Privacy and Referrals

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Protecting your private  information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to  www.berlinica.com and Berlinica Publishing LLC and governs data  collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless  otherwise noted, all references to Berlinica Publishing LLC include  www.berlinica.com and Berlinica. The Berlinica website is a Publishing  Company site. By using the Berlinica website, you consent to the data  practices described in this statement. 

Collection of your Personal Information
We  do not collect any personal information about you unless you  voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide  certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain  products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a)  registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or  contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for  special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email  message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information  when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit,  we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with  you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us.  We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in  the future. 

Sharing Information with Third Parties
Berlinica does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. 
Berlinica  may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business  partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In  those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail,  name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.  Berlinica may share data with trusted partners to help perform  statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer  support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are  prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these  services to Berlinica, and they are required to maintain the  confidentiality of your information. 
Berlinica may disclose your  personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in  the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to  the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Berlinica  or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Berlinica;  and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal  safety of users of Berlinica, or the public.

Affiliates:

We  are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an  affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn  fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. If you buy a book  by clicking on a link served by Amazon, Berlinica will receive a  referral fee.

Likewise, we are also a participant in the  Indiebound affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for  us to earn fees by linking to independent bookstores. If you buy a book  by clicking on a link served by Indiebound, Berlinica will receive a  referral fee. Indiebound is a subsidiary of the American Booksellers  Association. We strongly encourage readers to buy from independent book  stores.

We are looking forward to Barnes&Noble developing a stable affiliate program that does not require a degree in IT. 

We  are also a participant in the affiliate advertising programs  of Zazzle.com and Cafepress.com designed to provide a means for us to  earn fees by linking to merchandise stores that sell Berlinica-related  merchandise.  If you buy a T-shirt or any other item by clicking on a  link served by Zazzle or Cafepress, Berlinica will receive a referral  fee.

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Automatically Collected Information
Information  about your computer hardware and software may be automatically  collected by Berlinica. This information can include: your IP address,  browser type, domain names, access times and referring website  addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to  maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics  regarding use of the Berlinica website. 

Links
This  website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not  responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We  encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read  the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally  identifiable information. 

Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will: 
•     Delete your personal information from our records; and 
•     Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to: 
•     Complete  the transaction for which the personal information was collected,  fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in  accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you,  or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business  relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and  us; 
•     Detect security incidents, protect against malicious,  deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those  responsible for that activity; 
•     Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality; 
•     Exercise  free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or  her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by  law; 
•     Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act; 
•     Engage  in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical  research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable  ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely  to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such  research, provided we have obtained your informed consent; 
•     Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us; 
•     Comply with an existing legal obligation; or 
•      Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful  manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the  information. 

Children Under Thirteen
Berlinica  does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from  children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of  thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use  this website. 

Disconnecting your Berlinica Account from Third Party Websites
You  will be able to connect your Berlinica account to third party accounts.  BY CONNECTING YOUR BERLINICA ACCOUNT TO YOUR THIRD PARTY ACCOUNT, YOU  ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THE CONTINUOUS RELEASE  OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU TO OTHERS (IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR PRIVACY  SETTINGS ON THOSE THIRD PARTY SITES). IF YOU DO NOT WANT INFORMATION  ABOUT YOU, INCLUDING PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION, TO BE SHARED IN  THIS MANNER, DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE. You may disconnect your account  from a third party account at any time by signing out of Facebook or  Twitter before entering either website through Berlinica.com

E-mail Communications
From  time to time, Berlinica may contact you via email for the purpose of  providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations,  surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our  Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from  Berlinica or click on a link therein. 
If you would like to stop  receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from  Berlinica, you may opt out of such communications by click unsubscribe. 

Changes to this Statement
Berlinica  reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We  will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal  information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified  in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by  updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the  Site and/or Services available through this Site after such  modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified  Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy. 

Effective as of November 1, 2020