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| Privacy
Policy |
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This
privacy policy covers how Book Plaza treats
personal information that Book Plaza collects
and receives, including information related
to your use of Book Plaza services. Personal
information is information about you that
is personally identifiable like your name,
address, email address, or phone number,
and that is not otherwise publicly available.
This policy does not apply to the practices
of companies that Book Plaza does not own
or control or to people that Book Plaza
does not employ or manage.
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| Information
Collection and Use |
| General |
Book
Plaza may collect personal information
when you register, when you use Book
Plaza services, when you visit Book
Plaza pages or the pages related to
the content contained within Book
Plaza. Book Plaza may combine information
about you that we have with information
we obtain from business partners or
other companies. |
When you register
we ask for information such as your
first and last name and email address.
If you register as a creator, we may
request information about your address,
occupation, industry, and information
required to pay royalties. Once you
register with Book Plaza and sign
in to our services, you are not anonymous
to us. |
Book Plaza collects
information about your transactions
with us and your use of the services
that we offer. |
Book Plaza automatically
receives and records information on
our server logs from your browser,
including your IP address, browser
settings, and pages requested. Book
Plaza also requires a cookie, used
only to keep track of your login status. |
| Book Plaza uses information for the
following general purposes: |
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To fulfill
your requests for products and
services; |
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To improve
our services; |
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To contact
you, conduct research, and provide
anonymous reporting for internal
and external clients. |
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To provide
publisher correspondence via
the Book Plaza Thank You Note
program. As part of this program,
Book Plaza may send e-mails
containing a message from the
publisher to the content purchaser.
None of the purchaser's personal
information is disclosed to
the publisher through this program.
We simply forward the publisher's
Thank You Note and contact information
to the purchaser on their behalf.
Purchasers may opt out of receiving
correspondence from this program
at any time. |
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| Information
Sharing and Disclosure |
Book
Plaza does not rent, sell, or share
personal information about you with
other people or nonaffiliated companies
except to provide products or services
you've requested, when we have your
permission, or under the following
circumstances: |
We provide
the information to trusted partners
who work on behalf of or with Book
Plaza under confidentiality agreements.
These companies may use your personal
information to help Book Plaza communicate
with you. However, these companies
do not have any independent right
to share this information, nor do
they have any right to contact you
for matters not pertaining to Book
Plaza. Book Plaza does not share
your information with third parties.
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We respond
to subpoenas, court orders, or legal
process, or to establish or exercise
our legal rights or defend against
legal claims; |
Book Plaza
automatically receives and records
information on our server logs from
your browser, including your IP
address, browser settings, and pages
requested. Book Plaza also requires
a cookie, used only to keep track
of your login status. |
We transfer
information about you if Book Plaza
is acquired by or merged with another
company. In this event, Book Plaza
will notify you before information
about you is transferred and becomes
subject to a different privacy policy. |
| If, as a registered creator, you
enable your Thank You Note buyer notification
option, you agree to permit Book Plaza
to display the publisher name and
e-mail address you provide on all
Thank You Note correspondence to purchasers
of your content. |
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| Your
Account Information and Preferences |
| General |
You
can edit your account information
at any time. |
Certain communications
from Book Plaza, such as critical
service announcements and administrative
messages, are considered part of
Book Plaza membership and you may
not opt out of receiving them. You
may opt out of receiving the Book
Plaza newsletter, meet-up invitations,
and other non-critical Book Plaza
communications under Manage Account
Preferences in the My Account tab. |
You may delete
your Book Plaza account by contacting
support. |
If you have
published material to Book Plaza
as a creator, that material may
remain in some form on the site
even after you retire it from public
view, particularly if you have granted
permission for it to be used as
part of a collaborative project
that exists elsewhere on the site. |
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| Confidentiality
and Security |
We
limit access to personal information
about you to employees who we believe
reasonably need to come into contact
with that information to provide
products or services to you or in
order to do their jobs.
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We have physical,
electronic, and procedural safeguards
that comply with federal regulations
to protect personal information
about you.
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Your Book Plaza
Account Information is password-protected.
You are responsible for not sharing
your password. |
In certain
areas Book Plaza uses industry-standard
SSL encryption to protect data transmissions
related to commerce. |
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| Changes
to this Privacy Policy |
Book
Plaza may update this policy. We
will notify you about significant
changes in the way we treat personal
information by sending a notice
to the primary email address specified
in your Book Plaza account or by
placing a prominent notice on our
site. |
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and Suggestions |
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