Terms of Service (TOS) & Privacy Policy

This website supports learners of the Nice Talking with You text series, but is not owned or operated by Cambridge University Press, the series publisher. The site is operated by the primary author of the series.

Everyone values their privacy. Your privacy is totally respected here. Only the most basic info about you is asked for. Furthermore, your personal information isn’t shared with anyone except to comply with the law, or under matters of legal rights.

Like most websites, nicetalkingwithyou.com collects non-personally-identifying information stuff that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use the website. From time to time, non-personally-identifying information may be released in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

nicetalkingwithyou.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on the blog. Logged in user and commenter IP addresses are disclosed only under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Visitors to nicetalkingwithyou.com choose to interact with the site in ways that require the site to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that the site gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, if you’re signing up for the Teacher’s Area, you’ll provide a username and email address, etc; simply browsing the site does not require submission of such information. In each case, the site collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with the site. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

nicetalkingwithyou.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. However, it does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

If you are a registered user of the Nice Talking With You website and have supplied your email address, you may occasionally get an email to tell you about new features or solicit your feedback. If you send a request (for example via a support email or via a feedback mechanism), or have some kind of high praise, the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users or promote the site is reserved by the site. nicetalkingwithyou.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Nice Talking With You uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of the website, and their website access preferences. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the site, with the drawback that certain features of the sites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

If ownership of this website is transferred, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of the site may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads appearing on any of these pages may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Nice Talking With You and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Although most changes are likely to be minor, this Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time at the webmaster’s discretion. Visitors are recommended to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

We are committed to the privacy and security of our visitors' information. The following is a statement of our privacy practices:

• Your personal information is not required to visit nicetalkingwithyou.com
• Any personal information collected is knowingly provided by you and only when requested/required during account registration for interactive participation on nicetalkingwithyou.com and during the ordering process

• Your IP address is a numeric address assigned to your computer, assigned by your Internet service provider. We automatically collect your IP address as traffic data so that we can send information back to you when requested. This is not used to identify your personal information.
• Referrers are references to the web address you linked from and is automatically passed along by your web browser. We collect referrers your browser sends as part of traffic data. This is not attached to personally identifiable information.
• System information such as your operating system/platform, and the type of web browser you use. This is not attached to personally identifiable information.

• Your information is maintained on a secure web server in what we believe to be a well-protected environment.
• nicetalkingwithyou.com makes every effort to preserve your privacy, personal information may be disclosed when required by law where we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process.

nicetalkingwithyou.com relies on "cookie" technology to allow you to re-access your registered account profile during a web session. This mechanism is employed solely for your convenience and for no other purpose.

This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that nicetalkingwithyou.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our visitors to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Confidentiality of Correspondence

Any communication, including but not limited to emails, direct messages, or any other form of correspondence exchanged between the user and the webmaster of this website shall be treated as confidential. The user agrees not to disclose, share, or disseminate any such correspondence with any third-party without explicit consent from the webmaster.

Violation of this provision shall constitute a breach of the website's terms of service and may result in immediate termination of the user's account, legal action, and any other remedies available under applicable law.

By using nicetalkingwithyou.com, the user acknowledges and agrees to maintain the confidentiality of all communications with the webmaster and to abide by the terms set forth herein.

If a visitor's personally identifiable information changes (such as zip code, phone, email or postal address), or if a visitor no longer desires our service, we provide a way to correct, update or delete/deactivate personally identifiable information. This can usually be done at the ‘Your Account' page or by contacting our Customer Service.

If this privacy policy changes, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other appropriate places so our visitors are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

If, however, we are going to use visitors' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users by posting a notice on our web site for 30 days.