AALBC.com has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the African American Literature Book Club web site.

Information Collected by AALBC.com

AALBC.com collects information about users during their registration for our e-mail newsletter; their participation in certain activities on our web sites, including contests and polls; and through the use of cookies.  When users request pages from our server, our Web server automatically collects some information about the users, including their IP addresses.

Use of Information Collected by AALBC.com

AALBC.com will not sell, rent, or lease your personally identifiable information to others. Unless we have your permission or are required by law.  

AALBC.com uses users' IP addresses to gather broad demographic information about our visitors in general. This information does not contain anything that can identify individual users personally. We may combine demographic information supplied by a subscriber at registration with site usage data to provide profiles, in aggregate form, about our users and their preferences in the content of the site and advertising. We may share this composite information with our advertisers to help them better understand the nature of our web site.  Again, AALBC.com does not give advertisers information about individual visitors to AALBC.com

Our site uses cookies to deliver content specific to users' interests and to honor their preferences. This information is used to assist us in creating a site that will serve the needs of our users.

Public Forums

This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.  Please refer to our legal disclaimer for use of our discussion baords: http://thumperscorner.com/disclaimer.htm

Advertiser Information

Information provided by advertisers who participate in our advertising campaigns with not shared with only one other than those site belonging to that advertiser's campaign

AALBC.com can not be held responsible for hackers accessing statistics for any advertising campaigns, not can we be held responsible for data lost or corrupted for existing campaigns.

Security

Our site uses industry-standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of all information, regardless of whether it identifies you or not. Our security includes use of firewalls, secure socket layers, and encryption.

Choice/Opt-Out

The African American Literature Book Club utilizes Microsoft's bCentral service for distribution of our newsletter.  Users must register to receive this e-mail newsletter.  Registration for this newsletter is, of course optional.  When using the bCentral software it is not possible for us to add someone to our mailing list without their permission. 

AALBC.com does not send unsolicited emails.  All communication is done through our e-mail newsletter.

E-mail newsletter recipients may Opt-out, and discontinue receiving the newsletter by simply unsubscribing.  Once removed from the mailing list there will be no further e-mail newsletters or contact.  To unsubscribe, visit http://lb.bcentral.com/ex/manage/subscriberprefs.aspx

Third parties can not contact our users through the use of our e-mail newsletter list except through advertisements within the newsletters themselves.

No system is immune to hacking or breach.

AALBC.com will make every attempt to protect the security of the the personnel information we retain.  However breaches to our security or our outsourced partners is always a possibility, not ,matter how remote.  AALBC.com can not be held responsible for damages or lost data caused as a result.

Contacting the African American Literature Book Club

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact