You are now viewing the privacy policy for drlowreyauthor.com. Good for you.
I may joke about it, but your data protection and privacy concerns are important to you and important to us. This notice is for this website; www.drlowreyauthor.com owned by the author D R Lowrey and governs the privacy of those who use it. It explains how we control, process, handle and protect your personal data while browsing or using this website, including your rights under current laws and regulations.
Definitions:
“I” or “The Website” refers to D R Lowrey
“you”,”the user” refers to the user of the website
GDPR means General Protection Act
Our email address: dr@drlowreyauthor.com
WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU, AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE?
Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymous data collected for statistical purposes.
We may process the following categories of personal data about you:
- Communication Data that includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through the contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. We may process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defense of legal claims. We process this data solely for our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.
- Customer Data including data relating to any purchases of goods and/or services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address email address, phone number, contact details, or purchase details. We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions. Our lawful ground for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.
- User Data including how you use our website and any online services together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. We process this data to operate our website and ensure relevant content is provided to you, to ensure the security of our website, to maintain back- ups of our website and/or databases and to enable publication and administration of our website, other online services and business. Our lawful ground for this is to properly administer our website and our business.
- Technical Data including data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system. We may process this data to analyze your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant content and advertisements to you and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interest to properly administer our website and our business and to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.
- Marketing Data that includes data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. We may process this data to enable you to partake in our promotions, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to, and measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests to understand how customers use our products/services so we can better serve them.
- We may use Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you, and to measure or understand the effectiveness of our advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is to sell our products. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests (to sell products).
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may collect data about you when you provide the data directly to us (for example by filling in forms on our site or by sending us emails). We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for more details about this.
We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers such as Google, advertising networks such as Facebook, and other providers of technical, payment and delivery services, such as data brokers or aggregators.
We collect the minimal amount of data necessary for our business usage. We do not collect any form of personal data which might be considered sensitive.
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
Our lawful grounds for processing your personal data is to send you marketing communications for either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow our business).
We may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications. You may opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.
We will not share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes.
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you OR by emailing us at dr@drlowreyauthor.com at any time.
If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations etc.
DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share your personal data with the parties set out below:
· Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
· Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers
· Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.
· Third parties to whom we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
DATA SECURITY
We have in place security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed, or accessed without authorization. We also allow access to your personal data only to those employees and partners who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data per our instruction, and they must keep it confidential.
We have procedures in place to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to.
DATA RETENTION
We will retain your personal data only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
When deciding upon the amount of time to keep the data, we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the processing purposes, and legal requirements.
In cases of anonymized data used for research or statistical purposes, we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data that include the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.
In the UK, these rights are spelled out in the document linked to below. The U. S. and many other countries have similar laws.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at dr@drlowreyauthor.com
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. We should be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.
THIRD-PARTY LINKS
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.
COOKIES
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookie Policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Privacy Policies could change at some time in the future just as the rules and regulations change. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
UPDATED October 2019