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The Reading Cafe Review Policy
We would like to thank you for taking the time to visit The Reading Cafe. We hope you enjoy our site as much as we do.
If you would like us to consider reviewing your work, please note the following guidelines:
- Sandy and Barb are the administrators and principal contributors and reviewers for The Reading Cafe, but we also enjoy the work of a handful of contributing reviewers. All requests for reviews must be sent to either Sandy or Barb.
- If we agree to review your work, our review may be posted to any or all of the following sites: Amazon. com, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, Apple, Google Play, Bookbub, Goodreads, and The Reading Cafe.
- We have the right to refuse any request, without explanation.
- We will not post a review of any book that we do not feel meet our standards or may reflect poorly against the website and/or the author. WE do not guarantee a positive review.
- Any books and novels older than 3 months (after release) will be at the discretion of the TRC team, and may not be considered unless accompanied by a new release due to the enormous number of review requests.
- If you would like us to review your work, please send us the book title, blurb, genre information etc. We will accept ARCs as well as published books (paper and hardcover). Please contact us via email to request our mailing address if we should accept your request and require a paper book. If you are sending an ebook, we accept electronic PDFs, mobi and epub copies, as well as a gift coupon (or code) Amazon and Smashwords. A number of our reviewers are also registered at Netgalley.
-if you have a link to your website or purchase availability, please include with your request for review.
- We will consider doing an interview and author giveaway at the time of the review. Please let us know if you would be available for an email interview.
- The timing is always critical. If you require a quick turnaround and promotion, that is not always possible. We are sometimes booked months in advance, especially with new releases from best-selling authors. But we will make all attempts to read and review your novel.
- If you are interested in a side bar cover-promotion or advertising (cover picture and release date etc) please contact us about prices and fees. There will be a nominal charge for longer promotions. Again contact us.
WE WILL CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING GENRES:
Paranormal and Fantasy
Fiction
Urban Fantasy
Young Adult
New Adult
Historical Romance
Romance
Mystery/Suspense
Science Fiction
Erotica
NOTE TO PUBLISHERS: We are open to working with publishers as long as the policy guidelines for genre are met.
If you are outside of our genre listing, please email and tell us about your novel. We will consider at that time.
NOTE: We will NOT review TEXT BOOKS, NON- FICTION, COMIC BOOKS, ANIME, HOW-TO BOOKS, POETRY , SELF-HELP, Business, Religion books or AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
Data Processing
The Reading Cafe posts book reviews on our website, which is manually processed through our Word Press APP. We read, write our thoughts of the review, and schedule the review on an approximate posting date. There are multiple reviewers for The Reading Cafe, but only the Administrators can set up to schedule the review post. Registered members can read the review at their leisure, make comments and if desired, use the attached links to purchase the book from the various sites (Amazon, B&N, etc).
Please feel free to contact either Barb or Sandy regarding a review. We do not bite (unless we have been converted to vampire), but we want to be sure, that the basic guidelines are available to everyone who visits our site.
CONTACT US AT:
barb@thereadingcafe.com
sandy@thereadingcafe.com
mail@thereadingcafe.com
NOTE: Unless otherwise stated, the books that we review are from our personal shelves.
FTC Disclaimer:
Some of the books featured on this blog have been provided by the author, publisher or Net Galley, Edelwiess, a third party site, in exchange for an honest review. These books are given to us at The Reading Cafe to read and then write an honest review, and schedule this on our site. We do not receive monetary compensation for our reviews nor are our opinions swayed by any type of bribery. All reviews are the honest opinion of the individual reviewing the book.
Review Policies are subject to change at our discretion.
The Reading Cafe does not share personal information with third-parties nor do we store information we collect about your visit to this blog for use other than to analyze content performance through the use of cookies, which you can turn off at any time by modifying your Internet browser’s settings. We are not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this blog on other Web sites or media without our permission.
As fellow Internet users, we totally respect your online privacy. So, it goes without saying that we are fully committed to safeguarding your online privacy while you’re here at the The Reading Cafe website. This is precisely why we’ve decided to include the following, which discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.
Log Files
Like most standard websites, this website uses log files. These include: Internet Protocol addresses (IP addresses), browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and the number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement in the aggregate, and to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc., are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Web Cookies and Beacons
Web cookies (also known as HTTP cookies, or just cookies) are parcels of text that are sent by a server to a Web browser, and then sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server. In other words, a cookie is a piece of data stored on a user’s computer that is tied to information about the user.
Web beacons are objects that are embedded in a webpage or email that are invisible to the user, but allow checking that a user has viewed the page or email. Other names are web bug, tracking bug, tag or page tag.
The Reading Cafe website does use cookies. Additionally, some of our advertising sites (for example: Facebook, Amazon, B&N, Kobo, Bookbub, etc) may use cookies and web beacons as well. This site has no access to, or control of advertisers’ web cookies or web beacons.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. Please check your browser’s help section for instructions on how to do this.
Links
This website contains links to other third-party social media websites (e.g. Facebook, Goodreads, Twitter, Tumblr, etc). Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. If you choose to “like”, comment, or “share” content though our site or otherwise post information from or via our site to a third-party websites, features or applications, that information may be publicly displayed and the third-party website may have access to information about you and your use of our site. We encourage you, when you leave this website, to read the privacy policy (or privacy statement) of each and every website you visit, as this particular privacy policy applies solely to this particular website.
Amazon Associate Links:
The Reading Cafe is an Amazon Associate and on occasion will use those affiliate links. We on occasion receive small compensation for clicks to Amazon that result in a purchase. This does not change the purchase price for the consumer. Amazon Associate links are usually designated to PURCHASE links.
Security
The Reading Café takes security very seriously. We have appropriate technical organization measures in place that are designed to safeguard information through our website. Despite these controls, no security system over the internet is 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee security of the information you provide us. Transmitting information over the internet is not completely within our control, and we cannot guarantee the security of your data you proved to us. We will never ask you for your password. Any and all personal information such as mailing addresses are deleted once our promotions are complete.
California Online Privacy Protection Act
The State of California has its own regulations that apply to its residents. If you are a resident of California, you may request information about our practices related to disclosing your personal information to certain third parties and/or opt-out of our sharing of your information with unaffiliated third parties for their marketing purposes. Please note we do not share registered user’s information to third parties, as they only supply their name and email. Users can visit our site anonymously
Coppa – (Children Online Privcay Protection Act)
You must be at least 14 years of age to use our website, however we do not require birthdates to register to our site. Use of this website is at your own risk. We host our site on a reputable platform and take reasonable efforts to maintain and host the site. However, we make no explicit representations or warranties as to the safety or your individual use of the website. Please do not access or use this website, products, or services if you are under the age of 14.
Advertisers
We may use outside advertising networks and companies in order to display ads on this site. These ads may contain cookies and/or web beacons in order to collect data in the ad serving process. These such cookies and/or web beacons are collected by the companies and/or advertising networks, themselves. We do not have any access to this information.
From time to time we may work with several advertising networks and companies. If you have any questions, please check their websites for their respective privacy policies.
Webmaster Contact Information
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the The Reading Cafe privacy policy, please feel free to contact us. Our contact information is listed on the website under Contact Us.
This privacy policy is subject to change without notice.
Comments are welcomed and encouraged on The Reading Cafe, but there are some instances where comments will be edited or deleted as follows:
- Comments deemed to be spam or questionable spam will be deleted. Including a link to relevant content is permitted, but comments should be relevant to the post topic.
- Comments including profanity will be deleted.
- Comments containing language or concepts that could be deemed offensive will be deleted.
- Comments that attack a person individually will be deleted.
The Reading Cafe reserves the right to edit or delete any comments submitted to this blog without notice.
Visitor comments on our website are checked through Akismet Anti-Spam and Anti-Spam by Cleantalk, automated spam detection services.
User Data Deletion or Changes
When registering on our site, as appropriate, you will need to register, by entering your name, email address or subscribe to a newsletter. Users who have not registered, can visit site and read our posts, but cannot comment on said post, unless registered.
Registered users may choose to opt-out of email communications by The Reading Cafe by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any communication or by contacting us at mail@thereadingcafe.com . (Please allow us time to delete information about you from such communications and remember that we can only delete such information if you provide us with all email addresses you have used with us; otherwise, we will delete the email address for the communication for which you are opting out.)
A registered user can request to close their membership to The Reading Café by deleting the account or emailing the following administrators to delete their account.
barb@thereadingcafe.com
sandy@thereadingcafe.com
mail@thereadingcafe.com
This comment policy is subject to change at anytime.
