Information That You Should Know About The Black Authors Festival, LLC
PLAN YOUR TRIP
We are proud to announce that the Black Authors Festival is embarking upon in its 3rd year!
Here are a few things that you should consider before journeying to The Nation’s Preeminent Event:
Venue: The Black Authors Festival @Sag Harbor will be held at the Breakwater Yacht Club 51 Bay Street Sag Harbor, NY 11963
Book Your Flight: Nearby airports: MacArthur Airport: 100 Arrival Ave, Ronkonkoma, NY 11779 - Airport Code: ISP Airport Phone: (631) 467-3300; John F. Kennedy International Airport: Queens, NY 11430 - Airport Code: JFK: Airport Phone: (718) 244-4444; LaGuardia Airport: East Elmhurst, NY 11371 - Airport Code: LGA: Airport Phone: (212) 435-7000; and Newark Liberty International Airport: Three Brewster Rd, Newark, NJ 0711 - Airport Code: EWR: Airport Phone: (973) 961-6000.
Travel by Bus: Hampton Jitneyhttps://www.hamptonjitney.com
For help with lodging on Sag Harbor you can visit VRBO or Airbnb.com
The Festival itinerary and special guest are always subject to change with or without notice. There are NO TICKET REFUNDS.
The Festival itinerary will be available on the website in early/late June.
There is free on the street parking in Sag Harbor, but it is advised that you arrive early to locate available spaces.
You can purchase your tickets at: nationalblackauthorsfestival.com.
BAF REFUND POLICY
NO REFUNDS
While we appreciate and value your interest and support. In order to ensure that we provide each ambassador, sponsor, honoree, and guest with an extraordinary experience we have a strict NO REFUND policy. This policy applies to all ticket & merchandise purchases made at the Black Authors Festival.
We kindly request all attendees to carefully review their ticket choices and confirm their availability before completing their purchases. Once a ticket purchase is made, it is considered a final sale and no refund will be issued.
Our NO REFUND policy includes, but is not limited to, the following situations:
Event Attendance:
If you are unable to attend the festival for any reason.
In the event that you are unable to attend, ticket transfers nor refunds will not be provided.
Event Cancellation:
In the unlikely happenstance that the Black Authors Festival is canceled, you will be entitled to receive a full refund for the ticket purchase, excluding any processing fees or service charges.
Program Changes:
The Black Authors Festival reserves the right to make changes to the event program, including event schedules, honorees, venues, and participants without notice.
In the event of significant program changes, the Black Authors Festival will do our very best to notify ticket holders through the email provided during the ticket purchase process.
Ticket Selection:
It is the customer’s responsibility to ensure the correct selection of tickets, including the event date, meal selection (if applicable), time, seating preference, etc..
Please review all ticket details, including quantity and ticket type, before finalizing your purchase (s).
Ticket Confirmation:
After completing the ticket purchase, customers will receive a confirmation via email with the ticket details.
Ticket Transfer:
Transfers of tickets to another individual is not permitted.
Tickets are non-transferable and can only be used by the individual whose name is on the ticket.
Lost or Stolen Tickets:
The Black Authors Festival is not responsible for lost or stolen tickets.
Lost or stolen tickets will not be replaced nor refunded.
This NO REFUND policy aims to maintain fairness and consistent treatment to all our attendees. We encourage you to consider carefully before purchasing your tickets.
If you have any questions or need further information, please contact our customer service department at pconnorthlm@gmail.com. We appreciate your understanding and support for the Black Authors Festival, the Nation’s Preeminent Event for Black Authors.
Thank you for choosing to be a part of our Festival!
Merchant Information
The Black Authors Festival Merchandise memorializes your experience for years to come. As an official merchandise line of the Black Authors Festival, we celebrate and honor the incredible work of our esteemed honorees and vendors. They are more than authors, they are television personalities, award winning professionals, and are at the top of their crafts.
Our carefully curated collection features unique and stylish apparel, accessories, and memorabilia that allow you to embrace and share your love for this renowned Festival. Each item has been thoughtfully designed to capture the spirit and vibrancy of Black Culture.
By supporting the Black Authors Festival Merchandise, you not only enhance your personal style but also contribute to scholarships for Black students who will go on to pursue an educational career in literacy.
We believe in providing outstanding customer service and an exceptional shopping experience. Our friendly and knowledgeable team is here to assist you with any inquiries or concerns, ensuring your satisfaction from start to finish. We also prioritize fast and reliable shipping, so you can enjoy your festival-inspired merchandise in no time.
By proudly wearing the Black Authors Festival Merchandise, you become an advocate for improving literacy within the Black community and you prove that you hold near and dear, the right to freely express yourself, including in written form, as any suppression of either is an infringing upon your first amendment right. You will also contribute to scholarships for young Black students to be able to afford an education as a portion of our proceeds go to the A Father’s Love Non-Profit Organization which staunchly supports literacy. Join us in celebrating the importance of leaving a rich, fulfilling and positive legacy for generations to come.
Show your support! Make a statement! Take a stand! Together we all win! It’s not about one person, it’s about our future!
Privacy Policy
This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.
What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our website?
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information, or other details to help you with your experience.
When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, respond to a survey, fill out a form or enter information on our site.
Log file information
We run a secure site with scanning, virus checks, malware identification, etc. As part of that set up, Log file information is automatically reported by your browser or mobile device each time you access our Services. When you use our Services, our servers automatically record certain log file information. These server logs may include anonymous information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks and how you interact with links on the Service, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information.
How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
To improve our website in order to better serve you.
To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
To quickly process your transactions.
To ask for ratings and reviews of services or products
To follow up with them after correspondence (live chat, email or phone inquiries)
Sharing of Your Information
We will not rent or sell your information to any third parties outside of www.nationalblackauthorsfestival.com (including any parent, subsidiaries and affiliates) without your consent, except as noted below:
Who we may share your information with: We may share your information with third-party business partners and Trusted Users for the purpose of providing our Services to you.
We use third party services to manage ticket sales, Printful to distribute all merchandise (e.g. hats, mugs, t-shirts, etc.), and Zelle/CashApp/Square to handle all monetary transactions in selling our products. Third party business partners will be given limited access to your information as is reasonably necessary to deliver the product, and we will require that such third parties comply with this Privacy Policy, or operate under a similar privacy policy.
Who can see User Content?
Any User Content that you voluntarily disclose (e.g., Facebook, X, on blogs open to public reading) and made available to your friends or the public cannot be removed by us. Check your settings carefully and be aware of how your posts are being made public or not. Once you make a post on one of our blogs or comments pages, or Facebook or Twitter feeds, User Content may not be completely removed even though it has been deleted from the site. It is possible that content will remain viewable in cached and archived pages of Internet search engines and on other sites that have republished us, or if other Users have copied or saved that information. If you do not wish your User Content to be available to the public, please don’t post it to our blogs, comment pages, or social media sites which are all public.
Who can see your IP address?
If you post User Content on any public site we provide while not logged in, your IP address will be published with your User Content in order to attribute your contribution to the site. Persons and entities who may see IP addresses include the www.nationalblackauthorsfestival.com domain host, assistants, website maintenance personal, and website designers.
Instances where we are required to share your information:
We will disclose your information where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) to protect the security, quality or integrity of our Sites; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of our Users, or others.
Sharing certain service type information we collect about you:
We may share certain service type information, including information obtained through tools such as cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data and clear gifs (such as anonymous usage data, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.): (i) with our third-party business partners for the purposes described in the section above on “How We Collect and Use Information.” We may also aggregate or otherwise strip data of all personally identifying characteristics and may share that aggregated, anonymized data with third parties.
How do we protect your information?
We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards.
An external PCI compliant payment gateway handles all CC transactions.
We use regular Malware Scanning. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order, enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information. All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.
Clear gifs/web beacons information
When you use any services, we may employ clear gifs (also known as web beacons) which are used to anonymously track the online usage patterns of our Users. In addition, we may also use clear gifs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened and which links are clicked by recipients. The information allows for more accurate reporting and improvement of the content we provide you.
Cookies
We use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. For instance, when we use a cookie to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site.They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
We use cookies to:
Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
Keep track of advertisements.
Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since each browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, some of the features that make your site experience more efficient may not function properly.
Third-party disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Information we may receive from third parties
We may receive information about you from third parties. For example, if you sign up for an email list on www.blackauthorsfestival.com you will be added to our email list for newsletters and other correspondence about our products, services, events and the like.
If you use a third-party connection, for example, through Facebook or X by “following” or “liking”www.nationalblackauathorsfestival.com pages, that third-party may pass certain information about your use of its service. This information could include, but is not limited to, the user ID associated with your account (for example, your Facebook UID), an access token necessary to access that service, any information that you have permitted the third party to share with us, and any information you have made public in connection with that service. If you allow us access to your friends list, your friends’ user IDs, and your connection to those friends, may be used and stored to make your experience more social, and to allow you to invite your friends to use our services as well as provide you with updates if and when your friends sign up to our email list. You should always review, and if necessary, adjust your privacy settings on third-party websites and services, Like Facebook, X, IG etc. before using them to link to other places.
Device Identifiers
When you access www.blackauthorsfestival.com by or through a mobile device (including but not limited to smart-phones or tablets), we may access, collect, monitor and/or remotely store one or more “device identifiers”, such as a universally unique identifier (UUID). Device identifiers are small data files or similar data structures stored on or associated with your mobile device, which uniquely identify your mobile device. A device identifier may be data stored in connection with the device hardware, data stored in connection with the device’s operating system or other software, or data sent to the device by www.blackauthorsfestival.com. A device identifier may convey information to us about how you browse and use our site. A device identifier may remain persistently on your device, to help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through our site.
Third-party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites or services linked to or from our blogs, comment pages, or social media sites, including the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from one of our Sites to another website, our Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites or services. Your browsing and interaction on any third-party website or service are subject to that third party’s own rules and policies. We are not responsible and we do not have control over any third parties that you authorize to access your User Content. If you are using a third-party website or service (like Facebook, X, Google, etc.) and you allow such a third-party access to your User Content you do so at your own risk. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect by other means (including offline) or from other sources other than through the Site.
Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. We use Google AdSense Advertising on our website.
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.
We have implemented the following:
Marketing with Google AdSense
Google Display Network Impression Reporting
Demographics and Interests Reporting
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.
Opting out
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.
California Online Privacy Protection Act
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared. See more at: http://consumercal.org/california-online-privacy-protection-act-caloppa/#sthash.0FdRbT51.dpuf
According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:
Users can visit our site anonymously. Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page or as a minimum, on the first significant page after entering our website.
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page specified above.
You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page. You can change your personal information by emailing us. Upon request, we will permit you to request or make changes or updates to your Personal Information for legitimate purposes. You will be required to provide identification prior to approving such requests. We reserve the right to decline any requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require unreasonable time or effort of our technical or administrative personnel, or undermine the privacy rights of others.
How does our site handle Do Not Track signals?
At this time, we don’t honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place. To prevent communication errors between browsers and our website, we currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals. There is no uniform way in which browsers communicate Do Not Track signals to websites making it impractical to honor every request. We will reexamine our policy and our ability to comply with Do Not Track signals as technology improves between browsers and websites.
Does our site allow third-party behavioral tracking?
It’s also important to note that we allow third-party behavioral tracking.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online. We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.
Fair Information Practices
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information. In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur: We will notify the users via in-site notification within seven business days.
We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
CAN SPAM ACT
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
We collect your email address in order to:
Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.
Send you additional information related to your product and/or service
Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.
To be in accordance with CANSPAM, we agree to the following:
Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
Honor unsubscribe requests quickly.
Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails follow the instructions at the bottom of each email and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.
Onward Transfer Outside Your Country of Residence
If you reside outside the United States, usage of this site constitutes consent to the transfer of Personal Information outside your country of residence to the United States. Personal Information collected on this site will be stored and processed in our servers located only in the United States.
Data Security
We will implement reasonable and appropriate security procedures consistent with prevailing industry standards to protect data from unauthorized access by physical and electronic intrusion. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or method of data storage can be guaranteed 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your Personal Information by following generally accepted industry standards, we cannot ensure or warrant the absolute security of any information you transmit to us or archive at this site. When you transmit Personal Information through our registration process or if you purchase products or services, we encrypt that information in transit using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
Analytics information
We may directly collect analytics data, or use third-party analytics tools and services, like Google Analytics, to help us measure traffic and usage trends for our web pages, email newsletters, promotions, and social media connections. These tools collect information sent by your browser or mobile device, including the pages you visit and other information that assists us in improving the Service. We collect and use this analytics information in aggregate form such that it cannot reasonably be manipulated to identify any particular individual user.