At BooksForTopics we act in compliance with GDPR laws to protect your data and respect your rights to privacy. This privacy policy explains what information we collect about our site users and how we may use your data.

What information do we collect about you?

We collect information about you when you voluntarily choose to sign up for our newsletters, become a site member, complete forms on our website, participate in competitions or make contact with our customer services.

Website usage information is also collected using cookies. This helps us to know how our website is being used by visitors. More information about this can be found in our cookie policy.

Our website uses Google Analytics, which collects data about website usage on Google’s servers. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.  Further information about Google’s privacy policy may be obtained here.

Our website also uses affiliate services to collect data from users who choose to click on one of our links to Amazon.co.uk or to our other affiliate partners (see our Affiliate Policy for more information). For Amazon’s privacy policy, click here.

How will we collect, store and use the information about you?

We collect your email address when you agree to sign up as a member on our site or subscribe to our newsletter. We do not link this to any other personal information about you.

Our website is built in WordPress and is hosted on the WPEngine. The data that you provide is stored on secure servers behind a firewall. Data will be retained while you are an active member of the website but we reserve the right to remove inactive accounts and you can also request the removal of your data.

Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.

BooksForTopics will not share your information for marketing purposes with other companies.

Marketing and contact

If you choose to enter your email address to sign up for our newsletters, we will send you information about new booklists, blog posts and other updates relating to the BooksForTopics website. If you have consented to receive our newsletters, you may opt out at a later date by clicking ‘unsubscribe’ on your confirmation email or any subsequent newsletter email. You have a right at any time to request to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes and we will remove your details from our marketing list.

If you make contact with our customer services, your email address and details of your messages will be stored on our server. We will contact you to respond to your enquiry but we will never use your email address for any other purposes without additional consent.

Access to your information and correction

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, you have the right to contact us. We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.

Privacy policy updates

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website.

If you have any questions regarding the above, please contact BooksForTopics by emailing [email protected] or by using our contact page.

We are pleased to accept books for review on www.booksfortopics.com. Our main aim is to provide recommendations of high-quality texts that can be used by teachers and other professionals working in primary schools.

We receive a high volume of requests each week from publishers and authors. Please note the following terms if you wish to submit a copy for review:

• We are happy to receive print copies of children’s books suitable for ages 4-11. We are particularly interested in picture books, non-fiction children’s books, early readers, middle-grade chapter books, graphic novels and poetry. Please do not send books with content that is inappropriate for the primary age range (in particular, no swearing please).

• Please note that we no longer accept e-books or self-published titles and we are not willing to make exceptions on this.

• The purpose of our website is to recommend books that we deem to be high quality and suitable for the classroom. While we may agree to look at your book, we therefore cannot guarantee that we will publish reviews for all books that we receive. Please note that we reserve the right to choose not to review some of the books that we receive at our discretion.

• Submitted books may appear on our Reading for Pleasure blog, our booklists, our seasonal features or our social channels, depending on the best fit.

• On some occasions, after our own initial assessments of a book, we send copies to our trusted Review Panel members to gather feedback from pupils and teachers. This helps us to make sure that the books we recommend are books that are widely enjoyed by children and their teachers in school settings. Please let us know if you would like to provide extra copies for this purpose or if you wish to request that your book only remains in the hands of Booksfortopics HQ (e.g. for advanced proof copies).

• In some cases, we donate spare review copies to a local primary school and occasionally we may choose to use the books we receive for giveaways or for publicity purposes.

• In busy periods, please note that it may take several weeks from receiving books for reviews to be posted. In the cases of advance copies, we always try to publish reviews around the time of the book’s publication date.

• All reviews are intended to give a fair reflection of the suitability of books for use in the primary classroom. If we do not think a book is suitable in terms of content or quality, we will be unlikely to feature it.

If you would like to contact us about reviewing a book, please email [email protected] or use our contact form.

As well as book reviews, we are keen to work with publishers and authors to help get the best quality books into primary classrooms. Please get in touch if you are interested in guest blogging, blog tours, providing giveaway prizes or author Q & A sessions.

Cookies and how we use them

ABOUT COOKIES

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device. You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

The cookies used on this website have been categorised based on the categories found in the ICC UK Cookie guide. A list of the types of cookies used on this website by category is set out below.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

‘Performance’ cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages.

These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information collected is aggregated and therefore anonymous; it is only used to improve how the website works. By using this website you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. If you do not wish to accept such cookies your web browser or device should be configured to notify you and/or reject cookies.

‘Strictly necessary’ cookies

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around a website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. This website uses this type of cookie for remembering previous actions (such as text entered into an enquiry form) when navigating back to a page in the same session.

These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information collected is aggregated and therefore anonymous; it is only used to improve how the website works. By using this website you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device. If you do not wish to accept such cookies your web browser or device should be configured to notify you and/or reject cookies.

The main aim of www.booksfortopics.com is to provide recommendations of high-quality texts that can be used by teachers and other professionals working in primary schools. In doing this, we provide links to purchase the books we recommend.

As an Amazon Associate, BooksForTopics earns from qualifying purchases.

We also participate in affiliate programmes for Bookshop.org and in partnership with Peters and Support Your School.

This means that if readers choose to click on the affiliate link and make a purchase, Booksfortopics may earn a fee.

Please note that there is no obligation for our readers to purchase any books recommended on our site or to click on the links provided. Most of the books that we feature should be readily available to buy or request from your local bookshop or library.

We will only recommend books that we believe are high quality and fully suitable for use in the primary classroom. If you have any questions regarding the above, please contact us at [email protected] or using our contact page.