Effective April 18, 2022

ABOUT THE SERVICE

Books By Travis (“us”, “we”, or “our”) is the website at https://booksbytravis.com (the “Service”) owned by author and graphic designer Travis Williams. This Privacy Policy page informs you of our privacy policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this Privacy Policy web page. You may review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

DEFINITIONS

• Service Service is the website at https://booksbytravis.com operated by Travis Williams

• Personal Data Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).

• Usage Data Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

• Cookies Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).

• Data Controller Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.

• Data Processors Data Processors (or Service Providers) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.

• Data Subject Data Subject (or User) is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.

INFORMATION COLLECTION & USE

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

• Personal Data While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

• Usage Data We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

• Tracking & Cookies Data We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples of Cookies we use:

• Session Cookies We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.

• Preference Cookies We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.

• Security Cookies We use Security Cookies for security purposes.

USE OF DATA

Purpose

The Service uses the collected data for various purposes to:

• Provide and maintain our Service
• Notify you about changes to our Service
• Allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
• Provide customer support
• Gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
• Monitor the usage of our Service
• Detect, prevent and address technical issues
• Provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

Processing personal data under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), the Service’s legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.

The Service may process your Personal Data because:

• We need to perform a contract with you
• You have given us permission to do so
• The processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights
• To comply with the law

Retention of data

The Service will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Service will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your geopolitical jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

The Service will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of data

The Service may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Service
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of data

The security of your data is important to us, but no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is perfectly secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Your data protection rights under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain rights with regards to data protection. The Service aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

• The right of rectification You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.

• The right to object You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.

• The right of restriction You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.

• The right to data portability You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.

• The right to withdraw consent You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time when the Service relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

SERVICE PROVIDERS

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Links to other sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Affiliate disclosure

The Service uses affiliate links for the purpose of promoting the purchase of digital or physical products or services. An affiliate link has a tracking code embedded in the link’s URL that identifies the Service to a third-party retailer’s website not operated by us. The owner of the Service will receive a commission for a sales referral if you click on an affiliate link and purchase the item. The price of the item is the same whether it is an affiliate link or not. By using an affiliate link to make a purchase, you are helping support the Service. We genuinely appreciate your support.

Affiliate programs that the Service uses are the following:

• Amazon.com Services LLC Associates Program
• Apple Services Performance Partner Program managed by Partnerize

On the Service’s website pages with affiliate links, the following text is posted: “Travis Williams earns sales commissions from qualifying purchases made by following links on this webpage to Apple Books and Amazon.”

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children we take steps to remove that information.

COOKIES

By using the Service, you consent to the use of cookies. Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on the Service, your choices regarding cookies and further information about cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Service or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Service more useful to you.

Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.

How the Service uses cookies

When you use and access the Service, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser. We use cookies TO enable certain functions of the Service for the following purposes:

• To provide analytics We may use both session and persistent cookies on the Service and we use different types of cookies to run the Service:

• Essential cookies. We may use cookies to remember information that changes the way the Service behaves or looks, such as a user’s language preference on the Service.

• Analytics cookies. We may use analytics cookies to track information how the Service is used so that we can make improvements. We may also use analytics cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features or new functionality of the Service to see how our users react to them.

• Third-party cookies In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on.

What are your choices regarding cookies?

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us on our contacts web page at https://booksbytravis.com/contact/