Last Updated: [April 22, 2022]
Contents
1. INTRODUCTION
Printers Row Publishing Group division of Readerlink Distribution Services, LLC (“Readerlink”) and its divisions, subsidiaries and affiliates (individually and/or collectively referred to as “PRPG”, “we”, “us” or “our”) wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose information about you (“Information”). This is the Privacy Policy for all websites (the “Website”) that link to this Privacy Policy and any other content, applications, features, functionality, information and services offered by us though the Website. Any capitalized terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning given in the Terms of Use Agreement.
2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect Information about you in the following ways:
When you provide Information to us
We collect Information that you provide to us, which may include the following types of Information:
We may receive information from the applicable provider of the Third Party Service that you have consented be shared. Such information may include, for example, your first and last name, gender, your physical location and that of your Devices, your date of birth, certain profile information, your public ID on or associated with the Third Party Service, profile page URL and e-mail address. We will, as reasonably practicable (e.g., by implementing a compatible disclosure feature offered by the Third Party Service, etc.), disclose what information we collect from the Third Party Services when you connect the Services to the Third Party Service. In addition, we may receive information from the provider of that Third Party Service about you or your use of the website within that Third Party Service. Even if you delete your account on a Third Party Service, we will retain any Information provided by that Third Party Service. Similarly, if you delete or deactivate your account on our Website, any Information that we have shared with Third Party Services (in accordance with this Privacy Policy) may be retained by those Third Party Services.
The Information we collect automatically helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized user experience by enabling us, among other things, to store information about your preferences, to customize our website according to your individual interests, speed up your searches, and recognize you when you return to our website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
We may associate the information obtained through these technologies with other information we may collect about you so that we can, among other things, better customize your experience using the Services and/or the advertisements and promotions you see. Please see Section 6 below for more information on how to opt-out of the collection and use of Information collected via certain automatic collection technologies.
3. THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING/ANALYTICS SERVICE PROVIDERS
We may also use a variety of third party advertising networks, data exchanges, traffic measurement service providers, marketing analytics service providers and other third parties (collectively, “Third Party Advertising/Analytics Service Providers“) to, for example, serve advertisements on our website, facilitate targeting of advertisements and measure and analyze advertising effectiveness and traffic on the Services. PRPG does not control these Third Party Advertising/Analytics Service Providers, and/or their use of tracking technologies, which is instead governed by the privacy policies of any such Third Party Advertising Service Provider. Please see Section 6 below for more information on how to opt-out of the collection and use of Information collected via certain automatic collection technologies.
4. HOW WE MAY USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We use the Information we collect to provide our Website and all its features to you, including to (a) measure and improve the Services, (b) improve your experience with both online and off-line services by delivering content that you will find relevant and interesting, including advertising and marketing messages, (c) allow you to comment on content; and (d) provide you with customer support and to respond to inquiries. Additionally, we may also use the Information we collect about you as follows:
5. USER CHOICE AND ACCESS
We strive to provide you with as many choices as possible to access, review, correct, update, suppress, or otherwise limit our use of the Information you have previously provided directly to us, including:
Additionally, you may opt-out of:
We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable.
6. OPTING-OUT OF USE OF CERTAIN INFORMATION THAT MAY BE COLLECTED BY TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
For example, we use Google Analytics to help us analyse how visitors use our website. The information generated by the cookie, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the Website and to compile statistical reports on Website activity for us. We do not use the statistical analytics tool to track visitors to our Website. If you do not want any information to be collected and used by Google Analytics, you can install an opt-out in your web browser.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can change your browser’s settings to disable all or certain cookies if you wish. For more information on how to manage browser cookies, see http://www.allaboutcookies.org. Click on the links below to learn how to manage cookies on these browsers:
Please note that by blocking any or all cookies you may not have access to certain features, content and/or other personalization available through the Services.
7. DATA COLLECTION FROM CHILDREN
Our Services are not directed to persons under 16 years of age. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please email us at privacy@readerlink.com. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 16, and if we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with Personal Information, we will take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account (if any).
8. SECURITY
While no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure from intrusion, we maintain commercially reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your Information. However, regardless of our efforts, it is possible that third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications over an unsecured transmission. We also limit access to the Services by our own employees, contractors, service providers and those individuals who are authorized for the proper handling of such information. We require that our third party contractors and service providers follow similar standards of security and confidentiality. However, regardless of our efforts, no one can guarantee the complete safety of your Information.
9. DATA RETENTION
We will retain your Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law. Please be aware that even after you cancel your User Account, copies of certain Information from your User Account may remain viewable under certain circumstances. Because of the nature of caching technology, your User Account may not be instantly inaccessible to others. We may also retain backup information related to your User Account on our servers for some time after cancellation for fraud detection or to comply with applicable law or our internal security policies. Further, it is not always possible to completely remove or delete all of your Information due to technical constraints, contractual, financial or legal requirements.
10. YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Pursuant to applicable California law, including the CCPA, Readerlink makes the following disclosures regarding the personal information it collects:
Category of Personal Information | Category of Source from Which Data is Collected | Purpose of Collection | Category of Third Parties to Whom Data is Disclosed |
Name, phone number, date of birth, e-mail address, zip code, country, mailing address, demographic information, profile information, and credit card information | Directly from user | To operate, manage, and make the Service available to our users; billing, identification and authentication; to contact users about their use of the Service; to provide co-branded services and features; to provide advertising. | Service Providers |
Automatically collected information such as IP address, browser information; device information; usage data | Cookies and other tracking technologies | To improve the content and functionality of the Service and Site; to conduct analytics | N/A |
Readerlink has not sold consumers’ personal information in the twelve (12) months preceding the Effective Date of this Policy.
If you are a California resident, pursuant to the CCPA, you have the right to request:
To submit a request, or designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf, please contact us at privacy@readerlink.com or call us at 1-800-549-5389. To verify your identity when you submit a request, Readerlink will match the identifying information you provide us to the personal information we have about you. If necessary, we may ask you to provide additional information for verification or ask for your oral confirmation regarding your request.
However, Readerlink will not be required to comply with your request to delete your personal information if it is necessary for Readerlink to maintain your personal information in order to:
Readerlink will not discriminate against you in the event you exercise any of the aforementioned rights under CCPA, including, without limitation, by:
The Policy is available to consumers with disabilities. To access this Policy in an alternative downloadable format, please click here.
Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, individual customers who reside in California and who have an existing business relationship with us may request information about our disclosure of certain categories of Personal Information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, if any.
To make such a request, send an email with the subject heading “California Privacy Rights” to privacy@readerlink.com or write to us at:
Printers Row Publishing Group
9717 Pacific Heights Blvd
San Diego, CA 92121
In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by these California privacy rights requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our response. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year.
11. YOUR NEVADA PRIVACY RIGHTS
We do not currently sell your covered information as those terms are defined under applicable Nevada law. However, you may still submit an opt-out request and we will honor that request as required by Nevada law if we were to ever engage in such a sale in the future. If you are a Nevada resident and would like to opt-out of future sales of your covered information, please contact us privacy@readerlink.com. Your request must include your full name, street address, city, state, zip code, and an e-mail address so that we can contact you if needed regarding this request. You may also be required to take reasonable steps as we determine from time to time in order to verify your identity and/or the authenticity of the request. We will respond to your request within 60 days either confirming that your request has been processed or indicating that we need an additional 30 days to complete the request.
12. INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Controllers of Personal Data
Printers Row Publishing Group division of
9717 Pacific Heights Blvd
San Diego, CA 92121
is the data controller of the personal data processed through the Website.
Legal Bases for Processing Personal Data
If you are an individual located in the European Union (EU), we collect and process personal data about you where we have a legal basis for doing so under applicable EU laws. This means we collect and process your data only when:
Where we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw or decline consent at any time. Some examples of where we rely on your consent to process your personal data include sending you our newsletter and marketing emails. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us at privacy@readerlink.com.
Some examples of our legitimate interests for processing personal data include:
Where we rely on our legitimate interests to process your personal data, you may have the right to object. More information on exercising this right can be found in the Individual Rights section below.
If you have any questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal data, please contact us at privacy@readerlink.com.
Individual Rights
You have certain rights under EU data protection law with respect to your personal data, including the right to request access to, correct, and delete your personal data. You may also have the right to receive a copy of your personal data in a commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit such data to another controller. You also may object to processing of your personal data, or ask that we restrict the processing of your personal data in certain instances.
To request deletion of, access to, or to make changes to your personal data, or to otherwise any of the rights in this section, please contact us at privacy@readerlink.com. Please note that not all requests can be honored.
Transfers, Storage, and Processing
Our website is operated from and hosted on servers located in the United States. If you access and use our website from a location outside of the United States, any personal data you provide to us or that is otherwise collected may be transferred to and processed in the United States or any other jurisdiction in our sole discretion. Users of our website should be aware that the laws that apply to the use and protection of personal data in the United States or other countries or jurisdictions to which we transfer, or in which we process, personal data may differ from those of your country of residence. Users who access or use our website from jurisdictions outside of the United States do so at their own choice and risk and are solely responsible for compliance with local law. While we take steps to safeguard your personal data, the United States has NOT been deemed by the European Commission to ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data. Accordingly, the level of protection provided in the United States or other non-EU countries and jurisdictions from which you may access our website may not be as stringent as that under EU data protection standards or the data protection laws of some other countries, possibly including your home jurisdiction.
By signing up for our e-mail lists through our Website, you consent to allow your personal data to be transferred across borders to the United States or to other countries or jurisdictions in which PRPG or its third-party associates may process personal data.
Data Protection Authority Assistance
If you are a resident of the EU and your inquiry with us has not been satisfactorily addressed, or if you believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the law or this Privacy Policy, you may file a complaint with the supervisory authority in your country of residence.
13. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our website may be linked to other websites and platforms operated by other companies, including Third Party Services. Our website may also feature advertisements from other third parties. PRPG is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites, platforms, or other services operated by third parties that are linked to or integrated with our website or for the privacy practices of Third Party Online Advertising Services. Once you leave our website via such a link to access a third party application or click on an advertisement, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party to determine, among other things, how they will handle any personally identifiable or other information that they may collect from you.
14. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect industry initiatives, changes in the law or technology, or changes in our practices regarding information collection and use. Please look at the Effective Date at the top of this Privacy Policy to see when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that expand our rights to use the Personal Information we have already collected from you, we will notify you and provide you with a choice about our future use of such Personal Information.
15. CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Email: privacy@readerlink.com
Mail:
Printers Row Publishing Group
9717 Pacific Heights Blvd
San Diego, CA 92121
This Privacy Policy was last modified on the date indicated above and is effective immediately.
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