The Writing Revolution, Inc. (“TWR,” “we,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy (“Policy”). This Policy governs the manner in which TWR collects, uses, maintains, and discloses information collected from users of our website.
This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you use our website, as defined in our Website Terms of Use, which are incorporated by reference herein, including when you use any software application or services we provide, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This Policy 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, you have the right not to use our website. By accessing or using this website, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time. 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 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to the website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this website, 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 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@thewritingrevolution.org.
We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including information:
We collect this information:
We may collect your personal identification information in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when a user enrolls in a course, subscribes to a newsletter, and in connection with other activities, services, features, or resources we make available on our website. Users may visit the website anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit it to us. Users can refuse to supply personal identification information but doing so may prevent them from engaging in specific related activities. The information we collect on or through our website may include:
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, including User Contributions, as defined in the Terms of Use. Such material is created or posted 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.
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:
The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but 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:
As an example, the technologies we may use for this automatic data collection may include or be similar to:
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
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.
How We Use Your Information
We 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 and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. 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.
With the exceptions below, we do not sell, trade, or rent your personal identification information to others.
We may provide your information to third-party companies to perform services on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and customer care, and to assist in our marketing efforts. We direct all such third-party service providers to maintain the confidentiality of the information disclosed to them and not to use your information for any purpose other than to provide services on TWR’s behalf.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads and/or personalize your web browsing experience based on your prior visits to our website or other websites.
Your information and the contents of your private online communications may be accessed and disclosed (i) in response to a legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant, or subpoena); (ii) when we have a good-faith belief that we are required to disclose the information in response to legal process; (iii) in other circumstances in which TWR believes the thewritingrevolution.org site is being used in the commission of a crime (including exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction); (iv) when we have a good-faith belief that there is an emergency that poses a threat to the safety of you or another person; and (v) when necessary either to protect the rights or property of TWR, including to enforce our Terms of Service or to render the service you have requested.
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. Where applicable, we may 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.
You may send us an email at info@thewritingrevolution.org to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. 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. Proper access and use of information provided on the website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.
We have implemented industry standard measures intended 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.
While we have provided you various account settings and controls for managing your information, you may have additional or complementary rights under one or more state or local laws, some of which are noted below.
Residents of California, thanks to section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, may request, once per calendar year, from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to whom the company has disclosed certain personally identifiable information as defined under California law during the preceding year for third-party direct-marketing purposes. In your request, please attest to your being a California resident and provide a current California address for our response.
If you are a California resident and under the age of 18, and a registered user of this website, section 22581 of the California Business and Professions Code permits you to request and obtain the removal of content that you have publicly posted. Please note that your request will not ensure a complete removal of the content and that in some cases the statute may not require or allow removal even if requested.
Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A may submit a request to this designated address: info@thewritingrevolution.org.
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the Policy has been updated on the website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the website home page. The date the 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 Policy to check for any changes.
To ask questions or comment about this Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: info@thewritingrevolution.org.
