Meghan O’Flynn Privacy Policy

Pygmalion Publishing takes your privacy seriously. This policy applies to visitors and subscribers from all countries, including the United States, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Brazil, and Portugal. Where your country has specific legal protections, we honor those rights as described below.

Permission

Pygmalion Publishing collects email addresses on a permission-based basis, which means we require your permission to send emails. We obtain this permission by requiring that recipients are customers, readers, businesses, or organizations who have specifically asked to receive emails by opting in or signing up in some way, generally by inputting their email address into Meghan O’Flynn’s landing page or popup sign-up forms, or by adding their email address to a third party sign-up form, as in the case of giveaways. You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email. We will not sell or rent your email address.

Your Information

Information you voluntarily provide

When you sign up for our newsletter, consult with our customer service team, send us an email, or communicate with us in any way, you are voluntarily giving us information that we collect. That information may include your name, physical address, email address, IP address, phone number, credit card information, as well as details including gender, occupation, location, purchase history, and other demographic information. By giving us this information, you consent to this information being collected, used, disclosed, transferred to the United States and stored by us.

Information we collect automatically

When you use our newsletter services or browse one of our websites, we may collect information about your visit to our websites, your usage of the services, and your web browsing, including, but not limited to, your operating system, your browser ID, your browsing activity, your IP address, and other information about how you interacted with those websites and other websites linked through our site. This information may be collected as a part of log files and/or through the use of cookies or other tracking technologies, such as pixels and web beacons, to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, serve targeted advertisements, and gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level.

Information from other sources

We may partner with third parties to display advertising on our website or to manage and serve our advertising on other sites. We may also obtain information about you—including, but not limited to, demographic information, device information, location, and online behavioral data—from third party sources, such as public databases, social media platforms, including but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, third party data providers and our joint marketing partners and Amazon, Nook, and iBook affiliate sites. Meghan O’Flynn is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, iBooks Associates Program, Kobo Associates Program, Google Associates Program, and Nook Associates Program, affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com, iBooks.com/iTunes.com, Kobo.com, Google.com, and Nook.com, respectively. We take steps to ensure that such third parties are legally permitted or required to disclose such information to us, but any information, communications, or materials you submit to us via a social media platform is done at your own risk without any expectation of privacy. Your interactions with those features and platforms are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them. Any information we receive from any of these sources, we may use, alone or in combination with other information we collect, to enhance our ability to provide relevant marketing and content to you and to develop and provide you with more relevant products, features, and services. We may also collect certain information from mobile applications, such as the type of device and operating system you use, how often you use the application and other performance data. We do not ask for, access, or track any location-based information from your mobile device.

Web Beacons

We may use web beacons on our websites and in our emails. When we send emails to subscribers, we may track behavior such as who opened the emails and when, who clicked the links, your IP address, your browser, email client type, and other related information in order to measure the performance of our email campaigns.

Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website. Cookies are small text files stored on your device that help us improve your experience. The types of cookies we use include:

Essential cookies: Required for the website to function. These cannot be disabled.
Analytics cookies: Help us understand how visitors use our site (e.g., Google Analytics). These track page views, time on site, and traffic sources.
Affiliate tracking cookies: Used to attribute purchases made through our affiliate links (e.g., Amazon Associates, Kobo, Apple Books). These are placed when you click an affiliate link.
Marketing/advertising cookies: Used to serve relevant advertisements and track campaign performance, including through Facebook and other platforms.

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Note that disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality. Visitors from the EU/EEA will be presented with a cookie consent banner and may opt out of non-essential cookies at that time.

Legal Basis for Processing (EU/EEA residents)

If you are located in the European Union or European Economic Area—including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Portugal—we process your personal data under the following legal bases as defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

Consent: Where you have given us clear consent to process your personal data for a specific purpose, such as subscribing to our newsletter or accepting non-essential cookies.
Legitimate interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention, improving our services, and direct marketing to existing subscribers, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights.
Legal obligation: Where we are required to process your data to comply with applicable law.

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Use and Disclosure of Personal Information

We may use and disclose personal information for the following purposes:

To send you informational and promotional content in accordance with your marketing preferences. For example, if you have opted in to our newsletter, you will receive emails about new book releases, book sale information, review requests, and other related information. These emails will be sent through a third party service, such as Mailchimp or Mailerlite, which requires adding your information to those newsletter platforms. You can stop receiving our emails at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions included in every email we send. We may also use your personal information to advertise our newsletter or website to other users or potential users like you. We may also partner with third party advertising networks and exchanges to display advertising on our websites or to manage and serve our advertising to you on other sites, including, but not limited to, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. We may share your personal information for the purpose of serving you ads on these other platforms.

To send you system alert messages. We may inform you of temporary or permanent changes to our newsletter or website, such as new features, updates, and changes to our Privacy Policy.

To protect the rights and safety of our subscribers and third parties, as well as our own.

To meet legal requirements, including complying with court orders, valid discovery requests, valid subpoenas, and other appropriate legal mechanisms, to prosecute and defend a court, arbitration, or similar legal proceeding, to provide information to representatives and advisors, attorneys and accountants, or to respond to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

European Union, EEA, and UK Residents

If you are located in the EU, EEA (including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Portugal), or the United Kingdom, you have the following rights under the GDPR and applicable data protection law:

Right to access: You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to rectification: You may request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”): You may request that we delete your personal data, subject to certain exceptions required by law.
Right to restriction of processing: You may request that we limit how we use your data in certain circumstances.
Right to data portability: You may request that we provide your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, or transfer it directly to another controller where technically feasible.
Right to object: You may object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes at any time.
Right to withdraw consent: Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at meghan@meghanoflynn.com. We will respond within 30 days. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

If you have an unresolved privacy concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local national data protection authority (DPA). A full list of EU national DPAs is available at: ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities. UK residents may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.

Brazil Residents (LGPD)

If you are located in Brazil, your personal data is processed in accordance with the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados (LGPD). You have the right to access, correct, delete, and port your personal data, as well as the right to information about how your data is shared and used. To exercise your rights, contact us at meghan@meghanoflynn.com. If you have an unresolved concern, you may contact Brazil’s national data protection authority, the ANPD (Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados), at gov.br/anpd.

California Residents (CCPA/CPRA)

If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect and how it is used, the right to delete your personal information, the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, and the right to non-discrimination for exercising your privacy rights. We do not sell personal information. To submit a request, contact us at meghan@meghanoflynn.com.

All Other Regions

Regardless of where you are located, you may contact us at meghan@meghanoflynn.com to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal data. We will honor such requests to the extent required by applicable law and our operational capabilities.

Contests, Giveaways and Sweepstakes

We may occasionally offer surveys, contests, sweepstakes, or other promotions on our websites, newsletters, or through social media. Participation in these promotions is completely voluntary. Information requested for entry may include personal contact information such as your name, address, date of birth, phone number, email address, and similar details. We use the information you provide to administer these promotions. We may also use the information provided to communicate with you, or other people you select, about our products. We may share this information with our affiliates and other organizations in line with this policy and the rules posted for the promotion.

Security

Pygmalion Publishing takes reasonable and appropriate measures to protect personal information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the personal information. If a security breach causes an unauthorized intrusion that materially affects you, we will notify you as soon as possible and later report the action we took in response.

International Data Transfers

Our servers and offices are located in the United States, so your information may be transferred to, stored, or processed in the United States. If you are located in the EU, EEA, UK, or Brazil, please be aware that the United States may not have the same data protection laws as your country.

Where we transfer personal data from the EU/EEA, UK, or Brazil to the United States or other third countries, we rely on appropriate safeguards to protect your data, including Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission, where applicable. By using our websites or subscribing to our services, you acknowledge that your information may be transferred to and processed in the United States in accordance with this policy.

Compliance and Data Retention

If your data changes, you are responsible for notifying us of those changes. If you think the information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant or misleading, we will take reasonable steps to correct that information upon your request. We will retain your information for as long as your subscriber status is active, or as long as needed to provide you with our services. We may also retain and use your information in order to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, and enforce our agreements.

Pygmalion Publishing agrees to give any individual subscriber access to the personal information we hold about them within 30 days of any request for that information. Individuals may request to access, correct, amend or delete information we hold about them by contacting us at meghan@meghanoflynn.com. Unless it is prohibited by law, we will remove any personal information about an individual from our servers at your request, free of charge.

*Everything on this site is copyrighted. Written words or photos may not be used without written consent of the author.

** Meghan O’Flynn is a participant in the Amazon Associates Program, iBooks Associates Program, Kobo Associates Program, Google Associates Program, and Nook Associates Program, affiliate advertising programs designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com, iBooks.com/iTunes.com, Kobo.com, Google.com, and Nook.com, respectively. As an associate of these programs, Meghan O’Flynn earns from qualifying purchases.

For questions about this Privacy Policy or to exercise your data rights, please contact:

Pygmalion Publishing
2709 N Hayden Island Dr, STE 736109
Portland, Oregon 97217, USA
Email: meghan@meghanoflynn.com