Who we are
Our website address is: https://krakenpublishing.com.
Kraken Publishing is the imprint used to publish Karen J Carlisle’s books.
Disclosure
Karen J Carlisle publishes her stories under the imprint Kraken Publishing .
She does not use AI tools to generate any of her content in her books, on this website, in her images, blog posts, or newsletter.
‘Buy now/purchase direct from author’ links are redirected to Karen J Carlisle’s author website: www.karenjcarlisle.com
EBook purchases and digital downloads (purchased via author’s website shop) are handled via Bookfunnel. https://bookfunnel.com/
Book links for purchases via third party online bookshops are collated via Books2Read. https://books2read.com/ap/nmAy7z/Karen-J-Carlisle
Third party book merch links are via Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/katdb/shop
Copyright
The moral right of this author has been asserted.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, including the right to reproduce images and posts (or part thereof) in any form.
Images, book samples and text, and posts supplied by Karen on this website are copyrighted under the Australian Copyright Act 1968, and use or sharing of any part of the website content without permision is unlawful pirating.
NO AI TRAINING: Without in any way limiting the author’s [and publisher’s] exclusive rights under copyright, any use of this publication to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text is expressly prohibited. The author reserves all rights to license uses of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models.
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When purchasing books or book merch, you will be directed to Karen’s author website, which may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Embedded content from other websites
This site may include embedded content from Karen J Carlisle’s author website (e.g. videos, images, news, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
Who we share your data with
Details provided on email signup (via Karen’s author site) are handled via MailChimp.
Author website shop is handled via Bookfunnel and/or WooCommerce.
This website contains links to other sites or services; we cannot control entities such as WordPress, Bookfunnel, on-demand suppliers of purchases, social media platforms, Google, Paypal, or any other company required to create and run this website.
Please note: We are based in Australia. If you live outside Australia, your personal data may be transferred to Australia for processing.
Kraken Publishing and Karen J Carlisle will not voluntarily share information collected to any third party, unless required by law.
Members of the EU have certain legal rights, found in the GDPR.
How long we retain your data
For users that register on the author’s website, for purchases or newsletter signup (if any), your personal information provided in their user profile will be stored. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Information may be checked through automated security and spam detection services.