PRIVACY POLICY
Application and Scope
Stated below is the Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) of WryteWords.com (“Wryte Words,” “we,”“our” or “us”). Except where expressly stated otherwise, this Privacy Policy applies only to information collected on WryteWords.com Website and does not apply to information collected offline or otherwise outside of the WryteWords.com Website.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to identify the Personal Information we may collect, describe how you can review and make changes to that Personal Information, describe how you can learn about changes to the Privacy Policy, and provide you with a mechanism to opt-out of certain marketing activities.
Please take a moment to review the terms of this Privacy Policy. Your access and use of any WryteWords.com Website is conditioned upon your acceptance of the terms stated herein. If you do not agree with one or more of the terms stated in this Privacy Policy, then refrain from using WryteWords.com Website. From time to time, this Privacy Policy may change. You are responsible for periodically reviewing the latest Privacy Policy to remain knowledgeable of the terms that govern our collection and disclosure of information.
We also encourage you to review our Terms of Use, posted at www.wrytewords.com/privacy, which govern your use of the WryteWords.com Website.
Please note that WryteWords.com reserves the right to modify, limit, add or delete, without notice, any of the services discussed in this Privacy Policy.
Types of Information We May Collect.
We collect and use information that we believe will assist in the administration of our business and help us ultimately provide you with better service. We may collect and maintain several types of information needed for these purposes, including, without limitation, the forms of General Information and Personal Information discussed below.
General Information
When you use the Internet, your web browser or client software may transmit certain information to the servers that host the websites you visit. Such information may include, but not be limited to, the unique number assigned to your server or Internet connection, the capabilities and features of your computer hardware and/or software, your geographic location, your movement within a given website and interaction with the websites you visit, including what pages you look at and what information you download (collectively, “General Information”). When you visit WryteWords.com Website, our servers collect such General Information. We then use this General Information to generate aggregate statistics about visitors to the WryteWords.com Website. Whenever possible in our collection of information from WryteWords.com Website, we will link General Information to Personal Information.
Personal Information
In order to register on the Site, we require that you provide us with a username, e-mail address and password. Only your username is viewable by others visiting the Site. You are never required to provide your real name to us unless you become a member, in which case, we collect your name, address, and billing information. "Personal Information" includes, but is not limited to, your name, your date of birth, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, gender, credit card information, and your purchasing habits (collectively, “Personal Information”). Even then, this information is used only for internal purposes and to send you your rewards, and is never presented on the Site. You have the option, but never the requirement, to post biographical information about yourself as well as your picture/video on the Site. If you choose to provide your biographical information and/or your picture, it will become viewable by other members on this Site.
We may combine Personal Information with other generally or publicly available information to help us identify your preferences or interests. Your Personal Information may also be merged with Personal Information available from other sources, including (1) e-mail address or postal address append services; (2) credit card verification and credit services; and/or (3) information directly obtained at any WRYTEWORDS.COM location.
Information Collected by Partners and Third Parties
When you are on WryteWords.com Website, certain content may be served by a third party. These third parties may install their own cookies and/or use web beacons on your computer, which may be used to identify some of your preferences or to recognize you if you have previously had contact with those third parties. We do not control the use of such technology by third parties, the information they collect, or how they use such information.
Also, we may obtain information about you from business partners and other third party entities that direct you to WryteWords.com Website (collectively, "On-line Partners"). We may use Personal Information obtained from our On-line Partners in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. We generally have no control over how our On-line Partners use Personal Information they collect from or about you. Therefore, if you provide Personal Information to our On-line Partners, we encourage you to consult our On-line Partners’ privacy policies for more information about their privacy protection practices.
When You Communicate with Other Members
To ensure the privacy of our members, we do not display or give out your e-mail address or any other contact information on our Site. We use a message center that uses a "double-blind" e-mail system, which hides the e-mail addresses to protect the privacy of both the sender and receiver. When using the message center, it is up to you to choose whether you are comfortable disclosing your e-mail address or any other contact information to others through private communications.
When You Post Your Poetry or Review a Poem
Your submitted poetry, video or Audio, other individuals' reviews of your poetry and the reviews you give to other poets’ poetry are displayed publicly, so please exercise care in deciding what information you wish to disclose.
When You Use the "Tell-A-Friend" Feature
If you elect to use our referral service for informing a friend about our Site, you will be asked to provide your friend's name and e-mail address. We will then automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them to visit the Site. We ask for this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time e-mail and tracking the success of our referral program.
Changing or Correcting Your Information
We provide you with ways in which you can update your information. You may change such information as your name, age, mailing address, e-mail address and password and payment information, and you can edit your photos and biographical information as well. You may have your membership removed from the Site for any reason at any time.
How We May Use the Information We Collect
Use for Marketing Purposes.
We may use your Personal Information and General Information (collectively, “Your Information”) for our own marketing purposes, including notifying you of special promotions, offers and events via postal mail, e-mail, telephone, text messaging, and other means. If you do not want us to use your Personal Information for marketing purposes, you may opt-out of such uses by notifying us as prescribed below.
Use for Non-Marketing Purposes.
We may use Your Information for purposes unrelated to marketing, including:
1. Responding to your inquiries, complaints and other communications;
2. Processing and fulfilling orders for and/or purchases of WRYTEWORDS.COM services/products;
3. Contacting you for confirmation or customer service after you order purchases from
4. WRYTEWORDS.COM Website or after you sign up for or participate in certain WRYTEWORDS.COM Website activities;
5. For statistical or demographic analysis;
6. To help improve WRYTEWORDS.COM Website and services;
7. To customize your experience at WRYTEWORDS.COM Website; and
8. For any legal purpose.
Opting-out of the use of Your Information for marketing purposes will not prevent Your Information from being used for the non-marketing purposes specified above.
In the event that we engage in joint marketing efforts with third party companies, we may share Your Information with other companies in order to effectuate such marketing efforts. If you do not want us to share Your Information with other companies for marketing purposes you may opt-out of such sharing by notifying us as prescribed below.
Information Disclosed to Affiliates.
Your Information will be shared for any purpose among WRYTEWORDS.COM departments, subsidiaries and affiliates, such purposes include, without limitation: permitting WRYTEWORDS.COM to validate your identity; completing purchase transactions; or other legitimate non-marketing business needs.
Information Disclosed to Unaffiliated Entities.
Although you may request to opt-out of sharing Your Information for WRYTEWORDS.COM marketing purposes, we reserve the right to disclose Your Information to third parties for other non-marketing purposes, including, without limitation the following:
(1) For purchase fulfillment;
(2) To comply with any court order, subpoena, search warrant or other valid legal process;
(3) To comply with legal, regulatory or administrative requirements of any governmental authorities;
(4) To protect and defend Gigundo, Inc, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and all of their officers, directors, employees, attorneys and agents in connection with any legal action, claim or dispute;
(5) To satisfy any contractual obligation to indemnify its contractors, Partners or other third parties in connection with any legal action, claim or dispute;
(6) To enforce the Terms of Use of WRYTEWORDS.COM Website;
(7) To prevent imminent physical harm or threats to public safety;
(8) To third party vendors that WRYTEWORDS.COM may use to perform functions on behalf of Gigundo, Inc, such as companies that process credit card transactions;
(9) To prevent fraud;
(10) To engage in debt collection; and
(11) For any legal purpose.
Further, certain transactions and services offered while visiting WRYTEWORDS.COM Websites may be processed or provided by third parties under contract with us for fulfillment and other purposes. In such cases, we may share Your Information with those Third Parties.
Cookies and Web Beacons
WRYTEWORDS.COM Website may utilize a website technology known as “cookies” primarily to enhance your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that contains information sent by a website that is saved on your hard drive by your computer’s browser. Cookies can either be permanent (i.e., they remain on your computer until you delete them) or temporary (i.e., they last only until you close your browser). Cookies store information that a website may need to personalize your experience and to gather website statistical data, such as which web pages you visit, what material you download, your Internet provider’s domain name and country, and the addresses of websites you visited immediately before and after visiting a particular website. WRYTEWORDS.COM Website use cookies to collect and store your preferences for viewing the WRYTEWORDS.COM Website, such as whether you disable a particular function, so that you will not have to disable the same function on following visits. The cookie information may also be used to detect and resolve website problems and to assist with customer support concerns.
In addition, WRYTEWORDS.COM Website utilizes cookies to provide a unique identifier to your computer. This helps us to generate statistics regarding usage of WRYTEWORDS.COM Website, such as the percentage of repeat visitors. In situations where WRYTEWORDS.COM has obtained Personal Information, the unique identifiers may be matched with such Personal Information. In addition, when you submit information to any WRYTEWORDS.COM Website the information may be stored in a cookie on our computer and in files generated by third party vendors that assist in the processing and fulfillment of any services offered by WRYTEWORDS.COM Website.
We may also use "web beacons" (also referred to as single-pixel gifs, tracking bugs, tracking pixels, pixel tags, or clear gifs) that monitor your use of our site. Web beacons (or web bugs) are small strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a web page for the purpose of transferring data, such as the IP (Internet Protocol) address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the web beacon appears, the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the page on which the web beacon appears, the time the page containing the web beacon was viewed, the types of browser that fetched the web beacon and the identification number of any cookie on the computer previously placed by that server. When corresponding with you via HTML capable e-mail, web beacons let us know whether you received and opened our e-mail.
By accepting this Privacy Policy, you specifically agree to our use of cookies and web beacons as described herein. You may adjust your browser to reject cookies from us or from any other website. Additionally, by setting your web browser to display HTML e-mails as text only, you may be able to prevent the use of some web beacons. Please consult the "Help" section of your browser for more information. However, certain areas of WRYTEWORDS.COM Website can only be accessed in conjunction with cookies or similar devices and you should be aware that disabling cookies or similar devices might prevent you from accessing some of our content.
Security of Information
While WRYTEWORDS.COM strives to secure your Personal Information, even reasonable security measures do not guarantee the security of any information you transmit via the internet, including information submitted to WRYTEWORDS.COM Website. WRYTEWORDS.COM cannot guarantee that information it seeks to protect will be protected under all circumstances, including those beyond its reasonable control. By accessing WRYTEWORDS.COM Website, you agree that you transmit information to WRYTEWORDS.COM via the WRYTEWORDS.COM Website at your own risk.
How You Can Access and/or Correct Your Information.
If you wish to opt out of receiving solicitations from us or wish to correct Your Information, email us at support@wrytewords.com and inform us of your preferences, or write to:
Attn: PrivacyPolicy
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To Users Outside of the United States
This website is maintained on servers located within the territorial borders of the United States and subject to its laws, regulations and court precedent. Any of Your Information collected by us in connection with the WRYTEWORDS.COM Website shall be subject to the privacy and disclosure laws of the United States.
Children
The Children’s Online Policy Protection Act (“COPPA”) protects the online privacy of children under the age of 13 years. WRYTEWORDS.COM does not knowingly collect any information from children under the age of thirteen (13), unless or except as permitted by law. Any person who provides Personal information to WRYTEWORDS.COM Website represents to us that they are 13 years of age or older. If WRYTEWORDS.COM learns that Personal information collected from user under 13 years of age then WRYTEWORDS.COM will take appropriate steps to delete such information.
If you are parent or legal guardian of a child who has become a WRYTEWORDS.COM member, Please contact WRYTEWORDS.COM at support@wrytewords.com to have that child’s account terminated and information deleted.
Telemarketing
Although you may have registered your telephone number on a Federal or State do not call list, certain exemptions (for example, for communicating with established customers) may allow us to contact you via telephone. However, to ensure our customer’s preferences are honored, we also maintain our own internal “Do Not Call” list. If you would like to opt-out of receiving telemarketing sales calls from us by adding your telephone number to our internal Do Not Call list, please email support@wrytewords.com, using the subject heading "Do Not Call List" and list your name and phone number in the body of the email.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change, modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. When we change, modify and/or amend this Privacy Policy, the revised Privacy Policy will be posted on WRYTEWORDS.COM Website. Any revised Privacy Policy will only apply prospectively to Information (Personal or General) collected or modified after the effective date of the revised policy. You are responsible for periodically reviewing the latest Privacy Policy as posted on WRYTEWORDS.COM Website. Your continued use of WRYTEWORDS.COM Website manifests your assent to any changes made to this Privacy Policy and/or the corresponding Terms of Use.
Contact Information.
If you have further questions, comments or concerns, please contact us:
By emailing us at support@wrytewords.com
By writing us at
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This policy is intended to comply fully with the requirements of the online copyright infringement liability limitation act and the Digital Millennium Copyright act.