Terms of Use/Privacy Policy

The Author’s Bookstore as constituted by "us", "we", and “The Author’s Bookstore” and our affiliates or partners provide services to you subject to Terms and Conditions as outlined below. By visiting and purchasing items or services at The Author’s Bookstore website, you accept these conditions. You also accept the terms and conditions of any business affiliated with us or linked to us, whether or not they are included in The Author’s Bookstore website.

Types of User of The Author’s Bookstore

1.) Customer – Those who make purchases of items on The Author’s Bookstore
2.) Members – Those who have availed of a service offered by The Author’s Bookstore

Both type of members are subject to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policies.

Terms of Use

By Visiting or Purchasing Items at The Author’s Bookstore You Attest That:

• You are 18 years of age or older. If you are under 18 years of age, you have received the permission of a parent or guardian to visit or purchase items from The Author’s Bookstore website.

• By visiting The Author’s Bookstore or by contacting us via email you are communication with us electronically and, likewise, consent to receive communications from us electronically.

• All content included on this site is protected by United States and international copyright laws.

• You are responsible for the confidentiality of your account and password and you accept all responsibility for activity that occurs under your account.

• You are responsible for all transactions on The Author’s Bookstore website, including purchase of items or services, that occur under use of your computer.

• We reserve the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in our sole discretion.

• All items purchased from us are shipped through a third party postal service. The risk of loss is yours once we have transferred the product or service to the relevant postal service.

• By visiting The Author’s Bookstore website, you agree that the laws of the state of Washington, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Conditions of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and us or our affiliates.

• We have no control over charges that may be applied once a shipment reaches your country, including import duties, taxes, and custom clearance costs, and that you are solely responsible for the payment of such charges should they occur.

• When ordering from The Author’s Bookstore, you are considered the importer of record and must comply with all laws and regulations of the country in which you are receiving the goods.

• You visit and purchase items and services from The Author’s Bookstore website at your own risk.

Complaints

We respect the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please contact us.

License and Site Access

We grant you a limited license to access and make personal use of this site. You may not download, copy, or modify the site in any way without prior written permission. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of The Author’s Bookstore website or our Members' websites so long as these links do not portray us, our Members, affiliates, or their products or services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. You may not use any of our logos or other proprietary graphic or trademark as part of the link without express written permission.

Accuracy of Members’ Products

Members who use our services provide us with images and material for their websites. Every effort is taken to make sure this material is as accurate as possible, however, we can not warrant that product descriptions or other content of this site or Members’ websites are accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.

Third Party Business

Parties other than us operate The Author’s Bookstore, provide services, or sell products on this site. In addition, we may provide links to the sites of affiliated companies and certain other businesses. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating, and we do not warrant the offerings of, any of these businesses or individuals or the content of their websites. We do not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, product, and content of all these and any other third parties. You should carefully review their privacy statements and other conditions of use.

Privacy

The Author’s Bookstore may collect personal information when you register, when you use our services and when you visit or purchase items on our website. We respect your privacy and do not purchase or sell any personal data from or to other companies that are not affiliated with us.

Information Gathered

We may gather and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way and we receive and store information when you visit our site.

1.) Personal Information – This includes such information as name, email address, billing and shipping address, credit card information, phone numbers, and, in the case of authors taking service of our Publishing Packages or Program- PayPal accounts and Tax ID numbers that we are required by law to collect to report profit of earnings.

2.) Product Information – This includes information for each Title published, such as Title, Author, Page Count, and Synopsis

3.) Digital Information – Cookies, a history of your browser’s transactions with us, are received and stored when you visit and interact with The Author’s Bookstore site.

Utilization of Your Information

We or our affiliated or third party partners use your information to fulfil orders of products or services placed on The Author’s Bookstore website and to provide you with better services.

Security

The Author’s Bookstore uses industry-standard SSL encryption to protect data transmissions related to commerce.

Author (Free) Websites

Free websites are not private, and we do not control who may access your website nor who may order Titles from your website.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions