Jackie Lau collects email addresses and names through an opt-in sign-up form for the purpose of sending information about her work, plus occasional information about books by other authors and her day-to-day life, as detailed in the sign-up form. This information is not used for any other purpose. Email addresses are not shared or sold by any third party. They are stored at EmailOctopus, and are occasionally downloaded in a csv file as a back-up. The data subject may opt out at any time by unsubscribing from an email. By signing up or remaining on Jackie Lau’s email list, you are consenting to this privacy notice and giving us permission to process your supplied personal data for the purposes identified here.
https://jackielaubooks.com/ is hosted by WordPress (owned by Automattic), which collects data for their Jetpack stats. Additional information is provided below. Sites hosted by WordPress make use of cookies for a variety of purposes. Their cookie policy is detailed here: https://automattic.com/cookies/
If you fill out the contact form, you will need to provide your name and email address along with your message. Jackie may respond to your inquiry by email, and depending on the inquiry, may forward the message to her agent or publisher if it pertains to them. She will not email you for any other purpose.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, this privacy policy may be updated from time to time. You may return to this page to check for any changes. If there is a change in email marketing platform, all subscribers on Jackie Lau’s email list will be notified.
Should you have any questions, please fill out the contact form.
Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.
Activity Tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. When this feature is enabled, Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the JavaScript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, JavaScript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner has the ability to force this feature to honor DNT settings of visitors. By default, DNT is currently not honored.
Data Used: If Akismet is enabled on the site, the contact form submission data — IP address, user agent, name, email address, website, and message — is submitted to the Akismet service (also owned by Automattic) for the sole purpose of spam checking. The actual submission data is stored in the database of the site on which it was submitted and is emailed directly to the owner of the form (i.e. the site author who published the page on which the contact form resides). This email will include the submitter’s IP address, timestamp, name, email address, website, and message.
Data Synced (?): Post and post meta data associated with a user’s contact form submission. If Akismet is enabled on the site, the IP address and user agent originally submitted with the comment are synced, as well, as they are stored in post meta.
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