Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 28, 2025

1. Introduction and Overview

This Privacy Policy describes how Winter Forest Press LLC (“Winter Forest Press,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) collects and uses information about you on our website at winterforestpress.com (the “Site”), and all applications, features, content, and other services that we own, control and make available to you (collectively, with the Site, the “Services”).

2. What Information We Collect

We and our service providers collect the following categories of personal information, depending on your interactions with us:

  • Identifiers and contact information, such as your name, email address, and Forester account username and password
  • Purchase, viewership, and preference information, such as the books, articles, and content that you search for or view and the details thereof, and the products and items that you browse, add to your cart, or buy
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information when you visit the Site or interact with our emails or online ads and content. For example, we use tracking tools like cookies and pixels to automatically collect information like the type of device you are using. We also use UTM tags in the emails we send to you to help us understand how you interact with those messages, such as whether and when you opened an email or clicked on any content within the email.
  • General location, collected when you interact with our Site
  • Information collected via an application or registration form, including social media links, favorite books, and profile picture
  • Comments, posts, and other user-generated content posted to the Site

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we use cookies to save your login information. Login cookies last for two days. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Articles and pages on the Site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the external website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use personal information (including sensitive personal information) about you for any purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy or as permitted by applicable law, including to:

  • Manage our Site and Services, including your registration and account;
  • Process and facilitate your transactions, including purchases made through the Site;
  • Provide access to free and/or purchased downloads and other similar content;
  • Customize your browsing and shopping experience on the Site;
  • Respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and to provide customer service;
  • Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, information regarding changes to our policies, and support and administrative messages;
  • Prevent and address fraud, breach of policies or terms, and threats or harm;
  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities;
  • Conduct research, including focus groups and surveys;
  • Evaluate Forester applications;
  • Verify or authenticate your identity in relation to requests you make or communications you send;
  • Comply with legal obligations;
  • Fulfill any other purpose disclosed at the time you provide personal information.

We will not use information we have collected from you for purposes that are materially different, unrelated, or incompatible with this Privacy Policy without providing you with prior notice. Information that has been deidentified or aggregated is not subject to this Privacy Policy, and we and our Service Providers may use it without obligation to you except as prohibited by applicable law.

4. Retaining and Sharing Your Data

We never sell your personal information to third parties. We use some third-party service providers (e.g., our email marketing platform) to help us deliver our services. These providers are contractually bound to maintain the confidentiality of your data and use it solely for our business purposes.

If you leave a post or comment, the content and its metadata are retained indefinitely. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

For users who register on the Site, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (changing a username requires contacting a Site administrator). Site administrators can also see and edit the same information.

5. Your Data Rights

If you have an account on the Site, or have posted any content on the Site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

6. Data Security

We take measures designed to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Nevertheless, transmission via the internet is never completely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through our Sites or Services.

7. Privacy Policy Changes

We reserve the right to revise and reissue this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting of the revised Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our Site and Services indicates your acknowledgment of the Privacy Policy then posted. If the changes are material, we may provide you additional notice.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, or would like to make a complaint about how we process your personal information, please email us at books@winterforestpress.com, or send a letter to Winter Forest Press, PO Box 5731, New York, NY, 11105. We will seek to address any questions, comments, or complaints as soon as possible.