PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: 8 September 2026

Red Books Fiction respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This privacy policy explains what information we collect through redbooksfiction.com, why we collect it and how it is used.

  1. WHO WE ARE

Red Books Fiction is an independent publishing imprint based in Scotland and is the data controller responsible for personal information collected through this website.

For questions about this policy or how your information is handled, contact:

Email: hello@redbooksfiction.com
Website: redbooksfiction.com

  1. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

We may collect the following information:

• Your name, email address and message when you use our contact form.
• Your email address and any preferences you provide if you choose to join the Red Books Fiction reader list.
• Basic technical information associated with visiting the website, such as your IP address, browser type, device type and pages visited. This may be processed automatically by our website hosting and security providers.
• Records of your consent and communication preferences where applicable.

Please do not include sensitive personal information in the contact form unless it is genuinely necessary.

  1. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use personal information to:

• Read and respond to enquiries submitted through the contact form.
• Send reader emails about new releases, books and selected offers where you have specifically chosen to receive them.
• Maintain the security, reliability and performance of the website.
• Understand general website usage where lawful analytics tools are enabled.
• Meet our legal and regulatory obligations.

Information submitted through the contact form will not be added to the reader mailing list unless you subscribe separately.

  1. OUR LAWFUL BASES

Under UK data-protection law, we rely on:

• Legitimate interests when using contact-form information to read and respond to your enquiry, and when protecting and maintaining the website.
• Consent when you choose to join the reader mailing list or accept non-essential cookies. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
• Legal obligation where information must be retained or disclosed to comply with the law.

  1. READER EMAILS

If you join the Red Books Fiction reader list, we may send occasional emails concerning new releases, books and selected offers.

Joining the list is voluntary. You can unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in every marketing email or by contacting hello@redbooksfiction.com.

Unsubscribing will not affect the lawfulness of emails sent before you withdrew your consent. We may retain a minimal suppression record to ensure that we respect your request not to receive further marketing.

  1. SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

We do not sell or rent personal information.

Information may be processed by trusted service providers where necessary to operate the website and communicate with readers. These may include:

• Hostinger, which provides website hosting and related website services.
• Our email and mailing-list provider, once reader-email services are enabled.
• Technical, security or professional service providers where reasonably necessary.

These providers may process information only for the relevant service and subject to appropriate contractual and security arrangements.

We may also disclose information where required by law or where necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal rights.

  1. INTERNATIONAL PROCESSING

Some service providers may process information outside the United Kingdom. Where this occurs, we take reasonable steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards required by UK data-protection law are in place.

  1. HOW LONG WE KEEP INFORMATION

We keep personal information only for as long as it is reasonably required for the purpose for which it was collected.

Contact-form enquiries will ordinarily be retained for no longer than 12 months after the enquiry has been resolved, unless continued retention is reasonably necessary.

Reader-list information will be retained until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it, subject to retaining a minimal suppression record where necessary.

Technical and security information is retained according to the relevant service provider’s retention arrangements and only for as long as reasonably necessary.

  1. COOKIES AND WEBSITE TECHNOLOGY

This website may use cookies or similar technology required for security, functionality and the operation of the website.

Optional analytics or marketing technologies will be used only where appropriate consent has been obtained. You can accept, reject or manage optional cookies through the website’s cookie controls where these technologies are enabled.

A cookie used solely to remember your cookie preferences may still be stored.

  1. LINKS TO AMAZON AND OTHER WEBSITES

This website contains links to third-party services, including Amazon and Booklinker. When you follow one of these links, the third party may collect information and use cookies according to its own privacy policy.

Red Books Fiction does not control the privacy practices or content of external websites. You should review the privacy information provided by the relevant service.

  1. DATA SECURITY

We take reasonable organisational and technical measures to protect personal information against loss, misuse, unauthorised access, alteration or disclosure.

However, no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

  1. YOUR DATA-PROTECTION RIGHTS

Depending on the circumstances, UK data-protection law may give you the right to:

• Ask for access to the personal information we hold about you.
• Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Ask us to delete your information.
• Ask us to restrict how your information is used.
• Object to certain uses of your information.
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
• Ask for certain information to be transferred in a portable format.
• Complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

To exercise your rights, email hello@redbooksfiction.com. We may need to confirm your identity before responding.

You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office through ico.org.uk. We would appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns first.

  1. CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

This website and the books promoted through it are intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

  1. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this policy when our services, providers or legal obligations change. The latest version will always appear on this page with its most recent update date.