Privacy Policy
PRIOR TO ACCESSING OR USING OUR SERVICES PLEASE READ THIS POLICY AND MAKE SURE YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND OUR PRACTICES IN RELATION TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. IF YOU READ AND FULLY UNDERSTAND THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AND REMAIN OPPOSED TO OUR PRACTICES, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY LEAVE AND DISCONTINUE ALL USE OF OUR SERVICES.
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Updated 27th March 2023
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INTRODUCTION
Keystohn Limited the owner and operator of Fossil Coast Books cares deeply about the privacy of its visitors and customers. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Keystohn Limited., (“Keystohn”, “we”, “our”, or “us”), shall collect, use, and share your Personal Information, as well as provide an explanation of the data rights you may have in that Personal Information.
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This Privacy Policy applies collectively to all our users, including ("User,", “Users”, “Customer,” "Customers," “you”, or “your”), and to all our Services, including our websites, any of its subdomains, web applications, mobile applications, and related services (collectively, the “Services”).
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This Privacy Policy is not intended to override the Terms and Condition you have with us, nor any rights you may have under other applicable data privacy laws. By accessing or using any of our Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please Contact Us.
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WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
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USER INFORMATION
To provide you the Services, we must collect the Personal Information (“Personal Information”) you provide us, from your use of the Services, and from other sources.
Here are the types of Personal Information we collect about you:
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USER INFORMATION PROVIDED
When you use our Services, make a purchase, or when you contact us directly by any communication channel (e.g. emails), you may provide us Personal Information, not limited to, information such as name, email address, phone number, and payment information.
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INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM THE USE OF OUR SERVICES
When you visit, purchase, and/or use any of our Services, we may collect aggregated usage Personal Information, through the use of digital analytics software (e.g. Google Analytics), to analyze in-depth detail about the visitor activity and provide valuable insights that can help to shape the success of the Services provided to users. These insights may include information about a users’ device, operating system, internet browser, screen resolution, language, and keyboard settings, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, date/time stamps, user session and any ad campaign information, etc.
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INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM OTHER SOURCES
We may receive Personal Information about you from third-party sources including:
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security providers to help us screen out users and those associated with fraud,
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social media platforms, when you log-in or sign-up using your social media account, we may receive Personal Information from that service (e.g., your username, basic profile Personal Information)
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enriched data about leads, prospects, and customers from lead enhancement companies which help us to improve our service offering
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advertising and marketing partners in order to monitor, manage and measure advertising campaigns.
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WHY DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We use your Personal Information for the following purposes:
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To provide and operate our Services;
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To further develop, customize, expand, and improve our Services, based on common or personal preferences, experiences, and difficulties by our users;
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To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
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To be able to contact our users with general or personalised service-related notices and promotional messages;
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To help us to update, expand and analyze our records to identify new users;
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To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
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To enhance our data security and fraud prevention capabilities;
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To comply with any applicable laws and regulations;
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​We use the Personal Information we collect about you to provide our services and make them better and safer;
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We also collect and use Personal Information in order to contact our users;
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​SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may share, solely in accordance with this policy, your Personal Information with service providers and others (or otherwise allow them access to it) for a specific business purpose or official law enforcement request in the following instances:
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Third-Party Service Providers whose services and solutions complement, facilitate, and enhance our own Services. These include hosting and server co-location services, communications, and content delivery networks, data and cybersecurity services, billing and payment processing services, domain name registrars, fraud detection and prevention services, web analytics, e-mail distribution, and monitoring services, session recording, and remote access services, performance measurement, data optimization, and marketing services, content providers, and our legal and financial advisors herein referred to as “Third Party Service Provider(s)”.
We may disclose or otherwise allow access to your Personal Information pursuant to a legal request, such as a subpoena, legal proceedings, search warrant, or court order, or in compliance with applicable laws, if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so, with or without notice to you.
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Our Services include certain Social Media features, widgets, and single sign-on features, such as the “Facebook Connect,” “Google Sign-in,” “Facebook Like”, or “Share this” button or other interactive social media features. These Social Media Features may collect certain Personal Information such as your IP address or which page you are visiting on our Website(s) and may set a cookie to enable them to function properly. Social media features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Services. Your interactions with these third parties’ social media features are governed by their policies and not ours.
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As part of our Services, we allow Third-Party Ecommerce Partners (“Third Party Ecommerce Partner(s)”) to offer and sell their own products and services. Each Third-Party Ecommerce Partner has restrictions on how they may access, store, share, and use the Personal Information you and/or your Users-of-Users provide them or us.
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You should review any Third-Party Ecommerce Partners' own privacy policy and request any clarifications you may need before deciding to undertake a transaction. We do not control and are not responsible for the actions or policies of any Third-Party Ecommerce Partner, and your transaction with a Third-Party Ecommerce Partner is at your own risk.
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We may share your Personal Information internally within our companies, for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy for the purpose of facilitating and providing you with our Services. Should we or any of our affiliates undergo any change in control, including by means of merger, acquisition, or purchase of substantially all of its assets, your Personal Information may be shared with the parties involved in such event.
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​WHERE IS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION STORED?
The Personal Information of our users may be stored by a Third-Party Service Provider of data centers located in the United States of America, Ireland, Japan, and Israel. These Third-Party Service Providers store or process your Personal Information on our behalf are committed to keeping it protected and secured, in accordance with industry standards and regardless of any lesser legal requirements which may apply in their jurisdiction.
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We may use other jurisdictions as necessary for the proper delivery of our Services and/or as may be required by law. Keystohn Ltd. is based in the United Kingdom, which is considered by the European Commission to be offering an adequate level of protection for the Personal Information of EU Member State residents.
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You are responsible for the security, integrity, and authorized usage of Personal Information, and for obtaining consents, permissions, and providing any required data subject rights and fair processing notices required for the collection and usage of such Personal Information.
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COOKIES AND OTHER THIRD PARTY TECHNOLOGIES
We and our Third-Party Service Providers use cookies or other similar technologies (“Cookies”) to help us provide our Service and ensure that it performs properly, to analyze our performance and marketing activities, and to personalize your experience. Cookies are files created by websites that you visit. For more information please visit our Cookie Policy.
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Cookies make your online experience easier by saving browsing information. With cookies, websites can keep you signed in, remember your site preferences, and give you locally relevant content. There are two types of cookies: First-party cookies are created by the website you visit. Third-party cookies are created by other websites. These sites own some of the content, like ads or images, that you see on the web page you visit. We do not change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from a browser or mobile application, however, most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser.
​You can manage cookies and all internet browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences that are stored on your computer, including being able to decline cookies completely. However, if you decline them you will find a reduced functionality of our Services. You can delete cookies at any time or opt to have your browser prevent them in the future, and the way this is managed depends on the browser you have.
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​MARKETING COMMUNICATION
You may receive promotional messages and we use your Personal Information to send you promotional content and messages by e-mail, mobile messages, notifications within our platform, and similar forms of communication. If you do not wish to receive and opt-out from receiving such promotional messages, you may notify us at any time or follow the “unsubscribe” instructions contained in the promotional communications you receive.
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SERVICE AND BILLING COMMUNICATION
We may also contact you with important information regarding our Services, or your use including relevant billing messages. For example, we may send you a notice (through any of the means available to us) if a certain Service is temporarily suspended for maintenance; reply to your e-mail; send you reminders or warnings regarding upcoming or late payments for your current or upcoming subscriptions; forward abuse complaints regarding your use of our Services; or notify you of material changes in our Services. It is important that you are always able to receive such messages. For this reason, you are not able to opt-out of receiving such Service and billing messages.
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YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We agree that you have control over your Personal Information pursuant to privacy regulations worldwide, We shall take steps to enable you to request using a dedicated GDPR form to, receive a copy of, update, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information. We will respond to your requests within a reasonable timeframe. Before fulfilling your request, we may ask you for additional information in order to confirm your identity and for security purposes. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law. After completing this process, you can no longer use any of our Services, your account, and all its data will be removed permanently, and we will not be able to restore your information or retrieve your data in the future. If you have any questions or concerns about our collection, use, or disclosure of Personal Information, or if you believe that we have not complied with this Privacy Policy or applicable data protection laws, please Contact Us.
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RETAINING PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may retain your Personal Information as indicated in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise needed to provide you with our Services. We may continue to retain your Personal Information as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations to keep it longer, to aid, assist or resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse or enforce our agreements, and/or protect our legitimate interests.
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PROTECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION
We and our Third-Party Service Providers shall implement security measures designed to protect the Personal Information you share with us, including physical, electronic, and procedural measures. Among other things, we offer HTTPS secure access to most areas of our Services; the transmission of sensitive payment information (such as a credit card number) through our designated purchase forms is protected by an industry-standard SSL/TLS encrypted connection, and our Third-Party Service Providers for payments shall maintain a PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) certification.
Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by us, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of your Personal Information or any other information you upload, publish or otherwise share with us or anyone else. Furthermore, because certain areas on our Services are less secure than others. For example, e-mail and messaging are not recognized as secure forms of communications, we request and encourage you not to share any Personal Information on any of these areas or via any of these methods. If you have any questions regarding the security of our Services, please Contact Us.
​LINKING TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
​Our Services may contain links to other websites or services. We are not responsible for such websites’ or services’ privacy practices. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Services and to read the privacy statements of each and every website and service you visit before providing your Personal Information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such linked third-party websites and services.
PUBLIC FEEDS, FORUMS, BLOGS, AND USER GENERATED CONTENT
Our Services offer publicly accessible feeds, blogs, communities, and support forums. Please be aware that any Personal Information you provide in any such areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. To request removal of your Personal Information from our Services please Contact Us. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your Personal Information from such areas. For example, if you use a third-party application you should contact its provider if you want to remove the Personal Information you communicated on that platform. ​If you upload any content and communicate this content and provide it in any other way as part of the use of any Service, you do so at your own risk. You understand and acknowledge that even after the removal of this content by you or us, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if any third parties have copied or stored such content. To clarify, we advise against uploading or posting any information you do not wish to be public.
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UPDATES AND INTERPRETATION
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time, at our discretion and as required by applicable law, to reflect changes to our Personal Information collection, usage, and storage practices. If we make any changes that we deem as “material”, we will notify you (using one of the notification methods set within our Services). We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. Unless stated otherwise, our most current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your use and membership to our Services.
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This Privacy Policy was written in English, and any translation (non-English) version by you of this Privacy Policy that conflicts in any way with its English version, the provisions of the English version shall prevail.
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CONTACTING US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise any of your rights as described please Contact Us.