Who am I?
My website address is: https://susanpbranch.com.
This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of the site www.susanpbranch.com.
By providing your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age.
Governing Law
Susan P Branch respects your right to privacy and is committed to safeguarding the privacy of her customers and website visitors. This Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of Australia. i.e adhere to the Australian Privacy Principles contained in the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). This Privacy Policy and our legal obligations hereunder are subject to these laws. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of, and venue in the courts located in the State of Victoria, Country of Australia, in all disputes arising out of or relating to the Services/Products regardless of your location.
Your consent and rights
By using our service, making an application or visiting our website, you consent to the collection and use of your information and other activities as outlined in this policy.
Under the Australia Privacy Act 1993, individuals have the right:
- to check whether we hold personal data about you and to access such data;
- to request us to correct as soon as reasonably practicable any data relating to you that is inaccurate;
- 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.
- to ascertain our policies and practices in relation to personal information and the kind of personal information held by us;
- to object to the use of your personal data for marketing purposes and we shall not use your personal data for marketing purposes after you communicate your objection to us.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data.
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 process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims.
- Customer Data that includes 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, purchase details and your card details. We process this data to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions.
- User Data that includes data about 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.
- Technical Data that includes data about your use of the 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 of the website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access the website. The source of this data is from our analytics tracking system.
- Marketing Data We process this data to enable you to partake in promotions such as competitions, prize draws and free give-aways, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising.
Security
Our site monitors potential security issues using the free version of Wordfence. Click here to read the Wordfence Privacy Policy: https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk.
Sensitive Data
We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you.
Where we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us and you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to supply the requested goods.
We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails:
Contact me via email at comfybranchbooks@gmail.com and I will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.
Cookies
Like any other website, susanpbranch.com uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to compile data including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customising the web page content based on visitor’s browser type and/or other information.
We may collect data about you by you providing 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.
If you leave a comment on the site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
We may receive data from third parties e.g. analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU, advertising networks such as Facebook or search information providers such as Google based outside the EU, providers of technical, payment and delivery services, such as data brokers or aggregators.
Opting Out
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options however please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
For more general information on cookies, please read “What Are Cookies”.
*Note that susanpbranch.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third party advertisers.
Marketing Communications
Our lawful ground of processing your personal data to send you marketing communications is either your consent or our legitimate interests (namely to grow the business).
You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you.
Disclosures of your Personal Data
We may have to 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.
Data Retention
For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being customers.
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.
Third Party Privacy Policies
susanpbranch.com’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites, therefore we advise you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad severs or links to other websites for their details.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
susanpbranch.com does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13.
susanpbranch.com will comply with the principles of data protection set out in the General Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) for the purpose of fairness, transparency and lawful data collection and use.
See more at: http://consumercal.org/california-online-privacy-protection-act-caloppa/#sthash.0FdRbT51.dpuf
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email me at comfybranchbooks@gmail.com
As a security measure we may need to request specific information from you to help me confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
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 or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Copyright
All Artworks on this site are covered by copyright unless otherwise indicated.
By using this site, you agree that you will not modify, copy, reproduce, sell, or distribute any content in any manner or medium without permission from the author.
Policy Updates
This policy may change from time to time so please keep abreast of changes on my website susanpbranch.com
Consent
By using my website, you hereby consent to the Privacy Policy, Cookies and Terms and Conditions and agree to these terms.