Privacy Policy
General
News in Slow® $name and Linguistica 360® (the company that produces News in Slow® $name), are committed to protecting your privacy when you visit our website, subscribe to our programs, and/or participate in the interactive parts of our site. This Privacy Policy explains what type of information we collect, how we use it, and how we safeguard it. By visiting our site, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change this policy from time to time.
Information We Collect
We only collect the names of subscribers to our programs and their passwords, and email addresses. Subscribers can also choose to provide their country or state of residence. We use subscriber information to create subscriber accounts and give subscribers access to our products and services. We never share or sell subscriber information with any third party.
If you contact us to ask a question or provide feedback of any kind, we record the contact information you have provided and the content of your communication so that we can respond to you effectively.
When anyone visits our website, we automatically collect information about the visitor’s Internet preferences such as browser type, requested URLs, IP addresses, and pages visited. We use this non-personal information in the aggregate to monitor the effectiveness of our site and make improvements. No individual visitors can be identified from this information.
We do not see or collect any financial information from subscribers. All financial transactions on our website are handled through Paypal® or Stripe, which have their own privacy and security policies of which you should be aware. In directing you to Paypal® or Stripe, our understanding is that these online payment systems are required not to use your personal information other than to process payment for the subscription services requested by you, and they use standard industry security measures to protect your information.
Links to other Sites
In addition to Paypal® and Stripe, our site contains links to websites operated by other parties. News in Slow® French and Linguistica 360 do not control these websites and are not responsible for their contents or privacy practices. If you are concerned about your privacy on these websites, please read those websites’ privacy policies. Our inclusion of links does not imply any endorsement of the content on those websites or any association with their operators.
Cookies
We use “cookies” to help subscribers use our website and to improve the quality of our service. Cookies are identifiers that we transfer to subscribers’ computer persistent memory to enable our systems to recognize their browsers and to provide certain features of our site. When subscribers log off our site, the cookies are deleted from their computers. We do not link any information stored in the cookies to any personally identifiable information that subscribers submit while on our site. Subscribers can set their browsers to reject cookies, but doing so may disable certain features of our site.
Legal Requests for Information
We may disclose a subscriber’s personal information if we believe, in good faith, that disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with the law (although not to contest the validity of any search warrant, subpoena, or other governmental request we may receive); (b) address suspected illegal activity; (c) enforce our Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, or any other applicable guidelines or agreements posted on this site; or (d) protect our rights, reputation and property, or that of our subscribers or the public. This may include exchanging information for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
How We Protect Your Information
We take commercially reasonable precautions to protect the security of subscribers’ personal information using industry standard measures, but absolute security cannot be guaranteed. It is up to individual subscribers to protect against unauthorized access to their password and computer. News in Slow® French and Linguistica 360® are not liable for the transfer of any personal information resulting from corruption of storage media, power failures, riots, acts of vandalism, sabotage or any other event beyond our reasonable control.