Privacy Policy
Third Rail Press, LLC (“we”, “us”) collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit or interact with our website, Thirdrailpress.org (“Website”), when you sign up for newsletters or other communications, or otherwise as you communicate with us or navigate through the Website.
It doesn’t apply to information collected by us offline or through other any other means, including any other website we or our affiliates may operate, or from any third party that may link to the Website.
The Website and any offerings are intended for users aged 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect, nor do we wish to collect, personal information from children under the age of 18. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected personal information from anyone younger than the age of 18, we will delete that personal information.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We may collect several types of information from you: information that can personally identify you, such as name, postal address, email address, telephone number or other identifier by which you may be contacted ("personal information") and information that is about you but individually does not identify you, such information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Website, and usage details.
We collect this information directly from you when you provide it to us and automatically as you navigate through the Website.. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons or other tracking technologies.
We may also collect information from third parties, such as Harpeth Road’s author websites or other partners, or if another individual provides it to us in connection with our offerings (for example for a newsletter or book launch email, or contest entry). Do not provide personal information to us about another individual unless you have express permission to do so. We may also collect personal information about you if you have made statements about us on publicly accessible websites.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website such as at the time of subscribing to receive updates about our authors, posting material, or requesting further information from us. We may keep records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us, or records of your search queries.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website, (collectively, "User Contributions") such as reviews of our books or other feedback. Your User Contributions are posted on the Website and may be viewed by other users or visitors.
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 details of your visits to our Website, such as traffic data, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website, information about your computer or internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
The information we collect automatically does not include personal information but helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns and storing information about preferences.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Web Beacons. Pages of our Website [and our emails] may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or [opened an email] and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information to present our Website and its contents to you; to provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us; or, to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it. We also use it to notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it and in any other way we may describe when you provide the information as well as for any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own offerings, new books or releases by our authors, or other items that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please let us know following the “Unsubscribe” instructions contained in an email or newsletter. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future emails.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users and visitors to the Website, and information that does not identify you individually, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy as follows:
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To third parties to market their offerings to you if you have consented to these disclosures.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it or for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information, or with your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, to enforce or apply applicable policies, or other agreements.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of us or others, including exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection, we may also disclose personal information.
Additionally, your personal information may be shared with social media platforms, who may collect personal information about you through Cookies when you choose to interact with Harpeth Road on those platforms.
Please note that any “service providers” as described above have access to your personal information solely as needed to perform the business purposes for which we have engaged them and are prohibited from using your personal information for any other purposes (including, for the avoidance of doubt, their own business purposes).
Your State Privacy Rights
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:
Confirm whether we process their personal information.
Access and delete certain personal information.
Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
Data portability.
Opt-out of personal data processing for:
targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);
sales; or
profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.
The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please contact info@thirdrailpress.com. To appeal a decision regarding consumer rights, contact info@thirdrailpress.org.
Data Security
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.
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.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice of such changes on the landing page of the Website. 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 the Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: info@thirdrailpress.org