This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") explains how Publishing.com LLC, also known as (“Publishing.com”,"Publishing.ai", "Company", "we", or "us") collects, stores, uses, and discloses personal information from our users ("you", "user") in connection with the website located at Publishing.ai (the "Website").
Please read and make sure you understand this Policy. If you do not agree with this Policy or our practices, you may not use our Website. This Policy may change from time to time and is incorporated into our Website Terms of Use. Your continued use of our Website constitutes your acceptance of those changes. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically.
Publishing.ai may, from time to time, handle personal data collected from individuals located within the European Union ("EU") member countries. Consistent with the regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC ("General Data Protection Regulation" or "GDPR") and the recommendations of the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party ("WP29") and of the European Data Protection Board ("EDPB"), Publishing.ai grants enhanced data protection for individuals located within the EU. Our adherence to the GDPR regarding the personal data collected from individuals located within the EU is detailed in this Policy.
This Policy covers Publishing.ai’s treatment of information that Publishing.ai gathers when you are accessing Publishing.ai’s Website as a user and when you use Publishing.ai services (the "Services"). Also, this Policy covers Publishing.ai’s treatment of your information that Publishing.ai shares with Publishing.ai’s business partners. This Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Publishing.ai does not own or control, or to individuals that Publishing.ai does not employ or manage.
The information we gather from users enables Publishing.ai to personalize and improve our services and to allow our users to set up user accounts on the Website. In connection with the Website, we request and display some information to other users and visitors of the Website, which allows users to identify authors and goods on the Website. We collect the following types of information from our users:
We receive and store any information you enter on our Website or provide to us in any other way. The types of information collected may include, without limitation, your full name, email address, mailing address (optional), phone number (optional), password, contact information, and content consumed on the Website, such as eBooks, audiobooks, and print-ready PDF files uploaded and shared. We also collect financial data including account holder name, bank name, account number, and currency of account for taxation reasons, including Tax ID (US: TIN: SSIN/EIN), citizenship, and country of residence. We may also ask for government ID, Green Card, or other proof of address or proof of residency status as regulated by taxation law.
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with our Website or Services. Publishing.ai automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, unique device identifier, browser characteristics, domain and other system settings, search queries, device characteristics, operating system type, language preferences, referring URLs, actions taken on our Website, page requested, content consumed (e.g., viewed, uploaded, and shared), dates and times of Website visits, metadata, and other information associated with other files stored on your device. We also receive and collect sales-relevant data from our book retailers, which we then make available to our users.
We collect the following data to provide, improve, and protect our services:
To ensure your privacy, we explicitly avoid collecting:
We use the data collected solely for the purposes stated in this policy. We do not share or sell your personal information to third parties without your consent, except as required by law.
Except as set forth above, you will be notified when your information may be shared with third parties and will have the option of preventing the sharing of this information.
Publishing.ai may use automatically collected information and cookies to: (a) remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Website; (b) provide custom, personalized advertisements, content, and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed.
Publishing.ai will only collect and retain personal data which is relevant to the purposes for which the data is collected. We will not use your data in a way that is incompatible with these purposes unless such use has been subsequently authorized by you. We take reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and current. We may occasionally contact you to verify that your data is still accurate and current. To secure your personal information, we save it to backup archives every 24 hours, and data stored in our backup archives will be deleted every half year.
We take commercially reasonable measures to protect all collected information from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Please understand that you can help keep your information secure by choosing and protecting your password appropriately, not sharing your password and preventing others from using your computer. While no security system is perfect, we continually strive to protect your information. Should we learn of a security systems breach, we will either post a notice or attempt to notify you by email and take reasonable steps to remedy the breach.
We may update this policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice.
Please note that we may retain certain personal information after your account has been terminated. We reserve the right to use your information in any aggregated data collection after you have terminated your account, however, we will ensure that the use of such information will not identify you personally.
Publishing.ai will not transfer personal data originating in the EU or Switzerland to third parties unless such third parties have entered into an agreement in writing with us requiring them to provide at least the same level of privacy protection to your personal data as required by the Principles of the GDPR. We acknowledge our liability for such data transfers to third parties. By registering on the Website, you give your express consent to the transfer of the personal data as detailed above.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or our data handling practices, please contact us at support@publishing.com.
If you have a website account, you can log in to view and update your account information. You have the right to obtain confirmation of whether or not we are processing personal data relating to you, have communicated to you such data so that you could verify its accuracy and the lawfulness of the processing and have the data corrected, amended, or deleted where it is inaccurate. We encourage you to contact us with your questions or concerns, or to request edits to your personal information, or to have it removed from our database. Requests to access, change, or remove your personal data will be handled within 30 days.
If you are from the territory of the EU, you may have the right to exercise additional rights available to you under applicable laws, including:
(a) Right of Erasure: You may have a broader right to erasure of personal information that we hold about you, especially if it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. However, we may need to retain certain information for legal or record-keeping purposes.
(b) Right to Object to Processing: You may object to our processing of your personal information and request that we stop sending you marketing communications.
(c) Right to Restrict Processing: You may request that we restrict processing of your personal information under certain circumstances, such as if you contest its accuracy or the lawfulness of our processing.
(d) Right to Data Portability: In certain circumstances, you may request to receive your personal information in a structured, machine-readable format and have us transfer it directly to another data controller.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us directly. We will respond in accordance with applicable laws, and we may verify your identity to protect your privacy and security.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local EU Data Protection Authority regarding our collection and use of your personal data.
By using our services, you consent to the collection and use of your information as outlined in this privacy policy.
