ShipSolo Publishing ("ShipSolo," "we," "us," or "our") operates the website ship-solo.com. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect, why we collect it, how we use it, and your rights with respect to that information. We've written it to be read, not lawyered around.
1. Who We Are
ShipSolo Publishing is the publisher of Run Your Own AI Agents by Edmund Ashworth, along with other digital publications. Our website is located at ship-solo.com. You can reach us at [email protected].
We are the data controller for personal information collected through this website. We do not sell your data. We do not rent your data. Full stop.
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Contact Form
When you submit a message through our contact form, we collect:
- Your name
- Your email address
- The content of your message
We use this information solely to respond to your inquiry. We do not add you to any mailing list without your separate, explicit consent.
2.2 Purchase Information
When you purchase a digital product, payment processing is handled by a third-party payment processor. We do not store your credit card, debit card, or payment account details on our servers. The payment processor's own privacy policy governs how they handle your payment information. We receive a record of the transaction (order confirmation, product delivered, purchase price) but not your raw payment credentials.
We use purchase records to fulfill your order and maintain required business records.
2.3 Automatically Collected Data
When you visit ship-solo.com, our hosting infrastructure may automatically log standard technical data: your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URL, pages visited, and the date and time of your visit. This information is used for security monitoring and infrastructure diagnostics. We do not use this data to build profiles or track you across the web.
2.4 Cookies
We currently use only essential cookies — those strictly necessary to operate the website (for example, maintaining a session if you are in a checkout flow). We do not use advertising cookies, cross-site tracking cookies, or third-party analytics cookies at this time. If we add analytics or other non-essential cookies in the future, we will update this policy and provide appropriate notice and consent mechanisms before doing so.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the personal information we collect for these purposes only:
- To respond to contact form inquiries
- To fulfill digital product orders and deliver purchase confirmations
- To respond to support inquiries regarding file delivery
- To maintain legally required business records
- To detect and prevent fraud, abuse, or security incidents
- To comply with applicable law and legal obligations
We do not use your information for automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects on you.
4. Legal Basis for Processing (EU/EEA Visitors)
If you are located in the European Union or European Economic Area, our legal bases for processing your personal data are:
- Performance of a contract — processing necessary to fulfill your purchase or respond to a service request
- Legitimate interests — security monitoring, fraud prevention, and infrastructure diagnostics, where those interests are not overridden by your rights
- Legal obligation — where applicable law requires us to retain certain records
- Consent — for any processing activity not covered above, where we have obtained your explicit consent
5. How We Share Your Information
We share your personal information only in these limited circumstances:
- Payment processors. Your payment information is shared with our third-party payment processor solely to complete your transaction. They act as an independent data controller for payment data.
- Hosting and infrastructure providers. Our website host and email service providers may process your data as part of delivering our services. We use only providers who maintain adequate data protection standards.
- Legal compliance. We may disclose your information if required by applicable law, court order, or governmental authority, or if we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of others.
- Business transfers. If ShipSolo Publishing is acquired, merged, or its assets transferred, personal data may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via a prominent notice on our website before your data becomes subject to a materially different privacy policy.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for their own marketing purposes.
6. Data Retention
We retain your personal information only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, or as required by applicable law. Purchase records are retained for the period required under applicable tax and accounting regulations (typically seven years). Contact form submissions are retained for a reasonable period to address follow-up questions, and then deleted.
7. Your Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the following rights with respect to your personal information. We honor all of them:
- Access. You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Correction. You can ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Deletion. You can ask us to delete your personal data, subject to our legal retention obligations.
- Restriction. You can ask us to restrict processing of your data in certain circumstances.
- Portability. You can request your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
- Objection. You can object to processing based on legitimate interests.
- Withdraw consent. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.
California residents have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), including the right to know what personal information is collected and the right to opt out of the sale of personal information. We do not sell personal information, so the opt-out right is moot — but all other CCPA rights apply.
To exercise any of these rights, email us at [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days (or the period required by applicable law, if shorter). We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.
8. Security
We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no security measure is perfect. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of any information transmitted over the internet. You provide information to us at your own risk, and we encourage you not to include sensitive personal information in contact form messages unless necessary.
9. Children's Privacy
Our products and website are directed at adults and are not intended for children under 13 years of age (or under 16 in the EU/EEA). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us at [email protected] and we will promptly delete it.
10. International Data Transfers
ShipSolo Publishing operates from the United States. If you are located outside the United States, please be aware that information you provide to us may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. We take appropriate steps to ensure that any international transfer of personal data complies with applicable law and provides adequate protection for your information.
11. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, provide additional notice. Your continued use of ship-solo.com after any change constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy. If you disagree with a material change, your remedy is to stop using the site.
12. Contact Us
Questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or your personal data should be directed to: