Who we are

Heart Beat Publications, LLC is an independent book and news publisher.

Data we collect

1. Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

2. Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

3. Contact forms

Any contact information you leave, including name, age, email address, and so forth.

Cookies

You may save your name, email address, and website, information stored as cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These other websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Data sharing

Your data may be shared with payment processing or shipping firms. We do not sell data to marketers or share it in any way that does not facilitate your purchase.

Data retention

Comments, reviews, and associated metadata are retained indefinitely.

We also store personal and payment information registered shoppers and visitors provide in their user profile. All shoppers and visitors can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Rights over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left reviews or comments, you may request an exported file of your personal data, including any data you have provided. You may also request we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.