Who runs this site
This site is run by Bạch Quốc Khánh, an individual who writes as Steph B.Q. It is not run by a company.
- Email: steph@stephanespagehouse.com
- Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Hosting: Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
What we collect and why
We do not ask for your name, date of birth, phone number or payment details. We do not sell your information or share it for advertising.
| When | Information | Why | Legal basis (EU/UK readers) |
|---|---|---|---|
| You sign up for book news and enter the code we email you | Email address, language of the page you used | To email you news about upcoming books by Steph B.Q and the free printable pages we send as a thank-you | Your consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)) |
| You use the sign-up form | Technical data from your browser, checked by Cloudflare Turnstile | To block automated sign-ups and protect the form | Our legitimate interest in keeping the form free of abuse (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| You sign up or unsubscribe | Date and time of your sign-up, or the fact that you unsubscribed | To prove your choice and to avoid emailing you again | Our legitimate interest in respecting and proving your choice (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| You write to us | Your email address and message | To reply | Our legitimate interest in answering readers (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)) |
| You visit the site | IP address and technical request data, handled by our host | To deliver and protect the site | Our legitimate interest in running a secure site (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)) |
Your email address is needed to send you book news, the free pages or a reply. Giving it is your choice, and no law or contract requires it. The free printable pages are a thank-you for signing up, so we email them once you have entered the code. You can unsubscribe at any time, even right after you get them.
We do not use your information for automated decisions or profiling.
Who handles your information for us
- Cloudflare, Inc. hosts the site, runs our domain, forwards email sent to our address, runs the code check behind the sign-up form and its Turnstile bot check. Cloudflare’s own terms are at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.
- EmailOctopus (Three Hearts Digital Ltd, 86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE, UK) stores the book news list and sends the free pages and book news emails. EmailOctopus and its sub-processors process this personal data on our behalf. Its current list is at emailoctopus.com/legal/subprocessors.
- Resend (Resend, Inc.) sends the email with your sign-up code.
- Google provides the mailbox where we read email and reply to you, under Google’s own terms and privacy policy.
We may also disclose information if the law requires it.
Where your information goes
We run this site from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, which is outside the EU and the UK. If you are in the EU or UK, your information is therefore handled outside your country.
- EmailOctopus is based in the UK, which is covered by an EU adequacy decision. It stores contact lists mainly in Ireland. Some of its providers are in the United States and rely on the UK-US Data Bridge or the UK transfer agreements it lists on its sub-processor page.
- Cloudflare is based in the United States and relies on its EU-US Data Privacy Framework certification and UK Extension, with standard contractual clauses as a fallback.
- Resend is based in the United States.
- Google is based in the United States.
Write to us if you would like a copy of the safeguards we rely on.
How long we keep it
| Information | Kept for |
|---|---|
| Emails you send us and our replies | 6 months |
| Sign-up codes | Not stored by us. The email with the code stays in Resend’s sending records for the time Resend sets |
| Book news list | Until you unsubscribe, or at most 3 years after your last interaction with our emails or with us |
| Proof of consent | While you are subscribed, plus 3 years |
| Unsubscribe record (email address only) | At least 3 years, so that we do not email you again |
| Hosting and security logs | Set by Cloudflare, which does not publish one fixed period for all logs |
If we delete an account with a provider, copies may remain in that provider’s backups for a limited time. EmailOctopus states up to 90 days.
Your choices and rights
Every marketing email has an unsubscribe link. You can use it or write to us at any time, and we will act on it within 10 business days at the latest. Withdrawing consent does not affect anything we did before you withdrew it, and you may keep the free pages.
Anyone can write to steph@stephanespagehouse.com to see, correct or delete their information. We will not ask for more than we need to confirm the request is yours.
If you are in the EU or UK, you also have the right to access, correct, erase, restrict or move your data, and to object to processing based on legitimate interests. We reply within one month. You may complain to the data protection authority where you live or work. In France this is the CNIL (cnil.fr), and in the UK the ICO (ico.org.uk). We would welcome the chance to help first.
Children
This site’s sign-up is for adults aged 18 or over. Some of our books are written for children, but we address book news and the free pages to the adults who choose books. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Please do not enter a child’s email address. If you believe a child has given us an email address, write to us and we will delete it.
Cookies and tracking
Our pages set no cookies, use no browser storage and have no analytics or advertising tags. The sign-up page loads Cloudflare Turnstile, which runs in a frame from Cloudflare to tell people from bots. We do not track you across other websites, and other parties do not collect information across websites through our pages. Because of this, browser “Do Not Track” signals change nothing here.
Open tracking and click tracking are turned off in our marketing emails.
Changes
If we change this notice, we will update the effective date above. If a change materially affects how we use your email address, we will tell subscribers by email before it applies.