Privacy Policy
Overview
Passed in 2016, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most significant legislative change in European data protection laws since the EU Data Protection Directive (Directive 95/46/EC), introduced in 1995. The GDPR, which came into force on May 25, 2018, seeks to strengthen the security and protection of personal data in the EU and serve as a single piece of legislation for all of the EU. It will replace the EU Data Protection Directive and all the local laws relating to it. We support the GDPR and will seek to ensure all aspects of Rotten Row Press’s services comply with its provisions.
Who We Are
Rotten Row Press and its affiliates (collectively ‘we’ and ‘us’) respect your privacy. We are an independent publisher and imprint for writer Dan Soule. Our full website address is https://dansoule.com.
What We Collect and Store
Contact Form
If you choose to contact us through a contact form on our site, contact form data is stored in the database of this website. Moreover, form data is emailed directly to us. This email will include your IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message. We use this data in order to respond to your queries. We may store your name and email address as a contact in our email account.
Site Protection
In order to check login activity and block potentially fraudulent attempts, the following information is used: attempting user’s IP address, attempting user’s email address/username (i.e. according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user. Our site collects failed login attempts data such as IP address and user agent. We also set a cookie (jpp_math_pass) for 1 day to remember if/when a user has successfully completed a math captcha to prove that they’re a real human.
Our Shop
We offer a catalog of our books on our website, and we do not process payments or offer customer accounts on this site. If you wish to purchase a book, when you click the ‘Buy at Amazon’ button in our shop, you are taken to the Amazon Marketplace where you may purchase the book.
We may also collect your location for purposes of localising the default currency.
Newsletter
If you subscribe to our newsletter we will collect your email address. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Send you information about our publications
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
You can opt out at any time.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient. This site uses two different types of cookies: necessary and preferences.
Necessary
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Preferences
Preference cookies enable a website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like your preferred language or the region that you are in.
Who On Our Team Has Access
Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. Particularly any comments or reviews you submit, or your email address if you subscribe to our newsletter.
What We Share With Others
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. Moreover, we may share information with third parties who help us provide our services to you.
Contact Forms
If you send us a message via a contact form, your personal data will be shared with our email client. This includes:
- Name
- Your message
We use Microsoft 365 for our email. You can read about Microsoft 365 and GDPR compliance here.
Moreover, in order to send messages from our contact form, our site uses the Mailgun Plugin for WordPress. Mailgun receives SMTP requests from our site and processes / sends the message to our email address. Mailgun collects your name, email, subject line and message body. Mailgun is fully GPDR compliant; all our site’s Mailgun data is stored in the EU.
MailerLite
We use MailerLite for our newsletter. If you opt in, we will share your email address with them. You can read about MailerLite and GDPR compliance here.
Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Third Party Links
Our site may contain external links. When you click an external link, the third-party companies may receive your IP address when serving such content to you and may also utilize other technologies such as cookies or web beacons. While we don’t provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party companies, we cannot and do not guarantee their privacy policies and practices.
Where We Send Your Data
This site is hosted with Sproutee Inc. The managed WordPress hosting services provided by Sproutee Inc utilise servers both inside and outside of the EU. Dansoule.com is hosted on a server based in London. Learn more about Sproutee’s hosting privacy policy here.
In order to send messages from our contact form, our site uses the Mailgun Plugin for WordPress. Mailgun receives SMTP requests from our site and processes / sends the message to our email address. Mailgun collects your name, email, subject line and message body. Mailgun is fully GPDR compliant; all our site’s Mailgun data is stored in the EU.
How Long We Retain Your Data
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. This may include:
- Name
If you leave a comment or submit a support request, the comment or support request and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments / support requests automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Please send Right of Access or Right of Erasure Requests to info@dansoule.com.
Contact Us About Your Privacy
Have questions or concerns about your privacy? Please contact us:
Rotten Row Press
info@dansoule.com
How We Protect Your Data
We seek to protect your data in a number of ways, such as:
Our site uses an SSL connection
We enforce a ‘strong’ password policy for Administrators
What Data Breach Procedures We Have in Place
If data breaches are detected, we contact anyone affected via email as soon as the breach is discovered.