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Privacy Policy & Legal Notice

Last updated: July 2026  ·  leongcollin.com

1. Data Controller

The website leongcollin.com is operated by The Quiet Orchard, the publishing imprint of Leon G. Collin. For any privacy-related enquiry, please use the contact form on this website, selecting "Professional" as the reason for contact.

2. Data We Collect and Why

This website collects personal data only when you actively provide it:

  • Contact form submissions: name, email address, and message. Used solely to respond to your enquiry. Data is not shared with third parties and is deleted within six months of our reply.
  • Athenaeum subscriptions: email address. Used to send access confirmation and updates related to the Athenaeum. You may unsubscribe at any time via the link included in every message.

No data is collected passively. This website does not use analytics tools, tracking pixels, or behavioural profiling of any kind.

3. Legal Basis for Processing

Contact form data is processed on the basis of legitimate interest (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)) limited to responding to your message. Athenaeum subscriptions are processed on the basis of your explicit consent (GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)), which you may withdraw at any time.

4. Third-Party Services

Typography on this website is loaded from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com). This constitutes a network request to Google's servers at page load. Google's own privacy policy applies to this connection. No cookies are set by this resource.

If the Athenaeum uses an external email service provider for delivery, that provider processes your email address in accordance with its own data processing agreement. Details are available on request.

5. Your Rights Under GDPR

If you are located in the European Economic Area, you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict processing of, or object to the processing of your personal data, as well as the right to data portability. To exercise any of these rights, use the contact form. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country of residence.

6. Cookies

This website uses only technical cookies strictly necessary for its operation. No tracking or profiling cookies are used. For full details, see the Cookie Policy.

7. Legal Notice

All content on leongcollin.com, including text, images, and design, is protected by copyright. The Quiet Orchard is a publishing imprint. Reproduction of any content, in whole or in part, without written authorisation is prohibited.

The characters, events, institutions, and organisations depicted in the novels published under the Leon G. Collin name are entirely fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events is coincidental.

Requests for rights and permissions should be submitted via the contact form.

8. AI-Generated Content

Some video content published on this website, including dispatches and transmissions featured on the Events page, is produced using generative artificial intelligence tools. This applies only to video material.

The novels published under the Leon G. Collin name are written work. They are not generated by artificial intelligence.