Updated as of December 4, 2021
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Empower Writers Website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Empower Writers Website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
Empower Writers (“Empower Writers”) may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. If you purchase Empower Writers products and services, we collect and store billing and credit card information. Empower Writers may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your Postal Code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites. Information about your computer hardware and software also may be automatically collected by the Empower Writers Website. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used by Empower Writers for the operation of the service, to maintain the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Empower Writers Website.
Empower Writers encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from the Empower Writers Website so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. Empower Writers is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Site.
Use of Your Personal Information
Empower Writers collects and uses your personal information to operate the Empower Writers Website and deliver the services you have requested. Empower Writers will send one welcome email following registration to all registered patrons. Empower Writers may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Empower Writers and its affiliates. Empower Writers may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
We may use your information to send you messages other communications, e.g., e-mails, about items we believe are relevant to users of the Site such as a periodic newsletter. Empower Writers may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party without your explicit consent. In addition, Empower Writers may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries.
Empower Writers may share your information with third parties who perform tasks required to complete a purchase transaction. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Wow, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. To the extent that a third party such as a school, counselor, consultant, or the like facilitates your use of the Empower Writers Website or provides individualized assistance to you, Empower Writers expressly disclaims responsibility for the confidentiality of any and all information you may share with such a third party.
Empower Writers does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Empower Writers keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within the Empower Writers Website, in order to determine what Empower Writers services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Empower Writers to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Empower Writers will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Empower Writers or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Wow; (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Empower Writers Website, or the public; or (d) or in connection with any licensing, sale, merger, transfer or other disposition associated with all or a portion of the business.
Use of Cookies and Other Technology
The Empower Writers Website may use “cookies” and other technology to help you personalize your online experience. Empower Writers may collect site-visitation statistical information through “cookies,” tools such as Google Analytics, and other technology.
The Site may employ cookies and other technology to speed your navigation of the Site by allowing the Site to recognize each user and his or her access privileges and to track the user’s usage of the Site (“user data”). “Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by a user’s Internet browser on a user’s computer hard drive. Most Internet browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, but upon doing so, you most likely will not be able to access or use portions of the Site.
Log Files
The Site server automatically recognizes the Internet Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) from which you access the Site. Empower Writers may also log your Internet protocol (“IP”) address, which may be helpful, for example, for system administration and troubleshooting purposes. (An IP address indicates the location of your computer on the Internet.)
Security of Your Personal Information
You are responsible for safeguarding and preventing unauthorized access to the user information and password that you use to access the Empower Writers Website. You agree not to disclose your password to any third party and you are responsible for any activity using your account, whether or not you authorized that activity. You must immediately notify Empower Writers of any unauthorized use of your account.
Empower Writers secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Empower Writers secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
Children Under the Age of Thirteen
Empower Writers does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
Steps Taken to Protect Personal Information
DATA SECURITY
This Site incorporates various procedures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information. Empower Writers takes its efforts to protect your information very seriously. However: EMPOWER WRITERS CANNOT GUARANTEE SECURITY. WOW ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT OCCURS BY NEGLIGENCE OF EMPOWER WRITERS, ERRORS IN TRANSMISSION, UNAUTHORIZED OR ILLEGAL ACCESS, OR ANY OTHER VEHICLE FOR DISCLOSURE. THE SITE CONTAINS LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES. EMPOWER WRITERS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT, TERMS OF USE, OR PRIVACY POLICIES ON ANY THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES, OR PRIVACY PRACTICES BY ANY THIRD PARTIES.
Changes to this Statement
Empower Writers will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Empower Writers encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Empower Writers is protecting your information.
Contact Information
Empower Writers welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Empower Writers has not adhered to this Statement, please Contact Us.
For more information, please review our Terms and Conditions.
Contact Us
Empower Writers welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy:
Empower Writers, 560 Main Street, #602, Willimantic, CT 06226
Telephone number: 870-617-7045
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