Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Horizonte Literário collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you use our online platform, which includes book reviews, curated reading lists, personalized recommendations, author spotlights, literary event information, and online book community forums, along with any other services we provide (collectively, "this service").

Information We Collect

We collect various types of information in connection with this service.

Information you provide to us: This includes information you provide when you create an account, participate in forums, submit book reviews, request personalized recommendations, or otherwise interact with our site. This may include your username, password, profile information, content you post (like reviews or forum comments), and any communication you have with us.

Information collected automatically: When you access or use our site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, dates and times of access, and usage data related to your interaction with our service.

Information from other sources: We may receive information about you from third parties, such as service providers who assist us in operating this service, subject to your authorization and applicable law.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

To provide and maintain this service: Operating our online platform, providing access to book reviews, curating reading lists, offering personalized recommendations, hosting forums, and delivering other requested services.

To improve and personalize this service: Understanding how you use our site to enhance user experience, develop new features, and tailor content and recommendations to your interests.

To communicate with you: Responding to your inquiries, providing support, and sending you important updates or information related to this service.

To moderate content: Ensuring compliance with our terms and policies, including moderating forum posts and reviews.

For analytics and research: Analyzing usage trends and patterns to understand our audience and improve our offerings.

To comply with legal obligations: Meeting legal and regulatory requirements applicable to Horizonte Literário.

Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal information based on several legal grounds, including:

Your consent: Where you have given explicit consent for us to process your data for specific purposes (e.g., opting in to personalized recommendations based on detailed reading habits). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Performance of a contract: Where processing is necessary to fulfill a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract (e.g., providing access to features you registered for).

Compliance with a legal obligation: Where processing is necessary to comply with laws or regulations.

Legitimate interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, provided your fundamental rights and interests do not override those interests (e.g., improving the service, preventing fraud, ensuring security).

Sharing Your Information

We may share your personal information with third parties under the following circumstances:

With service providers: We may share information with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as hosting providers, analytics providers, and customer support providers. These parties are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

With other users: Information you post in public areas of this service, such as community forums or book review sections, may be visible to other users.

For legal reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of Horizonte Literário, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with this service, protect the personal safety of users of this service or the public, or protect against legal liability.

In the event of a business transfer: Information may be disclosed or transferred to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Horizonte Literário's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding.

Data Security

We implement reasonable security measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. However, no internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. The retention period varies depending on the type of information and the purpose for processing.

Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These rights may include:

The right to access: You have the right to request access to your personal information that we hold.

The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal information under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information under certain conditions.

The right to data portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

The right not to be subject to automated decision-making: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.

Children's Privacy

This service is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 16 without verifiable parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us by mail at:

Horizonte Literário
350 Alameda Dr. Muricy, Suite 801
Curitiba, Paraná, 80020-050
Brazil