Voluntary Information OR where permission is granted to obtain it
We collect personal information when users visit our site as follows:
Voluntary information:
Purchase of Products or Services from CollegeCountdown.com
If you purchase a product or service from the Site, information may be collected from you, including your credit card and contact information, for transfer to and use by third-party providers of the product or service. We do not retain this information. Unless otherwise stated, we do not have any responsibility in connection with such purchases and all transactions and use of any customer information are the sole responsibility of the product/service provider. Be sure to review the product/service provider’s privacy policy and contact them directly if you have any questions. They may have privacy terms that differ from our Privacy Policy.
When you place an order on the College Countdown website, we need to know your name and shipping address. Your telephone number and email address will be collected and used to contact you as it pertains to your order and only when necessary. We collect your billing address and credit card / payment information to process your order.
EMAIL
We collect the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail and information volunteered by the consumers, such as survey information or site registrations. When you sign up for our website, you are voluntarily giving us certain information. This may include your name, email, address or phone number, and any other information you provide us. If you choose to buy something on our website, you provide us with payment information, contact information (i.e. address and phone number) and what was purchased. Should you purchase something for someone else on our website, you are also providing us with their contact information. We use email in the following ways:
- To keep our users informed about new releases. We may send updates, newsletters, marketing materials, promotions and other information that may be of interest to you.
- To update you about your order status and shipping information
- To remind you of items in your online basket or products abandoned.
- To remind you about your forgotten password or provide account information
- To capture feedback through surveys regarding your experience on the site
POST MAIL AND TELEPHONE NUMBER
If you supply us with your postal address online, you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services, or upcoming events.
Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers online will only receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed online.
If you decide to voluntarily provide us with your personal information, the data will be saved in our secure databases where appropriate procedures to protect your personal information are in place.
In accordance with the Law, you have the right to access, modify and correct data about yourself. Should you wish to do so, please contact Sourcebooks, Inc. by clicking here: contact form.
Site optimization and Technical information: For each visitor to our website, our Web server automatically recognizes only the consumer's domain name or anonymized internet protocol address, not the e-mail address. We collect only the domain name or anonymized internet protocol address, not the e-mail address of visitors to our website. Our servers automatically record information including information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website or a mobile app. This may use your domain name, your anonymized internet protocol address, the address of the web pages visited, browser type and settings, date and time of the views, and other aggregate information.
We may also collect information about the device you are using, including the type of device, the operating system, device settings and crash data. Whether we collect some or all of this information depends on the type of device and its settings. To learn about the policies associated with your device, please check the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider.
The information we collect is used to improve the content of our website. It is not shared with other organizations for marketing or commercial purposes.
Affiliates, advertisers, partners and other third party services:
The information we collect is used for the following:
- To provide our products to you and help make them better.
- To show you ads you might be interested in. For example, if you purchased a book from us, we may suggest other books we think you might like.
- If you make a purchase on our site, we save your order, address and payment information to process and ship your order and so you can use them the next time you want to order something on our site.
- To respond to questions or comments you may have.
Cookies:
A cookie is a text file that may be registered by your browser software, subject to your acceptance, in a dedicated space on the hard drive of your device (e.g. computer, tablet) when you consult an online service with your browser.
We use cookies to record session information, such as items that consumers add to their shopping carts. This information helps us to better understand the areas of interest for our visitors, with the aim of making improvements for our users. We use data in the following ways:
- To provide you with information about our products and offerings or deliver relevant advertising which may interest you
- To contact you regarding information you may have requested
- To contact you regarding your order status
- To notify you about changes to our website, products or services
- To administer the website and operations. This may include data analysis, research, A/B testing, or troubleshooting purposes
- To understand our visitors through the use of heatmaps, screen recordings, polls and surveys
- To understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others
- To ensure our website is secure
By continuing to browse the Website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You may refuse to accept cookies or choose to be informed before accepting cookies. To do so, we recommend that you read the Help Section of your internet browser to learn the steps that you should take with cookies. If you adjust your browser settings to block all cookies (some of which may be essential) you may not be able to access some or all of our site.