, personal data is referred to as ‘information’ which means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites and we recommend that you check the privacy policy of any other web sites you may visit. The inclusion of links to such web sites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such sites nor any association with their owners or operators. If you have any complaints relating to such sites, please contact them directly.
Authoright PR Limited uses Google Analytics to analyse traffic to our websites. Google Analytics does not create individual profiles for visitors. You can learn more about Google Analytics and opt out on their website.
Authoright does not disclose information about identifiable individuals to third parties.
This Privacy Policy will be updated from time to time and all future changes will take effect as specified at the time of the update by posting a revised version of it on our website. Please check back regularly for the most current version of our Privacy Policy.
2. Information We Collect
You do not need to give us any of your personal information to access the information on our site. But you may choose to share your personal information with us if you are interested in our help.
If you register your interest in our services, you will provide your name and email address and in some instances information about the book you have written or what help you are looking for.
We do not collect any bank account details or sensitive personal information such as information on your racial or ethnic origins, political opinions, trade union affiliations, sexual life, health or criminal history.
When you access our services online using any device, we collect and store device data including but not limited to geolocation data to provide offers relevant to your region. We also collect information such as which pages of our website you visit, IP addresses, the type of browser you use and the times you access our website.
We will only keep your information for as long as is necessary for the purpose of providing you with the service you have requested from us or to meet specific anti-fraud and legal requirements. If you would like more information, please contact the representative responsible for Data Protection using the details available in the Privacy Summary.
If you object or are not willing to provide us with your personal information, please do not register or send us your information.
When you access our website we (including companies we work with) may place small data files on your computer or other device known as cookies. For more information, please see our Cookies Policy.
3. How We Use The Information We Collect
Our primary purpose in collecting your information is to provide you with a service. You agree that we may use your personal information to:
• Provide you with information about publishing and book marketing;
• Notify you about our services;
• to assist you with any enquiries that you have raised with us, including any queries and issues raised in any correspondence and via the Website;
• to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us; and
• Carry out internal administration and analysis.
4. How We Use The Information For Marketing
We will only send you direct marketing communications in circumstances where we have your specific consent or where we believe we can demonstrate a legitimate interest.
When you fill out a form on our website or otherwise give us your personal information, we ask for your consent to send you direct marketing communication over a variety of channels. We will honour your right to withdraw your consent at any time.
When you enquire about or request a service from us, we may rely on our legitimate business interests to send you marketing communications (via post, email or telephone). These communications will always be related to our services and we believe will be of interest to you. We will provide you with the opportunity to opt-out of this at any time.
If you want to stop receiving direct marketing from us, you can use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email you receive or alternatively you can contact the representative responsible for Data Protection using the details available in the Privacy Summary.
5. How We Share Information With Third Parties
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties for example other companies that will contact you with marketing material.
However, just like most service providers, Authoright works with third parties who administer important functions for us that allow us to offer and enhance the services we provide. These providers, or Data Processors, are covered by an appropriate agreement and are located within the European Economic Area. Sometimes it will be necessary for us to disclose information required for the specific purpose to them so that the services can be performed and by requesting us to provide you with the services you consent to this disclosure.
We reserve the right to disclose to third parties your information to comply with applicable laws including but not limited to disclosure in accordance with the Act, the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 and lawful authority requests, to safeguard the proper operation of our systems and to protect ourselves and the companies we work with.
The Data Processors that Authoright currently works with to enhance the services we provide include, but are not limited to Google and MailChimp. Please contact us for the most up-to-date list, if required.
6. Information Security
Authoright is committed to handling your information with high standards of information security. We collect, store and process your information on servers primarily located in the United Kingdom but also elsewhere in the European Economic Area. We use safeguards such as firewalls and data encryption and we authorise access to personal information only for those employees who require it to fulfil their job responsibilities.
These security measures mean that we may occasionally have to ask you for proof of identity before we are able to disclose personal information to you; however, there will be no administration charge for such a request.
7. Accessing, Deleting Or Updating Your Information
Accessing Your Information
You can access the personal information you have provided us by making a Subject Access Request to the representative responsible for Data Protection using the details available in the Privacy Summary. Upon receipt and following any necessary proof of identification checks, Subject Access Requests will be responded to within one calendar month.
Deleting Your Information
A request to have the personal information you have provided us removed from our systems can be made at any time to the representative responsible for Data Protection using the details available in the Privacy Summary. Your information will be removed from our systems except in circumstances where we are required to retain this information for compliance with legal obligation or for future suppression purposes, where the minimal amount necessary will be retained in order to honour an individual’s right. If you wish to no longer receiver our newsletter you can be removed from our newsletter list by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any newsletter.
Updating Your Information
You can review the personal information and email preferences that you have provided us and make any desired changes or rectifications at any time by contacting the representative responsible for Data Protection using the details available in the Privacy Summary.
There will be no administrative charge for fulfilling any of the requests above.
8. Accountability
We will process your personal data for the purposes set out in this policy. However, if you have any queries or requests in relation to Data Protection or this Privacy Policy please notify our representative responsible for Data Protection using the details available in the Privacy Summary. Alternatively, if you have any concerns about our information rights practices that our representative responsible for Data Protection was unable to address sufficiently, you may report these to our statutory authority, the Information Commissions Office: ico.org.uk.
COOKIE POLICY
How we use Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
You can disable any cookies already stored on your computer, but these may stop our website from functioning properly.
A number of our pages use cookies to remember:
• your display preferences, such as contrast colour settings or font size
• if you have already filled out a contact form
• if you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site
Further, some videos embedded in our website will use a cookie to anonymously gather statistics on what videos you visited.
Enabling cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but if you choose to enable cookies it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies at any time, but if you choose to do so, please note that some features of this site may not work as intended.
The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the data is fully under our control.
These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.
The following are not Strictly Necessary, but are required to provide you with the best user experience and also to tell us which pages you find most interesting (anonymously).
Functional Cookies
This website will:
• Track the pages you visits via Google Analytics
Targeting Cookies
This website will:
• Allow you to share pages with social networks such as Facebook
• Allow you to share pages via Twitter
This website will not:
• Share any personal information with third parties.
• Host any advertising from third-party advertisers, nor ever share any customer information with third parties.
How to control cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.