Red Clover Reader’s Privacy Statement

Effective Date: June 1, 2019


Welcome to ReadClover

Red Clover Reader is committed to respecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal data, traffic data and communications content.

Red Clover Reader, Inc, organized under the laws of the state of Delaware, having its registered office in Champaign, IL, is collecting and processing your personal information under this Privacy Statement.

This Privacy Statement is designed to assist you in understanding how Red Clover Reader uses and safeguards the information you provide in using Red Clover Reader’s services.

Table of Contents:

    1. What Information Does Red Clover Reader Collect?
        1.1 Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Compliance
    2. How Does Red Clover Reader Use This Information And For What Purpose?
    3. To Whom Does Red Clover Reader Transfer Your Personal Information?
    4. What Are Cookies And Gifs? How Does Red Clover Reader Use Them?
        4.1 Clear Gifs
        4.2 Third Party Cookies
    5. Your User Profile
    6. Linked Websites And Third Party Applications
    7. How Does Red Clover Reader Protect Your Personal Information?
    8. Personal Data Of Friends
    9. Contacting You
    10. Can This Privacy Statement Be Modified?
    11. What Rights Do You Have And How Can You Contact Red Clover Reader?
    12. How Long Is Your Personal Data Kept By Red Clover Reader?


1. What Information Does Red Clover Reader Collect?

Red Clover Reader may gather and process information about you, including (but not limited to) information in the following categories:
(a) Identification data (e.g. name, address, telephone, email address);
(b) Profile information (any information that you choose to make a part of your Red Clover Reader user profile such as a list of contacts, bookshelves, etc.);
(c) Electronic identification data (e.g. IP addresses, cookies);
(d) Banking and payment information (credit card information, account number);
(e) Survey results and information about your usage of Red Clover Reader;
(f) Products or services ordered through Red Clover Reader or its affiliates;
(g) Correspondence between you and Red Clover Reader; and
(h) Traffic data (data processed for the purpose of the conveyance of the Service)

Red Clover Reader does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13). If you are under 13 years of age, you may only visit this site with your parents or guardians and you may not send any information about yourself to Red Clover Reader. If you are a parent or guardian that has become aware that your child has provided Red Clover Reader with personal information, then please contact Red Clover Reader via e-mail at contact@redcloverreader.com, and Red Clover Reader will purge such information from its files. If Red Clover Reader itself becomes aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will purge such information from its files.

 

1.1 Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Compliance

Parents may provide personal information for children under the age of thirteen (13). Red Clover Reader collects only the information necessary to participate in the service. This Privacy Policy governs the type of information collected, its use, and its disclosure. The parent can agree to the collection of information without agreeing to the disclosure of that information to third parties. The parent can view the information and request that it be deleted by contacting contact@redcloverreader.com and providing the following information: (1) Email Subject Title: COPPA Deletion Request; (2) specific identification of the information; and (3) a statement requesting that which is to be deleted.

 


2. How Does Red Clover Reader Use This Information And For What Purpose?

Our primary purpose in collecting information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Red Clover Reader collects and processes, or has third party service providers acting on Red Clover Reader’s behalf collecting and processing, personal data relating to you, as permitted or necessary to:

  1. provide you with the Red Clover Reader service, in particular to convey the communications you make by means of the Red Clover Reader Service;
  2. take, process or deliver orders made via our websites, invoice you or notify you of the status of your order;
  3. provide you with customer support and troubleshoot problems;
  4. inform you about service updates and faults;
  5. request feedback or participation in on-line surveys;
  6. resolve disputes;
  7. verify your identity;
  8. customize, measure, and improve Red Clover Reader’s software, our products and website’s content and layout;
  9. organize and carry out Red Clover Reader’s marketing or promotional operations/offers, contests, games and similar events; and
  10. protect your and Red Clover Reader’s interests, including in particular to enforce our Terms of Service and fight against fraud.

 


3. To Whom Does Red Clover Reader Transfer Your Personal Information?

Except as provided below, Red Clover Reader shall not sell, rent, trade or otherwise transfer any personal and/or traffic data or communications content to any third party without your explicit permission, unless it is obliged to do so under applicable laws or by order of the competent authorities.

Red Clover Reader may disclose personal information to respond to legal requirements, to protect Red Clover Reader’s interests, to enforce our policies or to protect anyone’s rights, property, or safety.

In order to provide you with Red Clover Reader’s Service, Red Clover Reader may sometimes, if necessary, share your personal and traffic data with partner content providers, service providers, distributors of Red Clover Reader’s Service, and/or the third party banking organizations or other providers of payment, email delivery, analytical services, customer support, or hosting services. Red Clover Reader will always require these third parties to take appropriate organizational and technical measures to protect your personal data and traffic data and to observe the relevant legislation.

Your information may be stored and processed in any country in which Red Clover Reader or its hosting partners maintain facilities, including outside of the US. In this regard, or for purposes of sharing or disclosing data in accordance with this article 3, Red Clover Reader reserves the right to transfer information outside of your country. By using Red Clover Reader’s Service you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. As Red Clover Reader continues to develop its business, Red Clover Reader might sell or buy subsidiaries or business units. In such transactions as well as in the event Red Clover Reader or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, personal information of Red Clover Reader users will generally be one of the transferred business assets. We reserve the right to include your personal information, collected as an asset, in any such transfer to a third party.

 


4. What Are Cookies And Gifs? How Does Red Clover Reader Use Them?

Cookies are pieces of information that the Red Clover Reader software may store on your computer’s hard drive in order to help web applications to recognize you or your preferences. Red Clover Reader’s cookies may contain identifying information. Cookies enable Red Clover Reader to gain information about the use of its web sites. This information may be analyzed by third parties on our behalf.

The Help option on the toolbar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

Please bear in mind that some personalized services may not be available if you choose to disable cookies.

4.1 Clear Gifs

Red Clover Reader web pages may include clear gifs. Clear gifs (also known as web-beacons) are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, which are used to count your visits to the page (but which do not retain any personally identifiable information). In addition, Red Clover Reader uses clear gifs in our HTML-based emails to let us know which emails have been opened and acted upon. This allows us to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

4.2 Third Party Cookies

Any advertisements appearing on our websites are delivered to you by our web advertising partners. Please be aware that these third parties may use cookies to obtain information about your visits to this site, such as number of times you have viewed an advertisement (but not your name, address, or other personal information). This information is used to serve advertisements to you.

 


5. Your User Profile

Your user profile is the information you decide to make available on the Red Clover Reader website, some of which may be available to other Red Clover Reader users. Any personal information may be managed by editing your account settings. You may choose certain details that all Red Clover Reader users may see and other details which will only be visible to your Red Clover Reader contacts. It may include your Red Clover Reader user name, full name, address, gender, date of birth, custom bookshelves, and any other information that you decide to make available. You control your user profile and you can access your user profile from the “My Personal Info” menu in the Red Clover Reader application in order to view, correct, complete or remove information.

 


6. Linked Websites And Third Party Applications

Red Clover Reader websites may contain links that will let you leave Red Clover Reader’s website and access another website. Linked websites are not under the control of Red Clover Reader and it is possible that these websites have a different privacy policy. This Privacy Statement applies solely to personal information that is acquired on the websites or through your use of the Red Clover Reader Service and/or your relationship with Red Clover Reader, so Red Clover Reader urges you to be careful when you enter any personal information online. Red Clover Reader accepts no responsibility or liability for these other websites. Red Clover Reader does not necessarily sponsor, endorse, or otherwise affiliate with third party websites and/or applications.

You may be required to use any extras, plug-ins or third party applications together with the Red Clover Reader Service (“Applications”), the provider of such Applications may obtain access to certain personal information about you. Red Clover Reader does not and cannot control how the provider of Applications may use any personal information connected in connection with such Applications. Please ensure that you review any privacy policies or other terms applicable to the use of such Application before installation.

 


7. How Does Red Clover Reader Protect Your Personal Information?

Red Clover Reader shall take appropriate organizational and technical measures to protect the personal data and traffic data provided to it or collected by it with due observance of the applicable obligations and exceptions under the relevant legislation. Your personal and traffic data can only be accessed by authorized employees or consultants of Red Clover Reader or the entities that need to have access to this data in order to be able to fulfill their given duties.

 


8. Personal Data Of Friends

You may be interested in inviting your friends to join Red Clover Reader. In the event you wish to use Red Clover Reader’s referral or ‘gift a subscription’ service, you will be directed to a webpage and will have the possibility of adding one or more email addresses in an online form. The information entered in this form, will only be used for the purposes of automatically generating an email message to these potential Red Clover Reader users. By entering your friend’s email address you are confirming that your friend has consented to the supply of their details. Red Clover Reader may identify you as the person who has made the referral in the email sent to your friend.

 


9. Contacting You

Red Clover Reader may from time to time ask you to provide information on your experiences which will be used to measure and improve quality. You are at no time under any obligation to provide any of such data. Any and all information which is voluntarily submitted in feedback forms on the website or any survey that you accept to take part in is used for the purposes of reviewing this feedback and improving the Red Clover Reader software and websites.

Red Clover Reader may contact you to send you messages about faults and service issues. Further, Red Clover Reader reserves the right to use email or the Red Clover Reader software to notify you of any eventual claims related to your use of Red Clover Reader software, the Red Clover Reader websites and/or Red Clover Reader products, including without limitation claims of violation of third party rights.

Red Clover Reader may send you alerts by email to notify you when someone has tried to contact you. Red Clover Reader may also use email or the Red Clover Reader software to keep you up to date with news about the Red Clover Reader software and Red Clover Reader products that you have purchased and/or to inform you about other Red Clover Reader entities’ products or other Red Clover Reader related information. You can opt-out of the receipt of alerts and/or promotional emails by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link on the email that you receive. You can also manage your communication preferences by signing into your account page on www.RedCloverReader.com.

If you have registered for or use co-branded Red Clover Reader products, the emails you receive may be from our partner company, acting on Red Clover Reader’s behalf.

 


10. Can This Privacy Statement Be Modified?

Red Clover Reader reserves the right to modify the provisions of this Privacy Statement if deemed necessary. We will inform you of these changes by publishing the revised Privacy Statement at www.RedCloverReader.com/privacy. The revised Privacy Statement shall become effective immediately upon publishing it. You agree that the express acceptance by you, or your continued use of Red Clover Reader shall constitute your acceptance of the Privacy Statement.

 


11. What Rights Do You Have And How Can You Contact Red Clover Reader?

You have the right to access and, where relevant, to amend your personal information. Some of your information may be viewed or edited online by logging into your Profiles page on www.RedCloverReader.com. We will respond to requests to view, correct, complete or remove your personal information within a reasonable period of time and upon verification of your identity. Please address any questions to our customer support team at contact@redcloverreader.com.

Red Clover Reader will use its best efforts to accommodate requests to delete personal information unless it is required to be retained by law or for lawful business purposes.

 


12. How Long Is Your Personal Data Kept By Red Clover Reader?

Red Clover Reader will retain your information for as long as is necessary to: (1) fulfill any of the Purposes (as defined in article 3 of this Privacy Statement) or (2) comply with applicable legislation, regulatory requests and relevant orders from competent courts.

To contact us about matters relating to our Privacy Policy, please send email contact@redcloverreader.com.