Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
This privacy policy provides how Author Ivy Lou uses and protects any information that you give or share when you use this website. Ivy Lou is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Information collected while using this site is regulated by BookBub/Author Websites [Beta] system. This may include basic IP tracking, unless user voluntarily signs up for updates from Ivy Lou. If user voluntarily signs up for updates from Ivy Lou, then said user's provided information will be stored indefinitely, or until a removal request by original user. The user reserves the right to directly contact and request removal of their information from Ivy Lou's database at any time; user information will then be expeditiously removed from the subscriber data base. Please be aware, hitting unsubscribe on an emailed newsletter does not alway guarantee removal from database. Ivy Lou also reserves the right to remove a user at any time, for any reason, from her database. Ivy Lou may change this privacy policy occasionally. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This page is correct and up-to-date as of 07/08/2025.
Ivy Lou may collect the following information:
- Name
- Contact information including email address
- Demographic information such as preferences and interests
- Other information relevant to reader surveys, book options, sales platforms, etc.
What Ivy Lou does with the information collected on her website:
- She may periodically send emails about new books, special offers on books, or other pertinent information relating to Ivy Lou, Ivy Lou books, and Ivy Lou events and/or crowdfunding opportunities.
- She will never sell your information.
Security:
Ivy Lou relies on the security of BookBub/Author Websites [Beta], as well as FloDesk [her current marketing/Newsletter service]. Ivy Lou is assured that these organizations have put in place procedures to safeguard and secure information collected on this website.
How this website use cookies:
- A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on a user's computer's hard drive [please bear in mind, these can be cleared from your computer cache at any time; they are temporary]. Once a user agrees, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic--i.e. keeping tabs on what pages a user visits, how often they visit it, and the duration of a particular site. Cookies allow applications to respond to you as an individual, with individual preferences.
- Logged cookies help Ivy Lou identify which pages are being used. This helps Ivy Lou analyze data about webpage traffic and improve her website for future users. The information is only used for stat analysis before the data is removed from the system. In short, cookies help provide users with a better website. To further clarify: cookies in no way allow access to your computer, files, data on your secured network, etc. This excludes data users choose to share of their own accord.
- A user is free to decline or accept cookies. Many browsers auto accept cookies, but a user can often modify browser settings to auto decline cookies instead. Declining cookies may prevent a user from accessing the full offerings of the website.
- Links to other websites: Our website may contain links to facilitate a user's easy transfer to outside websites. These will, more often than not, direct to sales platforms like Amazon. This allows a user to purchase or further research Ivy Lou books. However, once a user has used these links to leave Ivy Lou's website, they should note that Ivy Lou does not have any control over the other website(s). Therefore, she cannot be responsible for privacy & protection of any information provided while the user is visiting such outside sites. In short: such sites are NOT governed by the terms of this privacy policy. Ivy Lou urges users to exercise caution, being sure to research the privacy policies on those sites as well.