CampusBooks Privacy Statement

Our privacy policy is very simple: we do not sell, rent, or otherwise disclose any personal information to third parties.

Information Collection and Use

At CampusBooks.com, we are dedicated to protecting you and your privacy. CampusBooks.com is the sole owner of the information collected on this site and we do not sell or rent this information to third parties. CampusBooks.com collects personal information from our users at several different points on our Web site:

Newsletter

Users may opt in for the optional CampusBooks.com newsletter to receive specials and promotions from our merchant partners. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (such as name and email address). We never sell or rent this personal information to third party companies. We use this information to provide you with valuable offers and discounts from our merchant partners. You may opt out at any time simply by contacting us at help@campusbooks.com with REMOVE in the subject line.

Surveys & Contests

From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personal information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). We use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes.

We use may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users' personal information for any other purpose.

Tell-A-Friend

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. CampusBooks.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program.

Your friend may contact us at help@campusbooks.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

Uses of Information

We never disclose personal information to any third party. We use non-personally identifying information to monitor our site traffic and improve our services.

Communications from the Site

Special Offers and Updates

We will occasionally send you information on special deals and promotions. You can sign up for these emails from us on our registration page.

Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out."

Newsletters

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the "Choice and Opt-out" section.

Service-related Announcements

We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.

Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.

Customer Service

Based upon the personal information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email or telephone, in accordance with your wishes.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)

We share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and subsidiary. This information does not identify individual users.

We do not link aggregate user data with personal information.

Personally identifiable information

We DO NOT Share Personal Information with Third Parties, with the exception of our Agents as described below.

Agents

We use an outside credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personal information for any other purposes.

Legal Disclaimer

We retain the right to disclose your personal information as required by law and when we believe that divulgence is essential to protect our rights and/or to act in accordance with a legal proceeding or court order served on our Web site.

Choice/Opt-out

We provide you the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having your personal information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at help@campusbooks.com.

You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.

Log Files

As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personal information.

We use a third-party tracking service called Webtrends that uses cookies [log files] to track non-personal information about visitors to our site in the aggregate information on usage and volume statistics to manage our website more effectively.

A cookie is a small file that is stored on a customer's computer for purposes of saving their preferences. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies on this site. The cookies used when you are logged into the site are used to manage your shopping cart and bookbag items. Please be assured that the information we store in cookies is not associated with any self-identifying information you may submit while using our site.

We use session cookies for your ease and convenience while you navigate our site. A session ID cookie only lasts as long as the browser window is open. A persistent cookie stays on your hard drive until you delete it.

We set persistent cookies to store your passwords so you don't have to enter them over and over. Persistent cookies also allow us to track and build awareness about the interests of our customers. This helps to enhance a user's experience on our site.

You can delete persistent cookies by following the directions in your Internet browser's "help" file. If you choose to reject cookies in general, you can still use our site, but your ability to use some site features--such as contests or surveys--will be limited. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by CampusBooks.com Inc. only and does not cover the use of cookies by any of our bookstore partners or advertisers.

Links to Other Sites

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by CampusBooks.com Inc. Please be aware that we, CampusBooks.com Inc, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects potentially personal information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

If your personal information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may update your information by logging into your account and making the change on your account management page.

Security

The security of your personal information is very important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send an email to us at help@campusbooks.com.

Business Transitions

In the event CampusBooks.com Inc. goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personal information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via a prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at the following address:

CampusBooks
4660 La Jolla Village Dr, Suite 500
San Diego , CA 92122
858-625-4633
help@campusbooks.com