Veritas Publishing Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://www.veritaspub.com (the “Site”). YOUR RIGHTS
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit our Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse our Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to our Site, and information about how you interact with our Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
- Cookies are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
- Log files track actions occurring on our Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
- Web beacons, tags, and pixels are electronic files used to record information about how you browse our Site.
Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through our Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”
Payment information, including the above and credit card information, is not stored on our site. Third party Authorize.net or PayPal handles all payment transactions.
Third party, SendinBlue, manages our newsletter subscriptions, and offers the ability to unsubscribe.
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through our Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:
- Communicate with you;
- Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with our Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use WooCommerce to power our online store–you can read more about how WooCommerce uses your Personal Information here: https://woocommerce.com/privacy-policy/. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use our Site–you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you if you have subscribed to our Newsletter.
You can opt out of our Newsletter and targeted advertising by:
https://help.sendinblue.com/hc/en-us/articles/208772629-Customize-unsubscribe-page
DO NOT TRACK
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.
Additionally, we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through our Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, to the United States.
1) Right to information
The user/consumer has the right to ask us for information about what personal information is being processed and the reason it is necessary for processing.
2) Right to access
The user/consumer has the right to get access to and/or request copies of his or her personal data that is being processed.
3) Right to rectification
The user/consumer has the right to ask for modifications to his or her personal data in case the data subject believes that this personal data is not up to date or accurate.
4) Right to withdraw consent
The user/consumer has the right to withdraw a previously given consent for processing of their personal data for a purpose. Upon withdrawal, Veritas Publishi9ng will stop the processing of the personal data that was based on the consent provided earlier.
5) Right to object
The user/consumer has the right to object to the processing of their personal data. This right applies when user/customer asks that his or her personal data should not be processed for certain purposes for a specific scenario, such as while a legal dispute is ongoing in court.
6) Right to object to automated processing
The user/consumer has the right to object to a decision based on automated processing. Using this right, a customer may ask for his or her request to be reviewed manually, because he or she believes that automated processing may not consider the unique situation of the customer.
7) Right to be forgotten
The user/consumer has the right to request for the deletion of their data. Please note that this is not an absolute right and depends on your retention schedule and retention period in line with other applicable laws. When data retention is necessary, the user/consumer personal data will be sanitized for the purpose of privacy protection. This process of either encrypting or removing personally identifiable information so that the people whom the data describe remain anonymous.
8) Right for data portability
The user/consumer has the right to request for transfer of his or her personal data. As part of such request, the data subject may ask for his or her personal data to be provided back to him or her or transferred to another controller. When doing so, the personal data must be provided or transferred in a machine-readable electronic format.
DATA RETENTION
When you place an order through our Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information. Upon your request, personal information will be deleted and order history information will be anonymized so that there is not further connection to your personal information.
MINORS
In order to make purchases with our Site you must be over 18 years of age and possess a valid credit or debit card issued by a bank acceptable to us.
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail, postal mail or phone at:
Veritas Publishing
Main Office
Post Office Box 3516
West Sedona, AZ 86340
Voicemail: 928 282-5446
Facsimile: 928 282.4789
Email: info@veritaspub.com