Privacy Policy

Last Updated: December 19, 2014

Fussy Reader (“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.

 

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