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Write Word Publishing Limited retains all copyright, trade-mark and all other rights in all material contained on this site, including all text and graphic images. No portion of this material may be used or reproduced, other than for personal use, or distributed, transmitted or “mirrored” in any form, or by any means, without the prior written permission of Write Word Publishing.

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We are committed to protecting your privacy and security. Under regulations on personal data (the General Data Protection Regulation), which came into force on May 25th 2018, we have introduced this new policy that relies on you giving us your consent about how we can contact you. This means you have the choice as to whether you want to receive these messages and be able to select how you want to receive them (email, phone, post or text).

You can change your preferences or opt out of receiving communications at any time by contacting enquiries@thebookshowcase.com.

PERSONAL DATA POLICY

1. ABOUT US

Your personal data (i.e. any information which identifies you, or which can be identified as relating to you personally) will be collected and used by Write Word Publishing. Our Registered Address is 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ.

2. WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect data you provide to us. This includes the following:

● personal details (name, address, email address, telephone, etc.) when you request to be added to our database, e.g. by signing up for our newsletter online, or completing a form via our website (www.thebookshowcase.com) or at an event or talk.

● financial information (payment information such as the last four digits of your credit/debit card or direct debit details).

● details of your interests and preferences (only if applicable or relevant to the publishing of your book).

We will never sell or rent your personal data, and will only ever share it with other organisations we work with where necessary, and if their privacy and security are guaranteed.

Your personal information is stored on a secure database managed and controlled by Write Word Publishing. Data may be transferred to and from, or held in, non-EEA countries, for example the USA. We do not collect or store sensitive personal data (such as information relating to health, beliefs or political affiliation) about supporters.

3. HOW WE USE INFORMATION

We use personal data to communicate with people, to promote the work of Write Word Publishing. This includes keeping you up to date with our news, updates and events.

We only ever use your personal data with your consent, or where it is necessary in order to:

● enter into, or perform, a contract with you;

● comply with a legal duty;

● protect your vital interests;

● for our own (or a third party’s) lawful interests, provided your rights don’t override the these.

We also use personal data for administrative purposes. This includes:

● maintaining databases; and

● helping us respect your choices and preferences (e.g. if you ask not to receive marketing material, we will keep a record of this).

We may evaluate, categorise and profile personal data in order to tailor materials, services and communications (including targeted email communication) and prevent unwanted material from filling up your inbox. This also helps us understand our customers, improve our organisation and carry out research. When you receive a communication, we may collect information about how you respond to or interact with that communication, and this may affect how we communicate with you in future.

We may anonymise and encrypt personal data so that it can no longer be linked to a specific person. This information helps inform our actions and improve our products/services and materials.

If you have opted out of receiving information by post, we may from time to time need to contact you by post if we believe that this is in our legitimate interest to do so. For example, if we need to confirm information with you and have been unable to contact you via your opt-in methods of communication. Please be assured that if you do opt out of contact by post, you will not receive any marketing information, newsletters or details of events and we will only contact you by post if absolutely necessary.

4. DISCLOSING AND SHARING DATA

We will never sell or rent your personal data. If you have opted-in to receiving communications from us, we may contact you with information about the work of our partner organisations, but these communications will usually be incorporated into our own marketing materials.

5. DATA PROTECTION AND STORAGE

We employ a variety of physical and technical measures to keep your data safe and to prevent unauthorised access to, or use or disclosure of your personal information.

Electronic data and databases are stored on secure computer systems and we control who has access to information (using both physical and electronic means).

All electronic forms that request financial data will use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to encrypt the data between your browser and our servers.

If you use a credit card to purchase a product or service we will pass your credit card details securely to our payment provider (PayPal). Write Word Publishing complies with the payment card industry data security standard (PCI-DSS) published by the PCI Security Standards Council, and will never store card details.

Of course, we cannot guarantee the security of your home computer or the internet, and any online communications (e.g. information provided by email or via the payment page on The Book Showcase website) are at the user’s own risk.

6. THE BOOK SHOWCASE WEBSITE

The website incorporates reasonable and appropriate safeguards using industry standard technology to heighten the security, accuracy and privacy of any Personal Information collected by Write Word Publishing and its partner organisations.

All online transactions are encrypted using the Secure Socket Layers (SSL) protocol. (Such transactions are processed through PayPal Merchant Services PPMS). PayPal has validated PPMS compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS). Online transactions are not stored or processed on Write Word Publishing servers. The purpose of PCI DSS is to prevent any compromise of cardholder information. PCI DSS Compliance gives consumers the confidence they need to know that organizations accepting donations are doing so in a verified, secure, and consistent fashion. These comprehensive standards are intended to help Write Word Publishing proactively protect your account data — a responsibility we take very seriously.

7. KEEPING YOU IN CONTROL

We want to ensure you remain in control of your personal data. Part of this is making sure you understand your legal rights, which are as follows:

● the right to confirmation as to whether or not we have your personal data and, if we do, to obtain a copy of the personal information we hold (this is known as subject access request);

● the right to have your data erased, sometimes known as ‘the right to be forgotten’ (though this will not apply where it is necessary for us to continue to use the data for a lawful reason);

● the right to have inaccurate data rectified;

● the right to object to your data being used for marketing or profiling; and

● where technically feasible, you have the right to personal data you have provided to us, which we process automatically on the basis of your consent or the performance of a contract. This information will be provided in a common electronic format;

● the right to withdraw consent at any time. You can do this by contacting us at enquiries@thebookshowcase.com.

8. RETENTION AND DISPOSAL OF DATA

Personal data may not be retained for longer than it is required. Write Word Publishing fully understands its obligations under the GDPR to securely delete data no longer required for the purpose it was collected, or where a data subject has required to be forgotten. If you withdraw consent to us contacting you using the personal information you have provided, we may retain this information for a period of up to six years, in order to ensure that your instruction that you are not to be contacted is retained in our database. If you would prefer us to delete your information immediately, we would be happy to do so and the information will be deleted from our records within 30 days of notification.

Write Word Publishing fully understands that to contact the data subject for any reason other than these would be a breach of data protection and an infringement of that data subject’s rights and Freedoms. Write Word Publishing’s data retention and data disposal procedures will apply in all cases.

Personal data must be disposed of in a way that protects the “rights and freedoms” of data subjects (e.g. shredding, disposal as confidential waste, secure electronic deletion) and in line with the GDPR secure disposal procedure.

9. COMPLAINTS

You can complain to Write Word Publishing directly by contacting us at enquiries@thebookshowcase.com. If you are not happy with our response, or you believe that your data protection or privacy rights have been infringed, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, which regulates and enforces data protection law in the UK. Details of how to do this can be found atwww.ico.org.uk

10. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We will amend this Privacy Policy from time to time to ensure it remains up to date and accurately reflects how and why we use your personal data.

Any questions you have in relation to this policy or how we use your personal data should be sent to us at enquiries@thebookshowcase.com.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 01.03.2024.

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