Our website address is www.wordsmithpressandmedia.com.

Wordsmith Press and Media LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) values and respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains the types of information we may collect from you, how we use it, with whom we share it and the choices you have about how we use it. We also explain how visitors to this website and our customers can contact us about our privacy policies.

You agree to the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy by using this website. Please refrain from using this website if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We retain the right to change or update our Privacy Policy at any time. You accept the changes if you continue to use the website after they have been posted.

Consent

You agree to our Privacy Policy and consent to its terms by using our website.

Information We Collect About You

We may collect personal data about you from a variety of sources. This information may be collected from you over the phone, on our website, or at one of our events. We may gather information about your device or usage when you visit our website through automatic mechanisms or technologies such as cookies, web server logs, and web beacons. You Provide Information. You can contribute personal information to us in a variety of ways, including when you create an account on our site, purchase our services on this site or over the phone, or participate in an offer, promotion, or survey.

The types of personal information you may provide to us includes:

• Contact details (such as name, postal address, email address, and phone number
• Payment details (such as your credit card number, expiration date, delivery address, billing address, banking account, and tax-related information)
• Username, password, and personal cookies
• Information that you provide when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes
• Any other personal information that you voluntarily provide, including information you provide when you create an account, purchase our services, or contact us.
• Information provided to us by social networks when you log in to this website using your social network credentials
• Personal information excludes any information you may choose to submit publicly, such as reviews, comments, critiques, editorials, testimonials, documentaries, forums, or blog discussions.

How we use your information 

We use the information we collect in various ways, including:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website
• Understand and analyze how you use our website
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• Send you emails
• Find and prevent fraud

Information We Collect Through Automatic Means

We collect certain information about your usage or device when you visit this website or engage with our emails or online adverts, using automatic mechanisms or technologies such as cookies, web server logs, and web beacons. We may also gather information about your usage and browsing patterns through various web-based technologies, as detailed below.

The technologies we may use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a little text file that is stored on the hard disk of your computer or other Internet-connected devices that uniquely identifies your browser to store information or preferences. By selecting the appropriate setting on your browser, you can refuse to accept browser cookies. You may not be able to use all the features of this website if you choose this option.
• Logs from the webserver. Our web servers may log information such as your operating system type, browser type, domain, and other system settings, as well as the language your system employs and the country and time zone in which your device is located, in addition to receiving information through cookies. The IP address of the device you use to access the Internet may also be recorded in web server logs.
• Web Beacons. Beacons on the internet (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) are little electronic files that allow us to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email, as well as track other website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Log Files

Wordsmith Press and Media LLC use log files in accordance with industry standards. When people visit websites, these files keep track of who they are. This is something that all hosting firms perform, and it’s part of their analytics. Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and perhaps the number of clicks are among the data gathered by log files. These are not linked to any personally identifiable information. The information will be used to analyze trends, manage the site, track users’ movements on the site, and gather demographic information. 

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

The Privacy Policies for each of Wordsmith Press and Media LLC’s advertising partners may be found in this list.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks employ technologies such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons in their adverts and links on Wordsmith Press and Media LLC, which are delivered directly to users’ browsers. When this happens, they acquire your IP address automatically. These technologies are used to assess the efficacy of their advertising campaigns and/or to tailor the advertising material you see on websites you visit.

Note that Wordsmith Press and Media LLC has no access to or control over third-party marketers’ cookies. 

Third-Party Privacy Policies

Other sponsors or websites are not covered by the Wordsmith Press and Media LLC Privacy Policy. As a result, we recommend that you review the Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more information. It could include information about their practices as well as directions on how to opt-out of alternatives.

You can disable cookies in your browser’s preferences. More thorough information about cookie management with various web browsers can be found on the respective browsers’ webpages.

We Do Not Track Notice

Some browsers provide a “Do Not Track” option that allows you to tell websites that you don’t want your online actions tracked. These “Do Not Track” signals are ignored by us. We do not monitor your personal information regarding your online activities over time or across third-party websites now. We also don’t allow third parties to acquire personal data from you on this website for these purposes.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information you provide to us and that we collect through automated means to:

• Respond to your inquiries
• Call you about our publishing and related services
• Send you emails containing promotional materials or other communications, including information about the services of our various publishing imprints within our imprint Wordsmith Press and Media LLC.
• Provide our publishing and related services to you
• Process your payment transactions
• Make royalty payments to you, if applicable
• Create and manage your account
• Administer your participation in special events, contests, surveys, and other promotions
• Operate, optimize, and improve our products, services, and operations (including developing new services; managing our communications; performing data analytics; and performing accounting, auditing, and other internal functions)
• Comply with applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards, and our policies• Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal
• We also may use the information in other ways we describe when you provide the information, or for any other purpose with your consent

What rights do you have over your data?

If you have an account on this site or have posted comments, you can ask for an export file of the personal data we have about you, including any information you’ve given us. You can also ask for any personal information we have on you to be deleted. This excludes any information we’re required to store for administrative, legal, or security reasons.

Information We Share

We do not rent lists or sell or otherwise disclose personal information we collect about you, except as described below. We may share your personal information with:

•  Our contractors, service providers, and other third parties, such as credit card processing businesses, marketing services providers and consultants, public relations agencies, and printers, are used to support our business and to offer services requested by you.

• In the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, personal information held by Wordsmith Press and Media, LLC about this website’s users is among the assets transferred, to a buyer or other successor. In such cases, we would require the acquiring party to observe the procedures outlined in this Privacy Policy, as revised from time to time, to the degree possible. However, we cannot guarantee that an acquiring company or a merging firm will follow the same privacy policies or use your information in the same way as this Privacy Policy.

• To other third parties with your express consent. We may also disclose your personal information:

1. To comply with any court order, law, or legal process
2. To respond to law enforcement authorities or other government officials
3. To enforce our agreements with you, including for billing and collection purpose.
4. If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss, or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or illegal activity. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your Rights and Choices

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Email Opt-out. You can email us at admin@wordsmithpressandmedia.com at any time to notify us not to send you marketing communications. This opt-out does not apply to communications from us about your transactions with us.

• Google Analytics Display Advertising. We remarket to you by displaying our advertising on third-party websites using Google Analytics Display Advertising. By selecting Advertising Settings, you can disable Google Analytics for Display Advertising and tailor Google Display Network ads.

• Reviewing, Updating, and Modifying Personal Information. You may have the right, depending on the legislation, to seek and obtain information about yourself, as well as update and remedy inaccuracies in your personal information. Only you, through your Author Center on this website, have the ability to update or delete tax information, including your TIN, that you previously submitted to us. If we feel the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be erroneous, we may refuse to comply.

• Do Not Call. If you do not want to receive sales calls from us, you may request to have your name place

• d on our Do Not Call List. We will process your request and remove your name from our active list within 10 days. You can make this request by email at admin@wordsmithpressandmedia.com or via mail addressed to Wordsmith Press and Media, LLC, Attn: Do Not Call List, (1309 Coffeen Avenue STE 1200 Sheridan, WY 82801 USA). When submitting a request, be sure to include all the relevant information that you want to be added to our Do Not Call List, i.e., full name, address, and telephone number(s). Subsequent sign-ups or inquiries may lead to new record creations; these actions by you may lead to inadvertent contact. If that is the case, please do not hesitate to contact us to reiterate the Do Not Call requests. If your information changes, please notify us of your new name, address, and telephone number(s) so that you will remain on the Do Not Call List.

Children Under the Age of 13

This website is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not intentionally collect personal data from children under the age of 13.

Data Security

We take reasonable precautions to protect and secure your personal information against loss, theft, and unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Please keep in mind that no data storage or transfer over the Internet, or by any other means, can be guaranteed to be completely secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee or certify the security of any information you send us. As a result, you understand, admit, and agree that sending personal information to this website is at your own risk.

You are responsible for the safety and security of your data. Payment or tax information should never be sent to us by email. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any passwords we have provided you (or that you have chosen) for access to certain portions of this website. We respectfully request that you do not reveal your password to anyone.

Links To Other Websites

For your convenience and information, this website may provide connections to other websites. These websites may function without our involvement. If you visit any of the connected websites, you should consider their privacy statements or policies. We are not responsible for the content, any use of the websites, or the privacy practices of any connected websites that you visit if they are not owned or controlled by us.

Governing Law

This website is created and maintained in the United States. We make every effort to protect the personal information of all website users, and to comply with local data protection and consumer rights laws to the extent that they may apply to our services, but the website is based in the United States, and our policies are geared toward complying with those laws. You should not submit your personal information to us if you are unsure whether this Privacy Policy violates the applicable local privacy regulations where you live.

Notice To Non-US Users

If you live outside of the United States of America, you should be informed that your personally identifiable information will be transferred to the United States of America, where the laws may be judged insufficient by your nation. If you are located outside of the United States of America and voluntarily provide personally identifiable information to us on this website, you consent to the general use of that information as set forth in this Privacy Policy, as well as the transfer and/or storage of that information in the United States of America.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

This website may be updated with additional services and features. This page will be updated if these additions have an impact on our Privacy Policy, or if any changes in our privacy practices or relevant laws compel modifications to the Privacy Policy. If we make a significant change to how we use your personal information, we will post a conspicuous notice on this website.