It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you or which you may provide to us, in the circumstances set out below.

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We will only collect and use your personal data where:

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• We have lawful grounds to do so, including to comply with our legal obligations;
• We have legitimate interests in using your personal data, and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

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For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”), I, Alex Grecian, am the “data controller.” If you have any questions about this policy or about how we use your personal data, please contact us via the contact details elsewhere on this website.

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This policy is effective as of May 25, 2018. We reserve the right to modify or amend the terms of our Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. Your continued use of this site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Please check this page frequently to ensure you are familiar with its current content.

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Please be advised that the practices described in this Privacy Policy apply only to information gathered online at alexgrecian.com. It does not apply to information that you may submit to us offline, or to sites maintained by other companies or organizations to which we may link or who may link to us. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

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Personal data that you provide to us:

 

We will only collect the following personal data when you choose to interact with us on the website by signing up to join a mailing list or receive newsletters: Name and email address.

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Data that the website or mailing list facilitator collects automatically:

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This information is automatically collected when you visit this site: the type of browser and operating system you are using, and the domain name of your Internet service provider. We do not link this information with any of your personal data. To our knowledge, this site collects no cookies from you that are within our power either to view or remove.

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Use of your personal data

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We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use your personal data to:

• process and manage your use of this site;
• respond to your questions, comments, and requests;
• where you have opted-in to receive marketing from us, deliver communications that are relevant to your preferences or may be of interest to you;
• improve this site through analysis of information.

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We take your privacy seriously and will not share your personal data with others, except as permitted by applicable law or as set out below:

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We may share personal data as necessary with third parties who provide services or functions on our behalf and who require the information to provide those specific services to us. These third parties are limited to mailing list facilitators to send you newsletters and/or Advance Reading Copies of Alex Grecian’s books. We specifically do not share your personal data with other individuals, with Facebook or Google Adwords, or with any other entity.

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We have appropriate data privacy safeguards in place with the third parties with whom we share your personal data as described above and who are providing services or functions on our behalf.

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Cookies

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We use "cookies" on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor's hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.

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Keeping your personal data secure

 

This website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

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Retention periods for use of your personal data

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We will use and store your personal data only for as long as necessary, bearing in mind the uses of your personal data as described in this privacy policy and otherwise as communicated to you.

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Children/Minors

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This website and Alex Grecian’s novels are aimed at adults, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data relating to children aged under 13 years old. If you are under the age of 13, you should not, under any circumstance, provide personally identifiable information to alexgrecian.com, including your email address. If alexgrecian.com discovers that a child under the age of 13 has provided alexgrecian.com with personally identifiable information, alexgrecian.com will immediately delete that child’s information from the site.

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Access to and control over your personal data

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You have legal rights under applicable law in relation to your personal data. You can ask the following questions, or take the following actions, at any time by contacting us via email or via Alex Grecian’s postal address:

4021 SW 10th Street, PMB 302
Topeka, KS 66604, U.S.A.

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• see what personal data we hold about you (if any), including why we are holding it and who it could be disclosed to;
• ask us to change/correct your personal data;
• ask us to delete your personal data;
• object to the processing of your personal data;
• ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data;
• withdraw any consents you have given us to the processing of your personal data; and
• express any concerns you may have about third parties’ use of your personal data.

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Notice to Non-US Users

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If you are located outside the United States of America, you should be aware that your personally identifiable information will be transferred to the United States of America, the laws of which may be deemed by your country to have inadequate data protection. If you are located in a country outside the United States of America and voluntarily submit personal information to us, you thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this privacy policy and to the transfer of that information to, and/or storage of that information in the United States of America.

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Limitation on Liability

By using this site, you acknowledge that we specifically disclaim any liability (whether based on contract, tort, strict liability, or otherwise) for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive or special damages arising out of, or in any way connected with your access to or use of this site (even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages), including but not limited to, liability associated with any viruses which may infect a user’s computer equipment.

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Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained or provided through the use of this site is done at your own discretion and risk and you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system, or loss of data, that results from the use, download or provision of any such material.

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Except to the extent required by applicable law, we will not be liable for the unavailability or failure to operate all or any part of the service or system on which this site is accessed, viewed or used.

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Your California Privacy Rights

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California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits customers of AlexGrecian.com who are California residents to request certain information regarding its disclosure of their personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.

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Change of purpose

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We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we have collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to have an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

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Limitation on Your Usage

You may not modify, copy, distribute, license, transmit, reproduce, disseminate, display, transfer or sell, or offer for sale, any information, material, product, or service viewed on or obtained from this site without express permission.