Privacy Policy
Welcome to Stellar Tome! This Privacy Policy explains how Stellar Tome ("we", "us", or "our"), located at 33 Wilson Street, New York, New York, 11249, USA, collects, uses, and discloses information about you when you visit our website, make a purchase, or interact with our services. We are committed to protecting your personal data and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this policy or our practices regarding your personal information, please contact us at [email protected] or call us at +12742774504.
What Information Do We Collect?
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when you participate in activities on our site (such as ordering books, registering for author readings or literary events, or subscribing to our newsletter), or otherwise when you contact us.
Personal Information Provided by You:
- Contact Data: Your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and similar contact data.
- Transaction Data: Details about purchases and other transactions you make through our online platform, including payment information (note: we do not store full payment card details; these are handled by secure third-party payment processors).
- Profile Data: If you create an account with us, your username, password, order history, and preferences.
- Interaction Data: Information you provide when you sign up for author readings, literary events, or coffee lounge reservations. This might include dietary preferences if relevant for an event, or special requests.
- Reviews and Communications: Content of communications, feedback, product reviews, and testimonials you submit on our site.
Information Collected Automatically:
When you visit, use, or navigate our online platform, we automatically collect certain information. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our site, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our site, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
- Log and Usage Data: Server log files and information collected automatically when you access or use our site.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies: We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Policy.
How Do We Use Your Information?
We use personal information collected via our online platform for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
- To facilitate account creation and logon process: If you choose to link your account with us to a third-party account (such as your Google or Facebook account), we use the information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation and logon process for the performance of the contract.
- To fulfill and manage your orders: We may use your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through our site.
- To deliver and facilitate services to the user: We may use your information to provide you with the requested service, such as confirming your registration for an author reading or a literary event, or reserving a spot in our coffee and reading lounge.
- To respond to your inquiries and offer support: We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our services.
- To send you marketing and promotional communications: We and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time.
- To send administrative information to you: We may use your information to send you product, service, and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
- To request feedback: We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our site.
- To protect our site: We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
- To enforce our terms, conditions, and policies: For business purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with our contract.
- To deliver targeted advertising to you: We may use your information to develop and display personalized content and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.
Will Your Information Be Shared With Anyone?
We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations. We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal bases:
- Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
- Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
- Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
- Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
- Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:
- Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing efforts.
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy.
Do We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Policy.
How Long Do We Keep Your Information?
We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). When we no longer have an ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information.
What Are Your Privacy Rights?
In some regions (like the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK, and California), you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. These rights may include:
- The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- The right to withdraw consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected] or write to us at our business address at 33 Wilson Street, New York, New York, 11249, USA. We will respond to your request within one month.
Account Information:
If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can log in to your account settings and update your user account. Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use, and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.
Opting out of email marketing:
You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below. You will then be removed from the marketing email list — however, we may still communicate with you, for example, to send you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.
Do We Make Updates to This Policy?
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
How Can You Contact Us About This Policy?
If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at [email protected] or by post to:
Stellar Tome
33 Wilson Street
New York, New York, 11249
USA
How Can You Review, Update, or Delete the Data We Collect From You?
Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please visit: [email protected].