AllAuthor Privacy Policy

We, at AllAuthor, are committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy is applicable to our website www.allauthor.com and our mobile applications owned and controlled by AllAuthor. This privacy policy describes data collection, processing, sharing and usage rights. It also describes the choices of how your personal information is used.

We periodically update this privacy policy and reserve the right to do so, at any time we see fit. We encourage you to review this policy periodically. The ‘Last Updated’ section denotes the date when the changes to this policy were last made.


Information We Collect

We require a wide range of information to operate and run our services.


During signup

This refers to the personal information that you voluntarily provide such as your name and email address, when you register with the Service. If you correspond with us by email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address and our responses. In addition, you may choose to add any information to your profile that you wish to share. You can modify and delete any information, anytime from your Author Profile/Reader Profile after you have signed in.


Information about Your Contacts

Whenever you send an invitation to a person to join AllAuthor, the individual may have access to your email address. AllAuthor will not, in any way, use the email addresses of your contacts to send any promotional messages unless they join AllAuthor. In this case, they will be also covered by this Privacy Policy. All information that you enter or upload about your contacts will be covered by the same terms of this Privacy Policy as cover your own personally identifiable information.


Cookies

Cookies are placed on your computer when your web browser accesses the Site. We use cookies to save your preferences and to recognize when you return to the Site. Please note that you may not be able to access the full functionality of the Site if cookies are disabled on your browser.


Log File Information

Log file information is automatically reported by your browser each time you access a web page. When you register with or view our site, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, Internet Service Provider (ISP) and other such information.


How We Use the Information Collected

We never sell your personal information to any third party. You are solely responsible for any personal information that you voluntarily disclose to the public via our services like, reviews, comments, and trivia questions.


How is Your Personal Information Used?

  • We use your information to operate, maintain, and provide you with the features and functionality of our Services.
  • We may send you emails regarding any changes or updates in the Service or features, security messages, confirmation emails, promotions, deals or any alerts that you have chosen from the email settings. If you want to opt out from receiving such emails, you may opt out of all communication via account settings.
  • We may use the information to process payments that you make through AllAuthor.
  • We may use the information to protect and investigate any suspicious, fraudulent or illegal activity.

Security of Personal Information

We use reasonable technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit and, therefore, you do so at your own risk.

To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password, payment and other sensitive information, and for controlling the access to your personal information at all times.


Links to External Websites

We do not control, and are not responsible for the practices, information or content of other websites which are linked from our website. Please remember that when you use a link to move from our website to another website, our Privacy Policy will no longer be in effect. Your choice of browsing and interaction on any other website, including those that have a link on our website, is subject to that website's own rules and policies.


Information with Regards to Social Media

Our website consists of social media features like the widgets for Like and Share that run on our Site. These may collect your IP address when you click and visit the page and may also introduce cookies. Your interaction with these features is governed by the privacy policy of the websites that are providing the Services.


Information That Are Publicly Visible

  • For Authors: If you have an Author Profile on AllAuthor, then certain information that you have provided will be publicly visible including your name, your profile picture, your books along with the buy link to an external website, author biography, birthday, country, genres you write, genres you read, any descriptions you have added, along with the social media profiles added.
  • For Readers: If you have signed up at AllAuthor as a reader, then the personal information that you have shared such as full name, book preferences, profile picture and biography will be visible in your Reader profile.

Testimonials and Feedback

We may post user testimonials and feedbacks on our websites which may also include personal information. We obtain each user’s consent before posting the user’s information publicly.


How We Share the Collected Information

We will not rent or sell your personal information to others. We may share your information solely for the purpose of providing you Services.


  • We may share your personal information for processing your payments for the Services that you have opted for, delivery of emails and other related services.
  • We may share your personal information in case we do business negotiations like mergers, acquisitions or bankruptcy. In these cases, the whole or a part of our assets may be transferred or sold along with your personal information.

Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, we will not disclose any personal information unless it is required to do so by law or if we believe that such action is necessary to conform to the law, comply with legal process, and to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of our members and users.


Information for Advertising

We may be placing advertisements on third-party websites for which certain companies will use cookies and other related information about your visits to AllAuthor to provide advertisements for Services.
To opt-out of the advertisements by AllAuthor on third-party websites through Google, you can change your settings here: Google’s Ad Settings


Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect information anonymously for the website reports and trends without identifying individual users. Google Analytics uses its own cookies to gather information.


Cookies

We use the following cookies on AllAuthor:

  • Essential website cookies: These cookies are necessary to provide Services through our websites and mobile applications to use the features and tools provided by AllAuthor.
  • Performance and functionality cookies: These are used to remember your choices and provide you with a better service when you visit the website again.
  • Analytics cookies: These cookies collect the information to help us understand how effective our Services are, the details about the pages visited by users and other similar information to help us improve our Services.
  • Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to display relevant advertisements based on your interests.
  • Social media cookies: These cookies enable you to like, share and comment on the content of third-party websites through our Site. These cookies will record the actions you have performed.

You have the right to accept or reject the cookies. You can opt-out from sharing the information from your browser settings. In case you choose to not share information via cookies, it may affect the performance of AllAuthor for you.


International Data Transfer

To provide Services throughout the world, we may transfer, store and process the information collected from you outside the country you reside where data protection and privacy regulations may vary. We take the necessary precautions to ensure the protection of your data. By using AllAuthor, you agree to transfer, store and process your information outside your country.


Protecting the Privacy of Minors

Protecting the privacy of young children is most important. For that reason, we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow them to register.

If you are under 18, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as soon as possible.


How to Control Your Personal Information

You have the following rights to protect your information:

  • You may access or change your information and preferences any time you want from your Author Profile/ Reader Profile once you have signed in.
  • You can decline to offer certain personal information, which may affect or restrict the Services that we can provide for you.
  • You may, at any point of time, request to update, correct or erase any personal information.
  • You may also opt-out of any promotions, email notifications and other messages that you have been receiving.
If any user has any problem related to our quotes or content they can contact us or send a message through email to support@allauthor.com