AI, Copyright, and Privacy

Copyright

2012-2025 All rights reserved. Dragonfly Publishing is a registered sole proprietorship in Nova Scotia, Canada. Content at this site, including blog posts, short stories, author photos, and all other text and images, including books we sell, are copyright by Mary Woodbury except for licensed book covers and other images. This website and its content are protected by Canadian copyright law. Except as otherwise provided for under Canadian copyright law, this website and its content may not be copied, published, distributed, sold, downloaded or otherwise stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or converted, in any form or by any means, electronic or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner.

AI

NO AI TRAINING: Without in any way limiting Mary Woodbury’s and Dragonfly Publishing’s exclusive rights under copyright, any use of content on this site to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text is expressly prohibited. The author reserves all rights to license uses of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models.

Privacy

We are responsible for maintaining and protecting the Personal Information under our control. We collect, use, and disclose Personal Information to provide you with the books you order directly from the press. The purposes for which we collect Personal Information will be identified before or at the time we collect the information. In certain circumstances, the purposes for which information is collected may be clear, and consent may be implied, such as where your name, address, and email payment information is provided as part of the order process. Providing us with your Personal Information is always your choice. However, your decision not to provide certain information may limit our ability to provide you with our books. The Personal Information collected will be limited to those details necessary for the purposes identified by us. Personal Information may only be used or disclosed for the purpose for which it was collected. We will never sell, share, or other distribute your personal information.

 Cookies

A cookie is a small computer file or piece of information that may be stored in your computer’s hard drive when you visit our websites. We may use cookies to improve our website’s functionality and in some cases, to provide visitors with a customized online experience. Cookies are widely used and most web browsers are configured initially to accept cookies automatically. You may change your Internet browser settings to prevent your computer from accepting cookies or to notify you when you receive a cookie so that you may decline its acceptance. Please note, however, if you disable cookies, you may not experience optimal performance of our website.

 Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other third-party sites that are not governed by this privacy policy. Although we endeavour to only link to sites with high privacy standards, our privacy policy will no longer apply once you leave our website. Additionally, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by third party websites. Therefore, we suggest that you examine the privacy statements of those sites to learn how your information may be collected, used, shared and disclosed.

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