Privacy & Cookie Policy

WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

We are committed to security and to protecting your privacy. Whenever you provide us with personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy, current UK Data Protection legislation, the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and Internet best practices. You can use most of the features of this website without disclosing any personal information. A few optional features of this site, such as the contact form, ask you to provide some personal information. The contact form is hosted by this website and all information transmitted by the form is encrypted. By providing us with your personal data you consent to our holding and processing of it by us as described in this Privacy Policy.

We will not sell or give your data to any third party. We will retain your personal data for as long as deemed necessary to provide legitimate services to you. Personal information sent to us by may be withdrawn at any time. We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of johnholmanauthor.com, act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of website visitors or the public, or protect against legal liability.

Johnholmanauthor.com may in the future hire other companies to perform certain functions e.g. website maintenance or design, newsletter maintenance or design, mailing information and maintaining databases. When we employ another company to perform a function of this nature, we take precautions to provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function. Johnholmanauthor.com will always make great efforts to protect the personal information provided via the website from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from the website may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail.

Blogs on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles) from other third-party websites. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and utilize additional third-party tracking systems to monitor your interaction with that embedded content. We are not responsible for the data that these websites collect, nor how they use your data.

You are entitled to see copies of all personal data held by us and to amend, correct, or delete such data. You can withdraw your consent for us to hold and use your information at any time. If you have any queries or concerns or wish to withdraw consent to your data please contact us via our contact form. We will respond to all requests as soon as possible. We will do our best to deal with your enquiry, however, there may be exceptions where we are required by law to retain some data or information. We may occasionally update this privacy policy by posting a new version on our website. It is in your interest to check this page regularly to ensure that you are comfortable with any changes made. This Privacy Policy, together with our Terms of Use and Cookie Policy constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our website. These policies supersede all previous agreements in respect to your use of this website.

February 2024