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We are committed
to protecting the privacy and security of the users of our
site.
This privacy policy will advise you about our guidelines
concerning the use of your personal information, including,
without limitation, the reasonable efforts we make to
protect your personal information in accord with these
guidelines, and about the choices you have concerning our
use of such information. Please read this policy carefully.
We may need to change this policy from time to time in order
to address new issues and reflect changes on our site. We
will post those changes here so that you will always know
our policies regarding what information we gather, how we
might use that information, and whether we will disclose
that information to anyone. Please refer back to this policy
regularly.
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy
policy, please send an e-mail to
info@thebook-sharm.com
Personal
Identification Information
We may request personal identification information from you
(such as your name, street address, telephone number, credit
card number, e-mail address and/or any other identifier that
permits the physical or online contacting of you) in
connection with your use of, or participation in, membership
registration for The Book, our contests, promotions, games,
surveys, forums, subscription registrations, content
submissions, bulletin boards, groups, requests for
suggestions, services, or additional information (including
via e-mail to us), and in connection with other activities,
services or resources we make available on our site. In all
of these cases, we will collect personal identification
information from you only if you voluntarily submit such
information to us. Except as otherwise provided in this
policy, we reasonably endeavour to ensure that we never
intentionally disclose any personal identification
information about you as an individual user to any third
party without having received your permission, except as
provided for herein or otherwise as permitted or required
under law.
If you do provide us with personal information for any of
these activities, we may use it to conduct the activity. We
may also use cookie technology and web beacons (discussed in
detail below) to improve your experience of these
activities, including; to remember your preferences,
customise the content and advertisements that you see or
authenticate your access to your personal information. In
addition, in the event that your personally identifiable
information is requested as part of our surveys, polls or
promotions, such personally identifiable information may be
added to your registration information.
We may also contact you to confirm your registration and
about your account status (for example, when a child enters
a new age group to which different policies apply), and
regarding changes to the sites Terms and Conditions and
this Privacy Policy.
If you give us your permission, we may also use personal
identification information for internal or external
marketing and promotional purposes. On occasion, for
example, we may send you e-mails to introduce a product or a
service that we think might be of interest to the users of
our site. For us to obtain your permission to send you this
information, we will give you an opportunity to "opt-in" at
the time our request for your personal information is made.
If you do "opt-in," you may choose to "opt-out" at any time,
even after you have provided personal information, by
following the procedures set forth below at the end of this
Privacy Policy.
Please note,
however, that under certain circumstances, if you initially
do not choose to "opt-in," or if you later "opt-out," you
may not be eligible for certain benefits for which a name,
e-mail address, telephone number or other personal
identification information is needed.
In addition, on occasion, we may collect personal
identification information from you in connection with
optional contests, special offers or promotions. We will
share such information with necessary third parties for the
purpose of carrying out the contest, special offer or
promotion. Your participation in the contest, special offer
or promotion constitutes your consent to such disclosure and
use of such information.
Non-Personal Identification Information
We collect non-personal identification information through
the use of, without limitation, the following types of
methodology:
"Cookie" technology: A "cookie" is an element of data that a
website can send to your browser, which may then store it on
your system.
"IP address tracking": An IP address is a number that is
assigned to your computer when you are on the internet. When
you request pages from our site, our servers log your IP
address.
"Web beacons": A web beacon, or "clear gif," is a small
graphic image on a web page or web-based document that a
website can use to determine information about a user.
We will use this information for our business purposes, and,
in particular, primarily to administer the site, better
manage advertising on the site, and, in the aggregate, to
understand how our users as a group use the services and
resources provided on our site. This way we know which areas
of our site are favourites of our users, which areas need
improvement, and what technologies are being used so that we
may continually improve our site.
We may share this aggregate statistical information with our
partners, suppliers and other third parties, but we will not
share any individual names, personal navigational or other
personal information. For example, we may use a third-party
advertising company to serve ads when you visit our site. We
may share demographic and preference information with this
company to allow them to display appropriate advertisements
for you on our site and links to their websites containing
their privacy policies.
We use a proprietary advertising server to display ads on
our site. In addition, advertisers may elect to use
third-party advertising companies to serve ads onto our
site. Some of our advertisers may display ads on our site
that may use cookie technology or web beacons to (i)
identify non-personal information about our users (such as
connection speed, browser and country of origin) and (ii)
track user behaviour within our site. Advertisers generally
use such information to customise the display of ads within
our site. We will not permit such advertisers to collect any
personal information from our users within our site,
however, you may choose to voluntarily provide the
advertisers with your personal information. We do not have
access to these cookies or any information that they may
contain.
Further, we currently contract with a third party web
analytics provider to help manage and optimise our site. We
use this service to help us measure the effectiveness of our
advertising and how visitors use our site. To do this, we
use web beacons and cookie technology on the site. The type
of information we collect includes the number of hits a
webpage receives, type of browser used, and number of times
a visitor makes a purchase from a particular promotion. By
supplementing our records, this information helps us learn
things like what pages are most attractive to our visitors,
which of our products and services most interest our users,
and what kinds of offers our users like to see. Although
this third-party provider logs the information coming from
our site on our behalf, we control how that data may and may
not be used.
Children
We strongly urge
all parents to participate in their children's exploration
of the Internet and any online services, and to teach their
children about protecting their personal information while
online.
Links to Other Sites
Users will find advertising or other content on our site
that links to the sites and services of our partners,
suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third
parties. We do not control the content or links that appear
on these sites. In addition, these sites or services,
including their content and links, may be constantly
changing. These sites and services may have their own
privacy policies and customer service policies, or no policy
(policies) at all. We encourage you to review the privacy
policies of any third party sites or services before
providing any of them with your personal information.
Security Policy
Protecting your privacy and your information is a top
priority. We have taken reasonable measures to secure both
your information and our physical premises. We exercise
reasonable care in providing safe transmission of your
information from your PC to our servers (unless sent by a
means outside of our control, such as e-mail). However, we
cannot guarantee that our measures will completely bar
unauthorised access to your information, and by using the
site you assume this risk.
Choice/Opt-Out
If you "opt-in" to receive information from us or others,
you can change your mind later. If at any time you would
like to stop receiving such information or opt-out of a
feature, you may go back to The Book and change your
options. You should be aware, however, that it is not always
possible to completely remove or modify information in our
databases and servers, although we will always make
reasonable efforts to do so upon your request, and we are
unable to have your information removed from the records of
any third party who has been provided with your information
in accordance with this policy.
Your Acceptance of These Terms
By using our site, you signify your acceptance of our
Privacy Policy, your promise to comply with the
representations you make and contained in the Privacy
Policy and Terms and Conditions, and
your understanding of the scope and limitations of the
protections provided under the Privacy Policy and Terms and
Conditions. If you do not agree to these policies, please do
not use our site. Your continued use of the sites following
the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you
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