Privacy policy

Privacy Policy for Severn River Publishing

Last Updated: April 27, 2026

Welcome to Severn River Publishing. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we handle personal data through your use of this website, including data you may provide when you sign up for a newsletter, purchase a product, click a retailer link, or otherwise interact with our site.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

Purpose of this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy gives you information on how Severn River Publishing collects and processes personal data through this website, including any data you may provide when you sign up for a newsletter, purchase a product, or click through to a retailer such as Amazon.

Contact Details

Our full details are: Full Name of Company: Severn River Publishing Email Address: contact@severnriverbooks.com Postal Address: 673 Potomac Station Dr #630, Leesburg VA 20176, United States

2. The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, including:

  • Identity Data, such as your name or username if you provide it.
  • Contact Data, such as billing address, delivery address, email address, and phone number.
  • Transaction Data, such as details about payments from you and products you have purchased from us.
  • Technical Data, such as IP address, browser type, time zone setting, approximate location, device information, and site interaction data.
  • Marketing and Preference Data, such as newsletter preferences, cookie choices, and book or retailer links you choose to click.

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

We use your data in the following ways:

  • To process and deliver your orders.
  • To manage your relationship with us, including customer support.
  • To send newsletters and marketing messages if you have opted in.
  • To understand how readers use our site and which books, series, ads, and retailer links are working.
  • To measure and improve advertising, including advertising on platforms such as Meta, TikTok, Google, and email platforms such as Klaviyo, where permitted by your consent choices and applicable law.

4. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including business, legal, accounting, reporting, and marketing purposes.

5. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These rights may include the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.
  • Request correction of your personal data.
  • Request erasure of your personal data.
  • Object to the processing of your personal data.
  • Request the transfer of your personal data.
  • Withdraw consent for non-essential cookies, analytics, or marketing where consent applies.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, keep it secure, remember preferences, understand site performance, personalize the reader experience, measure advertising, and understand when visitors click through to retailers such as Amazon.

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function. Other cookies support analytics, marketing, personalization, and advertising measurement. Shopify and our service providers may also use cookies or similar technologies to provide the store, analytics, advertising, email, checkout, and security features.

In regions where cookie consent is required, we use Shopify's customer privacy controls to show a cookie banner. The banner lets you accept cookies, decline non-essential cookies, or manage your preferences. We respect those choices for non-essential analytics and marketing technologies.

You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect site functionality.