PRIVACY POLICY

The Hollins University Bookstore is committed to protecting your privacy. We have established this Privacy Policy to help you better 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 Hollins University Bookstore and 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. This site is not targeted for children under 13 years of age.

The following information is collected from the consumer for online orders:

Name

Address

Telephone Number

E-Mail Address

Payment Information

For online orders shipped to other than the cardholder’s billing address, the personal data collected on the shipping recipient is:

Name

Address

Telephone Number

We partner with third party suppliers to provide certain products to our customers. When necessary, we will furnish third party suppliers with information such as customer name, address, telephone number and/or e-mail address in order to fulfill the online order.

Hollins University has gone to great lengths to protect the security and validity of your credit card transaction. Our order forms are encrypted by our secure server to guarantee that the information can be read by us only. Your online shopping and credit card transactions are secure. We use Secure Socket Layering (SSL) to encrypt your sensitive data. SSL is the industry standard encryption. You will see the “http://” change to “https://” in the url when you begin to check out to let you know you are shopping securely. We use the Woocommerce platform for our shopping cart.

There are a couple of ways to tell if the information you are receiving is coming from a secure server.

1. Check the security icon. Most browsers use padlock (Microsoft Internet Explorer). An unbroken emblem indicates a secure browser.

2. Check the URL field of your browser. With a secured server the address will begin with https:// instead of the usual http://.

If you have a question or comment about this Privacy Policy, your online order or the contents of this web site, please contact the bookstore.

 

HU Bookstore WEBSITE TERMS OF USE

Use of the HU Bookstore website (the “Site”) and the content contained herein (the “Site”) is governed by the terms of this Agreement (the “Agreement”) between you and HU Bookstore (“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) attempting 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. 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.

5. This Agreement represents the entire agreement between you and Bookstore regarding the use of the Site.

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