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This Privacy Policy is effective May 30, 2006.
Pacific Book Exchange, LLC is committed to protecting the privacy of the personal information that you provide to us when you use our services. We will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information, or a list of our customers, to any third parties.
We provide this Privacy Policy explaining our information practices with the hope that it will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
When you complete the forms on our website to sell your books to us, the types of personal information we collect are:
In addition, when you visit our website we use cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience and to learn about how you use our website so we can improve the quality of our services. A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is temporarily saved to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. When you visit our website again, the cookie allows our website to recognize your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and other information. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some of our features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
Pacific Book Exchange, LLC's servers automatically record information when you visit our website or use our services, including the URL, IP address, browser type and language, and the date and time of your visit.
We collect, store, and process your personal information on servers located in the United States. We use the information we collect about you to process your order, provide customer service, and deliver offers for special features or services, improve our services and/or promote our service.
We give access to individually identifiable information about you only to those employees, contractors, or agents who require it to process your transactions, promote our business and fulfill customer service requests.
We use the information you provide about yourself only to complete your transaction. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete your transaction, provide customer service and/or promote our business. If we use an outside party to assist us in the above, we require compliance with our Privacy Policy, and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
When you send email or other communications to us, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests, and improve and promote our services. We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive and to send you acknowledgements of your transactions with us. Your email address is not used for any other purpose and is not shared with outside parties, except to accomplish the above.
We use IP addresses, browser types, and access times to analyze trends, administer our website, improve site performance, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
We may also use non-identifying and aggregate information to share with advertisers. Aggregate information is information that is recorded about users and collected into groups so that it no longer reflects or references an individually identifiable user.
For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of persons filled out our registration form. However, this disclosed information does not have any personally identifiable information. We will not disclose anything that could be used to identify you personally to our advertisers.
Finally, we never use or share your personally identifiable information that you have provided to us in ways that are not related to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such uses in the future.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us an email request to CustomerService@BlueRectangle.com and/or by clicking update on the home page of BlueRectangle.com.
To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
You can also close your account with us by ceasing to use our services. If you close your account, we will mark your account in our database as "Closed," but will keep your account information in our database. This is necessary in order to deter fraud, by ensuring that persons who try to commit fraud will not be able to avoid detection simply by closing one account and opening a new account.
However, if you close your account, your personally identifiable information will not be used by us for any further purposes, nor sold or shared with third parties, except as necessary to prevent fraud and assist law enforcement, promote our website or as required by law.
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, you can contact us Telephone to: 510-864-0652, Monday through Friday, from 9:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., Pacific Standard Email to: customerservice@bluerectangle.com Postal mail addressed to:
From time to time, we may change our Privacy Policy. We will not reduce your rights under this Policy without your explicit consent, and we expect most such changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice. Each version of our Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date, and we will also keep prior versions of our Privacy Policy in an archive for your review.