PRIVACY POLICY

We, MyAuthorz, are committed to protecting your privacy. This policy is applicable for our website www.myauthorz.com as well as mobile applications, which are controlled and owned by MyAuthorz. Data collection, processing, sharing and usage rights are described. Personal information of the users are described according to their choices.
Privacy policy is updated periodically. Changes made to the policy will be shown in the ‘last updated’ section, where it denotes the date when changes are made.

INFORMATION COLLECTED
SIGN UP

When you sign up for this website, certain personal information such as name, email address are to be provided by the user. The user may add or edit their information on their profile whenever they wish to update. In addition, the user can modify or delete the author/reader profile after signing in.

ABOUT PERSONAL INFORMATION

All information that the user enters or uploads about your contacts will be covered by the same terms of this privacy policy as cover your own personally identifiable information.

COOKIES

When your web browser accesses the site, cookies are placed on your computer. Cookies are used to save your preferences and to recognize when you return to the site. If cookies are disabled, users wouldn’t be able to access the full functions.

How is Your Personal Information Used?

  • Personal information is used to operate, maintain, and provide you with the features and functionality of our services.
  • Emails are sent regarding any changes or updates in the service or features, security messages, confirmation emails, promotions, deals or any alerts that you have chosen from the email settings. If you want to opt out from receiving such emails, you may opt out of all communication via account settings.
  • Information is used to protect and investigate any suspicious, fraudulent or illegal activity.

Information connected with Social Media

This website consists of social media features like the widgets for Like and Share that run on our site, comments and profile views. These may collect your IP address when you click and visit the page and may also introduce cookies. Your interaction with these features is governed by the policy.

Public information

  • For Authors: If you have an Author Profile on MyAuthorz, information such as your name, your profile picture, your books along with the buy link to an external website, author biography, birthday, country, genres you write, genres you read, any descriptions you have added, along with the social media profiles added will be public.
  • For Readers: If you have signed up at MyAuthorz as a reader, personal information shared such as full name, book preferences, profile picture and biography will be visible in your reader profile.

Cost Implications for the Authors

At present, there are no payment/ monetary requirement for the author’s static page. However, in the future if appropriate, financial implications will be added.

For the dynamic page that is for the authors to interact with the readers and to add additional information the authors may be charged.

Testimonials and Feedback

Testimonials and feedbacks are posted on our websites which may also include personal information. We obtain each user’s consent before posting the user’s information publicly.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics are used to collect information anonymously for the website reports and trends without identifying individual users. It uses its own cookies to gather information.

Protecting the Privacy of information

Protecting the privacy of users is most important. In order to protect the information, we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow them to register.

If you are under 18 you are required to provide email-ids of parents/guardians for acquiring parent consent and personal details shall be made visible once permission has been acquired.

Vulgarity and use of foul languages are to be avoided, if such cases are identified, those profiles will be deleted as soon as possible.