Last updated: July 2026. Update this date whenever the policy changes.
This privacy policy explains how Salt & Anchor Press ("we", "us") collects, uses, and protects information about visitors to francesholcombe.com and subscribers to the Letters from Porthaven newsletter.
Salt & Anchor Press is the publisher of the Morning Men Mystery Series and operates this website. Frances Holcombe is a pen name of Salt & Anchor Press. For the purposes of this policy, Salt & Anchor Press is the data controller responsible for your personal data.
Contact: frances@francesholcombe.com
We collect only the information you choose to provide:
We do not collect your name unless you provide it. We do not collect payment information (all book purchases are handled by Amazon). We do not use cookies for tracking purposes. This website does not use Google Analytics or any other third-party analytics service.
We use your email address solely to:
We will never sell, rent, or share your email address with third parties for marketing purposes.
Under UK GDPR and EU GDPR, we process your email address on the basis of consent. You provided your email address voluntarily and ticked the relevant consent box (or equivalent) at the point of sign-up. You may withdraw this consent at any time by unsubscribing.
We use MailerLite to manage our email list and send newsletters. MailerLite acts as a data processor on our behalf, meaning they store and process your email address according to our instructions.
MailerLite is GDPR-compliant and processes data in accordance with its own privacy policy, available at mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy.
By subscribing, you agree to your email address being stored and processed by MailerLite on our behalf.
We keep your email address for as long as you are subscribed to the newsletter. When you unsubscribe, your email address is removed from our active list. We may retain anonymised aggregate statistics (such as total subscriber count) indefinitely, but these cannot be used to identify you.
Under UK GDPR and EU GDPR, you have the right to:
To exercise any of these rights, email us at frances@francesholcombe.com. We will respond within 30 days.
If you are in the UK and believe we have handled your data unlawfully, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). If you are in the EU, you may contact your local data protection authority.
We take reasonable steps to protect your personal data. Your email address is stored securely within MailerLite's systems. This website is served over HTTPS. We do not store your email address on our own servers beyond what MailerLite requires to operate.
This website contains links to Amazon (for book purchases) and to MailerLite's privacy policy. Once you follow a link to another website, this privacy policy no longer applies. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any websites you visit.
This website is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us and we will delete it.
We may update this policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "last updated" date at the top of this page. We will not notify subscribers of minor changes, but will notify subscribers by email of any material changes that affect how we use their data.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or how we handle your data, please contact us at frances@francesholcombe.com.