Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.
What are cookies?
Unfortunately these "cookies" are not of the chocolate chip variety! The cookies we use on our site are tiny data files collected by your web browser and stored on your computer, mobile phone or tablet when you visit certain web pages. Please be assured that cookies don't harm your computer and our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information. We use the encrypted information collected by them to help improve your experience with our site, by enabling us to remember your preferences and help us to identify and resolve errors.
To ensure you get the best online experience when using our site, we'd encourage you to accept all cookies from AuthorsReading.com and our carefully selected partners on your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to prevent that. Each browser is different, so check the 'Help' menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone's handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences. If you disable all cookies on your browser, you will not be able to purchase items from our site or utilize certain sections of our site.
Our cookies
Our cookies don't store sensitive information such as your name, address or payment details: they only hold a reference that is linked with the way you use our site.
Analytics cookies – We use Google Analytics to track your use of the website. These cookies are used to monitor the performance of the site by using anonymized data (i.e. not traceable to any particular person) of how our site is used: what links people click on, and what books are being viewed, etc
Google, as a third party advertisement vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on AuthorsReading.com. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website as well as other sites on the internet.
To opt out of the DART cookies you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following website https://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies.
Social cookies
These cookies are set by the social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, etc) and allow you to share content from AuthorsReading.com with your friends on social networks. We don't control the setting of these cookies, so we suggest you check the third-party websites for more information about their cookies and how to manage them. In addition we enable you to share content from our site. The cookies to enable this are listed below. By disabling social cookies you will not be able to share content from our site.
twitter.com - various cookies against this domain
facebook.com - various cookies against this domain
google.com - various cookies against this domain
pinterest.com - various cookies against this domain
Cookies on the iPad/iPhone apps
The cookies we use on our iPhone and iPad apps are classified as essential cookies. They are completely secure and won't harm your iPad or iPhone, and are essential to using the apps to browse AuthorsReading.com. There isn't a way to disable cookies on the apps; unfortunately the only way to not accept these cookies is to delete the apps from your Apple devices.
Other Third Party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track users activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies, AuthorsReading.com has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third party advertisers.
When visiting AuthorsReading.com the IP address you use to access the site will be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is used purely to analyze trends, administer the site, track visitors’ movement and gather broad demographic information for internal use. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
AuthorsReading.com collects personal information when you make your information known, such as by registering, authenticating, or interacting with us. If you do not make yourself known to AuthorsReading.com, your use of our content and services is generally anonymous.
Your information is used to operate and improve our services, fulfill your requests and communicate with you, conduct research, and personalize the content and advertisements provided to you.
AuthorsReading.com does NOT share, sell or rent your personal information to third parties. Your information is shared with third parties only with your permission, except in response to legal process.
AuthorsReading.com has included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own.
The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at our discretion.