1. About this policy
This privacy policy explains how personal information is handled when you use the Sam Rivas website or contact the author through it.
The website is operated under the author name Sam Rivas. Privacy enquiries can be sent through the contact form.
2. Information collected
If you use the contact form, the following information is collected:
- your name;
- your email address; and
- your message.
The website does not require user accounts, allow comments, create user profiles or collect personal information for advertising.
There is no newsletter at launch.
3. How information is used
Information submitted through the contact form is used only to:
- respond to your message; and
- manage the resulting correspondence.
Your personal information is not sold or used for profiling or advertising.
4. Legal basis
Contact-form information is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in receiving, responding to and managing correspondence initiated by visitors to the website.
Where processing is required to comply with a legal obligation, personal information may also be processed for that purpose.
5. How long information is kept
Contact-form information is kept only for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to and manage the correspondence.
It is deleted when it is no longer reasonably required for that purpose, unless it must be retained for legal reasons.
6. Sharing and service providers
Personal information is not sold.
Service providers involved in operating the website and handling contact messages may process personal information only as necessary to provide their services.
7. External links
The website may contain links to third-party websites.
If you follow an external link, the third party operates its own website and handles personal information according to its own privacy practices. This privacy policy does not apply to those external sites.
8. Cookies and analytics
The website does not use advertising cookies or technologies to profile visitors.
If analytics are introduced, this policy will be updated to explain what information is collected, how it is used and any consent or objection mechanism required by applicable law.
9. Your rights
Under applicable data protection law, you may have rights in relation to your personal information, including the right to:
- request access to your personal information;
- ask for inaccurate information to be corrected;
- request deletion or restriction of processing in certain circumstances; and
- object to processing based on legitimate interests.
These rights are subject to applicable legal limitations.
To exercise your rights or raise a privacy question, contact Contact form.
You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.
10. Contact
For questions about this privacy policy or the handling of personal information through this website, contact: