Privacy Policy

Authors Book Publisher, a Texas based Company is committed to protecting your privacy. We have prepared this Privacy Policy to describe to you our practices regarding the Personal Information (as defined below) we collect from users of our Site at www.authorsbookpublisher.com and Services (as defined in the Terms of Use). It also describes the choices available to you regarding the use of your Personal Information and how you can access and update this information.

1. USER CONSENT.

By submitting Personal Information through our Site or Services, you expressly consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

2. VISITORS UNDER THE AGE OF 14.

Our Service is not offered to persons under the age of 14. Thus, we do not intentionally gather Personal Information from visitors who are under the age of 14.

3. TYPES OF DATA WE COLLECT

We collect data that allows someone to identify or contact you, including, for example, your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, as well as any other non-public information about you that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing data. We collect Personal Information, only as described below.

a. Information You Provide to Us.

We may collect Personal Information from you, such as your name, e-mail and mailing addresses, phone number, and password when you sign up with us.

  1. If you are a Creative, we may require that you provide your tax information (e.g., social security number). We may also require you to provide a copy of government issued identification and a copy of your recent billing statement for address verification.
  2. When you make a purchase, we (or our third party service provider) will collect all information necessary to complete the transaction, including your name, credit card information, debit card information, billing information and/or PayPal information.
  3. If you provide us feedback or contact us via e-mail, we will collect your name and e-mail address, as well as any other content included in the e-mail, in order to send you a reply.
  4. When you participate in one of our surveys, we may collect additional profile information.
b. Tracking Technologies / Cookies.
  1. Authors Book Publisher and our marketing partners, affiliates, or analytics or service providers use cookies or similar technologies in analyzing trends, administering the website, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis. We use cookies to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the information for which you searched and which you viewed. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.
  2. To make our Site and Services more useful to you, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) collect information from you automatically and store it in log files. The information may include your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (IP) address (a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet, which may vary from session to session), domain name, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, clickstream data and/or a date/time stamp for your visit. We may link this automatically-collected data to Personal Information for the purposes of security and to detect fraudulent activity.
c. Google Analytics.

We currently use Google Ads as well as Microsoft Ads for Advertising. Google Analytics collects information and reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. Google Analytics uses its own cookie to track visitor interactions. Website owners can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so they can improve their website and how people find it. Please see the following links for more information about Google Analytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/http://www.google.com/privacy.html and http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising by going to the Google Ads Preferences Manager.

4. USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

a. General Use.

In general, Personal Information you submit to us is used either to respond to requests that you make, or to aid us in serving you better. We use your Personal Information in the following ways: – to facilitate the creation of and secure your Account; – identify you as a user in our system; – improve our Site and Services; – for our internal research and development; – customize content to match your preferences; – prevent suspended users from re-registering; – provide the Services you request; – send you a welcome e-mail to verify ownership of the e-mail address provided when your Account was created; – send you administrative e-mail notifications, such as security or support and maintenance advisories; – respond to your inquiries and requests; – to make telephone calls to you, from time to time, as a part of secondary fraud protection or to solicit your feedback; and – to send newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials related to our Services and for other marketing purposes of Authors Book Publisher.

5. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

While many writing services require recognition or sales incentives, our service is 100% confidential. All communication and content developed or reviewed for the purposes of working together will never be disclosed to any other party under any circumstances. We reserve no rights to the products and services we provide. Everything we edit or write is considered the sole property of the client. If you contract with us, you, and only you, will be recognized as the author and/or owner of your material.

6. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES.

a. Third Party Sites Generally.

When you click on a link to any other website or location, you will leave our Site and go to another site and another entity may collect Personal Information. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites or content, or to any collection of data after you click on links to such outside websites.

b. Other Social Media Features.

Our Site includes social media features such as the Facebook Like button, Tweet button and other widgets or interactive mini-programs that run on our Site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. These Features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the terms of use and privacy policy of the company providing them (e.g., Facebook or Twitter).

7. YOUR CHOICES REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

a. Choices.

We offer you choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Information.

b. Changes to Personal Information.

Upon request Authors Book Publisher will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. You may change any of your Personal Information by contacting us via the Site. You may request deletion of your Personal Information by contacting us via the site or at hello@authorsbookpublisher.com, but please note that we may be required to keep this information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time, in which case we will comply with your deletion request only after we have fulfilled such requirements). When we delete any information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in our archives. We will respond to your request to access within 30 days.

We will retain your information for as long as your Account is active or as needed to provide you Services, for fraud prevention and similar purposes and as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

8. SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

Authors Book Publisher is committed to protecting the security of your Personal Information. We (and our third party service providers) use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms, we (or our third party service providers) encrypt transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while Authors Book Publisher uses reasonable efforts to protect your Personal Information, Authors Book Publisher cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Site, you can contact us at hello@authorsbookpublisher.com.

9. BLOGS.

Our Site offers publicly accessible blogs. Our blog is managed by a third party application that may require you to register to post a comment. We do not have access or control of the information posted to the blog. You will need to contact or login into the third party application if you want the personal information that was posted to the comments section removed. To learn how the third party application uses your information, please review their privacy policy.

10. TESTIMONIALS.

We display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our Site in addition to other endorsements. If you choose to provide a testimonial on the Site, we may post your testimonial along with your name. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at hello@authorsbookpublisher.com.

11. CONTACT INFORMATION.

Authors Book Publisher welcomes your comments or questions regarding this Privacy Policy. Please contact us at the following:

Authors Book Publisher

2425 West Loop South Fwy

Suite #500, Houston,

TX 77027

or at hello@authorsbookpublisher.com.

12. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision, and if we make any material changes in the way we use your Personal Information, we will notify you by sending you an e-mail to the last e-mail address you provided to us and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on our Site. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon the earliest of thirty (30) calendar days following our dispatch of an e-mail notice to you or thirty (30) calendar days following our posting of notice of the changes on our Site. These changes will be effective immediately for new users of our Service. Please note that at all times you are responsible for updating your Personal Information to provide us with your most current e-mail address. In the event that the last e-mail address that you have provided us is not valid, or for any reason is not capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our dispatch of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice of the changes described in the notice. In any event, changes to this Privacy Policy may affect our use of Personal Information that you provided us prior to our notification to you of the changes. If you do not wish to permit changes in our use of your Personal Information, you must notify us prior to the effective date of the changes that you wish to deactivate your Account with us. Continued use of our Site or Service, following notice of such changes shall indicate your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.