Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Future modifications may have an impact on the personal data we store and the way we process it because the Services are constantly being improved. To reflect such modifications, adjustments to the legal framework, or advancements in our use of personal data, this Privacy Policy may be modified. You can get the most recent version of the Privacy Policy here. Please check back periodically to see if the Privacy Policy has been updated.

Your personal information is handled by AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC, a business located at 1985 Riviera Dr Ste 103-1097 Mount Pleasant, SC 29464. Send an email to support@audiobooksweb.com if you have any inquiries, requests, or comments regarding our policy. Together with the Terms and Conditions of Use, this Privacy Policy outlines how AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC and its subsidiaries ("AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC", "us", "we," or "our") handle any personal information you provide to us or that we collect about you when you access and use the AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC game service, mobile and device applications, or related websites ("Services"). Any information that allows us to directly or indirectly identify a person is considered personal data. Any member of our group, including our subsidiaries, our parent company, and its subsidiaries, is referred to as an affiliate.

Children under the age of 13 are not deliberately solicited for personal information or allowed to register for the Services by us. You are not allowed to use the Services if you are under the age of 13. You may visit, read, and utilize the information on the websites if you are 13 to 17 years old, but you must not register for an account or provide any personal information. If you are between the ages of 13 and 17, using or accessing the Services signifies that you have your parent's or legal guardian's consent to do so. If you are a parent or legal guardian and suspect that we may have unintentionally obtained personal information about your kid without your consent, please contact us right once by sending an email to support@audiobooksweb.com. We will swiftly erase any such information.

We gather the following kinds of personal information about you: (A) Details that you voluntarily give us. You give us information that we store when you sign up as a user for the Services and/or use the Services. This could consist of: the username and password you provided for the Services; your name; contact information (such as your address, phone number, and email address); your age; payment information provided to use the Services; user content (such as pictures, comments, and other materials) that you upload or otherwise post on the Services; metadata associated with such user content, which could consist of the date the content was created and its format; and your user profile information. We use this information to administer your account, provide the Services to you, and determine how much to pay the content owners in settlement. (c) Data on usage. When you use the Services, we gather and handle data about your usage, including your favorites, downloaded and played games, activity in AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC applications, the time of your login, the AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC client version you are using, and similar data. We also save a number that specifically identifies your portable device if you use it to access the Services. We utilize this information in order to I customize and/or personalize the Services for you; (ii) improve our services; and (iii) conduct marketing and advertising campaigns (as further described in Section 6 below). For our own analytical needs, we may also employ internal or outside analytics tools to track patterns in traffic and usage of the Services. These tools gather data from your device or the Services that helps us make improvements to the Services. This information is gathered and combined with analytics data from other users and visitors so that it cannot be used to reasonably identify any specific person. (c) Data from log files. Each time you request to view, access, or use the Services, your browser or device may automatically report this information. Our servers may automatically record certain log file information whenever you visit, access, or use the Services. This information may include the time of log-in, the AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC client version you may be using, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, the number of clicks and other actions you take when using links on the Services, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other similar information. The Device ID or other distinctive information for devices used to access the Services may also be logged by us. Similar data may also be gathered from emails we send to you, allowing us to monitor which emails are viewed and which links are clicked. In order to: I analyze how the Services are used; (ii) facilitate more accurate reporting; (iii) enhance the Services; and (iv) determine settlement with content owners. (d) Details from a survey. Unless otherwise stated, the information you submit in answer to surveys we send out will be anonymized, combined with the replies of other users, and utilized to improve the Services. In addition to the specific uses of information we list in this privacy statement, we may use your personal information to: I process payments for the use of the Services; (ii) make it easier for you to access your information and features of the Services; (iii) remember information so you won't have to enter it again when you visit or use the Services later; (iv) provide, improve, test, and monitor the effectiveness of our Services; and (v) develop and test new products. (e) Data gathered from outside sources. We might get data about you from third parties who might have gathered and sent us personal information about you in line with their own privacy policies and/or terms of service. Examples of such third parties include business partners, advertising networks, analytics providers, social media platforms like Facebook, and any telecommunications companies you may use to access the Services (for example through a bundled package). When we get such information from such third parties, we may combine it with the other personal information we have already obtained about you, as described above, and use it alone or in conjunction with that other information for the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Policy.

For the reasons described in this Privacy Policy, we may disclose your personal information to our affiliates that we rely on to deliver the Services. With the exception of our affiliates, we will not disclose your personal information to other parties: When you have granted us permission to share such personal data, in (a). For instance, this might have something to do with Facebook or other outside parties. We may provide such third parties with aggregated, anonymized data gathered about you and other users of the Services, but we do not share such personal data with them for marketing purposes unless you have expressly authorized us to do so. (B) We communicate with the billing provider to facilitate billing when it is essential for billing purposes. Your billing and payment information is maintained by the billing provider, not by AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC, and is occasionally processed in line with the billing provider's own Privacy Policy. ( (c) whenever we hire other parties to carry out tasks for us in connection with the Services. In such circumstances, we will continue to be in charge of your personal information and make sure that all processing of it complies with this Privacy Policy and all relevant legal requirements. (d) if we are forced to do so in order to: - I enforce or implement this Privacy Policy or our Terms and Conditions of Use; - (ii) defend the rights, property, or safety of AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC, our clients, or others; - (iii) comply with any legal obligation. This involves exchanging data with other organizations for the prevention of fraud and the mitigation of credit risk (you expressly consent to our collecting and sharing such information for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.) (e) if we sell or acquire any businesses or assets; in this situation, we may give the potential buyer or seller of those businesses or assets access to your personal information. (f) If we, or a significant portion of our assets, are purchased by a third party, personal information about our users that we have on file will be one of the transferred assets. (g) with other rights holders whose content has been granted to us under a license. Unless you choose to consent to the sharing of your personal information, the data that AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC shares with the rights holders is in a de-identified format and does not directly identify you. (h) If you dispute or protest any of our charges, we may disclose your personal information with your financial institution or credit card company to assist you in trying to settle the dispute. I Where you have given your express consent, we may share specific information with third party advertising partners, such as cookie data (e.g., the total number of times a game has been played by users), in order to (a) enable third party ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you; and (b) send you targeted emails and other communications about such advertisers, their goods or services, and/or PI. We might take out information that could be used to identify you and share anonymized information with other parties. We may also combine your information with other information so that it can no longer be used to identify you, and we may share that aggregated, anonymized information with third parties. This information may include demographic data, such as the number of users who fall into a given age group, the general locations of user groups for purposes of, for example, determining who might be interested in attending a AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC event, and similar anonymized data. Some of our affiliates and/or third parties might be based in nations outside the European Economic Area with weak data protection regulations. Before disclosing your personal information to such affiliates or third parties (as appropriate), we will take any contractual or other reasonable measures necessary to ensure that they will treat it securely and in line with this Privacy Policy. We will never sell your personal information to other parties or give them access to use it for their own purposes, unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy.

In accordance with your preferences, this Privacy Policy, and any applicable laws, if you have given us your phone number or email address, we will use your information to contact you regarding the Services. These records include payment receipts, details of modifications to the Services, modifications to the end user agreement, and this Privacy Policy. We won't employ this data to send you information about services offered by third parties. You might not be able to unsubscribe from some crucial email communications (e.g., account verification, payment receipts, technical and security notices).

If you have chosen to receive this information, we may send you information about our goods, services, and events that we think you might find interesting, such as news about upcoming articles, bios of the artists, and/or copies of our newsletter. Unless you have specifically mentioned that you would be interested in getting information about third party services, we will not email you about them (although a particular AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC event may involve third party sponsors). By clicking the "unsubscribe link" included in such communications, you may always opt out of receiving future emails from the sender.

When you visit a website again, AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC and its partners can identify your device thanks to cookies, which are little files that are stored on your device. Cookies help us provide log-in capabilities, remember user preferences, and analyze how visitors use our websites. Both transient ("session") and permanent cookies are used by us. We employ the subsequent cookies: - Compulsorily required cookies. These are cookies that are necessary for our website to function. for instance, cookies that allow you to sign into our website's secure areas. - Performance and analytical cookies. These enable us to identify and tally the number of users as well as track user behavior on our website. This aids in enhancing the functionality of our website by, for instance, ensuring that people can quickly locate what they're looking for. - Cookies for functionality. When you visit our website again, these are used to identify you. Because of this, we are able to tailor our material for you, address you by name, and keep track of your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region). - Cookie targeting. These cookies keep track of when you visit our website, which pages you view, and which links you click. By utilizing this data, we can better tailor our website and the advertising that appears there to your preferences. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose where you have given your express approval, as described in Section 4 above (i). You may remove cookies from your browser at any time, and you can prevent cookies from being set by turning on the browser setting that enables you to refuse the setting of all or certain cookies. However, you might not be able to access all or portions of our site if you modify your browser's settings to reject all cookies (including necessary cookies).

In addition to our products, cookies are also used by Google products, as explained below. Google Analytics: To generate anonymous usage statistics, we employ Google Analytics from Google (Google Inc., US) on our web pages. Please be aware that if you have concerns about how Google Analytics is being used, you can disable it by adding a plug-in to your browser. Here is a plug-in for the most popular browsers: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout To learn how Google handles your personal data, please refer to its privacy statement. Visit this link to learn more about Google Analytics: https://analytics.google.com We utilize Google Ads (also known as Google Adwords) from Google (Google Inc., US) for advertising. Visit the Google Ads Policy page at https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads to learn more about Google Ads.

We might provide links to external websites. AUDIO BOOKS WEB LLC has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the privacy practices or content of third parties. To learn how a third party uses your personal information, please refer to the privacy statement on the third party website. We take the proper organizational and technical precautions to safeguard your personal information from unauthorized or unlawful processing as well as unintentional loss, destruction, or damage. Your personal information is safely kept on secured hardware. This technology is only accessible to a select group of employees, and anyone who needs access to your personal information must have a valid cause. Unfortunately, there are security gaps in the way that personal information is transmitted through the internet. While we will make every effort to secure your personal data by using the necessary security measures, we cannot ensure its security when sent to us over the internet. You acknowledge that any such transmission of your personal data is done at your own risk.

Your personal information will only be kept by us for as long as is required to fulfill the objectives for which it was originally acquired. When it is no longer required for us to keep such data, it will be erased, rendered anonymous permanently, or access to it will be restricted to the extent that applicable legal data retention obligations call for it.

In order to determine the scope of the misuse and who is responsible, we may combine the personal data we have obtained in line with this Privacy Policy with additional data if we suspect that the Services are being abused. Our policy is to always comply with applicable data protection laws and regulations. We will always treat personal data as described in this privacy statement. Please feel free to get in touch with us, for example by sending an email to support@audiobooksweb.com, if you have inquiries about your personal data that we hold, including a request for access, rectification, or deletion, or you object to particular uses.