Privacy Policy

This Privacy Notice sets out how Reading Away The Days uses and protects any information that you give us in the course of your interactions with our blog, or when you visit our website. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected – any information you share with us will only be used in accordance with this Notice.

What information do we typically process?

We may process the following information:

Your name and email address, should you sign up to

 receive notifications of new blog posts.I

Your name and email address, where you leave a comment on our blog (your email address will not be made public).

Your name and email address, should you sign up to receive our email newsletter. 

Subscribing/Commenting

By signing up to receive email notifications or by providing your information in order to leave a comment, you are consenting to us processing your information for these purposes. Your information will not be further processed, provided to third parties, or transferred to another country  This information will be stored in my statistic page VIA Google. Subscribing will not used be for anything other than for you as a subscriber to be a alerted to Reading Away The Days latest posts. You can elect to be removed from receiving email notifications at any time.  

You can also follow Reading Away The Days on bloglovin. This is only used  for you to see the latest blog posts. You can unsubscribe at any time.

With regards to commenting on the blog your information is stored and will only be used for me to see and reply to your comment. 

Our hardware and software are password protected to ensure there is no unauthorised access to your personal information. Your information will be processed for as long as Reading Away The Days is live. Should the blog cease to be in existence, then your information will be securely destroyed. 

Cookies

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages you are visiting on our website. Cookies do not enable us to identify you as an individual. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer, or any information about you. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies, if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of our blog. 

Visitors to our blog should note 

Our blog is securely hosted by Blogger (Blogger Privacy Policy)

When you visit www.readingawaythedays.blogspot.co.uk

we collect standard and anonymous internet log information via Google Analytics,  such as user activity and page visits, to monitor the effectiveness of our blog and help us improve it. We cannot identify individual visitors from the information collected, and we do not attempt to discover the identities of the individuals.

Reading Away The Days is not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this blog on other Web sites or media without our permission. 

Giveaways 

Reading Away The Day's hosts giveaways. Information obtained for Giveaways will only be used to contact you if you win. Some giveaways will be hosted via Rafflecopter. All information given for the Giveaway using rafflecopter will be stored by them and only used by Reading Away The Days to collect information to contact the winner. If the Giveaway is hosted on behalf of a third party permission will be obtained from the winner to pass on to the third party. The information will only be  passed on to the third party with permission.

Rafflecopters Privacy Policy

Further Giveaway Information

• All giveaways featured will be book related or gift cards unless otherwise stated.  Any books or swag featured in a giveaway will have been purchased by myself or kindly given to me by authors or publishers. 
• All giveaways are International unless other wise noted.
• Giveaways are open to anyone over the age of 16 unless otherwise stated. 
• Giveaways will be sent out within a 8 weeks of receiving postal address.
• I am not responsible for any packages sent that are lost or damaged in transaction.
• If I am posting on behalf of an author/publisher once I have emailed the winners address to the third party I am not viable for any lost, stolen or damaged items.

Links to other websites

Reading Away The Days may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our blog, you should note that we do not have any control over any other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this Privacy Notice. You should exercise caution and read the Privacy Notice. 

Social media

We have a social media profile on Facebook , Twitter and Instagram

If you send us a private message via social media the message will be stored, but it will not be shared with any other organisations.

Complaints or queries

We try to meet the highest standards when processing personal information. For this reason, we take any complaints we receive very seriously. We encourage people to bring it to our attention if they think that our processing of information is unfair, misleading, or inappropriate.

How to contact 

If you want to request information about our Data Protection Policy, or Privacy Notice, you can email us at readingawaythedays@yahoo.co.uk

Note

We keep our Privacy Notice under regular review. Privacy Policy is subject to change without notice. 

This Privacy Notice was last updated on 21/7/18