DreamHouse Publishing Book Club Privacy Policy

DreamHousePublishing.com is a Book Club that allows members to create profiles that can be linked together through networks of colleagues, friends and individuals who share common interests. DreamHousePublishing.com members can view each others' profiles, communicate with others in their network, learn about various areas of business and personal development, post comments and questions, recommend books and resources and learn from some of the top professionals in their field. To accomplish this and make the Book Club as rewarding as possible, we display some requested personal information to other members and visitors, which allows our users to identify one another plus expand their network of colleagues. DreamHousePublishing.com members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the service communicates with them.

Information Collection and Use
DreamHousePublishing.com collects member-submitted information such as email address, telephone number, name, mailing address, occupation, gender and age to authenticate users and to send notifications to those users relating to the DreamHousePublishing.com service. DreamHousePublishing.com also collects and displays personal profile data including but not limited to: professional and personal interests plus books recommended. This is done to assist users in finding and communicating with each other. DreamHousePublishing.com does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under the age of 18, do not send any personal information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number or email address. In the event we learn that we have collected personal information from anyone under the age of 18, DreamHousePublishing.com reserves the right to delete that information as quickly as possible.

In order to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services, DreamHousePublishing.com logs non-personally-identifiable information. This includes IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.

User Profile information including members' pictures and first names are displayed to people to facilitate user interaction in the DreamHousePublishing.com Book Club. Email addresses may be used for the purposes of to add users to members' colleagues' networks, to send notifications related to the service and inviting new colleagues to join DreamHousePublishing.com Book Club. Users within a personal network communicate on DreamHousePublishing.com with each other through DreamHousePublishing.com, without disclosing their email addresses. To facilitate searching and finding colleagues and acquaintances on the service, DreamHousePublishing.com allows users to search for other members using recommended books, areas of common interest, first and last name, email address and occupation. Email address may also be used to send news or updates about the Book Club. Users may choose not to receive email of this type by changing their "notification" setting to "Do not send me notification emails" in the user "Account Settings."

DreamHousePublishing.com or a partner may sponsor a special event, promotion, sweepstake or contest on DreamHousePublishing.com. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.

DreamHousePublishing.com members can invite others to join the service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. Recipients of invitations from DreamHousePublishing.com may contact DreamHousePublishing.com to request the removal of their information from our database. You may prevent DreamHousePublishing.com email invitations and other messages from being sent to any email address you control by sending a single email with the subject "No Email" to privacy@DreamHousePublishing.com. Please note that the email must come from the account you wish to block.

Use of Cookies
DreamHousePublishing.com uses session cookies (pieces of data stored on a user’s computer tied to information about the user) to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. DreamHousePublishing.com also uses a persistent cookie that stores a member’s login ID (but not password). We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You must enable cookies from DreamHousePublishing.com in order to use most functions on the site. Please note that DreamHousePublishing.com allows 3rd party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer. Advertisers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the DreamHousePublishing.com Privacy Policy.

Advertising
Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by DreamHousePublishing.com or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on. This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by DreamHousePublishing.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Links
DreamHousePublishing.com contains links to other sites. DreamHousePublishing.com is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy applies only to information collected on DreamHousePublishing.com.

Postings Within the Community
Whenever you voluntarily post public information to Book Recommendations (My Book Shelve), Message Boards, or any Public Forums that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.

Updating, Removing or Correcting Information
DreamHousePublishing.com members may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info. A member who wishes to deactivate his or her DreamHousePublishing.com account may do so by sending an email to remove@DreamHousePublishing.com and specifying his or her request for removal in the email. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not generally be available to members of DreamHousePublishing.com.

Email Opt-in/Opt-out
Members who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications may choose not to by selecting 'Do not send me notification emails' in the user profile 'Account Settings'. All notification emails also include the above instructions for opting-out of those communications in the future.

Security
DreamHousePublishing.com Book Club member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. DreamHousePublishing.com takes precautions to insure that member account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, DreamHousePublishing.com will not disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by DreamHousePublishing.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the DreamHousePublishing.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our rights; (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service; or (4) to facilitate the service that DreamHousePublishing.com provides. DreamHousePublishing.com reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of DreamHousePublishing.com Book Club or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest. For more information see the "Changes in Our Privacy Policy" section below.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy. If we make changes, we will post them on our site to make users aware of what the changes are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A User is bound by any changes to the policy when she or he uses the site after those changes have been posted. Refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless otherwise stated, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Contacting the Web Site
For questions concerning this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@DreamHousePublishing.com.