Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains what information TakingItBackBooks.com and its related subscription service collect, how that information is used, and the choices and rights available to you. We wrote it the same way we write everything else in the Taking It Back series: in plain English, saying exactly what we mean.

1. Who this policy covers

TakingItBackBooks.com (the "Site") is operated by JWB Publishing LLC, an Indiana limited liability company. The optional subscription document-preparation service described on this Site is operated by JWB Data Rights LLC, a separate Indiana limited liability company. Each company is responsible only for the part of the business it operates. Neither company provides investment, financial, or legal advice, and nothing on this Site should be read as such.

In this policy, "we," "us," and "our" refer to whichever of the two companies is relevant to the activity being described. Section 9 below deals specifically with the subscription service and JWB Data Rights LLC.

2. Information we collect

Information you give us directly

• Contact form: your name, email address, and the content of your message.
• Newsletter, if you sign up for one: your email address.
• Subscription signup (JWB Data Rights LLC): your name, mailing address, email, and phone number, plus the state-specific information needed to prepare and transmit rights-request forms on your behalf.
• Payment information, if you subscribe: handled entirely by our third-party payment processor. We do not receive or store your full card number.

Information collected automatically

• Standard web analytics: pages visited, general location derived from IP address, browser and device type, and the site that referred you here.
• Cookies limited to what's needed to run the Site and, where used, basic aggregate analytics. We do not use cross-site advertising trackers, and we honor the Global Privacy Control signal where your browser sends one.

What we never collect

3. How we use information

• To operate the Site and respond to messages you send us
• To provide the subscription service to subscribers who sign up for it
• To understand how the Site is used, so we can improve it
• To meet legal and tax obligations

We do not use your information to send unsolicited marketing from third parties, and we do not build advertising profiles.

4. How we share information

We do not sell personal information to data brokers, advertisers, or any other third party — this is a core promise of the business, not a compliance formality. We share information only with:

• Service providers who help us operate — our payment processor, email delivery service, and web host — each of whom is only permitted to use your information to provide that specific service to us.
• Law enforcement or regulators, only if we are legally required to.

5. Payment processing

Subscription payments are handled by a third-party payment processor. Your full card details are transmitted directly to that processor and are never stored on our own servers.

6. Cookies

We use only the cookies necessary to operate the Site, plus limited, aggregate analytics to understand traffic. You can block or delete cookies through your browser settings; doing so may affect some Site functionality but will not block you from reading any book content or policy.

7. Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live, state law may give you the right to know what personal information we hold about you, correct it, delete it, and opt out of its sale (which, as noted above, we don't do regardless). We extend these same rights to every visitor, regardless of which state's law technically applies to you — it would be a strange business for us to run any other way.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us using the information in Section 13. We will not charge you a fee or retaliate against you for making a request.

8. Data retention

We keep information only as long as needed for the purpose it was collected — to respond to your inquiry, to provide an active subscription, or to meet a legal recordkeeping requirement. Subscribers can request deletion of their account information at any time after cancellation, subject to what we're legally required to retain.

9. The subscription service — JWB Data Rights LLC

JWB Data Rights LLC prepares and transmits statutory consumer data-privacy rights-request forms on behalf of subscribers, tracks statutory response deadlines, and re-files requests annually. All documents distributed by the service are personally curated and reviewed; software, including AI-assisted tools, is used only to populate and prepare documents on templates that have already been authored and maintained by a human — not to make decisions or give advice.

The service does not collect government-issued identification under any circumstance. Where a company you're contacting requires ID as part of its own verification process, you provide it directly to that company. Cancellation is available at any time and requires no more effort than signing up did.

10. Children's privacy

This Site is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

11. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the information we hold. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security — but this Site's entire premise is taking data protection seriously, and we hold ourselves to that standard internally as well as in what we publish.

12. Changes to this policy

If we make a material change to this policy, we will update the effective date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, note the change on the Site. We encourage you to review this page periodically.

13. Contact us

Questions about this policy, or a request to access, correct, or delete your information, can be sent to either company below.