This policy explains what information Fosters Publishing collects, why, how it is stored, and who it is shared with. It covers this website (fosterspublishing.com) and our Amazon advertising management tool, Fosters Publishing Ads Manager, which connects to Amazon Advertising accounts through the Amazon Ads API.
Who we are
Fosters Publishing is an independent publishing house operated by Tim Gallinger in Ontario, Canada. Questions about this policy or your information can be sent to trfostersbooks@gmail.com.
Information we collect
From this website:
- What you enter in the contact form: your name, email address, where you are in the publishing process, and your message.
- Basic technical information our web host records when any page is loaded, such as IP address, browser type and the page requested.
Through Amazon (Ads Manager): when an author authorizes our tool with Login with Amazon, we receive access to the advertising data in the Amazon Ads account they authorize. This includes:
- Account and profile details (advertising profile ID, marketplace, account name).
- Campaign structure: campaigns, ad groups, keywords, product and category targets, bids and budgets.
- Performance reports: impressions, clicks, spend, sales, orders and ACOS.
We do not receive Amazon passwords, payment details, or customer (shopper) personal information through the Amazon Ads API.
How we use it
- Contact form information is used only to reply to you and, if you become a client, to provide our services.
- Amazon advertising data is used only to manage and optimize the authorizing author's own ad campaigns (for example, adjusting bids, pausing keywords that don't convert, and launching approved campaigns) and to prepare their performance reports.
- We never use one client's advertising data for another client's account.
How it is stored
Client records, campaign configurations and performance reports are stored in our private Google Workspace (Google Drive), with access limited to Fosters Publishing. We keep working copies of campaign data only as long as needed to manage the account and report on it.
Who receives it
We do not sell, rent or trade personal information or advertising data. We share information only with service providers that help us run the business, and only for that purpose:
- Google — file storage and email.
- Netlify — hosts this website.
- Web3Forms — delivers contact form submissions to our email.
- Anthropic — AI tools we use to analyze campaign performance and prepare reports.
We may also disclose information if required by law.
Cookies and third-party content
This website does not set its own cookies, run analytics, or show advertising. Pages load fonts from Google Fonts, which may receive your IP address as part of delivering them. Links to Amazon and Audible take you to those sites, which have their own privacy policies.
Marketing communications
We do not add anyone to a mailing list without their consent. If we ever send marketing emails, every message will include a way to opt out.
Retention and deletion
We keep contact form messages and client records while we are working together and for up to 12 months afterward, unless the law requires longer. Amazon advertising data is deleted within 30 days after an author disconnects our tool or ends our service. You can ask us to delete your information at any time by emailing trfostersbooks@gmail.com; we will confirm within 30 days.
Your choices
- Disconnect Amazon: you can withdraw our tool's access at any time from your Amazon account's Login with Amazon settings ("Apps and services you've used"), or by asking us to remove it. Removing access stops all further data collection.
- Access or correction: email us to see or correct the information we hold about you.
Security
Access to Amazon accounts is granted by the account owner through Amazon's own authorization and can be revoked at any time. We never ask for or store Amazon passwords. Our files are kept in a private, password-protected Google account with two-step verification, and access is limited to Fosters Publishing.
Canadian privacy law
We handle personal information in line with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). If you have a concern we can't resolve, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will post the new version here and update the date at the top.