Privacy Policy

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you register on our website, place an order, create user content or subscribe to our newsletter.

Information provided by you:

Name, email, profile picture - When you register for BOOKBITES we will ask for your email. Through your profile settings you may additionally provide a user name and profile picture. If you login using a social network (e.g. Facebook), we may ask permission to access basic information from that account, such as your name, email address and profile picture. You can stop sharing information with us at any time using the social network settings to disable access.
Payment information (Paid Users) - Payment information is required to fulfil the transaction. If you pay using a payment card at checkout, you will provide your payment card number to Stripe® (our card payment provider). The Stripe® privacy policy will apply to this information. If you checkout using PayPal®, the PayPal® privacy policy will apply to the payment information you provide.
User Content - This includes documents or any other content provided by you while using our website or apps.

Information automatically collected:

IP Address - For determining the location of the customer
Logging - It is very common for websites to record diagnostic data in log files. This log data may include the IP address, date, time, browser information and cookie data.
Website Usage - To help understand and improve the performance of our service, we collect statistics such as how many users visit a page on our website or how many times a link was clicked.
Cookies - We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. Please see our cookie policy.

What do we use your information for?

To authenticate users, personalise your experience, improve customer service and process transactions.
To communicate with you about your use of our website or apps, product announcements, software updates, as well as respond to your requests for support.
To send periodic emails including direct marketing and special offers about BOOKBITES, from which you can unsubscribe at any time.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. The only exceptions to this rule are:

Third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
When we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.
Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Do we use cookies?

Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information).

We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

Will we send you emails?

Periodically we may send you emails about new features and special offers. This may include information about product and services from our business partners. You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link found in our emails or by changing your account settings.

How secure is my Information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers’ database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential.

During and after a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) are not stored on our servers (except the last 4 digits). If we detect a system security breach, we may attempt to contact you using your email address.

How long is my data retained?

We may keep some of your data for as long as it is required to comply with our obligations including law, tax and auditing.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy?

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.

This document was last modified on 02-Dec-2024