Privacy Policy
Last updated: 20 December 2023
Who are we? Amy McGavin is the pen name of a wife-and-husband writing team. Our business, registered in the United Kingdom, is Grumpy Grouse Press.
This privacy policy describes how and why we might collect, store, and use your personally identifiable information (“Personal Data”) when you use our services, such as when you:
- Subscribe to our email newsletter
- Contact us via email
This privacy policy also describes our use of cookies on this website. We use cookies to collect anonymised information about visitors’ use of this website. We do not link this information with any Personal Data.
By using our services, you consent to our collection and use of your Personal Data in accordance with this privacy policy. If you do not consent to the collection and use of your Personal Data as outlined in this privacy policy, please do not use our services.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK GDPR, the lawful bases we rely on for processing your Personal Data are:
- Consent: We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e. consent) to use your Personal Data for a specific purpose. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
- Legitimate interests: We may process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests and these interests do not outweigh your interests and your fundamental rights and freedoms.
1. Newsletter
If you sign up to our email newsletter, we will collect the following Personal Data from you: your email address. In addition, the newsletter service we use may automatically capture your IP address.
We will use your Personal Data to send you our email newsletter.
You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time by clicking the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of one of our newsletter emails. Please note that unsubscribing will not automatically remove your Personal Data from our records because the newsletter service that we use retains details of former subscribers.
You may, however, at any time withdraw your consent for us to store your Personal Data. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us using the details provided at the bottom of this page. Upon receiving notice of your withdrawal of consent, we will delete or anonymise your Personal Data.
Please also note that, whether explicitly requested by former newsletter subscribers or not, we periodically delete or anonymise former subscribers’ details to ensure that we are not unnecessarily storing Personal Data.
2. Email Contact
If you contact us via email, you will be sending us Personal Data, such as your email address and name. You may also include Personal Data in the body of your email.
We will use this Personal Data to reply to your message, although we cannot guarantee that we will reply to every message that we receive.
You may at any time request that we delete all email messages we have received from you from our email system. To request this, please contact us using the details provided at the bottom of this page.
3. Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit.
Like many websites, we use cookies for analytics purposes. If you accept our use of cookies, we will capture anonymised data about your use of this website, such as which pages you visit, what type of device you are using, and what country you are accessing our website from.
This anonymised information cannot be used to identify a particular person.
The reason we capture website usage information via cookies is to understand how visitors interact with our website so that we can optimise and improve our website.
Please note that accepting cookies is entirely optional. Our website can be browsed with or without analytics cookies. You will not, however, be able to sign up to our newsletter without accepting cookies.
Should you consent to our use of cookies, you may withdraw your consent at any time. To do this, scroll to the bottom of any page of this website, click the Cookies link to show our cookie banner, and then click Decline.
The table below describes the cookies that we use on this website.
| Name | Provider / Domain | Expiration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CookieScriptConsent | .amymcgavinbooks.com | 6 months 2 days | This cookie is used by the Cookie-Script.com service to remember visitor cookie consent preferences. It is necessary for the Cookie-Script.com cookie banner to work properly. |
| _ga_QH4MTBJM63 | .amymcgavinbooks.com | 1 year 1 month | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to persist session state. |
| _ga | Google LLC .amymcgavinbooks.com | 1 year 1 month | This cookie is used by Google Analytics to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session, and campaign data for the site’s analytics reports. |
4. Sharing Your Personal Data
We take your privacy seriously and will not share your Personal Data with others, except as necessary with third parties who provide services or functions on our behalf, such as our newsletter service provider.
We are based in the United Kingdom, and we work with third parties based in other countries. Your Personal Data may be stored or processed in countries other than your own.
5. Keeping Your Personal Data Secure
We have implemented measures to safeguard the Personal Data that we collect from unauthorised access. We also ensure that all third parties we work with have policies in place to safeguard your Personal Data.
However, electronic transmission of data over the Internet and information storage technology can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we will do our best to protect your Personal Data, use of our services is at your own risk.
6. Children
This website and our services are aimed at adults, and we do not knowingly collect any Personal Data about persons under the age of 18 years. If you are under 18, please do not provide us with any of your Personal Data.
7. Access to and Control of Your Personal Data
You have legal rights under applicable law in relation to your Personal Data. You can ask the following questions, or take the following actions, at any time by contacting us:
- See what Personal Data we hold about you (if any), including why we are holding it and who it could be disclosed to
- Ask us to change/correct your Personal Data
- Ask us to delete your Personal Data
- Object to the processing of your Personal Data
- Ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data
- Withdraw any consents you have given us to the processing of your Personal Data
- Express any concerns you have about third parties’ use of your Personal Data
8. Change of Purpose
We will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to have an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you, and we will explain the legal basis that allows us to do so.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We review our privacy practices on an ongoing basis and as such may change this privacy policy from time to time.
Any updates to this privacy policy will be made on this web page, and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with it.
If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes on our website or by contacting you via email.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your Personal Data, please contact us.
Email: moc.skoobnivagcmyma@tcatnoc
Post:
Grumpy Grouse Press
Office 1, Technology House
9 Newton Place
Glasgow
G3 7PR
United Kingdom