Privacy, Policies, Age & General Data Protection Regulations
This pledge of privacy discusses how our company handles personal data collected by us, which encompasses full compliance with all regulations of general data protection. Any writer outside of the country hereby verifies that he/she is aged 18 years or above. The acceptable age for persons within the country is between 13 and 17 years; but they must have the permission of their legal guardian; or else the acceptable age for the writers is 18 or above.
Personal information includes information such as your name, phone number, address, email address, and other details that is not publicly available otherwise.
We may require your personal information at the time of registering you for self-publishing, if you click on a Pay-per-Click advertisement, or when you take part in the publishing process through our website.
We collect details of your transactions with our company through your use of our offered services. We will not buy any personal data from other businesses, nor do we publish your personal data. If you want to take back your consent, it would be your responsibility to do that, and you are able to unsubscribe at any time and stop receiving any emails from us. You can also decide to stop using our website.
The host of our website automatically receives and saves data from your browser to our server logs, including your requested pages, browser settings, and IP address. Our website also writes a cookie into your system. A cookie is a small-size text file which is saved on your computer. We will write and access cookies on your computer to support your process of logging-in to our website or to track your associated referrals. The data connected by the cookie is just a user ID number. We will not connect to or save any other personal details to the cookie. You have the option of manually deleting cookies whenever you want, you just have to follow the directions provided in Help file of your Internet browser. Please note that we only use specific type of personal information such as your page requests, browser settings, and IP address, to facilitate your experience at our website.
We may also use your personal information to:
- fulfill your requests for services and products;
- get in touch with you;
- provide any guidance or support. We may send you e-mails containing details about our publishing or marketing to help you make any important decisions regarding these processes.
To publish through our company, you will need to open an account with us. At the time of account opening, we’ll ask details such as your first name and email address.
We only need these details to make you a paying user of our company. Depending upon your transaction, we may need some more details such as your last name, your phone number and residential address.
After registering for our account, you are not unknown to us. You may make changes to your account details at any time, including removing or changing your last name, phone number or mailing address. Also, we allow you to edit or change your email address and password.
When you start the self-publishing process, you will deposit fee for the full package. We will seek details such as your full name, phone number and billing address. We may also ask for your billing address and payment information (such as credit card number etc). We take this information securely for your financial protection.
We will never store your credit card details on file or online. For each transaction, you need to re-enter your payment information. We do this for your security and protection. Also, when you place any order, we will ask for your delivery address to calculate your shipping fees and to deliver your order at your doorsteps.
For receiving your royalty cheques, you will need to maintain a permanent postal address, alongside your full name name, phone number and postal address.
Your royalties are subject to local tax laws. Hence, for receiving payment, you need to give us either your EIN, TIN, or SSN, for issuing a 1099 form with details about your annual earnings.
You need to fill a W8 form to declare your exemption (in case of not being a US taxpayer).
We limit contractor and employee access to your important information. For instance, only the employees in our accounts department can access your tax details.
If you have provided any personal details in your book or in content of your author webpage, that information may be accessed by other users. In this case, we cannot guarantee that your personal details will remain protected as mentioned in this Privacy Policy. We will not edit or delete your personal details from the content present at your personal Author Webpage or inside the body of your book. You have the option of keeping your personal information safe and protect it from being accessed by other users of our company. In case of any problems, you can lodge a complaint with any of our supervisory authority through our website.
Other than what is provided in the above discussion, we will not disclose your personal details with non-affiliated companies or other people nor to any international or third country organization.
However, we may have to share your personal details in response to court orders, subpoenas, or legal requirements, or against any legal claims, create or perform our legal rights or if we are asked to do so by law. Also, we may have to disclose your personal details if we find it necessary for investigating, preventing, or taking action against any suspected fraud, illegal actions, circumstances causing potential threats to the safety of any other entity, or violations of our distribution and production agreement. Lastly, we may also disclose your personal details if the company is merged with or acquired by another company.
Our web site features links to other websites. Please note that we do not take any responsibility for the privacy practices or content of such other websites. We request our users to remain vigilant when using links to other websites and to read their privacy statements before providing any personally identifiable information to these websites.
Our Privacy Policy does not apply to other companies that we do not own or control, nor to persons that are not employed at our company.