Gate Way Publishers Privacy Policy Statement
Posted November 2010
Gate Way Publishers (a California company), has created this privacy policy statement to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy and privacy-related concerns. This statement discloses our information-gathering, use and dissemination practices.
Gate Way Publishers feels very strongly that private information should remain private. For this reason, we will never willfully disclose personally identifiable information about our users to any third party. We do not collect personal information — names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, credit card numbers — about you unless you specifically provide such information on a voluntary basis; for instance, when you (1) purchase products or services from the gate-way-publishers.com website, or (2) provide Gate Way Publishers with information in connection with a site registration and/or membership.
Gate Way Publishers performs statistical analysis of visitors’ website usage in order to measure interest in, and use of, the various areas of our site. We may share that information with current and prospective advertisers, and other interested third parties. This information, however, is aggregated data only (statistics, demographics, etc.) and contains no personally identifiable information whatsoever.
Our registration and membership forms require users to provide contact information and demographic information. However, registration on gate-way-publishers.com is completely optional. The information collected in these forms is used to provide customers with products purchased, enable access to download areas, send members information about Gate Way Publishers, new ebook releases and special promotions; members may opt-out of receiving this information at any time by sending an email.
Personal information, including credit card, checking account and billing information, is collected when customers purchase products or services on the vintage-pulp-ebooks website. This information is used to bill customers for goods and services. Only we and our credit card processors, Google Checkout and PayPal, have access to your personal financial information, and the information is only for the purpose of billing transactions. We do not store financial information on our web servers.
Gate Way Publishers places cookies on visitors’ computers at the time of registration and ebook purchase. This facilitates access to customers’ download areas and bookshelves. “Cookies” are small lines of data stored on the user’s hard drive that many websites utilize to recognize and keep track of repeat users and deliver content specific to a user’s interests. Our credit card processors, Google Checkout and PayPal, utilize a cookie to store the contents of your shopping cart during a shopping session. This session-only cookie terminates once your have completed your transaction. Some of our banner advertisers may utilize cookies, but this aggregate information contains no personally identifiable information and is used for tracking click-through statistics.
From time to time, we may conduct surveys and contests on the Gate Way Publishers website, during which we ask visitors for contact information (such as email address) and demographic information (such as zip code and age). These surveys and contests are always optional. We use such contact data to send the user information about our company and to contact the visitor when necessary. Users may, at any time, opt-out of receiving such mailings by sending an email.
The Gate Way Publishers website has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving information from us and from our partners, affiliates and advertisers at the point where we request information about the visitor. To change or modify information previously provided, users may send an email requesting such.
Gate Way Publishers reserves the right to cooperate fully with local, state and federal law enforcement officials in any investigation relating to any purported unlawful activities of any user. We also cooperate with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property rights.
If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with Gate Way Publishers, you can contact:
Privacy Administrator
Gate Way Publishers
164 Robles Way, No. 188
Vallejo, CA 94591
