Privacy Policy

www.nathangiraud.com

Effective date: 20th August 2020

Welcome to the official website of Nathan Giraud. Nathan Giraud is a UK based author and a self-publisher.

Nathan Giraud (“we”, “us”, “our” and “company”) is the “data controller” in respect of your personal information. This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which any of your personal information we collect from you or third parties, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us in relation to the website www.nathangiraud.com (the “site”).

Like any organization, we are required to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which entered into force on May 25, 2018 to replace the Data Protection Act of the UK. The GDPR is aimed at protecting the privacy, rights and freedoms of all EU citizens and places more stringent requirements on organizations regarding how they process personal data. Brexit won’t affect that new law.

Nathan Giraud’s books are available for sale globally through the Amazon Platform. When purchasing any book from the Amazon platform, the privacy policy of Amazon will apply.

Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal information and how it will be treated.

COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do not collect any personal information about you, however, we may incidentally collect personal information from you when you:

contact us or request information from us in any other way;
visit our website

Automatic collection. We and our service providers may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your activity occurring on or through the Sites, such as:

Device data, such as your computer or mobile device operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, IP address, the website you visited before browsing our site, and general location information such as city, state or geographic area.
Online activity data, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and duration of access.

PURPOSES FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may process your personal information for the following purposes:

to provide you with the information and services you have requested;
for system administration purposes and for internal operations to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device;
to provide customer support and ensure we provide a good level of customer service;
to notify you of any changes to our services;
for security and fraud prevention and to ensure that our website and digital properties are safe and secure; and
to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only process your personal information where we have a legal basis to do so. The legal basis will depend on the purposes for which we have collected and use your personal information. In almost every case the legal basis will be one of the following:

Our legitimate business interests: Where it is necessary for us to process your personal information as part of the normal operation of our business, provided in each case that this is done in a legitimate way which does not unduly affect your privacy and other rights. For example, where you contact us about the site and it is necessary for us to handle your personal information as part of our customer service.

Compliance with law: Where we are subject to a legal obligation and need to use your personal information in order to comply with that obligation.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

The personal information that we collect may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the UK and/or European Economic Area (the “EEA”), including countries, which have less strict, or no data protection laws, when compared to those in Europe and the UK.

Whenever we transfer your information as described in the paragraph above, we will take steps which are reasonably necessary to ensure that adequate safeguards are in place to protect your personal information and to make sure it is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy and Cookies Policy. In these cases, we rely on approved data transfer mechanisms (such as the EU “Standard Contractual Clauses” and the EU-US “Privacy Shield”) to ensure your information is subject to adequate safeguards in the recipient country. If you are located in the EEA or the UK, you may contact us for a copy of the safeguards which we have put in place to protect your personal information and privacy rights in these circumstances.

HOW WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We take steps to ensure that the personal information that you provide is retained for only as long as it is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. After this period it will be deleted or in some cases anonymised. For example, we may keep a record of any correspondence with you (for example if you have made a complaint) for as long as is necessary to protect us from a legal claim.

SECURITY

We maintain reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration, or unintentional destruction. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information as it is transmitted to us.

DISCLOSING YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to the following categories of third parties:

if we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal information held by us about our customers and visitors to our websites will be one of the transferred assets;

with authorities or similar third parties (e.g., auditors) requesting mandatory disclosure in compliance with applicable law, if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal or regulatory obligation or request; or

with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection to protect the rights, property or safety of us or our users, or others, and in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions (this includes exchanging information).

COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We use cookies, web beacons and/or similar technologies to understand and enhance your online experience on the site. Our affiliates, as well as our and their third-party service providers, also use such technologies for this purpose.

Cookies are small text files placed in your browser. Web beacons are small strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a webpage for the purpose of transferring data, such as the IP address of the device that downloaded the page on which the web beacon appears, the URL of the page on which the web beacon appears, the time the page containing the web beacon was viewed, the type of browser that fetched the web beacon, and the identification number of any cookie on the device previously placed by that server.

Various types of cookies are used via the site:

“Session cookies” are used (which will usually be deleted when you log out) to keep track of your internet session, which, for instance, allows the Company to remember the site language. Without these cookies the online services that you have asked for cannot be provided. Session cookies are necessary and/or useful for the functioning of the site

“Persistent cookies” are used (which are longer-term) to help you move around and enjoy the features on the site more easily and to remember preferences, actions and settings to improve your visit (at your request)

You can object to such cookies through your browser settings, however, please note that without essential cookies, some features or activities may be limited or not available to you. For more information on how to control cookies on your browser, or about cookies generally, please see https://www.aboutcookies.org/.

The purposes for which we use cookies and other technologies.

We use cookies and similar technologies on the site for the following purposes:

Strictly Necessary: enabling core site functionality

Strictly necessary cookies and similar technologies are essential in order to enable you to move around the site and use its features. Without them, services like enabling appropriate content based on your type of device cannot be provided.

Analytics: allowing us to analyse site usage.

Analytics cookies and similar technologies collect information about how you use the site, so that we can analyse traffic and understand users’ interactions to perform analytics, including to analyse, measure and report on usage and performance of the site.

For this purpose, we may use third-party service providers such as Google Analytics, who may use their own cookies and similar technologies. The information is used to improve our sites or products. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage. To opt out of Google Analytics relating to your use of our sites, you can download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available via this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Functional: allowing us to personalise your experience of our sites.

Functional cookies and similar technologies allow the site to remember choices you make (such as the region you are in) and to provide enhanced, more personal features. They can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of webpages that you can customise.

Managing cookies and similar technologies.

If you are in the UK or EEA, we will ask for your consent before using any cookies (apart from strictly necessary cookies) and you can withdraw your consent at any time.

You can also manage your consents for cookies on the site through your browser settings. You can adjust your browser to reject cookies from us or from any other site operator. Controlling cookies via browser controls may not limit our use of other technologies. Please consult your browser’s settings for more information. You can also check your browser settings to learn how to delete cookies.

Blocking cookies and similar technologies might, however, prevent you from accessing some of our content or site features.

DO NOT TRACK

Given the divergent practices of organisations that offer browsers and the lack of a standard in the marketplace, we do not respond to DNT signals at this time.

FOR USERS FROM EEA – YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE GDPR

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Centaur Digital Corp aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you.
The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Centaur Digital Corp relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this Privacy and Cookies Policy at any time. The effective date this Privacy and Cookies Policy was last updated appears at the top. If any changes occur, that materially impact previously collected information about you, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you.

CONTACT US

Questions and comments regarding this Privacy Policy should be sent to –@ nathangiraud.com. This address should not be used for fan mail.