Last Updated: August 22, 2024

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Courageous Scribe LLC, dba Courageous Press, on behalf of Sam Schreiber ("We," "Our," "Us," "Sam," or "Courageous Press") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

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The following privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") describes how we collect and use information through your use of this website. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.

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BY VISITING THIS WEBSITE (THE "SITE") YOU ARE ACCEPTING AND CONSENTING TO THE PRACTICES DESCRIBED IN THIS POLICY (INCLUDING AS UPDATED OR AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME). IF, FOR ANY REASON, YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE STOP USING THE SITE IMMEDIATELY.

What Information Does This Site Collect?

Newsletter & Other Mailing Lists

If you voluntarily sign up for Sam's newsletter or another mailing list, this site will record your name and email address. This information is required in order to support a subscription request. When subscribers click on a link in one of my emails or fills out a form, the site may record this information (see below how this information is used).

 

Subscribers may unsubscribe at any time. You may ask for all your data to be deleted at any time.

Giveaways, Contests & Early Reader Programs

If you enter a giveaway or contest, or request receipt of advanced copies of Sam's publications though activities such as alpha/beta reading or receipt of Advanced Reader Copies ("ARCs") (collectively "Early Reader Programs"), the following information may be collected:

• Name;

• Email address;

• Social media account name; 

• Other information necessary to support the giveaway or contest.

 

If you win a physical prize or receive physical publication materials, you will be asked to provide a name and physical address for receipt of such items. 

Cookies & Tracking Technologies

Our Site use cookies and other similar technologies (as described below) to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site, allows us to improve our Site and provide you with tailored content.

 

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Visitors may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to send an alert when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the site may not function properly.

 

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are essential in order to enable you to browse our Site and use its features. The information collected by these cookies relate to the operation of our Site, for example website scripting language and security tokens to maintain secure areas of our Site.

• Performance / Analytics - These cookies collect anonymous information about how you use our Site, for example which pages you visit most often, whether you receive any error messages, and how you arrived at our Site. Information collected by these cookies is used only to improve your use of our Site and never to identify you. These cookies are sometimes placed by third-party providers of web traffic analysis services, such as Google Analytics.

• Functionality - These cookies remember choices you make, for example the country you visit our Site from, your language and any changes you have made to text size or other parts of web pages that you can customize, in order to improve your experience of our Site and to make your visits more tailored and enjoyable. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and cannot be used to track your browsing activity on other websites.

• Social Media - These cookies allow you to share what you’ve been doing on our Site with social media organizations, such as Facebook and Instagram. These cookies are not within our control. Please refer to the privacy policies of these organizations for how their cookies work.

 

Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies.

 

We may use cookies: To collect anonymized data on users’ behavior on the site. We may also capture what site a user has come from and what site they go to and also some demographic data (e.g. the user’s location), and we may use that data to analyze user behavior across multiple sites.

 

Our Site may use specific Google Analytics features including remarketing (advertising our products to you after you have visited our Site);

demographics and interest reporting (obtaining general demographic and interest information from Google); and impression reporting (information on the impact of our advertisements). You may opt out of Google Analytics here.

 

Most internet browsers are automatically set up to accept cookies. If you want to refuse or delete any cookies (or similar technologies), please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to block or delete cookies. Please note you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of our Site, including certain personalized features, if you delete or disable cookies.

 

For more information on managing cookies, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org, or visit www.youronlinechoices.eu which has further information about behavioral advertising and online privacy.

 

You may view and opt-out of tracking cookies for any company that participates in the Digital Advertising Alliance Consumer Choice program at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.

 

Web Beacons and other Tracking Technologies: We, or our third party partners, may employ a software technology called web beacons (also known as web bugs, clear gifs or pixels) which helps us understand what content is effective, for example by counting the number of users who have visited these pages. Web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to let us know when content is viewed. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, web beacons are embedded invisibly on web pages. We, or our third party partners, may tie the information gathered by web beacons to the other information we collect about you.

How Is the Information Used?

Newsletter and other mailing list subscribers’ names and emails will only be used for receiving the newsletters or other communication from Sam as indicated upon subscription. Giveaway or contest entrants will be sent emails only about the giveaway/contest, unless they also signed up for the newsletter or other mailing list. Participants in Early Reader Programs will be sent emails related to the request, or potential interest in future opportunities to participate in a similar Early Reader Program, unless they also signed up for the newsletter or other mailing list.

Disclosure of YourInformation

We may work with selected third-party companies that provide a broad range of online solutions. It is sometimes necessary for us to provide these companies with access to limited personal information about our users. In such cases we will share only the personal information required to for these companies to perform their functions and will not allow them to use this data for any other purposes.

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We may share your personal information with selected third parties including, but not limited to:

• Business partners, suppliers, vendors, and sub-contractors who enable us to operate the Site or to provide you with a product or service;

• Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors to provide you with information about promotions and offers, related to the publications and offerings of Courageous Press, we believe may interest you;

• Third-party partners who conduct joint marketing, product or services activities with Courageous Press, including information Courageous Press collects outside the joint activities, where such disclosure is permitted by applicable law and where you have not opted out as described in “YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES” below;

• Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our Site;

• To any other third party with your prior consent to do so.

 

If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation, in response to a lawful request by public authorities (including to meet national security, federal/state/local laws and regulations, and/or law enforcement requirements), or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Courageous Press, Sam Schreiber, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Storage & Transfer of Data

The Site is provided through third-party services by Wix.com, as such it is governed by the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use of Wix.com Ltd. All the information you provide may be processed and stored, transferred or accessed by entities around the world as described in this policy. By submitting your information and using our Site, you consent to this transfer, storing or processing, consistent with applicable law. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

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The security of your personal information is important to us. We have implemented appropriate technical, administrative, and physical controls to protect information about you. Should we discover, or be notified of, a data breach, subscribers will be notified via email within 72 hours after having become aware of it.

Use of the Website by Minors

This Site is not directed toward children under 13 years of age nor does Courageous Press knowingly collect information from children under 13 without parental consent and in compliance with applicable laws. This Site takes precautions to protect the privacy of children. Please help us protect children’s privacy by instructing them never to provide personal information without your permission.

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Children should get a parent’s or legal guardian’s permission before giving out personal contact information or any other personal information to this Site or to anyone else.

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Children’s Privacy Policy: We do not collect personal information from children without the consent of a parent or legal guardian, except in limited circumstances as authorized by law. We collect some information (like IP address, mobile device UDID, operating system, etc.) automatically and use technology like cookies to provide functionality and support our operations. We obtain consent where required. We may require visitors to provide birthdate or geographic location information before accessing this Site or providing personal information in order to determine if the visitor is the required legal age to provide such information.

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What information does this Site collect from children and how is it used?

We may sometimes need an email address to utilize certain services of the Site (e.g., to receive Sam's newsletter). We may ask a visitor under the age of 13 for the email address of their parent or legal guardian so we can notify you of your child’s interest in Sam Schreiber, her publications, or this Site and to gain any required permission from you. When we ask for your permission, we will tell you what we will do with the information you or your child provides us, and how you can review your child’s information and ask us to delete the information.

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We don’t keep your (or your child’s) email address unless you tell us it is okay. If a child signs up for an email newsletter that requires multiple online contacts with the child, we also ask the child for the parent’s or legal guardian’s email address, so we can notify you and give you an opportunity to opt out.

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We may ask for certain information that is not personally identifiable, like city and state, birth month and day, gender, hobbies, etc., to help us understand our visitors and improve our products and services.

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We also use technology and work with third-party technology partners to facilitate the ability to recognize returning visitors, for research, and for other purposes, including to screen under-age visitors from certain features or areas intended for older visitors, and to get certain automatically collected information.

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You can find more information on how to protect your kids online from the FTC at consumer.ftc.gov/identity-theft-and-online-security/protecting-kids-online.

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Your Rights & Choices

You may have the right to request information about our use of your information or opt out of certain uses. You may exercise your rights at any time by contacting us as described in the “Contact” section below. Your rights may include: Requesting a copy of the personal information held by us about you, the purpose of the processing, correction or updating of incorrect data, information regarding recipients of personal information about you, and blocking and deletion of personal information. We may require proof of identity before fulfilling such requests. If you wish to subscribe to any newsletter(s) we may generate, we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails. In some cases you may have the right to request information about, and opt out of, disclosures of your information to third parties for the third party’s own purposes.

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We will retain and use your information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the services to you and to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

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Your California Privacy Rights

California residents may have the right to request information regarding the disclosure of personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, contact us as described in the “Contact” section below. We do not share your personal information with third parties other than as described in this policy or with your consent.

Your European Privacy Rights

The GDPR provides certain rights for EU data subjects. You can access information about you and update or correct it. In some cases, you can also ask us to erase it, restrict or stop processing, if feasible. You may withdraw consent (“opt-out”) if you have previously consented to any particular use of your information, such as receiving emails. For all such requests, contact us at the email listed below.

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Legal Basis for Data Processing

We process Personal Data for the purposes set out above in our Privacy Policy. Our legal basis to process Personal Data includes processing that is: Necessary for the performance of a contract between us (for example, to provide you with services you request and to identify and authenticate you so you may use the Site); Necessary to comply with legal requirements (for example, to make mandatory disclosures to law enforcement); Necessary for our legitimate interests (for example, to manage our relationship with you and to improve the Site and our services); and Based on consent by our customers (for example, to communicate with you about our products and services and provide you with marketing information), which may subsequently be withdrawn at any time by contacting us (using the contact instructions below) without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

Any material changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page prior to the change becoming effective and/or we will notify you through the Site or, where appropriate, by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy. These changes will become effective upon obtaining your consent, if necessary, as required under local law. If you do not agree or consent to these updates or changes, do not continue to use the Site.

Contact

If you have any questions, comments, and requests regarding this Privacy Policy or anything else on www.courageousscribe.com, please email us at courageousscribe(at)gmail.com or Contact Us through our web form.