Privacy Policy

Who we are

This website is operated by Stacy L. Balzer, author of Holding Watch. If you have any questions about this policy or your information, email holdingwatchbook@gmail.com.

The short version

• This website does not use cookies.
• There are no accounts, newsletter sign-ups, or forms that store your information on this website.
• We measure visits with privacy-friendly analytics that do not identify you or follow you to other websites.
• If you email us, we use your message to reply and to handle what you asked about.

When you contact us

The contact and professional inquiry forms do not send or store anything on this website. When you press the button, your own email app opens with your message filled in, and you decide whether to send it. If you send it, we receive your email address, your name, and whatever you include in the message.

We use this information to respond to you and to manage what you contact us about, such as review copies, organizational book orders, speaking engagements, and any ongoing conversation that follows. We keep related records, such as orders, invoices, and agreements, as part of normal business recordkeeping. We do not add you to a mailing list, and we do not sell or share your information with anyone for marketing.

We keep correspondence only as long as needed for these purposes. If you ask us to delete it, we will, except for records we must keep for legal, tax, or legitimate business reasons.

Please do not send private medical information or details about patients or family members. Holding Watch cannot offer medical advice, and we do not ask for health information.

Website analytics

We use Vercel Web Analytics to understand how many people visit and which pages are useful. It does not use cookies and does not identify individual visitors. It records information such as the pages viewed, the website that referred you, your general location (country), and your type of device and browser.

Hosting

This website is hosted by Vercel, which processes standard technical information (such as IP addresses and browser details) in order to deliver the website and keep it secure. See Vercel’s privacy policy. The fonts on this site are served from our own website, not from an outside font service.

Links to other websites

Links to Amazon and LinkedIn take you to those websites, where their own privacy policies apply. We do not control the information they collect.

Do Not Track

Because this website does not track visitors across other websites, it treats all visitors the same way whether or not your browser sends a “Do Not Track” signal.

Children

This website is intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

Your choices

You can ask to see, correct, or delete any correspondence we have from you (subject to the record-keeping exception above) by emailing holdingwatchbook@gmail.com. We will respond as required by applicable law.

Changes to this policy

If we change how this website handles information, we will update this page and the date at the top.