Notebook & Penguin – Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 10, 2025

At Notebook & Penguin, accessible from https://notebookandpenguin.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains the types of information that are collected and recorded by Notebook & Penguin and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Notebook & Penguin. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information We Collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an account or place any type of order, we will ask for your contact information, including items such as name, address, email address, and telephone number.

For Bible Study Club Membership Subscribers:

When you register for our Bible Study Club subscription service, we collect additional information including:

  • Membership username and password (encrypted)
  • Subscription level and membership status
  • Payment and billing information (processed securely through PayPal and/or Stripe)
  • Subscription start date and renewal dates
  • Transaction history and payment status
  • Content download activity and login timestamps
  • Free trial enrollment information

We use your personal data for interest-based advertising, as outlined in our Privacy Notice.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website
  • Send and receive any products that may be sold on our website
  • Process recurring subscription payments for the Bible Study Club
  • Manage membership accounts and access to protected Bible study content
  • Deliver monthly Bible study materials to active members
  • Send subscription renewal notifications and payment receipts
  • Manage free trial periods and subscription cancellations
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website
  • Understand and analyze how you use our website
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Communicate with you to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
  • Send you emails
  • Find and prevent fraud

Log Files

Notebook & Penguin follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and are a part of hosting service analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movement on the website, and gather demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Notebook & Penguin uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors browser type and/or other information.

For more general information on cookies, please read “What Are Cookies”.

Google DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google is one of the third-party vendors on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.notebookandpenguin.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Our Advertising Partners

Some of the advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Each of our advertising partners has its own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.

Google https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Notebook & Penguin.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Notebook & Penguin, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Notebook & Penguin has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Payment Processing for Subscriptions

For Bible Study Club memberships, we use PayPal and/or Stripe as independent payment processors. These services collect and process your payment information according to their own privacy policies:

We do not directly store credit card, debit card, or banking information on our servers. Payment processors handle all financial transactions securely. When you sign up for a subscription, your payment information is sent directly to PayPal or Stripe for processing, and we only receive confirmation of the transaction status.

Third Party Privacy Policies

Notebook & Penguin’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found on the browsers’ respective websites.

Data Retention

General Website Data:
We retain your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy or as required by law.

Bible Study Club Subscription Data:

  • Active Members: We retain your membership information for the duration of your active subscription.
  • Cancelled Memberships: After subscription cancellation, we retain basic account information (name, email address, transaction history) for 7 years to comply with accounting, tax, and legal requirements.
  • Downloaded Content: Once you download Bible study materials during your active membership, you may keep them for personal use. However, all Bible study materials remain the intellectual property of Notebook & Penguin and may not be shared, redistributed, or used for commercial purposes.

You may request deletion of your personal information at any time by contacting us, subject to legal retention requirements.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

  • Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers. For Bible Study Club subscribers, this includes membership account information, subscription status, payment history, and content access records.
  • Request that a business deletes any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
  • Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected].

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

  • The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
  • The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, 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.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected].

Children’s Information

We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Notebook & Penguin does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will promptly remove such information from our records.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, services, or legal requirements. We will notify active Bible Study Club members of significant changes via email. The “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy indicates when it was last revised.

Continued use of our website and membership services after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.

Mediavine Advertising Privacy Notice v. 1.2

Mediavine works with this site to support the delivery of ads that align with your interests. It collects information about your online activities and browsing information, including websites you visit, pages you view, search terms, the apps you use, the language and device you use, location, and emails from newsletter sign ups. This information is then passed to partners to enable them to display interest based advertising to you.

This Notice is specific to Mediavine and explains how Mediavine collects, uses, shares, or sells your personal information when you visit this site or sign up for a newsletter managed by Mediavine. This website must disclose any collection, use, sharing or sale of personal data beyond the services provided by Mediavine in its own privacy notice (above) and comply with relevant privacy laws.

What personal data does Mediavine collect?

Mediavine may collect:

  • IP Address (unique address that identifies your computer or phone on the internet)
  • Location (country, city, state)
  • Operating System (e.g., Windows or Mac)
  • Device Information (hardware, platform, location and carrier data)
  • Language of the Website or Browser
  • Web Browser Type (e.g., Chrome, Firefox or Safari)
  • Email address

When you visit this site, Mediavine uses cookies and similar technologies, such as pixels and tags, to collect your information about your behavior on this site and other websites you visit, across your devices. These tools track preferences, website visits and activities, interactions with emails and ads, and evaluate effectiveness of emails and ads and record which ads have been shown to you to enable the delivery of interest based ads on this site. To learn more, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org; ICO – What are cookies and similar technologies; https://learnwebanalytics.com/whats-the-difference-between-a-cookie-a-pixel-and-a-tag.

In some cases, Mediavine may manage a site’s newsletter. Mediavine collects your email directly from you through the newsletter sign up form, and will request your consent to use your email for interest based advertising. Your email will be converted into hashed format – a unique set of numbers and letters representing your email – before being sent to partners. If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, you may unsubscribe at any time using the “Unsubscribe” button.

Does Mediavine share or sell my personal information for interest based advertising

Yes, Mediavine will use, share, license, sell or otherwise disclose your personal information to our partners to enable interest based advertising to be displayed to you on this site. Through the bidstream, an online marketplace, Mediavine shares data, such as ad location, site content, and your personal information with advertisers. Using this information, advertisers bid for ad space, and the winning bidder gets to display their ad to you on this site.

Mediavine may share your personal data with partners to create a universal (unique) identifier linked to your online behavior and preferences. This identifier is added to the bid request to improve the targeting of interest based ads. Mediavine and its partners may also combine your personal data collected from your interaction with this site with your data that they have collected from other sources to create a profile of your interests and behaviors to provide interest based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers, and applications. Mediavine could also license your personal data from its partners to enrich the information in its bid request to advertisers.

To learn more about Mediavine partners, visit https://www.mediavine.com/ad-partners.

How can I opt out of interest based advertising?

To opt out of interest based advertising on this site, you may take the following actions:

Cookie Consent – For EU/UK visitors

On first visit to the site, you may reject the use of cookies through the cookie consent banner, shown only where legally required. If you initially accept the use of cookies, but change your mind, you can access the banner by clicking “Update Privacy Settings” at the bottom of the home page to change your preferences at any time.

Disabling Cookies

To learn more about cookies and how to disable them for interest based advertising, visit All About Cookies. Most browsers provide options in their menu to stop accepting new cookies, alert you to new cookies, disable cookies, and clear your browser’s cache or storage. Be aware that blocking cookies may affect your site experience, and essential cookies cannot be disabled as these are necessary for the website to function.

Opting Out Using Other Tools

Use the following tools to opt out of receiving interest-based advertising:

Opt-Out Rights in Certain US States

If you reside in certain US states, you have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal data. A “Do Not Sell or Share My Information” button can be found at the bottom of the home page, where required.

Seeing Ads After Opting Out or Disabling Ads

Disabling cookies or opting out of the sales or sharing of personal data for advertising does not mean you won’t see ads on this website. It means the ads you see will not be personalized to your online behavior and interests.

What are my data protection rights?

Under data protection laws in the EU, UK and certain US states, you may have the right to delete, access, request a copy, and correct your personal information. If you’d like to exercise these rights related to the services we provide to this website, please contact Mediavine at [email protected].

Will Mediavine transfer my personal data to the US?

Yes. Mediavine transfers your data to the US for processing and storage. To safeguard this transfer, Mediavine enters into agreements known as Standard Contractual Clauses with our vendors and partners to ensure your data is protected according to EU or UK privacy standards.

How does Mediavine protect my personal information?

Mediavine has implemented technical and organizational security measures appropriate to the risk to the personal data. Despite our safeguards and efforts, no internet transmission can be 100% secure.

How long does Mediavine keep my personal information?

Where Mediavine processes personal data to enable interest based advertising, we will continue to process until you ask us to stop.

How can I contact Mediavine if I have questions about this notice or its services to this website?

Please contact us at [email protected], or you may write to us at: 159 W. 25th St., Suite #427, New York, NY 10001.