Privacy Policy
PRIVACY STATEMENT
books4publishing provides interactive environments on the Internet to enable publishers and unpublished authors do their jobs better and more efficiently. We recognize and support the need to protect the privacy rights of our members through disclosure of our practices for collection and use of member information.
In general, you can visit many of the books4publishing sites on the Web at any time without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. We log the IP address, type of operating system and browser software used by each visitor to a books4publishing site, and from this information we can derive the identity of the visitor's geographic location and Internet Service Provider. We use this data in aggregate form to build higher quality, more useful facilities by analysing the collective characteristics of our members and measuring usage of each area of our sites. We also provide statistical information based on this aggregate data to our advertisers, potential advertisers and other business partners.In some circumstances we will ask you to provide us with certain personal information, such as when you apply for membership in IT knowledge, make a purchase through books4publishing Direct, or in connection with entering certain books4publishing-sponsored contests and promotions.
We may also provide information about you to third parties who provide goods and services that may be of interest to you. In all cases where we ask you for personal information we will:
- notify you that such information is being collected, and
- identify which informational items are required and which are optional, and
- offer you the opportunity to opt out of receiving information from our partners and third parties.
books4publishing will not disclose to third parties your credit card information, except to the extent necessary to complete a transaction initiated by you.
COOKIE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT
There is a technology called "cookies" which is a file transferred from a website to the hard drive of your computer so that the website operator may track activities on the site. books4publishing uses cookies to help track activity at books4publishing's sites so that book4publishing can make its sites more interesting and useful to visitors. Cookies allow us to understand who has seen which pages and ads, to determine how often particular pages are visited, and to track the most popular areas of each books4publishing site. Cookies also allow us to make our sites more convenient to use by, for example, allowing us to save your password so that you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit an books4publishing site.
A cookie will NOT permit a website operator to learn any personally identifying information about you, such as your real name or address, unless you have previously provided that information to the website operator or you have set the preferences in your browser to provide this information. We note that you can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether to accept it.THIRD PARTY LINKS
books4publishing's sites contains links to other Internet sites. We encourage all of our partners, contributors and third parties to implement policies and practices that respect the privacy of our users. However, books4publishing is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
Please note that we review our privacy practices from time to time, and that such practices are subject to change. We ask that our visitors periodically review this page to ensure familiarity with the most current version of our privacy statement. If you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices, please contact us.
