Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies to https://www.alison-morton.com, https://pulcheriapress.com and http://alisonmortonauthor.com (“these websites”) and governs the privacy of those who choose to use the two sites. The owner of these websites is Alison Morton.

Any personal data collected through these websites (located in France) will be treated as confidential in line with the principles of the French Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) and European Union (EU) rules and requirements for user privacy.

Cookies (small text files) are designed to allow the website to recognise its users and their preferences on subsequent visits, or to authorise other designated websites to recognise these users for a particular purpose. Information collected by cookies is not personally identifiable.

These websites log the visitor’s IP address and session information such as the duration of the visit and the type of browser used. This is recognised by the web server and is only used for system administration and to provide statistics which we use to evaluate use of the site.

These websites use tracking software to monitor their visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information.

Contact & communication with these websites
Visitors contacting, following, subscribing and interacting with these websites and/or their owner do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. As well as alerting you to new blog posts, pages and comments, these websites and their owner also use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products/services their owner offers or to assist you in answering any questions, comments or queries you may have submitted.

Subscription to these websites is through a ‘double opt-in process’ similar to that described below for the newsletter. This means that after providing your personal details (name and email address), you will receive an email asking you to confirm that you wanted to subscribe. You will only be included as a subscriber to these websites if you confirm by clicking the link and generating a return email that this is what you want to do. This service is provided by Feedburner. Visitors’ and subscribers’ information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the CNIL and European Union regulations detailed above. An ‘Unsubscribe’ link is at the bottom of each blogpost notification email.

Email Newsletter
These websites operate an email newsletter programme currently managed by MailChimp and is used to inform subscribers about news, information and products/services supplied by the owner of these websites. Users can subscribe to the email newsletter here through an online automated process should they wish to do so, but do so at their own volition and discretion.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with the French CNIL and the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with those regulations. Subscribers may un-subscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any newsletter.

Newsletter subscription process 
Subscription is through a ‘double opt-in process’, whether direct from these websites or from a book marketing promotion. This means that after providing your personal details (name and email address), you will receive an email asking you to confirm that you wanted to subscribe. You will only be included as a subscriber to a list if you confirm by clicking the link and generating a return email that this is what you want to do.

Subscribing through this process means that:

  • your contact information is transferred to Alison Morton’s account on the third party site, MailChimp, and stored there,
  • you give your consent to be sent newsletters/emails via that MailChimp account
  • interactions such as open rates can be collected to inform future marketing and mailings.

You may request a copy of personal information held about you by emailing hello@alison-morton.com.

Newsletters and email campaigns that may be sent by these websites or its owner may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity. This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply visitors with more relevant content based around their activity.

Third parties
Your details are not passed on to any third parties at any time.

External sites
Other links within this site to other websites are not covered by this policy. We suggest that you find out about their privacy policies on your first visit to any such website. Users should note they click on external links at their own risk and neither these websites nor their owner can be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Other cookies may be stored to your computer’s hard drive by external vendors when these websites uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Adverts and Sponsored Links
These websites may (but rarely) contain sponsored links and adverts by third parties. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, who may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.

Clicking on any such links/adverts will send you to the provider/advertiser’s website through a referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from our websites. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computer’s hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk and these websites and its owner cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that these websites and their owner participate on are subject to the terms and conditions and privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage on them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. We will never ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and strongly encourage visitors wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact us through primary communication channels such as by email (hello@alison-morton.com).

These websites may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and volition and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

If you have any questions or comments, please email Alison Morton at hello@alison-morton.com

Note: EU GDPR applies within the European Union and to these websites. A new UK law – very similar – now applies in the UK. More info here: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/dp-at-the-end-of-the-transition-period/transition-period-faqs/#brexit