Privacy Policy

Adele Bound in Books (“I”, “we”, “us”, or “the blogger”) is dedicated to respecting the privacy of your personal information, and this privacy policy describes what information is collected from you on adeleboundinbooks.wordpress.com (hereinafter the “blog”) and how it is used. The term “you” refers to anyone who uses, visits and/or views the website.

By visiting and using the website, you accept and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. Your continued use of the website after posting of any changes to our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates. You must not access or use the website if you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

PRIVACY POLICY CONTENTS

Children’s Privacy
Collection and Use of Information
Comments and Social Media
Cookies
Web Beacons and Pixels
Third Party Links and Use
Disclosure of Your Information
Email Marketing
GDPR Visitor Rights
Security
Law Enforcement and Human Rights
Privacy Policy Updates
Contact

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

We respect the privacy of children and “child” refers to any individual under the age of 13. All information and content on this blog is intended for individuals over the age of 18. Children under the age of 13 are prohibited from using this blog. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from children under the age of 13 without prior parental or guardian consent. If you believe any personal information is collected from someone under the age of 13 without parental or guardian consent, then please contact us to have that information deleted.

COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION

When you access the blog, you may provide certain personally identifiable information including but not limited to your name, email address, phone number, address, and avatar image.

This information is collected when you register on the site, subscribe to a newsletter, contact us, use the search feature on the blog, provide comments or any other feedback, fill out a form or enter any other information on the blog to communicate with us. From time to time, we may also collect information that you submit when you participate in any online surveys that we may post on our blog. I do not directly sell any products at this time, so there are no circumstances in which I would require your credit card number or other financial information. If any internal links ask for this information I may have been hacked. Please contact me to alert me to the issue.

Your personal information is used to personalize your experience, improve the blog to better serve you, provide customer service support, efficiently process your requests, and to follow up with you through correspondence (email or chat).

Additionally, like other websites, this blog automatically collects certain information about you through Log Data and Google Analytics. Log Data is information about your computer’s Internet Protocol Address, which is your “IP” address, browser information, Internet Service Provider’s information, your operating system, and your browser type. Similarly, Google Analytics collects certain information about your location, browsing history, the pages you visit, the equipment you used to access the blog, traffic patterns, and other general patterns related to your use of the blog.

This information is used to analyse blog statistics related to user behaviour and interests, and improve our performance and your use of the blog.

COMMENTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. When you leave a comment, your name, email address and website/organization name is not shared with a third party and may be used to communicate with you.

Social media accounts and sharing options are available on this blog. Social media sites (Facebook, X, Bluesky, YouTube, Pintrest, Instagram, and the like) can track your personal information. Should you choose to interact with us on social media, please note that you will be voluntarily disclosing that personal information. This information is no longer private. It becomes public information and can be collected and used by others. We have no control over and take no responsibility for the use, storage or dissemination of such publicly-disclosed personal information by you.

Any such interactions via comments and social media with us do not subject us to any kind of liability related to misuse of your information by others.

COOKIES

The blog may use cookies to facilitate your use of the site. Cookies are files with small amounts of data including an anonymous unique identifier that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive when you are viewing the website. Just like other websites, we automatically collect some non-personally identifiable information including but not limited to your IP address, geographic location, language preference, date and time of visits.

When you leave a comment on our blog, 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.

If you have an account and you log in to this blog, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

We may use cookies for various reasons such as optimizing and personalizing your browsing experience, checking our blog analytics, saving your preferences and settings for future use, and posting comments on our blog. This information is only collected to better serve and understand your user experience on the blog. You have the option of turning off cookies on your computer should you wish to do so. If you choose to do that, you may not be able to view all the features and content of this blog.

WEB BEACONS AND PIXELS

In conjunction with the use of cookies, third parties may also use web beacons, which are also known as clear GIFs, web bugs or pixel tags to collect general information about your use of our blog. They monitor user activity and are used to track customer behaviour data. Third parties like Facebook may use their own cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect and receive information from our blog for the purpose of providing target advertisements.

THIRD PARTY LINKS AND USE

We may include, offer or advertise third party links, products or services on the blog. Once you click on a third-party link and leave this blog, you are no longer bound by our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.

Articles on this blog may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, advertisements, 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Third-party vendors such as Google use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to the website. You can opt-out of Google by visiting their privacy policy and ad settings.

We have no control over these third parties and they have their own privacy policies. Neither are we responsible for the activities and practices of these third parties. You should contact them directly and read their privacy policies for any questions. You also agree that your use of these third-party websites is solely at your risk.

This blog is powered by WordPress.com. By using this blog, you may be subject to the WordPress.com privacy policy. Adele Bound in Books has no input into the formulation of or control over the enforcement of the WordPress.com privacy policy. Please address any questions or concerns about the WordPress.com privacy policy to WordPress.com.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

As a general rule, we do not disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent with the exception of the following circumstances:

We may disclose your information to our trusted third parties that work with us such as WordPress.com, service providers that assist in the operation of the blog, and any other affiliates and subsidiaries we rely upon to provide you products and services offered here.

We may disclose your information in order to comply with state or federal regulations related to copyright infringement lawsuits or any other legal claims related to the blog.

We may disclose your information in order to comply with lawful requests from law enforcement in the exercise of their duties, as detailed in the Law Enforcement and Human Rights section of this policy.

EMAIL MARKETING

You have the option of opting in or unsubscribing from our email list. By subscribing and opting in, you agree to receive newsletters, updates, messages, promotional materials and any other content related to this blog. When you send an email, your email message along with your email address and responses are saved for communication purposes with you. This information is kept confidential and we do not share, sell or trade your email information with third parties except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy.

We comply with the Spam Act 2003 and do not spam or send misleading information. Should you wish to no longer receive communication from us, you have the option of unsubscribing by clicking “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email we send to you or by contacting us. We are not responsible for data collected and used by third party websites Please contact them directly to unsubscribe and/or opt-out from their communications.

GDPR VISITOR RIGHTS

Under the GDPR, if you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain rights and information listed below.

We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of:

A} You ask us to delete the information by sending a request to adeleboundinbooks{at}gmail{dot}com. Please note that such requests may result in you no longer being able to access content previously provided to you.

B} Our decision to cease using our existing data providers or migrate to a different host.

C} The blog declines to offer further services and/or ceases to exist.

D} The data is no longer needed to provide you service, is too costly to maintain further retention, or the blogger finds it outdated.

You have the right to request access to your data that we store and have the ability to access your personal data.

You have the right to either rectify or erase your personal data. You have the right to verify the accuracy of your personal data and have it corrected or removed completely

You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data. When you restrict the processing of your data, we can store your data but cannot process it further.

You have the right to object to the processing of your data in certain circumstances including but not limited to direct marketing, profiling, scientific or historical research purposes, statistical purposes, automated decision making and profiling and tasks based on legitimate interests or in the public interest/exercise of official authority.

You have the right to the portability of your data. You have the right to request your personal data from us, receive it and transfer it to another controller.

You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. If you have provided consent to the blog’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.

We require only the information that is reasonably necessary to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.

SECURITY

The security of your personal information is important to us, and we strive to follow industry standards to protect your personal information submitted to us voluntarily and automatically. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. By using this blog, you agree to hold us harmless for any security breach and for any unauthorized use of your personal information by third parties. You also agree that we cannot be held responsible for any disclosure of your information through our blog without our knowledge and consent.

LAW ENFORCEMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Adele Bound in Books has a policy of cooperation with law enforcement. By using this blog, you consent to the disclosure of your information in response to lawful requests from law enforcement in the legal exercise of their duties. This policy applies to local and state authorities (police detectives, sheriffs, etc,), federal authorities (AFP, FBI, Scotland Yard, CIA, ASIO, MI5 etc.), and international authorities (INTERPOL).

Adele Bound in Books does not allow the posting of material featuring the sexual exploitation of minors under the age of consent. Any material, visual or otherwise, containing or portraying the sexual exploitation of minors will immediately be forwarded to the appropriate authorities, along with any information collected about you, the poster.

Adele Bound in Books subscribes to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and will not comply with any requests we deem to be in breach of these rights.

PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES

This privacy policy is effective as of February 22, 2025 and will be updated and modified as needed. You are responsible for visiting this page periodically to check for future updates to this policy. Any modifications to this privacy policy will be effective upon our publishing of the new terms, and your continued use of our blog after the posting of any updates constitutes your acceptance of our modified privacy policy.