Privacy policy.
Introduction
This Privacy Policy & Cookie Policy explains the way in which any personal information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us when you visit our website at www.yvonnequahe.com (“Site”) and the cookies we use.
The Site is operated by www.yvonnequahe.com (also referred to below as “we”, “us” or “our”).
We endeavor to take all due care to protect your personal information, in accordance with the applicable Data Protection legislation from time to time.
For the purposes of Data Protection legislation, www.yvonnequahe.com is the data controller in respect of the personal information that we collect through the Website.
Information we may collect from you when you visit the Site
The personal information we collect when you visit the Site (“Information”) includes:
e-mail address – if you subscribe to our newsletter
records of emails and other correspondence (including any further information we may request from you) when you contact us to request information, report a problem or answer your questions.
standard information automatically collected by our web server including your IP address, browser type, and operating system.
details of your visits to our site, including access time.
How we use your information
We will only use the Information we collect as follows:
to manage email subscriptions to provide you with the information that you request;
to respond to any questions, queries, complaints or requests for further information;
to improve the content of the Site;
to customize the content and/or layout of the Site; and
to provide you with marketing information related to the content of the book and work of the author.
On what basis do we use your information?
We will process the Information that you provide, or we collect from you, on the basis that it is necessary for our legitimate interests in promoting and marketing our products and services, and for the other purposes mentioned above.
Your Information will not be used for any other purpose, or disclosed to any third party, unless we are required to do so by law, or as mentioned in the next paragraph.
How long do we keep personal information for?
We will only keep your personal data for as long as it’s needed. It will be deleted when you unsubscribe from the blog and/or newsletter, when the relationship with you ends or when you ask us to remove it for any other reason.
Your rights as a data subject
As a data subject you have certain legal rights including:
the right to access the personal data held about you
the right to withdraw at any time any consent you have given to receive marketing material from us
the right to ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data about you
the right to ask for the restriction of personal data concerning yourself that is inaccurate, unlawfully processed, or no longer required
the right to ask for the erasure of personal data concerning yourself where processing is no longer necessary, or the legitimate interests we have in processing your personal data are overridden by your interests, rights and freedoms as the data subject.
Internet security
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect your Information from unauthorized use. However, as no data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, we cannot take responsibility for any unauthorized access or loss of personal information that is beyond our control.
Please remember that other methods of Internet communication, such as emails and messages sent via a website, are not secure unless they are encrypted. We take no responsibility for any unauthorized access or loss of personal information that is beyond our control.
Changes to this Privacy Policy and future developments
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of this Privacy Policy will govern our use of information about you and will be located on this page. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, then where appropriate we will notify you by email or by posting a notice on the Site prior to the effective date of the changes.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments or requests about the Site generally, please contact us by email to yvonne@yvonnequahe.com
If you any questions, comments or requests regarding our use of your personal information, or wish to delete your personal information, please contact us by email to yvonne@yvonnequahe.com
Cookie Policy
A “cookie” is a small text file that is placed on a user’s computer hard drive by a website. There are several types of cookie and the most common are often referred to as ‘session’ cookies. These are used to keep track of information needed by a user as they travel from page to page within a website. These cookies have a short lifetime and expire within a few minutes of the user leaving the site.
www.yvonnequahe.com cookies do not store any personal information (encrypted or otherwise), they are simply a numeric identifier that allow us to recognize repeat visitors.
www.yvonnequahe.com uses benign cookies to tell where to find details that can be used to pre-fill parts of online forms and to personalize future communications so they are relevant.
Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default; however, it is possible to set a browser to reject cookies. If this is done it is important not to exclude the benign and useful session cookies. Choose an option that rejects all third-party cookies.
Third Party cookies
In order for us to effectively measure and report on website activity, we use Google Analytics. More info on Google cookies can be found at:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
Our cookies are safe, do not harm your computer and do not store personal information. We respect your privacy and merely use cookies to report on our marketing activity and provide you a better and more relevant service.