Privacy Policy
Legal Disclaimer
Effective Date: 8 April 2025
1. Introduction
Warren Gray Elliott ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the responsible use of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information when you visit our website https://warrenelliott.com (the "Website") or interact with our services.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of personal information:
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Contact Information: Your name, email address, phone number, and postal address when you contact us, subscribe to newsletters, or make inquiries.
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Website Usage Data: Information about your interaction with our Website, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, and the dates/times of your visits. This may be collected through cookies and similar tracking technologies (see our Cookie Policy below).
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Account Information: If you create an account on our Website (if applicable), we may collect your username, password, and other profile information.
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Communication Data: Records of our correspondence if you contact us.
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Marketing Preferences: Information about your preferences for receiving marketing communications from us.
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Payment Information: If you purchase our book or other products/services through the Website (if applicable), we may collect necessary payment information (handled by secure payment processors).
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Other Information: Any other information you voluntarily provide to us.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
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To respond to your inquiries and provide customer support.
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To manage and administer your account (if applicable).
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To process and fulfill your orders for our book or other products/services (if applicable).
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To send you newsletters, marketing communications, and information about our talks, book releases, and other relevant content, in accordance with your preferences.
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To personalize your experience on our Website.
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To analyze Website usage and improve our Website and services.
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To detect, prevent, and address technical issues, security breaches, or fraud.
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To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes.
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For any other purpose disclosed to you at the time of collection.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose your personal information to the following categories of recipients:
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Service Providers: Third-party service providers who assist us with website hosting, email marketing, payment processing, analytics, and other services. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information.
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Legal Authorities: When required by law, legal process, or a government request.
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Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.
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With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when you have given us your explicit consent to do so.
5. International Data Transfers
If you are accessing our Website from outside of South Africa, please be aware that your personal information may be transferred to and processed in South Africa or other countries where our service providers are located. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country. We will take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable international data transfer mechanisms.
6. Security of Your Information
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
7. Your Rights Under POPIA and Other Laws
Depending on your location and applicable laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:
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The right to access: To request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
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The right to rectification: To request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
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The right to erasure (right to be forgotten): To request that we delete your personal information under certain circumstances.
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The right to restrict processing: To request that we limit the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances.
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The right to data portability: To receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller.
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The right to object: To object to the processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes or on other legitimate grounds.
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The right to lodge a complaint: To lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority (in South Africa, this is the Information Regulator).
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To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below. We may require you to verify your identity before responding to your request.
8. Retention of Your Information
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
9. Cookie Policy
[You will need a separate Cookie Policy if you use cookies or similar tracking technologies on your website. This policy should explain what cookies are, the types of cookies you use, their purpose, and how users can manage their cookie preferences.]
10. Links to Other Websites
Our Website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any website you visit.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on our Website and updating the "Effective Date" at the top. Your continued use of our Website after such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at: