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PRIVACY POLICY
Last Updated on 1/13/2023
We respect your privacy, and we don’t sell your personal information.
Scope of This Privacy Policy
USED BOOK DEPOT LLC. and its affiliates (“USEDBOOKDEPOT.COM”, “we”, or “our”) are committed to respecting the privacy of our customers and website visitors. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose personal information provided or obtained in our store, through our website.
Our Services may contain links to other websites operated by third parties. These links are provided for your convenience. We do not control the privacy practices of those websites. We encourage you to review privacy policies of those third-party websites to understand how they may collect, use, or disclose information about you.
If you are a California resident, please see the Supplemental Privacy Notice for California Residents below for additional information about our practices and your rights with respect to your information.
By using UsedBookDepot Products and Services, you are consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
What Information We Collect
Information We Collect From You
- Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you provide in relation to Used Book Depot Services. Click hereto see examples of what we collect. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our Used Book Depot Services.
We receive and store any information you provide in relation to UsedBookDepot Services or transactions. This may include:
- Identifiers, such as name, phone number, home and mailing addresses, email address, any information contained on a government ID, and third party account identifiers (such as social media accounts).
- Commercial Information about your use of our Services, such as a record of searches in our store, your purchases or merchandise you’ve sold to us, and shipping information.
- Financial Information, such as payment card or billing information.
- Social Media Information, consistent with your privacy settings on your social media profile, when you choose to interact with our social media profiles and pages.
- Your inquiries, comments and reviews when you contact us directly, such as customer service requests.
Information We Collect Automatically
We may automatically collect and store certain types of information about your use of UsedBookDepot, including information about your interaction with content and services available through UsedBookDepot Services such as:
- Hardware and software information;
- IP address;
- Browsing activity on our Site, including websites you visited before and after the Site;
- Log data and
- Geolocation information, consistent with your mobile device settings or inferred from your IP address.
Like many websites, we use "cookies" and other unique identifiers, and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser or device accesses UsedBookDepot Services and other content served by or on behalf of UsedBookdepot on other websites.
Cookies
Our Sites use cookies to collect information automatically in order to study, enhance and improve the use and capabilities of our Sites. A “cookie” is a small data file that is transferred to your browser or mobile device through the Site. We also use cookies to enable certain features of our Site, and to preserve your preferences and customize your experience when you visit and return to our Site. We may permit one or more of our service providers to place cookies on the Site in order to assist us in making recommendations for purchases to you. Most browsers provide controls to let you block receipt of cookies, delete cookies, or be prompted before cookies are received. Please note that, if you delete or choose not to receive cookies from our Site, the functionality of the Site may be impaired. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage or delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
- Information from Other Sources:
- We might receive information about you from other sources, such as updated delivery and address information from our carriers, which we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase more easily. Search results and links, including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links).
How We Use Personal Information
We use your personal information to operate, provide, develop, and improve the products and services that we offer our customers. These purposes include:
- Provide our products and Services;
- Operate,troubleshoot, evaluate, and improve our Services;
- Create and manage online accounts;
- Provide technical support and customer service to you;
- Recommendations and personalization
- Send promotional materials about available offers and merchandise that may be of interest to you, including based on your use of our Services;
- Communicate about and administer, special events, promotions, programs, surveys, contests, and market research;
- Protect against, identify, and prevent fraud and other unlawful activity and otherwise secure our Services;
- Comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements;
- Respond to inquiries from you and other third parties, including inquiries from law enforcement agencies;
- Fraud Prevention and Credit Risks
- Enforce and protect our legal rights; and
- For any other purpose, with your consent.
How We Share Personal Information
Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling our customers' personal information to others. UsedBookDepot may share your personal information with other parties as described below:
With Vendors and Service Providers
We may provide personal information to third-parties who assist us in maintaining and providing our Services, such as payment processors, shipping companies, and others. We do not share personal information with vendors or service providers to use for their own marketing purposes or any other purpose other than to provide our Services without your consent and require assurances that they will appropriately protect personal information entrusted to them by us.
Google Analytics and Advertising Services
We may use third-party analytics services, such as Google Analytics to understand how customers and others use our website. We may use third parties who help us advertise to visitors of our website when they visit other websites. The providers of these services may use an IP address or an anonymous identifier as well as certain information from your browser, together with other non-personal information about your visits to our website and other websites, to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you on our site and other websites.
Legal Rights
We will disclose personal information where necessary for the purpose of exercising, establishing or defending our legal rights or to protect and defend our rights or property, or those of others.
For Legal Requirements and Proceedings
We may disclose information to law enforcement authorities or other government officials to comply with lawful court orders and to comply with other legal obligations. We may also disclose information if we believe is it appropriate in connection with an investigation of suspected illegal activity.
Sale of Our Business or Assets
As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy other businesses or services.
In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise).
Are Children Allowed to Use UsedBookDepot Services?
Products that may commonly be used by minors under the age of 18, like textbooks or children’s books, are marketed through the website and in our store. However, UsedBookDepot does not sell products for purchase by children. Persons under the age of 18 may only review our website, and may do so only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register for an online account or to place orders or provide personal information through our website. If we learn that someone under the age of 18 has provided any personal information through the website, we will remove and permanently delete that information as soon as reasonably possible.
If you are a parent or guardian who believes that your minor under the age of 18 has submitted personal information or other information to us without your consent, please contact info@usedbookdepot.com. Once we verify that you are the parent or legal guardian, we will cooperate with you to discuss what, if any, personal information we have collected about your child and how that information may have been shared or used.
Protecting Personal Information
We are committed to maintaining the security of personal information. We employ a variety of technical, administrative and operational security measures commensurate with the sensitivity of the information we maintain to secure and protect the information we receive. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage, and disclosure of personal customer information. Please remember, though, that neither the Internet nor any method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure. It is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality and security of your account username and password. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you.
Choices about Your Personal Information
Marketing Emails from USED BOOK DEPOT
If you no longer wish to receive email communication from Used Book Depot, please click the unsubscribe link in the footer of every email we send or make changes to your subscription preferences in your usedbookdepot.com account.
Advertising and Analytics
We neither have access to, nor does this Privacy Policy govern, the use of cookies or other tracking technologies that may be placed on your computer, mobile phone, or other device you use to access the Services by non-affiliated, third-party ad technology, ad servers, ad networks or any other non-affiliated third parties. Those parties that use these technologies may offer you a way to opt-out of ad targeting and analytics as described below. If you are interested in more information about tailored browser advertising and how you can generally control cookies from being put on your computer to deliver interest-based advertising, you may visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s Consumer Opt-Out link, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA’s) Consumer Opt-Out link or TrustArc’s Advertising Choices Page to opt-out of receiving tailored advertising from companies that participate in those programs. If you have a Google account, we may use Google Analytics to display advertising to you. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for display advertising or customize Google display network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page. You will need to log in to Google via the Sign In link if you are not already logged in when you visit that page.
Please note that to the extent advertising technology is integrated into the Services, you may still receive advertisements even if you opt-out of tailored advertising; the ads just will not be tailored.
Do Not Track
Some internet browsers offer a “do not track” or “DNT” preference setting. Currently, we are unable to respond to browsers’ DNT signals with respect to our website. To find out more about Do Not Track, please visit https://allaboutdnt.com/.
Nevada Residents
Certain Nevada consumers may opt out of the sale of “personally identifiable information,” which includes first and last name, address, email address, phone number, Social Security Number, or an identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online. We do not sell your personally identifiable information; however, if you are a Nevada resident who has purchased from us, you may submit a request to opt out of any potential future sales under Nevada law by contacting us at info@usedbookdepot.com. Please note we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity and the authenticity of the request. Once verified, we will maintain your request.
How to Contact Us
Customer questions, comments and feedback are very important to us. For privacy-related issues, email at info@usedbookdepot.com to contact us, or write to us at: 8880 SH 121, Suite 164, McKinney, TX 75070.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy. Should we do so, notice of the change will be posted on this Site for a reasonable period of time. Nevertheless, you should review the Privacy Policy from time to time to be sure you are aware of the most recent version. We will use information only in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect at the time the information was collected.
Supplemental Privacy Notice for California Residents
This Supplemental Privacy Notice supplements the information in our Privacy Policy above and applies solely to California residents.
Summary of Information Practices
California law requires us to provide California residents with some additional information regarding how we collect, use, and share your “personal information” (as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)). More details on how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information can be found in our Privacy Policy above.
Categories of personal information we may collect, Purposes of use (see “How We Use Personal Information” in our Privacy Policy for additional information), Sources of personal information, and Categories of third parties to whom we may disclose the information.
- Identifiers, e.g., name, contact information, username, and third party account identifiers:
- Purposes of use:
- To provide, maintain, and improve our services
- Manage online accounts
- Commercial purposes, such as providing information about our services and offerings
- To secure our services and protect against fraudulent activity
- For legal purposes
- Sources of personal information:
- You, either directly or through your use of the Services
- Categories of third parties to whom we may disclose the information:
- Our service providers
- With third party sellers and business partners
- Law enforcement / regulatory authorities
- Any entity that acquires some or all of our assets
- Commercial Information, e.g., purchase/selling history, shipping information, transaction history:
- Purposes of use:
- To provide, maintain, and improve our services
- Manage online accounts
- Commercial purposes, such as providing information about our services and offerings
- To secure our services and protect against fraudulent activity
- For legal purposes
- Sources of personal information:
- You, either directly or through your use of the Services
- Categories of third parties to whom we may disclose the information:
- Our service providers
- With third party sellers and business partners
- Law enforcement / regulatory authorities
- Any entity that acquires some or all of our assets
- Financial Information, e.g., payment card information, billing information:
- Purposes of use:
- To provide, maintain, and improve our services
- To secure our services and protect against fraudulent activity
- For legal purposes
- Sources of personal information:
- You, either directly or through your use of the Services
- Categories of third parties to whom we may disclose the information:
- Our service providers
- With third party sellers and business partners
- Law enforcement / regulatory authorities
- Any entity that acquires some or all of our assets
- Browsing Information like Device Information and Identifiers (e.g., IP address, device type, mobile device IDs, web browser type, language preferences); Connection & Usage Data (e.g., website viewing information); Geolocation Information (e.g. general location information based on mobile device information):
- Purposes of use:
- To provide, maintain, and improve our services
- To secure our services and protect against fraudulent activity
- For legal purposes
- Sources of personal information:
- You, either directly or through your use of the Services
- Categories of third parties to whom we may disclose the information:
- Our service providers
- Analytics providers
- Law enforcement / regulatory authorities
- Any entity that acquires some or all of our assets
- Job Application Information:
- Purposes of use:
- To evaluate candidates for employment by Used Book Depot
- To communicate with you, Used Book Depot employees, or third parties regarding potential employment
- To respond to and comply with requests and legal demands from regulators or other authorities
- To monitor and ensure compliance with applicable policies, procedures, and laws
- For legal purposes
- Sources of personal information:
- You, either directly or through your use of the Services
- Categories of third parties to whom we may disclose the information:
- Our service providers;
- Law enforcement / regulatory authorities
- Any entity that acquires some or all of our assets
- Purposes of use:
- Purposes of use:
- Purposes of use:
- Purposes of use:
- Purposes of use:
Sale of Personal Information
The CCPA sets forth certain obligations for businesses that sell personal information. We do not sell your personal information. We do share certain information as set forth above and allow third parties to collect information about your activity, for example through cookies, as also explained above. You can control these cookies through browser settings and other controls offered by third parties (like Google or Facebook, for example).
California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you may have certain rights. California law may permit you to request that we:
- Provide you the categories of personal information we have collected or disclosed about you in the last twelve months; the categories of sources of such information; the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal information; and the categories of third parties with whom we shared personal information.
- Provide access to and/or a copy of certain information we hold about you.
- Delete certain information we have about you.
You also have the right to not be discriminated against (as provided for in applicable law) for exercising certain of your rights. Certain information may be exempt from such requests under applicable law. For example, we need certain types of information so that we can provide the Services to you and for compliance with applicable law. If you ask us to delete certain information, you may no longer be able to access or use the Services.
Under California’s “Shine the Light” law, California residents who provide personal information in connection with purchasing products or services from us may request, once per year, that we disclose the identity of any third parties with whom we have shared personal information for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes within the previous calendar year, along with the type of personal information disclosed. Such a request may be made sending us an email to info@usedbookdepot.com. In response to such a request, we will provide information as required by the California law for the previous calendar year concerning such other businesses and the categories of personal information, if any, that we have shared with them.
If would like to exercise your rights under the CCPA, please email us at info@usedbookdepot.com You will be required to verify your identify before we fulfill your request. To do so, you may need to provide your name, address, e-mail address, and/or phone number or to verify certain account information like your username or recent purchase / selling history. You can also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. To do so, you must provide us with written authorization or a power of attorney, signed by you, for the agent to act on your behalf. You will still need to verify your identity directly with us.