Privacy Policy

Webauthor Software Products and Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) Privacy Statement
 
This Privacy Statement covers the privacy practices that Webauthor employs when providing support, consulting, or hosting services to commercial or non-profit entities and/or individual end users through Webauthor’s Internet based applications, software products and Software-as-a-Service solutions (the “Software Offerings”).
 
Webauthor.com, LLC (“Webauthor,” the “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) will endeavor to protect and develop or use technology that provides a safe online experience for the customer/consumer (“you” or “your”) and has created this privacy statement (the “Privacy Policy”) to demonstrate its firm commitment to secure and trustworthy Internet commerce and the individual's privacy.
 
BY USING OUR SOFTWARE OFFERINGS, THIS WEB SITE, AND ANY WEB PAGES AND CONTENT THEREIN (COLLECTIVELY, THE “SITE”), YOU CONSENT TO THE TERMS OF WEBAUTHOR’S PRIVACY POLICY AND TO WEBAUTHOR'S PROCESSING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSES SET FORTH BELOW.
 
Registration
 
You are required to register in order to be granted access to certain information, services and/or products at this Site. At the time of registration, you may be prompted by one of our online forms to provide certain personal information to us, including but not necessarily limited to your name, company name, email address, and/or credit card information used for billing purposes.
 
Use of Your Personal Information
 
The personal information that you provide to Webauthor, may be stored, processed, and used by Webauthor and its affiliates for the following purposes: (a) to provide information about our Company, products and/or services, including updates, notifications, and details of any offers or promotions; (b) to assist us in improving our products, services or the content of this Site; (c) to contact you to participate in a market research survey, so that we can gauge customer satisfaction and develop better products; (d) for our own internal marketing and research purposes; (e) to promote user groups; (f) to make our Software Offerings easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information or by customizing our Software Offerings to your particular interests or preferences; (g) to analyze information for trends and statistics. We may also provide this information to an agent acting on Webauthor's behalf in connection with the activities described above.
 
Webauthor will occasionally hire other companies, which use cookies, to provide limited services on our behalf, such as packaging, sending, and delivering purchases and other mailings; answering customer questions about products or services; processing event registration; or performing statistical analysis of our services. Webauthor will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service and any such personal information shall be subject to the third party companies’ privacy policies.
 
You also hereby grant to Webauthor a perpetual, non-cancelable, worldwide, non-exclusive right to utilize any data that arises from the use of this Site (or any other Webauthor or its affiliates’ Software Offerings) by you for any legitimate business purpose, including the right to sublicense such data to third parties, subject to all legal restrictions regarding the use and disclosure of such information.  Any such use by Webauthor shall provide only non-personally identifiable data and all data will be aggregated in such a way that it cannot be linked to you or your business entity.
 
Except as described above, Webauthor will not sell, rent, or in any way intentionally disclose personal information that you provide to us on this Site to any third party (other than an agent acting on our behalf as described above), unless: (a) Webauthor is required to do so by law, regulation, warrant, subpoena or court order, (b) Webauthor is required in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Webauthor employees, users of Webauthor products or services, or members of the public, or to enforce provisions of the Terms of Use; or (c) such disclosure is part of a sale or transfer of all (or substantially all) of the assets or stock of Webauthor or one or more divisions or affiliates of Webauthor .
 
Cookies and Other Information Gathering
 
Webauthor uses cookies to help us provide better customer service and to enhance the user experience and deliver personalized content. Many improvements and updates to our Software Offerings are based on the data collected through the cookies, such as total number of visitors and pages viewed. A "cookie" is a small text file stored locally in the computer used to access your account, and contains information relating to your past use of this Site. Webauthor may disclose the non-personally identifiable information collected by cookies to third parties including advertisers or potential advertisers. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. However, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive feature of our Software Offerings or services you visit.
 
When you browse through any website certain information about your visit can be collected. We automatically collect and temporarily store some or all of these types of information about your visit: domain from which you access the Internet; IP address (an IP or internet protocol address is a number that is automatically given to a computer connected to the Web); operating system on your computer; information about the browser you used when visiting the Site; date and time of your visit; pages you visited; address of the website that connected you to our Software Offerings (such as Google.com or Bing.com).  We use this information to track and analyze the number of visitors to our site and to constantly improve its quality.  No personally identifiable information is collected by these tools.
 
Blogs, Bulletin Boards, Webinars, and Chat Rooms
 
From time to time, portions of this Site may allow you to post information, graphics, or images which other visitors to this Site will be able to access (such as on a “blog”, "bulletin board", “webinar”, or during an interactive audio and/or video "chat" with other visitors). In the event that you choose to post information in this context, it becomes generally available to the public, and we have no ability to control or limit its use by visitors to our site. By posting the information on this Site you are providing Webauthor and its affiliates the right to use the information in connection with the operation of Webauthor's business. Therefore, we encourage you not to post any information you consider private or sensitive on this Site.
 
Children's Privacy
 
Webauthor's Site, software and services do not target, and are not structured to attract, children under the age of 13. Webauthor does not collect any registration information from users who indicate they are under the age of 13. If Webauthor discovers personal data from a child, Webauthor will eliminate that data.
 
Security of Information
 
To protect the privacy of personal information provided by you, Webauthor and the vendors who may provide hosting services to Webauthor employ industry-standard controls including physical access controls, Internet firewalls, intrusion detection, and network monitoring. Additionally, only authorized administrators and staff have access to systems containing such information. We urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal data when you are on the Internet. Change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure browser.
 
Our Software Offerings are designed for users in the United States and Canada.  If you access any of our Software Offerings and are a citizen of, or located in, any other country your personal information may be governed by rules or laws that are not known to us.  Should that be the case you are prohibited from using our Software Offerings until you have notified us in writing of any such requirements and received a written response from us that we are willing and able to meet those requirements.
 
Revisions
 
Webauthor reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you, and Webauthor will post any changes to this Privacy Policy on this Site as soon as they go into effect. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.
 
Effective Date:  January 1, 2015