PRIVACY NOTICE
Last updated November 15, 2021
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at
Books2Grow
(" Company ," "we," "us," or
"our"). We are committed to protecting your personal
information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or
concerns about this privacy notice or our practices with regard to your
personal information, please contact us at
info@books2grow.com .
This privacy notice describes how we might use your information if
you:
- Visit our website
at books2grow.com
- Engage with us in other related ways ― including any sales,
marketing, or events
In this privacy notice, if we refer to:
- "Website," we are referring to any website of
ours that references or links to this policy
- "Services," we are referring to our
Website, and other related services, including any sales, marketing, or events
The purpose of this privacy notice is to explain to you in
the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we
use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. If there
are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree
with, please discontinue use of our Services
immediately.
Please read this privacy notice carefully, as it will
help you understand what we do with the information that
we collect.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to
us.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide
to us when you
register on the Website,
express an interest in obtaining information about us or
our products and Services, when you participate in
activities on the
Website or otherwise when you contact us.
The personal information that we collect depends on the
context of your interactions with us and the
Website , the choices you make and the products and features you
use. The personal information we collect may include the
following:
Personal Information Provided by You. We
collect
email addresses ; names ; mailing addresses ; billing addresses ; debit/credit card numbers ; usernames ; passwords ; and other similar
information.
Payment Data. We may collect data necessary
to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your
payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and
the security code associated with your payment instrument. All
payment data is stored by PayPal . You may find their privacy notice link(s) here: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full .
All personal information that you provide to us must be true,
complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes
to such personal information.
Information automatically collected
In Short: Some information — such as your Internet Protocol
(IP) address and/or browser and device
characteristics — is collected automatically when
you visit our
Website .
We automatically collect certain information when you visit,
use or navigate the
Website . This information does not reveal your specific identity
(like your name or contact information) but may include device
and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and
device characteristics, operating system, language
preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location,
information about how and when you use our
Website
and other technical information. This information is primarily
needed to maintain the security and operation of our
Website , and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
The information we collect includes:
- Log and Usage Data. Log and usage data is
service-related, diagnostic, usage and performance
information our servers automatically collect when you
access or use our
Website and which we record in log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type and settings and information about your activity in the Website (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches and other actions you take such as which features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes called 'crash dumps') and hardware settings).
- Device Data. We collect device data such as
information about your computer, phone, tablet or other
device you use to access the
Website . Depending on the device used, this device data may include information such as your IP address (or proxy server), device and application identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, operating system and system configuration information.
- Location Data. We collect location data such as
information about your device's location, which can be
either precise or imprecise. How much information we collect
depends on the type and settings of the device you use to
access the
Website . For example, we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location (based on your IP address). You can opt out of allowing us to collect this information either by refusing access to the information or by disabling your Location setting on your device. Note however, if you choose to opt out, you may not be able to use certain aspects of the Services.
2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process your information for purposes based on
legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of
our contract with you, compliance with our legal
obligations, and/or your consent.
We use personal information collected via our
Website
for a variety of business purposes described below. We process
your personal information for these purposes in reliance on
our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or
perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for
compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the
specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose
listed below.
We use the information we collect or receive:
- To facilitate account creation and logon process.
If you choose to link your account with us to a third-party
account (such as your Google or Facebook account), we use
the information you allowed us to collect from those third
parties to facilitate account creation and logon process for
the performance of the contract.
- To post testimonials. We post testimonials
on our
Website that may contain personal information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your name and the content of the testimonial. If you wish to update, or delete your testimonial, please contact us at info@books2grow.com and be sure to include your name, testimonial location, and contact information.
- Request feedback. We may use your
information to request feedback and to contact you about
your use of our
Website .
- To enable user-to-user communications. We
may use your information in order to enable user-to-user
communications with each user's consent.
- To manage user accounts. We may use
your information for the purposes of managing our account
and keeping it in working order.
- To send administrative information to you. We may use your personal information to send you product,
service and new feature information and/or information about
changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
- To protect our Services. We may use
your information as part of our efforts to keep our
Website safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
- To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for
business purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory
requirements or in connection with our contract.
- To respond to legal requests and prevent
harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may
need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to
respond.
- Fulfill and manage your orders. We
may use your information to fulfill and manage your
orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the
Website .
- Administer prize draws and competitions.
We may use your information to administer prize draws and
competitions when you elect to participate in our
competitions.
- To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the
user.
We may use your information to provide you with the
requested service.
- To respond to user inquiries/offer support to
users.
We may use your information to respond to your inquiries
and solve any potential issues you might have with the use
of our Services.
- To send you marketing and promotional
communications.
We and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the
personal information you send to us for our marketing
purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing
preferences. For example, when expressing an interest in
obtaining information about us or our
Website , subscribing to marketing or otherwise contacting us, we will collect personal information from you. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time (see the "WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?" below).
- Deliver targeted advertising to you. We may use your information to develop and display
personalized content and advertising (and work with third
parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or
location and to measure its effectiveness.
In Short: We only share information with your consent, to
comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect
your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.
We may process or share your data that we hold based on the
following legal basis:
- Consent: We may process your data if you
have given us specific consent to use your personal
information for a specific purpose.
- Legitimate Interests: We may process
your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our
legitimate business interests.
- Performance of a Contract: Where we have
entered into a contract with you, we may process your
personal information to fulfill the terms of our
contract.
- Legal Obligations: We may disclose your
information where we are legally required to do so in
order to comply with applicable law, governmental
requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal
process, such as in response to a court order or a
subpoena (including in response to public authorities to
meet national security or law enforcement
requirements).
- Vital Interests: We may disclose your
information where we believe it is necessary to
investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential
violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations
involving potential threats to the safety of any person
and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in
which we are involved.
More specifically, we may need to process your data or
share your personal information in the following
situations:
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
4. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR
INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for as long
as necessary to fulfill the purposes
outlined in this privacy notice unless
otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information
for as long as it is necessary for the
purposes set out in this privacy notice,
unless a longer retention period is required
or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting
or other legal requirements). No purpose in
this notice will require us keeping your
personal information for longer than
the period
of time in which users have an account with
us .
When we have no ongoing legitimate business
need to process your personal information, we
will either delete or anonymize such
information, or, if this is not possible (for
example, because your personal information has
been stored in backup archives), then we will
securely store your personal information and
isolate it from any further processing until
deletion is possible.
5. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION
SAFE?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal
information through a system of
organizational and technical security
measures.
We have implemented appropriate technical and
organizational security measures designed to
protect the security of any personal
information we process. However, despite our
safeguards and efforts to secure your
information, no electronic transmission over
the Internet or information storage technology
can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we
cannot promise or guarantee that hackers,
cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third
parties will not be able to defeat our
security, and improperly collect, access,
steal, or modify your information. Although we
will do our best to protect your personal
information, transmission of personal
information to and from our
Website
is at your own risk. You should only access
the
Website
within a secure environment.
6. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY
RIGHTS?
In Short:
You may review, change, or terminate your
account at any time.
If you are a resident in the EEA or UK and
you believe we are unlawfully processing your
personal information, you also have the right
to complain to your local data protection
supervisory authority. You can find their
contact details here:
https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
If you are a resident in Switzerland, the
contact details for the data protection
authorities are available here:
https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.
If you have questions or comments about your
privacy rights, you may email us at
info@books2grow.com .
Account Information
If you would at any time like to
review or change the information in
your account or terminate your
account, you can:
Log in to your account settings and update your user account.
Upon your request to terminate your
account, we will deactivate or delete your
account and information from our active
databases. However, we may retain some
information in our files to prevent fraud,
troubleshoot problems, assist with any
investigations, enforce our Terms of Use
and/or comply with applicable legal
requirements.
Opting out of email marketing:
You can unsubscribe from our marketing email
list at any time by clicking on the
unsubscribe link in the emails that we send
or by contacting us using the details
provided below. You will then be removed
from the marketing email list — however, we
may still communicate with you, for example
to send you service-related emails that are
necessary for the administration and use of
your account, to respond to service
requests, or for other non-marketing
purposes. To otherwise opt-out, you
may:
Access your account settings and update your preferences.
7. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK
FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating
systems and mobile applications include a
Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you
can activate to signal your privacy
preference not to have data about your
online browsing activities monitored and
collected. At this stage no uniform
technology standard for recognizing and
implementing DNT signals has been finalized.
As such, we do not currently respond to DNT
browser signals or any other mechanism that
automatically communicates your choice not
to be tracked online. If a standard for
online tracking is adopted that we must
follow in the future, we will inform you
about that practice in a revised version of
this privacy notice.
8. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE
SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: Yes, if you are a resident of
California, you are granted specific
rights regarding access to your personal
information.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also
known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits
our users who are California residents to
request and obtain from us, once a year and
free of charge, information about categories
of personal information (if any) we
disclosed to third parties for direct
marketing purposes and the names and
addresses of all third parties with which we
shared personal information in the
immediately preceding calendar year. If you
are a California resident and would like to
make such a request, please submit your
request in writing to us using the contact
information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in
California, and have a registered account
with
the Website , you have the right to request removal of
unwanted data that you publicly post on the
Website . To request removal of such data, please
contact us using the contact information
provided below, and include the email
address associated with your account and a
statement that you reside in California. We
will make sure the data is not publicly
displayed on the
Website , but please be aware that the data may not
be completely or comprehensively removed
from all our systems (e.g. backups,
etc.).
CCPA Privacy Notice
The California Code of Regulations
defines a "resident" as:
(1) every individual who is in the State of
California for other than a temporary or
transitory purpose and
(2) every individual who is domiciled in
the State of California who is outside the
State of California for a temporary or
transitory purpose
All other individuals are defined as
"non-residents."
If this definition of "resident" applies to
you, we must adhere to certain rights and
obligations regarding your personal
information.
What categories of personal information
do we collect?
We have collected the following categories
of personal information in the past twelve
(12) months:
Category | Examples | Collected |
A. Identifiers | Contact details, such as real name,
alias, postal address, telephone or
mobile contact number, unique
personal identifier, online
identifier, Internet Protocol
address, email address and account
name | |
B. Personal information categories
listed in the California Customer
Records statute | Name, contact information,
education, employment, employment
history and financial
information | YES |
C. Protected classification
characteristics under California or
federal law | Gender and date of birth | |
D. Commercial information | Transaction information, purchase
history, financial details and
payment information | |
E. Biometric information | Fingerprints and voiceprints | |
F. Internet or other similar
network activity | Browsing history, search history,
online behavior, interest data, and
interactions with our and other
websites, applications, systems and
advertisements | |
G. Geolocation data | Device location | |
H. Audio, electronic, visual,
thermal, olfactory, or similar
information | Images and audio, video or call
recordings created in connection
with our business activities | |
I. Professional or
employment-related information | Business contact details in order
to provide you our services at a
business level, job title as well as
work history and professional
qualifications if you apply for a
job with us | |
J. Education Information | Student records and directory
information | |
K. Inferences drawn from other
personal information | Inferences drawn from any of the
collected personal information
listed above to create a profile or
summary about, for example, an
individual’s preferences and
characteristics |
We may also collect other personal
information outside of these categories
instances where you interact with us
in-person, online, or by phone or mail in
the context of:
- Receiving help through our customer
support channels;
- Participation in customer surveys or
contests; and
- Facilitation in the delivery of our
Services and to respond to your
inquiries.
How do we use and share your personal
information?
You may contact us
by
email at
info@books2grow.com ,
or by referring to the contact details at the
bottom of this document.
If you are using an authorized agent to
exercise your right to opt-out we may deny a
request if the authorized agent does not
submit proof that they have been validly
authorized to act on your behalf.
Will your information be shared with
anyone else?
We may disclose your personal information
with our service providers pursuant to a
written contract between us and each service
provider. Each service provider is a
for-profit entity that processes the
information on our behalf.
We may use your personal information for
our own business purposes, such as for
undertaking internal research for
technological development and demonstration.
This is not considered to be "selling" of
your personal data.
Your rights with respect to your personal
data
Right to request deletion of the data -
Request to delete
You can ask for the deletion of your
personal information. If you ask us to
delete your personal information, we will
respect your request and delete your
personal information, subject to certain
exceptions provided by law, such as (but not
limited to) the exercise by another consumer
of his or her right to free speech, our
compliance requirements resulting from a
legal obligation or any processing that may
be required to protect against illegal
activities.
Right to be informed - Request to know
Depending on the circumstances, you have a
right to know:
- whether we collect and use your personal
information;
- the categories of personal information
that we collect;
- the purposes for which the collected
personal information is used;
- whether we sell your personal information
to third parties;
- the categories of personal information
that we sold or disclosed for a business
purpose;
- the categories of third parties to whom
the personal information was sold or
disclosed for a business purpose; and
- the business or commercial purpose for
collecting or selling personal
information.
In accordance with applicable law, we are
not obligated to provide or delete consumer
information that is de-identified in
response to a consumer request or to
re-identify individual data to verify a
consumer request.
Right to Non-Discrimination for the
Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights
We will not discriminate against you if you
exercise your privacy rights.
Verification process
Upon receiving your request, we will need
to verify your identity to determine you are
the same person about whom we have the
information in our system. These
verification efforts require us to ask you
to provide information so that we can match
it with information you have previously
provided us. For instance, depending on the
type of request you submit, we may ask you
to provide certain information so that we
can match the information you provide with
the information we already have on file, or
we may contact you through a communication
method (e.g. phone or email) that you have
previously provided to us. We may also use
other verification methods as the
circumstances dictate.
We will only use personal information
provided in your request to verify your
identity or authority to make the request.
To the extent possible, we will avoid
requesting additional information from you
for the purposes of verification. If,
however, we cannot verify your identity from
the information already maintained by us, we
may request that you provide additional
information for the purposes of verifying
your identity, and for security or
fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete
such additionally provided information as
soon as we finish verifying you.
Other privacy rights
- you may object to the processing of your
personal data.
- you may request correction of your
personal data if it is incorrect or no
longer relevant, or ask to restrict the
processing of the data.
- you can designate an authorized agent to
make a request under the CCPA on your
behalf. We may deny a request from an
authorized agent that does not submit
proof that they have been validly
authorized to act on your behalf in
accordance with the CCPA.
- you may request to opt-out from future
selling of your personal information to
third parties. Upon receiving a request to
opt-out, we will act upon the request as
soon as feasibly possible, but no later
than 15 days from the date of the request
submission.
To exercise these rights, you can contact
us by
email at
info@books2grow.com ,
or by referring to the contact details at the
bottom of this document. If you have a complaint
about how we handle your data, we would like to
hear from you.
9. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS
NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we
will update this notice as necessary to
stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time
to time. The updated version will be
indicated by an updated "Revised" date and
the updated version will be effective as
soon as it is accessible. If we make
material changes to this privacy notice, we
may notify you either by prominently posting
a notice of such changes or by directly
sending you a notification. We encourage you
to review this privacy notice frequently to
be informed of how we are protecting your
information.
10. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT
THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about
this notice, you may
email us at
info@books2grow.com or by post to:
11. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR
DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM
YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your
country, you may have the right to request
access to the personal information we
collect from you, change that information,
or delete it in some circumstances. To
request to review, update, or delete your
personal information, please
submit a
request form by clicking here .
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