Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 20, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how markwelchauthor.com collects, uses, and protects the personal information of visitors and subscribers to the website.
1. Information Collected
Personal Data: Personally identifiable information may be collected when users subscribe to newsletters, fill out contact forms, leave comments on blog posts, or participate in surveys or promotions. This may include a name and email address.
Usage Data: The website may automatically collect information about how the site is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This includes the computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, the pages visited, the time and date of the visit, the time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.
Cookies: The website may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier. Users can instruct their browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if cookies are not accepted, some portions of the service may not be usable.
2. How Information Is Used
The collected information is used for various purposes, including:
Providing and maintaining the website.
Sending newsletters, updates about books, events, or other relevant information if users have opted in to receive them.
Responding to inquiries and fulfilling requests, such as sending requested information.
Improving the website and personalizing user experience.
Monitoring the usage of the website.
Detecting, preventing, and addressing technical issues.
3. Sharing Information
Personal data will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason without consent, other than for delivering the requested product or service. Information may be shared with trusted third-party service providers who assist in operating the website, conducting business, or serving users, for example companies that help process credit card payments. These third parties are obligated to protect the confidentiality of information.
4. Data Security
The security of data is important, but no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While commercially acceptable means are used to protect Personal Data, its absolute security cannot be guaranteed.
5. Data Protection Rights
Depending on the location, users may have certain rights regarding their personal data:
Right of Access: Users have the right to request access to the personal data held about them.
Right to Rectification: Users have the right to request correction of any inaccurate or incomplete personal data held about them.
Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): Users have the right to request the deletion of their personal data.
Right to Object: Users have the right to object to the processing of their personal data for certain purposes.
Right to Withdraw Consent: If consent is relied upon to process personal data, users have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
Right to Data Portability: Users have the right to request their personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
Right to Lodge a Complaint: Users have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority.
6. Changes to This Privacy Policy
The Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time. Users will be notified of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “effective date” at the top.
7. Contact Information
For any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact the website by visiting the contact page or at [mark@markwelchauthor.com].