Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.beatle.net.
This is Bruce Spizer’s website about the Beatles and the books he has written about the group. You can read articles, purchase books and leave comments.

Our contact details can be found on our Contact Page.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Ecommerce

If you make a purchase on this site you will have to create an account. We will store your name, address, email address, phone number and IP address. We do not store any payment information. All payments are handled by PayPal.

Contact form

If you contact us through the Contact Form, your name, email address, phone number and IP address are stored. If you contact us through email or phone, your name, email address, and phone number may be saved in our client administration system.

Newsletter Subscription

If you subscribe to our email newsletter, your name, location (city, state, country) email address and IP address are stored and shared with our email service provider.

Comments & Reviews

When visitors leave comments or reviews on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

We are using the Akismet anti-spam service.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

This site uses cookies. By using this site you automatically agree to the placement and use of cookies. If you want, you can disable the use of cookies in your browser. Without cookies you will not be able to do some things on the site.

You can find more information about what cookies are and how you can switch them on and off in this article: More information on cookies and how to disable/enable them

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Information Automatically Logged

This website uses various web analytics tools (such as Google Analytics) and other measurement tools to help analyze how users use the site. These tools use ‘cookies’ or ‘web beacons’ to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. Collected data can be used for Demographics and Interest Reporting and Remarketing. The information generated by the cookies or beacons about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google and sometimes other vendors. This information is then used to evaluate visitors use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for beatle.net.

We will never (and will not allow any third party) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. The Web Analytics vendors do not associate your IP address with any other data held by them. Neither we nor the web analytics vendors will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.

Purpose of data processing

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To process and ship your orders;
• To inform you about any news and updates concerning our products and Bruce Spizer’s appearances;
• To respond to your inquiry;
• For in-house marketing & outreach;
• For tax purposes;
• To fulfill any other legal obligations;

Sharing personal data with third parties

Beatle.net does not share any personal data with third parties unless this is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

Automated processing

Beatle.net does not use automated processing for any form of decision-making.

Retention period for personal data

Your personal data will be kept for at least the legal specified period of time, but can be kept longer.

View, modify or delete data

You have the right to request, correct or delete your personal data. You also have the right to withdraw your consent to data processing or to object to the processing of your personal data, as far as possible within the legal obligations. Please contact us via email if you have any questions regarding this.

Security

Beatle.net takes the protection of your data seriously and has appropriate measures to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorized access, unwanted disclosure and unauthorized modification.

We do not share any personal data with third parties unless this is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

Additional information

Special and/or sensitive personal data

Beatle.net does not store any sensitive personal data about you.

The website does not intend to collect data about website visitors who are younger than 16 years. Unless they have permission from parents or guardians. However, it is not possible to check whether a visitor is older than 16. Parents are advised to be involved in the online activities of their children, in order to prevent data about children being collected without parental consent. If you think that personal information about a minor has been collected without that permission, please contact us.

Amendments

This privacy statement is a living document and will be updated from time to time.

Contact

Please contact us if you have questions or requests regarding this privacy statement.