Privacy Policy

We take your privacy very seriously. Please consult our privacy policy below and contact us with any questions you have.

This notice is for this website; www.dirtydaddiesbookclub.com and governs the privacy of those who use it. It explains how we control, process, handle and protect your personal data while browsing or using this website,  including your rights under current laws and regulations.


Processing of your personal data
Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control and process personal information about you electronically.

Lawful basis: Consent
1. The reason we use this basis: You gave us consent when you signed up to receive our Red Hot Romance Publishing and Dirty Daddies Book Club newsletters, of if you are a publisher who signed up to publish your work with us.
2. We process your information in the following ways: To send royalties, or to keep you updated with special offers and news about our books.
3. Data retention period: We will continue to process your information until you indicate that you do not wish us to process your information.
4. Sharing your information: We do share your personal information with third parties for the purpose of creating more meaningful content on social media pages and effective sales. These parties include Dropbox, Paypal, and Facebook. 

Lawful basis: Legal obligation

1. The reason we use this basis: To pay our taxes correctly.
2. We process your information in the following ways: we must maintain a list of clients with name, address, and purchases for tax inspections in line with the IRS.
3. Data retention period: Seven years
4. Sharing your information: We do share your personal information with third parties and they include Dropbox, Paypal, and Facebook.
5. If, as determined by us, the lawful basis upon which we process your personal information changes, we will notify you about the change and any new lawful basis to be used if required. We shall stop processing your personal information if the lawful basis used is no longer relevant.

Your rights

Under the GDPR your rights are as follows.

• the right to be informed;
• the right of access;
• the right to rectification;
• the right to erasure;
• the right to restrict processing;
• the right to data portability;
• the right to object; and
• the right not to be subject to automated decision-making including profiling. 

Data security and protection

We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies provided by Dropbox in how we store, access and manage that information. 
We use these companies to manage data: Email Octopus, Bookfunnel, and Facebook.


Sponsored links, affiliate tracking & commissions

Clickable sponsored or affiliate links may be displayed as a website URL like this; www.amazon.com or as a titled text link like this: Amazon.

Clicking on any affiliate links may track your actions by using a cookie saved to your device. You can read more about cookies on this website above. Your actions are usually recorded as a referral from our website by this cookie. We might earn a very small commission from the advertiser or advertising partner, at no cost to you, whether you make a purchase on their website or not.

We use advertising partners in these ways to help generate an income from the website, which allows us to continue our work and provide you with the best overall experience and valued information.

If you have any concerns about this, we suggest you do not click on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links found throughout the website.



Email marketing messages & subscription

Under the GDPR we use the consent lawful basis for anyone subscribing to our newsletter or marketing mailing list. We only collect certain data about you, as detailed in the “Processing of your personal data” above. Any email marketing messages we send are done so through an email marketing service provider. We use:
 
Email Octopus

Here is their Privacy Policy: Email Octopus Privacy Policy 

They collect:

Identification and contact data (name, date of birth, gender, occupation or other demographic information, address, title, contact details, including email address)
Personal interests or preferences (including purchase history, marketing preferences and publicly available social media profile information)
IT information (IP addresses, usage data, cookies data, online navigation data, location data, browser data).


In addition to our mailing list, your email will be shared with participating authors. Each author may maintain their own privacy policy and may also share your personal data with additional marketing email providers. Please consult each author’s websites for more information regarding their individual privacy policies.

Facebook Privacy Policy
Google Privacy Policy

You can opt out of receiving emails or ask to see the data we hold for you, or request we remove your data at any time by the following methods:

• Unsubscribe at the bottom of the email.
• Contact us at info@mydirtydaddies.com