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Privacy Policy

We are dedicated to protecting your privacy when you visit or communicate with this site or our team.  The Privacy Policy offered here offers an explanation regarding any personal data you may provide to us or that we garner from you.

The Policy is changed occasionally to update you regarding any changes, so please make sure you review the Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy applies to Inkwell Writers Ltd owned and operated websites and its subdomains (“Sites”) including SamBlakBooks.com. We know that you care how information about you is used and shared. This Privacy Policy explains what information of yours will be collected by Sam Blake and Inkwell Writers Ltd when you access the Site. We will not use or share your information with any third party at any time.

Information We Collect on Our Own Behalf.

(a) Our Service: We may collect personally identifiable information about you, such as your full name, and email address, or similar, when you register for the Sam Blake newsletter. We may send emails to you in the form of newsletters; or service related emails related to your account. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you may opt out of them at any stage.

(b) Cookies And Tracking Technologies: Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by Writing.ie. These technologies may be used in analyzing trends, administering the Sites, tracking your movements around the Sites and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We use cookies to remember users’ settings as well as for authentication and analytics. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our Sites, but your ability to use some features or areas of our Sites may be limited.

Your IP address, keystroke activity, and personal information are never stored or shared with any third-parties.

  1. How We Use Your Information.

(a) We use the information that we collect to operate and maintain our Sites and Services and to respond to your questions and concerns. The legal basis is section 6(1)(f) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

(b) If you have given your consent, we use the information that we collect to send you marketing communications in our newsletter. The legal basis is section 6(1)(a) of GDPR.

  1. How We Share Your Information.

(a) Personally Identifiable Information:  We take your personal data very seriously. We will not share, rent or sell your personal information to third parties under any circumstances. We may store personal information in locations outside the direct control of SamBlakBooks (for instance, on servers or databases co-located with hosting providers). Any personally identifiable information you elect to make publicly available on our sites will be available to others. If you remove information that you have made public on our Sites or in the Member Section, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of our site, or if other users have copied or saved that information.

(c) Instances Where We Are Required To Share Your Information: SamBlakeBooks will disclose your information where required to do so by law, if subject to subpoena or other legal proceeding or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) to protect the security or integrity of our Service; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of our Site, our users or others.

(d) What Happens In The Event Of A Change Of Control: We will not pass on any data gathered at SamBlakeBooks for any reason.

(f) Testimonials: We display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our Sites in addition to other endorsements. With your consent, we may post your testimonial along with your name. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at samblakebooks@gmail.com.

  1. Storage and Processing. Your information collected through the SamBlakeBooks may be stored and processed in the United States, Europe, or any other country in which SamBlakeBooks, Inkwell Writers Ltd or its subsidiaries, affiliates or service providers maintain facilities. SamBlakeBooks may transfer information that we collect about you, including personal information, to affiliated entities, or to other third parties across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. If you are located in the European Union or European Econonmic Area, please note that we will not transfer information, including personal data, to a country outside of the European Union or European Economic Area.
  2. How We Protect Your Information. SamBlakeBooks is concerned with protecting your privacy and data, but we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to SamBlakeBooks or guarantee that your information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of any of our industry standard physical, technical or managerial safeguards. When you enter sensitive information (such as log in credentials) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). No method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Site, you can contact us at samblakebooks.com. We use an outside credit card processing company to bill you if you purchase products or services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
  3. Privacy Shield. SamBlakeBooks complies with the EU GDPR framework as set forth by the European Union regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal data from European Union member countries. Writing.ie will adhere to the requirements of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access and enforcement.
  4. Compromise of Personal Information. In the event that personal information is compromised as a breach of security, SamBlakeBooks will promptly notify our customers in compliance with applicable law.
  5. Your Choices About Your Information. You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time. Contact us at samblakebooks@gmail.com if you require any further information removed.

Data protection law gives you a range of rights in connection with our processing of your personal data. In this regard, you have the right to request that we rectify or delete the personal data or restrict the processing of your personal data, if you think they are inaccurate. Furthermore, you have the right to object against the processing based on our legitimate interests as a legal basis. We are required to assess and act on your request.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your rights under data protection law, you can contact our Data Protection Officer: Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin vanessa@writing.ie

Enforcement and Dispute Resolution. In compliance with the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Principles, SamBlakeBooks commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. EU and Swiss Data Subjects with questions or concerns about the use of their Personal Data should contact us at: samblakebooks@gmail.com.

  1. Our Retention Of Your Information.

(a) If you subscribe to SamBlakeBooks, we will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

(b) If you are a visitor to SamBlakeBooks.com we will retain your information for as long as necessary but no longer than one (1) year after your last visit to our Sites.

  1. Children’s Privacy. Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, SamBlakeBooks does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at samblakebooks@gmail.com.
  2. Notification Procedures. It is our policy to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, to you via email, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on the Service, as determined by SamBlakeBooks in its sole discretion. We reserve the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to you, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification as described in this Privacy Policy.
  3. Links to Other Web Sites. We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites or services linked to or from SamBlakeBooks.com, including the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from SamBlakeBooks.com to another website or service, our Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites or services. Your browsing and interaction on any third-party website or service, including those that have a link or advertisement on our website, are subject to that third party’s own rules and policies.

Social Media Widgets: Our Site includes social media features, such as the Facebook Like button and other widgets, that run on our Site. These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on our Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the organization providing it.

  1. Changes to Our Privacy Policy. All changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. When we change the policy in a material manner, we will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Site, prior to the change becoming effective and update the ‘effective date’ at the top of this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this website, please contact us at vanessa@writing.ie or send mail to SamBlakeBooks, The Old Post Office, Kilmacanogue, County Wicklow, Ireland.