Privacy Policy

When you sign up for my newsletter:

I can see your email address when I log in to TinyLetter.  As far as personal info goes, that's it.  I can't see your name, country of origin, or anything of the kind.  I can see a few statistics relating to how many times you've opened my newsletter, but there's not anything more specific than that in those numbers.  The only personal stuff is your email address.  This is what your "profile" looks like on my TinyLetter dashboard:

(That's the profile for my own email address, by the way, the one you see on my blog's sidebar.  I scrubbed it out because I don't want some bot scraping it off the internet.)

And that's it.  Nothing in that image is a clickable link.  What you see is all there is.

Note: It's possible that TinyLetter has some data about you that it doesn't share with me, such as your IP address and country of origin.  I can't speak to that one way or another.  I can only speak for myself, and I don't have that info.

I won't sell your email address to anyone, or give it away, or anything like that.  I'll only use it for the intended purpose: to send you my newsletter.  If that changes, then I'll tell you in advance and give you the opportunity to opt out.  I doubt it'll change, though, because I really don't want to mess with this sort of stuff.  I just want to write books, sell those books, and market those books.  I hate spam, and I hate spammers, and I have no intention of becoming a spammer.

What I WILL do is send you the occasional email.  The rate has been once a month recently, but I make no promises with regards to frequency.  It's sort of on an "as I feel it's needed" basis.  I'll try to send them often enough so you don't forget about me, but not so often that you get sick of me.

On tracking cookies: I don't think my blog has any.  I certainly haven't installed any, nor do I plan to.  If anything on my blog is tracking you, then it was put there by Blogger, not me.  If cookies concern you, then I'd encourage you to set your browser to delete them when you close the browser.  That's what I do with Firefox, and it works well enough for me.  I don't even think about cookies anymore because I know Firefox will nuke them as soon as I click the X in the top right corner.

5/25/2018 UPDATE:  I got the following notice from Blogger:

European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used and data collected on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent.

As a courtesy, we have added a notice on your blog to explain Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies, including use of Google Analytics and AdSense cookies, and other data collected by Google.

You are responsible for confirming this notice actually works for your blog, and that it displays. If you employ other cookies, for example by adding third party features, this notice may not work for you. If you include functionality from other providers there may be extra information collected from your users. 

So there you go.  Proceed accordingly.

Any time you want to unsubscribe, just click the "unsubscribe" link in the newsletter.  You'll find it at the very bottom.  I may start adding it to the top, too, just as a redundancy.

I am NOT enrolled in the Amazon Affiliates program or any other such program that pays me for purchases made via links I provide on my blog.  (Or however that works; not sure.)  A link I post might be an affiliate link, but it belongs to someone else, not me.  If this changes, then I'll explicitly say so in the promotion.

If you have any questions about any of this stuff, please don't hesitate to send me an email.  I'm happy to clarify things when possible.

That's all for now.  I reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason.