Privacy Policy

Who this covers

This policy explains what information daneverettbooks.com collects, why, and what you can do about it. It applies to this website only.

Information you give us

If you use a form on this site, you choose what to send — typically your name, your email address, and whatever you write in the message. It is used to reply to you, or, where you have asked to hear from us, to send occasional updates. It is not sold.

Summary

We collect very little. We do not sell your information, we do not share it for advertising, and we do not run advertising trackers on this site. The only third-party analytics tool we use is Google Analytics, configured so that it cannot be used for advertising. If you sign up for the newsletter, your email address goes to Substack, which runs the newsletter and has its own privacy policy.

Information you give us

Contact form. When you use the contact form we collect the name, email address and message you enter, along with the time of submission. We use this only to read and reply to your message. Submissions are delivered to us by our hosting providers, which processes them on our behalf and does not use them for its own purposes.

Newsletter signup. The subscription form on this site sends your email address directly to Substack, Inc., which operates the newsletter. Substack is an independent data controller for subscriber information and its handling of your address is governed by the Substack Privacy Policy. Substack may set cookies in your browser under its own domain when your subscription is submitted. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any newsletter email, or by managing your subscription in your Substack account.

We do not ask for, and ask that you do not send us, sensitive personal information.

Information collected automatically

Server logs. Our hosting provider, records standard technical information when a page is requested: IP address, browser user agent, the page requested, referring page, and a timestamp. These logs exist to keep the site running and secure.

Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how many people visit the site and which pages they read. It is configured as follows:

We see aggregate reports — visitor counts, page popularity, rough geography at country or city level, device type, and where traffic came from. We cannot identify you from them.

Cookies

Google Analytics sets the following first-party cookies on daneverettbooks.com:

• _ga
  Distinguishes one browser from another so visits can be counted
  2 years
• _ga_[CONTAINER ID]
  Maintains the analytics session
  2 years

No other cookies are set by this site. We do not use advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, social media tracking pixels, session recording, heat mapping, or fingerprinting.

What we do with information

We use the information described above only to:

• reply to messages you send us;
• deliver the newsletter you asked for;
• understand which writing and pages people read, so we can decide what to publish;
• keep the site available and protect it from abuse;
• meet legal obligations where they apply.

We do not use your information for automated decision-making or profiling.

Who we share information with

We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising. We have not done either in the preceding twelve months.

Information is handled by a small number of service providers who act on our instructions

Your choices

Whatever state or country you are in, you may ask us to:

• tell you what personal information we hold about you;
• correct it if it is wrong;
• delete it;
• stop sending you the newsletter;
• opt out of any sale or sharing of your personal information — although, as above, we do neither.

Contact us we will respond within 45 days. We will not treat you differently for making a request. We may need to verify your identity, usually by replying to the email address already associated with the information.

Requests relating to your newsletter subscription may be quicker to make directly through Substack, since Substack holds that record.

Visitors outside the United States

This website is operated from the United States and information collected through it is stored and processed in the United States. The site is aimed at a general readership and is not directed at, or marketed to, people in any particular country. If you contact us from anywhere in the world, the choices set out above are available to you.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information.

Links to other sites

Pages on this site link to booksellers, publishers, academic repositories, media coverage and social platforms. Once you follow a link you are on someone else's site, subject to their privacy practices, not ours. We receive no information about what you do there and no commission or payment for referring you.

Security

We use HTTPS across the site and limit access to contact form submissions to the site owner. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Retention

Contact form messages are kept for as long as needed to deal with your enquiry and any follow-up, then deleted. Newsletter subscriptions are kept by Substack until you unsubscribe.

Changes

If we change how the site handles information, we will update this page and change the date at the top. Material changes will be noted on the site.

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