Thank you for visiting Dime Novel Publishing, LLC, an Arizona Limited Liability Company, d/b/a Dime Novel Publishing (“DNP”) Internet web site located at the URL www.dimenovelpublishing.com (“Site”). This Privacy Policy details certain policies implemented throughout DNP governing DNP’s use of personally identifiable information about users of this Site and the services available through this Site (the “Services”).
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND TO ALL THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR WEBSITE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, EXIT THIS PAGE AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE.
Privacy Policy Updates
Due to the Internet’s rapidly evolving nature, DNP may need to update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If so, DNP will post its updated Privacy Policy on our Site located at www.dimenovelpublishing.com and we may send registered users an email, so you are always aware of what personally identifiable information we may collect and how we may use this information. If any modification is unacceptable to you, you shall cease using this Site and the Services. If you do not cease using this Site and the Services, you will be deemed to have accepted the change.
Information Collection
You can generally visit our Site without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. However, in certain sections of this Site and when you use our Services, we may invite you to contact us with questions or comments or request information, provide or upload content (for example, testimonials about a book series), contact us with feedback or to request support, subscribe to newsletters, or complete a registration form. Due to the nature of some of these activities, we may collect personally identifiable information that you submit in your profile, such as your first and last name, mobile phone number, city, statey, zip code, user ID and password. We may also collect additional personally identifiable information that you voluntarily include communications to us. If you are a registered user, (i) you may be able to send Deals to friends and we will collect their personally identifiable information to process your request to contact them.
Information Use
We may use your personally identifiable information to register you to use our Site and Services, deliver certain information about your account and the services, and verify your authority to enter our Site, improve the content and general administration of the Site and our Services and display targeted advertising on web pages served by the Site.
Children’s Privacy
DNP recognizes the privacy interests of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. This Site is not intended for children under the age of 10. DNP does not target its Services or this Site to children under 10. DNP does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 10 and require that any registration activities carried out by users between the ages of 10 and 18 do so with the consent of a parent or guardian.
Credit Card Information
In order to purchase a subscription through the Site, you will be required to provide credit card and billing information. None of this sensitive financial or personal information is stored by the Site. We utilize a third-party billing and procesing service to carry our credit card authorization and transaction processing. We have carefully analyzed their security procedures and compliance with all industry and federal regulations, including PCI. In no way will your financial information be provided to third-parties except if requested by law-enforcement agencies.
Cookies
We may use small text files called cookies to improve overall Site experience. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Cookies generally do not permit us to personally identify you.
Aggregate Information
The Site may track the total number of visitors to our Site, the number of visitors to each page of our Site, browser type, and IP addresses, and we may analyze this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate, but such information will be maintained, used and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information. We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users’ movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
Disclosure
We may provide your personally identifiable information and the data generated by cookies and the aggregate information to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing our Services to you. Such third party entities may be obligated to use your personally identifiable information solely to provide the services to us. We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or in cooperation with any governmental investigation. We will not sell your personally identifiable information to any company or organization except we may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation or other corporate reorganization in which DNP participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially all of DNP’s assets to which this Site relates. We vigorously protect the privacy of your data and have enacted multiple security mechanisms and procedures to prevent unauthorized access to our users personal information.
Distribution of Information
We may share information with governmental agencies or other companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation. We may do so when: (1) permitted or required by law; or (2) trying to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud or unauthorized transactions; or (3) investigating fraud which has already taken place. The information is not provided to these companies for marketing purposes.
Links to Third Party Sites
The Site may provide links to other Web sites or resources over which DNP does not have control (“External Web Sites”). Such links do not constitute an endorsement by DNP of those External Web Sites. You acknowledge that DNP is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and further agree that DNP is not responsible for the content of such External Web Sites.
Security
We may employ procedural and technological security measures (such as SSL and encryption) that are reasonably designed to help protect your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. DNP may use encryption, password protection, and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personally identifiable information. We also recommend that you take steps and care to protect your password, especially when using such from a public facility (eg, a library computer, a coffee shop computer, etc.).
Public Areas.
At times as part of your interaction with the DNP Site, you may interact with areas where you can publicly post information about yourself, communication with others (eg, on a discussion forum), review products, or provide feedback on a book series or other content. Because of the public nature of these areas, this information can be accessed by other consumers and companies and may appear on other websites or web searches meaning that this information could be read, collected, and used by others. For example, if you post your name, your email address, or other personally identifiable information in these public areas, you may receive unsolicited communications. We have no control over who reads the material in these public areas or what others may do with such information that you have voluntarily posted. We recommend that you use caution when posting information in these areas and take care to protect your personally identifiable information.
Social Media Integration
The DNP Site may allow users to access Facebook Connect, or other social media tools like Twitter, Digg, or Stumble Upon, to interact with friends and to share their DNP Site experiences on such social media sites (eg, the Facebook Wall and friends’ News Feeds). In the event that you want to utilize such integrated tools, you may be required to log into them using such mechanisms as provided by the DNP Site and the social media site to facilitate such interaction between the two. For example, if you click on “Facebook Connect” your profiles will merge if the email address of your DNPe Site login and your Facebook login match. If the email addresses don’t match, you may be prompted if you want to authorize such a connection and sharing of data. By proceeding you are allowing the DNP Site to access your information and you are agreeing to the specific Terms and Conditions of Use of both the social media site and the DNP Sites.
Correction/Updating Personally Identifiable Information
DNP provides you with the ability to review, correct and delete any of your user profile. If you wish to review or correct any profile information you have provided to us, you may submit a request to us at the contact email below or access your account online.
Contacting Us
Whether you’re a new or loyal customer, restaurant owner, marketer, publisher, media member or job seeker we’d like to stay connected and want to hear from you!
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy please contact us via email at privacypolicy@dimenovelpublishing.com
This Privacy Policy was last updated: August 6, 2011
This Privacy Policy is effective as of: April 10, 2010