CREDITS AND PRIVACY POLICY

All the material on this site is  © Nick Bunker except the photograph of  the bust of Benjamin Franklin made by the French artist Jean-Antoine Houdon in 1778-9, which appears by kind permission of  the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The bust was purchased for the museum in 1996 with a grant from The Barra Foundation, Inc., matched by contributions from the Henry P. McIlhenny Fund in memory of Frances P. McIlhenny, the Walter E. Stait Fund, the Fiske Kimball Fund, and with funds contributed by Mr. and Mrs. Jack M. Friedland, Hannah L. and J. Welles Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. E. Newbold Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Rubenstein, Mr. and Mrs. John J. F. Sherrerd, The Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest, Leslie A. Miller and Richard B. Worley, Mr. and Mrs. John A. Nyheim, Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Fox, Stephanie S. Eglin, an anonymous donor, Mr. and Mrs. William T. Vogt, and with contributions from individual donors to the Fund for Franklin, 1996.

YOUR PRIVACY

The owner of this website is Nick Bunker (“the owner”), a permanent resident of the United  Kingdom, and he can contacted either by email at: nickbunker@young benjaminfranklin.com, or through his literary agent, Bill Hamilton of A.M. Heath Literary Agents, 6 Warwick Court, London WC1R 5DJ, England, telephone number: (44) 0207 242 2811.

The owner respects your concerns about privacy and he endeavors to comply with the applicable data protection and privacy legislation in force in the United States, Canada, and the European Union and other territories. This legislation includes the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into operation on May 25th 2018. The following privacy notice is provided in accordance with the GDPR and its equivalents in other jurisdictions.

PRIVACY NOTICE

  1. This privacy notice was last updated on July 31st 2018. It explains how this website collects, uses and shares your personal data or information about you, and also explains what rights you have to access or change your data. Your particular attention is drawn to the Cookie Policy set out in Paragraph 5.
  2. The only personalised data about you which this website, the associated domain, or its owner will collect about you is your email address, should you decide to send Nick Bunker a message by email, and any personal information you choose to include in such a message. None of this personalised information, or your email address, will be shared with any third party without your express written consent given in advance. You will be placed on the owner’s mailing list only if you specifically ask for this to occur. Nick’s initial reply to you will include a further privacy notice and a consent request, asking you to give permission for him to contact you to notify you about his books, about events at which he is appearing, or about reviews of his work or media comment about it. If at any time you decide that you do not wish to receive notifications of this kind, please contact him by email to revoke your consent.
  3. The owner has taken all reasonable steps with the available technology to protect and secure the domain www.youngbenjaminfranklin.com, but it is impossible to guarantee the complete security of data transmission and storage via the Internet. The owner cannot ensure or warrant the security of any personal information you transmit.
  4. Nick Bunker does not sell his books via this website. If you wish to order one or more of his books, and you click one of the links provided on this website, you will be redirected to the relevant pages of the website owned and operated by Nick’s publisher, Penguin Random House LLC (“PRH”), which may in turn redirect you to booksellers such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble etc. You are advised to read the PRH Privacy Policy at  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/privacy/,   but Nick Bunker is not responsible for its contents or for the business policies or sales and marketing practices of PRH or of the booksellers to whom PRH directs you.
  5. As is common practice, the website www.youngbenjaminfranklin contains technological features which allow it to collect anonymised, aggregate information about visitors to the site as a means to monitor the volume of traffic and to enhance the user experience. Technological features of this kind include the use of so-called “cookies”. In the case of  www.youngbenjaminfranklin.com, the relevant technological features of the site fall into two categories: (i) generic services installed on all its business user sites by the site’s web host, www.wordpress.com; and (ii) tracking services supplied by Google Analytics. For more information, please visit: https://en-gb.wordpress.org/about/privacy/  and https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en. The latter page explains how to set your web browser to opt out of  tracking by Google Analytics.  It is Nick Bunker’s understanding, based on his reading of their terms of  service and their technical literature, that both WordPress and Google Analytics are compliant with the EU’s GDPR.
  6. For further information about your rights to privacy and your means of redress if you feel that they have been infringed, it may be helpful to visit the website of the UK’s Information Commissioner at https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/.