Privacy Policy

Please note that J. R. Frontera, author, does not live in the European Union, is not an EU citizen, and does not have a legal presence in the EU. Still, she has taken the necessary steps to become GDPR compliant, which includes an extensive privacy policy. This policy is outlined below.

LAST UPDATED: 20 May 2018

The use of the Internet pages of J. R. Frontera is possible without any indication of personal data; however, if a data subject wants to use special enterprise services via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary. If the processing of personal data is necessary and there is no statutory basis for such processing, we generally obtain consent from the data subject.

The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to J. R. Frontera. By means of this data protection declaration, our enterprise would like to inform the general public of the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed, by means of this data protection declaration, of the rights to which they are entitled.

As the controller, J. R. Frontera has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection of personal data processed through this website. However, Internet-based data transmissions may in principle have security gaps, so absolute protection may not be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to refrain from providing any personal information in any form.

1. Definitions

The data protection declaration of J. R. Frontera is based on the terms used by the European legislator for the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our data protection declaration should be legible and understandable for the general public, as well as our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to first explain the terminology used.

In this data protection declaration, we use, inter alia, the following terms:

• a)    Personal data

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

• b) Data subject

Data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person, whose personal data is processed by the controller responsible for the processing.

• c)    Processing

Processing is any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

• d)    Restriction of processing

Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future.

• e)    Profiling

Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or movements.

• f)   Controller or controller responsible for the processing

Controller or controller responsible for the processing is the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

• g)    Processor

Processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

• h)      Recipient

Recipient is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law shall not be regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities shall be in compliance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.

• i)      Third party

Third party is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data.

• j)    Consent

Consent of the data subject is any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

2. Name and Address of the controller

Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in Member states of the European Union and other provisions related to data protection is:

J. R. Frontera, author

147 B Melody Lane

64063 Lee’s Summit

Missouri

Email: jrfrontera@gmail.com

Website: www.jrfrontera.com

3. Cookies

The Internet pages of J. R. Frontera use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.

Many Internet sites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a character string through which Internet pages and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This allows visited Internet sites and servers to differentiate the individual browser of the dats subject from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A specific Internet browser can be recognized and identified using the unique cookie ID.

Through the use of cookies J. R. Frontera can provide the users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimized with the user in mind. Cookies allow us, as previously mentioned, to recognize our website users. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to utilize our website. The website user that uses cookies, e.g. does not have to enter access data each time the website is accessed, because this is taken over by the website, and the cookie is thus stored on the user’s computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping cart in an online shop. The online store remembers the articles that a customer has placed in the virtual shopping cart via a cookie.

The data subject may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our website by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used, and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. If the data subject deactivates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be entirely usable.

4. Collection of general data and information

When you sign up for J. R. Frontera’s newsletter (also called an email list or a Reader’s Club), your email address is collected. Other list-building services J. R. Frontera uses to deliver free books, such as BookFunnel and InstaFreebie, may also collect your first and last name. J. R. Frontera does not need, want, or use your name for anything except personally addressing you in occasional emails. If you suspect your name is included with your email address on J. R. Frontera’s email list and you want it removed, email her at: jrfrontera@gmail.com and your name will be removed.

J. R. Frontera’s email provider, MailChimp, logs your country, how many and what emails you open, and what links you click. For MailChimp’s privacy policy, please click here.

J. R. Frontera uses WordPress as her website provider. WordPress may log your IP address, country, length of visit, and information about pages viewed and links clicked while on J. R. Frontera’s website. It does not log your name, your physical address, your email address, or anything else personally identifiable about you. J. R. Frontera does not track you after you leave her website.

WordPress also uses cookies to determine previous and returning visits. No personal information is stored in these cookies. You can also set your browser to refuse cookies. (Please see section 3 regarding cookies.) For WordPress’ privacy policy, please click here.

To leave a comment on J. R. Frontera’s blog or to contact her through the website’s provided contact form, you will need to provide a name and an email address. Please be aware that the name and any other information you provide in blog comments will be publicly viewable.

5. Purposes of general data collection

J. R. Frontera collects your email address so she can send you email newsletters as members of her Reader’s Club. The newsletters will include (but are not limited to) free books, news about new releases and special offers, news about multi-author promos, featured and recommended books, and progress reports and sneak peeks. These newsletters are sent once a month after the introductory sequence is completed.

Information about email opens, link clicks, and open locations helps J. R. Frontera gauge the success of her email campaigns and improve future campaigns, sort subscribers into different groups in order to send them emails of particular interest, and optimize her books’ availability, all of which help to improve her business and serve her readers better.

Information logged from WordPress on the website pages visitors are viewing, what links they follow, and what countries and languages they represent gives J. R. Frontera information about where her audience is and what books and pages interest them, which allows her to find ways to reach and serve them better with her website. as well as also grow her business.

J. R. Frontera does not use the email addresses used in commenting on her blog for any purpose. If you contact J. R. Frontera via the contact form, the email address provided is only used in order to reply to your message.

6. Sharing of collected general data

J. R. Frontera will never share your information with anyone, other than with her email provider, MailChimp, so that she may send you monthly newsletters, or if complying with a legal requirement.

Your information is stored with MailChimp. J. R. Frontera does not personally keep a record of email addresses connected with her email list.

J. R. Frontera is not responsible if MailChimp or WordPress has a data breach. However, if J. R. Frontera is alerted to such a breach, she will immediately alert those on her email list in turn.

7. Length of time data is stored

Your information on MailChimp remains until manually deleted by J. R. Frontera. You can unsubscribe from J. R. Frontera’s email list at any time through the link included in each email  newsletter, or by emailing J. R. Frontera at jrfrontera@gmail.com with a request to unsubscribe, but your information remains on MailChimp to prevent re-subscribes. If you want your information deleted entirely, thus also removing you from the email list, email your request to jrfrontera@gmail.com and she will delete it permanently.

8. Children under age 15

J. R. Frontera’s website, newsletter, and books are intended for adults, ages 18 and older. If you are under the age of 15, please do not provide J. R. Frontera with any of your personal data, including your email address.

9. Rights of the data subject

• to see what Personal Data J. R. Frontera holds about you (if any), including why she is holding it;
• to ask J. R. Frontera to change/correct your Personal Data;
• to ask J. R. Frontera to delete your Personal Data;
• to ask J. R. Frontera to restrict the collection, recording, and use of your Personal Data;
• withdraw any consents you have given J. R. Frontera to the collection, recording, and use of your Personal Data; and
• express any concerns you have about third parties’ use of your Personal Data.

J. R. Frontera is not responsible for the policies and practices of third parties.

10. J. R. Frontera’s website and blog contain links to other websites. J. R. Frontera is not responsible for the content, practices, or policies of these other sites.

By continuing to use J. R. Frontera’s website, you consent to our website’s privacy policy.

If J. R. Frontera decides to change this privacy policy in the future, we will post those changes on this page.