Last updated: September 2, 2026
Sara Branmore (“we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, and shared when you visit sarabranmore.com (the “Website”), contact us, or subscribe to our email list.
By using the Website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Information You Provide Voluntarily
You may voluntarily provide personal information when you:
- Subscribe to an email newsletter;
- Request a free book or other reader resource;
- Submit a contact form;
- Send us an email;
- Leave a comment, if commenting is available; or
- Otherwise communicate with us through the Website.
Depending upon the feature you use, this information may include your name, email address, message, subscription preferences, and any other information you choose to provide.
Please do not send confidential, financial, medical, or other sensitive personal information through the Website or by email.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Website, certain information may be collected automatically by the Website, its hosting provider, and analytics or security services.
This information may include:
- Your Internet Protocol address;
- Browser and device type;
- Operating system;
- General geographic location;
- Referring website;
- Pages viewed;
- Date and time of your visit;
- Time spent on the Website;
- Links clicked; and
- Information about how you interact with the Website.
This information is generally used to operate and secure the Website, understand how visitors use it, diagnose technical problems, and improve its content and performance.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
The Website may use cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies. Cookies are small data files placed on your device that help websites function, remember preferences, measure traffic, and understand visitor activity.
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking certain cookies may affect how some Website features function.
Where required by applicable law, nonessential cookies will be used only after you provide consent through the Website’s cookie-consent tool.
Google Analytics
The Website may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the Website. Google Analytics may collect information such as pages visited, time spent on the Website, general location, browser type, device type, and referring website.
Google may use cookies and similar technologies to provide these analytics services. Information collected through Google Analytics is governed by Google’s policies.
You can learn more about how Google handles information collected from websites using its services at:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Google also provides a browser add-on for visitors who wish to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Microsoft Clarity
The Website may use Microsoft Clarity to help us understand how visitors use and interact with the Website. Clarity may collect behavioral information through cookies and similar technologies, including page activity, clicks, scrolling, device information, and session-replay data.
We use this information to identify technical or usability problems and improve the Website. Information collected through Microsoft Clarity is handled according to Microsoft’s Privacy Statement:
https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement
Email Newsletter and MailerLite
We use MailerLite to manage our email subscriber list, deliver newsletters and reader resources, and monitor the performance of our emails.
If you subscribe, MailerLite may process information such as your name, email address, subscription date, consent record, emails opened, and links clicked. This information helps us deliver requested emails, maintain the subscriber list, and understand which emails are useful to readers.
You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any newsletter. Unsubscribing stops marketing emails, although limited records may be retained when reasonably necessary to honor your request, resolve a dispute, meet a legal obligation, or prevent you from being added again without permission.
MailerLite’s Privacy Policy is available at:
https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy
We do not sell or rent our email subscriber list.
Contact Forms and Email
If you contact us through a form or by email, we may retain your name, email address, message, and our response for as long as reasonably necessary to respond, maintain appropriate records, resolve disputes, or protect our legal interests.
Email is not guaranteed to be completely secure. Please do not send sensitive personal information by email.
Comments
If comments are enabled and you leave a comment, the Website may collect the information entered in the comment form, your Internet Protocol address, and browser information to help detect spam and misuse.
Comments may be displayed publicly along with the name you provide. Do not include information in a public comment that you do not want others to see.
How We Use Information
We may use collected information to:
- Operate, maintain, and secure the Website;
- Deliver newsletters, free books, or other resources you request;
- Respond to questions and messages;
- Understand Website traffic and visitor behavior;
- Improve Website design, content, and performance;
- Detect spam, fraud, abuse, or security threats;
- Maintain records of subscription consent and unsubscribe requests;
- Comply with applicable legal obligations; and
- Establish, exercise, or defend legal rights.
Where applicable law requires a legal basis for processing personal information, we rely upon consent, performance of a requested service, compliance with legal obligations, and our legitimate interests in operating, improving, and securing the Website.
How Information May Be Shared
We do not sell or rent your personal information.
We may share information with service providers that help us operate the Website and communicate with readers. These may include:
- Website hosting and security providers;
- WordPress plugins and technical-service providers;
- Email-delivery providers such as MailerLite;
- Analytics providers such as Google and Microsoft;
- Spam-prevention services; and
- Professional advisers when reasonably necessary.
These providers may process information only as needed to perform their services, subject to their own agreements and privacy policies.
We may also disclose information:
- When required by law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other valid legal process;
- When reasonably necessary to protect the Website, our rights, or the safety and rights of others;
- To investigate fraud, abuse, or security problems; or
- In connection with a sale, transfer, restructuring, or other change involving the Website or its associated business assets.
Links to Amazon and Other Websites
The Website contains links to Amazon, Goodreads, and possibly other third-party websites and services.
When you follow an external link, the third party may collect information according to its own privacy policy. We do not control and are not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or practices of third-party websites.
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any external website you visit.
Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including providing requested communications, maintaining business and consent records, meeting legal obligations, resolving disputes, and protecting our rights.
Retention periods vary according to the type of information and why it was collected. You may ask us to delete personal information associated with you, subject to any legal or legitimate reason we may have to retain limited records.
Data Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect the information collected through the Website. However, no website, email transmission, database, or Internet-based system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
You provide information through the Internet at your own risk.
Your Privacy Choices and Rights
Depending upon where you live, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including the right to:
- Request access to personal information held about you;
- Request correction of inaccurate information;
- Request deletion of personal information;
- Object to or restrict certain processing;
- Withdraw consent where processing is based upon consent;
- Request a portable copy of certain information; and
- Lodge a complaint with an appropriate data-protection authority.
These rights are subject to applicable legal limitations and exceptions.
To make a privacy request, contact us using the information in the Contact section below. We may need to verify your identity before completing the request.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in every newsletter.
International Visitors
The Website is operated from Florida in the United States. If you access the Website from another country, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.
Privacy and data-protection laws in those countries may differ from the laws where you live. Where required, service providers may use approved safeguards for international data transfers.
Children’s Privacy
The Website is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically to children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe that a child under 13 has provided personal information through the Website, please contact us so that we can investigate and, when appropriate, delete it.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy when the Website, its services, or applicable privacy requirements change.
The revised policy will be posted on this page with a new “Last updated” date. We encourage you to review this page periodically.
Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to make a privacy request, please contact:
Sara Branmore
Email: contact@sarabranmore.com
Please do not include sensitive personal information in your initial email.