Last updated: 16/11/2025
Welcome to Laura Mitchell Books (“we”, “us”, “our”). At Laura Mitchell Books, accessible from https://www.lauramitchellbooks.com/ (“Website”), we are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your information when you visit our Website, sign up for communications, purchase books, or interact with us otherwise.
1. What information we collect
We may collect and process the following categories of personal information:
- Information you provide directly: When you contact us via the “Contact” page, sign up for newsletters, leave comments, or make purchases, you may provide information such as your name, email address, postal address, billing details, and any message or comment you submit.
- Usage and technical information: When you visit the Website, we automatically collect certain usage data such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referral URL, pages viewed, time and date of access, and other diagnostic data.
- Cookies and similar technologies: We use cookies, web beacons and related technologies to track your interaction with the Website and to remember your preferences.
2. How we use your information
We use the collected personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide, maintain, and improve our Website and services (e.g., ensuring the Website loads correctly, analysing traffic, personalising content).
- To respond to your inquiries, comments or support requests.
- To send you newsletters or other marketing communications if you have opted-in (you may unsubscribe at any time).
- To process your purchases, fulfil orders, and send you relevant transactional information (e.g., order confirmations, shipping details).
- To detect and prevent fraud, abuse or security issues and to enforce our Terms of Use.
3. Legal basis for processing (for EU/EEA users)
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we rely on the following legal bases when processing your personal data:
- Your consent (for newsletters, marketing communications).
- Performance of a contract (for processing your orders).
- Compliance with legal obligations.
- Our legitimate interests (e.g., improving our Website, ensuring security), provided that your rights do not override those interests.
4. Disclosure of your information
We will not rent or sell your personal data to third parties. We may share your data in the following limited circumstances:
- With service providers or vendors who perform services on our behalf (for example: payment processors, hosting providers, email platforms). These service providers are bound by confidentiality obligations and may only use your data to the extent we permit.
- To comply with legal obligations, respond to lawful requests by public authorities, enforce our Terms of Use, or protect our rights or the rights of others.
- In the event of a business transaction (e.g., sale, merger, reorganisation) your personal data may be transferred as part of the transaction; in that case we will require that the recipient uses your data consistent with this Privacy Policy.
5. Cookies and tracking technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to run and improve the Website. Cookies may help us remember your preferences, enable features, analyse usage, and provide a better user experience. You can manage or disable cookies in your browser settings. However, disabling some cookies may affect functionality of the Website.
6. Your rights
If you are located in the EU/EEA or UK, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- The right to access the personal data we hold about you.
- The right to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
- The right to request erasure of your personal data (in certain circumstances).
- The right to restrict or object to our processing of your data.
- The right to data portability (where applicable).
- The right to withdraw consent at any time (for processing based on consent) without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.
- The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (for example, in Spain: the Spanish Data Protection Agency, “Agencia Española de Protección de Datos”).
7. Data security
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
8. Data retention
We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it (for example, to send you newsletters, process your orders, maintain our Website), and to comply with our legal obligations (e.g., tax, accounting). If you request deletion of your data, we will securely delete or anonymise it unless we are required to retain it by law.
9. International transfers
If we transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place (such as standard contractual clauses or other permitted legal mechanisms) to ensure your rights are protected and your data remains secure.
10. Children’s privacy
Our Website is not directed towards children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal data without your consent, please contact us and we will take steps to remove that information.
11. Third-party links and services
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites or services (for example: Amazon KDP listing links, article links). We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such third-party sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any site you visit.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The “Last updated” date indicates when the policy was last revised. We will post any changes on this page and, where appropriate, notify you of significant changes (for example via email if you previously subscribed). We encourage you to review this page periodically.
13. How to contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:
Email: marketing@lauramitchellbooks.com
Address: Guadalmina Baja, Marbella, 29670 Málaga