Privacy Policy
Last Updated: March 2026
Empowering Humanity Magazine™ is published by AK Publishing, LLC. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, and protect information when you visit EmpoweringHumanityMagazine.com, read our digital magazine, submit content, sign up for updates, communicate with us, or interact with our website, forms, services, advertisers, sponsors, or third-party links.
By using this website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use this website or submit personal information through it.
1. Information We May Collect
We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, information collected automatically through technology, and information received from third-party tools or service providers.
Information you may voluntarily provide includes:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number, if submitted
- Business name or organization name
- Website or social media links
- Mailing address, if needed for business, contributor, sponsor, advertising, legal, or fulfillment purposes
- Article submissions
- Contributor bios
- Photos, headshots, images, videos, or media files
- Interview responses
- Testimonials or personal stories
- Advertising or sponsor information
- Payment, billing, or transaction-related information, if applicable
- Messages, inquiries, forms, survey responses, or other communications you send to us
Information collected automatically may include:
• IP address
• Browser type
• Device type
• Operating system
• Internet service provider
• Referring and exit pages
• Pages viewed
• Date and time of visit
• Approximate location based on IP address
• Website activity and usage data
• Cookie and tracking technology information
We do not ask users to submit sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for a specific purpose. Please do not submit sensitive personal information, medical details, financial account information, government identification numbers, or private information unless specifically requested and appropriate.
2. Contributor, Guest, and Submission Information
If you submit an article, story, interview, testimonial, biography, photograph, image, video, quote, advertisement, or other content to Empowering Humanity Magazine™, you understand that the submitted material may be reviewed, edited, published, displayed, distributed, promoted, archived, and shared as part of the magazine, website, social media, email marketing, promotional materials, or related media platforms.
Information included in published content may become publicly available. This may include your name, business name, title, biography, photo, website, social media handle, article content, story, interview, or other information you provide for publication.
Once content is published or distributed, we may not be able to control how third parties copy, share, save, screenshot, index, archive, or redistribute that content.
3. How We Use Information
We may use collected information to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve the website
- Publish and manage Empowering Humanity Magazine™
- Review, edit, communicate about, and publish contributor submissions
- Respond to questions, requests, messages, and inquiries
- Send newsletters, updates, announcements, and marketing communications
- Process advertising, sponsor, contributor, or partnership inquiries
- Promote magazine issues, events, articles, contributors, advertisers, sponsors, interviews, or related projects
- Provide customer service and administrative support
- Analyze website traffic, user behavior, and content performance
- Improve website design, content, and user experience
- Protect the website from fraud, spam, unauthorized access, or misuse
- Comply with legal obligations, enforce our rights, and respond to lawful requests
- Maintain business records
- Carry out any purpose described at the time information is collected
4. Email Newsletters and Marketing Communications
If you sign up for our email list, newsletter, magazine updates, events, promotions, or other communications, we may use your name and email address to send you updates from Empowering Humanity Magazine™, AK Publishing, LLC, or related projects.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the email or by contacting us directly.
Even if you unsubscribe from marketing emails, we may still send you non-marketing messages when necessary, such as responses to your inquiries, contributor communications, transaction-related messages, legal notices, or administrative updates.
5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Like many websites, EmpoweringHumanityMagazine.com may use cookies, pixels, log files, analytics tools, embedded content, and similar technologies.
Cookies may help us:
- Remember user preferences
- Improve website performance
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Measure traffic and engagement
- Analyze which pages and content are viewed
- Support advertising, sponsor, affiliate, or promotional features, if used
- Improve the visitor experience
You can choose to disable cookies through your browser settings. If you disable cookies, some parts of the website may not function properly.
6. Analytics and Third-Party Tools
We may use third-party tools and service providers to help operate the website, analyze traffic, manage forms, host content, send emails, process payments, publish digital content, protect against spam, or improve performance.
These third-party providers may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, device information, pages visited, and interaction data.
Examples of third-party tools we may use include website hosting providers, analytics providers, email marketing platforms, payment processors, advertising tools, form builders, security tools, social media platforms, embedded video platforms, or digital publishing platforms.
Each third-party provider has its own privacy policy and practices. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites, platforms, or services
7. Advertising, Sponsors, Affiliate Links, and Promotional Content
Empowering Humanity Magazine™ may include advertisements, sponsor features, promotional content, affiliate links, product mentions, contributor offers, interviews, third-party links, or sponsored articles.
If you click on an advertisement, sponsor link, affiliate link, third-party offer, or external website link, third parties may collect information from you according to their own privacy policies and practices.
We do not control third-party cookies, tracking technologies, websites, products, services, or privacy practices.
If we use advertising cookies or tracking technologies that may be considered “selling,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising under certain privacy laws, users may have the right to opt out where required by law.
8. Payments, Purchases, Subscriptions, Events, or Donations
If we offer paid products, subscriptions, event registration, advertising packages, sponsorships, donations, or other paid services, payment information may be collected and processed by third-party payment processors.
We do not intentionally store full credit card numbers or full payment account details on our website. Payment processors handle payment information according to their own privacy policies, terms, and security practices.
9. How We Share Information
We may share information with:
- Website hosting providers
- Email marketing providers
- Analytics providers
- Payment processors
- Form and communication tools
- Website developers or technical support providers
- Magazine team members, editors, designers, contractors, or service providers
- Advertising, sponsor, or publishing partners when necessary
- Legal, accounting, business, or compliance advisors
- Government authorities or legal parties when required by law
- Third parties involved in a business transfer, merger, sale, restructuring, or acquisition, if applicable
We do not sell personal information for money.
However, some analytics, advertising, affiliate, or tracking technologies may be considered “sharing” or “targeted advertising” under certain privacy laws. Where required, you may have the right to opt out.
10. Publicly Published Information
Information you provide for publication may be made publicly available. This may include your name, photo, biography, business name, title, article, story, interview, website, social media links, or other content you approve or submit for publication.
Please do not submit information for publication that you do not want shared publicly.
If you later request removal of published content, we may review the request, but we cannot guarantee removal from printed copies, downloaded files, archived magazine issues, search engines, social media shares, third-party websites, screenshots, cached pages, or previously distributed materials.
11. Data Retention
We keep information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including business operations, publication records, legal compliance, dispute resolution, security, accounting, contributor records, advertising records, and legitimate business purposes.
Some published magazine content, archived issues, contributor records, copyright records, and business communications may be kept indefinitely unless removal is required by law or approved by us.
12. Data Security
We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational steps to protect personal information from unauthorized access, misuse, loss, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.
However, no website, email system, internet transmission, hosting service, or digital storage method can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. By using the website, you understand and accept this risk.
13. Your Choices and Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include the right to:
- Request access to personal information we have about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of certain personal information
- Request that we limit or restrict certain processing
- Opt out of certain marketing communications
- Opt out of certain cookies, tracking, targeted advertising, selling, or sharing where applicable
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Request a copy of certain personal information
- Appeal certain privacy decisions where required by law
To make a privacy request, contact us using the contact information listed at the end of this Privacy Policy.
We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests. We will respond as required by applicable law.
14. California Privacy Notice
If you are a California resident, you may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, if the law applies to our business.
Depending on the circumstances, California residents may have the right to:
- Know what categories of personal information are collected
- Know the sources of personal information
- Know the purposes for collecting, using, selling, or sharing personal information
- Know the categories of third parties with whom information is shared
- Request access to personal information
- Request deletion of personal information
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, if applicable
- Limit the use of sensitive personal information, if applicable
- Not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights
Categories of personal information we may collect include:
- Identifiers, such as name, email address, IP address, or contact information
- Internet or electronic activity, such as browsing behavior and website usage
- Commercial information, such as purchases, advertising, sponsorship, or transaction details, if applicable
- Professional or business information, such as contributor bio, title, company, or credentials
- Visual or media information, such as photos, images, videos, or submitted content
- Inferences based on website interaction or preferences, if applicable
- Sensitive personal information only if voluntarily submitted or required for a specific purpose
We do not knowingly sell personal information for money.
If we use third-party advertising, analytics, affiliate, or tracking technologies that may be considered “sharing” or targeted advertising under California law, you may have the right to opt out where required.
To exercise California privacy rights, contact us at:
AK@EmpoweringHumanityTV.com
15. Nevada Privacy Rights
Nevada residents may have the right to submit a request directing a website operator not to sell certain covered information as defined by Nevada law. We do not knowingly sell personal information for money. Nevada residents may contact us with privacy requests at:
AK@EmpoweringHumanityTV.com
16. European Union, United Kingdom, and International Visitors
If you access our website from outside the United States, including the European Union, United Kingdom, or other regions with data protection laws, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.
By using the website or submitting information, you understand that your information may be processed in countries that may have different data protection laws than your country of residence.
Where applicable, our legal bases for processing personal information may include:
- Consent
- Performance of a contract
- Legitimate business interests
- Compliance with legal obligations
- Protection of rights, safety, security, or legal claims
Depending on your location, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to processing, withdraw consent, request data portability, or file a complaint with a data protection authority.
17. Children’s Privacy
Empowering Humanity Magazine™ is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
If you believe that a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, please contact us immediately. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate parental consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete the information.
If content involving minors is submitted for publication, the person submitting the content is responsible for confirming that they have the necessary parental or legal guardian permissions, rights, and releases.
18. External Links
Our website and magazine may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, advertisers, sponsors, products, services, videos, resources, or offers.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, security, policies, or actions of third-party websites or services. We encourage users to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites they visit.
19. Social Media and Embedded Content
Our website may include embedded content such as videos, social media posts, podcasts, images, advertisements, or other third-party content.
Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you visited that third-party website directly. These third parties may collect data about you, use cookies, embed tracking technologies, and monitor your interaction with their content.
20. Do Not Track Signals
Some browsers may send “Do Not Track” signals. Because there is not a single accepted standard for responding to these signals, our website may not respond to Do Not Track signals. You can control many tracking technologies through your browser settings, cookie settings, or third-party opt-out tools.
21. Business Transfers
If AK Publishing, LLC, Empowering Humanity Magazine™, or related assets are involved in a merger, acquisition, sale, restructuring, transfer, or other business transaction, user information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.
22. Legal Compliance and Protection
We may use or disclose information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to:
- Comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, subpoenas, or legal processes
- Respond to lawful requests from government authorities
- Protect our legal rights, property, business, users, contributors, advertisers, sponsors, or the public
- Investigate fraud, security issues, unauthorized activity, or misuse of the website
- Enforce our terms, agreements, policies, or rights
23. Updates to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.
24. Contact Us
For questions, privacy requests, corrections, deletion requests, permissions, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact:
AK Publishing, LLC
Empowering Humanity Magazine™
Email: ak@empoweringhumanitytv.com
Website: empoweringhumanitymagazine.com
