Last updated: April 23, 2024.

Indie Book Review LLC (together with its affiliates, “Indie Book Review,” “we,” or “us”) knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly.

The information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy herein and may be updated from time to time and your continued use of the Website and Services demonstrate your agreement to the Policy. By visiting or using Indie Book Review.com and related services (the “Service”), you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice as supplemented by this notice (the “Privacy Notice”).

What Personal Information About Customers Do We Collect?

We collect your personal information in order to provide and continually improve our products and services.

Here are the types of personal information we collect:

  • Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you provide in relation to our Services. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our Services.
  • Automatic Information: We automatically collect and store certain types of information about your use of the Services, including information about your interaction with products, content, and services available. Like many websites, we use “cookies” and other unique identifiers, and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser or device accesses the Services and other content served by or on behalf of Indie Book Review on other websites. These cookies to store your authorization token which means you do not have to provide your user name and log in each time you log in to the site. We may also use cookies to store your options for dismissing certain messages or dialog boxes.
For What Purposes Do We Use Your Personal Information?

We use your personal information to operate, provide, develop, and improve the products and services that we offer our customers. These purposes include:

  • Communications. We use your personal information to process payments, and communicate with you, and provide promotional offers.
  • Provide, troubleshoot, and improve our Services. We use your personal information to provide functionality, analyze performance, fix errors, and improve the usability and effectiveness of the Services.
  • Recommendations and personalization. We use your personal information to recommend features, products, and services that might be of interest to you, identify your preferences, and personalize your experience with our Services.
  • Provide voice, image and camera services. When you use our voice, image and camera services, we use your voice input, images, videos, and other personal information to respond to your requests, provide the requested service to you, and improve our services.
  • Comply with legal obligations. In certain cases, we collect and use your personal information to comply with laws.
  • Communicate with you. We use your personal information to communicate with you in relation to our Services via different channels (e.g., by phone, email, chat).
  • Fraud Prevention and Credit Risks. We use personal information to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in order to protect the security of our customers and others.

 

Do We Share Your Personal Information?

Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling our customers’ personal information to others. We share customers’ personal information only as described.

  • Third-Party Service Providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing payments, transmitting content, and providing customer service. These third-party service providers have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
  • Author/Reader Communications. We may provide information about you to an Author or Reader so that they may contact you about their review, questions they have or for you to contact an Author or Reader. We provide an email relay system to protect your personal email.
  • Public Forums. You may share information on our public forums but please remember not to share personal information or financial information.
How Secure Is Information About Me?

We design our systems with your security and privacy in mind.

  • We work to protect the security of your personal information during transmission by using encryption protocols and software.
  • We follow the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) when handling credit card data.
  • We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage, and disclosure of customer personal information. Our security procedures mean that we may ask to verify your identity before we disclose personal information to you.
  • It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computers, devices, and applications. We recommend using a unique password for your IndieBookReview.com account that is not used for other online accounts. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.
  • It important to safeguard your personal information at all times.

 

What Information Can I Access?

You can access your information, including your name, address, payment options, profile information, and purchase history in the “Your Account” section of the website.

What Choices Do I Have?

If you have any questions as to how we collect and use your personal information, please contact us at support@indiebookreview.com.

  • If you do not want to receive email or other communications from us, please unsubscribe from our mailing list or send an email to suppport@indiebookreview.com.
  • If you don’t want to receive in-app notifications from us, please adjust your notification settings in the app or device.
  • The Help feature on most browsers and devices will tell you how to prevent your browser or device from accepting new cookies or other identifiers, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to block cookies altogether. Because cookies and identifiers allow you to take advantage of some essential features of our Services, we recommend that you leave them turned on.
  • If you want to browse our websites without linking the browsing history to your account, you may do so by logging out of your account and blocking cookies on your browser.
Are Children Allowed to Use the Service?

We do not provide Services for individuals under the age of eighteen (18).

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

If you choose to use our Services, your use and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice including limitations on damages, resolution of disputes, and application of the law of the state of North Carolina. If you have any concern about privacy at Indiebookreview.com, please contact us with a thorough description, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly, and our Privacy Notice will change also. You should check our websites frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers. If you are using this Site from outside the United States, current United States laws apply to your usage, not the laws in your home country.

User Content and Messages

The Service allows you to post User Content, as defined in our Terms of Use. Any User Content you post becomes available to the public via the Service. User Content includes, but is not limited to, reviews, comments, and visual content. If you remove User Content, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored your User Content.

Indie Book Review takes reasonable measures to keep messages that you send to other Members through the Service private between you and the recipient. However, even if you have deleted the message from your Indie Book Review inbox or outbox, copies of the message may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other users have copied or stored the message.

E-mail

By providing Indie Book Review your e-mail address you consent to us sending you Service-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail. We may also use your e-mail address to send you other messages, such as newsletters, changes to features, notices of member-initiated content, or special offers (“Other Messages”). If you do not want to receive Other Messages, you may opt out by changing your e-mail preference settings in the account settings section of Indie Book Review.com after you have signed in using your personal password. Opting out may prevent you from receiving e-mail messages regarding updates, improvements, or offers. You may not opt out of Service-related e-mails. Your email address may be shared with other Users to facilitate communications.

We utilize an email relay system to protect your email address when interacting with site Users. Please never give out personal information to Users.

Privacy Settings

Your name is used when you invite another person to join Indie Book Review, or when you request to add another member to your friends list. To the extent that you do not wish to have your name shared in this manner, you should not make use of these services. You can modify, delete, and set your privacy setting for information you provide us any time in the account settings section of Indie Book Review.com after you have signed in using your personal password.

Your Choices About Your Information

You may access or change your information and preferences at any time in the account settings section of Indie Book Review.com once you have signed in with your personal password. In addition, to the extent required by applicable law, you may have the right to request access to or delete your personal information. You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through Indie Book Review, in which case Indie Book Review may not be able to provide certain services to you.

Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, Indie Book Review does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 18, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address. No one under age 18 is allowed to provide any personal information to or on Indie Book Review. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us.

Additional State-Specific Privacy Disclosures
California Consumer Privacy Act Disclosures

Last Updated: March 14, 2024

This California Consumer Privacy Act disclosure page (“Disclosure”) supplements the Indie Book Review, LLC Privacy Notice and is effective as of March 14, 2024. The Indie Book Review Privacy Notice describes the personal information that we collect, the sources from which we collect it, the purposes for which we use it, the limited circumstances under which we share personal information, and with whom we share it. These additional disclosures are required by the California Consumer Privacy Act:

  1. Categories of personal information collected. The personal information that Indie Book Review collects, or has collected from users in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure, fall into the following categories established by the California Consumer Privacy Act, depending on which part of the Service is used:
    • identifiers such as your name, alias, address, phone numbers, or IP address;
    • age, gender, or other protected classifications;
    • commercial information, such as books you have read or want to read;
    • Internet or other electronic network activity information, including content interaction information;
    • geolocation data, such as the location of your device if you agreed to provide this information so we can show you nearby reading events;
    • audio or visual information, such as images and videos you may provide in connection with the Service;
    • professional information, for example data you may provide about your education, business, or occupation; and
    • inference data, such as information about your reading preferences.
  2. Categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose. The personal information that Indie Book Review disclosed to the third parties identified in the “Do We Share Your Personal Information?” section of the Privacy Notice about users for a business purpose in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure fall into the following categories established by the California Consumer Privacy Act, depending on which part of the Service is used:
    • identifiers such as your name, address, phone numbers, or IP address, for example if you agree to participate in a user study distributed by a service provider;
    • your age, gender, or other protected classifications, for example if you choose to participate in a survey distributed by a survey provider; and
    • internet or other electronic network activity information, such as if we use a service provider to help us gather crash reports for analyzing the health of our devices and services.
  3. Right to Request Access to or Deletion of Personal Information: You may have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act to request information about the collection of your personal information by Indie Book Review, or access to or deletion of your personal information. If you wish to do any of these things, please visit here or reach out to us using our Contact Us form. Alternatively, visit Indie Book Review Help. Depending on your data choices, certain services may be limited or unavailable. If you do not have an account, or if you are an authorized agent under CCPA, reach out to us using our Contact Us form.
  4. No sale of personal information. In the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Disclosure, Indie Book Review has not sold any personal information of consumers, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act.
  5. No Discrimination. Indie Book Review will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy

If we change this Privacy Notice, we will post those changes on our website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it. Changes to this Privacy Notice are effective when they are posted on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us, or send mail to:

Indie Book Review, Inc support@indiebookreview.com