Privacy Policy

Information NYT Book Publishers Collects About You

Information You Provide

You may choose to provide to NYT Book Publishers certain personal information, whether over the telephone, on the Sites, via email, or at live events. The types of "Personal Information" that you may provide to NYT Book Publishers include:

Contact information, such as name, postal address, email address, and phone number (collectively referred to as "Personally Identifiable Information" or "PII");
Payment and tax information, such as your credit card number, expiration date, delivery address and billing address, banking account, and tax-related information (collectively referred to as "Financial Information");
Demographic information, including characteristics of protected classifications, such as your age, gender, or ethnicity;
Transaction information, such as products and services purchased;
Information that you provide when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by NYT Book Publishers;
Your responses to surveys that NYT Book Publishers may ask you to complete for training or research purposes;
Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, such as recordings of customer service calls;
Any other personal information that you voluntarily provide, including information you provide when you create an account, purchase NYT Book Publishers products or services, or contact NYT Book Publishers;
Information provided to NYT Book Publishers by social networks when you log in to the Sites using your social network credentials; and
Inferences are drawn from any of the above, such as your preferences or interests.

Information NYT Book Publishers Collects through Automatic Means.

In addition to the Personal Information that you provide, NYT Book Publishers and its third-party service providers may use various technologies that automatically or passively collect information such as your usage, browsing activity, device, and geolocations data (collectively referred to as "Usage Information") when you visit or interact with the Sites, NYT Book Publishers emails or NYT Book Publishers online advertisements As set forth in more details below, NYT Book Publishers may also collect Usage Information using various web-based technologies.

The technologies that NYT Book Publishers may use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer or tablet, mobile or other devices when you visit the Sites or access NYT Book Publishers online content. Cookies may be used for many purposes, including, but not limited to: (1) to recognize you and to remember your preferences; (2) to track your visits to the Sites; (3) to facilitate online purchases; (4) to enable and support NYT Book Publishers security features; (5) to help NYT Book Publishers detect malicious activity; (6) to show you relevant advertising; and (7) to track action taken in response to advertisements.
You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating or adjusting the appropriate privacy settings on your browser or device. However, if you choose to disable cookies or adjust your privacy settings, you may be unable to use all of the features of the Sites.
Web Server Logs. In conjunction with obtaining information through cookies, NYT Book Publishers web servers may log details such as your operating system type, browser type, domain, and other system settings, as well as the language your system uses and the country and time zone in which your device is located. The web server logs also may record information such as the address of the web page that linked you to the Sites and the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet.
Web Beacons. Pages of the Sites and NYT Book Publishers emails to you may contain small electronic files known as "web beacons" (also referred to as clear gifs. pixel tags and single-pixel gifs). Web beacons or similar technologies may be used for a variety of purposes, including, but not limited to: (1) to count users to the Sites or specific pages on the Sites; (2) to monitor how users navigate the Sites; (3) to count how many people opened an email or clicked on a link; (4) to track other website statistics, such as the popularity of certain website content; and (5) to verify system and server integrity and security.

Third-Party Web Analytics Services

NYT Book Publishers may use third-party web analytics services on the Sites, such as Google Analytics. The service providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web server logs, web beacons, and similar technologies to help NYT Book Publishers analyze how visitors use the Sites, their emails, and its online advertisements. The information collected through these means is disclosed to these service providers.

Targeted Advertising

NYT Book Publishers also may allow third-party advertising services and networks to use cookies, web server logs, web beacons and similar technologies on the Sites and its emails, third-party websites and emails and its advertising placed on third-party websites. They use this information to provide advertisements about NYT Book Publishers services that may be of interest to you. You may see these advertisements on other websites. NYT Book Publishers does not control these third-party technologies, and they are not subject to this Privacy Policy. NYT Book Publishers does not authorize these third parties to use this technology to collect Personal Information about you, and they do not have access to your Personal Information that you provided to NYT Book Publishers. They may, however, track your Internet usage anonymously (that is, without being able to identify you personally) over time and across other websites beyond the Sites.

Do Not Track Notices or Signals

Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" feature that allows you automatically transmit a "Do Not Track" signal to websites and online services that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. NYT Book Publishers does not respond to these "Do Not Track" signals. At this time, NYT Book Publishers does not track information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites. NYT Book Publishers also does not authorize third parties to collect any Personal Information from you on the Sites for these purposes.

Public Forums

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you choose to post, submit or share in public forums, such as reviews, comments, critiques, editorials, testimonials, or blog discussions. Information or other content that you choose to make available in a public forum may be viewed, collected and used by others. NYT Book Publishers encourages you to use caution when posting personal information in a public forum.

How NYT Book Publishers Uses Your Information

NYT Book Publishers uses Personal Information that you provide to NYT Book Publishers and Usage Information that NYT Book Publishers collects through automated means to:

Perform services, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, making royalty payments, if applicable, providing advertising or marketing services, providing analytics services, or providing similar services;
Send communications and contact you about NYT Book Publishers 's assisted self-publishing services and related products and services, including promotional materials and other information about the assisted self-publishing services of NYT Book Publishers 's various imprints;
Administer your participation in special events, contests, sweepstakes, surveys and other promotions;
Perform audits regarding a current interaction with you and concurrent transactions, including, but not limited to, counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance;
Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, the contextual customization of ads shown as part of the same interaction;
Detect security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity;
Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
Operate, optimize, and improve NYT Book Publishers products, services, and operations, including, but not limited to, developing new services, managing communications, performing data analytics, and performing training, accounting, auditing, and other internal functions;
Comply with applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards, and NYT Book Publishers internal policies and procedures;
Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate NYT Book Publishers policies; and
Use the information in other ways that NYT Book Publishers describes when you provide the information, or for any other purpose with your express consent.

Information NYT Book Publishers Shares

NYT Book Publishers does not rent, sell or otherwise disclose Personal Information that it collects about you, individually or as part of a list, except as described below. NYT Book Publishers may share your Personal Information with:

NYT Book Publishers contractors, service providers, and other third parties that NYT Book Publishers uses to support its business and to fulfill services requested or purchased by you, including, but not limited to, credit card processing companies, marketing services providers, and consultants, public relations firms, editorial service providers, printers, distributors, and retailers;
To any subsequent owner, co-owner, or successor-in-interest; or in connection with a merger, consolidation, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of NYT Book Publishers assets, ownership interest, or both, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by NYT Book Publishers about the Site’s users is among the assets transferred. Under such circumstances, NYT Book Publishers would, to the extent possible, require the acquiring party to follow the practices described in this Privacy Policy, as it may be amended from time to time. Nevertheless, NYT Book Publishers cannot ensure that an acquiring company or the merged company will have the same privacy practices or treat your information the same as described in this Privacy Policy; and
To other third parties, with your express consent.

NYT Book Publishers may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, applicable law or legal process;
To respond to law enforcement or other governmental authorities;
To enforce NYT Book Publishers 's agreements with you, including for billing and collection purposes; and
If NYT Book Publishers believes disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss, or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or illegal activity. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of data protection and security, fraud prevention and risk reduction.

Your Rights and Choices

NYT Book Publishers strives to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to it. NYT Book Publishers has created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Email Opt-Out. This opt-out does not apply to communications that NYT Book Publishers sends to you regarding your business or financial transactions with NYT Book Publishers.
Google Analytics Display Advertising. NYT Book Publishers utilizes Google Analytics Display Advertising to remarket to you by displaying NYT Book Publishers ads to you on third-party websites. You can opt out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads by clicking Ads Settings.
Reviewing, Updating, and Modifying Personal Information. Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to request access to and receive details about you and update and correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information. However, please note that only you can change or delete tax information, including your TIN, previously provided to NYT Book Publishers, through your Author Center on the NYT Book Publishers website. NYT Book Publishers may not accommodate a request to change information if it believes the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Do Not Call If you do not want to receive marketing or sales calls from NYT Book Publishers, you may request to have your name placed on NYT Book Publishers Do Not Call List. NYT Book Publishers will process your request and remove your name from its active list within ten (10) business days. You can make this request via mail addressed to 1 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020 When submitting a request, you must include all the relevant information that you want to be added to NYT Book Publishers Do Not Call List, including your full name, street address, and telephone number(s). Subsequent sign-ups or inquiries to NYT Book Publishers may lead to the creation of new records; these actions by you may result in inadvertent contact. If that is the case, please contact NYT Book Publishers to reiterate the Do Not Call requests. If your information changes, please notify NYT Book Publishers of your new name, address, and telephone number(s) so that you will remain on the Do Not Call List.

Children under the Age of 13

The Sites are not directed to and should not be used by children under the age of thirteen (13). NYT Book Publishers does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of thirteen (13) on the Sites.

Data Security

NYT Book Publishers takes commercially reasonable steps to help protect and secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, please remember that no data storage or data transmission over the Internet, or by other means, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Thus, while NYT Book Publishers strives to protect your Personal Information, NYT Book Publishers cannot and does not ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to NYT Book Publishers. Therefore, you understand, acknowledge, and agree that you transmit your Personal Information to NYT Book Publishers at your own risk.

The safety and security of your Personal Information also depend on you. You should never submit bank account, payment card, or tax information to NYT Book Publishers via email. Where you have chosen a password for access to certain parts of the Sites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. NYT Book Publishers asks you not to share your password with anyone.

Links to Other Websites

The Sites may provide links to other websites for your convenience and information. These websites may operate independently from NYT Book Publishers. Linked websites may have their own privacy notices or policies, which NYT Book Publishers strongly suggests that you review. To the extent any linked websites you visit are not owned or controlled by NYT Book Publishers, NYT Book Publishers is not responsible for those websites' content, any use of the websites, or the privacy practices of the websites.

Governing Law

The Sites are published in the United States. NYT Book Publishers attempts to protect the Personal Information of all users of the Sites and to comply with local data protection and consumer rights laws, to the extent such laws may apply to NYT Book Publishers products and services. However, the Sites are located in and operated from the United States, and NYT Book Publishers policies are directed at compliance with the laws of the United States. If you are uncertain whether this Privacy Policy conflicts with the applicable local privacy laws where you are located, you should not submit your Personal Information to NYT Book Publishers.

Notice to Non-US Users: Consent to Transfer Data

NYT Book Publishers is a company organized under the laws of the United States, and it operates the Sites from the United States. If you are located in Canada, the European Union, or elsewhere outside of the United States of America, please be aware that your Personal Information, including Personally Identifiable Information, will be transferred to and processed in the United States or other jurisdictions, the laws of which may be deemed to have inadequate data protection by your country of residence. If you are located in a country outside the United States and voluntarily submit Personally Identifiable Information to NYT Book Publishers, in any manner whatsoever, you thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy, as well as to the transfer of that information to, and/or storage of that information in, the United States or other jurisdictions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

NYT Book Publishers may update this Privacy Policy at any time without prior notice to you. Any changes will be effective upon posting on the Sites unless otherwise indicated. Your continued use of the Sites or other interaction with NYT Book Publishers after the effective date of the revised Privacy Policy will constitute consent to those changes. If NYT Book Publishers makes a material change to the way it treats or uses your Personal Information, NYT Book Publishers will provide prominent notice of the change on the Sites. If you do not consent to such changes, you may opt-out in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Consumer Data Safety Measures

We respect your right of privacy. We therefore do not share your name and contact details with any third party. Besides, we keep information provided by you as confidential. The information you provide are used only to understand your requirements and to improve our services to suit your needs rather effectively. We ensure to follow the standards set by PCI and consumer data protection.

It is hereby declared that our company does not authorize its representatives to collect any confidential information from our customers i.e. credit card information etc. Accordingly we advise our customers not to share any confidential and sensitive nature information with our employees. If you do so; you shall be doing at your own risk and our company shall not be liable for any misuse.

Your ordered work may be forwarded to any of our production or service centers located globally, for the quality delivery. However, they are also bound by an NDA to keep customer’s information as highly confidential.

Pseudonym Policy

We hold a policy of using the pseudonym to ensure the following:

With a view to avoid undue confusion and hassle at our customers end when they are assigned a new account manager, we use pseudonyms; it helps our customers remain connected with a single point of contact and remember their name comfortably.

Moreover; as our staff comprises of people from different regions and cultures, hence the use of pseudonym helps us present a uniform culture of the organization

Privacy Policy for Email Address & Mobile Number Collection

Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how The Website Designs collects, uses, and protects the email addresses and mobile numbers provided by users on our website. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and that we comply with all relevant data protection laws.

Information We Collect

We may collect the following information:

Mobile phone numbers
Any additional information provided voluntarily by the user.

How We Use the Information

We use the collected mobile numbers for the following purposes:

To send relevant updates related to our services.
To notify users about account-related information.
For internal record keeping.

Consent for Mobile Number Collection

By providing your mobile number on The Website Designs, you consent to the collection and use of this information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Controlling Your Personal Information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your mobile number in the following ways:

If you have previously agreed to us using your mobile number for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us at support@nytghostwriters.com.or you can reply “STOP” or “Unsubscribe” to stop receiving the messages

Sharing Your Information

We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

Your Rights

You have the right to request details of the personal information we hold about you. If you would like a copy of this information, please contact us at support@nytghostwriters.com.

Changes to this Policy

The Website Designs may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page periodically to ensure that you are comfortable with any changes.