Privacy Policy

INTRODUCTION

This Privacy Policy has been last updated on 11 April 2024 and supersedes and replaces all prior Privacy Policies.

This Platform is operated by Brian Monaghan Limited. We respect your privacy and understand that you have a right to know why we collect your personal information and what we do with it. This Privacy Policy applies to information that identifies you as a person (“Personal Information”) that we collect through our Platform (as defined below) as well as information we may collect offline.

This policy describes the type of information we collect from you and/or that you may provide us when you visit and/or use this website and/or any of our mobile applications (individually or collectively, “Platform”). “You/your/user(s)” means you as a user of our Platform.

By accessing the Platform, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy and agree to be bound by the terms hereof, the Terms and any other terms or policies we post on the Platform. If there is anything you do not understand, please email any inquiry to hello@buzzyreads.com. If at any time you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Platform or provide us with any Personal Information. 

We reserve the right to change or update this Privacy Policy by posting such changes or updates to the Platform or emailing you notice of the changes. Amendments to this Privacy Policy will be posted at this URL and will be effective when posted. You can tell if this Privacy Policy has changed by checking the last modified date that appears at the end of this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Platform following the posting of any amendment, modification or change shall constitute your acceptance thereof. 

YOUR SECURITY

We strive to keep your Personal Information private and safe. We take commercially reasonable physical, technical, and administrative steps to maintain the security of Personal Information collected, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to database servers, as well as employing electronic security systems and password protections that guard against unauthorized access.

Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, the transmission of data over the Internet cannot be guaranteed to be 100% secure. While we will use reasonable means to ensure the security of information you transmit through the Platform, any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We cannot guarantee that such information will not be intercepted by third parties, and we will not be liable for any breach of the security of your Personal Information resulting from causes or events that are beyond our control, including, without limitation, your own act or omission, corruption of storage media, defects in third-party data security products or services, power failures, natural phenomena, riots, acts of vandalism, hacking, sabotage, or terrorism, and we are not responsible for unauthorized circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Platform.

DATA DELETION

We are committed to ensuring your right to privacy and control over your personal information. If at any time you decide to discontinue using our services and wish to have your personal data removed from our systems, you may request data deletion. To initiate the deletion process, please contact us at hello@buzzyreads.com. Upon receiving your request, we will verify your identity to protect your security and privacy. Once verified, we will promptly delete all personal data associated with your account from our records, except where we are legally obligated to retain certain information. We will confirm the completion of the deletion process via the contact information you have provided. Please note that this process may take up to 14 days to complete, depending on the complexity and scope of your request.

CATEGORIES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect Personal Information in three ways:

1. Personal Information that you provide to us
2. Automated Information that may contain Personal Information when you use our Platform
3. Public sources or from third parties who have obtained such Personal Information in compliance with applicable laws and have the legal authority to provide such Personal Information to us.

We will only collect Personal Information which is adequate and reasonably necessary in relation to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

Personal Information You Provide to Us

The Personal Information you provide to us is generally:

• contact details including name, email, telephone number and shipping, billing address
• login and account information, including unique user ID and password
• personal details including gender, hometown, date of birth and purchase history
• personal preferences including your wish list as well as marketing preferences
• purchase history
• payment or credit card information

We collect Personal Information directly from you when you provide it to us. This typically occurs when you:

• sign up for our email list
• send us an email or other communication
• create an account with us
• create a book
• update your profile image
• create characters
• upload a voice recording for voice cloning
• participate in our promotions, surveys, and/or contests
• complete forms that may appear on our website
• send us an email or other communication that contains any Personal Information

It is optional for you to engage in such activity, however, if you choose to do so, we may require that you provide us certain Personal Information. Depending upon the activity, some of the information we ask you to provide is required and some is voluntary. If you do not provide required information for a particular activity, you may not be permitted to engage in that activity.

Automated Information

We also collect information, some of which may be Personal Information, through automated means when you visit our Platform (“Automated Information”) such as:

• the IP address of the device you use to connect to the internet (which may include information about your geographic location)
• the unique identifiers of your device
• your browser characteristics
• your device characteristics
• your operating system
• your language preferences
• the websites you visited before coming to our Platform or through which you were referred to our Platform
• information on actions taken by you on our Platform
• dates and times of your visits to our Platform
• the pages or screens you accessed on our Platform

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. If you do not wish to have cookies on your system, you can set your browser to refuse them. Please review the specific instructions from your browser in order to do this. However, please note that not accepting cookies may make certain features of our Platform unavailable or difficult to view or use.

Information We Obtain From Third Parties

We may obtain Personal Information from third parties in a number of ways:

• We may obtain Personal Information from third parties for marketing and business purposes. If we obtain Personal Information from third parties for any of these purposes, we will require that any third parties from whom we may obtain such Personal Information represent to us that they have acquired the Personal Information in compliance with all applicable laws and have the right to provide us such Personal Information for our marketing purposes.
• We may collect Personal Information from publicly available sources.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We will use your Personal Information in the following circumstances:

• to fulfill product a product order;
• to send you confirmation of your order;
• to communicate with you about the status of your order;
• to communicate with you about products, promotions, or other topics that we believe may be of interest to you;
• to personalize online content and experiences to you
• to send you product updates or warranty information;
• to administer your account;
• to improve of our service;
• to advertise our products to you;
• to detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities;
• where you have asked us to do so, or consented to us doing so;
• where we need to do so in order to perform a contract we have entered into with you, and
• where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your fundamental rights do not override those interests.

KEEPING PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURE

We will use technical and organisational measures to safeguard your Personal Information, for example:

• access to your account is controlled by a password and a user name that is unique to you.
• we store your Personal Information on secure servers.

Technical and organisational measures include measures to deal with any suspected data breach. If you suspect any misuse or loss or unauthorised access to your Personal Information, please let us know immediately by contacting us via email at hello@buzzyreads.com.

PERSONAL INFORMATION RETENTION

Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, we will only hold your Personal Information on our systems for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy policy or until you request that the Personal Information be deleted.

Even if we delete your Personal Information, it may persist on backup or archival media for legal, tax or regulatory purposes.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the following rights in relation to your Personal Information:

• Right to access – the right to request (i) copies of the information we hold about you at any time, or (ii) that we modify, update or delete such information. If we provide you with access to the information we hold about you, we will not charge you for this, unless your request is “manifestly unfounded or excessive.” Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request. If we refuse your request, we will tell you the reasons why.
• Right to correct – the right to have your Personal Information rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to erase – the right to request that we delete or remove your Personal Information from our systems.
• Right to restrict our use of your Personal Information – the right to “block” us from using your Personal Information or limit the way in which we can use it.
• Right to data portability – the right to request that we move, copy or transfer your Personal Information.
• Right to object – the right to object to our use of your Personal Information including where we use it for our legitimate interests.

To make enquiries, exercise any of your rights set out above, or withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Information (where consent is our legal basis for processing your Personal Information), please contact us via email at hello@buzzyreads.com.

It is important that the Personal Information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your Personal Information changes during the period for which we hold it.

CATEGORIES OF THIRD PARTIES WITH WHOM WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We are committed to maintaining your trust and we want you to understand when and with whom we may share Personal Information and information collected about you. We do not share your Personal Information with any third parties except as set forth herein.

We may disclose your Personal Information to outside individuals and/or companies that help us bring you the products and services we offer, assist us in advertising and marketing our products to you, and to create, operate, and maintain our Platform. For example, we may share your Personal Information with other companies or individuals in order to:

• manage a database of customer information;
• host our Platform
• distribute our marketing and other e-mails;
• provide payment processing;
• advertise our products to you;
• assist us with direct marketing and data collection;
• provide data storage
• provide data analysis;
• provide fraud prevention;
• provide order fulfillment and/or delivery services; and
• provide other services designed to assist us in developing and running our Platform and maximizing our business potential.

If we seek investors or go through a business transition, including but not limited to, a merger, acquisition by another company, or a sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information will likely be shared as part of the negotiation of the transaction pursuant to an adequate confidentiality agreement and will likely be among the assets transferred in the event of a sale or partial sale of our assets.

We may also disclose or share your Personal Information with other companies or individuals when legally required to do so, to cooperate with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings, to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of the Platform, to limit our legal liability and protect our rights or to protect the rights, property or safety of users of the Platform or the public.

Third parties may collect information via our Platform through cookies, third party plug-ins, widgets, and other technologies in order to:

• deliver our advertisements to you;
• deliver advertisements to you relating to other products and services that may be of interest to you;
• provide us with analytical information about your visit to our Platform; or
• provide us with analytical information about your interactions with our Platform.

DE-IDENTIFIED, ANONYMIZED, OR AGGREGATE DATA

We may generate and use de-identified, anonymized, or aggregate data for various purposes. Such data cannot reasonably be used to identify you. We will maintain and use this data only in a de-identified form and will not attempt to re-identify such data, except as permitted by applicable law.  It is measured anonymously and only in the aggregate. We use such data to maintain and administer the Site(s), analyze trends, gather demographic information and comply with applicable law. We may share this information with others without express notice to you or consent from you, and we may exploit, use and disclose this data without limitation of any kind.

TARGETED ADVERTISING AND REMARKETING

You may see advertisements for our products/services on other websites and mobile applications because we work with third party advertisers to engage in remarketing and retargeting activities. Through our relationships with these advertisers, we can target messaging to our users by interest-based, demographic, contextual, and other means. These third party advertisers track your online activities over time and across websites and mobile applications by collecting information through automated means, including through the use of third-party cookies, web server logs, and web beacons. They use this information to show you advertisements that may be tailored to your individual interests. The information our advertising partners may collect includes data about your visits to websites and mobile applications that participate in the relevant advertising networks, such as the pages or advertisements you view and the actions you take on the websites or apps. This data collection takes place both on our Platform and on third-party websites and mobile applications that participate in the advertising networks. This process also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. Some third-party advertising companies may be advertising networks that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which offer a single location to opt out of ad targeting from member companies (www.networkadvertising.org).

You may also opt-out of targeted advertising by logging into your account to update your preferences.

OTHER WEBSITES

Our Platform may contain links or references to websites operated by third parties, or you may have come to our Platform using a link found in another website. This does not mean that we endorse these websites or the goods or services they provide. We do not make any representations or warranties about any website that may be linked to the Platform. Such other websites are independent from us, and we have no control over, or responsibility for, their information, products or activities. Our privacy practices may differ from those of these other websites. If you provide Personal Information at one of these third party websites, you are subject to the privacy policy of the operator of that website, not our Privacy Policy. Please make sure you understand the other website's privacy policy before providing such website with any Personal Information.

If you use a third-party website or application to access our Platform or your account on our Platform, your activities on such third-party sites or apps are governed by the privacy practices of those sites or apps. The privacy policies of other sites and apps may differ significantly from ours, and we have no control over the operation of those sites or apps or the manner in which the collect, store, or process data.

YOUR CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION AND OPTING OUT

There are ways by which you can control how your Personal Information is used.

Tracking

You can set your browser to refuse some or all cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Please visit your specific browser’s instructions for doing this. The “Help” function on most browsers contains information on how you can set your browser to notify you before accepting cookies, or you can disable them entirely. If you opt out of cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of various features of the Platform that are available to other users. For example, we may use cookies to recognize you by name when you return to this site so you don’t have to login again and provide your password each time. If you use more than one browser, you will need to change each browser’s settings in order to refuse cookies.

Promotional Offers

If you do not wish to receive our email promotional offers, you may opt-out by checking the relevant box when we collect your information, logging into your account to update your preferences, or clicking on the “unsubscribe” link found in emails we send to you. Please allow up to ten (10) business days for changes to your email preferences to take effect. During that time, you may continue to receive email communications from us that were already in process. Opting out of receiving our communications will not affect your receipt of service-related communications, such as payment confirmations and delivery status updates, if we have a data breach, or other such communications for which we have a legal obligation to inform you and/or to prevent fraud or harm to our Platform, our business, and/or third parties

Advertising

If you do not want us to use Personal Information that we collect for us to deliver advertisements to you, you can opt-out of receiving such advertising by logging into your account to update your preferences.

You may opt out of Internet-based and mobile advertising on your mobile device by visiting TRUSTe’s Ad Preference Manager, currently available at https://preferences-mgr.truste.com/, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s consumer choice page, currently available at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt out tool currently available at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. 

If you opt-out of receiving advertising or when using the ad industry opt out tools described above, note that: (a) if you opt-out we may still collect some data about your online activity for operational purposes (such as fraud prevention), but it will not be used by us for the purpose of targeting ads to you; (b) if you use multiple browsers or devices you may need to execute this opt out on each browser or device; and (c) other ad companies’ opt-outs may function differently than our opt-out, and we have no control over the practices of any third-parties. If you use any of the third-party opt-out tools listed above, we do not make any representations or warranties about such opt-out services. Such services are independent from us, and we have no control over, or responsibility for their performance.

ANALYTICS

Our Platform uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, www.google.com (“Google Analytics” or “Google”). Google Analytics employs cookies that are stored to your computer in order to facilitate an analysis of your use of the site. The information generated by these cookies, such as time, place and frequency of your visits to our site, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google’s location in the US and stored there.

In using Google Analytics our website employs the extension “anonymizeIp”. In doing so, Google abbreviates and thereby anonymizes your IP address. Google uses this information to analyze your use of our Site, to compile reports for us on internet activity and to provide other services relating to our Platform. You may learn more about Google’s IP anonymization at the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en

Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law or where such third parties process this data on Google’s behalf. Google states that it will never associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can prevent cookies from being installed by adjusting the settings on your browser software accordingly as noted elsewhere in this Privacy Policy. You should be aware, however, that by doing so you may not be able to make full use of all the functions of our Platform.

Google Analytics also offers a deactivation add-on for most current browsers that provides you with more control over what data Google can collect on websites you access. The add-on tells the JavaScript (ga.js) used by Google Analytics not to transmit any information about website visits to Google Analytics. However, the browser deactivation add-on offered by Google Analytics does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analysis services we may engage.

Google Analytics also uses electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes called single pixel gifs) and are used along with cookies to compile aggregated statistics to analyze how our Platformare used. You can find additional information on how to install the browser add-on referenced above at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Our products and services also use Google Analytics and its associated tracking technologies to help display our ads you see on other sites, and to help us manage and optimize our online advertising efforts. To opt out of Google Analytics Advertising Features, visit https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en or you may access the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser Add-on, currently located at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

DISCLOSURE FOR LEGAL PURPOSES

You hereby authorize us to disclose any of your Personal Information pursuant to judicial and administrative proceedings and to law enforcement or government agencies if we are legally required to do so. You also authorize us to disclose Personal Information if we believe the disclosure is necessary or appropriate in the event of an investigation of improper or illegal conduct in connection with the Platform, such as fraud, misrepresentation, intellectual property infringement, or other activity that may put us at risk for liability.

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA CONSUMERS

The following applies to you only if you are a California resident.

Under California Civil Code sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to ask us for a notice describing what categories of Personal Information we share with third parties or corporate affiliates for those third parties or corporate affiliates' direct marketing purposes. That notice will identify the categories of information shared and will include a list of the third parties and affiliates with which it was shared, along with their names and addresses. At this time, we do not share any Personal Information with third parties or affiliates for their direct marketing purposes.

Please note the following:

• Users can visit the Platform anonymously without providing their Personal Information, but we may collect Personal Information, such as IP addresses, automatically through the use of cookies or other tracking technologies; 
• We will add a link to this Privacy Policy on our home page, or at a minimum, on the first significant page after entering the Platform;
• Our Privacy Policy link includes the word “Privacy” and can be easily be found on the page specified above;
• Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on our Privacy Policy page;
• Users are able to change their Personal Information by emailing us at hello@buzzyreads.com or updating their Personal Information in their online accounts with us;
• Some Internet browsers include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” signals that give you control over the collection and use of web browsing information. We do process such signals in users’ web browsers; and
• We allow the collection of users’ behavioral tracking by third parties for analytical purposes. We do not authorize the collection of Personal Information on the Platform by third parties, except for the collection of IP addresses which may be used for analytical purposes. 

CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION

We do not want you to send to us any confidential or proprietary information through email or otherwise. Any information, materials, suggestions, ideas or comments sent to us will be considered non-confidential, and by submitting the same to us, you are giving us the absolute right to use, modify, reproduce, transmit, display and distribute the information for any purpose whatsoever, with no payment or other compensation to you. However, we will not use your name unless we are required by law to identify the source of the materials, information, suggestions, ideas or comments, or unless we first obtain your permission.

ASSIGNMENT

We may freely assign this Privacy Policy or any of our rights and/or obligations hereunder to any successor.

CONTACT

If you have any questions about your privacy or security at the Platform, or wish to update your Personal Information, please send an email to hello@buzzyreads.com.