Privacy Policy for the website robbievale.com
Your usage of this website indicates your acceptance of this policy. If you do not accept this policy, you should leave the website.
The owner of this website is Robert Vale, whose author/pen-name is Robbie Vale.
His correspondence address is 9 Chapel Street, Mumbles, Swansea, SA3 4NH.
Email: robbie@robbievale.com
Introduction
The owner of this website and/or its associated services is committed to respecting the privacy rights of visitors and other users. This policy is only applicable to this website and its associated services, and not to any other websites, applications or content that you may be able to access from this website or its associated emails, each of which may have data collection and use practices and policies that differ from this one. The owner of this website has no control over such websites and is not responsible for their content or policies.
Information collected
The owner of this website and its associated services, together with its agents, collects information from you:
1. When you subscribe to the newsletter, including your name and email address. All subscribers must be 18 or older or have the consent of a parent or guardian.
2. When you email the owner of this website and/or its associated services, including your name, email address and the content of any emails that pass between us.
3. When you use this website and/or its associated services to comment on a post, in which case your name and comments may be published.
4. When you provide feedback via a questionnaire or a survey (howsoever this feedback is gathered), then you, the user, consent to the information being used, aggregated, stored and shared.
You may use and enjoy this website without participating in these activities.
We will collect personal identification information from users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. If you communicate with us by email, you are deemed to have given your consent to us holding your data as contained within the email or emails.
Subscribers to the newsletter may unsubscribe at any time. You may ask for all your data to be deleted at that time, following which your name and email address will be removed from our files.
Use of information collected
We do not sell, trade, or rent users personal identification information to others. We do not disclose personally identifiable information to any third parties other than those used to facilitate the functioning of the site and its related applications: for example newsletter distribution services, email services and those who provide services to us which, by their nature, require the processing of personal data.
We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers.
Newsletter subscribers’ names and email addresses will only be used for the distribution of newsletters or related communication from the site owner. They will only be passed to a third party for the performance of such services.
When you provide feedback or responses to a questionnaire or survey, you consent to the feedback or responses being used, aggregated, stored and shared. Your full name will not be revealed, other than with your express permission. We may use a truncated reference to you to highlight a comment or quote given as part of your response, but the truncated reference should not enable the easy identification of you as an individual.
Use of anonymous data
The servers employed by the website provider automatically recognise and collect data relating to (for example) visitors’ domain names, their browser, network, device, IP addresses and other data.
The owner of this website and the provider/operator uses anonymous data to analyse site traffic and usage, to monitor and improve site performance, to administer the site and to optimise the display of content. Such information may be shared with business partners and advertisers on an aggregate and anonymous basis.
The owner of this website may disclose any information it has about you if required to do so by law or a competent legal authority.
Cookies
Please see this website’s separate cookie policy. Click on the link at the bottom of the page to view it.
Security and data loss
The website owner and provider/operator have security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information that we obtain from you, and whilst every care will be taken, we make no assurances about our ability to prevent any such loss to you or to any third party arising out of any such loss, misuse, or alteration.
Third party websites
This website may contain links to other websites or services not owned by, and beyond the control of the owner of this website. You may choose to use them or not, but be aware that this site owner’s policies and terms of use do not extend to such sites. It is your responsibility to review the privacy policies on those websites to confirm that you understand and agree with their practices.
Affiliates
The website may use Amazon or other affiliate codes, either on the site or in emails and newsletters.
Transfer of rights and data
The site owner may sell or transfer ownership or control of the website and its associated services. Data provided by users will, where it is relevant to any part of the business so transferred, be transferred along with the website and its associated services. The new owner or newly controlling party will, under the terms of this privacy policy, be permitted to use the data only for the purposes for which it was originally supplied at the time.
You may not transfer any of your rights under this privacy policy to any other person.
Changes to this policy
The owner of this website and its associated services reserves the right to update or change this policy. It is your responsibility to review this policy from time to time to ensure that you continue to agree with all of its terms.
Enforcement
This agreement will be governed by and interpreted according to the law of England and Wales. All disputes arising under the agreement will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English and Welsh courts.
If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of this policy (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that provision or part-provision will, to the extent required, be deemed to be deleted, and the validity and enforceability of the other provisions of this policy will not be affected. Unless otherwise agreed, no delay, act or omission by a party in exercising any right or remedy will be deemed a waiver of that, or any other, right or remedy.
Effective date
These terms are effective from 21 May 2025 and shall remain in force until updated, at which point the new, updated terms will take effect.
Questions
If you have any questions or comments about this policy, please email Robbie Vale at robbie@robbievale.com