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PRIVACY POLICY TERMS & CONDITIONS
PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy Policy for Barker Books
At Barker Publishing LLC (“Barker Books”), we take the privacy of our users seriously. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and protect the information that we collect from you when you use our website or services.
Information We Collect
We may collect personal information from you when you use our website or services, including your name, email address, and any other information that you choose to provide to us. We may also collect information about your use of our website or services, such as the pages you visit and the actions you take on our website.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect from you to provide you with our services, including self-publishing and ghostwriting services. We may also use your information to communicate with you, such as to send you updates about our services or to respond to your questions or concerns. We may also use your information to improve our website or services, such as by analyzing usage data to identify areas for improvement.
Sharing Your Information
We will not share your personal information with any third parties without your consent, except as required by law or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Barker Books or others.
Security
We take reasonable precautions to protect the information we collect from you from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. If we make any material changes to this policy, we will notify you by posting the updated policy on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or the information we collect from you, please contact us at publishing@barkerbooks.com
Effective Date: January 01, 2023
Barker Publishing LLC and Barker & Jules LLC (“Barker Books”)
USE OF WEBSITE
1. Introduction
These Website Standard Terms and Conditions written on this webpage shall manage your use of our website, Barker Publishing LLC, accessible at https://barkerbooks.com.
By using our Website, you accepted these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our Website.
2. Intellectual Property Rights
Unless otherwise stated, we or our licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
3. License to use website
You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
You must not:
republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
show any material from the website in public;
reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for a commercial purpose;
edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution.
Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organisation.
4. Acceptable use
You must not use our website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
5. User content
In these website standard terms and conditions, “your user content” shall mean material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.
You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to us the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of amounting to a criminal offence or give rise to a civil liability or otherwise be contrary to the law of any country or territory where it or they are or may be published or received.
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
We reserve the right to edit or remove any material submitted to our website, or stored on our servers, or hosted or published upon our website.
Your content must not be defamatory of any person, obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory, promote sexually explicit material, promote violence, promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age, promote any illegal activity, or promote any illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work.
6. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify us, and our directors, officers, employees and agents, from and against any claims, actions or suits or proceedings, as well as any losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or in any way connected with your use of our website, your user content or your breach of these website standard terms.