PRIVACY POLICY
Introduction
The Saints Bookstore is committed to
protecting your privacy. We have established this Privacy Policy and
are providing it to you so that you can understand the manner in
which we collect and use your information and the efforts we use to
protect it. Please note that this policy is for the Saints
Bookstore; it does not apply to other sites that you may link to
from our site. Please check the privacy policies on those sites for
more information.
Business Information
The Saints Bookstore is a retail
college bookstore located in Liberal, Kansas, in the United States
of America. In addition to the community here at Liberal, we serve
students, staff, and faculty from nearby communities
and Seward County Community College, as well as our internet and mail
order customers from around the country and around the world. The
address for our main store appears below.
The Saints Bookstore
1801 N Kansas Ave
PO Box 1137
Liberal, KS 67905
Personal Information Collected
The Saints Bookstore recognizes the
need for consumers to control the use and management of personal
information. By personal information we mean information that can be
used to identify or contact an individual. This includes a first and
last name, a physical address, an email address, a student id
number, or a phone number. If you are visiting our site to browse
merchandise or find information about our business or our products,
you do not need to provide any personal information. If you decide
to make a purchase, however, we do collect this information so that
we can provide you with the product or service you requested and so
that we can contact you with information regarding your order.
Automatic Information Collected
Our website makes use of various
technologies to collect information about types and versions of
internet browsers used when accessing our web site. This
information, and information about internet IP addresses, as well as
date and time web pages are visited are stored in various security
and traffic logs. Our service provider reviews these logs, using
statistical analysis, in an effort to track and predict traffic
patterns and estimate resource needs. Unless we are tracking down a
technical problem or we suspect either fraudulent behavior or
illegal conduct we do not trace specific user sessions.
Personal Information Use
The Saints Bookstore uses personal
information provided by you so that we can service your order. Also
note that we may need to transfer that information to our agents or
employees of our service providers. For example, we may need to
provide your address to a wholesaler or a shipping company that will
ship a product directly to you. We will only transfer the
information to the extent necessary to provide the requested
information, service, or product to you. We will not sell or trade
your information to unrelated third parties. When you submit an
order you will receive an email confirmation from our system. As
your order status changes you may also receive notifications via
email. These notifications are considered part of our service and
may not be disabled. We may also periodically send you email
notifications concerning products or services offered by our
bookstore. Any such notification will include instructions for
opting out of future mailings.
Third Parties
We do partner with other third
parties to provide various products and services. When you sign up
for these services or products we will share required personal
information that is necessary for the third party to provide the
product or service to you. We take reasonable steps to ensure that
these third parties are obligated to protect your information on our
behalf. It is also against our policy to sell or trade information
collected online without consumer consent. We may, however, release
personal information if we are legally required to do so. If we are
legally compelled to release information to a third party, The
Saints Bookstore, may or may not notify you of this release.
Notification will be at the discretion of The Saints Bookstore and
will be based on the nature and conditions surrounding the release
of information.
Information Control
Your customer profile is accessible
from our website and you may update it at anytime. Our web site
provides you with the ability to change your phone numbers, physical
addresses, and email address information stored in your profile. You
may also write to us at the address listed at the bottom of this
policy to request that we make the change for you.
Children
The Saints Bookstore's website is
targeted to college students and as such is not meant to attract
children. We do not intend to collect personal information from
anyone we know to be under thirteen years of age. If you are the
parent or guardian of a child under thirteen years of age and
believe that your child has disclosed personally identifiable
information to us, please contact us so that we may remove
the child's information.
Supplemental Technologies - Our website uses cookies, session
identifiers, JavaScript(tm), and browser detection technology to
provide consumers with a more pleasant online experience. Many
browsers provide consumers with the ability to disable some or all
of these technologies. Disabling them, especially in the case of
JavaScript(tm), may prevent you from viewing some web pages. Note
that the cookies we use do not place any personally identifiable
information on your computer. Our site also does not participate in
Ad Networks or use Web Bugs/Web Beacons to track consumer activity.
Confidentiality and Security
The Saints Bookstore takes reasonable
steps to ensure that your information is protected. On our website
we use industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption when
collecting your personal information. Our website is hosted in a
data center which makes use of multiple levels of redundant
firewalls and database encryption to protect
information. Internally, we limit access to your information to
those employees or agents who we believe have reasonable need to use
the information to provide products or services to you, or to
perform their jobs.
Notifications
When your order is placed on our
website we will send you an email notification. When your order
status changes you may also receive notifications via email. These
notifications are considered part of our service and may not be
disabled. We will send the email but we cannot guarantee delivery.
You are responsible for providing a valid email address and for
updating it when your address changes. The Saints Bookstore may,
depending on the importance and urgency of the notification, choose
to contact you via telephone or postal mail. When doing so we will
use the phone number and/or address associated with your account or
transaction.
History - The Saints Bookstore first established a privacy policy
in June of 2000. We periodically make changes to the policy to
reflect additions or changes to our practices. You may review the
current policy at anytime by returning to this web page. This policy
was last changed on July 2, 2004.
Compliance
This privacy policy
complies ecommerce industry best practice guidelines and with
California's Privacy Protection Act of 2004. If you have any
questions or concerns about this policy please contact us using the
information provided below.
Contact - Please direct all privacy
related questions and concerns to the following address:
The Saints Bookstore
ATTN: Privacy Issues
1801 N Kansas Ave
PO Box 1137
Liberal, KS 67905
