Privacy Policy

What Is The Purpose Of This Privacy Policy?

B B Broadington LLC (“Broadington”, “we”, “us” or “our”), publisher of the books of Miles A. Maxwell, is committed, and takes a proactive approach, to protecting the privacy of personal information of individuals who visit ("Visitor", "you", "your", "Subscriber") StateOfReason.com website (the “Site”) and / or purchase the products or service available thereon (“Products”) and / or join one of our email lists.

Email Newsletter

We operate email newsletter programs, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by us. Visitors can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so at their own risk. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the Subscriber.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with U.S. anti-spam laws. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely. You may request a copy of personal information held about you by this Site's email newsletter program. If you would like a copy of the your personal information please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.

This policy ("Policy") outlines Visitor and/or Subscriber privacy and obligations, and our obligations and policies. The way this Site processes, stores and protects Visitor data and information is also detailed within this Policy. To the best of our understanding, this website complies with all U.S. Law and requirements for Visitor and Subscriber privacy. Amendments to this Policy will be posted here and will be effective when posted. Your continued use of the Site, obtaining of additional Products -- free or purchased, and / or continuing your subscription with us, following the posting of any amendment to the Policy, shall constitute your acceptance of such amendment.

Consent, Information Collection and Use

Visitors using the Site do so and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use. Every effort will be made to ensure a safe and secure email submission process but we advise Visitors using such forms that they do so at their own risk.

We may use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services offered or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program we operate, but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you have previously purchased from, or enquired about, purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter pertains to.

As a general rule, we do not and will not sell, rent or disclose your personal information without first receiving your permission. We will only share your information with third parties in accordance with your instructions, or in accordance with applicable privacy legislation, or as necessary to provide you with a specific Product or service, except that we may pass only your email address without your specific permission to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, or other such media services only so that we may locate other potential customers of our products with tastes similar to yours.

When you join one of our email lists (become a "Subscriber") or purchase one of our Products, we ask for personal information that will be used to communicate with you and for other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Your name, email address and if you choose, your credit card information and certain other information about you may be required by us to provide Products.

By providing personal information to us, you voluntarily consent to the collection, use and disclosure of such personal information as specified in this Privacy Policy. Without limiting the foregoing, we may on occasion ask you to consent when we collect, use, or disclose your personal information in specific circumstances. Sometimes your consent will be implied through your conduct with us if the purpose of the collection, use or disclosure is obvious and you voluntarily provide the information.

We may use your personal or account information for the following purposes:
  • To provide the Products to you and to improve the quality of the Site and our Products,
  • To provide information to you so that you may use the Site and our Products more effectively,
  • To create, manage and control your account information, and to verify access rights to Products and services,
  • To bill your credit card.
  • To communicate with you for the purpose of informing you of changes or additions to the Products, or of the availability of any Product we provide,
  • To assess product delivery, monitor traffic patterns and gauge popularity of different Product options,
  • To carry out our marketing activities;
  • To enforce this Privacy Policy;
  • To respond to claims of any violation of our rights or those of any third parties;
  • To respond to your requests for customer service;
  • To protect the rights, property or personal safety of you, us, our Visitors and the public; and as required or authorized by law.
  • We may occasionally communicate with you regarding our products, services, news and events. You have the option to not receive this information. We will cease to communicate with you if you use the provided an opt-out link at the bottom of all email communications of this nature, or contact us at: sales@broadington.com, and tell us not to communicate with you further.

    Age of Consent

    We do not knowingly provide the Products to, and will not knowingly collect the personal information from anyone under the age of consent.

    Rights to Your Information

    You have the right to access and edit your information at anytime through the web interface provided as part of the Products, or by contacting sales@broadington.com

    Aggregated Data

    We may also use your personal information to generate Aggregated Data for internal use and for sharing with others on a selective basis. “Aggregated Data” means records which have been stripped of information potentially identifying customers, landing pages or end-Visitors, and which have been manipulated or combined to provide generalized, anonymous information. Your identity and personal information will be kept anonymous in Aggregated Data.

    Links

    The Site may contain links to other sites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of linked sites. Their privacy policies and practices differ from our policies and practices.

    Cookies and Log Files

    We use cookies and log files to track user information. Cookies are small amounts of data that are transferred to your web browser by a web server and are stored on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies to track which page a Visitor has seen, to track if a visitor has clicked on a page, to monitor traffic patterns and to gauge popularity of Product options. We will use this information to deliver relevant content and Products to you.

    This Site uses Google Analytics tracking software which uses cookies to track Visitor usage to better understand how they Visitors use the Site. The software will save a cookie to your computer's hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google's privacy policy here http://www.google.com/privacy.html.

    StateOfReason.com uses 3rd party vendor re-marketing tracking cookies, including the Google Adwords tracking cookie and Amazon Associates tracking cookies. This means we will continue to show ads to you across the internet, specifically on the Google Content Network(GCN) and on Amazon. As always we respect your privacy and are not collecting any identifiable information through the use of Google's, Amazon's or any other 3rd party remarketing system.

    The third-party vendors, including Google and Amazon, whose services we use - will place cookies on web browsers in order to serve ads based on past visits to our website. This allows us to create special offers and continue to market our Products to those who have shown interest in similar products.

    Other cookies may be stored to your computer's hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or advertizements. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

    Visitors are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers' hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers' security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

    Change of Ownership or Business Transition

    In the event of a change of ownership or other business transition, such as a merger, acquisition or sale of our assets, your information may be transferred in accordance with applicable privacy laws.

    Security

    We will strive to prevent unauthorized access to your personal information, however, no data transmission over the Internet, by wireless device or over the air is guaranteed to be 100% secure. We will continue to enhance security procedures as new technologies and procedures become available.

    Email marketing campaigns may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include: the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity. This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the Subscriber with more relevant content based around their activity.

    In compliance with U.S. anti-spam laws and the email Subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will by detailed instead. You may also unsubscribe at any time by contacting us at: sales@broadington.com

    Advertisements and External Links

    Although we shall make a reasonable effort to include in this Site only quality, safe and relevant external links, Visitors are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this Site. This website may contain sponsored links and advertisements. These will typically be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the advertisements they serve.

    We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website. Clicking on any such advertisements will send you to the advertiser's website through a referral program which may use cookies and track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in turn be saved on your computer's hard drive. Visitors click on sponsored external links at their own risk and specifically agree by clicking on such links we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused to you by any external links outside this Site.

    Social Media Platforms

    Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that we participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

    Visitors are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. We will never ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms; we encourage Visitors wishing to discuss sensitive details to do so through primary communication channels such as telephone or email.

    This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to a social media platform. Visitors are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own risk, and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

    Shortened Links in Social Media

    This Site, through its social media platform accounts, may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs (web addresses). Visitors click or tap such shortened URLs published on social media platforms at their own risk. Despite our best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published, many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking. Therefore, by clicking or tapping such shortened URLs you specifically agree we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting such shortened links.

    Resources & Further Information

    Contact Us

    If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at sales@broadington.com.

    May 2016, B B Broadington LLC, 20235 N. Cave Creek Rd. #104-246 Phoenix, AZ 85024

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