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PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: October 2026

Pinnacle Agency for the Arts LLC, a Florida limited liability company doing business as AMA Publishing (“AMA Publishing,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), respects your privacy and is committed to being transparent about how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information.

This Privacy Policy explains our privacy practices when you visit our websites, purchase or use our products or Services, participate in an AMA Publishing book project, enroll in a course or program, join a community, submit author materials, communicate with us, attend an event, interact with our emails or marketing, or otherwise engage with AMA Publishing.

By using our Website or Services, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT

We may collect personal information directly from you, automatically through your use of our Website and Services, and from certain third parties.

1.1 Information You Provide Directly

Depending upon how you interact with AMA Publishing, you may provide information such as:

  • your name;

  • email address;

  • telephone number;

  • mailing or billing address;

  • business or company name;

  • social-media handles and website addresses;

  • account or login information;

  • purchase, enrollment, and transaction information;

  • course or program participation information;

  • communications you send to us;

  • survey, questionnaire, application, or form responses;

  • community posts, comments, messages, or other submissions;

  • author applications and publishing-project information;

  • chapters, manuscripts, stories, biographies, headshots, photographs, social links, promotional information, testimonials, endorsements, and other materials submitted in connection with a publishing project;

  • information you provide when attending events, trainings, interviews, calls, or other AMA Publishing experiences; and

  • other information you voluntarily provide to us.

1.2 Payment Information

When you make a purchase, payment information is generally collected and processed by third-party payment processors or platforms used by Company.

Company may receive transaction-related information such as your name, billing contact information, transaction amount, payment status, payment method type, and portions of payment information necessary to identify or administer a transaction.

We do not necessarily receive or store your complete payment-card number when payments are processed directly by a third-party payment processor.

1.3 Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our Website, open or interact with our emails, or use certain digital Services, we and our service providers may automatically collect information such as:

  • Internet Protocol (“IP”) address;

  • browser type;

  • device type;

  • operating system;

  • pages viewed;

  • links clicked;

  • date and time of access;

  • referring or exit pages;

  • general geographic information derived from an IP address;

  • email opens and interactions;

  • Website activity and navigation;

  • course or account activity; and

  • other technical or usage information.

This information may be collected through cookies, pixels, tags, analytics tools, server logs, and similar technologies.

1.4 Information From Third Parties

We may receive information from third parties that assist us in operating our business, including payment processors, website and course platforms, email providers, analytics providers, advertising platforms, publishing platforms, retailers, distributors, social-media platforms, event platforms, affiliates, referral partners, and other service providers.

We may also receive information when another person refers you to AMA Publishing, purchases something on your behalf where permitted, or includes you in a legitimate business or publishing communication.

2. AUTHOR AND PUBLISHING INFORMATION

2.1 Information Submitted for Publication

AMA Publishing is a publishing company. Certain information you submit to us may be provided specifically for publication or public promotion.

For example, an author may provide a name, professional title, biography, photograph, chapter, story, social-media information, website, business information, call to action, testimonial, quote, interview, or other material intended to appear in a book, author profile, sales page, promotional campaign, social-media post, email, press material, event, or other public-facing content.

Information intentionally submitted for publication or promotion should not be considered private or confidential unless Company expressly agrees otherwise in writing.

Once information has been lawfully published, distributed, printed, sold, shared, indexed, downloaded, or otherwise made public, Company may not be able to retrieve, modify, or remove all copies held by readers, retailers, search engines, libraries, distributors, media organizations, social platforms, archives, or other third parties.

2.2 Drafts and Unpublished Materials

We may receive unpublished chapters, manuscripts, stories, drafts, author materials, or other content as part of our publishing process.

We use such materials for legitimate publishing and business purposes, including reviewing submissions, producing books, communicating with authors, formatting content, creating promotional assets, administering projects, and otherwise providing the applicable Services.

Rights concerning ownership, licensing, publication, and use of Author Content may also be governed by our Terms & Conditions and any applicable author, contributor, publishing, or project-specific agreement.

3. HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may use personal information for legitimate business purposes, including to:

  • provide and administer our Services;

  • process purchases and transactions;

  • create and maintain customer, student, or author accounts;

  • enroll participants in courses, programs, communities, or publishing projects;

  • manage author submissions and publishing projects;

  • produce, publish, distribute, market, and promote books;

  • deliver courses, digital content, downloads, trainings, bonuses, and resources;

  • operate author and student communities;

  • communicate regarding purchases, submissions, deadlines, launches, events, account activity, and customer support;

  • send administrative or transactional messages;

  • send marketing communications where permitted by applicable law;

  • personalize and improve our Website, communications, marketing, products, and Services;

  • understand Website and customer activity;

  • measure the effectiveness of advertising and marketing;

  • conduct surveys, research, analytics, and business planning;

  • detect, investigate, prevent, and address fraud, abuse, security incidents, payment disputes, or unlawful conduct;

  • enforce our Terms, agreements, and policies;

  • protect Company, our customers, authors, students, employees, contractors, and others;

  • comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, and governmental requests; and

  • operate, administer, protect, and improve our business.

4. EMAIL AND MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

If you provide your email address, we may send you transactional, administrative, publishing-related, educational, or marketing communications as permitted by law.

Transactional and administrative messages may include purchase confirmations, account information, project deadlines, publication updates, course-access information, payment notices, customer-service responses, legal notices, and other communications relating to Services you have requested or purchased.

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the applicable email.

Unsubscribing from marketing emails does not necessarily prevent us from sending non-promotional messages reasonably necessary to administer your account, purchase, course, publishing project, transaction, or other existing relationship with Company.

5. COOKIES, PIXELS & SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We and third-party service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, analytics tools, and similar technologies to operate the Website, remember preferences, understand Website usage, improve performance, measure marketing activity, and support advertising.

These technologies may collect or associate information about your browser, device, IP address, Website activity, pages viewed, links clicked, purchases, referrals, or interactions with advertisements or emails.

Some cookies are necessary for Website functionality, account access, security, checkout, or other essential operations.

Other technologies may be used for analytics, personalization, attribution, or advertising.

You may be able to control certain cookies through your browser settings, device settings, consent-management tools made available on our Website, or the privacy settings provided by applicable third-party platforms.

Disabling cookies may affect the availability or functionality of certain Website features.

6. ANALYTICS & ADVERTISING

Company may use third-party analytics and advertising technologies to understand Website traffic, measure marketing performance, identify how visitors find our Website, understand interactions with our offers, and deliver or measure advertising.

Depending upon the technologies we use and applicable law, certain advertising or analytics activities may be considered “sharing,” “targeted advertising,” or a “sale” of personal information under some privacy laws even where Company does not sell personal information for monetary payment.

Where applicable law provides a right to opt out of such activity, we will provide or honor applicable methods for exercising that right as required by law.

7. HOW WE DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose personal information to third parties when reasonably necessary to operate our business or provide our Services.

Categories of recipients may include:

  • website, course, and community platforms;

  • payment processors and financial-service providers;

  • email and communication providers;

  • cloud-storage, hosting, and technology providers;

  • analytics and advertising providers;

  • publishers, printers, distributors, retailers, and book-production providers;

  • designers, editors, formatters, contractors, virtual assistants, and other service providers;

  • shipping and fulfillment providers;

  • professional advisors such as attorneys, accountants, consultants, insurers, and auditors;

  • affiliates, referral partners, or business partners where appropriate and permitted by law;

  • government agencies, courts, regulators, law enforcement, or other parties when legally required or reasonably necessary to protect legal rights; and

  • another business entity in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, change of control, or similar business transaction.

We may also disclose information when you direct us to do so or consent to the disclosure.

8. PUBLIC COMMUNITIES, EVENTS & PARTICIPANT CONTENT

Certain Services may include author groups, course communities, online forums, live calls, events, interviews, social-media groups, launch activities, or other spaces in which participants interact with one another.

Information you voluntarily post or disclose in such spaces may be visible to other participants and, depending upon the nature of the Service, may be publicly visible.

You should use discretion before sharing personal, confidential, proprietary, financial, or sensitive information in a group environment.

Certain events, interviews, trainings, author calls, livestreams, or group sessions may be photographed or recorded. Where appropriate, Company will provide notice that recording is occurring.

Use of recordings and participant contributions may also be governed by Company's Terms & Conditions and any applicable project-specific agreement or release.

9. WE DO NOT SELL PERSONAL INFORMATION FOR MONEY

AMA Publishing does not sell personal information to data brokers or other third parties in exchange for monetary payment.

As described above, however, we may use service providers, analytics tools, advertising technologies, and other third-party platforms in connection with operating and marketing our business.

Certain privacy laws define terms such as “sale” or “sharing” more broadly than an exchange of information for money. Where those laws apply, additional rights may be available as described below.

10. DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, to provide Services, maintain appropriate business and transaction records, administer publishing rights and projects, comply with legal and accounting obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, protect our legal interests, and operate our business.

Different types of information may be retained for different periods depending upon the nature of the information and our legal, contractual, operational, publishing, tax, accounting, or other obligations.

Information that has been published in a book, distributed publication, public promotional campaign, recording, or other public-facing material may continue to exist as part of those works even after our direct business relationship with you ends.

11. DATA SECURITY

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, internet transmission, electronic storage system, payment system, or technology platform can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and should notify us if you believe your account or information has been compromised.

12. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES & SERVICES

Our Website, emails, courses, books, communities, or other Services may contain links to or integrations with third-party websites, platforms, retailers, social networks, payment providers, or services.

Those third parties operate independently from AMA Publishing and may have their own privacy policies and data practices.

This Privacy Policy does not govern information collected directly by an independent third party.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party services you choose to use.

13. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Our Website and Services are intended primarily for adults and are not directed to children under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 in a manner subject to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) without appropriate parental consent or another lawful basis.

If we learn that personal information from a child under 13 has been collected inappropriately, we will take reasonable steps to address the information as required by applicable law.

If you believe a child has provided personal information to us improperly, please contact us at [email protected].

14. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES & RIGHTS

Depending upon where you live and the privacy laws applicable to Company and your information, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

These may include the right to:

  • request information about personal information we maintain about you;

  • request access to certain personal information;

  • request correction of inaccurate personal information;

  • request deletion of certain personal information;

  • request a portable copy of certain information;

  • opt out of certain targeted advertising, sale, or sharing activities where applicable;

  • withdraw consent where processing is based upon consent and applicable law provides that right;

  • appeal certain decisions concerning a privacy request where applicable law provides an appeal right; and

  • exercise other rights provided by applicable privacy laws.

These rights are not absolute. Certain information may be exempt from a request or may need to be retained for legal, contractual, publishing, accounting, security, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, or other legitimate purposes.

For example, deletion of information from Company's active systems may not require removal of information that has already been lawfully published in a book or distributed to third parties as part of an authorized publishing project.

15. HOW TO MAKE A PRIVACY REQUEST

You may submit an applicable privacy request by emailing:

[email protected]

Please include sufficient information for us to reasonably identify you and understand your request.

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.

Where permitted by applicable law, an authorized agent may submit a request on your behalf. We may require evidence of the agent's authority and may request verification directly from you.

We will respond to valid privacy requests in accordance with applicable law.

16. UNITED STATES STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS

Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional privacy rights under state law.

Where an applicable state privacy law applies to Company and your personal information, Company will honor rights required by that law, which may include rights concerning access, correction, deletion, portability, targeted advertising, sale or sharing of personal information, profiling, consent, or appeal.

Company will not unlawfully discriminate against an individual for exercising privacy rights provided by applicable law.

California Residents

If the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (“CCPA”), applies to Company and your information, California residents may have rights concerning disclosure, access, correction, deletion, portability, sale or sharing of personal information, targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising, and the use or disclosure of certain sensitive personal information.

Company does not sell personal information for monetary payment.

If Company's use of advertising or analytics technologies constitutes “sharing” or “sale” under California law, applicable California residents may exercise available opt-out rights using methods Company makes available or by contacting us as described in this Policy.

Florida Residents

If an applicable Florida privacy law applies to Company and your personal information, eligible Florida consumers may exercise the rights provided under that law, subject to its applicability requirements, exceptions, and limitations.

Requests may be submitted using the contact information provided in this Policy.

17. DO NOT TRACK & PREFERENCE SIGNALS

Browsers and devices may provide privacy preference signals, including “Do Not Track” or other opt-out mechanisms.

Because standards and legal requirements regarding these signals may differ, Company responds to legally recognized universal opt-out preference signals where required by applicable law.

Other browser-level “Do Not Track” signals may not affect all technologies used by our Website or third-party services.

18. INTERNATIONAL USERS

AMA Publishing is based in the United States.

If you access our Website or Services from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, processed, or stored in the United States or other countries in which Company or its service providers operate.

Privacy and data-protection laws in those jurisdictions may differ from the laws of your country of residence.

Where applicable law requires particular protections for international transfers or processing, Company will take reasonable steps to address those requirements.

19. LEGAL DISCLOSURES

We may preserve or disclose information where we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to:

  • comply with applicable law, regulation, subpoena, court order, governmental request, or legal process;

  • investigate or prevent fraud, security incidents, abuse, or unlawful activity;

  • enforce our agreements, policies, or legal rights;

  • protect the rights, property, safety, reputation, or interests of Company, our customers, authors, students, personnel, service providers, or others; or

  • establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

20. BUSINESS TRANSFERS

If Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, bankruptcy, sale of assets, change of control, or similar business transaction, personal information may be transferred, disclosed, or reviewed as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

21. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our Services, technology, business practices, legal requirements, or privacy practices.

When we update this Policy, we may revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.

Where required by law, we will provide additional notice or obtain consent before making changes that materially affect how we use previously collected personal information.

22. CONTACT US

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or a request concerning your personal information, please contact:

Pinnacle Agency for the Arts LLC
dba AMA Publishing
Email: [email protected]