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PWM Press is committed to protecting your privacy. Our information collection and protection practices are described in this Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. By using this site, you signify your assent to PWM Press's Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. If you do not agree to these Policies, please do not use our Site.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or Cookie Policy, please feel free to contact us at privacy@playingwithmurder.com or to write us at:

PWM Press
1146 Towne Square Lane
Athens, GA 30607

Privacy Policy Information Collection and Use
PWM Press is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

Information You Provide
When you create an account at PWM Press, we require you to provide the following personal information: first name, last name, date of birth, gender, email address, physical billing address, and telephone number (hereinafter "Account Information"). We will only use your Account Information for reasonable business purposes. We use your email address to uniquely identify you to allow you access to your account and to keep track of your purchases on the Site. We also use your email address to send you emailed newsletters and to inform you of sales and special offers. If you don't want to receive these types of emails from us, you may opt-out. For more information on how to opt-out see the Choices for Information section below. We will not, without your consent, sell our customer e-mail address list to third parties, but may use our lists to notify you of specials and products offered by others that we think you may find worthwhile.

Placing an Order
We require you to create an account if you wish to purchase a Murder Mystery, as defined in our User Agreement. In addition to the personal information you provide to set up the account, we require you to provide billing information including a credit card number and billing address. This information is used for billing purposes.

After you download your purchased Murder Mystery, PWM Press stores only the first four and last four digits of the credit card number you provided us and your billing address.

Third-Party Relationships
When you place an order with PWM Press, we send your credit card information, name, and billing address to our credit card processor or to Paypal to process the purchase transaction. Please visit your credit card or Paypal's website for more information regarding their information collection and use practices.

Email Links
We use email links on our Contact Us page to allow you to contact us directly with any questions or comments you may have.

We endeavor to respond promptly to every email sent to us. We use the information you provide us to respond directly to your questions or comments. We may also retain your comments to improve the site and program, or we may review and discard the information.

Log Files
Our log files automatically store IP addresses. We use IP addresses to administer the site and gather broad information about our customers. We also store IP addresses with invoices for security reasons. We keep this information for our internal use only.

Links
This Site contains links to other sites, and those sites may not follow the same privacy policies at PWM Press. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

Choices for Information
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from us, you may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking "Unsubscribe" at the bottom of a newsletter. Your request will be processed within 2 business days.

Security
When you submit personal information on this Site, we will protect your information both online and offline. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to protect your payment information. After your order is fulfilled, PWM Press stores only the first four and last four digits of the credit card number you provided us and your billing address.

We protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure once we receive it through a variety of procedures. Only employees of PWM Press have access to such personal information, and they are kept up-to-date on our security procedures and privacy policy. However, we can make no guarantee that your personal information is completely safe from people who attempt to bypass our security systems.

Correction/Updating Personal Information
You will be able to edit certain elements of your Account Information in the Account section of our Site. Any changes you make are automatically saved.

To cancel your account, please navigate to the Privacy Settings section of your account, check the box labeled "I understand and I want to delete my account" found in the "Delete Account" section, and then select the "Submit Request" button. We will review your request and either delete your account and applicable personal information or send notification of refusal within 30 days. Once you cancel, you will no longer have access to any purchased content.

Retention of personal data
PWM Press will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Data Protection Policy.

PWM Press will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

Data protection rights
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what personal data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights: The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you The right of rectification The right to object The right of restriction The right to data portability The right to withdraw consent Legal Disclaimer
Notwithstanding the other privacy policy terms described above, PWM Press reserves the right to disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to any legal decrees or to comply with any legal process, or if we have reason to believe that someone is causing injury to or interference with our rights or property, or the rights and property of others.

Cookie Policy Cookies
Cookies are pieces of data that are sent between a web browser and a web server. We use cookies to remember the contents of your shopping cart, your password and your browsing history as you navigate our Site.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of www.playingwithmurder.com to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

Personal data collected: Cookie and Usage Data. Place of processing: USA. Find Google's privacy policy here.

We have implemented Google Analytics features based on Display Advertising ( Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager integration, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting) and Remarketing. Visitors can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Settings.

We, along with third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Site. This means that vendors including Google will display PWM Press promotional material on other sites you visit across the Internet.

We use data such as age, gender and interests with Google Analytics for internal marketing and external advertising purposes. We do not sell that information to third parties.

Google Ads
Google Ads is an advertising service provided by Google Inc. This service uses the “Doubleclick” Cookie, which tracks use of this Application and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.

Users may decide to disable all the Doubleclick Cookies by clicking on: google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout.

Personal Data collected: Cookies; Usage Data. Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

Facebook Conversion Tracking Pixel
PWM Press may from time to time use Facebook Advertising, Facebook Pixel Re-Marketing, and communications. This tool allows PWM Press to understand and deliver ads and make them more relevant to you. The collected data remains anonymous and PWM Press cannot see the personal data of any individual user.

However, the collected data is saved and processed by Facebook. Facebook may be able to connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes (in accordance with Facebook’s Data Use Policy found under: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/). Facebook has control of the information gathered through Facebook Advertising, Facebook Pixel Re-Marketing, and communications. You can opt-out of Facebook’s use of cookies and Facebook Pixel Re-Marketing through settings on your Facebook Account.

Microsoft Bing Ads
We use the conversion and tracking tool Bing Ads from Microsoft Corporation as part of our website. Microsoft stores a cookie on the user’s computer to enable an analysis of the use of our online services. The prerequisite for this is that the user has accessed our website through an ad from Microsoft Bing Ads. This enables Microsoft and us to know that someone has clicked on an ad, has been redirected to our online services and has reached a predetermined target page. We only see the total number of users who clicked on a Bing ad and were then forwarded to the target page (conversions). No IP addresses are stored. No other personal information about the identity of the user will be disclosed. Users can find further information on data protection and the cookies used at Microsoft Bing ads in Microsoft’s data protection declaration: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement.

If you do not wish to participate in the Bing Ads tracking process, you can communicate your objection to Microsoft here: https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/ad-settings/signedout?ru=https:%2F%2Faccount.microsoft.com%2Fprivacy%2Fad-settings
Microsoft is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement and thus guarantees compliance with European data protection legislation (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000KzNaAAK&status=Active).

Shareaholic
We use Shareaholic to power our social share buttons. Shareaholic may choose to track your behavior (such as what URLs are shared) and use that data for interest based advertising. Shareaholic does not collect personally identifiable information (such as name and email address).
Shareaholic’s Privacy Policy
Opt out of Shareaholic

Social Plugins
Included on certain pages of the Site are social plugins to external social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google+. A page that contains a social plugin will sometimes cause your browser to establish a direct connection with the servers of the respective social networks. The contents of these social networks are directly transmitted to your browser and integrates into our service. PWM Press does not influence the scope of the data collected by the respective social network. We, therefore, inform accordingly to our knowledge: Facebook - We employ the use of specific subpages of PWM Press for social plugins of the social networking site Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. By activating the plugin, Facebook receives the data about the information and buttons on PWM Press you have accessed. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can connect your PWM Press visit to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, and for example you press the ‘share’ button, the corresponding information is sent directly to Facebook, where it is stored. There is still the possibility of Facebook getting your IP address and storing it, even if you are not a Facebook member. The purpose and scope of data collection, along with the further processing and use of data by Facebook, along with the your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in the Facebook privacy policy. Twitter - We employ the use of specific subpages of PWM Press as a social plugin for the social networking site Twitter, which is operated by Twitter, Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103. By activating and pressing the ‘Tweet’ button, your account is associated with PWM PRESS and notifies other users. For additional information, refer to the privacy statement of Twitter. The privacy settings on your Twitter account can be changed under account settings. Pinterest - We employ certain subpages of PWM Press as social plugins for the social networking site Pinterest, which is operated by Pinterest, Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By activating the plugin and using the ‘Pin It’ button, your page visit is linked to your Pinterest board and shared with other users. This data is transmitted to Pinterest, PWM PRESS receives this data which we use via Pinterest. For more information, please refer to the Pinterest privacy policy. Your Pinterest privacy settings can be changed under account settings. PWM Press reserves the right to use any personally identifiable information we receive through any third-party social networking sites. This information collected about you, your mobile, your computer, or any other devices is subject to the same privacy policy as all other information collected by PWM Press.

Email Tracking
Emails sent to individuals may include links to other sites, cookies, and other tracking with your interaction with the email. For example, we have cookie technology that allows us to see the following: If you have opened an email If you have clicked a link in an email You can opt out of our email list and the data processing mentioned above at any time using the opt-out links in the emails we send.
Our email service providers are Constant Contact and Remarkety.
Constant Contact’s privacy policy
Remarkety’s privacy policy

Notification of Changes to Privacy and Cookie Policies PWM Press reserves the right, at any time and from time to time, to update, revise, supplement and to otherwise modify this Privacy and Cookie Policy. Such updates, revisions, supplements and modifications will be effective immediately and incorporated into this Cookie Policy upon notice thereof, which may be given by any reasonable means including by posting to the Site. Your continued use of the Site following such notice will be deemed to conclusively indicate your acceptance of any and all such changes.