Privacy Policy

Due to the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we have created this Privacy Page. We understand that this legislation applies only to European citizens, but we wanted to assure every subscriber that we take the protection of their data seriously.

Who We Are:

I am Jessie G, author and owner of Jessie G Books Inc. In addition, I own and manage the website, as well as oversee the newsletter and blog subscription listed below.

Contributors to the blog include:

  • Evette Ashby, Book Reviewer
  • Jennifer Eisele-Wood, Book Reviewer
  • Lori Wilson, Book Reviewer
  • Natalie Rivieccio, Book Reviewer
  • Paula Ridge, PA for Jessie G

The purpose of this website and newsletter is to promote the original works of Jessie G, as well as review and promote other books in the romance genres.

Official Sites

Affiliated Social Connections

Data Collection – Website

Non-personally identifying information such as browser type, referring site, date and time of visit may be collected for the purpose of understanding how visitors use the site (see WordPress Statistics below). This information is not released or shared with anyone not associated with Jessie G Books Inc.

Personally identifying information such as IP address, name, email address, website address are collected for users who choose to leave comments on posts. Email addresses will not be posted, only name and website address if the user chooses to share it. This information is used by WordPress to send further comments/responses to users who choose to receive them or by Jessie G Books Inc for the sole purpose of communicating with website visitors. This information will not be disclosed to anyone outside of Jessie G Books Inc and it’s contractors except in response to a court order or governmental request.

At times, similar data may be collected on other forms for giveaways, book orders, opinion polls, etc. We will not ask for any data that is not necessary and relevant for the purpose stated on the form.

Held on file with WordPress: name and email address of anyone who signs up to receive updates when something is added to the website (see WordPress Subscriptions below).

Data Collection – Cookies

Jessie G Books Inc uses cookies to help identify and track visitors and their usage of this website. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers may set their browsers to refuse cookies with the caveat that some site features may not function properly. Learn More

Data Collection – WordPress Statistics

Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.

Activity Tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. When this module is enabled, Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.).

Data Collection – WordPress Subscriptions

Data Used: To initiate and process subscriptions, the following information is used: subscriber’s email address and the ID of the post or comment (depending on the specific subscription being processed). In the event of a new subscription being initiated, we also collect some basic server data, including all of the subscribing user’s HTTP request headers, the IP address from which the subscribing user is viewing the page, and the URI which was given in order to access the page (REQUEST_URI and DOCUMENT_URI). This server data used for the exclusive purpose of monitoring and preventing abuse and spam.

Activity Tracked: Functionality cookies are set for a duration of 347 days to remember a visitor’s blog and post subscription choices if, in fact, they have an active subscription and users can unsubscribe at any time using the links at the bottom of every email.

Data Collection – MailChimp Newsletter

This newsletter is sent through MailChimp and subscribers names, email address, IP address, time zone, time of sign up, and the method for signing up (website sign up, Instafreebie sign up, other promotion etc) are stored on MailChimp’s website. Jessie G Books Inc uses this information for sending newsletters to subscribers, and it will not be shared with anyone outside Jessie G Books Inc. You can unsubscribe from the Newsletter anytime using the links at the bottom of the monthly email.

Data Collection – Gumroad and Patreon

Both Gumroad and Patreon require you to create accounts with them in order to do business. This will include name, email, and delivery address so that I may fulfill book orders on Gumroad and send rewards on Patreon. However, I cannot manage or remove your data from these services, you must do it from within their website.

While I currently do not have Patreon-Only content on jessiegbooks.com, you may still register with this site using your Patreon credentials. In order to enable you to use this website with Patreon services, we save certain functionally important Patreon information about you in this website if you log in with Patreon.

These include your Patreon user id, Patreon username, your first, last names and your vanity name. Additionally, the id of your campaign at Patreon and your campaign’s Patreon URL are also saved.

If you request that your data be deleted from this website, this data will also be deleted and Patreon functionality will not work. You would need to register on this website and log in to this website with Patreon again in order to re-populate this data and have Patreon functionality working again.

To remove your data from Gumroad or Patreon, you must log into their respective websites directly.

Your Rights

  • You have the right to access your personal data and to know how we use it.
  • You have the right to request that we update or correct your personal data.
  • You have the right to be forgotten and may request that we delete your personal data.

How to Enforce Them

At the bottom of every email you receive from the blog subscription or Those in the Know newsletter are links to update your data or unsubscribe entirely. This does not delete your personal data from WordPress or MailChimp. To have your data deleted or if you don’t want to wait for the next email, you can contact Jessie G Books Inc at any time with your request.

Contact: [email protected]