Privacy Policy
Who we are
At TheBooksReview.com, accessible from https://www.thebooksreview.com/, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by TheBooksReview.com and how we use it.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in TheBooksReview.com. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information we collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
Comments
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
Cookies
Like any other website, TheBooksReview.com uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
What are Cookies? Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you use the TheBooksReview.com. Session cookies enable you to move from page to page within TheBooksReview.com and any information you enter will be remembered but is deleted when you close the website or after a short time. Persistent cookies allow us to remember your preferences and settings when you use the website in the future.
Disabling Cookies: The use of the cookies described above improves the functionality of the website and your experience of using them. If you do not want these cookies to be served on your device, you are able to disable them by changing the settings within the website, or on your device. Please note that if you do decide to disable cookies you may not be able to access some of the website, and some of the features of the website may not function properly. By continuing to use the website, including using social networking media functionality, you consent to the relevant cookies being set on your device.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
More information: To find out more about how cookies work, how to manage and delete them and to see which ones have been set please visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
Performance Cookies: TheBooksReview.com uses persistent cookies and session cookies to, for example, assist in the navigation around the website, to enhance your use of the website and to support graphic and video features; To opt-out: Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer and/or Safari.
Google Analytics: TheBooksReview.com uses Google Analytics to collect: (i) your web browser and version number; (ii) your IP address; (iii) information about your behavior on our website including which pages you visit and how long you spend on each page; (iv) your Operating System and version number; (v) your Platform (i.e., whether you are accessing our website via desktop, mobile or tablet); (vi) your screen resolution; and (vii) any other data points as indicated by Google from time to time. To opt-out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Google Ads: Google and its partners use cookies to personalize and serve ads to our visitors based info you’ve added to your Google Account, data from advertisers that partner with Google, and Google’s estimation of your interests. To opt-out: https://www.google.com/settings/ads
Google DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to TheBooksReview.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Our Advertising Partners
We may use service providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our service. Some of the advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.
Google – https://www.google.com/settings/ads
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on TheBooksReview.com, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that TheBooksReview.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
TheBooksReview.com’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
Sharing information with third parties:
TheBooksReview.com shall not pass your information to any third party (other than as described in this clause). Your information may be shared with the following third parties:
- various affiliate partners;
- advertising partners such as Google Adsense and Amazon Associates;
- our hosting providers – UPress
- analytics partners such as Google
- visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
TheBooksReview.com does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Links to Other Websites
TheBooksReview.com may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.