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Privacy Statement

Privacy Policy for:
Textbookninja.com
A division of Dark Nova Advertising LLC
Date: November 11, 2004

Dark Nova Advertising LLC and our subsidiaries and affiliates ("Dark Nova" or "we" or Textbookninja.com) respect your preferences concerning the collection and use of your personal data. Our goal is to provide you with the best way to buy and sell used college textbooks. In order to accomplish this, we will at times request personal information from you. This policy is our way of informing you of how we collect information, what we collect it for, and how it affects you.

Textbookninja.com may also provide links to non-Dark Nova sites we believe may be useful to you. These sites are provided as a convenience and are beyond our control. You should check the privacy policies of those sites before providing your personal information to them. To learn more about Dark Nova's privacy policy, read the sections below for information about:

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How We Collect Data  | The Data We Collect and How We Use It  | Policy Updates  |


How Textbookninja.com Collects User Data

Through automated means such as communications protocols and cookies

Registration screens and online forms

In the process of online purchases (transaction records)

In e-mails sent to Textbookninja.com from users

Through offline communications and interactions

Textbookninja.com may also obtain data related to our users through third party sources of information.

Textbookninja.com may receive data from you as part of the communication connection itself - the standard electronic greeting between your computer, the network, and our servers. This information often consists of network routing (where you came from), equipment information (browser type), date and time. At this time our server will also query your computer to see if there are "cookies" previously set by Textbookninja.com to facilitate login or other site navigation procedures.

Some parts of the site may use cookies to collect information about visitors' use of the Web site and to facilitate return visits. The information collected from cookies is tracked to enhance security and to improve the functionality of the Web site by avoiding duplicate data entry, facilitating navigation, and increasing the relevance of content. Cookies on the site may collect the following information: a unique identifier, user preferences and profile information used to personalize the content that is shown, and membership information to access certain parts of Textbookninja.com. Some cookies used by Textbookninja.com may remain on the user's computer after they leave the Web site, though most expire after a set period of time.

Cookies may also be of benefit to you by creating a more streamlined login process, keeping track of order information between sessions.

 

The Data We Collect and How We Use It

Dark Nova collects information from users for the following purposes:

To engage in transactions or communications

Name, address, e-mail, purchase details, and credit card/payment information may be collected and stored as part of the transaction history. The majority of the information collected under this category is business contact information. Dark Nova may need to share some of this information (address, payment) with delivery services, credit card clearing houses and other similarly third parties that are required to accomplish the transaction.

To provide future service and support

Information collected for this purpose is both contact information and information related to service/support requested.

To select content

Information may be collected to help create Web site content and navigation that is most relevant and user friendly. This includes information collected as a result of site navigation as well as information provided in forms.

To respond to user inquiries and requests for information

This information includes registrations for newsletters and specific requests for further information.

To better tailor marketing to user needs

We may use information from purchases and requirements to provide you with notices new services that may interest. Marketing notices are subject to the general opt-out elections.

As a result of legal requirements

Dark Nova may be required to provide personally identifiable information to comply with legally mandated reporting, disclosure or other legal process requirements.

Third Party Permission-Based Lists

On occasion, Dark Nova may use third party mailing lists. These are lists maintained by third parties that have received permission from their users to receive e-mails from other companies, such as Dark Nova.

Information-Sharing Choices

We may have to share your information with third parties which may be necessary to accomplish the transaction including credit card clearing services. There may also be some cases of sharing by definition of the service - for example posting an ad for a textbook, which is viewable by anyone with an internet connection.

 

Policy Updates

This policy may be subject to change. The effective policy will be posted on www.textbookninja.com at all times.

How We Collect Data  | The Data We Collect and How We Use It  | Policy Updates  |


 
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