Who we are

This Privacy Policy describes how and when Romance Cover Store (“We”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, and shares information when you purchase an item from Romance Cover Store (https://romancecoverstore.com), contact us, or otherwise use our services through this website or its related sites and services.

You agree that by purchasing an item from Romance Cover Store or otherwise interacting with Romance Cover Store, you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all of the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must leave Romance Cover Store immediately.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including production partners and suppliers, or third parties whose services you may employ in using https://romancecoverstore.com, e.g. payment gateways. Additionally, we will make every reasonable effort to inform you when we interact with third parties with your information; however, you are solely responsible for reviewing, understanding, and agreeing to or not agreeing to any third-party privacy policies.

Our website address is: https://romancecoverstore.com.

What Personal Data We Collect

To fulfill your order, you must provide certain information to us:

• Personal information such as your name, e-mail address, etc. You may also choose to provide us with additional personal information if you contact us directly.
• Information regarding your intellectual property, e.g. book title, author name, etc.
• Transactional data such as payment information, and the details of the product that you’re ordering.
• Technical data, such as information about cookies, and personal data generated from technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party embeds.

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

• Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed or similar/related products.
• Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes such as estimating taxes (if any).

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

Protecting customers’ personal information is crucially important to our business and something we take very seriously. For these reasons, we share your personal information only for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:

• With Payment Gateways and Processors, such as PayPal and Afterpay. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to third party agents, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
• With Google Analytics. We use data for analytics and measurement to understand how our services are used and optimize product design. Data collected could be related to interaction with our site (e.g which pages are most visited), to trends in purchases, or to marketing related events such as new newsletter subscriptions. These appear as key event metrics in Analytics reports. However, your personal data is not revealed in the processing or reporting of analytic data.
• Data relating to advertising campaigns are shared between Google Ads and Google Analytics for consistent reporting.
• If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
• We share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services:
• In the Event of a Business Transfer. If the business is sold or merged, your information may be disclosed as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.
• In Compliance with Laws. We may collect, use, retain, and share your information if we have a good faith belief that doing so is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) perform legal obligations to which we are bound by agreements; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of our customers, or others.

How long we retain your data

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with services and as otherwise described in the Privacy Policy. However, we may also be required to retain this information to comply with any legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce or perform under our agreements. We generally keep your data for the following time period: up to five (5) years.

However, If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

How We Protect Your Data

We are committed to the security of personal data. We take appropriate security measures to limit abuse of and unauthorised access to personal data. This ensures that only the necessary persons have access to your data, that access to the data is protected, and that our security measures are regularly reviewed.

The security measures we use consist of, but are not limited to:

• Vulnerability Detection
• HTTP Strict Transport Security and related security headers
• TLS / SSL
• Recommended site hardening features

What rights you have over your data

If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. Your rights are as follows:

• Right to Access. You may have the right to access and receive an exported copy of the personal information held about you by contacting the site.
• Right to Change, Restrict, or Delete. You may also have rights to change, restrict use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (such as where we are required to store information for legal reasons) we will generally delete your personal information upon your request.
• Right to Object. You can object to (a) our processing of some of your information based on our legitimate interests and (b) receiving marketing messages from us. In such cases, we will delete your personal information unless we have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue storing and using your information or if it is needed for legal reasons.
• Right to Complain. If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about our use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.

Where your data is sent

Romance Cover Store may store and process your information through third-party hosting services in the US and other jurisdictions. As a result, we may transfer your personal information to a jurisdiction with data protection and government surveillance laws different from those your jurisdiction has. If we are required to transfer information about you outside of the EU, we rely on Privacy Shield as the legal basis for the transfer, as Google Cloud is Privacy Shield certified.

You may reach the website administrator with any concerns relating to privacy at: admin@romancecoverstore.com.