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Replaces the gumroad_url stub with an on-site embedded checkout (buy button -> POST to the bookshop backend -> mounted Stripe iframe), following the existing contact/submissions form's fetch/status-message pattern. Adds thank-you and resend-link pages, an example book template (draft), and updates the privacy policy and terms to honestly disclose Stripe as a third-party payment processor.
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title: "Privacy Policy"
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description: "How Two Squirrels Press collects, uses, and protects your information."
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---
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_Last updated: July 2026_
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This policy explains what information Two Squirrels Press collects through
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use of twosquirrelspress.com, and what happens to it.
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## What Two Squirrels Press collects
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- Your name, email address, and message, when you submit the contact form.
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- Your name, email address, manuscript file, author bio, a description of
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your submission, the title or call it's for, and a headshot if you
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provide one, when you submit the submissions form.
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- Your email address and order details, when you buy a book. Your payment
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details (card number and so on) go directly to Stripe, our payment
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processor — they never touch Two Squirrels Press's own servers. Two
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Squirrels Press only ever receives your email address, which book you
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bought, and confirmation that the payment succeeded.
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This site doesn't run a newsletter, and doesn't use third-party analytics,
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ad trackers, or tracking pixels. Checkout with Stripe is the one
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third-party service in the loop, and it's there because payment processing
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and tax compliance genuinely can't be handled responsibly by a small press
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running its own servers.
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## Why Two Squirrels Press collects it
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- To respond to messages sent through the contact form.
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- To evaluate submissions sent through the submissions form.
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- To fulfill book purchases (send your download link) and handle any
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refund requests.
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## What Two Squirrels Press doesn't do
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- Two Squirrels Press doesn't sell or rent your information to anyone.
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- Two Squirrels Press doesn't share it with third parties except the
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infrastructure providers necessary to run this site, deliver that email,
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and process a payment — currently: Stripe, for payment processing — none
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of whom get to use it for their own purposes.
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## Your control over it
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- **Deletion**: reach out through [the contact form](/contact/) and Two
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Squirrels Press will delete your information from these systems. (Stripe
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keeps its own transaction records as required by law and its own
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policies — that retention isn't something Two Squirrels Press controls.)
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## Security
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Most of your information is stored on infrastructure Two Squirrels Press
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controls directly. The one exception is payment processing: Stripe, acting
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as merchant of record, handles your card details and tax compliance
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directly, and Two Squirrels Press never sees or stores your card number.
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That doesn't make any of this invulnerable — no system is — but it does
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mean there's exactly one clearly accountable party for each piece of your
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data.
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## Changes
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If this policy changes in a way that matters, the date at the top of this
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page will be updated.
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## Questions
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[Get in touch](/contact/).
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