Old Book Centers Privacy Policy
- European standards / Personal Data Protection Act
OLD BOOK CENTERS is responsible for the gathering, use, and holding of personal information in the sense of the Dutch Personal Data Protection Act and thus following European standards to the area applicable in Pakistan.
- Type of Information We Collected
When you hit the Website, we may collect some non-personal information such as your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, operating system, browser type, and Internet service provider. That type of information does not identify you personally. If you register with the Website or react to advertisements or posts on the Website or post contents on the Website without registering, we may also receive personal data that you provide, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, phone/mobile number, home country, and zip code (“Registration Information”). You have the option of also giving us your fax numbers, gender, age, and/or company name if you choose to register with Old Book Centers. If you give your phone number, it will be displayed in your posting. Moreover, if you have provided your phone number and posted an ad using your account, you accept to receive communications on the given phone number from our side, which may include but not be limited to automated calls or text communications. The communication may require you to establish and verify that your account has been practiced to post the relevant advertisement on the Website. We may also receive additional information that our registered users provide, such as new or removed postings, new or removed comments, keyword searches, scam reports, and new contact sellers. We use a third-party credit card processing company for purchases and other third-party companies to monitor site traffic, which may, in some cases, store your data. By using this Website Old Book Centerss or the Service, you consent to the gathering, storage, and use of the personal data you provide for any of the services that we propose, and you consent to our collection of any modifications or updates that you may provide to any information you provide that is collected by Old Book Centerss.
- Website Cookies
We may use website cookies to manage all our users’ sessions and to store preferences, tracking information, and language selection. Website Cookies may be used whether you registered with us or not registered with us. “Website Cookies” are small text files given by a web server to your hard drive and thereafter saved on your computer machine. The kinds of information a website cookie receives include the date and time you visited the Website, your browsing history, your preferences, and your username. In some instances, our third-party assistance providers may use cookies on the Website. We cannot control or obtain cookies used by third-party service providers. This Privacy Policy covers only Website Cookies used by us and not any Website cookies used by third parties. You have the ability to both accept or decline the use of Website cookies on your computer machine, whether you are enrolled with us or not. Typically, you can configure your browser to not allow Website cookies. But, declining the use of Website cookies may limit your entrance to certain features of the Website. For example, you may have trouble logging in or using certain interactive characteristics of the Website, such as the Old Book Centerss Forum or Comments feature.
- Third Parties
We use third-party assistance providers to assist us in measuring sales and purchases on our Website and regularly improving our Website, and to observe our users’ concerns and actions. You hereby authorize Old Book Centerss and/or third-party service providers engaged by Old Book Centerss to collect, use, store, examine, reproduce, advertise, and readjust (either on its own or through a third party assistance provider) the data in relation to your use of the Website for the purpose of information analysis and for enhancing your experience on the Website. In increase, the Website may hardly contain links to third-party Sites or give you data in relation to services that you may avail from any third parties. Data about services that you may choose to avail of from these third-party service providers may be actively given to you by Old Book Centerss in any manner, including within its different marketing and interaction channels. You accept that this is solely offered by Old Book Centers to enhance your experience in connection to the use of the Website, and the terms of such assistance shall be subject to such further terms and conditions of Old Book Centers and/or third-party service providers. Old Book centers may also allow for free or for fee deliverables produced by third-party assistance providers in the advancement of any services that you may have availed from these third-party service providers in connection with the advertisement posted on the Website Old Book Centers, without any commitment (monetary or otherwise) towards you. Old Book Centers shall not be answerable/responsible for any service availed by you from such third parties or any payment given by you to such third parties in conjunction with the services. Any company or claims in relation to such assistance should be directed by you to such third parties. If you agree on the links to third-party websites, you leave the Website. We are not responsible/answerable for the Content of these third-party websites or for the protection of your personal data when you use the third-party websites. These third-party assistance providers and Third-Party Websites may have their own privacy policies dictating the storage and maintenance of your personal information that you may be directed to. They may collect data such as your IP address, browser term, or operating system. This Website Privacy Policy does not govern personal data provided to, put on, or used by these third-party providers and third-party Websites. We suggest that when you access a third-party Website, you examine the third-party site’s privacy policy as it links to safeguarding your personal data/information. We use third-party advertising firms to serve ads when you access the Website. These firms may use data/information (not including your name, address, e-mail address, or telephone numbers) about your visits to the Website and third-party websites in series to provide advertisements about assets and services of benefit to you.
On the Website, Google, as a third-party merchant, uses Website Cookies to serve ads. Google’s use of the DoubleClick DART Cookie enables it to assist ads to the Website’s users based on their visit to the Websites and third-party websites. For more information on the DART Cookie, see: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
You may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by Google by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
You may opt-out of targeted advertising for all NAI member ad networks by visiting: http://www.networkadvertising.org/
By publishing an ad on the Website, you accept and agree that the Content is public and available by any third-party and that they may appear in search engine results (such as Google, Altavista, Yahoo!, MSN, and other search engines) and in the cache of those search engines, in supplies and third-party Websites following toco-branding deals/agreements, and that it is the sole duty of each of those search engines, third-party websites or RSS web feed support to update and/or to delete Content from their records and their cache. You agree and accept that Old Book Centers is not responsible for the data published in search results or by any Third-Party Website that carries Old Book Centers postings.
- How Your Information is Used
We may use information/data provided by you to (i) enforce our Terms of Use, monitor users movements, such as keyword searches or different postings, and more efficiently handle traffic on the Website; (ii) give customer services, build and manage user accounts; and (iii) help you with technical problems. Also, we may deal with third-party service providers certain information/data, such as your browser abilities or operating system, that we have received in order to better know which advertisements and services may please you. We may prevent users located in certain countries from using the Website. We may hold such information/data for as long as is needed to fulfill our business purpose, even after your account is canceled.
- Protecting Your Personal Information
You are our very valued customer, and we understand that protecting your privacy is essential for you. For this purpose, we are dedicated to protecting the personal information/data you provide in a kind of way. We do not immediately process any payments and do not store your credit card/debit card information/data. Secured socket layer (“SSL”) technology is used for treating payment activities with third-party service provider associates, such as DineroMail, Click & Buy, and PayPal. Your Registration Information/data may be preserved by a unique customer password and user ID. You should not reveal your password information/data to anyone, and you should perpetually remember to log off if using a shared computer or shared network. Finally, you may employ the Website as an anonymous user by not registering. We have taken several security protections in safeguarding your personal information/data. However, as with most electronic/automated transactions, no method is 100% safe. While we attempt to use a commercially adequate means to protect the personal information you provide, we cannot ensure its security. Therefore, you accept and agree that we collect no liability regarding the theft, loss, alteration, or misapplication of personal or other information or Content, including, out limitation, such information/data that has been provided to third companies or other users, or with concerns to the failure of a third party to remain by the agreement between such third party and us. You may join in our Forum or use our Comments columns. For postings to the Forum, your username will be posted as well. For postings using the Comments columns, your name and e-mail will only be posted if you give it in the comment. We heavily discourage posting any information/data on these features or in any Content posted by you that you do not need others to see. You accept that you are responsible/answerable for managing the confidentiality of your username and password and all management of your account, whether or not you have approved such use.
- Accessing and Modifying Personal Information and Communication Preferences
You may obtain, remove, display, remove, and/or make changes to personal information/data that you have provided to us via the Contact Help form. You may not need to register in order to post or reply to advertisements on the Website. If you register or reply to advertisements or posts on the Website or post any content on the Website, we may give you certain promotions, surveys, notifications, advertisements, text messages, specials, and phone calls in relation to the Services. You thus completely allow us and our service providers to reach you via text messages or by phone calls and agree that you shall have no claim against Old Book centers or its service providers following any applicable law. We may also send you any authorized required information and certain notifications, including but not restricted to service-related announcements or notices regarding a switch to any of our policies. For example, we may send you a notification regarding server problems or programmed maintenance to the Website. In request to opt-out of receiving these notifications, you may need to deactivate your account. You can opt-out of certain e-mail communications from us, including our newsletters, information on buying and selling on the Website, announcements that a user has commented on your posting, and information that you can refresh your posting. We will not change your decisions without your consent. You cannot opt-out of receiving transactional information from Old Book Centers related to your account.
- Disclosures
In a few instants, we may be obliged to disclose your personal information/data due to legal or administrative requirements. In such cases, we reserve the right to reveal your personal information/data as required in order to comply with our legal commitments, including but not limited to complying with government orders, warrants, subpoenas, set of process requirements, or data requests. We may also reveal information/data about our users to law enforcing officers or others, in the great faith belief that such exposure is reasonably necessary to make these Terms and/or Privacy Policy; respond to requests that any Content infringes the rights of third-parties; or defend the rights, property, or individual safety of Old book Centers, our users or the general public. You agree and accept that we may not inform you prior to or after revelations made according to this section. If essentially all of our assets are sold or merged into a different company, the acquiring business shall be given access to your personal information/data without your permission. If we sell only a part of our business, the acquiring object shall have access to your personal information/data without your consent, and we may send you to notice concerning this sale.
- Notification of Changes
We have the right to change these Terms from time to time and at our sole choice. We may send you to notice concerning material modifications to these Terms, including the Privacy Policy or the Website. You should make a note of the “last updated date” at the start of the Terms. With this information, you should be able to identify if the Terms have been updated newly.
- Disputes
Any disagreements regarding your privacy are subject to the Terms, including but not restricted to any provisions related to indemnification, limitations on losses, and choice of law and Forum.