Eileen Goudge Website is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (the “Terms and Conditions”) sets out the basis on which any personal data and information this site collects from you, or that you provide, will be processed by this site during your use of https://eileengoudge.com (this “site”). Please read the following carefully to understand this sites views and practices regarding your personal data and information, and how we will treat it and our practices with regards to the use of cookies.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the data controller is Eileen Goudge Website whose registered address is New York, NY.
Please see our terms of use for more information about, and the basis on which we provide, the site.
YOUR INFORMATION
We will not collect information that personally identifies you. We do not collect any personal data.
COOKIES
Like many online services, the site uses a feature called a cookie, which is a small data file that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer or device’s hard drive.
The site uses cookies that automatically log certain non-personal information, including aggregated, statistical data about how you are using the site to analyze its performance and usage. This information may include the URL of the website which linked you to the site, your IP address and the number and duration of visits to the site. The IP address indicates the location of your computer on the internet. This information is collected in an anonymous way that does not identify you personally.
Various different types of cookies are used via the site:
- “Session cookies” are used (which will usually be deleted when you log out) to keep track of your internet session, which, for instance, allows us to remember the site language. Without these cookies, the online services that you have asked for cannot be provided. Session cookies are necessary and/or useful for the functioning of the site
- “Persistent cookies” are used (which are longer-term) to help you move around and enjoy the features on the site more easily and to remember preferences, actions, and settings to improve your visit (at your request).
The cookies outlined above expire after varying periods from around 30 minutes up to 2 years or more. The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted.
In further detail, the cookies fall into the following categories:
1 Analytics (e.g. Google Analytics; Web engage)
These cookies are used to compile various (anonymized) metrics for our users to get a better understanding of how the site is used (pages visited and time spent on the site, for example) so that we can deliver more of the content you want, and less of the content you don’t. This information also helps us to make better decisions for our future initiatives. We use partners like Jetpack and Google Analytics. These analytics cookies are set by those partners and are in accordance with the relevant partner’s own privacy and cookies policies.
2. Performance data
This lets us track how long it takes users to load each page, what pages we can cache.
3. Embedded video (YouTube)
We know that many of you love films, so the site may make use of clips on YouTube. YouTube sets its own cookies, and the YouTube cookies policy can be found here.
4. Social media (Twitter)
Eileen Goudge isn’t just a novel writer – she’s also pretty handy within the twitter’s 140 characters! We use cookies to enable you to enjoy the social media features on the site. In order to host her tweets, we embed Twitter links. Twitter sets its own cookies, and Twitter’s cookies policy can be found here.
5. Preferences
This site uses this type of cookie to ensure that it doesn’t show you things you’ve already seen before, like the cookie policy acceptance and the intro page. This means you get to spend more time with the content you love, and less time with the content you don’t.
6. Session state
Websites often collect information about how users interact with a website. This may include the pages that users visit most often, and whether users get error messages from certain pages. We use these “session state cookies” to help us improve this site’s services, in order to improve our users’ browsing experience. Blocking or deleting these cookies will not render the site unusable.
By agreeing to the Terms and Conditions, you agree to the eileengoudge.com site using the cookies and your information in these ways, but you can delete any of these cookies at any time if you wish.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your web browser that allows you to refuse the setting of cookies, or you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it. The Help portion of your browser, most likely found on the toolbar, typically tells you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. You can check whether these settings are currently enabled on your computer – or find out how to change your current settings – here:
Javascript: www.enable-javascript.com
Cookies: www.whatarecookies.com
To opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Unless you do this, cookies will be issued when you use the site. If you do not accept cookies or decide to disable them, you will still be able to access and use the site, but you may lose some features and functionality.
You can find out more about cookies at www.youronlinechoices.eu.
WHERE THIS SITE STORES YOUR INFORMATION
We take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy & Cookies Policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do its best to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of the information you transmit to the site; any transmission is at your own risk.
Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorized access, as required by applicable laws. In particular, we take steps to protect the security of your information with appropriate physical, technological and administrative measures. You accept the inherent risks of providing information and dealing online and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security that is due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
If you have any concerns about the security of your information or should you wish to access written information about our policies and practices regarding any of our authorized third-party service providers, please see the end of this Privacy & Cookies Policy for details of how to contact us.
USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
This site uses information held about you to ensure that content from the site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer, to provide you with the services outlined in this policy, and to understand how you use the site and how it is functioning so that we can maintain and improve the site.
This site may use the information we collect to comply with law, to investigate a complaint made by another user or a potential breach of the site’s Terms and Conditions or to prevent and detect unlawful or criminal activity, fraud and misuse of, or damage to, the site or the products, content, and services made available through it, and to take appropriate legal action against those responsible.
This site may on occasion link or combine the information that we collect about you with information that we receive from other sources. This site may combine this information with the information you give to us and the information we collect about you. (For example, we may decide to combine two or more databases into a single database of information.) We may use this information and the combined information for your and/or the benefit of this site (for example, to allow this site to provide more seamless support and/or to provide you with better, personalized services and content).
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
This site may disclose information that does not identify you personally including aggregated or de-identified data, in our discretion.
YOUR RIGHTS
The site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own terms and conditions and privacy & cookies policies and that the Eileen Goudge does not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY & COOKIES POLICY
Any changes that are made to this Privacy & Cookies Policy in the future will be posted on this page.
