Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.beckgrey.com.

Cookies

It is not possible for anyone other than the author and their staff to log in to the site or register for an account, so visitors will not have account-related cookies set.

Wordfence, our security plugin, may set up to three cookies for security purposes. No site functionality should be lost if these cookies are deleted and/or blocked. More information about Wordfence can be found below.

Advertising

No third-party advertising is used on this site, though we may include referrer or link origin information in book purchasing links, to track the effectiveness of this site in driving sales.

Analytics

We do not record information about normal visitors, their hardware/software, or their locations.

We do use the Statify plugin to log referrer information (what sites people come here from) and what pages are visited on this site. These statistics are not linked to individual visits or visitors. Please see the Statify’s ‘Data Privacy’ section in the above link, for more information.

Information gathered by Statify is stored locally, and purged after 30 days.

Security via Wordfence

We use Wordfence, produced by Defiant, Inc., in the US, to protect our site. If you are simply interacting with the site in a normal fashion — loading and reading publicly accessible pages, and following links within the site or to other sites — this should never affect you, and Wordfence won’t log any data about your interaction with the site.

We log attempted attacks on the site, as determined by Wordfence. We also log logins and attempted logins, for security, because only the author and their staff have accounts, so no one else should be trying to log in. Attack and login logs include IP address, user agent, and referrer of bots or humans who attempt common exploits against the WordPress software on this site, engage in DoS attacks, or attempt to log in, and that information may be processed by Defiant and their sub-processors.

Wordfence may set up to three cookies, for security purposes, depending on how you interact with this site, but those cookies are first-party, set by and processed by this site, and are not sent to any third parties, including Defiant, nor do these interact with third-party sites visited later. No site functionality should be lost if a visitor chooses to block these cookies.

Who we share your data with

• We share information about attacks on our site with the Wordfence service, as noted above.

We do not sell data at any time, and user data is only provided to third parties, in the above ways, to improve the functionality and security of the site.

How long we retain your data

• Information gathered by Statify is stored locally, and purged after 30 days

• Logs of attempted attacks on the site are retained by this site for 30 days following the most recent attack from an IP address. IP addresses from repeated attacks may be preserved and blacklisted by the Wordfence service, for up to 90 days.

What rights you have over your data

You can request that we send you a copy of and/or erase any personal data we hold about you, but we really shouldn’t have any, since we’re not collecting it. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes, including, but not limited to, our Wordfence logs.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

• Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

• Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

• Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

• The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.

• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children’s Information

We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide the online activity of their children. While content on this site is not adult in nature, content of this author’s books may be, and nothing on this site is intended for use by anyone under the age of 18.

Beck Grey’s website does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information, or any other information, from persons under the age of 18. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.