Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy
Protecting your privacy and ensuring the privacy of anyone using our website or receiving emails from us is very important to us. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of our policies about the collection, use, processing, and disclosure of personal data when you use our website or receive our emails and the choices you have regarding your data.

A. Definitions

1. “Service” is the http://dankaluzny.com website operated by the author Dan Kaluzny.
2. “User” means a person or entity that has registered to use the Service and/or receive emails from the Service or a non-registered person who uses the Service.
3. “GPDR” means the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Parliament of April 27, 2016 on the protection of natural persons regarding the movement and processing of personal data.
4. “Personal Data” is any information that can be related to a natural person.
5. “Usage Data” is information automatically collected by using the Service or from the Service infrastructure.
6. “Cookies” are small files stored on your computer or mobile device.
7. “Data Controller” means the natural person or legal entity, who alone or with other entities, determines the purposes for which personal data is processed. We are a Data Controller for the Personal Data of Users.
8. “Data Processor” means any legal or natural person who processes data for the Data Controller.
9. “Processing” means any manual or automatic operation or operations performed on Personal Data. These operations include collection, storage, organization, alteration, retrieval, dissemination, use, consultation, making available through transmission, dissemination, or other means, erasure, blocking, or destruction.

B. Types of Data Processed

1. Users may be asked to provide us with Personal Data that can be used to identify or contact you. This Personal Data includes:
   a. Email address
   b. First and last names
   c. Address, City, State, Province, Zip Code, Postal Code
   d. Information within any email you send us including its content and metadata
   e. Any other information you send us by any means.

2. We may also collect and hold Usage Data to include:
   a. Your computer’s or mobile device’s IP (Internet Protocol) address
   b. Unique identifiers of your computer or mobile device
   c. Browser type
   d. The time and date you visit the Service
   e. The Service pages you visit
   f. The time you spend on those pages
   g. Other diagnostic data used to deliver the Service and improve the quality of the Service.

3. We use Cookies and other tracking technologies including, but not limited to, beacons, scripts, and tags to provide and improve the Service. You may instruct your browser to disable the use of Cookies. If you do not accept cookies, some portion or all the Service may not be available to you.

C. Purpose of Processing Your Personal Data

1. We use your Personal Data to:
   a. Send you our newsletter if you have requested it. You may unsubscribe to this newsletter at any time.
   b. Send you free copies of our books and other materials related to those books
   c. Allow you to participate in contests related to our books.
   d. Send you email notifications you have requested.
   e. To provide, administer, and personalize the Service for you.

2. We may forward your information to third parties to enable the Service. Such third parties may include, but are not limited to technical service providers, hosting providers, IT companies, social media network companies, IT companies, website and business analytics providers, including Google Analytics, and electronic book distribution companies. You may ask for a current list of these providers by contacting us.

3. We will not, without your express consent, give your Personal Data to any third party for their, or any other third party’s direct marketing.

4. We may disclose your Personal Data for legal requirements including:
   a. When required to do so by law.
   b. In response to a valid request by a court, public authority, or government agency.
   c. In the good faith belief that the disclosure is necessary to protect
      i. The safety of Users and the public.
      ii. Against legal liability.
      iii. To protect and defend the rights or property of the Service and its owner.

D. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GPDR

1. If you are from the European Economic Area, the legal basis for collecting and processing your Personal Data is:
   a. You have given us permission to do so.
   b. We need to fulfill a contract with you.
   c. The processing is in our legitimate interests and is not overridden by your rights.

E. Your rights Under GPDR

1. Users have the right to do the following:
   a. Withdraw their consent at any time where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data.
   b. Object to the Processing of their Personal Data.
   c. Learn if the Service is processing their data and to obtain a copy of the Personal Data undergoing processing.
   d. Update their Personal Data.
   e. Restrict the Processing of their Personal Data. As soon as practicable after receiving this request, the Service will cease processing of the Personal Data for any purpose other than storing it.
   f. Have their Personal Data removed from the Service.
   g. Lodge a complaint with their data protection authority.

2. Users may direct their requests to exercise their rights, free of charge, to dk@dankaluzny.com Requests will be addressed as quickly as possible and, by policy, within one month.

3. The Service may request appropriate proof of identity for Users making a request.

F. International Transfer of Personal Data

1. User Personal Data may be transferred to and maintained on computers outside the country, state, or province of the user where the data protection laws may be different from the laws at the Users location.

2. If you are located outside the United States, and choose to provide information to the Service, please note that you are agreeing to transfer and process data in the United States.

G. Security of Personal Data

1. We take the security of your Personal Data seriously. While we use commercially acceptable means to protect User Personal Data, we cannot guarantee that this information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a breach of these protections. By using the Service, Users acknowledge these risks and agree to assume these risks.

H. Retention

1. Personal Data will be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose listed in this Privacy Policy.

2. The Service may retain Personal Data for a period longer than noted in H1 above when:
   a. It is required to fulfill a legal obligation.
   b. Or by order of a government agency or authority.

I. Third Party Websites

1. Our website may include hyperlinks to third party websites. We have no control over those websites. And, we are not responsible for the practices and privacy policies of those websites.

J. California Online Protection Act

1. We do not support Do Not Track Signals under the California Online Protection Act.

2. If you do want to be tracked, Do Not Track Signals can be enabled in your browser. See the Preferences and/or Setting page(s) of your browser to enable Do Not Track.

K. Protection of Children

1. This website is not designed for use by unsupervised individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly solicit the Personal Data of anyone under the age of 18.

2. If you are under the age of 18, please do not provide your Personal Data.

3. If you are aware that a person under the age of 18 has provided Personal Data to us, please contact us and we will remove the data.

L. Effective Date

1. This privacy is effective June 15, 2019. The Service reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy from time to time by giving User notice on this page.

M. Contact

1. If you have a request of question regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at dk@dankaluzny.com