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PRIVACY

At AJ Bower Publishing, your privacy is our priority. We are committed to protecting your privacy at all times, in all situations. The information we collect about you when you become a member is used to process your orders and to provide a more personalized experience on our site. Our payment processors use a 128 bit encrypted SSL to increase the security of our customer’s information. However, we, AJ Bower Publishing, do not guarantee complete security on stored information.

Comments, Testimonials and Posts

Any pubic comments, testimonials and posts you make on this website mean you relinquish ownership of such content, and these will not be deleted with your account. Content is publicly viewable and as such cannot be ‘taken back’, so please take care that what you post is something you do not mind being public forever.

If you submit anything via AJ Bower Publishing or to its forums, you grant the owner(s) of AJ Bower Publishing a perpetual, nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable license to everything you submit, which includes without limitation the right for the owner(s) AJ Bower Publishing or any successor in interest or a third party the owner(s) of AJ Bower Publishing designates, to use, copy, transmit, excerpt, publish, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works of, host, index, cache, tag, encode, modify and adapt (including without limitation the right to adapt to streaming, downloading, broadcast, mobile, digital, thumbnail, scanning or other technologies) in any form or media now known or hereinafter developed, anything submitted by you. You acknowledge that any submissions you make may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted, and displayed by AJ Bower Publishing, its owner(s), successors and/or assigns and you waive any rights you may have in having the material altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you.

Any post or comment you make may be picked up and distributed by search engines, other members and the general public, so this information should be considered ‘out there forever’. This is common practice among WordPress and forum websites.


How Do We Use the Information We Collect?

When you become a AJ Bower Publishing member and/or purchase a design, we ask you to fill out a form that requests your name, address and e-mail address as well as other details. AJ Bower Publishing will NOT share data with anyone else unless compelled by law.

Your name and address information are used solely to process orders unless your prior consent is given. Without your consent, this information will NEVER be sold, given, rented or traded to others for purposes other than order fulfilment. If you sign up for any of our newsletters or ask to be kept updated about special offers, services etc., then you will receive emails from us, but you may unsubscribe at any time.

Your demographic information (gender, date of birth, etc.) will be used for several security purposes, to ensure you are who you say you are and in fact, you are paying with your credit cards and not someone using your stolen credit cards.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products/services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to the email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights regarding receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

Email Newsletter

This website operates an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies/people outside of the company that operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you may request a copy of personal information held about you by this website’s email newsletter program.

In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will be detailed instead.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website.

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Therefore, users should note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage with them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by WhatsApp or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons that help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners can share web links to relevant web pages through their social media platform accounts. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs [web addresses].

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Resources & Further Information

Our Use of Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that your browser stores on your computer’s hard drive that identify you when you enter. We may use session cookies to provide a seamless experience on the site, particularly so you can log in to your account and stay logged in. If you have set your browser to reject cookies, our site will not identify you when you enter and you will need to manually type in your ID and password. If you are worried about cookies, which are mostly harmless, you can set your browser to delete them automatically once your browser is closed. The vast majority of websites use cookies.

Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information. We, therefore, do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. We have turned on Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting to get an idea of our demographics and users’ interests.

Google Ads

We use Google ads in order to monetise this website. Please click here to find out more about their policies.

WordPress
Our website runs the popular WordPress CMS and cookies are used to store basic data on your interactions with WordPress, and whether you have logged into WordPress. We use a session cookie to remember your log-in for you if you are a registered user and we deem these as being strictly necessary to the working of the website. If these are disabled then various functionality on the site will be broken.

More information on session cookies and what they are used for at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/session-cookies-used-for.html

Third-Party Cookies
These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. Cookies of this type are the sharing buttons across the site that allow visitors to share content onto social networks. Cookies are currently set by sites such as, but not limited to: X, Facebook, Google, GitHub and Pinterest. In order to implement these buttons, and connect them to the relevant social networks and external sites, there are scripts from domains outside of our website. You should be aware that these sites are likely to be collecting information about what you are doing all around the internet, including on this website. If you’d like information on how to disable companies tracking your web use, click here.

Site Security

All AJ Bower Publishing employees take your personal information very seriously. All employees must learn and obey our security policies. Access to member personal information is limited to key management personnel and our member services department. The information is ID and password protected. Our site is protected with an SSL certificate for customer safety. We also use spam filter services, so your IP address may be retained for security purposes.

Correcting/Updating Your Personal Information
After becoming a AJ Bower Publishing subscriber you may correct/update your personal information at any time. The changes you make will be reflected in our databases instantly. If you wish to deactivate or transfer your account, you may contact us through your ‘Account’ section, or the ‘Contact Us’ section by submitting a support ticket.

Links To Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other Web sites. Please note that you may be leaving the AJ Bower Publishing site and entering another Web site when you click on one of these links. These sites may independently collect or request information about you and we encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites as their privacy policy may differ from ours.

Communication
From time to time we may send out email messages alerting you that products are available, to remind you about providing feedback or for promotional offers. In addition, you will receive communication from us 1) if you contact us for a particular reason, 2) to receive your orders, or 3) we need to contact you for administrative purposes such as winning a contest. Administrative e-mails will not contain promotional materials. If you choose to receive our Newsletters, they may contain promotional materials from AJ Bower Publishing and their sponsors. You may unsubscribe from newsletters at any time.

Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Website

Supplementation
We may correct or supplement your address information with standardized postal representation in order to ensure that your orders are delivered. We do this since we want to make sure that our members receive the order and to lower costs associated with our programs.

Contests & Surveys
Periodically, contests and surveys are run on our site. Sometimes contests & surveys are sponsored by our customers or outside agencies. To enter these contests you need only to enter your ID and password and your entry. At the time of entry, you may decide if you wish to have your first name and city posted on our site if you are the winner. Winner’s names are NEVER shared with our customers without their consent.

Your Feedback is Always Welcome
We welcome your comments and questions about our privacy policy – or anything else you might want to talk about.

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