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Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority.

This Statement of Privacy applies to www.acoliphant.com and A. C. Oliphant, and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to A. C. Oliphant include www.acoliphant.com. The A. C. Oliphant website is an author website. By using the A. C. Oliphant website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement regardless of whether or not you have read this policy.

Collection of your Personal Information

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) sending us an email message; (c) subscribing to the author newsletter; (d) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services; (e) signing up for special offers from selected third parties. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We may also gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

A. C. Oliphant does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties.

A. C. Oliphant may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to A. C. Oliphant, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

A. C. Oliphant may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on A. C. Oliphant or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of A. C. Oliphant; and/or (c) act under the exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of A. C. Oliphant, or the public.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by A. C. Oliphant. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. The information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the A. C. Oliphant website.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security of your Personal Information

The A. C. Oliphant author website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

  • Delete your personal information from our records; and

  • Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

  • Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;

  • Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;

  • Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

  • Otherwise use you’re your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Children Under Thirteen

A. C. Oliphant does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communication

From time to time, A. C. Oliphant may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from A. C. Oliphant or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from A. C. Oliphant, you may opt out of such communications by clicking the UNSUBSCRIBE button in her email or contacting A. C. through her website contact form.

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to this Statement

A. C. Oliphant reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgement of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

A. C. Oliphant welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that A. C. Oliphant has not adhered to this Statement, please contact A. C. Oliphant at contact@aisleyoliphant.com.

Effective as of February 26, 2024

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