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Privacy Policy
Last Updated:
October 15, 2014
Bargain Reading (“Company”, “we”, or “us”)
is committed to protecting your privacy. We've prepared this
privacy policy to describe to you our practices regarding any
personal information collected from users of our website,
located at http://www.the-reading.club (the “Site”) and online
services (the “Services”).
Your privacy is very important to us and protecting the privacy of all our members is
extremely important to
us. We do not intentionally collect or maintain Personal
Information from children. If we
later learn that a user is under 18 years of age, we will take steps to
remove that user’s personal information from our databases and
to prevent the user from utilizing the Site and the Services.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
Provided By You
We collect personally identifiable information from our members,
such as email addresses as well as any other information you
provide to us during the registration process, such as
reading preferences and country of residence. This information
is associated with your Account.
Our Site and Services are free for readers. For business
partners using our Site and Services, we collect additional
personal information as may be required to obtain credit
authorization for payments for use of services.
Anytime you contact us via email or provide feedback, we will
collect your name and email address, as well as any other
information included in the email. This information allows us to
send you a reply and provide followups if necessary.
For anyone participating in a contest, giveaway or sweepstakes
at our Site or through our Services, we may collect additional
information, such as home address, so that we can notify you if
you win or not and to verify your identity if necessary.
Sometimes, we may need additional information prior to awarding
prizes, such as the type of prize you wish to receive. Any
contest, giveaway or sweepstakes we host are voluntary and void
where limited, restricted or not allowed by law. Please be sure
to read the rules for each contest, giveaway or sweepstakes you
enter.
Collected via Technology
Should registration and logins become available on our Site, we
will collect passwords as well for the purposes of allowing you
to login to the Site and Services. Records of individual
transactions conducted through the Services by any Registered
Users may be associated with each Registered User’s individual
account within our System.
Cookies. Like many online services, we may use cookies to
collect information. “Cookies” are small files placed on a
user’s computer by a Web site in order to facilitate use of that
Web site. For example, a cookie may contain information about
your preferences, so that the Web site automatically complies
with those preferences when you visit our Web site. When using
our Site and Services, our System may send cookies to your
computer for purposes of facilitating and maintaining your
current user session, and may collect personal information using
those cookies in order to enable the Company to identify you in
connection with the Site and Services and to track use of the
Site and Services for purposes consistent with this policy.
Log Files. As is true of most any website, we gather certain
information automatically and store it in log files, including
IP addresses, browser type, and more. We use this information to
optimize our Site and Services to our users' needs, analyze
trends, track user's movements around the Site, and gather
demographic information about our users as a whole. For example,
some of this information may be used to maintain your user
session and recognize you to ensure our Site is optimized for
your preferences. Except as noted in this Privacy Policy, we do
not link any of this automatically collected data to personal
information.
Collected Via 3rd Parties
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected
by us through the Site. Although the Site and Services contain
links to third party Web site, be aware that we do not review,
are not responsible for and do not control the privacy practices
or the content of such other Web sites. We encourage you to read
the privacy statements of each and every site you visit.
We use third party advertisements to help support our Site and
Services.
Some of these advertisers may use cookies or other techniques to
collect information about you when they advertise on our Site
and Services, including your IP address, your browser type, and
your device type. This information generally is used to provide
targeted advertising.
Some of our advertisers may use information about your visits to
this and other websites in order to provide ads about goods and
services you may be interested in. Google and DoubeClick are our
primary advertisers. You can learn more about the way Google
uses cookies
here
and more about the way DoubleClick uses cookies
here.
Use of Your Information
Generally, we use the information collected to either respond to
requests you make, or to help us serve you better. We use your
personal information to: (i) identify you as a user in our
system; (ii) provide improved management of our Site and
Services; (iii) aid the creation of and secure your Account on
our system; (iv) provide the Services you request and respond to
your queries; (v) send newsletters, surveys, offers and other
promotional materials related to our Site and Services and for
other marketing purposes of the Company. (vi) improve the
quality of experience when you interact with our Site and
Services; (vii) send you a welcome email; (viii) send you
administrative email notifications.
We may also create anonymous data from your personal information
and use this anonymous data to analyze preference patterns so
that we may enhance our Services and improve our Site. We
reserve the right to use anonymous data for any purpose and
disclose anonymous data to third parties at our sole discretion.
Personal information which we collect may be transferred to,
stored in, and used in the United States and other
jurisdictions, some or all of which may not have privacy
regulations and protections which are as protective as those in
your jurisdiction of primary residence. If you have any questions about
the security of your personal information, you can contact us.
Although the Company uses a variety of security measures to
protect and safeguard your personal information, no security
system can safeguard against all potential security issues and
thus the Company cannot guarantee complete security of your
personal information.
If you complete deactivate your Account, we may retain an
archived copy of your records and information as required by law or for other
specific business purposes.
Information We Share
We may disclose your information to our third-party service
providers. The reason for this is to: (a) facilitate the
creation of accounts and provide technical support; (b) provide
you with the Services that we offer you through our Site; (c)
conduct quality assurance testing; and/or (d) provide other
services.
Third party service providers are required not to use your
personal information other than to provide services requested by
the Company.
We reserve the right to share any or all of your personal
information in connection with or during negotiation of any
merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution transaction or
legal proceeding which may involve sale, transfer, divestiture,
or disclosure of all or a portion of our business or assets. In
the event of an insolvency, receivership or bankruptcy, personal
information may also be transferred as a business asset. Any
company subsequently acquiring our company, business, or assets,
will possess the personal information collected by us and will
assume the rights and obligations regarding your personal
information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Under certain limited circumstances, we may need to or be
required to disclose your personal information. This can occur
if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary
(a) to comply with relevant legal requirements or to respond to
subpoenas or warrants served on the Company; (b) in connection
with any legal investigation; (c) to protect or defend the
rights or property of the Company or users of the Site or
Services; and/or (d) to investigate or assist in preventing any
violation or potential violation of law, this Privacy Policy or
our
Terms of Use.
OPTING-IN / OPTING-OUT
We will periodically send you free newsletters and other emails that
directly promote the use of our Site and Services. When you
receive newsletters or promotional communications from us, you
may indicate a preference to stop receiving further
communications from us and you will have the opportunity to
“opt-out” by clicking the link at the bottom of an email and
following the unsubscribe instructions provided. To opt out of
future promotional communications from us, you may also contact
us.
Despite your indicated email preference and choices, we may send
you service related communications, including notices of any
updates to our Terms of Service or Privacy Policy.
RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES
We strictly adhere to this Privacy Policy. If you believe
otherwise, please
contact us
and we
will do our best to address your concerns. If any such complaint
doesn't get addressed completely, please let us know so we can
try to resolve. Otherwise, you and the Company shall settle such
dispute exclusively under the rules of Judicial Arbitration and
Mediation Services (jamsadr.com).
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
Anytime we change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes
on the Site. Any such posted changes will be effective upon the
date indicated by the posting and these changes may result in
personal information being used in way that are materially
different from previous policies. Your continued use our Site or
Services after such policy changes are posted constitutes your
assent to, and acceptance of, this policy, including all posted
changes and any new uses for which we have provided notice.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please
contact us. |
