Privacy Policy
Laurel Ann Hickey | Laurel Greenway
Last updated: October 18, 2026
1. Introduction
Welcome to laurelannhickey.com, the author website of Laurel Ann Hickey, also writing as Laurel Greenway.
Your privacy matters. This policy explains what information may be collected when you visit this website, how that information is used, and the choices available to you.
This website is operated from British Columbia, Canada, and may be visited by readers worldwide.
2. Information We Collect
When you visit this website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by our hosting provider, including your IP address, browser type, pages requested, and the date and time of your visit.
This information is used for website operation, security, troubleshooting, and basic traffic statistics.
If you contact us by email, we receive the information you voluntarily provide, including your email address and the contents of your message. We use this information to respond to your inquiry.
We do not require visitors to create an account to browse the website.
3. Cookies and Consent
This website uses cookies and related technologies to support normal website functions and, where you consent, advertising and measurement services.
We use Complianz to manage cookie preferences. When you visit the website, you may be asked to accept, reject, or customize optional cookies.
Necessary cookies may be used to operate the website. Optional marketing cookies and related tracking technologies are subject to your consent where required.
You may change or withdraw your cookie preferences through the website’s consent-management controls.
For more information about individual cookies, please see our separate Cookie Policy.
4. Advertising and Meta Pixel
We may use Meta Pixel, provided by Meta Platforms, to understand how visitors interact with our book advertisements and website.
When enabled with the appropriate consent, this technology may collect information about website visits, browser and device characteristics, and actions such as clicking a link to view a book on Amazon.
This information helps us measure advertising effectiveness and improve the relevance of our advertisements.
Meta may process information according to its own privacy policies.
You can learn more at:
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy
We do not receive your private Facebook account information through this website.
5. Amazon and Book Purchases
Our website contains links to books offered through Amazon.
When you follow one of these links, you leave our website and become subject to Amazon’s applicable privacy practices.
We may use Amazon Attribution links to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. These links may provide aggregated information about activity such as book purchases and Kindle Unlimited reading.
We do not receive your Amazon account password, personal payment details, or individual purchase identity through Amazon Attribution.
Purchases, payments, refunds, and Kindle Unlimited transactions are handled by Amazon.
6. Email Newsletters
We may offer an optional author newsletter in the future.
If you subscribe, we will collect the email address and any other information you voluntarily provide for the purpose of sending author news, book-release announcements, and related communications.
Newsletter subscribers will be able to unsubscribe using the link included in marketing emails.
If we use an external email-marketing provider, relevant subscriber information will be processed by that provider to deliver and manage the newsletter.
We will update this policy to identify the services in use when newsletter subscriptions become available.
7. Third-Party Services
This website is powered by WordPress and hosted by a third-party hosting provider.
We use Complianz to manage cookie consent and related disclosures.
We may use external services for advertising, website administration, and book marketing. These providers may process information necessary to deliver their services.
Some service providers operate outside Canada. Where applicable, personal information may therefore be processed or stored in other countries, subject to their laws.
8. How We Use and Protect Information
Information collected through this website is used only for legitimate purposes, including maintaining website functionality, responding to inquiries, protecting website security, and measuring advertising effectiveness where permitted.
We take reasonable steps to protect information under our control against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or disclosure.
No method of internet transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed completely secure.
9. Retention of Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected, meet applicable legal obligations, resolve disputes, or maintain website security.
Information collected through external services may be retained according to those providers’ applicable policies and settings.
10. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including the right to request access, correction, deletion, or information about its use.
You may also withdraw consent for optional tracking through our cookie-preference controls.
To make a privacy-related request, please contact us using the email address below.
We will respond in accordance with applicable privacy laws.
11. Children’s Privacy
This website promotes fiction intended for a general readership and is not specifically directed toward children.
We do not knowingly solicit personal information from children through this website.
If you believe a child has provided personal information that should be removed, please contact us.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when our website, services, or legal obligations change.
The date at the top of this page will indicate when the policy was last revised.
13. Contact Information
For privacy questions, requests, or concerns, please contact:
Laurel Ann Hickey
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Email: laurel@laurelannhickey.com
Website: https://laurelannhickey.com