Privacy and Data Usage Policy

General Rule.  EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY AND SPECIFICALLY STATED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY SECTION, YOU WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN AND TO THE INFORMATION WHICH YOU CONVEY WITH, BY OR THROUGH THE WEBSITE.  USING THE WEBSITE HAS CERTAIN IRREVOCABLE IMPLICATIONS AS SET FORTH BELOW.

Except for circumstances controlled by any Services Agreement or the Website Services and related data, anything sent to Bookminders arising from your use of this Website may be used without liability and for any purpose without compensation or attribution to you or the sender and Bookminders may reproduce, sublicense, transfer, use, disclose, exhibit, display, transform, create derivative works and distribute such content or materials to others without limitation; this includes but is not limited to any information (including, without limitation, ideas contained therein for new or improved products and services) you submit to or through this Website (including, but not limited to, bulletin boards, forums and newsgroups) or by e-mail by all means and in any media now known or hereafter developed.  You agree that Bookminders owns all content on or submitted through this Website, including your communications, and you shall have no recourse for any alleged or actual appropriation of any proprietary right in your communications to this Website.

You consent to usage of any portions of the Website, including email and other communications facilities, being unencrypted.

Without limiting the foregoing, any comments, data, information or materials sent to Bookminders arising from your use of the Website may be used without liability and for any purpose without compensation or attribution to you or the sender.  Bookminders may reproduce, sublicense, transfer, use, disclose, exhibit, display, transform, create derivative works and distribute such content or materials to others without limitation; this includes but is not limited to any information (including, without limitation, ideas contained therein for new or improved products and services) you submit to or through the Website (including, but not limited to, posts, forums and newsgroups) or by electronic mail and communications by all means and in any media now known or hereafter developed.  You agree that you shall have no recourse for any alleged or actual infringement or misappropriation of any proprietary right in your communications to the Website.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Services Agreement and/or any Membership Services License may have overriding policies for data and privacy in Restricted Areas.  For example, if you are a Practiceminders Licensee, rights to privacy and data stated here may be overridden by any Membership Services License.

Cookies.  You consent to Bookminders using “cookies” or similar commonly used technical devices of storing data on your computer for the purposes of access, reviewing, maintaining and/or improving this Website and related services.

Collected Data.  This Website collects information and data from you (“Collected Data”).  Some of the Collected Data may or does contain Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”), particularly in Restricted Areas pursuant to a Membership Services License.  Some of the Collected Data may or does contain usage data (“Usage Data”).  And, some of the Collected Data may or does contain security and account data (“Account Data”).  Use of the term “Collected Data” includes, but is not limited to, PII, Usage Data and Account Data. 

ALL COLLECTED DATA IS AVAILABLE TO BEING SOLD, LICENSED, DISTRIBUTED, ASSIGNED OR TRANSFERRED, ALL OR IN PART, TO THIRD PARTIES BY BOOKMINDERS OR ITS TRANSFEREES, WITHOUT COMPENSATION OR REPORTING TO YOU, UPON TERMS NO LESS PRIVATE THAN STATED IN THIS DOCUMENT.

The Website collects as Collected Data, your name, location, and other contact and profile information, so that Bookminders and/or the Website can identify you and apply demographic analyses to your personal profile for rendering services by the Website or otherwise by Bookminders, which also includes the purpose of advertising by Bookminders and third parties.  The Website collects as Collected Data your log in security information, and account profile information for the purpose of individualizing services in accordance with your account profile.  The Website collects as Collected Data statistical and usage data relating to your specific and general activities in using the Website, including usage of and other Third-Party Materials applications, in order to individualize services provided by the Website, as well as demographic and usage data acquisition and assessments for advertising purposes and to augment, evaluate and to modify the Website. 

In addition to Collected Data that you provide, the Website will also automatically create information and may store information on your devices or Bookminders cloud servers as Collected Data, with or without prompting you.  For example, the Website stores tracking data, cookies, and other data and meta data that contains information regarding your general and specific usage of the Website and activities using the Website.  This Collected Data is necessary or appropriate for technical framework purposes, as well as for the purposes set forth above for usage, demographic, technical, advertising and Website augmentation.  Collected Data includes location, physical tracking and GPS data for the purpose of tracking your respective location or locations and matching to others.

The Website accesses a number of third party services’ accounts, with which Bookminders and/or the Website may have affiliations for connectivity, augmented social media experiences and for advertising purposes regarding which Collected Data is conveyed by affiliation.  This includes or may include financial and accounting services.  You understand that Bookminders also uses Collected Information for its own advertising purposes, including email communications with you and/or your contacts and social media communications.

DELETING OR REQUESTING THE DELETION OF YOUR ACCOUNT IS NEITHER THE SAME AS DELETING COLLECTED DATA NOR IS IT EVEN THE SAME AS DELETING ACCOUNT DATA.  DELETING YOUR ACCOUNT DOES NOT DELETE ALL COLLECTED DATA OR EVEN DELETE ALL ACCOUNT DATA.  WITHDRAWAL OF YOUR CONSENT OR ACCOUNT DELETION IS PROSPECTIVE ONLY.  IN DELETING AN ACCOUNT SOME OR ALL HISTORICAL COLLECTED DATA WILL BE RETAINED, WHETHER OR NOT RELATED TO YOUR IDENTITY OR OTHERWISE DISCRETELY ACCESSIBLE BY BOOKMINDERS; ACCORDINGLY, COLLECTED DATA, INCLUDING ACCOUNT DATA, MAY STILL EXIST IN SOME FORM WITHIN THE DATABASES OF BOOKMINDERS, WHICH MIGHT NOT BE REASONABLY IDENTIFIABLE OR ACCESSIBLE TO SUPPORT STAFF.

California Privacy Rights.  If you are a California Resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information. To make such a request please email: CaliforniaRequest@Bookminders.com.  Other jurisdictions may give you other or additional rights.

Contact webmaster@Bookminders.com for issues regarding this Website. For any claim made pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, please email us at dmca@Bookminders.com.