Effective: 9/15/2025
Last Updated: 9/15/2025

Tamara S. Harker ("Tamara", "her"/"she", "we", "us", or "our") operates www.TamaraSHarker.com (this/the "Site"). Protecting your private information is our priority. The following privacy policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information received via this Site. This Site is used for the following purposes: (a) to inform readers about the writings of Tamara S. Harker and the publishing industry; (b) to provide for direct purchasing of books written by her; and (c) to provide a place for newsletter sign-up. Any time you enter personal information you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of Your Personal Information

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain areas of this Site. These may include: (a) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us; (b) signing up for notifications regarding special offers or early notification for Tamara's books; (c) sending us an email message or signing up for newsletter distribution; (d) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products on our Site. We will use your information for communicating with you in relation to the services and/or products you have requested from us.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

We do not sell, rent, or lease customer personal information to third parties.

However, we may share data with trusted partners to facilitate specific services to you, such as sharing your name and email address with Mailerlite to facilitate the sending of newsletter emails should you sign up for them. In addition, we may share your information to other services so that they may provide customer support on a problem you have reported to us, but for which we don’t have the answer. All such third parties are also prohibited from selling, renting, or leasing your personal information except to provide these services to Tamara, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Tamara may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on her or the site; (b) protect and defend her rights or property; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of this Site or the public.

Protection of Credit Card and Payment Information

Whenever a customer purchases a product, Tamara does not receive your credit card information. Instead, this data is submitted by you to a trusted, third-party, secure payment processing site such as Paypal or Stripe. As such, we do not have access to this sensitive information and never will.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Tamara and this Site. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site. This data will never be sold, leased, or traded to other parties.

Our Cookie Policy

Once you agree to allow our blog to use cookies, you also agree to use the data it collects regarding your online behavior on this Site (analyze web traffic, web pages you visit, and spend the most time on). The data we collect by using cookies is used to customize this Site to your needs. After we use the data for statistical analysis, the data is completely removed from our systems.

Please note that cookies don't allow us to gain control of your computer in any way. They are strictly used to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not so that we can provide a better experience for you. If you want to disable cookies, you can do it by accessing the settings of your internet browser. You can visit www.internetcookies.com, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers and devices.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be cautious when they leave this Site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Children Under Thirteen

Tamara does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this Site.

Email Communications

If you sign up for her newsletter, from time to time Tamara may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. Similarly, if you use the Site's contact form, she may respond to the contact information you provided. In order to improve our services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Tamara or click on a link therein.

We never buy, trade, or lease emails addresses with others, so if you are receiving an email from Tamara it is because you: (a) sent us an email; (b) provided your email on a data entry form asking for a product or future notification; (c) signed up for her newsletter; or (d) entered a contest and opted-in to be added to her newsletter.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Tamara, you may opt-out of such communications by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email or by replying to the email with “Unsubscribe” as the subject. If you unsubscribe, we will only query you about resubscribing if you continue to provide your email to us via purchases, direct emails, and online forms. You can also ask for a permanent unsubscribe, in which case we will never solicit you again.

Rights to Your Data

You can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you.

Changes to This Policy

Tamara reserves the right to change this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified privacy policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that policy.

Contact Information

Tamara welcomes your questions or comments regarding this privacy policy. If you believe she has not adhered to this policy, please contact her directly at tamara.s.harker@gmail.com.