As director of Skeleton Key Publishing, Jennifer Blackstream operates the Jim Butcher newsletter on behalf of her husband, Jim Butcher in order to provide interested fans with information related to the author Jim Butcher.

This page is used to inform potential newsletter subscribers regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information pertaining to anyone who decides to sign up for Jim Butcher's newsletter or enter any sponsored contests.

If you choose to sign up for Jim Butcher's newsletter or enter sponsored contests, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing information and updating subscribers/contestants only. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

To deliver newsletters and Jim Butcher-related messages, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name and email address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.

Log Data

Jim's website is in the middle of an upgrade, so at this time information may occasionally be hosted on his wife's website: jenniferblackstream.com. We want to inform you that whenever you visit Jim Butcher's or Jennifer Blackstream’s website through a link in a newsletter, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of Jim Butcher and Jennifer Blackstream’s websites that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics. This information may be used to create ads based on those who visit this website. However, this data will not be used by anyone other than Skeleton Key Publishing and Imaginary Empire. Imaginary Empire is the company under which Jim does business.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Our websites use these “cookies” to collect information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

To facilitate our business;

To provide the business-related services on our behalf;

To perform business-related services; or

To assist us in analyzing how our website is used.

We want to inform our visitors that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

Our website may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at jenniferblackstream @ jennifer blackstream (dot) com or jimbutcher @ jenniferblackstream (dot) com