Hannah Byron Books - Privacy Policy and Cookies
Effective Date: September 2023
Our publishing firm, Hannah Byron Books, publishes all our books. We publish books under two pen names: Hannah Byron (Historical fiction) and Hannah Ivory (Victorian Mysteries). These ‘Privacy Policy and Cookies’ apply to both pen names.
Visiting our website
Both domains www.hannahbyron.com and www.hannahivory.com direct to the same website, using different styling for their corresponding pages to distinguish the different genres.
Analytics
Our website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
· Information about your browser, network, and device
· How you arrived on my website (direct or via a search engine or outside link)
· Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of our website, including:
· Clicks
· Internal links
· Pages visited
· Scrolling
· Searches
· Timestamps
Squarespace is our website analytics provider that registers all the site traffic and site activity.
Meta Pixel (formerly known as Facebook Pixel) is our third-party analytics provider for the purpose of custom audience generation and the development of targeting criteria for other audiences on Facebook’s advertising platform.
All analytics data is collected and used in aggregate form, such that it cannot reasonably be manipulated to identify any particular individual user.
Cookies
When visiting our website for the first time a cookie banner will inform you in the following way:
“By using this website, you agree to our use of cookies. We use cookies to provide you with a great experience and to help our website run effectively. View Privacy Policy and Cookies here for more info.”
Upon dismissing this banner (by clicking on the X) it will not show again for 30 days, unless cookies are cleared from the browser.
Please note that both domains www.hannahbyron.com and www.hannahivory.com direct to the same website, using different styling for their corresponding pages to distinguish their brands. Dismissing the cookie banner on one domain will also prevent it from showing on the other.
Clear, allow and manages your cookies.
For the most common browsers, you can:
· Review which cookies are active in your browser’s settings.
· Clear cookies from your browser or device, either globally or from a specific website.
· You can prevent the setting of cookies.
For help locating cookies on your device, visit your browser's documentation:
Chrome
Firefox
Safari
Microsoft Edge
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this).
Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the site. Therefore, it is recommended not to disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set.
Name - Purpose, type, duration.
crumb - Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF), functional and required cookies, session.
ss_cookieAllowed - Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser, functional and required cookies, 30 days.
ss_cvr - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site, analytics and performance cookies, two years.
ss_cvt - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site, analytics and performance cookies, 30 minutes.
_fbp - Meta Pixel (formerly known as Facebook Pixel) is our third-party analytics provider for the purpose of custom audience generation and the development of targeting criteria for other audiences on Facebook’s advertising platform, analytics and performance cookies, 3 months.
Outside links
Our website contains links to outside platforms such as (and not limited to) Amazon for our books, embedded links to YouTube videos and social links to social media platforms. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our website to another website, this ‘Privacy Policy and Cookies’ does not apply to third-party websites or services. You should always review, and if necessary, adjust your privacy settings on these third-party websites and services before using them.
Comments on Blog ‘Historical Facts & Fiction’
Posting comments on Blog posts on the Historical Facts & Fiction pages is encouraged and greatly appreciated. Please note these comments are public to anyone who visits our Blog. We hold the right to remove any indecent comments.
Subscribing to newsletter a.k.a. ‘Hannah Byron Reader Society’
There are several ways to join our newsletter, the most common ones being subscribing via our website, or by participating in promos on social media. We refer to our newsletter subscribers as ‘Hannah Byron Reader Society’.
For joining our newsletter, we request your name and your email address. We may alter this information manually if, for example, your first name is missing and we can trace it back from your email address, for the purpose of communicating more personally with you. This data is stored with Mailerlite and combined with analytics such as date subscribed, location, operating system, email opened or not, links in email clicked or not.
Mailerlite’s services are hosted by a trusted and certified data storage center located in the European Union that has an information storage security certificate (ISO 27001). For more information, please visit https://www.mailerlite.com/gdpr-compliance
Social media and similar platforms
You can connect with us on many social media and similar platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, Bookbub. Both pen names - Hannah Byron and Hannah Ivory - have different social media.
Please remember this ‘Privacy Policy and Cookies’ does not apply to these social media and similar platforms’ websites or services. You should always review, and if necessary, adjust your privacy settings on these third-party websites and services before using them.
Readers’ reviews posted on websites such as Amazon may be used by us to share with others, for instance as a featured review on our website. We will never use your name without asking your permission first.
More Information
Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting your personal information. Your information will only be disclosed if required to do so by law or subpoena or if there is reasonable belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) to protect the security, quality or integrity of the website; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of this website’s users, or others.
If you are looking for more information you can contact us through one of your preferred contact methods on our website or via email.
Email: hannah@hannahbyron.com