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RomanceNovelCenter.com Privacy Policy
The RomanceNovelCenter.com privacy policy document has been created to demonstrate the firm
commitment on the part of RomanceNovelCenter.com to protect your personal information and to
inform you about how we handle your personal information.This privacy policy applies to transactions and activities in which you
engage while on the RomanceNovelCenter.com website, and to data gathered on the RomanceNovelCenter.com
Website through forms which you fill out, or through script processes used to
manage your use of the RomanceNovelCenter.com website. The privacy policy also applies to
double blind email communications between RomanceNovelCenter.com members (collectively, the
"Site") but does not apply to any other Website or offline point of
contact between RomanceNovelCenter.com, or any other company, and consumers. Please review
this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. By
visiting the site or providing us with information you are accepting the
practices described in this privacy policy. This is applicable with each visit
to the site.
Cookies
While we do not store any cookies on your system to track your activities on the
site, we do store information on our own system that allows us to let other
members know when you are online. This feature can be disabled in the control
panel. Information We Collect From You
In order to operate the Site and to provide you with information about products
or services that may be of interest to you, we may collect "personal
information" (i.e. information that could be used to contact you directly
(without using the Site) such as full name, postal address, phone number or
email address), "financial information" (i.e. credit card numbers or
passwords) or "demographic information" (i.e. information that you
submit, or that we collect, that is neither personal information nor financial
information; this may include, but is not limited to, zip code, postal code,
hometown, gender, username, age/birth date. Demographic information is divided
into two categories: 1) "non-public information", which consists of
purchase history information and one-on-one communications between you and other
users of the Site; and 2) "public information", which consists of all
other demographic information. We ask that you do not enter personal information
or financial information into your "Profile" (for example, don't use your
address or passcode as your username, or include your name or address in your
written responses), because if you do then it may be posted publicly on the
Site, and the information will then be treated as "demographic
information" that is "public information." Please note that
nowhere on the Site do we knowingly collect personal information from children
under the age of 18, as we require that all users represent to us that they are
at least 18 years old.
Information Other Websites Collect From You
On the Site, we place links to other Websites operated by other parties. When
you click on these links and visit these other Websites, regardless of whether
or not they contain our brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property,
you need to be aware that we do not control these other Websites or these other
Websites' business practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply to
these other Websites. Consequently, the operators of these other Websites may
collect different kinds of information about you, and may use and disclose that
information in different ways. We encourage you to review their privacy policies
and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.
How We Use Personal Information
We use your email address and your other personal information to help us
efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in connection with your
transactions and other activities on the Site (including, but not limited to,
confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship with RomanceNovelCenter.com),
and to forward messages to you from other RomanceNovelCenter.com users. These types of
communications, are known as "Operational Communications." In some
cases, Operational Communications may also contain commercial messages, such as
banner ads and special offers. We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers
and other promotional materials for RomanceNovelCenter.com's or third parties' goods or
services. We attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such as
discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. The Site provides you
with options to decline to receive communications from RomanceNovelCenter.com (other than
those contained in Operational Communications). Some of these options may only
be for a certain category of communications; others may be more general. By
posting a profile on the Site, you are opting in to receive communication from RomanceNovelCenter.com
by email. To stop receiving email communication from RomanceNovelCenter.com, go to the
"Preferences" section of your account settings and make the necessary
changes.
To operate the Site, including processing your transactions and supporting
your activities on the Site, we may share your personal information with our
agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide
us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions,
email origination, receipt or support services, customer relationship management
services, order fulfillment and sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We
require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.
By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or
services offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing to
receive communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions) or electing to
participate in contests, sweepstakes or other programs offered or sponsored by
third parties on the Site, you consent to our providing your personal
information to those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal
information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to
contact those third parties to instruct them directly regarding your preferences
for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that
we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties
in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other
information you submit to us. How We Use Public Information and Other Demographic Information
We may review all demographic information. We may use public information to
enable other users to find your profile, to determine whether they are a match
for you and to communicate with you. We may use demographic information to
tailor the Site and communications to your interests. We may also share
demographic information with advertisers on an anonymous and aggregated basis
(i.e., without telling the advertisers your identity). One of the reasons we may
do this is to increase the likelihood that our advertisers' goods and services
will appeal to RomanceNovelCenter.com's users, so that we may target specific ads at
specific demographic groups. Our sharing of demographic information with
advertisers is anonymous (i.e., we do not tell advertisers which particular RomanceNovelCenter.com
users are members of which demographic groups), subject to the rest of this
privacy policy. When you respond to an advertisement, however, we ask you to
remember that if that ad that is targeted to a demographic group and you decide
to give the advertiser your personal information, then the advertiser may be
able to identify you as being a member of that demographic group. Please also be
aware that when we disclose your financial information or personal information
to a Co-Branded Company, as described above, we may also disclose to that
Co-Branded Company your demographic information, other than the content of
one-on-one communications between you and other members. Please also be aware
that we may disclose your demographic information on a non-anonymous basis as
described above in the paragraph titled "Special Cases in which we Share
Personal and Financial Information." Also, to read further details about
how we may use your public information, see our Terms of Use .
Our Security Precautions
The Site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and
alteration of the information under our control.
How You Can Access and Update Your Email Preferences, Personal Information
and Public Information
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications and modify
personal information or demographic information you have provided to us, and to
hide demographic information from, or make demographic information visible to,
the public users of the Site, at anytime by going to the Account Settings or My
Profile section of the Site. Please be aware that it may take several hours for
the changes you make to take effect on the public areas of the Site. We thank
you for your patience. Please note that changing or deleting your information
through the "Preferences" section of the Site, or otherwise opting-out
of receipt of email communications from RomanceNovelCenter.com, will only change or delete
the data in our database for purposes of future activities on the Site and for
managing future communications from RomanceNovelCenter.com. These changes and deletions will
not change or delete emails or information that we may have already forwarded to
other users or credit card companies or any other third parties, all as provided
above in this privacy policy.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the
practices of the Site, or your dealings with the Site, you can contact us Here
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