Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY
Thirdworldpressinc.com (\"Site,\" \"us,\"or \"we\") is maintained by Third World Press, 7822 S. Dobson Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60619.We can be reached by e-mail at twpress3@aol.com.

This Privacy Policy became effective on September 17, 2008. Third World Press. (\"TWP\"), respects your privacy and will do our best to maintain your trust. This Privacy Policy identifies how the personal information you provide to us is collected, used and protected when you visit this site. By using The TWP site, you agree with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use.

WEBSITE COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal information is defined as information you actively submit to the TWP site. This “personal information” may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, account number, and credit card information. You may be asked to provide this information when you register to create an account, place an order with, or contact the TWP site with a question or comment. We use this information to fulfill your orders for books and related merchandise, to provide customer support, and to communicate with you.

Except as described below, TWP will not disclose your personal information to third parties who are not our affiliates without your consent. We do not sell or exchange customer lists or customer information for marketing purposes with unaffiliated third parties, without your expressed permission. We may, however, share personal information described above with our affiliates for business or marketing purposes. When completing the registration process you will be asked if you wish to receive emails from us pertaining to your order and other information about TWP such as sales and events. Both options will be selected for you, however you can choose to opt out.

YOUR CHOICES
This Policy provides information regarding your choices to Opt-out when your Personal Information is used for various promotional and marketing purposes by Third World Press, the Site, its corporate affiliates, and/or unaffiliated third party. For example, for Third World Press, the Site or our corporate affiliates\' use of your Personal Information for marketing and promotional purposes, we provide you with the right to Opt-out. You may opt-out by following the opt-out instructions in the footer of any e-mail you receive or if applicable by clicking the Opt-Out boxes that may be included on the registration area for the particular activity at issue. Alternatively, you may opt-out by notifying the Site\'s Privacy Administrator at 3rdworldpress@gmail.com.

On occasion, we may contact you to provide you with information about programs and services that may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive these promotional communications from us, let us know by following the Opt-out instructions in the footer of any e-mail you receive.

For any Third World Press division or feature, if you choose to opt-out of receiving promotional communications, we will continue to send you important service-related communications, including follow-up messages regarding your purchases, sweepstakes or contests, or other transactions you have undertaken, such as order confirmation.

We may also share all of the personal information we collect, described above, for business purposes with companies and individuals who provide servicing, administrative, marketing, and other services for us, or on our behalf. Companies we hire to provide such services are permitted, by contract only, to use your information for the sole purpose of performing the specific services we have requested of them.

Third World Press may disclose personal information to government and regulatory authorities as permitted or required by applicable law, to enforce or apply the terms of any of our policies or user agreements, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the TWP site, our users, or others.

GENERAL PRIVACY GUIDELINES This Site is operated in the United States and is governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of the United States. All users of the Site are required to provide true, current, complete and accurate Personal Information when prompted. Any entry that we believe, in good faith, to be false, fraudulent, or inconsistent with this Privacy Policy, will be rejected and deleted.

We also may disclose your Personal Information to comply with court orders or subpoenas or when required to do so by law. We may also disclose such data in cooperation with a law enforcement or government request or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Use Agreement, or to comply with legal or regulatory obligations. In addition, we may transfer information to a third party in the event of corporate restructuring (e.g., a sale, merger or other transfer of assets). Finally, we may share Personal Information with unrelated third parties (for example, our promotional partners) for their own direct marketing purposes. In such instances, you will have the opportunity to opt-out as described in the Section entitled: Data Sharing With Third Parties.

Your continued participation on this Site indicates your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and of the collection, use, disclosure, management and storage of your Personal Information as described herein.

We may from time to time, transfer or merge any Personal Information collected off-line to our online databases or store off-line information in an electronic format. We may also combine Personal Information we collect online with information available from other sources, including information received from marketing companies. This Privacy Policy covers all such Personal Information and will remain in full force and effect as long as you are a user of the Site or a participant in Third World Press activities.

Users should be reminded that any Personal Information that is voluntarily posted by a user to a public area of this Site (for example, a posting to a discussion board or to the Reader Comments area) may always be collected and used by others. We cannot prevent such uses.

We will not sell, exchange, rent, lease or otherwise disclose your Personal Information to any persons that are not associated or affiliated with Third World Press unless it is necessary to: 1) conform to regulatory and legal requirements or to comply with legal process; 2) to protect the safety and security of our users, employees, or property; 3) to defend the rights of the Site or Third World Press, or 4) to enforce the Terms of Use Agreement.

COOKIES
To enhance your experience with our Site, many of our Web pages use \"cookies.\" Cookies are text files we place in your computer\'s browser to store your preferences. We use cookies to understand Site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our Site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our Web pages. This Site also uses cookies to facilitate the checkout process at Thirdworldpressinc.com. If you choose to change your browser preferences to disable cookies, you will still be able to make a purchase at Thirdworldpressinc.com. However, you will have to re-enter your purchasing information each time you return to the store to make a purchase.

CHANGING/REVIEWING YOUR INFORMATION OR NEWSLETTER OPTIONS

Thirdworldpressinc.com Accounts
If you would like to review the Personal Information that we have collected from you online in connection with your purchases from Thirdworldpressinc.com, log back into your user account to review or make changes to your Personal Information at any time.

Newsletters
To subscribe or unsubscribe to our Newsletters, visitors should follow the specific directions provided for Newsletters on the Site. You must use this method to notify us of changes in your account options, as we cannot guarantee that other methods of notification will be effective.

SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
In connection with your purchases, the Site may request additional Personal Information such as full name, billing and shipping address, e-mail address and telephone number and any such information that is required to fulfill your order and to communicate with you regarding your order. We may use your Personal Information, (but not your credit card or debit card number) to contact you about future products, services and discounts from Third World Press or to provide such information indirectly from third parties such as promotional partners, unless you tell us otherwise (\"Opt-out\"). We will only use your credit card [and debit card] number to complete the specific transaction you requested.

Please remember that no data transmission over the Internet, or by other means, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Thus, while we strive to protect your personal data, Third World Press cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. Our third party operational service provider uses a secured connection for the collection of payment information, but we do not use a secured connection for other types of activities. Therefore, by participating on this site it is understood, acknowledged, and agreed that you transmit certain Personal Information over this Site at your own risk.

Once we receive your data, we use reasonable efforts to ensure the information you provide is secure and not readily available to unauthorized individuals or third parties.

AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATION
The Third World Press web servers automatically collect anonymous information about a visitor’s IP address, browser type and referrer by reading this information from your browser. This information is collected in a database and is used to help us recognize you each time you return to our site. This information is automatically logged by most websites.

LINKS
We are not responsible for the data collection practices of any sites linked to Thirdworldpressinc.com nor does our linking to third party websites or services constitute sponsorship or endorsement of the content or business practices on these sites. When visiting linked sites, you should refer to each such site\'s individual privacy policy. By use of this Site, you have agreed that you will use the hyperlinks to third party sites at your own risk.

CHAT ROOMS, MESSAGE BOARDS AND PUBLIC AREAS
For your enjoyment and entertainment, this Site offers user interactive activities such as chat rooms and message boards (\"Public Areas\"). We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to save and archive any content of any nature posted to the Site and that we may, without liability to any user: 1) disclose such content if required to do so by law or to comply with legal processes; 2) to respond to claims that any of the content violates the property, privacy, publicity or other rights of others; or 3) to protect the rights, property or safety of the Site, Third World Press, its employees, users and members of the public. For more information on this Site\'s rules of conduct, please see our Terms of Use Agreement.

OFF-LINE COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Third World Press also collects and uses Personal Information by other means, via telephone, direct mail, and direct from members of the public. The various uses of such Personal Information include, but are not limited to, contests & sweepstakes, rebate offers, job applications, customer complaints, and operational and business purposes.

Except for contests & sweepstakes entries, rebate request forms or other special features/events registrations, we do not ordinarily use your Personal Information collected off-line for promotional and marketing purposes, nor do we share it with unaffiliated or unassociated third parties for promotional or marketing purposes. If Personal Information collected off-line will be used by Third World Press, its parent company, corporate affiliates, or for promotional and marketing purposes, in most cases you will have the opportunity to Opt-out of such use. For certain promotions and activities, you may have an opportunity to Opt-in to our use of your Personal Information for promotional purposes; such rights will be provided to you in writing at that time.

SECURE SITE
The security of the information regarding your order is very important to us. We use the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol to protect the security of your on-line order information. SSL technology encrypts your order information to protect it from being decoded by anyone other than the site. Once you enter the checkout page your computer will begin communicating with our server in secure mode. You can tell that you are in secure mode by the following:

The \"http\" in the web address will be replaced by \"https\", indicating that you\'ve reached a secure area of the website.

CHANGES TO OUR POLICY
We may revise this policy at any time by updating this posting without advance notice to you. Such revisions shall be effective to you immediately upon posting. Therefore, we encourage you to visit our website to review this Privacy Policy often. When we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post a notice on the webpage highlighting that a revised Privacy Policy has been posted.

CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have questions or comments about our privacy policy or our practices, you may contact us by e-mail at Privacy Administrator at 3rdworldpress@gmail.com.