Legal Stuff

INTRODUCTION

This privacy notice (Privacy Notice) sets out the ways in which we, Living By Discovery Library (we, us, our), collect and use your personal data (your personal information) in connection with our business. It also explains what rights you have to access or change your personal data

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Information that you provide to us

We will collect any information that you provide to us when you:

(a) subscribe to one of our mailing lists;

(b) join as a member;

The information you provide to us might include your name and email address and if you’re creating an account, you may also provide a password. If you are joining as a paid member or purchasing a product, we will not hold any payment details. Any payment details will be held by the relevant payment processing service.

Information we collect about you

We will collect any information contained in any correspondence between us. For example, if you contact us by email, we will keep a record of that correspondence.

We may also collect certain information about how you use our website and the device that you use to access our website. This might include your IP address, geographical location, device information (such as your hardware model, mobile network information, unique device identifiers), browser type, referral source, length of visit to the website, number of page views, the search queries you make on the website and similar information. This information may be collected by a third-party website analytics service provider on our behalf and/or may be collected using cookies. For more information on cookies please read the Cookies paragraph below.

Information we receive from third parties

In certain circumstances, we will receive information about you from third parties. For example, if you choose to register for a website user account you may choose to link this account to your social media account (such as Twitter or Facebook). By providing your social media account details you are authorising that third-party provider to share with us certain information about you;

We might also receive information about you from third parties if you have indicated to such third party that you would like to hear from us.

HOW WE USE INFORMATION ABOUT YOU AND RECIPIENTS OF YOUR INFORMATION

We will use your information for the purposes listed below either on the basis of:

(a) performance of your membership with us and the provision of our services to you;

(b) your consent (where we request it); or

We may use your information for the following purposes:

(a) to keep in contact with you about our news, events, new website features or services or new publications that we believe may interest you, provided that we have the requisite permission to do so;

(b) to provide customer service and support;

(c) to carry out aggregated and anonymised research about general engagement with our website (on the basis of our legitimate interest in providing the right kinds of products and services to our website users);

(d) to protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorised, or illegal activity, including without limitation plagiarism and identity fraud (on the basis of our legitimate interests to operate a safe and lawful business or where we have a legal obligation to do so); and

(e) to enable us to comply with our policies and procedures and enforce our legal rights, and to share your information with our legal advisors (on the basis of our legitimate interests to operate a safe and lawful business or where we have a legal obligation to do so).

(f) Where we refer to using your information on the basis of our “legitimate interests”, we mean our legitimate business interests in conducting and managing our business and our relationship with you, including the legitimate interest we have in:

(f.a) personalising, enhancing, modifying or otherwise improving the services and/or communications that we provide to you;

(f.b) detecting and preventing fraud and operating a safe and lawful business;

(f.c) improving security and optimisation of our network, sites and services.

Where we use your information for our legitimate interests, we make sure that we take into account any potential impact that such use may have on you. Our legitimate interests don’t automatically override yours and we won’t use your information if we believe your interests should override ours unless we have other grounds to do so (such as your consent or a legal obligation). If you have any concerns about our processing please refer to details of “Your Rights” in paragraph 9 below.

WHO WE MIGHT SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH

In connection with the purposes and on the lawful grounds described above and in addition to the recipients of your information as described above, we will only share your personal information with selected third parties (including legal or other advisors, regulatory authorities, courts and government agencies) where necessary to enable us to enforce our legal rights, or to protect the rights, property or safety of our employees or where such disclosure may be permitted or required by law.

We require third parties to maintain appropriate security to protect your information from unauthorised access or processing.

We use cookies to ensure that you get the most out of our website. Cookies are small amounts of information in the form of text files which we store on the device you use to access our website. Cookies allow us to monitor your use of the software and simplify your use of the website. For example, a temporary cookie is also used to keep track of your “session”. Without that temporary cookie you would not be able to purchase books via our website.

If you do not wish for cookies to be installed on your device, you can change the settings on your browser or device to reject cookies. For more information about how to reject cookies using your internet browser settings please consult the “Help” section of your internet browser (or alternatively visit https://www.aboutcookies.org). Please note that, if you do set your Internet browser to reject cookies, you may not be able to access all of the functions of the website.

Our website may contain content and links to other sites that are operated by third parties that may also operate cookies. We don’t control these third party sites or cookies and this Privacy Notice does not apply to them. Please consult the terms and conditions and Privacy Notice of the relevant third party site to find out how that site collects and uses your information and to establish whether and for what purpose they use cookies.

HOW WE LOOK AFTER YOUR INFORMATION AND HOW LONG WE KEEP IT FOR

We operate a policy of “privacy by design” by looking for opportunities to minimise the amount of personal information we hold about you. We use appropriate technological and operational security measures to protect your information against any unauthorised access or unlawful use by ensuring the physical and digital security of our equipment and devices by using appropriate password protection and encryption.

We will retain your information for as long as is necessary to provide you with the services that you have requested from us or for as long as we reasonably require to retain the information for our lawful business purposes, such as for the purposes of exercising our legal rights

We maintain a suppression list of email addresses of individuals who no longer wish to be contacted by us. So that we can comply with their wishes we must store this information permanently.

YOUR RIGHTS TO THE INFORMATION WE HOLD ABOUT YOU

You have certain rights in respect of the information that we hold about you, including:

(a) the right to request access to the information that we hold about you; and

(b) in certain circumstances, the right to ask us to stop processing information about you.

You may exercise your rights above by contacting us by email at support@lbdlibrary.com

We may also need to send you service-related communications relating to your website user account.

Note that if you make a request to access information that we hold about you, we have the right to charge you a fee of £10 to assist us with the administration of your request.

In accordance with data protection laws, you have certain additional rights in respect of the information that we hold about you, including:

(a) the right to lodge a complaint about us to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk/) or the relevant authority in your country of work or residence;

(b) the right to object to our using your information on the basis of our legitimate interests; and

You may contact us at support@lbdlibrary if you wish to action any of these additional rights and we will comply with your requests unless we have a lawful reason not to do so.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We may make changes to this Privacy Notice from time to time. We will post any changes to our site or notify you of any material changes by e-mail.

This Privacy Notice was updated on the 6th March 2026.