Who we are
Shamanism Books is owned by Indie Shaman, a small ethical independent UK based organisation. Our website address is: https://shamanismbooks.co.uk.
Indie Shaman considers the privacy of our subscribers and visitors to be extremely important.
This privacy policy tells you the types of information that is collected and recorded by us and how we use it. It applies to information we collect about:
- Visitors to our websites
- People who enter a competition
- People who click on an Amazon link to buy a book
- People who subscribe to our email newsletters
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
About Cookies
All our websites indieshaman.co.uk, shamanismshop.co.uk and shamanismbooks.co.uk use cookies.
A cookie is a simple small text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server. Only that same server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Cookies contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site’s name and are unique to your web browser.
Cookies allow a website to remember things such as what is in your shopping basket and make the interaction between you and a website work faster and easier. If a website doesn’t use cookies it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site.
We do not make any attempt to identify anyone who uses our Shamanism Books website unless they win a prize in one of our competitions, use our contact form or leave a comment.
If you prefer it is possible to block all or some cookies and delete cookies that have already been set. For more information about how to disable cookies in your browser please visit the About Cookies website. If you share the use of a computer, accepting or rejecting the use of cookies will affect all users of that computer. Please also note that if you block cookies you may lose some of the functions on our websites.
For information on how to do delete or block cookies on your mobile phone browser, please see your handset manual or contact your phone service provider.
Log Files
Like many other web sites indieshaman.co.uk, shamanismshop.co.uk and shamanismbooks.co.uk make use of log files. These files merely log visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on this site the data shown in the comments form is collected; 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. Gravatar own websites including wordpress.com, jetpack.com and akismet.com. 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.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have a WordPress account and you log in to this site a temporary cookie is set 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, several cookies 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. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Buying Books
We receive a small commission if you buy books via the links which are at the bottom of each book review which helps with the costs of running this website. These links go through to Amazon.co.uk. Amazon does not tell us any of your personal details or who buys books through our website.
Data Protection Information
We only ask for personal information necessary to deliver goods or services to our customers. We have to hold the details of the people who have requested the service in order to provide it. However, we only use these details to provide the service the person has requested and for other closely related purposes. For example Indie Shaman will ask for a person’s postal address if they win a prize in our competition so we can post the prize to them. We do not keep the prize winner’s address after we have posted the prize (unless we already had it because we provide another service to the prize winner e.g. they subscribe to Indie Shaman magazine.
Indie Shaman Newsletter
If you give us your email address and ask to subscribe to our email newsletter you can ‘opt out’ at any time by emailing us or by simply replying ‘unsubscribe’ to a Newsletter.
What rights you have over your data
You can request to receive details of the personal data we hold about you including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that 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.
However, please be aware that if you are just reading the book reviews on this website, left comments or entered a competition in the past we probably don’t have any data on you!
Contact Information
This site is owned and operated by June Kent, trading as ‘Indie Shaman’
If you have any questions about our websites or Privacy Policy, please contact us by writing to Indie Shaman, 18 Bradwell Grove, Danesmoor, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S45 9TA.
This policy is effective from 23 July 2018 and replaces with immediate effect any previous policy.