Effective Date: 28/5/25

Thank you for subscribing to my newsletter. Your privacy is important to me. This Privacy Policy explains how I collect, use, and protect your personal information.

1. Information I Collect

When you sign up for my newsletter, I collect your email address. That’s it—no other personal data is required.

2. How I Use Your Information

Your email address will be used solely for the purpose of:

• Sending you the newsletter

• Sharing updates, new content, or relevant news related to my work

• Occasionally informing you about events, publications, or offers related to my writing

3. How I Protect Your Information

I take appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your information. Email addresses are stored securely and are only accessible by me or authorized service providers.

4. Sharing Your Information

I do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others. Your email may be shared with third-party services (such as an email marketing provider) solely for the purpose of sending the newsletter. These services are required to keep your information secure and use it only for this purpose.

5. Unsubscribing

You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of any email or by contacting me directly at helengaskelljr@gmail.com.

6. Children’s Privacy

This newsletter is not intended for children under the age of 13. I do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

7. Changes to This Policy

I may update this Privacy Policy occasionally. When I do, I will update the "Effective Date" at the top of this page.

8. Contact Me

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact me using this website’s contact form.

9. Privacy Policy (website)

This website collects personal information to power my site analytics, including:

• Information about your browser, network, and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

• Clicks

• Internal links

• Pages visited

• Scrolling

• Searches

• Timestamps

I provide this information to Squarespace, my website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

10. Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.