Privacy Policy

At meBooks we are serious about protecting your privacy. This policy explains how we manage your personal information, and how to contact us if you have a query.

Your information

meBooks will not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.

We release account and other personal information only when we believe release is appropriate for legal compliance and law enforcement (including to government agencies with statutory law enforcement responsibilities); to facilitate court proceedings; enforce or apply our terms and conditions; or protect the rights, property, or safety of meBooks, our users, or others.

You may update your personal information detailed in your account preferences at any time.

Email

We will normally use email to contact you, and this may include occassional notifications about specials, competitions, and upcoming releases if you have chosen this option in your account preferences. If you would prefer us not to contact with any marketing information, please change the setting in your account preferences.

Regardless of the settings in your account preferences, we will use email to contact you if our terms and conditions change, or if there is any problem regarding your account or purchases.

We will not pass your email details or other contact details onto third parties, unless we believe it is appropriate as outlined in the previous section above.

We do use email as a means of receiving feedback from our members, and we encourage you to email us with your questions or comments.

Account registration

In order to purchase ebooks from meBooks (including free titles), you will need to create an account. This allows us to provide a secure mechanism for you to store and download your purchases from our site as you require.

Your registration details also assist us with making the purchasing process quicker on future visits to this site.

Third parties

We do collect general traffic and usage information about our site, and we may need to share this information with others (such as publishers) in order to improve the service that we provide. When we share such information, it will be anonymous in that we will not provide any details which could be reasonably used to indentify any particular individual.

We do make use of Google Analytics in order to evaluate the usage of our site, and this information is useful in allowing us to:

  • determine which resources and features are heavily used, and so indicate areas that we should consider focusing future efforts upon;
  • determine which resources and features are lightly used, and so indicate areas where we should consider improving navigation and promotion;
  • measure the usage of particular resources and features so that we can provide feedback to those parties that are assisting us in making these resources available (such as publishers).

Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help us analyze how users use the site; if you wish to opt-out of cookies from Google you can do so on the Google site.

Control of your details

You are responsible for all actions taken with your user name, email address and password. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your meBooks authentication details to any third parties. If you choose to share your user name, email address and password or your information with third parties to provide you additional services, you are responsible for all actions taken with this information and therefore you should review that third party's privacy policy.

Other information

If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities on the meBooks site, we may collect such information and hold it in a file specific to you.

Updates to our policies

From time to time, we make changes to our information practices and policies, or alter the functionality we offer via our site. We will always update this statement accordingly, and encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on privacy practices at meBooks.

If you have any queries about this privacy policy, or about any other matter, please contact us.

Last updated: 21st May 2010
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