Privacy Policy

INFORMATION COLLECTION, USE AND SHARING
It is the policy of Nicholas Crivac and NicholasCrivac.com to respect your privacy while you interact with this website. We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily provide via website forms, emails, or other direct contact from you. We will not sell, rent, or otherwise distribute this information to anyone (sharing exceptions for third party vendors noted below). All information collected about you is used to enhance your experience on NicholasCrivac.com and with the published works of Nicholas Crivac.

SECURITY
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”), I, Nicholas Crivac, am the “data controller”. If you have any questions about this policy or about how NicholasCrivac.com uses your Personal Data, please contact us via our contact details at the end of this policy.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT?
We only collect personal data where you, the visitor, choose to interact with us on NicholasCrivac.com or via direct email contact requested by the visitor, in the following ways:

• Email sign-up – When you sign-up to receive free content, including emails, newsletters, eBooks, videos and offers, we may collect your email address, first and last name.
• Comments – When you leave comments on the site, such as commenting on blog posts, or through our social media profiles/pages/groups we collect data shown in the comments form.
• Billing/shipping information – If you purchase any products, such as books, on the site, we need to collect your billing/shipping information (name, address, phone number, email) in order to generate an invoice and deliver purchased products.

We recommend you limit the personal information you provide us to only what is necessary. E.g., don’t enter unnecessary personal data in the comments or contact form messages on this site.

AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION
We automatically collect certain information when you visit the website, such as the type of browser and operating system you are using, and the domain name of your Internet service provider. This information is for website analytics purposes only. We do not link this information directly with any personal data.

HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA USED?
We will only use your information to respond or interact with you regarding the reason you initially contacted us. Such as to process and manage your use of the website; to respond to questions, comments, or requests; to send communications where you have opted-in to receive marketing from us; to deliver communications that are relevant to your preferences/may be of interest to you; to improve our services and website through analysis of information; and to inform you of changes to our privacy policy.

IS YOUR DATA SHARED, AND WITH WHOM?
We do not sell or give away your private personal information. We share voluntarily submitted personal information about you in limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards to protect your privacy:

With Your Consent
We may share and disclose your provided information with your consent or at your direction.

Legal Requests
Should it be deemed necessary, we may disclose information about you in response to a court order, or other governmental request.

Business Transfers
In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that NicholasCrivac.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Third Party Vendors
We may share personal data about you with third party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us, to you, or our site. For example: PayPal to process your online payments, fraud prevention services to analyze payment transactions, postal, chat and email services to help us communicate with you.

HOW LONG IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA USED AND STORED?
We will use and store your Personal Data only for as long as necessary, bearing in mind the uses of your personal data as described in this privacy policy and otherwise as communicated to you. We review the personal data we hold at regular intervals and delete permanently or anonymize any personal data which is no longer necessary.

We also keep Google Analytics and other tracking data indefinitely, to allow us to improve the user experience of this site by comparing analytics trends over time.

YOUR ACCESS AND CONTROL RIGHTS TO THE DATA YOU HAVE PROVIDED
Please contact us at any time to request to see the personal data we hold about you, change/correct any of that data, request that we delete any data about you, or express any concerns you may have about our use of your data. If you wish for us to delete all personal data you have provided to us, we will do so, but that deletion may not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

You may also opt out of any future contact from us at any time by contacting us at support@nicholascrivac.com.

MINORS
This website and our products/services are aimed at adults, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data relating to children aged under 18 years old. If you are under the age of 18, please do not provide us with any of your Personal Data, including your email address, or first request permission from your parent or guardian.

COOKIES & ANALYTICS TRACKING
When you use this site, tracking service providers such as Google Analytics may collect information using various technologies, including cookies and pixel tags (which are also called clear GIFs, web beacons, or pixels).

Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve the site, your user experience, and track usage of our resources. These service providers may use cookies to collect and store information about your device, such as time of visit, pages visited, time spent on each page of the site, links clicked and conversion information, browser, mobile network information, and type of operating system used. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to send an alert when cookies are being sent. If you do so, please note that some parts of the site may not function properly.

THIRD PARTY LINKS
This website may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
We may periodically modify this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will provide notice to you by revising the data at the top of the page when we publish the most current version. If we make any material change to this Policy, we will provide additional notice to you, such as by sending you an email, or displaying a prominent notice on our site. By continuing to use the site after any changes come into effect, you agree to the revised Policy.

YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS
By visiting and using NicholasCrivac.com, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you should not use this website. Continued use of the site means you accept the policy and any periodic changes.

QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or anything else on NicholasCrivac.com, please contact us at support@nicholascrivac.com.