Privacy Policy

This website (www.gotbookhouse.com) may collect non-personal information about visitors when they interact with the site. This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use this website (www.gotbookhouse.com) and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. We appreciate these documents are usually fairly turgid, but we’ve tried to avoid any jargon so it is clear and understandable.

Please do read it carefully and if anything doesn’t make sense, get in touch!

We use your personal data to provide and improve the website (www.gotbookhouse.com). By using the website (www.gotbookhouse.com), you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

1. What information we may collect about you

When you use my website (www.gotbookhouse.com) we may gather certain personal information about you like your name, your contact information (your email address and telephone number and any other address information you may give us when you sign up for updates) and information like your interests and preferences based on how you use our website – when we talk about your “data” in this policy, this is what we mean.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

2. How you give us your data

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app, to enhance visitor experience. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses. Visitors may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to send an alert when cookies are being sent.

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. If they do so, note that some parts of the site may not function properly.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

a. To enter or use all areas of the Website you might have to give us certain information, like your name and email address.

b. Our website uses Cookies to improve your experience of using the website. We have carefully chosen the Cookies that appear on the website and taken steps to ensure that your privacy is protected and respected at all times. All Cookies used on our Website are used in accordance with current UK and EU Cookie Law.

c. If you don’t want Cookies on your computer at all you can restrict your internet browser’s use of Cookies (have a look at the “help” menu on your internet browser) and if you want to delete Cookies you can do so at any time. If you do delete the Cookies from our website you may lose information that enables you to access the Website more quickly and efficiently including personalisation settings.

d. You also have controls on sites like Facebook and Google where you can see which third parties may be able to target marketing at you while you use Google and Facebook. If you want to stop those organisations from being able to direct their marketing to you while you use those sites then go to facebook.com/ads/preferences and www.google.com/ads/preferences and change your settings.

3. What we can or will do with your data once we have it

How Is the Information Used?

a. When you sign up to our mailing list, because you have asked to be kept informed, we will keep your data unless you tell us to delete it. Subscribers may unsubscribe at any time.

b. We will use it for the following things:

i. to improve our products / services and make our website as good as we can;

ii. to send you promotional materials like information about updates such as blogs, events or products, etc. as well as other things that may be of interest to you based on the information we have about you;

iii. to contact you for market research purposes (by email, telephone, or mail dependent on the contact information you have given us). We may then use the outcome of that market research to customise or update our website;

c. We will not give your data (unless we have to by law) to any third parties unless they are linked to us, like our host company Squarespace and any promoter of our live events so that they can tell you about things you have told us you want to hear about.

d. Sometimes we may ask people to help us update and run our website such as web designers and other ‘techie’ sorts. For the purposes of them providing services to us in relation to the website, they may have access to your data but only so that they can do what we have asked them to do for us. We won’t let them use your data for anything else, and we will make sure that to the extent that they do use your data, they do it lawfully in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 (it’s the law that says that your data can’t be misused and must be protected).

4. The Security of your data

a. We will do all that we can to make sure there are no breaches in our security such that any third parties could gain access to your data and misuse it. We will put in place suitable physical and electronic security for how your data is used to make sure it is safe as possible.

b. Despite how hard we might try, transmission of information over the internet is not entirely secure and so you do send us your data at your own risk.

5. Data Retention

a. We will store the personal information we collect about you for no longer than necessary in accordance with our legal obligations and legitimate business interests.

b. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

6. Other websites which www.gotbookhouse.com may link to

Third-party links

Sometimes our website or emails may have links to other (third-party) websites.  If those are not websites that we operate, we have no control over them and so can’t guarantee that they will operate in the same way as we do and be as conscientious about your data, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.. You should always check what their privacy policy is to make sure that they’re not going to do anything you are not happy with.

7. Transfers of your data outside the European Economic Area

a. We might transfer your data to countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). For example, this could occur if our servers are located in a country outside the EEA or one of our service providers (e.g. book printer/distributor) is situated in a country outside the EEA.

b. If we transfer Data outside the EEA in this way, we will take steps with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this privacy policy. You expressly agree to such transfers of Data.

8. Use of the Website by Minors

a. All subscribers must be 18 or older or have the consent of a parent or guardian.

b. Our website does not address anyone under the age of 18, nor do we knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If You are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

c. If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Giant Olive Tree Book House may update this privacy policy at any time. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

10. Other legal requirements

Under certain circumstances, the Giant Olive Tree Book House may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). Giant Olive Tree Book House may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

a. Comply with a legal obligation

b. Protect and defend the rights or property of Giant Olive Tree Book House

c. Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the website www.gotbookhouse.com

d. Protect the personal safety of users of the website www.gotbookhouse.com or the public

e. Protect against legal liability

11. Your rights under the GDPR

We respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your rights.

You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:

a. Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information We have on You. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of Your Personal Data directly within Your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us to assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of the Personal Data We hold about You.

b. Request correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about You corrected.

c. Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where We are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing and there is something about Your particular situation, which makes You want to object to our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for direct marketing purposes.

d. Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.

e. Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide to You, or to a third-party You have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which You initially provided consent for Us to use or where We used the information to perform a contract with You.

f. Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent on using your Personal Data. If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be able to provide You with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.

You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting Us. Please note that we may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact Your local data protection authority in the EEA.

Your Acceptance of These Terms

By visiting and using www.gotbookhouse.com, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you can simply not use the site. Continued use of the site means you accept the policy and any periodic changes.

Questions?

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or anything else on www.gotbookhouse.com, please fill out the contact form on the website or email us at gotbookhouse@hotmail.com.