Privacy Policy

The Reading Nook Guild is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information about you when you interact with our services, including curated book selections, facilitated book discussions, author events, literary workshops, reading challenges, member networking, our online forum, and personalized reading recommendations.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information to provide and improve our services, communicate with you, and personalize your experience.

• Information You Provide to Us: This includes personal data you provide when you register for an account, subscribe to our newsletter, sign up for events or workshops, participate in reading challenges, contribute to our online forum, or request personalized recommendations. This may include your name, email address, postal address, payment information, and your literary preferences and interests.
• Information We Collect Automatically: When you access and use our online platform, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and your usage. This includes IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates and times of your visits. We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies for this purpose.
• Information from Third Parties: We may receive information about you from third-party services if you link them to your Reading Nook Guild account, or if they provide services to us (e.g., payment processors).

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• To provide, operate, and maintain our services, including facilitating book discussions, managing event registrations, and enabling online forum participation.
• To personalize your experience, such as offering curated book selections and personalized reading recommendations based on your stated preferences.
• To process transactions and send you related information, including confirmations and invoices.
• To send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
• To respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and provide customer service.
• To communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, and events offered by The Reading Nook Guild, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you.
• To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services, and for marketing or advertising purposes.
• To detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect the rights and property of The Reading Nook Guild and others.

3. Disclosure of Information

We may share your information with third parties in the following circumstances:

• Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and customer service.
• Compliance with Laws: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).
• Protection of Rights: We may disclose information when we believe it is appropriate to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, or as evidence in legal proceedings.
• Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
• With Your Consent: We may share your information with your consent or at your direction. For example, if you choose to participate in public forums, any information you post may be publicly viewable.

4. Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide our services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

5. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to protect the security of your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

6. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
• Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
• Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

7. Third-Party Links

Our online platform may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not operated by us. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third parties.

8. 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. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at: