L.H.

Privacy policy

Your data,
explained

This policy explains what personal information is collected through this website, how it's used, and your rights in relation to it. This site is operated by Ironbark Press. It applies to lorraineh.com.au and is governed by Australian privacy law, including the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

Last updated: June 2026.

Article 1

Information I collect

This site may collect personal information through the following points of contact:

  1. Newsletter signup: email address only, used to send updates about new releases, cover reveals, and occasional news.
  2. ARC request form: name, email address, platform, handle or URL, and an optional note, used to consider and respond to advance copy requests.

No other personal information is collected. This site does not use cookies, advertising pixels, or any third-party analytics or tracking service. The server keeps an anonymous tally of page requests, described in Article 5.

Article 2

How I use your information

Information collected through this site is used only for the purpose for which it was submitted:

  1. Newsletter emails are used to send the communications you subscribed to. You may unsubscribe at any time via the link in any email.
  2. ARC request submissions are used only to consider and respond to your request.

Your data is never sold, rented, or shared with third parties except where necessary to operate the relevant service. Newsletter emails are sent via MailerLite, whose privacy policy governs their handling of subscriber data.

Article 3

Data storage and security

Newsletter and ARC list details are held by MailerLite, which sends the email. The site itself runs on Railway. Neither the site nor its statistics database keeps a copy of your details.

I keep newsletter subscribers until they unsubscribe, and ARC list details until you ask me to take them off. Ask and I will.

Article 4

Your rights

You have the right to:

  1. Request access to personal information held about you.
  2. Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
  3. Request deletion of your personal information.
  4. Withdraw consent at any time, where processing is based on consent.

To exercise any of these rights, please email me at lorraineh-writes@outlook.com. I respond to these within five working days.

If you're located in the European Economic Area, you may also have rights under the GDPR, including the right to data portability and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Article 5

Cookies, tracking, and site statistics

This site does not use cookies, advertising pixels, or any third-party analytics service. Nothing here follows you to other websites, and no data is shared with an advertising network.

The server does keep a simple record of requests, so I can tell whether people are finding the site and which search engines and AI assistants are reading it. Each entry holds only the date and time, the page requested, the family of browser it was requested with (Chrome, Safari, Firefox and the like, with no version, device, or operating system recorded), whether the request came from a person or an automated crawler, and the name of the site you arrived from, if any. Clicks on outbound links to Amazon, Goodreads and the books recommended in the reading guides are counted the same way. On longer pages the page also reports back when a quarter, a half, three quarters and all of it have been scrolled past, so I can tell whether the guides are read or just opened. That is four numbers and the page they belong to, with nothing tying them to each other or to you.

These records deliberately contain nothing that could identify you or link one visit to another: no IP addresses, no cookies, no visitor or session identifiers, and no device fingerprinting. They are totals, not profiles, and they are deleted after roughly a year.

The only browser storage in use is sessionStorage, which manages page transition animations. It contains no personal data and is cleared automatically when you close your browser tab.

Article 6

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated from time to time. The date at the top of this page reflects when it was last revised. Continued use of the site after any changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

Article 7

Contact

For privacy-related questions, requests, or complaints, please email me at lorraineh-writes@outlook.com. I reply to privacy enquiries within five working days.