PrivacyPolicy

The short version

This site sets no cookies of its own. There is no analytics package, no tracking pixel, no advertising network, and no visitor profiling. Nothing you do here is recorded by us unless you type something into a form and send it.

Two forms collect anything at all: the newsletter sign-up, which takes your email address, and the contact form, which takes your name, email address and message. Both are described below.

What happens when you just read

Loading a page here sends one request to a third party: the two typefaces the site uses are served by Google Fonts, so Google sees your IP address. That is the only outside request any page makes. Everything else — text, images, styling — is served from this domain.

Like every website, this one runs on a hosting provider that keeps standard server logs: IP address, browser type, the page requested, and the date and time. Those logs are kept by the host for its own operational and security purposes. They aren’t used to build a profile of you, and they aren’t combined with anything else on this page.

The newsletter

If you sign up for the Bulletin, your email address goes to Kit (formerly ConvertKit), which runs the mailing list. Kit stores it for as long as you stay subscribed. Kit then sends you on to BookFunnel, which delivers the free novella.

Your address is used to send you the newsletter, and nothing else. It is not sold, rented, traded or shared with anyone. Every email carries an unsubscribe link, and using it removes you immediately — no reply needed, no reason required.

The contact form

What you type into the contact form — your name, your email address and your message — is forwarded to Conor’s inbox and then discarded by the site. It is not saved to a database here, added to the mailing list, or shared with anyone. Your email address is used to reply to you.

The message is passed to an email provider in order to be delivered, the same way any website’s contact form works. Your IP address is looked at briefly to stop the form being used for bulk spam, and is discarded within the hour.

Links to other places

Book links here point to Amazon and other retailers and carry an affiliate tag, which is explained on the Disclaimers & Disclosures page. Once you follow one, you are on their site under their rules — they will set their own cookies and apply their own privacy policy, and neither is under our control. The same goes for the social media links in the footer.

Services involved

The complete list of companies that see anything about you because of this site:

Kit (formerly ConvertKit)

Runs the newsletter. Receives your email address when you sign up, and stores it for as long as you stay subscribed.

BookFunnel

Delivers the free novella. Kit sends you there after you sign up, and it handles getting the file onto your device.

Google Fonts

Serves the two typefaces this site uses. Loading a page requests them from Google, which means Google sees your IP address. This is the only third-party request any page here makes.

Amazon Associates

Book links point to Amazon and carry an affiliate tag. Amazon sets its own cookies once you land there — see the Disclaimers page.

Plus the hosting provider that serves the pages, and the email provider that delivers contact-form messages.

Your choices

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the link at the bottom of any email. If you’d rather Conor deleted your address, or wanted to know what’s held about you, just ask and it will be done.

Your information is never sold, rented or traded. Since the site sets no cookies, there is no cookie banner to click through and nothing to opt out of; blocking Google Fonts in your browser is the only thing left, and the site still works if you do — it just falls back to a different typeface.

Children

This site isn’t aimed at children, and Genre Monk LLC does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has sent something through a form here, get in touch and it will be deleted.

Changes

If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted here and the “last updated” date at the top will change with it.

Questions

Anything here you want explained, or anything you think is wrong —the contact form reaches Conor directly.