Privacy Policy

StrainingShipsPublishing.com (the "Site") is owned and operated by Straining Ships Publishing LLC and Madison Grey Clark, the owner.

Last updated October 9, 2026

Purpose
The purpose of this privacy policy (this "Privacy Policy") is to inform users of our Site of the following:

The personal data we will collect;
Use of collected data;
Who has access to the data collected;
The rights of Site users; and
The Site's cookie policy.

This Privacy Policy applies in addition to the terms and conditions of our Site.

Consent
By using our Site users agree that they consent to:

The conditions set out in this Privacy Policy; and
The collection, use, and retention of the data listed in this Privacy Policy.

Personal Data We Collect

We only collect data that helps us achieve the purpose set out in this Privacy Policy. We will not collect any additional data beyond the data listed below without notifying you first.

Data Collected Automatically:

When you visit and use our Site, we may automatically collect and store the following information for statistical purposes:

IP address;
Location;
Hardware and software details;
Clicked links; and
Content viewed.

Cookie Policy:

A cookie is a small file, stored on a user's hard drive by a website. Its purpose is to collect data relating to the user's

browsing habits. You can manage out of cookies by using your browser settings, though by doing so, you may impact the

full functionality of the site.

Data Collected in a Non-Automatic Way:

We may also collect the following data when you perform certain functions on our Site:

Newsletter:

If you fill out the form to sign up for the newsletter, the following pieces of information will be used for the

Substack newsletter belonging to Madison Grey Clark

Email Address

Making a Purchase:

The following information will be collected when making a purchase on the site and will be used

for the purpose of confirming, communicating, and delivering the product to the consumer.

First and Last Name
Email Address
Mailing Address
Billing Address
Phone Number
Payment Details (e.x. credit card number, expiration date, CVV/CVC number, and Cardholder name etc.) processed by Wix payments that shrouds full details from Straining Ships Publishing.

Contact Form:

The following information will be collected when a user fills out the contact form and will be used in communicating with

the sender on the matter.

First and Last Name
Email Address
Subject Title and Message of the Contact Box

Who We Share Personal Data With:

Any future employees.
Minimal data may be shared with those who assist in the packaging of purchased books.

We may disclose user data to any member of our organization who reasonably needs access to user data to achieve the

purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

Third Parties

We may share user data with the following third parties:

Wix.com and service providers connected to Wix in the operation of this site.
Newsletter signups will be delivered through Substack

We may share user data with third parties for the following purposes:

For the purpose of enhancing or supporting the act of providing the product to the consumer.

Third parties will not be able to access user data beyond what is reasonably necessary to achieve the given purpose.

Other Disclosures

We will not sell or share your data with other third parties, except in the following cases:

If the law requires it;
If it is required for any legal proceeding;
To prove or protect our legal rights; and
To buyers or potential buyers of this company in the event that we seek to sell the company.
In the event that Straining Ships Publishing LLC reorganizes under a different state or company structure.

If you follow hyperlinks from our Site to another Site, please note that we are not responsible for and have no control

over their privacy policies and practices.

How Long We Store Personal Data

User data will be stored until the purpose the data was collected for has been achieved.

How We Protect Your Personal Data

We will make every reasonable effort to protect your security and store data securely. All data will be

accessible only to the owner or any future employees of Straining Ships Publishing LLC, and those

involved in the packing and mailing process.

While we take all reasonable precautions to ensure that user data is secure and that users are protected,

there always remains the risk of harm. The Internet as a whole can be insecure at times and therefore we are unable

to guarantee the security of user data beyond what is reasonably practical.

Children:

The minimum age to use our website is 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children

under 13 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 13 years of age, the personal data

will be deleted as soon as possible. If a child under 13 years of age has provided us with personal data their parent or

guardian may contact our privacy officer.

How to Access, Modify, Delete, or Challenge the Data Collected

If you would like to know if we have collected your personal data, how we have used your personal data, if we have

disclosed your personal data and to who we disclosed your personal data, or if you would like your data to be deleted or

modified in any way, please contact our privacy officer here:

Madison Grey Clark
Madisongreyclarkauthor@gmail.com

Do Not Track Notice:

Do Not Track ("DNT") is a privacy preference that you can set in certain web browsers.

We do not track the users of our Site over time and across third party websites and therefore do not respond to

browser-initiated DNT signals. We are not responsible for and cannot guarantee how any third parties who interact

with our Site and your data will respond to DNT signals.

How to Opt-Out of Data Collection, Use or Disclosure

In addition to the method(s) described in the How to Access, Modify, Delete, or Challenge the Data

Collected section, we provide the following specific opt-out methods for the forms of collection, use,

or disclosure of your personal data specified below:

You may opt out of the newsletter at any time. You can opt-out by clicking unsubscribe at the bottom of the email that

will be sent using Substack.

Regional Rights:

There are certain regions that have additional rights to access information that may have been

collected through the operation of this site; have rights to the deletion of such data;

or otherwise.

For inquiries into what data has been collected, amend information, opt out, or for any data deletion requests, or to fulfill any other legal rights, please contact the data privacy officer. It may prove necessary for your identity to be confirmed in order to fulfill these requests.

Madison Grey Clark

MadisonGreyClarkauthor@gmail.com

You may also have the right for a representative.

European Economic Area (GDPR):

For users in the European Union, we adhere to the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR"). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.

Madison Grey Clark acts as the controller with respect to personal data collected as your interact with our service.

We collect and process personal data about users in the EU only when we have a legal basis for doing so under Article 6 of the GDPR.

We rely on the following legal bases to collect and process the personal data of users in the EU:

Users have provided their consent to the processing of their data for one or more specific purposes; and
Processing of user personal data is necessary for us or a third party to pursue a legitimate interest. Our legitimate interest is not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of users. Our legitimate interest(s) are: Analyzing and understanding our business audience.

California

This Privacy Notice supplements the StrainingShipsPublishing.com Privacy Policy and applies solely to California consumers who visit StrainingShipsPublishing.com. Any terms defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) have the same meaning when used in this Privacy Notice.

Information We Collect

We may collect the following through the course/actions of this site.

Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers;
Categories of personal information described in California customer records law (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) such as name, address, telephone number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information.
Geolocation data such as physical location.

Sources of Information

We collect the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

Indirectly from user activity on our website;
Directly when consumer makes a purchase; and
Directly when user opts into the newsletter by filling out information into the newsletter box.

Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose personal information for one or more of the following business purposes:

To aid in processing payment and delivering purchased products;
To aid in delivering a newsletter; and
To better understand audience.

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information for a business purpose. If you wish to inquire into how we have disclosed your personal information broken down by category, please email MadisonGreyClarkauthor@gmail.com

Sale of Personal Information

We have not sold consumer personal information in the past twelve (12) months.

Your Rights and Choices

The CPPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how you can exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights

You have the right to request that StrainingShipsPublishing.com disclose to you certain information about our collection and use of your personal information in the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see the Exercising Your Access and Deletion Rights section below), we will disclose to you:

The categories of personal information we collected about you;
The categories of sources from which we collected personal information about you;
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information;
The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information;
The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you (also called a data portability request); and
If we disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, the categories of personal information that we disclosed and that each category of third party received.

Please email StrainingShipsPublishing@gmail.com in order to submit such a request.

Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we have received and confirmed your verifiable consumer request, we will delete, and direct any of our service providers to delete, your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:

Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you;
Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities;
Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law;
Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.);
Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us;
Comply with a legal obligation; or
Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Exercising Your Access and Deletion Rights:

To exercise your access and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us at:

StrainingShipsPublishing@gmail.com

The verifiable consumer request must:

Provide enough information for us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative; and
Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. You are not required to make an account with us to make a verifiable consumer request. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.

Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

Non-Discrimination

You have the right to not be discriminated against in pricing and services because you exercise any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not use whether or not you have exercised your CCPA rights to:

Deny you goods or services;
Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties;
Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services; or
Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Based in United States:

StrainingShipsPublishing.com is based in the United States and should it prove necessary to process information from another country, that information may be processed in the United States.

Modifications:

This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law

and to reflect any changes to our data collection process. When we amend this Privacy Policy we

will update the "Effective Date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. We recommend that our users periodically

review our Privacy Policy to ensure that they are notified of any updates. If necessary, we may notify users by

email of changes to this Privacy Policy.

Contact Information:

If you have any questions, concerns or complaints, you can contact our privacy officer, Madison Grey Clark, at:

Madisongreyclarkauthor@gmail.com

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