Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

• Contact form: your name, email address, subject, and message, when you write to us.
• Newsletter sign-up: your email address.
• Waitlist sign-up: your name, email address, country, city, and preferred reading format (paperback, PDF, or Kindle).
• Purchases: your order details. Payments are processed by Paystack; we do not receive or store your card details.
• Website usage: information about how you use the site, such as pages visited and your device and browser type, collected through cookies and similar technologies (see Cookies below).

How We Use Your Information

We use the information above to:

• Send you updates, previews, and launch announcements about Apata Boys, if you sign up for the newsletter or waitlist.
• Respond to messages sent through the contact form.
• Process and fulfil purchases, including delivering digital downloads.
• Improve the site and understand what content readers find useful.
• Measure the results of our advertising and show our ads to relevant audiences on Facebook and Instagram.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

Third-Party Services

We rely on the following services to run the site and process your information:

• Paystack: payment processing for book purchases.
• Brevo: email delivery and contact management for waitlist, newsletter and contact-form communications.
• Google Analytics: website usage analytics.
• Meta (Facebook and Instagram): advertising measurement and audiences, through the Meta Pixel.
• Vercel: website hosting.

Each of these providers processes your data under their own privacy policies and security practices.

Cookies

The site uses cookies and similar technologies for three purposes:

• Essential: the minimal cookies or local storage needed for the site to function correctly.
• Analytics: Google Analytics cookies, which help us understand how visitors use the site, such as which pages are viewed.
• Advertising: the Meta Pixel, which lets us measure the results of our ads on Facebook and Instagram and show them to relevant audiences.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. You can also opt out of Google Analytics with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on and manage how Meta uses your activity in your Meta ad preferences.

Data Retention

We keep your information for as long as needed to fulfil the purposes described above, or until you ask us to delete it.

Your Rights

You can, at any time:

• Unsubscribe from newsletter or waitlist emails using the link in any email we send.
• Ask us to access, correct, or delete the personal information we hold about you.
• Withdraw consent for us to email you.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the details below.

Children's Privacy

Apata Boys contains mature themes and is intended for readers aged 18 and above. This site is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date.

Contact Us

Questions about this policy or your information can be sent to pauleomejeauthor@gmail.com.