Bottom Line (TL;DR): We value your privacy! AALBC.com operates without ANY 3rd-party tracking cookies—this is exceedingly rare today. When you create an account with us, we DO NOT share your credentials with anyone. We won’t even add you to our eNewsletter unless you explicitly sign up for it. When you delete your account, everything is deleted—permanently.
African American Literature Book Club (AALBC.com) created this Privacy Statement to affirm our strong commitment to protecting your privacy. The following discloses our information-gathering and dissemination practices for the AALBC website. In most cases, visitors can opt out of having personally identifiable information collected or use an avatar and screen name that hides their real identity.
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 website (including contests and polls), and through the use of strictly functional cookies.
When visitors view pages on our site, our web server (like all web servers) automatically collects some standard information about the visitors, including their IP addresses and the pages they visit.
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 explicit permission or are required to do so by law.
AALBC.com no longer uses tools like Google Analytics to gather demographic data about you. We maintain our own server and collect this data internally. This information does not contain anything that can identify individual users personally. We may share broad composite information—like the percentage of visitors from a specific geographic region—with our advertisers to help them better understand the nature of our website. Again, AALBC.com does not give advertisers information about individual visitors.
Our site only uses functional cookies. If you create an account on our website, cookies allow us to maintain your login as you go from page to page, better serve your interests, and honor your preferences. We make no attempt to track you once you leave our website, and we do not use any code that allows other sites to follow you once you enter our site.
Public Forums
This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information 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 the use of our discussion boards.
Advertiser Information
Information provided by advertisers who participate in our advertising campaigns will not be shared with anyone other than those directly involved in the advertiser’s campaign. Advertisers will never be provided with the personally identifiable information of an AALBC.com visitor (we NEVER share or “rent out” our mailing lists).
AALBC.com maintains its own advertising platform. Here too, no 3rd party has access to your data.
Interest-Based Advertising
Our goal is to deliver advertising that we sell directly and that is tailored to readers of Black literature. We do not deliver “interest-based” or “online behavioral” advertising—which is typically enabled through various tracking technologies, including browser cookies and mobile advertising identifiers. As a result, it is completely unnecessary for us to ask you to opt-out or manage cookies on our site 🙂
eNewsletter
Information collected from subscribers to our eNewsletter falls under AALBC.com's general rules for the “Use of Information Collected by AALBC.com” described above. Again, we will not sell, rent, or lease your name, email address, or any other personal information.
We make aggregate demographic information publicly available at aalbc.com/aalbcdemographics.htm. Information provided in this report cannot be tied to any individual visitor.
Choice/Opt-Out
AALBC utilizes Mailchimp to distribute our electronic newsletter. Users must register to receive this e-mail newsletter, and registration is entirely optional. While Mailchimp’s software technically makes it possible for us to add someone to our mailing list without their permission, WE DO NOT add users to our eNewsletter mailing list without prior approval.
AALBC.com does not send unsolicited emails. All direct, mass communication to our visitors is done exclusively through our e-mail newsletter. We DO NOT allow other entities to use our mailing list.
E-mail newsletter recipients may opt out and discontinue receiving the newsletter at any time by simply clicking the unsubscribe link.
Third parties cannot contact our users through the use of our e-mail newsletter list, except through the sponsored advertisements within the newsletters themselves. AALBC.com cannot be held liable for Mailchimp’s security breaches or hacking.
Security
Our site uses industry-standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of all information, regardless of whether it identifies you or not. Our security measures include the use of firewalls, secure socket layers (SSL), and encryption.
No system is immune to hacking or breaches.
AALBC.com makes every attempt to protect the security of the personal information we collect. However, breaches to our security or our outsourced partners are always a possibility. AALBC.com cannot be held responsible for damages or lost data caused as a result of such breaches.
Contact AALBC.com
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can contact us at:
AALBC.com, LLC15310 Amberly Dr Ste 250
Tampa, FL 33647
Office: (347) 692-2522
Email: troy@aalbc.com
