Privacy Policy - The Developer Drought

1. Introduction

Welcome to The Developer Drought ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

This privacy policy applies to all information collected through our website thedeveloperdrought.com, and any related services, sales, marketing, or events.

2. Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including:

Personal Information: Email address, name, billing address, and payment information when you purchase our book or products.
Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services.
Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform.
Marketing Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us.

3. How We Collect Your Information

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions: When you provide us with your details when purchasing products, signing up for our newsletter, or contacting us.
Automated technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns.
Third parties: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties such as analytics providers, payment processors, and email service providers.

4. How We Use Your Information

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

To process and deliver your order, including managing payments and collecting money owed to us.
To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
To administer and protect our business and this website.
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you.
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you.

5. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your personal data with the following parties:

Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work.
Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so.

6. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

8. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including:

The right to request access to your personal data.
The right to request correction of your personal data.
The right to request erasure of your personal data.
The right to object to processing of your personal data.
The right to request restriction of processing your personal data.
The right to request transfer of your personal data.
The right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected].

9. Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this privacy policy.

You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at [email protected].