TERMS OF USE, COPYRIGHT POLICY AND PRIVACY POLICY

These Terms of Use were last Modified on October 7, 2026.

 

Written Word Media Website and Mobile App Terms of Use

  1. Acceptance of the Terms of Use.

Written Word Media, Inc. (“Company”, “we” or “us”) maintains the websites secure.writtenwordmedia.com, writtenwordmedia.com, freebooksy.com, bargainbooksy.com, redfeatherromance.com, audiothicket.com, newinbooks.com and vellurebooks.com (including any content, functionality and services offered on or through such websites, collectively, the “Website”) as well as one or more downloadable mobile applications associated with any one or more of the foregoing sites (including any content, functionality and services offered on or through such mobile applications, collectively, the “Mobile Apps,” and, together with the Website, the “Services”). The following terms and conditions (“Terms of Use”) govern your access to and use of the Services, whether as a guest or a registered user (as more fully described in Section 3 below).

Please read the Terms of Use carefully before you start to use the Services. By using the Services, or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms of Use. If you do not want to agree to these Terms of Use, you must not access or use the Services.

BY ACCESSING, DOWNLOADING AND/OR USING THE SERVICES, OR BY CHECKING OR CLICKING THE “AGREE,” “I CONSENT” OR SIMILAR BUTTON OR BOX IF AND WHEN THIS OPTION IS PRESENTED TO YOU, YOU:

(A) ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THESE TERMS OF USE;

(B) REPRESENT THAT IF YOU ARE AN INDIVIDUAL ENTERING INTO THESE TERMS OF USE ON YOUR OWN BEHALF, YOU ARE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER OR OTHERWISE OF LEGAL AGE TO ENTER INTO A BINDING LEGAL AGREEMENT;

(C) REPRESENT THAT IF YOU ARE ENTERING INTO THESE TERMS OF USE ON BEHALF OF A BUSINESS OR LEGAL ENTITY, YOU ARE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER OR OTHERWISE OF LEGAL AGE TO ENTER INTO A BINDING LEGAL AGREEMENT AND YOU ARE FULLY AND DULY AUTHORIZED TO AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS OF USE ON SUCH BUSINESS’S OR LEGAL ENTITY’S BEHALF; AND

(D) AGREE TO AND ACCEPT THESE TERMS OF USE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY BOUND BY THEIR TERMS.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, DO NOT ACCESS, DOWNLOAD, INSTALL OR USE THE SERVICES.

 

  1. Changes to the Terms of Use.

We may revise and update these Terms of Use from time to time in our sole discretion. Changes are effective immediately when we post them, but are not retroactive. Your continued use of the Services following the posting of revised Terms of Use means that you accept and agree to the changes. You must check this page frequently so that you are aware of any changes, and immediately discontinue access or use of the Services if you do not want to agree to the revised Terms of Use.

 

  1. Registered Users; Membership Plans.

Certain pages or portions of the Services may offer you the ability to become a registered user and/or subscribe to one of the membership plans we offer. Current membership plans are described at: www.writtenwordmedia.com/membership (the “Membership Plan Summary”). Each membership plan entitles applicable subscribers to the discounts and other benefits specified in the Membership Plan Summary for such membership plan (the “Plan Benefits”).

For certain pages or portions of the Services, as applicable, by becoming a registered user, you will be automatically subscribed to the “free” membership plan unless you select one of the other membership plans described in the Membership Plan Summary. If you subscribe to one of the other membership plans (e.g., Gold Plan, Platinum Plan, etc.), upon payment of your applicable annual subscription fee, you will be entitled to the Plan Benefits for such membership plan for an initial one (1) year subscription term. Thereafter, your subscription to your membership plan shall automatically renew for successive one (1) year terms on each anniversary of your initial subscription, unless you provide Company with written notice of non-renewal at least thirty (30) days prior to your subscription anniversary date. You may cancel your applicable membership plan subscription at any time upon written notice to us, but any previously paid subscription fees will be non-refundable unless (i) you provide such notice of cancellation within the first fourteen (14) days of your applicable annual subscription and (ii) during such 14-day period you have not received any discounts or other benefits afforded by your subscription.

If we fail to provide any of your Plan Benefits to you during your subscription term, please provide us written notice of such failure. Upon receipt of any such notice, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to remedy such failure. If, despite our efforts, we are unable to remedy such failure within thirty (30) days after our receipt of such written notice, you shall be entitled to cancel your membership plan subscription immediately upon written notice to us. Upon such cancelation, we will refund to you a pro rata portion of your applicable subscription fee for the portion of the subscription term after the effective date of termination. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THE REMEDIES SPECIFIED IN THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL BE YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDIES FOR ANY FAILURE BY COMPANY TO PROVIDE YOUR PLAN BENEFITS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPLICABLE DESCRIPTION SET FORTH IN THE MEMBERSHIP PLAN SUMMARY

 

  1. Acceptance of Privacy Policy; Consent to Use of Technical Data.

All information we collect on the Services, including information you provide to register with the Services or carry out any transactions on the Services, is subject to our Privacy Policy which is included below. By using the Services, or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you also accept and agree to be bound and abide by our Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to our Privacy Policy, you must not provide us any personal information.

Our Services are hosted in the United States and our services are provided from the United States. It is possible that certain information will be stored on servers in multiple other countries on the “cloud” or other similar distributed hosting platforms. If you are a user accessing our Services or services from the European Union, Asia or any other region with laws governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure that differ from United States laws, you are expressly and knowingly consenting to the transfer of your personal information to the United States and other jurisdictions as indicated above, and to our use of your personal information in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

You agree that Company, using automatic means such as cookies and otherwise, may collect and use technical data and related information—including but not limited to technical information about your computer, browser, Mobile Device, system and application software, and peripherals—that is gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, product support, and other services to you (if any) related to the Services. Company may use this information, as long as it is in a form that does not personally identify you, to improve its products or to provide services or technologies to you.

 

  1. Accessing the Services and Account Security.

We reserve the right to withdraw or amend the Services, and any service or material we provide on the Services, in our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of the Services are unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of the Services, or all of the Services, to certain users, including registered users.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Services. To access the Services or some of the resources they offer, you may be asked to provide certain registration details or other information. You must provide information that is correct, current and complete.

If you choose, or are provided with, a user name, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any other person or entity. You also acknowledge that your account is personal to you and agree not to provide any other person with access to the Services or portions of them using your user name, password or other security information. If you permit any other person to use your account, you will be responsible for their activities while using the Services. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized access to or use of your user name or password or any other breach of security. You also agree to ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. You should use particular caution when accessing your account from a public or shared computer so that others are not able to view or record your password or other personal information. We have the right to disable any user name, password or other identifier, whether chosen by you or provided by us, at any time in our sole discretion if, in our opinion, the continued use of that user name, password or other identifier would be inappropriate.

 

  1. Intellectual Property Rights.

The Services and their entire contents, features and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video and audio, and the design, selection and arrangement thereof) are owned by the Company, its licensors or other providers of such material and are protected by United States and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other intellectual property and proprietary rights laws. Company grants to you a limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable authorization and license to access and use the Services and their respective contents, in each case only and strictly in accordance with these Terms of Use. These Terms of Use will govern any content, materials or services accessible from or within the Services as well as upgrades provided by Company that replace or supplement the Services from time to time, unless such upgrade is accompanied by separate or additional terms and conditions.

These Terms of Use permit you to use the Services to place orders for promotions to be run on the Services and otherwise you may use the Services for your personal, non-commercial use only.

Your computer or Mobile Device (as defined below) may temporarily store copies of pages of or content on the Website incidental to your accessing and viewing those materials, and your Web browser may store files that are automatically cached for display enhancement purposes. You must not otherwise reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store or transmit any of the material that consists of or that is made available on our Services, except as follows:

  • You may print or download one copy of a reasonable number of pages of the Website by using the “download,” “export,” “print” or similar features and functionality of the Services, your browser or your Mobile Device that are specifically designed for this purpose, in each case for your own internal, non-commercial use and not in any other manner or for further reproduction, publication or distribution.
  • If we choose to provide one or more Mobile Apps for download, you may download and install a single copy on an Android- or iOS-based mobile device that you own or control (your “Mobile Device”) solely for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you agree to be bound by our end user license agreement (i.e., these Terms of Use) for such applications.

Except as expressly otherwise permitted above, you must not:

(i) modify copies of any materials from the Services nor use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from the accompanying text;

(ii) delete or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from the Services;

(iii) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to the source code of the Services or any part thereof (including any updates) or the underlying structure, ideas, know-how or algorithms relevant to the Services;

(iv) rent, lease, lend, sell, sublicense, assign, distribute, publish, transfer, or otherwise make available the Services, or any features or functionality of the Services, to any third party for any reason, including by making the Services available on a network where they are capable of being accessed by more than one person or device at any time;

(v) remove, disable, circumvent, or otherwise create or implement any workaround to any copy protection, rights management, or security features in or protecting the Services;

(vi) use the Services in any manner that is prohibited in the section below titled “Prohibited Uses”; or

(vii) aid or assist any other person in taking any of the actions prohibited by this section.

If you wish to make any use of material on the Services other than that set out in this section, please address your request to info@writtenwordmedia.com.

If you print, copy, modify, download or otherwise use or provide any other person with access to any part of the Services in breach of the Terms of Use, your right to use the Services will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. Except as expressly set forth herein, no right, title or interest in or to the Services or any content on the Services is being transferred to you, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by the Company. Any use of the Services not expressly permitted by these Terms of Use is a breach of these Terms of Use and may violate copyright, trademark and other laws.

If you are a business or legal entity accessing and using the Services under these Terms of Use, you acknowledge and agree that you are fully responsible for ensuring that your employees, consultants, advisors, contractors, agents, representatives and any other personnel or other individuals associated with you comply in full with the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use and that you are responsible for and liable for any act, omission or violation of these Terms of Use by such persons as it relates to the Services or these Terms of Use or any of the subject matter hereof the same as if you had committed such act, omission or violation yourself, directly. For the avoidance of doubt, if you or any such person violates any of the foregoing prohibitions, your right to access and use the Services will cease immediately, without any further action or notice required from us.

 

  1. Trademarks.

The Company name, the terms Written Word Media, Freebooksy, Bargain Booksy, Red Feather Romance, NewInBooks, Audio Thicket, Vellure and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans are trademarks of the Company or its affiliates or licensors. You must not use such marks without the prior written permission of the Company. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs and slogans on the Services are the trademarks of their respective owners.

 

  1. Prohibited Uses.

You may use the Services only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms of Use. You agree not to use the Services:

  • In any way that violates any applicable federal, state, local or international law or regulation (including, without limitation, any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the US or other countries).
  • For the purpose of exploiting, harming or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable information or otherwise.
  • To send, receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material that does not comply with the Content Standards set out in these Terms of Use.
  • To transmit any advertising or promotional material, including any “junk mail”, “chain letter” or “spam” or any other similar solicitation.
  • To impersonate or attempt to impersonate the Company, a Company employee, another user or any other person or entity.
  • To engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the Services, or that may harm the Company or users of the Services or expose them to liability.

Additionally, you agree not to use the Services in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the site or interfere with any other party’s use of the Services, including their ability to engage in real time activities through the Services. Without limitation, you must not:

  • Use any robot, spider or other automatic device, process or means to access the Services for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on the Services.
  • Introduce any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful or attack the Services via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage or disrupt any parts of the Services, the server on which the Services are stored, or any server, computer or database connected to the Services.

 

  1. User Contributions.

The Services may contain message boards, chat rooms, personal web pages or profiles, forums, bulletin boards, and other interactive features (collectively, “Interactive Services”) that allow users to post, submit, publish, display or transmit to other users or other persons content or materials (collectively, “User Contributions”) on or through the Services.

You must own or control all rights in and to your User Contributions, and all of your User Contributions must comply with the Content Standards set out in these Terms of Use. Any User Contribution you post to the Services will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. By providing any User Contribution on the Services, you grant the Company and its affiliates and service providers the right to use, reproduce, modify, perform, display, distribute and otherwise disclose to third parties any such material for any purpose.

You understand and acknowledge that you are responsible for any User Contributions you submit or contribute and that you have full responsibility for such content, including its legality, reliability, accuracy and appropriateness. We are not responsible for the content or accuracy of any User Contributions posted by you or any other user of the Services.

 

  1. Content Standards.

User Contributions must in their entirety comply with all applicable federal, state, local and international laws and regulations. Without limiting the foregoing, User Contributions must not:

  • Contain any material that is defamatory, obscene, indecent, abusive, offensive, harassing, violent, hateful, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable.
  • Promote pornographic material, or promote violence or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.
  • Infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual property or other rights of any other person.
  • Violate the legal rights (including the rights of publicity and privacy) of others or contain any material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable laws or regulations or that otherwise may be in conflict with these Terms of Use or our Privacy Policy included below.
  • Be likely to deceive any person.
  • Promote any illegal activity, or advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act.
  • Cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety or be likely to upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person.
  • Impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person or organization.
  • Involve commercial activities or sales, such as contests, sweepstakes and other sales promotions, barter or advertising (other than in connection with a publisher’s ordinary course promotion of a book or audiobook featured on the Services as permitted through the Services’ Interactive Services).
  • Give the impression that they emanate from or are endorsed by us or any other person or entity, if this is not the case.

 

  1. Monitoring and Enforcement; Termination.

We have the right to take any actions that we consider to be appropriate to ensure that the Services are operated in an appropriate manner. We may remove or refuse to post any User Contributions for any or no reason in our sole discretion, and we may take any action with respect to any User Contribution that we deem necessary or appropriate in our sole discretion, including if we believe that such User Contribution violates the Terms of Use, including the Content Standards, infringes any intellectual property right or other right of any person or entity, threatens the personal safety of users of the Services or the public or could create liability for the Company. We may disclose your identity or other information about you to any third party who claims that material posted by you violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy. We may terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Services for any reason that we determine to be adequate, including any violation of these Terms of Use.

Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone posting any materials on or through the Services. YOU WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO ASSERT ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY SUCH ACTION TAKEN BY THE COMPANY.

We do not undertake to review all material before it is posted on the Services, and cannot ensure prompt removal of objectionable material after it has been posted. Accordingly, we assume no liability for any action or inaction regarding transmissions, communications or content provided by any user or third party. We have no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or nonperformance of the activities described in this section.

 

  1. Copyright Infringement.

If you believe that any User Contributions violate your copyright, please see our Copyright Policy included below for instructions on sending us a notice of copyright infringement. It is the policy of the Company to terminate the user accounts of repeat infringers.

 

  1. Reliance on Information Posted.

The information presented on or through the Services is made available solely for general information purposes. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of this information, and any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by you or any other visitor to the Services, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.

The Services may include content provided by third parties, including materials provided by other users, bloggers and third-party licensors, syndicators, aggregators and/or reporting services. All statements and/or opinions expressed in these materials, and all articles and responses to questions and other content, other than the content provided by the Company, are solely the opinions and the responsibility of the person or entity providing those materials. These materials do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Company. We are not responsible, or liable to you or any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials provided by any third parties.

 

  1. Changes to the Services; Updates.

We may update the content on the Services from time to time, but its content is not necessarily complete or up-to-date. Any of the material on the Services may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

We may from time to time in our sole discretion develop and provide updates to the Services, which may include upgrades, bug fixes, patches, other error corrections, and/or new features (collectively, including related documentation, “Updates”). Updates may also modify or delete in their entirety certain features and functionality. You agree that Company has no obligation to provide any Updates or to continue to provide or enable any particular features or functionality. With respect to Updates to any Mobile Apps, based on your Mobile Device settings, when your Mobile Device is connected to the internet either: (i) the Updates will automatically download and be installed; or (ii) you may receive notice of or be prompted to download and install available Updates. You shall promptly download and install all Updates and acknowledge and agree that the Services or portions thereof may not properly operate should you fail to do so. You further agree that all Updates will be deemed part of the Services and be subject to all terms and conditions of these Terms of Use.

 

  1. Newsletter.

By providing your email address and signing up to receive communications from us via our Services, you agree to be enrolled in our newsletter distribution list and you will receive periodic updates and promotional materials from us, in each case subject to our Privacy Policy included below. Each user’s e-mail preferences may be updated at any time by clicking the applicable links at the bottom of such email.

 

  1. Online Purchases.

The Services offer users the ability to order certain promotions on the Services, either as a guest or as a registered user. YOU MAY NOT ORDER PROMOTIONS FROM THE SERVICES (A) IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE, (B) IF YOU ARE AN INDIVIDUAL, IF YOU ARE NOT THE OLDER OF (i) AT LEAST 18 YEARS OF AGE OR (ii) THE LEGAL AGE REQUIRED IN YOUR JURISDICTION TO BE ABLE TO FORM A BINDING CONTRACT WITH COMPANY, (C) IF YOU ARE AN INDIVIDUAL AGREEING TO THESE TERMS OF USE ON BEHALF OF YOUR EMPLOYER OR ANOTHER ENTITY, IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE FULL LEGAL AUTHORITY TO BIND YOUR EMPLOYER OR SUCH ENTITY TO THIS AGREEMENT, OR (D) IF YOU ARE PROHIBITED FROM ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICES OR ANY OF THE SERVICES’ CONTENTS OR SERVICES BY APPLICABLE LAW. By ordering a promotion from the Services, you represent and warrant that you meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements, and if you do not meet all of these requirements, you must not order any promotions.

All sales are final and non-cancelable, and all fees once paid are non-refundable. All payments made for promotions are handled entirely by third-party payment processors and are therefore subject to the terms, conditions and data security procedures outlined on such third-parties’ websites. No credit card information will be retained by the Company for any purchases made on or through the Services.

It is your responsibility to ascertain and obey all applicable local, state, federal and international laws in regard to your promotion of any ebook, book or audiobook using the Services. By placing an order for a promotion, you represent and warrant that the promotion ordered will be used only in a lawful manner, in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including copyright law.

Through our Services, users are also able to link to certain third party websites (i.e., affiliate links such as Amazon.com, Apple Books and other retailers) where they may purchase books, audiobooks or other goods or services. We are not responsible for or involved in the transactions that occur on such third party websites and we encourage you to review the terms and conditions applicable on such third party websites.

 

  1. User Suggestions.

From time to time users may wish to submit their suggestions, designs or ideas for new books or audiobooks or improvements to or enhancements of the Services themselves. If you provide to us or to our affiliates any such suggestions, designs or ideas (collectively, “Suggestions”), we and our affiliates will be entitled to use the Suggestions without restriction. You hereby irrevocably assign to us all right, title and interest in and to the Suggestions and agree to provide us any assistance we require to document, perfect and maintain our rights in the Suggestions.

 

  1. Links to Other Sites; Third-Party Materials.

You may create a link from another site that you own to our homepage, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part. You may not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you and you may not link to any part of the Website other than the homepage. Any website on which you create a link must comply in all respects with the Content Standards set out in these Terms of Use. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The Services may display, include, or make available certain third-party content (including data, information, applications, and other products, services, and/or materials) or provide links to third-party websites, social media platforms or other services, including through third-party advertising (“Third-Party Materials”). You acknowledge and agree that Company is not responsible for Third-Party Materials, including their accuracy, completeness, timeliness, validity, copyright compliance, legality, decency, quality, or any other aspect thereof. Company does not assume and will not have any liability or responsibility to you or any other person or entity for any Third-Party Materials. Third-Party Materials and any links or other access thereto are provided solely as a convenience to you, and you access and use them entirely at your own risk and subject to such third parties’ terms and conditions. We reserve the right to change, suspend, remove, disable or impose access restrictions or limits on any Third-Party Materials at any time without notice or liability to you.

The Services may provide certain social media features that enable you to link from your own or certain third-party websites to certain content on the Services, send e-mails or other communications with certain content, or links to certain content, on the Services, or cause limited portions of content on the Services to be displayed or appear to be displayed on your own or certain third-party websites. You may use these features solely as they are provided by us and otherwise in accordance with any additional terms and conditions we provide with respect to such features. In addition to the limitations on linking set forth above, you may not cause the Services or portions of them to be displayed, or appear to be displayed by framing, deep linking or in-line linking on any other site.

 

  1. Geographic Restrictions; Legal Compliance.

The owner of the Services is based in the state of North Carolina in the United States. Access to the Services may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the Services from outside the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws. You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a region that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a “terrorist supporting” region; and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.

 

  1. Disclaimer of Warranties.

We cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the Internet or the Services will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to our site for any reconstruction of any lost data. WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY A DISTRIBUTED DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK, VIRUSES OR OTHER TECHNOLOGICALLY HARMFUL MATERIAL THAT MAY INFECT YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, MOBILE DEVICE, DATA OR OTHER PROPRIETARY MATERIAL DUE TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICES OR TO YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON THE SERVICES, OR ON ANY WEBSITE LINKED TO THE SERVICES.

THE SERVICES, THEIR RESPECTIVE CONTENTS AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, AND THE COMPANY HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ANY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY MAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPLETENESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY OR AVAILABILITY OF THE SERVICES.

THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY WARRANTIES WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

 

  1. Limitation on Liability.

IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMPANY, ITS AFFILIATES OR THEIR LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS OR DIRECTORS BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICES, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR PERSONAL INJURY, PAIN AND SUFFERING, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF GOODWILL OR LOSS OF DATA, WHETHER CAUSED BY TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OF CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF FORESEEABLE.

THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY LIABILITY WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

 

  1. Indemnification.

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Company and its affiliates, and their licensors, service providers, employees, agents, officers and directors, from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms of Use.

 

  1. Governing Law and Jurisdiction.

All matters relating to the Services and these Terms of Use and any dispute or claim arising therefrom or related thereto (in each case, including non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of North Carolina and the laws of the United States of America (as applicable) without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the State of North Carolina or any other jurisdiction).

Any legal suit, action or proceeding arising out of or related to these Terms of Use or the Services shall be instituted exclusively in the federal courts of the United States of America located in North Carolina or the courts of the State of North Carolina, except that we retain the right to bring any suit, action or proceeding against you for breach of these Terms of Use in your country of residence or any other relevant country. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and to venue in such courts.

 

  1. Limitation on Time to File Claims.

ANY CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM YOU MAY HAVE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OF USE OR THE SERVICES MUST BE COMMENCED WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES. OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION OR CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.

 

  1. Waiver and Severability.

No waiver by the Company of any term or condition set forth in these Terms of Use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or a waiver of any other term or condition, and any failure of the Company to assert a right or provision under these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

 

  1. Coordination With Apple Minimum Terms.

If (and only to the extent) you are accessing and using a Mobile App in connection with an iOS-based product (the “Apple App”), then the additional terms and conditions of this section apply to you. These Terms of Use are concluded between you and the Company only, and not with Apple Inc. (“Apple”). You and the Company each acknowledge that the Company, and not Apple, is responsible for the Apple App and the content thereof, subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use. You and the Company each acknowledge that Apple does not have any obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services with respect to the Apple App. You and the Company each acknowledge that, as between the Company on the one hand, and Apple on the other, the Company (and not Apple) is responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the Apple App or your possession and/or use of the Apple App, including, but not limited to: (i) product liability claims; (ii) any claim that the Apple App fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation, in each case subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use. In the event of any failure of the Apple App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price you paid for the Apple App to you; otherwise, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will not have any warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the Apple App, and any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be the Company’s sole responsibility, subject to the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use. In the event of any third party claim that the Apple App or your possession and use of the Apple App in accordance with these Terms of Use infringes that third party’s intellectual property rights (an “Infringement Claim”), the Company (and not Apple), will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of any such Infringement Claim. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will have no liability or obligation with respect to any Infringement Claim to the extent based upon or arising out of: (a) access to or use of the Apple App in combination with any hardware, system, software, network or other materials or service not provided by the Company (or authorized in the Apple App’s documentation or otherwise in writing by the Company); (b) modifications or configurations made to the Apple App, as applicable, by anyone other than the Company (or a party acting under the Company’s direction) without the Company’s prior written consent; or (c) any action taken by you relating to use of the Services that violates these Terms of Use or is otherwise outside the scope of the rights and authorizations granted in these Terms of Use. You must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the Apple App. You and the Company each acknowledge and agree that Apple, and Apple’s subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms of Use, and, upon your acceptance of the terms and conditions of these Terms of Use, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms of Use against you as a third-party beneficiary hereof.

 

  1. Text Messaging Terms.

Written Word Media, Inc., operating as Vellure Books, offers optional text messaging programs. These terms supplement our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy (https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/terms/).

Messages and enrollment

When you separately opt in to Vellure Books marketing texts, you agree to receive recurring automated marketing text messages at the mobile number you provide. Messages may include new-feature announcements, subscription offers, and book recommendations. Message frequency varies.

You enroll in marketing texts by entering your phone number, selecting the optional marketing consent checkbox, and saving your choice in Vellure. The checkbox is not preselected. Providing a phone number, creating an account, or requesting a verification code does not enroll you in marketing texts.

If you request a phone verification code, we send a text to verify access to your number. Verification messages are sent when you request them; frequency depends on your requests. Verification consent is separate from marketing consent.

 
Rates and delivery

Standard message and data rates may apply to messages sent and received. Contact your wireless provider for details about your plan. Delivery depends on your wireless provider and network availability. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.

 
Stopping messages and getting help

Reply STOP to any Vellure Books text to opt out of messages from that sending number. You may receive one final message confirming your opt-out. No further messages will be sent from that number unless you subsequently consent to receive messages again. You can also turn off marketing texts in your Vellure phone preferences or contact us to withdraw consent. Opting out of texts does not close your Vellure account.

Reply HELP for help. You can also contact info@writtenwordmedia.com for support or to stop messages. Please identify Vellure Books and the phone number involved so we can locate your preference. Do not send verification codes or passwords.

You must provide a number you are authorized to use. If you change or give up that number, update or remove it in Vellure. Marketing consent does not transfer to a replacement number; you must opt in again for that number.

 

  1. Entire Agreement.

The Terms of Use, our Copyright Policy and our Privacy Policy constitute the sole and entire agreement between you and the Company with respect to the Services and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations and warranties, both written and oral, with respect to the Services.

 

  1. Your Comments and Concerns.

All feedback, comments, requests for technical support and other communications relating to the Services should be directed to: info@writtenwordmedia.com.

 

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Written Word Media Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last Modified on October 7, 2026.

Introduction

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Policy. This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit one or more of our family of websites, including secure.writtenwordmedia.com, writtenwordmedia.com, freebooksy.com, bargainbooksy.com, redfeatherromance.com, audiothicket.com, newinbooks.com and vellurebooks.com (collectively, our “Website”) or use one or more of our downloadable mobile applications associated with any one or more of the foregoing sites (collectively, the “Mobile Apps,” and, together with the Website, the “Services”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.

This Policy applies to any information that we collect on the Services, including any information in any e-mails, posts, texts and other electronic messages between you and the Services and any information about you transferred to the Services from other websites or services. This Policy also applies to any related information that we collect about you offline but that will be processed by automated means using the Services. This Policy does not apply to any other information that we collect by any means.

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you can choose not to use our Services. By accessing or using our Services, you agree to this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.

 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Services, including information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, screen name, telephone number and photograph, or other information about you that is maintained in personally-identifiable form (i.e., by being associated with one or more of the foregoing identifiers), such as reading activity (e.g., books, shelves, ratings, genre preferences). In addition, if you purchase any goods or services on our Services, we may collect information required for the payment for goods or services, including credit card numbers, security codes and other financial information. All of this information is cumulatively referred to in this Policy as “Personal Information”.

The information we collect on or through our Services may include information that you provide by registering to use our Services, placing an order for promotions, using our services, posting material, requesting further services or reporting a problem with our Services. We will also retain records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses) if you contact us.

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may automatically collect certain traffic data and usage information to help us manage our content and improve your use of the Services. This may include information about your equipment, your IP address, your mobile device ID, and your browsing actions and patterns when you visit our Services, including the referring and exit pages. The technologies that we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies that are stored on your computer, small embedded electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) and other types of embedded code on the Services that permit us to count users and obtain other related Services statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Services content and verifying system and server integrity).

You also may provide information to be posted, published or displayed on public areas of the Services, or transmitted to other users of the Services or third parties, including information, feedback and comments (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on the Services and transmitted to others at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users of the Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

 

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information,

  • to present our Services and their respective contents to you,
  • to permit you to place orders for promotions via our Services and to process such transactions,
  • to send you informational and promotional e-mails or correspondence regarding our own products and services,
  • to send you advertisements and promotional materials about books, audiobooks or other products and services that may be of interest to you (e.g., suggestions for books in a genre where you have shown an interest in the past),
  • to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us and to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide the information.

If you purchase any products or services offered through our Services, we may transmit your Personal Information to third-party payment processors. We may also use your Personal Information to notify you about changes to our Services or any products or services we offer or provide through it and to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection. We may also use the information that you provide in any other way that we describe when you provide the information and for any other purpose with your consent. Finally, we may use your Personal Information for any permitted marketing purposes described below.

We retain your Personal Information while you are using the Platform to improve your use of the Platform. Once you are no longer using our Platform, we will store your Personal Information for so long as we may need it to answer questions about the products or services that we provided, or to comply with the record keeping requirements of applicable law.

 

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your Personal Information for any permitted marketing purposes described below. We may transmit your Personal Information to third-party payment processors in connection with processing your purchase of any products or services offered through our Services. We may also disclose your Personal Information for any other purpose disclosed when the information is provided, and for any other purpose with your consent.

We may convert or combine some Personal Information of users into de-identified or aggregated data that does not disclose any of the Personal Information of any individual user. We may use and disclose any such de-identified or aggregated data without restriction.

Some of the information that we collect from cookies, web beacons or other embedded code relates to your personal use of the Services and allows us to store information about your preferences, speed up your searches and recognize you when you return to our Services. Other information that we collect from cookies, web beacons or other embedded code is not tied to your Personal Information and enables us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns. This traffic data may be shared with third parties without restriction.

We may disclose Personal Information to our subsidiaries and affiliates and to any contractors, service providers and other third parties who need to know such information to provide services that we request to support our permitted uses of Personal Information. For example, we may use third-party tools such as AWS and Google Analytics to store, process and/or analyze your information, including Personal Information. We may disclose Personal Information to a buyer or other successor to our business in the event of a sale of equity or assets, reorganization, merger or a similar corporate transaction and any due diligence review with respect to any such proposed transaction.

We may also disclose your Personal Information to comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to meet national security and law enforcement requirements and to respond to any government or regulatory request or audit and to enforce or apply our Terms of Use, including for billing and collection purposes, or if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

Social Media Sites and Widgets

You may be able to use social media widgets such as the Facebook Like button on the Services. These widgets will collect your IP address and identify which page you are visiting on the Services, and make your preference information available to third parties. The information collected by such widgets is controlled by third party privacy policies.

 

Use of Personal Information for Marketing Purposes

We may use your Personal Information to provide you with promotional information about our own products and services or about books, audiobooks or other products and services that may be of interest to you (e.g., suggestions for books in a genre where you have shown an interest in the past). Currently, we do not provide any of your Personal Information to third parties to use for their own advertising, marketing or tracking purposes.

 

Tracking

Tracking involves the use of cookies, web beacons or other embedded code or tracking technologies to collect, analyze and store information on a user’s behavior over time and/or across multiple websites, including information on the sites visited, products viewed, products purchased and other online interactions. Tracking information can be used to enable companies to make interest-based (behavioral) advertising available to users on sites that they visit.

We may collect Personal Information about your activities over time on our own Services (but not across third party sites) for tracking purposes when you use our Services. We use this information to offer you targeted advertisements and promotional materials about books, audiobooks or other products and services that may be of interest to you (e.g., suggestions for books in a genre where you have shown an interest in the past). However, we do not currently permit other parties, such as third-party advertisers, ad networks or ad servers, to conduct tracking or interest-based advertising for their own separate purposes or benefit (i.e., not acting on our behalf as a service provider to us but acting on their own behalf) on our Services.

Finally, Internet providers and mobile device providers may use cookies, web beacons or other embedded code or tracking technologies to collect Personal Information about your on-line activities over time and across third party sites when you use our Services or our services. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement, you should contact the responsible advertiser directly.

Our Services do not currently respond to any “DO NOT TRACK” signals sent by your browser or otherwise.

 

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

You have certain choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of the Services may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

If you do not wish to have your Personal Information used by us to promote our own products or services, or to send you advertisements and promotional materials about books, audiobooks or other products and services that may be of interest to you, you can opt-out by sending us an e-mail stating your request to privacy@writtenwordmedia.com. If you send such a request, please allow us time to update our records accordingly. If we have sent you a promotional e-mail, you may opt out of future promotional e-mails by clicking the “UNSUBSCRIBE” or similar link within the e-mail and follow the prompts that appear. This opt out does not apply to information provided as a result of a purchase or other transactions nor to disclosure to a third party that is acting on our behalf and under our instructions in support of our permitted uses of your Personal Information.

 

Users Outside of the United States

Our Services are hosted in the United States and our services are provided from the United States. It is possible that certain information will be stored on servers in multiple other countries on the “cloud” or other similar distributed hosting platforms. If you are a resident of any country other than the United States, where laws governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure may differ from United States laws, please note that by using our Services and otherwise providing your Personal Information to us through our Services, you are expressly and knowingly consenting to the transfer of your Personal Information from your home country to the United States and other jurisdictions as indicated above (where laws may differ from the laws of your jurisdiction), and you are expressly and knowingly consenting to our use and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with this Policy.

If you are a user accessing and using our Services from one of the European Economic Area countries, Switzerland or the United Kingdom (collectively, the “European Countries” and such users the “European Users”), please read this section carefully for more information about our collection, processing and transfer of your Personal Information and your rights related to such activities.

A. Legal Basis for Processing

If you are a European User, we have the legal right to collect, process, use, and retain your Personal Information (“European Personal Information”) in the ways described in this Policy, based on your consent, the need to use your European Personal Information to provide you with goods or services that you have requested and/or our legitimate interests in furthering our existing relationship with you or preventing fraud. Accordingly, generally you have a contractual rather than a statutory obligation to provide such information. If you do not provide such information, you may be unable to use our Services and we may be unable to provide any products or services that you request.

B. Transfers of Your European Personal Information to the United States

In connection with our collection and use of your European Personal Information, we may transfer all or certain portions of your European Personal Information to our servers in the United States or our third-party service providers in the United States. Please note that the governing bodies in your jurisdiction have determined that the laws of the United States do not provide adequate protection for your European Personal Information. Accordingly, we are transferring your European Personal Information from your country to the United States based on your explicit consent, because the transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract between you and us or the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at your request, because the transfer is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract concluded in your interest between us and another natural or legal person (e.g., your organization) and/or because the transfer is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense or legal claims, and you acknowledge and agree that we may collect, use and disclose your European Personal Information, both before and after such transfer, in accordance with this Policy.

C. Storage of Your European Personal Information

We securely store your European Personal Information in distributed locations in the United States using our own servers or the servers of reputable, third-party service providers such as our cloud-hosted infrastructure service provider and other cloud-based software service providers. We will keep such information for no longer than necessary. The length of time we retain your European Personal Information will depend on any legal obligations we have (such as tax recording purposes), the nature of any contracts we have in place with you, the existence of your consent or our legitimate interests as a business.

D. Your European Privacy Rights

If you are a European User, you will have the following additional rights with respect to your European Personal Information (your “European Privacy Rights”):

  • If we intend to disclose your European Personal Information to any third party that will have the right to process your European Personal Information, we will enter into a contract with that third party that provides that your European Personal Information may be processed only for limited and specified purposes consistent with the consent that you have provided to us, and that the third party must provide the same level of protection for your European Personal Information that we are obligated to provide under this Policy. In addition, we will notify you if that third party will have the right to determine the purposes for which it will process your European Personal Information and the means it will use to process your European Personal Information (rather than just providing requested assistance to us in support of our permitted uses of your European Personal Information). In certain situations, we may be required to disclose your European Personal Information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
  • If we are processing your European Personal Information based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Your withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of our processing based on your consent before your withdrawal. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide our Services or our other products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
  • You may restrict our use and processing of your European Personal Information by sending us an e-mail stating your request to privacy@writtenwordmedia.com, if you have contested the accuracy of that information, if the processing is unlawful or if we no longer need such information for the purposes for which it was collected. We will then store your European Personal Information and process it only with your consent, or to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim or to protect the rights of others. The restriction with respect to information claimed to be inaccurate would end if we verify the accuracy of that contested information.
  • We do not knowingly or intentionally collect, store or process sensitive information related to your racial or ethnic identity, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health (including genetic and biometric data), sex life or sexual orientation (“European Sensitive Information”). We will not use or disclose any of your European Sensitive Information without your explicit consent, subject to certain limited exceptions. Should we wish to make any such use or disclosure, we will notify you by e-mail and will request that you authorize such use or disclosure by responding to the e-mail with your explicit consent.
  • We may create a profile to analyze or predict your personal preferences or interests solely related to your use of our Services and for the purposes described in this Policy. We do not otherwise create profiles to analyze or predict your performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or movements. We do not make any decision about you that would have legal consequences or similarly significant effects on you based solely on automated decision-making, including the use of profiles.
  • Upon our receipt of your request by e-mail at privacy@writtenwordmedia.com and our verification of your identity, we will advise you whether we are processing European Personal Information concerning you and, if so, will provide you with a copy of your European Personal Information being processed and certain information about the nature and purposes of the processing. You may correct, amend or delete any such European Personal Information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Upon your request by e-mail at privacy@writtenwordmedia.com and our verification of your identity, we will erase any of your European Personal Information that is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected or that is being used for direct marketing purposes, or if our use is based on your consent and you withdraw that consent, or if we have made such European Personal Information public. We will not erase such information, however, to the extent it is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim or another exception applies under applicable law in your jurisdiction.
  • If we are using your European Personal Information on the basis of your consent and we change our Policy to permit any use or disclosure of your European Personal Information that is materially different than the uses for which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by you, we will obtain your consent before we make such further uses of your European Personal Information.

Generally, you will not have to pay a fee to exercise any of your European Privacy Rights. We may, however, charge a reasonable fee if a request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in those circumstances. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and to ensure your right to exercise your European Privacy Rights. This is a security measure to ensure that your European Personal Information is not disclosed to a person who does not have a right to receive it.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests related to European Privacy Rights within a reasonable timeframe. Occasionally, it may take us longer if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated of our progress.

If you have a complaint about our compliance with this Policy, you may contact us at privacy@writtenwordmedia.com. If you are an EU resident and you still are not satisfied, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with the Supervisory authority in your country of residence in the EU. A list of Supervisory Authorities is available at https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en.

 

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you may obtain certain information regarding our disclosure of your Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to privacy@writtenwordmedia.com. Please note, however, that we do not currently disclose your Personal Information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.

 

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change certain of your Personal Information by logging into the Services and visiting your account profile page.

You may also send us an e-mail at privacy@writtenwordmedia.com to request access to any Personal Information that you have provided to us, or to correct or delete that Personal Information. Unless you have provided European Personal Information, which is covered by the section titled “Users Outside of the United States”, we will evaluate such requests on a case-by-case basis. We cannot delete certain of your Personal Information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Services, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Services users.

 

Children Under the Age of 18

Our Services are not intended for children under 18 years of age, and no one under age 18 may provide any information to the Services. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Services, make any purchases through the Services, use any of the interactive or public comment features of the Services or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at privacy@writtenwordmedia.com.

 

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. All information that you provide to us is stored on our servers behind firewalls and certain Personal Information will be encrypted using secure socket layer (SSL) technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. When we have given you (or when you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Services, you are responsible for keeping that password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Services such as message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Services.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure. Although we have implemented security measures that we think are adequate, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Services. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Services.

 

Vellure Books Text Messaging Privacy

This section applies to text messaging offered by Written Word Media, Inc., operating as Vellure Books, and supplements our Privacy Policy. If another provision of that policy would allow sharing SMS opt-in information for marketing, this section controls for that information.

 

We collect your mobile number, its association with your Vellure account, phone verification status, and records of your text messaging choices. Consent records include the number, date and time, signup surface, consent wording and version, policy links presented, and changes or withdrawal of consent. We use this information to manage your preferences, provide requested verification, send marketing texts you have agreed to receive, respond to support requests, prevent abuse, and document consent.

 

We do not sell, rent, or share your mobile number, SMS opt-in data, or text messaging consent with third parties or affiliates for their marketing or promotional purposes. Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent are excluded from any broader permission to share information for marketing elsewhere in our Privacy Policy. We may provide information to service providers that help us deliver text messages, maintain consent records, or provide customer support, solely to perform those services for us and not for their own marketing.

 

Your number and SMS preferences are not displayed on your public Vellure profile. For privacy questions, contact privacy@writtenwordmedia.com. For messaging support or opt-out requests, contact info@writtenwordmedia.com.

 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We post any changes we make to our Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on the Services home page. The date the Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Services and this Policy to check for any changes.

 

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at privacy@writtenwordmedia.com.

 

 

Written Word Media Copyright Policy

Reporting Claims of Copyright Infringement

We take claims of copyright infringement seriously.  We will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law.  If you believe any materials accessible on or from secure.writtenwordmedia.com, writtenwordmedia.com, freebooksy.com, bargainbooksy.com, redfeatherromance.com, newinbooks.com, audiothicket.com, or vellurebooks.com (collectively, the “Website”) infringe your copyright, you may request removal of those materials (or access to them) from the Website by submitting written notification to our Copyright Agent (designated below).  In accordance with the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) (“DMCA”), the written notice (the “DMCA Notice”) must include substantially the following:

  • Your physical or electronic signature.
  • Identification of the copyrighted work you believe to have been infringed or, if the claim involves multiple works on the Website, a representative list of such works.
  • Identification of the material you believe to be infringing in a sufficiently precise manner to allow us to locate that material.
  • Adequate information by which we can contact you (including your name, postal address, telephone number and, if available, e-mail address).
  • A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.
  • A statement that the information in the written notice is accurate.
  • A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Our designated Copyright Agent to receive DMCA Notices is:

Legal Department

510 Meadowmont Village Circle
Suite 138
Chapel Hill, NC 27517

info@writtenwordmedia.com

If you fail to comply with all of the requirements of Section 512(c)(3) of the DMCA, your DMCA Notice may not be effective.

Please be aware that if you knowingly materially misrepresent that material or activity on the Website is infringing your copyright, you may be held liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) under Section 512(f) of the DMCA.

 

Counter-Notification Procedures

If you believe that material you posted on the Website was removed or access to it was disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may file a counter-notification with us (a “Counter-Notice”) by submitting written notification to our copyright agent (identified below).  Pursuant to the DMCA, the Counter-Notice must include substantially the following:

  • Your physical or electronic signature.
  • An identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access disabled.
  • Adequate information by which we can contact you (including your name, postal address, telephone number and, if available, e-mail address).
  • A statement, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good faith belief that the material identified above was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
  • A statement that you will consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located (or if you reside outside the United States for any judicial district in which the Website may be found) and that you will accept service from the person (or an agent of that person) who provided the Website with the complaint at issue.

Counter-Notices should be sent to the Copyright Agent identified above.

The DMCA allows us to restore the removed content if the party filing the original DMCA Notice does not file a court action against you within ten business days of receiving the copy of your Counter-Notice.

Please be aware that if you knowingly materially misrepresent that material or activity on the Website was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification, you may be held liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) under Section 512(f) of the DMCA.

 

Repeat Infringers

It is our policy in appropriate circumstances to disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who are repeat infringers.  We generally will treat a user as a repeat infringer if the user has been notified of infringing activity more than twice and/or has had a user submission removed from the Website more than twice.