Last updated December 14, 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This privacy policy applies to \nhttps:\/\/www.textbookrush.com\/ owned and operated by TexbookRush \n(collectively referred as \u201cTexbookRush\u201d , \u201cwe\u201d, \u201cus\u201d, \u201cour\u201d) . This \nprivacy policy describes how TexbookRush collects and uses the personal \ninformation you provide on our web site: https:\/\/www.textbookrush.com\/ .\n It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of \nyour personal information and how you can access and update this \ninformation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When visiting any website, we encourage you to read that website’s privacy policy. TextbookRush is committed to keeping your information private and confidential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Should you have any suggestions or comments regarding our privacy policy, we encourage you to email<\/a> our Customer Care Department. Our complete contact information, including telephone number and physical mailing address, may be found on our contact page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https:\/\/feedback-form.truste.com\/watchdog\/request<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n TextbookRush is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to any outside parties, except as outlined in this policy. TextbookRush collects information from users at several different places on our website in order to process orders and better serve you with pertinent information. Information collected includes name, shipping address, billing address, telephone numbers, e-mail address, and payment information such as credit card. TextbookRush also requires you to submit a user name and password of your choice for future access to your information. Your user name and password is to remain confidential and you should not share this information with anyone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In order to process your orders using this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information, which includes name, e-mail, telephone number and physical address. This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site, such as sending automated order status updates. This information is NOT shared.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Most of the information collected in the registration process will be used to process orders. In the order process, a user must provide additional financial information such as credit card number and expiration date. This information is used for billing purposes and to fulfill customer\u2019s orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user. We do not share your personal and financial information with any third parties. The only exception is when processing your credit card information with the merchant bank for authorization and approval. This process is protected by an enhanced security system. Note: For enhanced security and privacy, TextbookRush does NOT save your credit\/debit card information.<\/strong> See Security section<\/a> for more details on security measures and procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We at TextbookRush and our \nmarketing partners, affiliates, or analytics or service providers, use \ntechnologies such as cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts, to analyze \ntrends, administer the website, tracking users\u2019 movements around the \nwebsite, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a \nwhole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by \nthese companies on an individual and aggregated basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We use cookies for our shopping carts, for authentication, and to \ncustomize page content. Users can control the use of cookies at the \nindividual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our \nwebsite, but your ability to use some features or areas of our website \nmay be limited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We and third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features\n on our site or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing \nactivity use LSOs such as HTML 5 to collect and store information. \nVarious browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5\n LSOs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our \nwebsite or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party \npartner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about\n your activities on this website and other sites in order to provide you\n advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you \nwish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you \ninterest-based ads, you may opt-out by visiting TRUSTe<\/a> (or if located in the European Union visit Your Online Choices<\/a>). Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As is true of most websites, \nwe gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. \nThis information may include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser \ntype, internet service provider (ISP), referring\/exit pages, operating \nsystem, date\/time stamp, and\/or clickstream data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We do not link this automatically collected data to other information we collect about you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We use outside shipping \ncompanies (FedEx and USPS) to ship orders and credit card processing \ncompanies (VeriSign\/Penn Securities) to bill users for goods and \nservices. These companies do not retain, share, store, or use personally\n identifiable information for any secondary purposes. We also use third\n party service providers for the shopping cart (Google Checkout & \nPayPal) and they do not retain, share, store, or use personally \nidentifiable information for any secondary purposes. These companies are\n authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to \nprovide these services to us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \nTextbookRush is located in Ohio and abides by all federal and state \nlaws. TextbookRush will disclose any personally identifiable information\n when required to by law, in response to lawful requests by public \nauthorities, such as to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, \nsubpoena, or similar legal process when we believe in good faith that \ndisclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or \nthe safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government \nrequest, but not under any other circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We may also disclose your personal information if TextbookRush is \ninvolved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its \nassets, you will be notified via email and\/or a prominent notice on our \nWeb site of any change in ownership or uses of your personally \nidentifiable information, as well as any choices you may have regarding \nyour personally identifiable information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware TextbookRush is\n not responsible for the privacy practices of other such sites. We encourage our\n users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of\n each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This\n privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can log in to our site \nusing sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. \nThese services will authenticate your identity and provide you the \noption to share certain personally identifiable information with us such\n as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form. \nServices like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information \nabout your activities on this Web site to your profile page to share \nwith others within your network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our Web site includes Social \nMedia Features, such as the Facebook Like button [and Widgets, such as \nthe Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our \nsite]. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are \nvisiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to \nfunction properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted \nby a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with \nthese Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company \nproviding it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Our website offers publicly \naccessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any \ninformation you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used \nby others who access them. To request removal of your personal \ninformation from our blog or community forum, contact us at help@textbookrush.com<\/a>.\n In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, \nin which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our website in addition to other endorsements. With your consent, we may post your testimonial along with your name. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at help@textbookrush.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n TextbookRush’s website takes every precaution to protect our users\u2019 information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, that information is protected both online and off-line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When our registration\/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and protected with the best encryption software in the industry: SSL. Starfield Technologies, Inc uses SSL technology with advanced 128-bit encryption to process our payments. To learn more about Starfield Technologies, Inc, SSL, or payment processing, please visit Starfield Technologies, Inc<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n All of our users\u2019 information is classified and restricted. The TextbookRush facility is a secured and locked facility. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. If you wish to have your information removed, you may contact us at help@textbookrush.com<\/a> to do so. For future transactions, you will be required to re-enter your information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n All TextbookRush servers, including web servers and database servers, are housed at TextbookRush and maintained in-house by TextbookRush. Access to the database is strictly monitored and protected from outside access. Internet access is restricted and protected by firewall and password protection. The servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an e-mai to help@textbookrush.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you choose to receive special offers, TextbookRush may send you such pertinent information. Our special offers are sent only to customers who grant TextbookRush permission to send such information. TextbookRush does not share your information with third parties for their promotional purposes and does not solicit outside parties to send special offers on our behalf. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Furthermore, all special offers are sent via e-mail and have a “remove link” if you wish to no longer receive special offers and news. Otherwise, customers may occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, or news. Please see our choice and opt-out below for further details of how to be removed from our mailing list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Upon request TextbookRush will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. Customers may change or review their account information such as street address or credit card information in the My Account<\/a> area, or by going to the home page<\/a> and clicking on the My Account<\/a> button. You MUST have your username and password in order to access your account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use \nyour personally identifiable information to provide you services, \ncontact us at help@textbookrush.com<\/a>.\n We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe. We will\n retain your information for as long as your account is active or as \nneeded to provide you services. We will retain and use your personally \nidentifiable information as necessary to comply with our legal \nobligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Information Collection and Use <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Registration <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Orders<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Tracking Technologies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Log Files<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Data Sharing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Outside Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Single Sign In<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Social Media Features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Blog<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Testimonials<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Security<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Special Offers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Accessing\/Correcting\/Updating\/Reviewing Personally Identifiable Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Choice\/Opt-out<\/h2>\n\n\n\n