Publishing.com, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, doing business as Publishing.com, Publishing.ai, AI Publishing Academy, Publishing Accelerator, and the Mikkelsen Twins (collectively, referred to as "Publishing.com", "Us", "Our", or "We") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the websites www.publishing.com, www.publishing.ai and any other websites owned by Us that link to this policy (collectively and individually, our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
It does not apply to information collected by:
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy) and is incorporated into our Terms of Use. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at support@publishing.com.
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
We may collect this information:
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include, without limitation:
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking) in order to provide targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, please see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information and Behavioral Tracking.
The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information and Behavioral Tracking.
We may use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
We may also use your information to contact you about our own or our affiliates' goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please contact support at 737-727-2100, texting / sending an SMS of "STOP" to stop, or "HELP" for help, or by emailing at support@publishing.com. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
We may also disclose your personal information:
The categories of personal information we may disclose include:
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. Please also see Behavioral Tracking.
Examples of third parties with whom we may work that use targeting or advertising cookies to deliver ads include:
Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.
You can visit the Network Advertising Initiative's ("NAI") education and opt out pages to learn more about how behavioral and targeting advertising works:
Network Advertising Initiative's ("NAI") education and opt out pages; and NAI Consumer Opt-out
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out portal at: WebChoices tool. The Digital Advertising Alliance also provides an opt-out mobile app to control interest-based advertising on apps on your mobile device, available on the Apple Store, Google Play, and Amazon's Appstore.
Publishing.com materials may contain pixels which provide us and third parties with analytics regarding how website visitors interact with video content, audiovisual content, or content of a like nature. Video content is provided to enhance the user experience. You understand that your Personal Information, including your video viewing history, may be processed according to this Privacy Policy.
Publishing.com will only collect and retain personal data which is relevant to the purposes for which the data is collected. We will not use your data in a way that is incompatible with these purposes unless such use has been subsequently authorized by you. We take reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and current. We may occasionally contact you to verify that your data is still accurate and current.
You can review and change your personal information by either logging into your User dashboard and visiting your profile settings page or interacting with our chatbot, which is available by clicking on the chatbot icon on the bottom right of our website.
You may also call us at 737-727-2100, or send us an email at support@publishing.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users.
Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.
State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information. Therefore, depending on your location, you might have different rights applicable to you and your data. Publishing.com responds to rights requests according to applicable local law.
California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our App that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to support@pulishing.com or write us at the address listed under Contact Information at the end of this document.
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address: calling us at 737-727-2100, or sending an email to support@publishing.com.
As of the time this Privacy Policy was last updated, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide their state residents with rights to:
The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please call us at 737-727-2100, or send us an email at support@publishing.com.
We must verify your identity before responding to your request. We do this by asking you to provide information that we can match against information we may have about you already. We may need to follow up with you to request more information to verify your identity. We will not use Personal Information we collect in connection with verifying or responding to your request for any purpose other than responding to your request.
We may have a reason under the law why we do not have to comply with your request, or why we may comply with it in a more limited way than you anticipated. If we do, we will explain that to you in our response. If you are entitled to appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, you must follow the process set forth in the notice of denial.
To personalize our ads and marketing experiences, we work with advertising and analytics partners and social media sites. These partnerships may be considered a "sale" under Colorado law, even when no money exchanges hands.
The Personal Information we might "sell" includes your identifiers, online activity information, and customer records. When you login to your account on a web page or interact with Publishing.com materials where cookies are present, that may be considered a "sale" of your Personal Information. If you want to opt out of this use, please contact us at 737-727-2100, or send us an email at support@publishing.com.
We do not sell the personal data of children under the age of 18.
The "Do Not Track" ("DNT") privacy preference is an option that may be made in some web browsers allowing you to opt-out of tracking by websites and online services. At this time, global standard DNT technology is not yet finalized and not all browsers support DNT. We therefore do not recognize DNT signals and do not respond to them.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
If we learn of a security system breach we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. By using the Website or providing information to us, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy and administrative issues relating to your use of the Website. We may post a notice on our Website if a security breach occurs. We may also send an email to you at the email address you have provided to us. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.
If you are visiting the Website from a location outside of the U.S., your connection may be through and to servers located in the U.S. Any information you provide during your visit will be processed and maintained on our server and other internal systems located within the U.S. The U.S. may not have the same data protection laws as the country you are visiting from and may not afford many of the rights conferred upon data subjects in your country. You acknowledge you understand that by providing your Personal Information to us, your Personal Information (i) will be used for the uses identified above in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and (ii) may be transferred to the U.S. as indicated above, in accordance with applicable law.
Our Website is generally intended for individuals located within the United States. Please be aware that our website servers and our service providers may be located outside of your state, province or country. As a result, some of your personal information may be collected, used, transferred, maintained, disclosed and stored outside of your state, province or country.
For users of this website located in the European Union ("EU"), Publishing.com follows the Google EU User Consent Policy found at this link: EU user consent policy. By voluntarily using this website, EU users consent to Publishing.com's data collection, sharing, and usage as described above.
This section applies if you are an EU data subject (for these purposes, reference to the EU also includes the European Economic Area countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, the United Kingdom and, where applicable, Switzerland).
Publishing.com is the data controller for processing Personal Information provided to us through the Website. Our office is as set forth in the Contact Information section below.
We collect and use Personal Information when we have a lawful basis to do so, as follows:
We will only use your Personal Information for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.
If there is any change in the purposes for which we collect your Personal Information, we will inform you of such change. If you wish to obtain an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purposes, please contact us through the contact details provided at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we need to use your Personal Information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Subject to applicable law, you have the following rights in relation to your Personal Information:
It is our policy to notify you of any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated with an email to your primary email address specified in your account. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by either email to the primary email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page and/or in the User dashboard. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
Publishing.com, LLC
Attn: Legal & Compliance Department
5900 Balcones Drive STE 10763
Austin, TX 78731
or calling us at 737-727-2100