Privacy
This site asks for an email address so that a person can reply to you. It sets no cookies and runs no analytics. What follows says so at the length the law expects.
Who is responsible
Sub-Basement Press is an imprint of Researchmatic Limited (company number 05121736, registered in England and Wales), which is the data controller for the personal data processed through this website. Researchmatic Limited is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration number ZB674551.
What is collected
If you use the form to ask for the four thousand word version, we store four things: the email address you type in, what you said you do if you chose to answer that question, whether you ticked the box asking to be told when the book comes out, and the date and time. Cloudflare also tells us the two-letter country the request came from, which is recorded so that a reply can be written in the right register and sent at a civil hour.
We do not store your IP address, your street-level location, your browser, or a tracking identifier of any kind. There is no analytics script on the page and no advertising network is involved.
If you email the author directly, we process your address and the contents of your message in order to reply.
What it is used for
Your address is used so that the author can write back to you and send you the four thousand word version. He does this by hand, one message at a time. Nothing is sent to you automatically, and there is no autoresponder.
What you said you do, if you answered, is used to write you a more useful reply. It is not used to segment, score or profile you, and it is not passed on.
If, and only if, you ticked the separate box, your address is also put on a list that receives exactly one email, on the day the book is published. That list is then deleted.
Nothing here is shown, sold, rented or given to anybody.
The legal basis
Consent, under Article 6(1)(a) of the UK GDPR, and two separate consents at that. Asking for the four thousand word version is one purpose. Being told when the book is published is a different one, which is why it is a distinct box, why that box is never ticked when you arrive, and why you can have either without the other. You may withdraw either consent at any time, and withdrawing it deletes the address.
Where you have emailed us directly, the basis is legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f): replying to someone who has written to us.
Cookies
There are none. This site sets no cookies, writes nothing to local storage, and loads no third-party script. That is why there is no cookie banner: there would be nothing for you to consent to.
Who else is involved
The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which acts as a processor: it serves the page, holds the stored requests on our behalf, and carries the author’s notification email, under contract, and does not use any of it for its own purposes. Typefaces are served from this site rather than from a font network, so no request leaves this domain to render the page.
The buy buttons are ordinary links to Amazon. Following one takes you to Amazon, at which point Amazon’s own privacy policy applies and this one stops. Nothing about you is passed to Amazon by this site.
How long it is kept
The launch list exists in order to send one email. Once that email has gone out on publication day, the list is deleted. That is a promise, and it is cheap to keep, because by then the people on it are in the author’s inbox as correspondence anyway.
The request itself, and any email exchange that follows, is kept for as long as is reasonably necessary to deal with it. Ask and it goes sooner.
Your rights
Under the UK GDPR you have the right to:
- Access — ask for a copy of the personal data held about you.
- Rectification — ask for inaccurate data to be corrected.
- Erasure — ask for your data to be deleted.
- Portability — ask for a machine-readable copy.
- Object — object to processing based on legitimate interest.
- Withdraw consent — at any time, without giving a reason.
- Complain — to the Information Commissioner’s Office, at ico.org.uk.
Any of these takes one email and no form. Ask and it is done.
Changes
If this policy changes, the revised version appears on this page with a new date at the top. There is no mailing list on which to announce it, which is rather the point.
Contact
For anything on this page, including deleting your address, write to privacy@subbasement.press. For anything about the book, write to nigel@subbasement.press.