Bookazine - A Global Distributor and its affiliates, related companies, agents, and
licensors (collectively " Bookazine "), is committed to protecting your
privacy and the security of all data on the Bookazine.com website (the .Site.). To demonstrate this commitment, we have adopted this privacy policy (this
"Policy"). This Policy is based on the principles of notice/awareness,
choice/consent, access/participation and integrity/security in the collection
and use of all information regarding our users and their activities at the
Site. Please review this Policy each time you use the Site as it is subject to
change at any time by Bookazine without notice to you. It is your
obligation to review this Policy from time to time. By accessing the Site you
are indicating your agreement to this Policy. Any changes to this Policy will
be effective immediately upon posting to this Site.
I. NOTICE OF OUR POLICY
This Policy tells you, among other things, what information we gather from you,
how we may use or disclose that information and our efforts to protect it.
Please read this Policy carefully, and feel free to contact our Webmaster at
webmaster@bzvirtual.com if you have any questions regarding its contents.
II. WHAT TYPES OF INFORMATION ARE COLLECTED AND WHY
a. Information submitted by you
At times, we may ask you to provide information about yourself in order to
better serve you. For example, some of the information collected may include
name, title, address, phone number, email address, and other relevant data. We
do not require this information to obtain access to any area of our Site,
however, you are required to create a new account or login as a registered user
prior to ordering any products on our Site.
b. Information collected by Cookies
We may also make use of website "cookies" to help you use our services more
easily and to help us continuously improve our Site and our service to you. A
"cookie" is a small data file that a website can send to your browser, which
may then be stored on your hard drive to help our Site "remember" information
about you when you return to our Site, such as your preferences for our Site or
account identifications. Our cookies do not read data off of your hard drive,
read cookie files created by other websites track any personal information
about you. You may have the option of setting your browser to reject cookies,
however, doing so may negatively impact upon the performance of the Site or
restrict us in better serving your needs and interests. The "help" portion of
the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from
accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a
new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
III. HOW DOES Bookazine USE MY INFORMATION?
a. User Identification
We will retain this information on a secure server so that on re-visiting our
Site, you will not need to re-enter that information. Bookazine may use this
information in an aggregated form to measure number of visits, average time
spent on the Site, pages viewed, and other relevant statistics. Bookazine
collects this information to measure the use of our Site and to improve the
content of our Site.
We use your personally identifying information to identify you as a user of the
Site and to assist and speed the completion of transactions on the Site. We may
use your email address to contact you directly regarding services or products
that we believe may be of interest to you. We may also use information
collected about your preferences and activities at the Site, such as the
particular pages you request at the Site and purchases or other transactions
you effect through the Site, we may vary the content you receive in future
visits to the Site based on your preferences and activities.
b. Disclosure of Aggregate Information
We may combine your personally identifying information and information about
your preferences and activities, with those of all or a particular group of our
users to prepare collective profiles of our users and their activities for our
internal use. For example, we may track the number of our users who view
certain pages or use certain features or compile the total dollar amount of
sales conducted through the Site in a particular geographic region or to track
purchasing trends. Such information, and other information we derive from
individual users' information, allows us to continue to grow and provide you
with quality information through more accurate marketing and advertising of the
Site. We may share aggregated information concerning our users, without
attribution of personal information, to other companies with whom we conduct
business.
c. No Disclosure of Personal Information to Outside Parties
We do not disclose your personal information that you provide or that we
collect, such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, account
numbers, etc. to any persons outside of our company. We will not lease,
license, sublicense, rent, transfer, disclose, disseminate or otherwise grant
access to the information we collect from you through the Site to any persons
outside of Bookazine. We will, however, comply with any court order or
other requirement of law which requires us to disclose your personal
information.
d. How Can I .Opt-out. of Receiving e-mail Communication?
We permit you to opt-out of receiving certain communications from the Site. We
will not send unsolicited messages to you if you indicate that you do not wish
to receive such messages. If you do not wish to receive unsolicited email
messages from us, please access the "My Account" section of the Site and adjust
your mailing preferences from the "yes" to the "no" option. If you do not want
your personal information used as otherwise detailed in this Privacy Policy,
then you must not use the Site.
IV. WHAT Bookazine DOES TO KEEP THIS SITE SECURE
Any information you enter on our accounts setup page is encrypted before
transmission to our server. You can safely enter your credit card and personal
registration information and it cannot be read in transit to our server. This
encryption is certified by Verisign.
Our Site may contain "links" to other websites, and we cannot and are not
responsible for maintaining your privacy once you leave our Site. We attempt to
only link to websites that share our high standards and respect for privacy.
If you provide any information to parties who operate websites that are linked
to or from this Site, different rules may apply to their collection, use or
disclosure of your personal information. We encourage you to review other
websites' policies before revealing any sensitive or personal information.
Under no circumstances shall Bookazine have any liability whatsoever for the
activities conducted by or at any website accessed from or through the Site.
Regardless of the precautions taken by us we cannot ensure or warrant the
security of any information you transmit to us, and you transmit such
information at your own risk.
What You Can Do To Protect Your Information
- Use only secure websites when disclosing your personally identifiable
information. Secure pages begin with "https".
- Avoid easy to-figure out access and personal ID (PIN) codes.
- Never respond to unsolicited requests for your social security number
(SSN) or financial data.
- Do not disclose your passwords to the Site or your account information to
any other person.
V. SPECIAL POLICY ON INFORMATION REGARDING CHILDREN
This Site is not directed to children (persons under 13 years of age), and
Bookazine does not knowingly collect any personal information from children.
If you are concerned about your child's use of the Site, you may use
web-filtering technology to supervise or limit access to the Site.
VI. GENERAL
This Policy is governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of New
Jersey in the United States, without regard to its conflict of laws principles.
Jurisdiction for any claims arising under or out of this Policy shall lie
exclusively with the state and federal courts within the State of New Jersey.
If any provision of this Policy is found to be invalid by a court having
competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the
validity of the remaining provisions of this Policy, which shall remain in full
force and effect. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL Bookazine HAVE ANY LIABILITY
WHATSOEVER FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT OR SPECIAL DAMAGES
ARISING OUT OF THE BREACH OF THIS POLICY, HOWEVER OCCASIONED.