Spoken Royalty

The Site Where Poets Live

THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES TO YOUR ACCESS AND USE OF THE SPOKEN ROYALTY SERVICES, INCLUDING USE OF ITS WEBSITE, AND OTHER ONLINE PROGRAMS OR FEATURES (“SPOKEN ROYALTY SERVICES”). BY DOWNLOADING OR USING ANY OF THE SPOKEN ROYALTY SERVICES, YOU ARE AGREEING THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY.  IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ANY PART OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, THEN PLEASE DO NOT USE ANY OF THE SPOKEN ROYALTY SERVICES.

Spoken Royalty collects information about you and Spoken Royalty may share that information with third parties in certain circumstances, so please read on for more details about how Spoken Royalty uses personal information it collects about you when you use the Spoken Royalty Services.

Spoken Royalty controls and operates its business and the Spoken Royalty Services from within the United States of America.  Our online privacy practices are governed by the laws of the United States and the State of Michigan, which may differ from privacy laws in your state or home country.  By submitting your personal information to us or our agents, through the use of the Spoken Royalty Services, you consent to the transfer of your personal information to any country and its use and disclosure in accordance with applicable U.S. Federal and State laws and with this Privacy Policy.

Spoken Royalty may change our Privacy Policy, so please check this page from time to time, as your continued use of the Spoken Royalty Services, after Spoken Royalty publish our changes, indicates your acceptance of any changed terms.

1.    What Kind Of Information Spoken Royalty Collects

Whether accessing the Spoken Royalty Services from your home computer or phone or tablet, Spoken Royalty and its agents may collect some information that identifies you or relates to you as an individual (“Personal Information”), such as your:

  • name;
  • mailing address;
  • telephone number;
  • e-mail address;
  • username and password (for account administration);
  • device ID, including IP address;
  • geolocation (if using a mobile application and you consent to providing it);
  • financial account information and other payment information (that you submit to us for order processing);
  • additional personal information necessary for the administration of certain promotional events; and
  • if you are applying for a franchise, date of birth, social security number, contact and employment information.

In addition, Spoken Royalty may collect other types of data elements (“Other Information”) that do not reveal your identity or that do not relate directly to you or any other individual, such as:

  • browser and device information, including operating system;
  • demographic information and other information provided by you that Spoken Royalty may combine with other users of the Spoken Royalty Services or use on its own;
  • usage data;
  • information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies described in more detail later in this Privacy Policy.

2.    How Spoken Royalty Uses The Personal Information Spoken Royalty Collects

Spoken Royalty may use Personal Information about you for purposes described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed to you through the Spoken Royalty Services.  For example, Spoken Royalty may use Personal Information to:

  • process and manage your purchase and use of our products and services;
  • respond to your inquiries or requests, and to post your comments or statements on message boards or in our online forums;
  • create and deliver personalized promotions, including by combining your Personal Information with Other Information, such as the amounts and types of purchases you make and benefits you receive;
  • further our business purposes, such as to perform data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, to enhance, improve or modify the Spoken Royalty Services, to identify usage trends, determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to operate and expand our business activities; and

3.    How Spoken Royalty May Disclose Personal Information Spoken Royalty Collects

Your privacy is very important to us.  Spoken Royalty generally won’t disclose your Personal Information to anyone outside of Spoken Royalty or its affiliates, except in the following circumstances.

Service Providers

Spoken Royalty may disclose your Personal Information to third-party service providers to provide us with services such as website hosting, professional services, including information technology services and related infrastructure, customer service, e-mail delivery, auditing and other similar services.

Affiliates

Spoken Royalty may disclose personal Information to our affiliates (“Affiliates”) for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including for marketing purposes, and to be consistent with our goal of providing our consumers with the superior product and consumer experience that our customers have come to expect from us around the globe.

To Perform Services You Request

Spoken Royalty may disclose your Personal Information to third parties in order to perform services you request or functions you initiate, such as when you post information and materials on message boards and forums.   When you post information in a public forum it becomes public information.  In addition, Spoken Royalty may disclose your Personal Information in order to identify you to anyone to whom you send communications through Spoken Royalty Services including through our gifting program.

Corporate Transactions or Events

Spoken Royalty may disclose your information to a third party in connection with a corporate reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock, including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings.

Other Legal Reasons

In addition, Spoken Royalty may use or disclose your Personal Information as Spoken Royalty may deem necessary or appropriate: (1) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (2) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (3) to comply with subpoenas and other legal processes; (4) to pursue available remedies or limit damages Spoken Royalty may sustain; (5) to protect our operations or those of any of our Affiliates; (6) to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of Spoken Royalty, our Affiliates, you and others; and (7) to enforce our terms and conditions.

4.    How Spoken Royalty May Use And Disclose Other Information Spoken Royalty Collects
Similarly, Spoken Royalty generally use Other Information for any purpose not prohibited by law. In particular, Spoken Royalty may collect, compile, store, publish, promote, report, sell, or otherwise disclose or use any and all Other Information, provided that such information does not personally identify you. The Other Information that Spoken Royalty collects generally will not personally identify you or be correlated to you individually for external purposes.

Where Spoken Royalty may combine Other Information with Personal Information in a way that can identify you or be used to identify you personally. Spoken Royalty will treat that information as Personal Information, subject to the provisions of this Privacy Policy.

5.    How To Manage Your Account Information

You can manage and correct any factual inaccuracies in the information the Spoken Royalty Services have on file about you.

6.    How Spoken Royalty Protects Your Personal Information
Spoken Royalty has implemented reasonable safeguards designed to prevent loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure or modification of Personal Information provided or collected through the Spoken Royalty Services.

Unfortunately, no system or online transmission of data can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and you should always take appropriate security measures to protect your Personal Information, including ensuring that you have up-to-date antivirus software.  If you believe that your Spoken Royalty account or any information you’ve provided to us is no longer secure, please notify us immediately.

7. Our Policy on Cookies and Interest-Based Advertising

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed in your computer browser directories to store your information about your use of the Spoken Royalty Services and your activities online (collectively, “Cookies”).  A Cookie will typically contain the name of the domain (internet location) from which the Cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the Cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

How Spoken Royalty Use Cookies

Spoken Royalty Services use Cookies so that Spoken Royalty can improve your online experience – for example, by remembering you when you come back to visit us, and making the content you see more relevant to you.

Online Advertising

Spoken Royalty Services may use Cookies and other technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons and clear GIF files (collectively, “Data Collection Technologies”) to help manage our online advertising program. These Data Collection Technologies may be provided by Spoken Royalty’s ad management partners and other third parties.

In addition, Spoken Royalty and its ad management partners may use these Data Collection Technologies to track the actions of users of the Spoken Royalty Services, to measure statistics of its marketing efforts, and to deliver advertisements on the Spoken Royalty Services that may be more relevant to individual consumers and that will improve the consumer experience with Spoken Royalty.

8.    Social Networking And Third Party Sites

When you link to the Spoken Royalty Services through any social networking or third party sites, applications or services, please remember that you are bound by the privacy policy of the social network or third-party site, application or service, and Spoken Royalty does not control and is not responsible for the privacy practices of such sites. You should consult the privacy policy of such sites to determine the information practices of those sites.

9.    Children’s Online Privacy

Spoken Royalty recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of children.  Spoken Royalty will not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. When a user discloses personal information with the Spoken Royalty Services, the user is representing to us that he or she is at least 13 years of age.

10.    International

This English-language Privacy Policy is Spoken Royalty official statement of its privacy practices. In case of any inconsistency between this English-language Privacy Policy and its translation into another language, this English-language document prevails.