Last updated: June 8, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how AshAnders.com collects, uses, stores, and shares information when you visit or interact with this website. It also explains the choices and privacy rights that may be available to you.
AshAnders.com is the official author website of Ash Anders. The website shares information about Ash Anders books, short romance fiction, storytelling, writing, publishing, book reviews, and related resources.
By using AshAnders.com, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Information That May Be Collected
The information collected through AshAnders.com depends on how you use the website and which website features are active.
Information You Provide Voluntarily
You may choose to provide personal information when you contact AshAnders.com, subscribe to an email list, submit a form, leave a comment where comments are enabled, or communicate with the website owner.
This information may include:
- Your name
- Your email address
- The information included in your message or form submission
- Your newsletter subscription preferences
- Any other information you choose to provide
Please do not submit sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for your request.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit AshAnders.com, certain information may be collected automatically through server logs, cookies, analytics tools, security tools, and similar technologies.
This information may include:
- Your Internet Protocol address, commonly known as an IP address
- Your browser type and browser settings
- Your device type and operating system
- The date and time of your visit
- The pages you view and the links you click
- The website, search engine, or other source that referred you to AshAnders.com
- Your approximate location based on your IP address
- Information about how you interact with the website
This information may be used to operate the website, improve performance, understand visitor activity, maintain security, and support advertising or analytics functions.
How Information May Be Used
Information collected through AshAnders.com may be used for the following purposes:
- To operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website
- To respond to messages, questions, or requests
- To provide newsletters or email updates when you have subscribed
- To understand how visitors use the website
- To identify popular content and improve the browsing experience
- To detect spam, fraud, misuse, or security threats
- To display, manage, and measure advertisements
- To monitor the performance of affiliate links
- To comply with legal obligations or respond to lawful requests
- To protect the rights, safety, and security of the website owner, website visitors, and third parties
Cookies and Similar Technologies
AshAnders.com may use cookies and similar technologies, such as pixels, tags, scripts, web beacons, and local storage. These technologies may help the website operate correctly, remember preferences, analyse website activity, support advertising, and understand how visitors interact with online content.
Some cookies are placed directly by AshAnders.com. Other cookies may be placed by third-party providers, such as analytics services, advertising networks, embedded-content providers, or affiliate networks.
For more information about the cookies that may be used and the choices available to you, please read the Cookie Policy.
Analytics
AshAnders.com may use Google Analytics or similar analytics services to understand how visitors use the website. Analytics services may collect information about page views, referral sources, browsing activity, browser types, devices, approximate locations, and website interactions.
This information is generally used to evaluate website performance, identify useful content, and improve the website experience.
You can learn more about Google Analytics by visiting the Google Privacy Policy. You can also learn about the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Advertising and Google Cookies
AshAnders.com may display advertisements provided by third-party vendors and advertising networks, including Google.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on your previous visits to AshAnders.com or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve advertisements based on your visits to AshAnders.com and other websites on the internet.
You can manage personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. You may also be able to opt out of certain personalized advertising cookies by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page.
Other third-party advertising vendors or networks may also use cookies or similar technologies when advertisements are displayed on AshAnders.com. These providers may offer their own privacy choices and opt-out tools.
The appearance of an advertisement on AshAnders.com does not necessarily mean that Ash Anders has personally used, reviewed, recommended, or endorsed the advertised product or service.
Affiliate Links
Some pages on AshAnders.com may contain affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link, a third-party retailer, service provider, or affiliate network may place a cookie or use another tracking method to determine whether a qualifying purchase or other eligible action occurs.
AshAnders.com may receive a small commission or referral fee when a qualifying action occurs. For more information, please read the Affiliate Disclosure.
Email Subscriptions
If you subscribe to an email list or newsletter through AshAnders.com, your name, email address, and subscription preferences may be collected and processed for the purpose of sending the requested communications.
An external email service provider may be used to manage subscriptions and deliver emails. That provider may process your information in accordance with its own privacy policy and the services it provides to AshAnders.com.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the relevant email. You may also request removal from an email list by contacting ash@ashanders.com.
Contact Forms and Messages
If you send a message through a contact form or by email, AshAnders.com may retain your name, email address, message, and related correspondence for the purpose of responding to your request and maintaining appropriate records.
Contact forms may use third-party services for spam protection, security, or message delivery. These services may process limited information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Comments
If comments are enabled on AshAnders.com and you leave a comment, the website may collect the information entered into the comment form, your IP address, and your browser user-agent string to help identify spam or misuse.
An anonymized string created from your email address, sometimes called a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether you use that service. After a comment is approved, a profile image associated with Gravatar may be visible publicly alongside the comment.
Comments and related metadata may be retained for moderation, security, and record-keeping purposes unless removal is requested and the information is not required for another lawful purpose.
Embedded Content
Pages on AshAnders.com may include embedded content from third-party websites, such as videos, images, social media posts, or other external resources.
Embedded content may behave in the same way as if you visited the external website directly. The external provider may collect information about you, place cookies, use tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content in accordance with its own privacy policy.
External Retailers and Purchases
AshAnders.com may link to books, products, or services sold through external retailers, such as Amazon or other third-party websites.
Purchases completed through an external retailer are processed by that retailer. AshAnders.com does not directly receive or store your payment card details, billing information, shipping information, or retailer account credentials when you purchase an item from an external website.
You should review the retailer’s privacy policy and terms before making a purchase or providing personal information.
How Information May Be Shared
AshAnders.com does not rent or sell your directly submitted contact information, such as your name or email address, to third parties for their own independent marketing purposes.
Information may be shared with service providers where reasonably necessary to operate and maintain the website. These providers may include:
- Website hosting providers
- Security, backup, and spam-prevention services
- Website analytics providers
- Advertising networks and advertising technology providers
- Email subscription and newsletter providers
- Contact-form and communication services
- Affiliate networks and external retailers
- Professional advisers where reasonably necessary
Information may also be disclosed where required by law, court order, subpoena, or other lawful request. Information may be disclosed where reasonably necessary to investigate fraud, prevent misuse, protect legal rights, or address website security concerns.
Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising
AshAnders.com does not sell personal information for money.
However, third-party advertising providers may use cookies, pixels, or similar technologies to collect or process information about browsing activity. Depending on the applicable law and the way an advertising service is configured, certain disclosures of information for personalized advertising may be treated as a “sale,” “sharing,” or use for “targeted advertising.”
Where required by applicable law, visitors may be able to manage non-essential cookies, personalized advertising, or related privacy preferences through a cookie-consent banner, privacy-settings tool, browser controls, or an available opt-out method.
You can also contact ash@ashanders.com with a privacy-related request.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and the laws that apply to your circumstances, you may have certain rights relating to your personal information.
These rights may include the ability to:
- Request access to personal information held about you
- Request a copy of certain personal information
- Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
- Request deletion of certain personal information
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Object to or restrict certain uses of your personal information
- Unsubscribe from marketing emails
- Opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted advertising activities where applicable
- Request data portability where applicable
- Exercise your rights without unlawful discrimination
These rights are not absolute and may be subject to exceptions. For example, certain information may need to be retained for legal, security, fraud-prevention, or record-keeping purposes.
To submit a privacy-related request, please email ash@ashanders.com. Reasonable steps may be taken to verify your identity before processing certain requests.
California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident and the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended, applies to the relevant processing activity, you may have additional rights relating to your personal information.
These rights may include the right to know about certain personal information collected, used, disclosed, sold, or shared; the right to request deletion of certain personal information; the right to request correction of inaccurate information; the right to opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information; the right to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information where applicable; and the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising applicable privacy rights.
AshAnders.com does not knowingly collect sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about website visitors.
To submit a California privacy request, please email ash@ashanders.com with the subject line California Privacy Request.
Global Privacy Control and Browser Signals
Some browsers and browser extensions allow visitors to send privacy preference signals, such as a Global Privacy Control signal.
Where applicable law requires recognition of a supported browser-based opt-out signal and the website receives that signal, it will be handled in accordance with the applicable requirements.
Because browser signals and technical standards continue to develop, not every browser preference or “Do Not Track” signal may be interpreted in the same way by every website or third-party service.
International Visitors
AshAnders.com may be visited by readers from different countries. If you access the website from outside the country where the website is operated, your information may be processed in a country with privacy laws that differ from those in your location.
Where applicable, personal information may be processed on the basis of consent, legitimate interests, legal obligations, or the steps reasonably necessary to respond to a request you have made.
If privacy laws in your location provide additional rights, including rights of access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, withdrawal of consent, or data portability, you may submit a request by emailing ash@ashanders.com.
Data Retention
Personal information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, to maintain appropriate records, to comply with legal obligations, to resolve disputes, or to protect the website from misuse.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information. For example, newsletter subscription information may be retained until you unsubscribe, while messages may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the request and maintain appropriate records.
Data Security
Reasonable administrative, technical, and organisational measures are used to protect information associated with AshAnders.com. However, no website, internet transmission, storage system, or security measure can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You should take care when submitting information online and avoid sending sensitive personal information through ordinary website forms or email unless necessary.
Children’s Privacy
AshAnders.com is not directed to children under the age of 13, and the website does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information through AshAnders.com, please email ash@ashanders.com so that the matter can be reviewed and appropriate steps can be taken.
Third-Party Websites
AshAnders.com may contain links to external websites operated by retailers, service providers, advertisers, affiliate partners, or other third parties.
AshAnders.com does not control the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites. You should review the privacy policy of any external website before providing personal information.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to AshAnders.com, the services used, applicable requirements, or privacy practices.
The “Last updated” date at the top of this page indicates when the policy was most recently revised.
Related Policies
This Privacy Policy should be read alongside the Affiliate Disclosure, Cookie Policy, Disclaimers, DMCA Policy, and Terms of Service.
Questions About This Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the collection or use of personal information, or a privacy-related request, please email ash@ashanders.com or use the Contact Me page.
This Privacy Policy may be updated or revised over time. The latest version will always be published on this page.