We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Policy. This Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit thetbrshelf.com, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.

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This Policy applies to any information that we collect on the Website, including any information in any e-mails, posts, texts and other electronic messages between you and the Website and any information about you transferred to the Website from other websites. This Policy also applies to any related information that we collect about you offline but that will be processed by automated means using the Website. This Policy does not apply to any other information that we collect by any means.

 

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you can choose not to use our Website. By accessing or using our Website, you agree to this Policy.  This Policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of the Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.

 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, screen name, telephone number and photograph. In addition, if you purchase any goods or services on our Website, we may collect information required for the payment for goods or services, including credit card numbers, security codes and other financial information. All of this information is cumulatively referred to in this Policy as “Personal Information”.

The information we collect on or through our Website may include information that you provide by registering to use our Website, placing an order for promotions, using our services, posting material, requesting further services or reporting a problem with our Website.  We will also retain records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses) if you contact us.

 As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may automatically collect certain traffic data and usage information to help us manage our content and improve your use of the Website.  This may include information about your equipment, your IP address, your mobile device ID, and your browsing actions and patterns when you visit our Website, including the referring and exit pages.  The technologies that we use for this automatic data collection may include cookies that are stored on your computer, small embedded electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) and other types of embedded code on the Website that permit us to count users and obtain other related Website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Website content and verifying system and server integrity).

You also may provide information to be posted, published or displayed on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties, including information, feedback and comments (collectively, “User Contributions”).  Your User Contributions are posted on the Website and transmitted to others at your own risk.  We cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions.  Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

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Legal Basis for Processing

We have the legal right to use your Personal Information in the ways described in this Privacy Policy based on your consent, or on the need to use the Personal Information to provide you with goods or services that you request, or for the legitimate purposes of furthering our existing relationship with you or preventing fraud.  Accordingly, you have a contractual rather than a statutory obligation to provide such information.  If you do not provide such information, you may be unable to use our Platform and we may be unable to provide any goods or services that you request.

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How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information,

• to present our Website and its contents to you,

• to permit you to place orders for promotions via our Website and to process such transactions,

• to send you informational and promotional e-mails or correspondence regarding our own products and services,

• to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us and to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide the information.

If you purchase any products or services offered through our Website, we may transmit your Personal Information to third-party payment processors.  We may also use your Personal Information to notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it and to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection. We may also use the information that you provide in any other way that we describe when you provide the information and for any other purpose with your consent. Finally, we may use your Personal Information for any permitted marketing purposes described below.

We retain your Personal Information while you are using the Platform to improve your use of the Platform.  Once you are no longer using our Platform, we will store your Personal Information for so long as we may need it to answer questions about the products or services that we provided, or to comply with the record keeping requirements of applicable law.

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Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your Personal Information for any permitted marketing purposes described below.  We may transmit your Personal Information to third-party payment processors in connection with processing your purchase of any products or services offered through our Website.  We may also disclose your Personal Information for any other purpose disclosed when the information is provided, and for any other purpose with your consent.

We may convert or combine some Personal Information of users into de-identified or aggregated data that does not disclose any of the Personal Information of any individual user.  We may disclose any such de-identified or aggregated data without restriction.

Some of the information that we collect from cookies, web beacons or other embedded code relates to your personal use of the Website and allows us to store information about your preferences, speed up your searches and recognize you when you return to our Website.   Other information that we collect from cookies, web beacons or other embedded code is not tied to your Personal Information and enables us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns.  This traffic data may be shared with third parties without restriction.

We may disclose Personal Information to our subsidiaries and affiliates and to any contractors, service providers and other third parties who need to know such information to provide services that we request to support our permitted uses of Personal Information.  For example, we may use third-party tools such as AWS and Google Analytics to store, process and/or analyze your information, including Personal Information.  We may disclose Personal Information to a buyer or other successor to our business in the event of a sale of equity or assets, reorganization, merger or a similar corporate transaction and any due diligence review with respect to any such proposed transaction. 

We may also disclose your Personal Information to comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to meet national security and law enforcement requirements and to respond to any government or regulatory request or audit and to enforce or apply our Terms of Use, including for billing and collection purposes, or if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our customers or others.  This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

Social Media Sites and Widgets

You may be able to use social media widgets such as the Facebook Like button on the Website.  These widgets will collect your IP address and identify which page you are visiting on the Website, and make your preference information available to third parties. The information collected by such widgets is controlled by third party privacy policies.

 

Use of Personal Information for Marketing Purposes

We may use your Personal Information to provide you with promotional information about our own products and services.  Currently, we do not provide any of your Personal Information to third parties to use for advertising, marketing or tracking purposes.

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Tracking

Tracking involves the use of cookies, web beacons or other embedded code or tracking technologies to collect, analyze and store information on a user’s behavior over time and/or across multiple websites, including information on the sites visited, products viewed, products purchased and other online interactions.  Tracking information can be used to enable companies to make interest-based (behavioral) advertising available to users on sites that they visit.

 We may collect Personal Information about your activities over time on our own Website (but not across third party sites) for tracking purposes when you use our Website or use our services.  We use this information to offer you targeted advertisements and promotional materials about books, audiobooks or other products and services that may be of interest to you (e.g., suggestions for books in a genre where you have shown an interest in the past).  However, we do not currently permit other parties, such as third-party advertisers, ad networks or ad servers, to conduct tracking or interest-based advertising on our Website.

Finally, Internet providers and mobile device providers may use cookies, web beacons or other embedded code or tracking technologies to collect Personal Information about your on-line activities over time and across third party sites when you use our Website or our services.  We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used.  If you have any questions about an advertisement, you should contact the responsible advertiser directly.

Our Website does not currently respond to any “DO NOT TRACK” signals sent by your browser or otherwise.

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Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

You have certain choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us.  You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of the Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

If we have sent you a promotional e-mail, you may opt out of future promotional e-mails by clicking the “UNSUBSCRIBE” or similar link within the e-mail and follow the prompts that appear. This opt out does not apply to information provided as a result of a purchase or other transactions nor to disclosure to a third party that is acting on our behalf and under our instructions in support of our permitted uses of your Personal Information. 

 

Users Outside of the United Kingdom

Our Platform is hosted in the United Kingdom and our services are provided from the United Kingdom.  It is possible that certain information will be stored on servers in multiple other countries on the “cloud” or other similar distributed hosting platforms.  If you are a resident of any country other than the United Kingdom, please note that by providing your Personal Information to us, you are consenting to the transfer of your Personal Information to the United Kingdom and other jurisdictions as indicated above, and to our use and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with this Policy.

If you are a resident of the European Union, you will have the following additional rights with respect to EU Personal Information:

• If we intend to disclose your EU Personal Information to any third party that will have the right to process your EU Personal Information, we will enter into a contract with that third party that provides that your EU Personal Information may be processed only for limited and specified purposes consistent with the consent that you have provided to us, and that the third party must provide the same level of protection for your EU Personal Information that we are obligated to provide under this Policy while it is processing your EU Personal Information. In addition, we will notify you if that third party will have the right to determine the purposes for which it will process your EU Personal Information and the means it will use to process your EU Personal Information (rather than just providing requested assistance to us in support of our permitted uses of your EU Personal Information).

• If your EU Personal Information is being processed by automated means, you have the right to obtain a copy of your provided EU Personal Information, together with certain additional Personal Information that we have generated as a result of your use of our services, in a structured and commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transfer such Personal Information to another service provider. Upon your request, we will transfer that Personal Information directly to another service provider if it is feasible for us to do so.

• If we are processing your EU Personal Information based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

• You may restrict our use of your EU Personal Information, by sending us an email stating your request to contact@thetbrshelf.com, if you have contested the accuracy of that information, or if the processing is unlawful or you need the information to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim. We will then store your EU Personal Information and process it only with your consent, or to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim or to protect the rights of others.  The restriction with respect to information claimed to be inaccurate would end if we verify the accuracy of that contested information.

• Some of the EU Personal Information that you provide to us may be sensitive information related to your racial or ethnic identity, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health (including genetic and biometric data), sex life, sexual orientation or other information that you identify as being sensitive at the time that you disclose it to us (“EU Sensitive Information”). We will not otherwise use or disclose any of your EU Sensitive Information without your express consent, subject to certain limited exceptions.  Should we wish to make any such use or disclosure, we will notify you by email and request that you authorize such use or disclosure by responding to the email with your express consent.

• We may create profiles to analyze or predict your performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or movements. However, we do not make any decision about you that would have legal consequences or similarly significant affects for you based solely on automated decision-making, including the use of profiles.

• Upon our receipt of your request by email at contact@thetbrshelf.com and our verification of your identity, we will advise you whether or not we are processing EU Personal Information concerning you and, if so, will provide you with a copy of your EU Personal Information being processed and certain information about the nature and purposes of the processing. If your EU Personal Information is used for automated decision-making, we will provide you with information on the logic being used and the types of decisions being made.  You may correct any such EU Personal Information that is inaccurate or incomplete.

• Upon your request, we will erase any of your EU Personal Information that is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected, or that is being used for direct marketing purposes, or if our use is based on your consent and you withdraw that consent.

• Our Platform may be used by children in the European Union between the ages of 13 and 16 only with parental consent. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child in the European Union under the age of 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.  In addition, if we have collected Personal Information from any child in the European Union to provide goods or services to that child for a fee, we will erase the Personal Information of that child upon request.

• If we are using your EU Personal Information on the basis of your consent, and we change our Policy to permit any use or disclosure of your EU Personal Information that is materially different than the uses for which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized by you, we will obtain your consent before we make such further uses of your EU Personal Information.

 

 

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure.  All information that you provide to us is stored on our servers behind firewalls and certain Personal Information will be encrypted using secure socket layer (SSL) technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. When we have given you (or when you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping that password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website such as message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure.  Although we have implemented security measures that we think are adequate, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
 

 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We post any changes we make to our Policy on this page.  If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this Policy to check for any changes.

 

Copyright Policy

Reporting Claims of Copyright Infringement

We take claims of copyright infringement seriously.  We will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law.  If you believe any materials accessible on thetbrshelf.com infringe your copyright, you may request removal of those materials (or access to them) from the Website by submitting written notification to us at contact@thetbrshelf.com.