Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 08, 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to BookStore. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you:
- Identity Data: First name, last name, username or similar identifier
- Contact Data: Email address, telephone numbers, billing address, delivery address
- Financial Data: Payment card details (processed securely through Stripe)
- Transaction Data: Details about payments and purchases you have made
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, location, operating system and platform
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services
3. How We Use Your Information
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- To process and deliver your orders
- To manage payments, fees and charges
- To send you e-books and provide download links
- To ship print books to your address
- To manage your account and provide customer support
- To send you service-related notifications
- To improve our website and services
- To comply with legal obligations
4. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know.
Payment information is processed securely through Stripe, a PCI-compliant payment processor. We do not store your complete payment card details on our servers.
5. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
6. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:
- Request access to your personal data
- Request correction of your personal data
- Request erasure of your personal data
- Object to processing of your personal data
- Request restriction of processing your personal data
- Request transfer of your personal data
- Right to withdraw consent
7. Third-Party Services
We use the following third-party services:
- Stripe: For secure payment processing
- Shipping Carriers: For delivering print books to your address
These third parties have their own privacy policies and we encourage you to review them.
8. Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer.
9. Children's Privacy
Our service is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us.
10. Changes to Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Email: privacy@bookstore.com