Terms of Use, Disclaimer, Automatic Liability Release, Privacy Notice

 In using this website and any and all content and services promoted and offered on it, you automatically acknowledge and agree to the following terms:

1) Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc. (UWSP) – publisher of Health Is in Your Hands: Jin Shin Jyutsu – Practicing the Art of Self-Healing (with 51 Flash Cards for the Hands-on Practice of Jin Shin Jyutsu) – its officers, directors, agents, employees, partners and affiliates, jointly and severally, as well as any and all landlords/leaseholders/ proprietors/owners of any given location or venue of any given UWSP-related service/activity/event, jointly and severally, are not legally, morally and/or financially liable or responsible for any actions (and their consequences, including physical and/or mental loss, damage or injury) engaged in by clients (individuals or entities) while and subsequent to perusing the information provided and/or availing themselves of the services promoted, offered and described on this web site as well as in other UWSP publications.
 
2) In availing yourself of any and all services, or participating in/attending any and all events/activities, provided, organized, or co-organized by UWSP, its officers, directors, agents, employees, partners and affiliates, jointly and severally, you automatically release and hold UWSP, its officers, directors, agents, employees, partners and affiliates, jointly and severally, as well as any and all landlords/leaseholders/ proprietors/owners of any given location or venue of any given UWSP-related service/activity/event, jointly and severally, harmless from any and all causes of actions, claims, or demands for, upon, or by reason of any loss, damage, or injury, of any kind or nature, sustained while participating in or as a result of or in connection with any and all services, events, and activities provided, organized, or co-organized by UWSP, its officers, directors, agents, employees, partners and affiliates, jointly and severally. This Liability Release extends to your heirs, executors, administrators, representatives, and assigns, and it also extends, applies to, covers, and includes, all future, unknown, unforeseen, unanticipated, and unsuspected injuries, damages, losses, and liabilities and the consequences thereof, as well as those now disclosed and known to exist.
 
3) You also hereby agree, on behalf of your heirs, executors, administrators, representatives, and assigns, to indemnify UWSP, its officers, directors, agents, employees, partners and affiliates, jointly and severally, as well as any and all landlords/leaseholders/proprietors/owners of any given location or venue of any given UWSP-related service/activity/event, jointly and severally, for and in the event of any actions, claims, and demands for, upon or by reason of any damage, loss or injury, of any kind or nature, sustained while participating in or as a result of or in connection with any and all services, events, and activities provided, organized, or co-organized by UWSP, its officers, directors, agents, employees, partners and affiliates, jointly and severally.
 
4) You further understand and agree that your participation in/attendance of any event/activity or service provided, organized or co-organized by UWSP, its officers, directors, agents, and employees, partners and affiliates, jointly and severally, is not to be construed as an admission, acceptance or assumption of liability or responsibility of any kind whatsoever on the part of UWSP, its officers, directors, agents, and employees, partners and affiliates, jointly and severally, as well as any and all landlords/leaseholders/proprietors/owners of any given location or venue of any given UWSP-related service/activity/event, jointly and severally: a) for any loss, damage, or injury, of any kind or nature, sustained while participating in or as a result of or in connection with any and all services, events, and activities provided, organized, or co-organized by UWSP, its officers, directors, agents, employees, partners and affiliates, jointly and severally; b) for and in connection with any actions, claims, or demands for, upon, or by reason of any loss, damage, or injury, of any kind or nature, sustained while participating in or as a result of, or in connection with, any and all services, events, and activities provided, organized, or co-organized by UWSP, its officers, directors, agents, and employees, partners and affiliates, jointly and severally.
 
5) You agree not to sue or otherwise legally prosecute – in connection with any and all UWSP-related services, events, and activities, and under any circumstances – UWSP, its officers, directors, agents, employees, partners and/or affiliates, jointly and severally, as well as any and all landlords/leaseholders/ proprietors/ owners of any given location or venue of any given UWSP-related services, events, and activities.
 
6) You also understand and agree that any and all UWSP-related services, events, and activities, including Health Is in Your Hands™ – Jin Shin Jyutsu Self Help, do not any way constitute licensed practices or forms of (medical) treatment in New York Sate or elsewhere; that Health Is in Your Hands™ – Jin Shin Jyutsu Self Help solely offers to help you to harmonize your life energy; that you have sought out Health Is in Your Hands™ – Jin Shin Jyutsu Self Help entirely at your own risk; that Health Is in Your Hands™ – Jin Shin Jyutsu Self Help as well as the art of Jin Shin Jyutsu in general in no way substitute for the advice of your doctor or healthcare professional, whom you should consult regarding any specific needs or any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention and treatment, and prior to beginning or interrupting any course of (medical) treatment, exercise routine or diet.

Last updated: 10/2016

Online Privacy Notice

Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc.
ONLINE PRIVACY NOTICE
Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc. (“UWSP”) Privacy and Cookie Notice
Last Updated:  June 2022

1. Information We May Collect

UWSP (“we” or “us”) honor and respect your concerns about privacy. This Privacy and Cookie
Notice applies to personal information we may collect through any online interface, such as a
website, mobile application, or other interactive service, which may contain a link to this Notice
authorized by us. This Notice also applies to personal information we may receive outside of our
own website(s) (“Site(s)”), such as contact information we receive at book fairs, business
meetings or through publicly available websites or publications. The above and anything below
notwithstanding, we do not knowingly and/or actively collect any private or personal information
from anyone who downloads any mobile application developed and made available for sale and
download by UWSP. Any and all mobile applications developed and made available for sale and
download by UWSP do not contain any input options for users to provide any and all private or
personal information whatsoever even if they wished or chose to do so.

This Privacy Notice describes the types of personal information we may collect, how we may use
the information, with whom we may share it and the choices available to you regarding our
potential use of the information. We also describe the measures we take to safeguard the
information and tell you how to contact us about our privacy practices.

We may obtain certain personal information (such as name and other contact details that enable
us to identify you) when you choose to provide it to us, when it is publicly or automatically
available from our own Sites or from third parties. “Personal Information” may any information
that can be used to identify, locate or contact you. It may also include other information that may
be associated with your name or other identifiers. We may collect the following types of Personal
Information:

– contact information, such as your name, postal address, e-mail address and telephone number;
– month and year of birth;
– username and password;
– personal information in comments and other content (including manuscripts) you provide on or
through our Sites or social media pages;
– payment information, such as name, billing address, shipping address, phone number and credit
card number;
– information concerning your interests and product preferences;
– poll, survey and/or questionnaire responses;
– sweepstakes, contest and/or promotion entries;
– the content of your communications with us; and
– contact information provided at conferences or other places, such as on business cards or
through conference badge swipes and from public websites or other publicly available sources.

In addition, when you visit our Sites, we may collect certain information by automated means,
such as cookies and web beacons. The information we may collect in this manner includes IP
address, browser characteristics, device characteristics, operating system, language preferences,
referring URLs, information on actions taken on our site, and dates and times of visits to the
Sites. By collecting this information, we may be better understand activity on our Site learn how
to best tailor our Sites to our visitors. While we may generally examine such information only in
the aggregate, such information could be linked back to individual IP addresses or other
information about you. For more information on cookies, see the next section.

 2. Cookies and Online Tracking

A “cookie” is a text file that websites send to a visitor’s computer or other Internet-connected
device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser.
We or third parties (web hosts, online intermediaries, etc.) whom we have no control over may
use two kinds of cookies on the Sites: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies
exist only for as long as your browser remains open. Once you exit your browser, they disappear.
Persistent cookies, in contrast, last from visit to visit; they remain on your hard drive after you
exit your browser. The cookies used on the Sites may include those which are strictly necessary
cookies for access and navigation, cookies that track usage (performance cookies), remember
your choices (functionality cookies), and cookies that provide you with targeted content or
advertising (described more below under “Interest-based Advertising”). Your browser may tell
you how to be notified when you receive certain types of cookies or how to restrict or disable
certain types of cookies. Please note, however, that without cookies, you may not be able to use
all of the features of our Sites.

We or third parties we have no control over may use the information we may obtain from your
use of our cookies for the following purposes:

1. to recognize your computer when you visit the Sites;
2. to track you as you navigate the Sites, and to enable the use of any e-commerce facilities;
3. to improve the Sites’ usability;
4. to analyze the use of the Sites;
5. in the administration of the Sites; and
6. to personalize the Sites for you, including serving targeted advertisements which may be
of particular interest to you both on and off the Sites.

We may also use “web beacons” on our Sites. A web beacon, also known as a pixel tag or clear
GIF, may be used to transmit information collected through cookies back to our service
providers’ servers. These web beacons are the technique by which our service providers may
compile information about your browsing activity on the Sites.

Interest-based Advertising

We may collect information about your online activities for use in providing you with advertising
about products and services tailored to your individual interests. This section of our Privacy and
Cookie Notice provides details and explains how to exercise your choices.

You may see certain ads on other websites or in your emails based on your visits to our Sites and
third-party sites because we may participate in advertising networks administered by third-party
vendors, such as Google AdWords. Ad networks may allow us (including our third party partners
like our authors) to target messaging to users considering demographic data, users’ inferred
interests and browsing context. These networks may track your online activities over time by
collecting information through automated means, including through the use of cookies, web
server logs and web beacons. The networks may use this information to show you advertisements
that are tailored to your individual interests, to track your browser across multiple websites, and
to build a profile of your web browsing. The information our ad network vendors may collect
includes information about your visits to websites that participate in the vendors’ advertising
networks, such as the pages or advertisements you view and the actions you take on the websites.
This data collection may take place both on our Sites and on third-party websites that may
participate in the ad networks. This process may also help us track the effectiveness of our
marketing efforts.

Some of our potential advertising and content partners that may access and use cookies and other
data through our Sites may include, among others:

– Google (“Google”): may allow us to monitor how visitors use our sites and also allow us
(including our third party partners such as our authors) to serve personalized ads which uses
personal information such as, but not limited to, geolocation, in order to serve the user ads on non
UWSP Sites. For more information on their privacy practices and their use of cookies and to opt-
out, please visit their proprietary website.
– Amazon (“Amazon”): may allow us to serve users personalized ads which use personal
data based on browsing behaviour on our sites. For more information on their privacy practices
and their use of cookies, and to opt-out, please visit their proprietary website.
– Facebook (“Facebook”): may allow us (including our third party partners such as our
authors) to serve users personalized ads which uses personal data based on browsing behaviour
on our sites. For more information on their privacy practices and their use of cookiesand to opt-
out, please visit their proprietary website.

You can also delete and/or block specific cookies from your browser (as explained above). You
can also obtain more information about interest-based advertising, and how to opt-out of
receiving interest-based ads from participating third-party providers and ad networks, through the
following:

For Users in the US:
https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN (Digital Advertising Alliance)

For Users in the EU:
https://www.youronlinechoices.eu/ (European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance)

For Users in Canada:
http://youradchoices.ca/choices/ (Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada)

Opting out of participating providers and ad networks does not opt you out of being served
advertising. If you opt-out, we will not send you targeted ads based on behavioral information we
or our partners have obtained about you, but you may continue to receive generic or contextual
ads on our Sites.

To successfully opt-out, you must have cookies enabled in your web browser. Please see your
browser’s instructions for information on cookies and how to enable them. Your opt-out only
applies to the web browser you use so you must opt-out of each web browser on each device that
you use. Once you opt out, if you delete your browser’s saved cookies, you may need to opt-out
again.

Analytics

We may also use third-party web analytics services on our Sites, such as Google Analytics. These
service providers may help us analyze how users use our Sites. The information potentially
collected for this purpose (including your IP address and other information collected by
automated means) will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers. These
service providers may retain and use non-personally identifiable collected from users of our Sites
in connection with their own businesses, including in order to improve their products and
services. To learn more about opting out of data collection through Google Analytics, click the
links below:

– Google Analytics: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en
You can withdraw your consent and opt-out of the use of cookies and online tracking at any time
by following the links above or you can delete and/or block specific cookies from your browser
but some features of the Sites may not function fully or correctly as a result.
You may also be able to limit the association of your mobile device with your online activities by
resetting the advertiser ID on your Apple or Android device. For more information about how to
change these settings go to:
– Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228
– Android: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/

The Sites may also offer you the ability to interact with plugins from social media sites or Disqus
in order to allow you to comment on our blog posts or share your experiences with your online
social network. These services may collect persistent identifiers through your browser or mobile
operating system. If you have previously provided personally identifiable information to third-
party sites, that third-party may recognize you here. Your use of social network plugins is subject
to each social media site’s privacy policy, which may be different from ours, so please read these
policies to assess and understand your options. We have no control over or access to the
information that is collected, stored, or used by third-party plugins. If you engage with our
content on or through third-party social media sites, you may allow us to have access to certain
information associated with your social media account (e.g., name, username, email address,
profile picture) to deliver the content or as part of the operation of the plug-in or application. For
more information on Disqus’ privacy practices please see here.

Social Media

Our websites may enable you to interact with us and others via social media platforms, such as
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Instagram.  While we respect each social media
platform’s privacy policies, we may collect Personal Information about you and your followers or
contacts if you choose to use these tools.  For example, the Sites may also offer you the ability to
interact with plugins from these platforms, in order to allow you to follow us or share your
experiences with your online social network.

Social media platforms collect persistent identifiers through your browser or mobile operating
system. If you have previously provided personally identifiable information to these platforms,
the platform operators may recognize you here. Your use of social network plugins may be
subject to each social media site’s privacy policy. If you engage with our content on or through
third-party social media sites, you may allow us to have access to certain information associated
with your social media account (e.g., name, username, email address, profile picture) to deliver
the content or as part of the operation of the plug-in or application. For more information, please
read the privacy policies posted by the social media platforms that you may use.

As noted above, we may also display interest-based ads to you when you are using social media
platforms. These platforms may allow us to personalize the ads that we display to you. We do not
share any of your Personal Information with these platforms, although we may convert your
email address into a unique number which can be matched by the platform with its user to allow
delivery of the advertising. Although we do not provide any personal information to these
platforms, they may gain insights about individuals who respond to the ads we serve.

Do Not Track

Although our websites may not have a mechanism to recognize the various web browser Do Not
Track signals, we may offer our customers choices to manage their cookie preferences as
described above. To learn more about browser tracking signals and Do Not Track please visit
https://www.allaboutdnt.org.

3. How We Use The Information We Collect

We may use the information we obtain to:

– create and manage your account (if any);
– offer and provide products, services and tailored information to you, including email
newsletters;
– permit you to participate in blogging, forums, and discussion groups;
– communicate with you about, and administer your participation in, special events, programs,
surveys, contests, sweepstakes, and other offers or promotions;
– display content on our Sites, such as stories, product reviews and photos;
– respond to and communicate with you about your requests, questions and comments;
– process claims we receive in connection with our products and services;
– operate, evaluate and improve our business (including developing new products and services;
managing our communications; determining the effectiveness of our sales, marketing and
advertising; analyzing and enhancing our products, services and Sites; and performing
accounting, auditing, billing, reconciliation and collection activities);
– perform data analyses and other processing (including market and consumer research, and trend
analysis);
– protect against, identify and prevent fraud and other criminal activity, claims and other
liabilities; and
– comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards and our
policies and where otherwise permitted or required by applicable law.

In addition, we may use information collected online through cookies, web beacons and other
automated means for the purposes described in the Cookies and Online Tracking section above
such as: (i) recognizing your computer when you visit the Sites; (ii) tracking you as you navigate
the Sites, and to enable the use of any e-commerce facilities; (iii) improving the Sites’ usability;
(iv) analyzing the use of the Sites; (v) administration of the Sites; and (vi) personalizing the Sites
for you, including targeting content and advertisements which may be of particular interest to
you. We also use this information to help diagnose technical and service problems, administer our
Sites, identify users of our Sites, and gather demographic information about our users. We may
use clickstream data to determine how much time users spend on web pages of our Sites, how
users navigate through our Sites, and how we may tailor our Sites to better meet the needs of our
users. See the Cookies and Online Tracking section above for more information.

We also may use the information we obtain about you in other ways for which we provide
specific notice at the time of collection.

4. Information We May Share

We may share the information you provide with companies that are related to UWSP through
common ownership.

We may share your Personal Information with third party partners that provide services to you
through our websites, but only to the extent you have a relationship with such partner or you
authorize the sharing. For example, you may be able to sign up for programs that allow you to
interact with third parties (through our Sites or otherwise), and we will share your information
with the third parties (or others) as needed to fulfill your request. The third party’s use of your
information is governed by such third party’s own privacy policies. Additionally, we may share
certain information with third parties for appropriate business purposes, such as to validate
referrals and for auditing.

We may share personal information with third parties who perform services on our behalf. For
example: when you make a purchase, we may share information about you and your transaction
with other companies for the purpose of processing your transaction, and we may retain outside
companies to manage databases of customer information, to provide advertising services and to
distribute e-mail offerings.

Unless you have opted out, we may also share certain information such as your email address
with Facebook, Google, Amazon, Twitter, and other third parties so that we can serve targeted
ads and content to you and others with similar interests on such third parties’ respective sites (see
the Your Choices section below for more information on how to opt out). These third parties
may use the data as a service provider to use to help us target our ads to you and others. This is
called custom audiences and matching.

Our Sites may feature blogs, forums, discussion groups and comments. Please be aware that the
information you post (including personally identifiable information) in connection with these
activities may be made publicly available. In addition, some of our Sites provide for user
registration including a user profile. In such case, the following information may automatically be
available to all other users of such Site: your display name, your photo (if uploaded), and how
long you’ve been a registered user. In addition, if you’ve included any optional information in
your profile, this information may also be available to all other users.

We may also disclose Personal Information where permitted by law, such as for payment
processing, as needed to affect the sale or transfer of business assets, to enforce our rights,
including Terms of Use or Service, protect our property, or protect the rights, property or safety
of others, or as needed support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance
functions.  We will also always disclose Personal Information when required to do so by law,
such as in response to a subpoena, including to law enforcement agencies and courts in the United
States and other countries where we operate.

5. Links to Other Websites

Our Sites may contain links to other websites for your convenience and information. These may
include, without limitation, some of the blogs and forums to which you are provided access
through the Sites. These websites may be operated by companies not affiliated with us. Linked
websites may have their own privacy policies or notices, which we strongly suggest you review if
you visit any linked websites. We are not responsible for the content of any websites that are not
affiliated with UWSP, any use of those websites, or the privacy practices of those websites.

6. Children’s Privacy

Our Sites do not generally target children under 16. We may collect information from children
between 13 and 16 on our at events, such as book fairs.  We may also collect information about
children under 13 from their parents or guardians or from the children with prior parental consent.
We do not collect personal information directly from children under 13 without prior parental or
guardian consent.  We do not sell any personal information about children or anyone whatsoever.

7. How We May Protect Personal Information

We may maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the
personal information you provide against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss,
alteration, access, disclosure or use. We may have procedures to deal with any suspected data
security breach and may notify you and/or any applicable regulator or supervisory authority or
other governmental entity where we are legally required to do so. Unfortunately, however, we
cannot and do not guarantee the security and safety of your information.

8. Your Choices

If you receive a marketing email from us or a newsletter, you will be given the opportunity to opt
out of or unsubscribe from our mailing list (either by clicking a link or replying to us directly).
Please note that you may continue to receive certain transactional messages from us.
We also give you the option of requesting that we not use your information for marketing
purposes, or share your information with related companies for marketing use. Go to the “contact
us” section (or email us at: [email protected]) and send us your request
accordingly if you do not want us to use your information for our marketing purposes, including
sharing your email address with third parties to advertise our products or services on such third
party sites by using your email address to create custom audiences and matching, or sharing your
information with related companies for marketing use. However, we do not assume any
responsibility for any and all third parties that may or may not be affiliated with UWSP who may
continue sending you marketing emails.

Please be aware that we will process your opt-out only for the specific e-mail address you
provide. If you have more than one e-mail address or if you have changed your email address,
please resubmit the opt-out request for the other email addresses. If you believe you have opted
out, but continue to receive e-mails from us, please contact us, and we will investigate the issue.

9. International Transfers

Your personal information may be transferred to, stored at or processed in the United States and
other countries which may not have equivalent privacy or data protection laws.  However,
regardless of where your personal information is transferred, we will do our best to protect it in
accordance with this Privacy Notice.

BY CONTINUING TO USE THESE SITES AND/OR SUBMITTING YOUR
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION, YOU CERTIFY THAT YOU MEET
AGE AND OTHER ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SITE AS SET FORTH
IN THIS NOTICE AS WELL AS THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, AND CONSENT TO
COLLECTION, USE, DISCLOSURE, STORAGE AND TRANSFER OF YOUR
PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION OUTSIDE THE EEA,
SWITZERLAND, CANADA, OR ANY OTHER NON U.S. JURISDICTION IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THIS NOTICE.

10. Updates to Our Online Privacy Notice

Changes to this Privacy Notice will become effective when those changes are posted to the Sites
or otherwise notified to you as required by applicable law. Your continued use of the services and
the Sites subsequent to any changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the
changes subject to the contents of the specific notification. We indicate the effective date of this
Notice (and any updates) at the top of the Notice.

11. How To Contact Us

If you would like to update your contact information and/or preferences, e-mail us at:
[email protected]

If you would like to request to access, update or correct other information in our records in
accordance with your rights under applicable law, please contact us at:
[email protected]

If you have any questions about our information practices (or those of our service providers) or
our products or services, please contact us at: [email protected]

Important Information for EEA Residents

UWSP is providing this supplemental privacy notice to give individuals in the European
Economic Area (EEA) the additional information required by the EU General Data Protection
Regulation. These provisions, together with the statements in the UWSP Privacy Notice, explain
our practices with regard to EEA personal data.

1. Information about UWSP

This information is being provided by UWSP
Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc., New York
[email protected] / [email protected]
 
2. The Purposes and Legal Basis for Processing, including Legitimate Interests

The UWSP Privacy Notice explains the reasons why we may process your Personal Information.
We may knowingly and directly only process Personal Information when we have a legal basis
for the processing, such as:

– To provide the products, services or information that you request,
– For closely-related purposes, such as payment processing and financial account
management, contract management, website administration, business continuity and
disaster recovery, security and fraud prevention, corporate governance, reporting and
legal compliance, and
– With your consent (or provided you have not objected, as may be appropriate under
applicable law), such to provide you with marketing communications.
We may also process your Personal Information for the purposes of our legitimate interests,
provided that such processing shall not outweigh your rights and freedoms.  In particular, we may
process your Personal Information as needed to:
– Protect you, us or others from threats (such as security threats or fraud) piracy or
cheating,
– Comply with the laws that are applicable to us around the world,
– Enable or administer our business, such as for quality control, consolidated reporting, and
customer service,
– De-identify it to create anonymized and/or aggregated datasets,
– Manage corporate transactions, such as mergers or acquisitions, and
– Understand and improve our business or customer relationships generally.

We may disclose your Personal Information to related companies and to third parties as described
in the Privacy Notice; however, we do not knowingly or directly share your Personal Information
with third parties for them to market their products or services to you without having obtained
your prior opt-in consent.  If you give consent for such sharing, you may revoke it at any time.
We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 16 without
consent of the parent or guardian.

3. Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

We may use profiling and analytics to understand our customers and readers of our publications
and to find potential influencers.  For example, we may analyze whether certain types of our
products appeal to older readers or to women. We will not make automated-decisions about you
that may significantly affect you, unless (1) the decision is necessary as part of a contract that we
have with you, (2) we have your explicit consent, or (3) we are required by law to use the
technology.

4. When You are Required to Provide Personal Information to UWSP

In most cases, you are not required by law to provide any Personal Information to UWSP.  You
may be required to provide certain Personal Information if you want to enter a contest,
sweepstakes or giveaway or if you want to receive communications or purchase products from us.
Our data collection forms will indicate which data elements are required.

5. Your Rights

As noted in the Privacy Notice, you always have the right to object to our marketing
communications.  To opt-out of our emails by unsubscribing from our mailing lists, send us an
email at: [email protected]. To revoke permissions that you may have given to
send text messages, text STOP in response to any message.  

UWSP also respects the rights of EEA residents to access, correct and request erasure or
restriction of their personal information as required by law.  This means:
– You generally have a right to know whether or not we knowingly maintain your Personal
Information. If we do have your Personal Information, we will provide you with a copy
(subject to the rights of others).  If your Personal Information is incorrect or incomplete,
you have the right to ask us to update it.  In some cases, you may have the right to receive
Personal Information that you provided to us back in a machine-readable format.
– You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Information.
– You may also ask us to delete or restrict your Personal Information.

To exercise these rights, please contact us via email at: [email protected].
Please understand that we may need to verify your identity before we can process your request.

If you believe that we have knowingly unlawfully processed your Personal Information, please let
us know at your earliest convenience, and we will do our best to correct the error.

6. International Transfers

UWSP is based in the United States. As noted in the Privacy Notice, your Personal Information
may be stored or processed in the United States and other countries which may not have
equivalent privacy or data protection laws. By using our website you consent to these transfers.

7. Data Retention

We may retain any and all Personal Information that we may have collected until you let us know
what you wish it to be erased and/or for any additional period that may be required or permitted
by law.  You may request that we delete your Personal Information by contacting us via email at:
[email protected]

Unless we are required by law to retain the information we may have collected, we will delete it
within 30 days of your request.

8. How to Contact Us and our Head of Privacy

Please contact us if you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices or this
Privacy Notice.  You can always reach us via email to [email protected].

Important Information for California Residents
Effective Date: December 31, 2019

UWSP is providing this supplemental privacy notice to give California residents the
additional information required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (the “CCPA”).  

UWSP is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all the personal information that is
entrusted to us.  UWSP has a Global Privacy Policy that does its best to protect your personal
information no matter how or where it may be knowingly collected, used or stored by UWSP.
UWSP also complies with applicable privacy and security laws, including the CCPA. Our
Privacy and Cookie Notice describes our privacy and security practices in detail.

1. CCPA Rights

The CCPA provides California residents with specific privacy rights, including the right to
receive a privacy notice, the right to know what information we may have collected about you
during the past 12 months, and the right to know what categories of personal information we may
have shared with third parties.  CCPA gives California residents with the right to opt-out of
having their personal information sold. CCPA also gives California residents the right to request
deletion of your personal information.

This notice provides information about the categories of information that we may collect from
California residents generally, the sources of the information, the purposes for which we may use
the information, and the categories of third parties to whom we may disclose the information for
business purposes. UWSP does not sell personal information.

As described below, we may share personal information with our Affiliates and service
providers.  We may also disclose personal information to third parties for business purposes as
permitted by in CCPA, such as to our auditors, for compliance or security, or in connection with
mergers and acquisitions. We may also share personal information with third parties based on
your consent, such as if you sign-up for author newsletters or co-branded promotions.

2. How to Exercise Your Rights

If you are a California resident, you may exercise your rights or authorize another person to act
on your behalf by emailing us at: [email protected]

We will respond to requests using the email address that is associated with the information we
maintain.

If you would like to designate an agent, please send an email from your own email address
to [email protected] indicating the name and email address of your agent. We
will respond to that’s person’s requests using both your email address and the agent’s email
address.

To request deletion of your personal information, please write to us at:
[email protected].

Please understand that UWSP may not be able to delete personal information in those situations
where our retention is legally required or otherwise permitted by CCPA (such as for fraud
prevention or legal compliance).  In these situations, we may retain your information in
accordance with our records retention program and securely delete it at the end of the retention
period.

UWSP does not offer financial incentives for the collection or sale of personal information,
although we may offer individuals the opportunity to receive coupons or discounts via email.  If
you ask us to delete your information, we will not be able to send you additional coupons or
discounts via email, however coupons or discounts sent to you previously will continue to be
honored according to their original terms.  We will not discriminate against you if you exercise
your rights under CCPA.   

3. CCPA Right to Know Disclosures

Contact Information:
We may collect this type of information from you. Data elements in this category may include:
Name, Email address, Mobile number, Mailing address. We may use this type of information to
identify you and communicate with you, including:  to send transactional messages (such as when
you sign up for newsletters), marketing communications, survey and invitations; to enable
delivery of ads on social media platforms; to personalize our communications and provide
customer service; for our everyday business purposes. We may disclose this type of information
to our Affiliates and Service Providers, including social media companies such as Facebook
which use the data to identify which of our customers use their platforms so that we can deliver
ads to you on the platform, and to: Third parties who deliver our communications, or other Third
Parties (including government agencies) as required by law.   

Government-issued identification information numbers:
We may collect this type of information from you. Data elements in this category may
include: Social Security numbers from individuals as needed to comply with law, such as tax
reporting for individuals who win sweepstakes prizes valued at more than $600. We may use this
type of information: to comply with laws regulating sweepstakes; for tax reporting;  for our
Everyday Business Purposes. We may disclose this type of information to our Affiliates and
Service Providers and to our lawyers, auditors, consultants, other third parties as required by law.

Relationship Information:
We may collect this type of information from you, such as when you register with us, like our
content on social media, visit us a trade show, or sign up for a sweepstakes, contest, or giveaway.
We may collect information from social media or other sites when you post it or it is available
publicly, such as when you post book reviews. We may also infer information about you based on
information that you have given us and your past interactions with us. For example, we may
identify or accept you as an influencer based on your public postings on social media sites. Data
elements in this category may include: personal characteristics, such as your age, age range or
gender; country or language preference (when you specify this for email subscriptions); data from
social media profiles, such as Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads and similar platforms; reading
interests, including preferred authors, and reviews; marketing preferences. We may use this type
of information: to better understand you and our customers generally. To tailor our
communications to you. To identify prospective customers; to identify influencers; for internal
business purposes, such as quality control, training and analytics;  for our Everyday Business
Purposes. We may disclose this type of information to our Affiliates and Service Providers and
to Third parties with whom we have joint marketing and similar arrangements, or to our lawyers,
auditors, consultants, or other third parties as required by law.

Transaction and Interaction Information.
We may collect this type of information from you, when you interact with us, such as entering a
sweepstakes, contest or giveaway, content or if you purchase products directly from us; fromthird
parties that process transactions for us. Data elements in this category may include: entry
information for contests and promotions; customer account information, purchase history and
related records; customer service records; we may use this type of information:  to fulfill our
business relationship with you, including customer service and fraud prevention; for our
Everyday Business Purposes We may disclose this type of information to our Affiliates and
Service Providers and to third parties as needed to complete the transaction, including delivery
companies, agents, authors and other publishers, or our lawyers, auditors, consultants, or other
third parties as required by law.

Online and Technical Information:
We may collect this type of information from you and from your computer or devices when you
interact with our platforms, websites and applications. For example, when you visit our websites,
our server logs may record your IP address and other information, perhaps automatically, via
technologies such as first party cookies, web beacons, when you visit our website or other
websites; third parties, including computer security services and advertising partners. Data
elements in this category may include:  IP Address; device identifiers;d Web Server Logs; First
Party Cookies; Third Party Cookies, Web beacons, clear gifs and pixel tags. We may use this type
of information: for system administration, including optimizing our websites and applications;
for information security and cybersecurity purposes;  for recordkeeping, including logs and
records that are maintained as part of Transaction Information; to better understand our customers
and prospective customers and to enhance our Relationship Information, including by associating
you with different devices and browsers that you may use; for online targeting and advertising
purposes; for our Everyday Business Purposes. We may disclose this type of information to our
Affiliates and Service Providers, including to companies such as Google which use the data
collected by cookies and similar means to help us with our online advertising programs, and
to third parties who assist with our information technology and security programs, including
companies such as network security services who retain information on malware threats
detected; rhird parties who assist with fraud prevention, detection and mitigation; third party
network advertising partners; or our lawyers, auditors, consultants, or other third parties as
required by law.

Audio-Visual Information:
We may collect this type of information from you,  automatically, such as when we record calls
to our call center, third parties that provide access to information you make publicly available,
such as social media. Data elements in this category may include:  photographs, Video images,
CCTV recordings,  call center recordings and call monitoring records,  voicemails. We use this
type of information for internal business purposes, such as call recordings used for training,
coaching or quality control; for relationship purposes, such as use of photos and videos for social
media purposes; for our Everyday Business Purposes. We may disclose this type of information
to our Affiliates and Service Providers and to our lawyers, auditors, consultants, or other third
parties as required by law.

Financial information:
We may collect this type of information from You, if you purchase products directly from us.
Data elements in this category may include:  payment card information: For security purposes,
UWSP does and will not store payment card numbers, CVV codes or expiration dates – in case
they are collected. These data elements may be provided to our potential payment processors and
not retained by UWSP. Financial information may be maintained in our transaction data. We may
use this type of information for processing payments; for risk management, fraud prevention and
similar purpose; for our Everyday Business Purposes. We may disclose this type of information
to our Affiliates and Service Providers and to payment processors, financial institutions and
others as needed to complete the transactions and for authentication, security and fraud
prevention;  to our lawyers, auditors, consultants, or other third parties as required by law.

Children’s data:
Our Sites do not target children under 16. At Book Fairs may collect information from children
between 13 and 16. We may also collect information about children under 13 from their parents
or guardians or from the children with prior parental consent. We do and may not collect personal
information directly from children under 13 without prior parental/guardian consent. Data
elements in this category may include name, address, email address, age. We may use this type of
information to provide the information, products or services requested by the child or by the
child’s parent, guardian or school; for our Everyday Business Purposes. We may disclose this
type of information to our Affiliates and Service Providers, or to Other third parties (including
government agencies) as required by law.

Compliance data:
We may collect this type of information from you, third parties, including companies that help us
conduct internal investigations. Data elements in this category may include: compliance program
data, including records to demonstrate compliance with applicable laws, such as sweepstakes
laws, and privacy laws; records relating to complaints and internal investigations, including
compliance hotline reports. We may use this type of information to comply with and demonstrate
compliance with applicable laws; for legal matters, including litigation and regulatory matters,
including for use in connection with civil, criminal, administrative, or arbitral proceedings,
including in anticipation of litigation or enforcement of judgments and orders; for our Everyday
Business Purposes. We may disclose this type of information to our Affiliates and Service
Providers and to our lawyers, auditors, consultants, or other third parties (including government
agencies, courts and opposing law firms, consultants, process servers and parties to litigation) in
connection with legal matters.

Everyday Business Purposes encompasses the Business Purposes (as defined in the CCPA) and
following related purposes for which personal information may be used (if collected):

 – To provide the information, product or service requested by the individual or as
reasonably expected given the context in which the personal information was collected
(such customer credentialing, providing customer service, personalization and preference
management, providing product updates, bug fixes or recalls, and dispute resolution)
– For identity and credential management, including identity verification and
authentication, system and technology administration
– To protect the security and integrity of systems, networks, applications and data,
including detecting, analyzing and resolving security threats, and collaborating with
cybersecurity centers, consortia and law enforcement about imminent threats
– For fraud detection and prevention
– For legal and regulatory compliance, including all uses and disclosures of personal
information that are required by law or reasonably needed for compliance with company
policies and procedures, such as: anti-money laundering programs, security and incident
response programs, intellectual property protection programs, and corporate ethics and
compliance hotlines,
– For corporate audit, analysis and reporting,
– To enforce our contracts and to protect against injury, theft, legal liability, fraud or abuse,
to protect people or property, including physical security programs
– To de-identify the data or create aggregated datasets, such as for consolidating reporting,
research or analytics,
– To make back-up copies for business continuity and disaster recovery purposes, and
– For corporate governance, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.