Our Privacy Policy

Summary

​At Waypoint Books LLC, we respect your privacy. We will not share, sell, or rent your information to anyone. Ever. Because that would be sleazy. This policy details how we collect, store, and use your information.  You won’t find any complicated legal terms or long passages of unreadable text. We’ve no desire to trick you into agreeing to something you might later regret.

Why we value your privacy

​We value your privacy as much as we do our own, so we’re committed to keeping your personal information safe. We’re uncomfortable with the information companies, governments, and other organizations keep on file, so we ask for only the bare minimum from you, our valued subscriber. We’ll never use your personal information for any reason other than why you gave it, and we’ll never give anyone access to it unless we’re forced to by law or Khan puts a Ceti eel in our ear.

How we collect information

We ask for contact information, including your first name and email address, on our website (this one that you're on right now) so that we can keep in touch via an e-newsletter. We collect your name and email address when you sign up for one of our newsletters. Occasionally, we might receive your contact information from one of our partners, most often as part of an ebook bundle or giveaway. If we do, we protect it in exactly the same way as if you give it to us directly. Our website doesn’t use cookies or scripts that were designed to track the websites you visit. We don’t use analytics or native social media ‘like’ or ‘sharing’ buttons which also build profiles of your internet activity. We don't care about your internet activity. We only care about if you like our books. 

What information we hold

When you contact us by email or through our website (yeah, this one), we collect your email address and your name (if you’ve given us that), but we won't subscribe you to a newsletter unless you specifically ask us to do so. 
If you sign up for a newsletter, we collect your email address and first name (if you give us that). 

Where we store your information

​When you contact us by email or through our website, we may store your your information in our Google email system (think Gmail with business-level security). If you sign up for a newsletter, we store your email address and first name (if you provide that) in Mailerlite, which is the marketing/newsletter platform we prefer. We chose these systems partly for their commitment to security.

What we use your information for

​We use your contact information to send you communications on our products and services, which generally means new book releases or special deals. When we do, you have the option to unsubscribe from these communications and we won’t send them to you again. We pinky swear. 

The steps we take to keep your information private

We restrict access to your information only to people who need it to contact you. We store passwords in an encrypted password manager. The computers we use are all encrypted and are protected by a password. Essentially, your information is wrapped in adamantium armor and cushioned between feather pillows. 

Contact

For any privacy-related questions or concerns, contact our data controller / data protection officer (i.e. Lieutenant Data):  
Rachel Aukes, Waypoint Books LLC
2516 Airport Drive, Ames IA 50010
rachel@rachelaukes.com