We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use The James Bond Dossier, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
The James Bond Dossier strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers’ and online visitors’ privacy on our website.
About Our Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that The James Bond Dossier stores on your computer, which your browser provides to The James Bond Dossier each time you return to the site.
We use cookies to personalise content, ads and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.
Google Analytics Cookies
The James Bond Dossier uses Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy
The James Bond Dossier uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.
If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Microsoft Cookies
We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising. For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
Advertising Cookies
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you’ve seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.
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Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google’s cookie enables it and its ad partners to personalise ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the web: Google Adsense EU user Consent Policy.
This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.
Affiliate Products and Services
We receive an affiliate commission for some of the products mentioned on The James Bond Dossier.
The affiliate services platforms we use are Amazon, Awin, Rakuten Advertising and Shareasale.
By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform’s use of cookies, as outlined in the link below.
- Amazon Europe privacy policy
- Amazon privacy policy
- Awin privacy policy
- Rakuten Advertising privacy policy
- Shareasale privacy policy
Tracking Pixels
The James Bond Dossier uses tracking pixels to determine the effectiveness of some ad campaigns.
Refusing Cookies
You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.
If you choose to refuse The James Bond Dossier’s cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
Personally Identifiable Information
The James Bond Dossier may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To run and operate our site.
- To display content on the site correctly.
- To improve customer service.
- To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
- To personalize your user experience.
- To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
- To improve our site.
- To improve our products and services.
- To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
- To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
- To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
- To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.
The James Bond Dossier may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.
Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your name and will require your email address.
If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.
If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.
If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.
If you purchase a product or service from us, we will collect your name, email address and billing address. Payment is made via PayPal. We do not have access to your credit card number and cannot charge your card except for the amount you authorise at the time of purchase.
Print on demand books are printed and shipped by Lulu.com. We will provide them with your name, address and email for the purposes of fulfilling the order only.
You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.
If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.
We also collect each visitor’s IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.
Non-personally Identifiable Information
We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.
Children’s Privacy Protection
This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.
Release of Information
If we sell The James Bond Dossier, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honours any opt-out requests you might make.
Data Storage
Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host’s servers. That host is Amazon Web Services (AWS), located at 1200 12th Ave S, Ste 1200, Seattle, WA 98144, United States.
Amazon Web Services privacy policy
Some information is collected by third-party services or stored using cloud based services. These include AWeber, Sumo.com, DropBox and Google Drive and Google Maps.
How You Can Review, Correct or Remove Information
We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information.
If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to review your information stored, update that information or have it deleted from our records, please make a request using the contact form on the website. Normally we will respond to you within 2 working days and never longer than a month.
Updates and Effective Date
The James Bond Dossier reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.
Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to The James Bond Dossier’s privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.
Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.
Last updated: 29th July 2024
Earnings disclosure
The owners of this website receive compensation for featuring a variety of products and services. Please keep the following affiliations in mind when visiting this website:
1. Cost Per Click (CPC) Advertising
These adverts are supplied by Google AdSense or similar and we receive compensation each time a website visitor clicks one of the links.
While such advertisements are displayed on the majority of pages on the site, we make no endorsement regarding the products or services being advertised.
2. Reviews and product recommendations
While we endeavour to provide unbiased product reviews, visitors should be aware that some products featured on this site are provided to us free of charge for review purposes.
3. Product links
Some products or services featured in articles on this website pay a commission for sales to visitors referred from this website.
Such articles may or may not be specific product reviews and include but are not limited to books, DVDs, digital downloads and other merchandise.
Participation in Amazon Associate Program
The James Bond Dossier is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. We also participate in the Amazon EU Associates Programme to earn advertising fees from the Amazon UK site, Amazon DE site, Amazon FR site, Amazon IT site and Amazon ES site.
