Privacy Policy/Terms of Use
PRIVACY
POLICY
Introduction – The University Store is committed to protecting your privacy. We
have established this Privacy Policy and are providing it to you so that you can
understand the manner in which we collect and use your information and the
efforts we use to protect it. Please note that this policy is for The University
Store; it does not apply to other sites that you may link to from our site.
Please check the privacy policies on those sites for more information.
Business
Information - The University Store is a retail college bookstore located in East
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, in the United States of America. In addition to East
Stroudsburg University, we serve our Internet and mail
order customers from around the country and around the world. The address for
our main store appears below:
The
University Store
East
Stroudsburg University
East
Stroudsburg, PA 18301
Personal
Information Collected - The University Store recognizes the need for consumers
to control the use and management of personal information. By personal
information we mean information that can be used to identify or contact an
individual. This includes a first and last name, a physical address, an email
address, a student id number, or a phone number. If you are visiting our site to
browse merchandise or find information about our business or our products, you
do not need to provide any personal information. If you decide to make a
purchase, however, we do collect this information so that we can provide you
with the product or service you requested and so that we can contact you with
information regarding your order.
Automatic
Information Collected - Our website makes use of various technologies to collect
information about types and versions of internet browsers used when accessing
our web site. This information, and information about Internet IP addresses, as
well as date and time web pages are visited are stored in various security and
traffic logs. Our service provider reviews these logs, using statistical
analysis, in an effort to track and predict traffic patterns and estimate
resource needs. Unless we are tracking down a technical problem or we suspect
either fraudulent behavior or illegal conduct we do not trace specific user
sessions
Personal
Information Use - The University Store uses personal information provided by you
so that we can service your order. Also note that we may need to transfer that
information to our agents or employees of our service providers. For example, we
may need to provide your address to a wholesaler or a shipping company that will
ship a product directly to you. We will only transfer the information to the
extent necessary to provide the requested information, service, or product to
you. We will not sell or trade your information to unrelated third parties. When
you submit an order you will receive an email confirmation from our system. As
your order status changes you may also receive notifications via email. These
notifications are considered part of our service and may not be disabled. We may
also periodically send you email notifications concerning products or services
offered by our bookstore. Any such notification will include instructions for
opting out of future mailings.
Third
Parties - We do partner with other third parties to provide various products and
services. When you sign up for these services or products we will share required
personal information that is necessary for the third party to provide the
product or service to you. We take reasonable steps to ensure that these third
parties are obligated to protect your information on our behalf. It is also
against our policy to sell or trade information collected online without
consumer consent. We may, however, release personal information if we are
legally required to do so. If we are legally compelled to release information to
a third party, The University Store may or may not notify you of this release.
Notification will be at the discretion of The University Store and will be based
on the nature and conditions surrounding the release of information.
Information Control - Your customer profile is accessible from our website and
you may update it at anytime. Our web site provides you with the ability to
change your phone numbers, physical addresses, and email address information
stored in your profile. You may also write to us at the address listed at the
bottom of this policy to request that we make the change for you.
Children
- The University Store's website is targeted to college students and as such is
not meant to attract children. We do not intend to collect personal information
from anyone we know to be under thirteen years of age.
If you are the parent or guardian of a child under
thirteen years of age and believe that your child has disclosed personally
identifiable information to us, please contact us so that we may remove the
child's information.
Supplemental Technologies - Our website uses cookies, session identifiers,
JavaScript(tm), and browser detection technology to provide consumers with a
more pleasant online experience. Many browsers provide consumers with the
ability to disable some or all of these technologies. Disabling them, especially
in the case of JavaScript(tm), may prevent you from viewing some web pages. Note
that the cookies we use do not place any personally identifiable information on
your computer. Our site also does not participate in Ad Networks or use Web
Bugs/Web Beacons to track consumer activity.
Confidentiality and Security - The University Store takes reasonable steps to
ensure that your information is protected. On our website we use industry
standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption when collecting your personal
information. Our website is hosted in a data center which makes use of multiple
levels of redundant firewalls and database encryption to protect information.
Internally, we limit access to your information to those employees or agents who
we believe have reasonable need to use the information to provide products or
services to you, or to perform their jobs.
Notifications - When your order is placed on our website we will send you an
email notification. When your order status changes you may also receive
notifications via email. These notifications are considered part of our service
and may not be disabled. We will send the email but we cannot guarantee
delivery. You are responsible for providing a valid email address and for
updating it when your address changes. The University Store may, depending on
the importance and urgency of the notification, choose to contact you via
telephone or postal mail. When doing so we will use the phone number and/or
address associated with your account or transaction.
History -
The University Store first established a privacy policy in June of 2000. We
periodically make changes to the policy to reflect additions or changes to our
practices. You may review the current policy at anytime by returning to this web
page. This policy was last changed on February 8, 2005.
Compliance - This privacy policy complies ecommerce industry best practice
guidelines and with California's Privacy Protection Act of 2004. If you have any
questions or concerns about this policy please contact us using the information
provided below.
Contact -
Please direct all privacy related questions and concerns to the following
address:
The
University Store
ATTN:
Privacy Issues
East
Stroudsburg University
East
Stroudsburg, PA 18301
The University Store WEBSITE TERMS OF USE
Use of the The University Store website (the "Site") and the content contained herein (the "Site") is governed by the terms of this Agreement (the "Agreement") between you and The University Store ("Bookstore"). Your use of this Site constitutes your unconditional agreement to be bound by the terms of this Agreement.
If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, you must immediately cease using this Site.
1. The Site is subject to protection under copyrights, trademarks and/or other intellectual property rights owned, controlled or licensed by Bookstore and its affiliates or by third parties. These rights are protected by common law, state laws, and U.S. and international laws. Bookstore expressly reserves all rights, titles, and interests in and to all copyrights, trade names, logos, patents and other intellectual property and proprietary rights in and to the Site, including but not limited to any images, photographs, animations, video, audio, music, text, and "applets"; the overall "look and feel", processes, software, technology, and other materials which appear on this Site; and the business processes used to market products and services. You agree that your rights are limited to those granted herein, and you will not acquire any rights except as expressly set forth in this Agreement.
2. You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate the security of the Site, including, without limitation, (a) accessing data not intended for your use or logging onto a server or an account which you are not authorized to access; (b) attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (c) atempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including without limitation, via means of submitting a virus to the Site, overloading, "flooding," "spamming," "mailbombing" or "crashing;" or (d) sending unsolicited email, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability.
3. The Site may contain robot exclusion headers. Much of the information on the Site is updated on a regular basis and is proprietary or is licensed to Bookstore by our suppliers and other third parties. You agree not to use any device, technique, software, system or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with, or to otherwise circumvent the proper working of this Site or any activity being conducted on this Site. You agree, further, not to use or attempt to use any engine, device, technique, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, scrapers, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate, access or search this Site, other than generally available third party web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer™, Netscape Navigator™, and Mozilla Firefox™. Additionally, you agree that you will not take any action that imposes or may impose (in the sole discretion of us or our suppliers affected by your action) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure, or the bandwidth or infrastructure of the company that hosts this Site, or bypass the robot exclusion headers or other measures on this Site or on the host servers that may be used to prevent or restrict access.
4. Bookstore will not be liable for damages resulting from any failure caused by events beyond its control, by any act of God, such as a power failure, or by any other cause not within the control of Bookstore.
5. If you violate any of the terms or conditions of this Agreement, this Agreement terminates immediately without notice. Bookstore may deny access to the Site to you and anyone claiming by or through you without liability to anyone. Bookstore shall have all additional rights and remedies at law and in equity arising from such violation. Further, you agree to indemnify, defend and hold Bookstore, and its affiliates, suppliers, employees and agents harmless from all claims, actions, losses, liabilities, damages, costs and expenses (including attorneys fees) arising out of or relating to any such prohibited use of the Site. If you violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party, they have all remedies at law and in equity to enforce their rights against you to the extent applicable arising from your actions.
6. Any delay or failure to act with respect to a breach of this Agreement by you or others does not constitute a waiver and shall not limit such rights with respect to such breach or any subsequent breaches. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State in which Bookstore resides. If any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not affect the remainder of this Agreement, which shall be given full effect without regard to the invalid portions.
7. This Agreement represents the entire agreement between you and Bookstore regarding the use of the Site.
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