Heliotrope Books Privacy Policy
As used herein, "Website" refers to the website located at http://www.heliotropebooks.com its affiliate sites, subdomains, mobile version(s), and any associated applications that are owned and/or operated by Heliotrope Books, LLC and its affiliates (collectively, “us”, “we” “Heliotrope” or “HB”). By using the Website, you indicate your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you are not permitted to access the Website and you should not do so.
Our postal address is:
Heliotrope Books, LLC
c/o SB Design
125 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10003
We can be reached via e-mail at heliotropebooks [at] gmail [dot] com
We reserve the right to change or otherwise update this Privacy Policy at any time. Such changes or updates are effective immediately after we give notice of the change or update, which we may do by revising the “Last Updated” date of this Privacy Policy or by otherwise posting on the Website, or by email or conventional mail, and/or by any other means which provides reasonable notice. Your use of the Website after such notice is posted means that you accept these changes or updates.
You agree that Heliotrope Books shall not be liable to you for any damages that might result from any changes to the Privacy Policy, if any.
We understand and respect your desire for privacy. To that end, we would like you to know how we use the personal information you provide to us.
The Website provides descriptions of our books, other products and services and an opportunity to purchase books and products via e-commerce. To those ends, we (both directly and through third parties) collect personally identifying information when you purchase a product we offer or initiate an account. This personally identifiable information may include, without limitation, your name, address and email address. We may also collect non-personally-identifiable information (such as your IP address or domain, or about your use of the Website) both directly and through third parties, including through the use of Web beacons, for purposes of administration for the Website and to compile aggregate information about usage of the Website.
You may be asked for your credit card information in connection with the services provided by the Website or our third party payment providers. Your credit card information, along with the personal identifying information you submit, is stored in the Website database for payment, not deleted and never provided to any third parties, except to third party financial institutions to verify the credit card numbers and to authorize the processing of the transaction. Be sure to review all privacy policies published by our third party providers and contact them directly if you have questions as they may have privacy terms that differ from our Privacy Policy.
We have implemented appropriate safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security and to make proper use of the information that we collect. However, no transmission of data over the Internet is guaranteed to be completely secure. Thus, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot absolutely guarantee the security of any information you provide to us.
PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS OR SERVICES FROM THE WEBSITE
If you purchase a product or service from the Website, information may be collected from you, including your credit card and contact information, for transfer to and use by third party providers of the product or service. Unless otherwise stated, we do not have any responsibility in connection with such purchases and all transactions and use of any customer information are the sole responsibility of the product/service provider. Be sure to review the product/service provider's privacy policy and contact them directly if you have any questions. They may have privacy terms that differ from our Privacy Policy.
POLICY FOR MINORS
No information should be submitted to the Website by any Minor (a user under 18 years of age). Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, we do not knowingly provide any personally identifying information about Minors, regardless of its source, to third parties, nor is this information knowingly used by us for any marketing or promotional purposes.
POLICY FOR ADULT USERS
We collect personal information from Website users over 18 years of age who purchase the products we offer. We may elect to share aggregate information with third parties for advertising and promotional purposes. If all or part of Heliotrope Books is sold, merged or is otherwise transferred to another entity, the information you have provided on or through the Website may be transferred to such entity as part of that transaction. We may also disclose personal information in response to legal process, such as a request by law enforcement, a court order or subpoena, or to protect the integrity of the Website if we believe that a user has committed unlawful or otherwise harmful acts.
With the permission of users 18 years or older, information submitted at the time of registration or submission may be used for marketing and promotional purposes by us.
If any individual submits content for publication, we may publish his or her name and any other information submitted with that individual’s permission.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
A California privacy law that went into effect on January 1, 2005, the "Shine the Light" law, allows California residents to obtain a list of third parties to whom a business has disclosed personal information if it shares such information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. However, if a business adopts and discloses in its privacy policy a policy of not disclosing customers’ personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes unless the customer first affirmatively agrees to the disclosure, the business may comply with the law by notifying the customer of his or her right to prevent disclosure of personal information and by providing a cost-free means to exercise that right.
As stated earlier in this Privacy Policy, personal information submitted at the time of registration or submission may be used for marketing and promotional purposes only with the user’s permission. Whenever a user agrees to allow us to collect personal information, we provide the user with an option to prevent such information from being shared for marketing and promotional purposes with third parties. Furthermore, you may exercise this cost-free option at any time by clicking on the link below:
THIRD PARTY ADVERTISING
From time to time, we may use third-party advertising companies and advertising networks to serve ads to you on our behalf when you visit the Website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, telephone number or employment history) about your visits to the Website and other web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
USE OF IP ADDRESSES
An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your Internet service provider whenever you log on to the Web. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address, so when a user requests pages from the Website, our servers log the user's IP address. The IP addresses of our users are collected only for the purposes of system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers, our corporate affiliates or consultants, or with third parties that perform a particular service on our behalf. We do not combine IP addresses with any personally identifying information, nor do we compile any session activity reports by IP address.
USE OF COOKIES
In cyberspace, cookies are pieces of information that a web site transfers to an individual's hard drive for record-keeping purposes.
Cookies make Web surfing easier for you by saving your passwords, purchases and preferences while you're online. The use of cookies is an industry standard. You'll find them at most major web sites.
We use cookies to help us see which areas are popular and which are not. This helps us to target ads based on user interests, and also improve and update the Website based on such data as total number of users and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with cookies.
A cookie allows us to store the personal preferences that you set during each visit to the Website, which in turn allows us to speed up your future activities at the Website. Similarly, the stores hosted by the Website usually use cookies to track which products, services or virtual gifts you've chosen to purchase while shopping. Letting cookies do the record keeping saves you the trouble of entering information over and over again. If you have registered to access the subscriber-only portion of the Website, an identifying cookie will be placed on your computer. During future visits to the Website, we will only read and retrieve information that we set in a cookie during an earlier visit to the Website.
You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers on the Website as well. the Website does not control these cookies, and they are not subject to our Privacy Policy. Advertisers do not have access to the Website's cookies.
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, it is possible that some parts of the Website, such as the shopping and contest/sweepstakes areas, will not function properly if you do so.
CONTACT
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or its implementation, you may contact us as indicated below. We will attempt to respond to your questions or concerns promptly after we receive them.
E-mail: heliotropebooks [at] gmail [dot] com
Mailing address: Heliotrope Books, LLC 125 East 4th Street New York, NY 10003