Literatureshot's privacy policy is designed to help you understand what information we collect from you and how that information is used by literatureshot and its directly related domains (collectively, "Literatureshot", "we", "us" or the "Site").

Your trust and confidence are essential to our success. Literatureshot respects your privacy and will not sell or share your personally identifiable information with another party without your expressed consent, other than as described in "Exceptions to Sharing Personally Identifiable Information" below.

Your use of the literatureshot website constitutes your consent to this Privacy Policy and literatureshot's Terms of Use.

This Privacy Policy does not cover:

Information collected by third-party websites linked from literatureshot.

Information collected off-line

literatureshot may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time to accurately reflect the literatureshot Site and literatureshot services in general. Please review this Policy frequently for any changes. The most current version of the Privacy Policy will govern our use of information about you and will be located at http://www.shmoop.com/public/privacy/ . If literatureshot makes material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting a notice on the Site or sending an email to the address we have on file for you. Please ensure this address remains current so you will receive updates. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email us at literatureshot@gmail.com.

Information We Collect

We collect two types of information from you:

Information you voluntarily provide when registering or participating in activities on literatureshot; and
Information collected from your computer and location when you use literatureshot.

We have implemented Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting.

Using the Ads Settings, visitors can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize. 

Google Display Network ads.

We plan only to use such data collected by Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting for internal reports and market research.

All personally identifiable information collected from the Site will not be shared with any other entity without your expressed consent, other than as described in "Exceptions to Sharing Personally Identifiable Information" below.

Other Voluntarily Submitted Information

We also collect information that you submit voluntarily through our literatureshot message boards, notes, conversations, and other communications. Examples include, but are not limited to, feedback or customer support messages that you send to us, user surveys or polls to which you respond, preferences you set on the Site, comments and ratings you submit to the Site, notes and content you create, and optional profile information you wish to share with other visitors to our Site.

If you place an order using the Site, we may also collect additional information, including, but not limited to, billing address, shipping address, date of birth, date of order, payment information, and the product ordered. Literatureshot may share this information with third parties, as discussed in more detail below.

Automatically Collected Information

In addition to the information you voluntarily send us while visiting literatureshot, like most websites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes, but is not limited to, internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clicks stream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movements around the site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

Literatureshot uses third-party products called Google Analytics, Google AdSense, and Rhapsody that uses cookies and/or other tracking mechanisms embedded in our pages to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our Site in the aggregate, such as total visitors to the site and length of visit.

You authorize literatureshot to use this information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Our Use of Information

We use the information that we collect on our Site primarily to create a better, more customized experience for our visitors. We may use information that we collect about you through the Site to: (A) provide access to the Site and to provide you with requested services and customer support and to process and respond to your inquiries; (B) personalize, customize, measure, and improve our services, content, and advertising and otherwise to enhance your experience of the Site; (C) prevent, detect, and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities or a breach of the literatureshot Terms of Use; (D) analyze the accuracy, effectiveness, usability, or popularity of the Site; (E) generate and review reports and data about our user base and service usage patterns; (F) compile aggregate data for internal and external business purposes; (G) resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems; (H) contact you with information, including promotional, marketing, and advertising information and recommendations that we believe may be of interest to you; (I) provide you with other services requested by you as described when we collect the information; and (J) take any other action as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy.

We do not share personally identifiable information with third parties without your expressed consent, other than as described in " Exceptions to Sharing Personally Identifiable Information" below. We may provide information in the aggregate about our users to third parties for other purposes, but in this case, all personally identifiable information will be removed.

Children's Privacy

We are committed to protecting the privacy of persons less than 13 years of age ("child" or "children") who use our Site. This policy explains our information collection, disclosure, and parental consent practices with respect to information provided by children and is in accordance with the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"). Literatureshot does not knowingly permit any child to register directly for the Site unless we reasonably believe, or have received assurances from the Subscribing User or District License Administrator (as defined in literatureshot's Terms of Use), that the child's parent has consented to such registration and use of the Site. If literatureshot learns that personal information of a child has been collected on the Site without parental consent, then we will take appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child has a registered account with the Site without your consent, please email  literatureshot at literatureshot@gmail.com and request that literatureshot deletes that child's personal information from its systems.

Registration and Use of the Site

When a child requests to register for the Site,  literatureshot will seek consent from the child's identified parent or guardian ("Parent"). We may ask the child to provide certain information for notification and security purposes, including the Parent's email address, the child's first name and gender, the child's username, and password. We may also ask for birth dates from children to validate their ages. Please note that children can choose whether to share their information with us, but certain features cannot function without it. As a result, children may not be able to access certain features if required information has not been provided. We will not require a child to provide more information than is reasonably necessary in order to participate in an online activity. Parents may also agree to the collection and use of their child's information, but not allow disclosure to third parties.

Consistent with the requirements of COPPA, on any child-targeted site or application, or in any instance where we ask for age and determine the user is less than 13 years of age, we will ask for a Parent email address before we collect any personal information from the child. If you believe your child is participating in an activity that collects personal information and you or another Parent have NOT received an email providing notice or seeking your consent, please feel free to contact us at literatureshot@gmail.com . We will not use parent emails provided for parental consent purposes to market to the parent, unless the parent has expressly opted in to email marketing or has separately participated in an activity that allows for such email contact.

If you are a Parent and wish to provide direct consent for your child's registration on the Site, you must first register through the Site and affirmatively verify you are the child's Parent and consent to the collection of the child's personal information.

If, in addition to collecting content that includes personal information, literatureshot also plans to post the content publicly, share it with a third party for the third party's own use or allow the child to post content publicly, we will obtain a higher level of parental consent (verifiable parental consent). Methods by which we will obtain verifiable parental consent include, but are not limited to, requiring a signed consent form by mail, fax or electronic scan, asking for a credit card or other online payment method for verification, or speaking to a trained customer service representative by telephone or video chat.

Accessing, Changing and Managing Your Information

You can access or change your personal profile and contact information or delete your account by either logging into your account or contacting customer service.

Security of Your Information

The security of your information is very important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security and any information you transmit to literatureshot or submit through the Site is done so at your own risk. If you have questions about security on our Site, please contact us at literatureshot@gmail.com .

Sharing Information within literatureshot.

Message Board, Site Sharing Features and Site Contributions

When you use our Site, you have the option to make contributions including, but not limited to, your notes, comments, creative works, or information about yourself, available to other visitors to our Site.
We will generally provide you with the option to control the privacy of your contributions or remove your contributions from the site.

If you use literatureshot's message boards, chat rooms, conversations, or other services on the
literatureshot site, please be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

If you have not removed or marked private any given piece of identifiable information, literatureshot will assume that you are aware that it is viewable by other users of literatureshot and the public at large.
If you have further questions about your contributions to this Site, please contact us.

Legal Disclaimer

As required by law or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our company, we reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information. In addition, we reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information when we believe that such disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, safety, or property, or the rights, safety or property of Service Providers or others. We also may disclose personally identifiable information to third parties in order to resolve disputes that arise in the normal course of business.

Third Party Advertisers

Some advertisements appearing on our Site are delivered by Google Inc. ("Google"), our advertising partner. Google uses cookies and clear GIF images on this site, which allow it to recognize a user's cookie when a user visits this Site. The information that Google collects and shares through this technology is not personally identifiable. For more information about our third party advertisers, or to learn more about the choices available to you regarding this anonymous information please visit Google's Privacy Policy.

We use third-party advertising companies such as Google DFP to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use aggregated information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. While this information will not identify you personally, in some instances these third parties may be able to combine this information with other data they have about you, or that they receive from third parties, in a manner that allows them to associate this aggregated data with your personal data. However, literatureshot only does business with reputable advertising providers like Google who take personal privacy issues very seriously. Please refer to Google’s documentation for more information on their policies: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/ . Or, if you would like more information about this general advertising practice and to learn what you can do to avoid having this information used by advertising companies.

Your information may also be disclosed to third parties in unforeseeable situations or situations that are not preventable even when commercially reasonably protections are employed, such as in the case that literatureshot or the Site is subject to a hacking or other attack.

Cookies; Do Not Track

literatureshot, along with our third-party service partners, vendors and business partners may use cookies, locally stored objects, and web beacons to automatically collect information about your use of the Site. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use both "persistent cookies" which remain on your computer after you have closed your browser as well as "session cookies" which exist only during a visitor's online session and disappear from your computer when you close your browser. Locally stored objects or "flash cookies" are data files that can be created on your computer by the websites you visit and are a way for websites to store information for later use. Locally stored objects are different than cookies because they are stored in different parts of your computer than cookies. Web beacons are small strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a web page or in an email message for the purpose of transferring data. We use cookies, locally stored objects and web beacons to make your experience with our Site more efficient and customized. Our cookies do not include any sensitive information, but they do help us learn which of our Site pages are visited and what tools and services are most often used. Please note that in order to use literatureshot, your web browser must be configured to accept cookies.

The Site may include links to other websites and other content from third-party businesses. We permit third parties to track your actions through cookies and web beacons over time and across different websites or platforms.

In addition, you may be able to adjust your browser settings or other settings so that "do not track" requests are sent to the websites and mobile applications that you use. However, literatureshot will not disable tracking technology that may be active on the Site in response to any "do not track" requests that are sent to the Site.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy, please use our online form to contact us . You may also email
literatureshot@gmail.com