Privacy

What you provide

When you use the Contact form, we collect the information you choose to provide: your name, email address, reason for contacting us, and message.

We use that information to read and respond to your inquiry and, when relevant, to coordinate interviews, reviews, school or library programs, speaking opportunities, events, partnerships, or other requests you initiate.

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through the Contact form.

Technical information

When you visit the site, the hosting platform and enabled analytics services may process standard technical information such as your IP address, browser and device type, pages viewed, referring page, approximate location derived from your IP address, and the date and time of access.

This information is used to operate, secure, troubleshoot, and understand use of the site.

Site hosting

This site is built and hosted on Base44. Base44 processes technical information required to provide and secure the site and may process information submitted through the site as part of providing its hosting and application services.

You can learn more by reading Base44’s Privacy Policy.

Who receives your information

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information.

Information may be disclosed to service providers used to operate the site, deliver Contact-form messages, provide analytics, or maintain site security. Information may also be disclosed when required by law, legal process, or when reasonably necessary to protect legal rights or safety.

Contact-form delivery

Contact-form messages are transmitted through Resend for email delivery. Resend processes the information necessary to deliver those messages according to its own privacy and data-processing practices.

You can learn more by reading Resend’s Privacy Policy.

Bot and spam protection

The contact form uses Cloudflare Turnstile to help prevent automated spam and abuse. When you use the contact form, Cloudflare may process technical information about your browser, device, network, and interaction with the page to determine whether a submission appears to be legitimate. The content of your contact message is not sent to Cloudflare for Turnstile verification.

Cloudflare processes this information according to its own privacy practices.

You can learn more by reading Cloudflare’s Privacy Policy.

Site analytics

This site uses Google Analytics to understand general traffic patterns, including page views, referring sources, device information, approximate geographic information, and how visitors move through the site.

Google may process technical information associated with your visit as part of providing this service.

Google Analytics is used to understand and improve the site. It is not used by this site for advertising or retargeting.

Base44 traffic information

Base44 may also provide basic site-traffic information as part of operating the hosted application, such as visits, pages viewed, general location, and device information.

This site does not use Base44 session recording to capture detailed individual visitor interactions.

Google Fonts

The site uses Google Fonts for typography. If those fonts are loaded directly from Google’s servers, your browser connects to Google when the fonts are requested, which may disclose technical information such as your IP address.

Google Fonts does not require you to provide information through this site.

How long information is kept

Contact-form submissions and related correspondence are kept only as long as reasonably necessary to respond to the inquiry, maintain appropriate records, resolve issues, or comply with legal obligations.

Technical and analytics information is retained according to the settings and retention periods of the services used to operate and measure the site.

Your privacy choices

Depending on where you live, applicable U.S. privacy law may give you rights concerning your personal information, including rights to request access, correction, or deletion of information associated with you.

To make a privacy request or ask a question about your information, use the Contact form.

We may need to verify a request before acting on it.

U.S. privacy rights

Privacy rights vary by state and may depend on whether a particular law applies to this site or its activities.

Where applicable law gives you rights concerning personal information associated with you, you may contact us to request access, correction, or deletion.

This site does not sell personal information or use personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

To make a privacy request, use the Contact form.

Children’s privacy

Some of Dan H. Lawrence’s books are written for young readers, but the Contact form is intended for adults, including parents, educators, librarians, media representatives, event organizers, and other professionals.

We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13.

If you believe that a child under 13 has submitted personal information through this site, please contact us so that we can take reasonable steps to remove it.

If you are under 13, please ask a parent, guardian, teacher, or librarian to contact us on your behalf.

Security

We use reasonable measures intended to protect information handled through the site. No website, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Changes to this policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated when the site’s practices or services change. When it is updated, the “Last updated” date at the top of this page will be revised.

Contact

For privacy questions, requests concerning your personal information, or questions about this policy, please use the Contact form.