privacy notice - microreader


	Last updated Oct. 2, 2022 asdf Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at microreader (“Company,” “we,” “us,” “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us here. asdf When you visit our website microreader.org (the “Website”), and more generally, use any of our services (the “Services,” which include the Website), we appreciate that you are trusting us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy notice, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately. asdf We use Square to securely process payments along with PayPal to protect your donations. asdf This privacy notice applies to all information collected through our Services (which, as described above, includes our Website), as well as, any related services, sales, marketing or events. asdf Please read this privacy notice carefully as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we collect. asdf TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT? 2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION? 3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE? 4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES? 5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION? 6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE? 7. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS? 8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES 9. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS? 10. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE? 11. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE? 12. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU? asdf 1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT? asdf Personal information you disclose to us asdf *In Short:* We collect personal information that you provide to us. asdf We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Website, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Website (such as by posting messages in our online forums) or otherwise when you contact us. asdf The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Website, the choices you make and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following: asdf Personal Information Provided by You. We collect names; email addresses; usernames; passwords; billing addresses; debit/credit card numbers; IP addresses; shopping cart information; and other similar information. We do so to comply with sales tax and other laws and strive to do so as narrowly as possible. asdf Payment Data. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by Square and PayPal. You may find the privacy notice for Square here and PayPal here. asdf All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information. asdf 2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION? asdf *In Short:* We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent. asdf We use personal information collected via our Website for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below. asdf We use the information we collect or receive: To facilitate account creation and logon process. We use the information you provide to facilitate account creation and logon process for the performance of donations and purchases. To enable user-to-user communications. We may use your information in order to enable user-to-user communications with each user’s consent. To manage user accounts. We may use your information for the purposes of managing our account and keeping it in working order. To send administrative information to you. We may use your personal information to send you product, service and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies. To protect our Services. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Website safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention). To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for business purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with our contract. To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond. Fulfill and manage your orders. We may use your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Website. To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may use your information to provide you with the requested service. To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services. People submitting job application feedback, such as a résumé or cover letter, agree that microreader will respond back to their message by email. For other business purposes. We may use your information for other business purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends and evaluating and improving our Website, products and your experience. We may use and store this information in aggregated and anonymized form so that it is not associated with individual end users and does not include personal information. We will not use identifiable personal information without your consent. asdf 3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE? asdf *In Short:* We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations. asdf We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis: Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose. Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests. Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract. Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements). Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved. More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situation: Other Users. When you share personal information (for example, by posting comments, contributions or other content to the Website) or otherwise interact with public areas of the Website, such personal information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly made available outside the Website in perpetuity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you within our Website, and view your profile. Furthermore, this site is protected by reCAPTCHA as governed by Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. asdf 4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES? asdf *In Short:* We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information. asdf We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our cookie policy. asdf For tracking, our website may use Clicky analytics to learn more about user and content trends. We rely on the service, which anonymizes a person’s data, to protect people’s person information. Read Clicky’s privacy policy here. We may also use social media sites such as Facebook and Instagram in relation to advertising. Read Meta’s privacy policy here. asdf Your privacy takes precedence. Information like your name and email address are protected, but if sign up for our newsletter, we may have access to this information but promise not to spam you. We use our newsletter to alert readers when a new story publishes. You can cancel your subscription at any time on your own. You can also request that your data be deleted at any time by contacting microreader’s editor here. asdf 5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION? asdf *In Short:* We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law. asdf We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us. asdf When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. asdf 6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE? asdf *In Short:* We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures. asdf We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Website is at your own risk. You should only access the Website within a secure environment. asdf 7. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS? asdf *In Short:* You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time. If you are a resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm. asdf If you are a resident in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html. asdf If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may contact us here. asdf Account Information asdf If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can: Contact us using the contact information provided. Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with applicable legal requirements. asdf Cookies and similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Website. asdf 8. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES asdf Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice. asdf 9. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS? asdf *In Short:* Yes, if you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information. asdf California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes (which our Website doesn’t do) and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information (which our Website doesn’t do) in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below. asdf If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the Website, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Website. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Website, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g. backups, etc.). asdf CCPA Privacy Notice asdf The California Code of Regulations defines a “resident” as: asdf (1) every individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the State of California for a temporary or transitory purpose asdf All other individuals are defined as “non-residents.” asdf If this definition of “resident” applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal information. asdf What categories of personal information do we collect? asdf We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve (12) months: country of visitor. asdf We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories instances where you interact with us in-person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of: Receiving help through our customer support channels; and Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries. How do we use and share your personal information? asdf More information about our data collection and sharing practices can be found in this privacy notice. asdf You may contact us here. asdf If you are using an authorized agent to exercise your right to opt-out we may deny a request if the authorized agent does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf. asdf Will your information be shared with anyone else? asdf We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. Each service provider is a for-profit entity that processes the information on our behalf. asdf We may use reader data to improve the Website, such as for undertaking internal research to improve the books we provide to people. asdf Your rights with respect to your personal data asdf Right to request deletion of the data – Request to delete asdf You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will respect your request and delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to) the exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliance requirements resulting from a legal obligation or any processing that may be required to protect against illegal activities. asdf Right to be informed – Request to know asdf Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know: whether we collect and use your personal information; the categories of personal information that we collect; the purposes for which the collected personal information is used; whether we sell your personal information to third parties; the categories of personal information that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose; the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold (which we don’t do) or disclosed for a business purpose; and the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information. In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request. asdf Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights asdf We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights. asdf Verification process asdf Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it with information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match the information you provide with the information we already have on file, or we may contact you through a communication method (e.g. phone or email) that you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods as the circumstances dictate. asdf We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. If, however, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity, and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete such additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you. asdf Other privacy rights asdf you may object to the processing of your personal data you may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the data you can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA. you may request to opt-out from future selling of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving a request to opt-out, we will act upon the request as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than 15 days from the date of the request submission. To exercise these rights, you can contact us here. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you. asdf 10. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE? In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws. asdf We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information. 11. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE? asdf If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may contact us here. asdf 12. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU? asdf Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please contact us. We will respond to your request within 30 days. asdf This privacy policy was created using Termly’s Privacy Policy Generator.