Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

  • Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.sbspellbound.net

  • What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

  • Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

  • Mailing List

You may opt-in to subscribe to our newsletter to receive information regarding the posts/content uploaded to the site. We use Mailchimp to automate the process. You can find the details of their privacy policy and how it affects you, here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/ . The only information we collect to process the mailing list to subscribers is a name/alias and a working e-mail address. You can unsubscribe at any time.

  • Affiliate Links

Some of the links on this website may be affiliate. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. All posts with Affiliate Links on them are headlined by the following text:

[Disclaimer: this post contains affiliate links. If you choose to purchase any of the products they link to, I’ll receive a small commission that will revert to funding this site with no additional cost to you.]

Please refer to Amazon’s Privacy Policy for more details.

  • Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

  • Premium Store

Our premium store is created by Ecwid. Please refer to Ecwid’s Privacy Policy for more details. We collect information about you during the checkout process on our premium store.

What we collect and store

When you visit our premium store, we’ll track:

Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
Location: IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping.
Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. In the case of free downloads, only an e-mail address will be collected during the checkout process. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

  1. Send you information about your account and order:
  2. Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints.
  3. Process payments and prevent fraud.
  4. Set up your account for our store.
  5. Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes.
  6. Improve our store offerings.
  7. Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them.
  8. If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders. We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.
  • Payments

We accept payments through PayPal and Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal or Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy or Stripe’s Privacy Policy for more details.

  • Analytics

Who we share your data with

No one, unless you subscribe to our mailing list or buy a product from us as aforementioned.

  • How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

  • What rights you have over your data

If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

  • Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

  • Contact information

If You have any questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy please contact us at  sbspellbound@sbspellbound.net.

Effective date of this policy: June 18th, 2020

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