Welcome to Story Press Online (‘Site’, ‘We’, ‘Us’, or ‘Our’). We are committed to protecting the personal information of users and their right to privacy as well. This Privacy Policy governs the users’ use of our website. It also explains what kind of information the website collects, uses, and what rights users have related to it.
If they have any questions or concerns about the site’s policy or practices concerning our handling of users’ personal information, they can contact us without hesitation.
The Information We Collect
The website collects personal information that users provide voluntarily to the site:
- When registering themselves
- Expressing an interest in obtaining information about the site, or its products/services
- When participating in activities on the site (subscribing to newsletters, posting comments or blogs, making transactions, etc.)
Personal Data Users Disclose
- Contact Data: Name and Email Address (they are collected through newsletter sign-ups or contact us forms).
- Comments and Submissions Made: This is content they voluntarily post in comments or forums.
Data Automatically Collected (It is Non-Personal)
Story Press Online automatically collects certain information whenever users visit, use or navigate the website. This data does not reveal their specific identity but can include device and usage information. Among the information collected are:
- IP address
- Browser and device characteristics
- Operating system
- Language preferences
- Referring URLs
- How and when users are using the website of Story Press Online
- Pages viewed and time spent by users on those pages.
This information is required primarily to help maintain the security and operation of the website. The data and information collected are for internal analytics and reporting purposes only.
How can the website use the information of Users?
The website uses personal information collected for a variety of business purposes, primarily to:
- Delivering and managing service operations: providing users with the website and its content. Also, in helping users manage their user accounts.
- Sending users marketing and promotional communications: If users subscribe to the website’s newsletter, they might use the contact information the users send to the website for their marketing purposes. Users can opt out of them anytime they want to.
- Responding to users’ queries: Story Press Online will do its best to respond to users’ questions, inquiries, and queries. This helps them solve any potential issues they might have with the use of the website’s services.
- Enabling communication between users: If users choose to comment on articles, blog posts, and forums, their username and profile picture can be displayed publicly, if provided.
- Enforcement of Terms and Conditions.
- Compliance with legal requirements and requests.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
The website might use cookies and similar tracking technologies (such as web beacons and pixels) for accessing and storing information.
- Cookies: Cookies are small data files stored on users’ respective devices. They help websites remember their preferences, analyze the way they use the site, and run online advertising campaigns.
- Google Analytics: Google Analytics is used to help Story Press Online understand the way its visitors use the website. The Google Privacy Policy governs the way Google uses the data. Users can opt out of Google Analytics.
- Digital Advertising: The company may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when they visit the website. These companies might use information about the users’ visits to the site and other websites contained in the web cookies and other tracking tech. It provides advertisements about goods and services that users and visitors alike are interested in.
Accepting or declining these cookies is at the user’s discretion. Most web browsers accept them automatically. Yet they can usually be modified in the browser settings if users decline to accept these cookies.
Disclosure of Users’ Information
Story Press Online will only share users’ information with their consent. It helps comply with laws, to protect their online and digital rights, and to complete business obligations. The company may process or share its data in the following scenarios:
- Vendors, Consultants, and Third-Party Service Providers: The company may share their data with third-party vendors, contractors, service providers, or agents conducting services for the company or on its behalf. They require access to such information to do that work (for instance, payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, etc.).
- Conducting Business Transfers: The company may share or transfer its information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of the business to another company.
- Fulfilling legal compliance: The company may disclose users’ information where they are legally required to, so as to comply with the needed and applicable laws, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, legal process and other relevant processes.
- Protection of Vital Interests and Legal Rights: Story Press Online may disclose users’ information where it becomes necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, or as evidence in litigation where the site is involved.
Security of Users’ Information
Story Press Online uses reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures that are designed to protect users’ personal information (especially the one they provided to the site). But, they should remember that no electronic transmission online or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
We cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized parties (including third parties) will not be able to defeat our cybersecurity measures to steal and wrongfully collect, access, steal, or modify users’ information.
Policy for Children
The website does not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 13 years of age. By using the website, they represent that they are at least 13 years old. Alternatively, the users can prove that they are the parent or guardian of such a minor child, and consent to such minor child’s use of the website.
In case the company learns that personal information from users below the age of 13 has been collected, that account will be deactivated. Reasonable measures will be taken to remove such data from the site promptly and the company’s records.
Contact Us
In case they have questions or comments about the privacy policy, they may contact us on our website here:
Story Press Online
123 Story Lane, Suite 5B, New York, NY 10003
info@storypressonline.com
(212) 555-0183
