Privacy Policy:

Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Website Privacy Policy

We know that you care how information about you is used and shared and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This Privacy Notice describes how Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) collects and processes personal information through this website or our services (together, “Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency.”).

Controllers of personal information: The Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency), Al Quds Street, Al Moqabalain, Amman 3371 Jordan (“Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency)”), is the data controller of personal information collected and processed through the Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services.

What Personal Information About Customers Does The Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Collect?

We collect your personal information in order to provide and continually improve the Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services. Here are the types of personal information we collect:

• Information you give us: We receive and store any information you provide in relation to Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services. See the ‘Examples of Information Collected’ section below to see examples of what we collect. You can choose not to provide certain information but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services.
• Automatic information: We automatically collect and store certain types of information about your use of Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services, including information about your interaction with content and services available through Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services. Like many websites, we use cookies and other unique identifiers, and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser or device accesses Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services and other content served by or on behalf of Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) on other websites. See the ‘Examples of Information Collected’ section below to see examples of what we collect.
• Information from other sources: We might receive information about you from other sources, such as updated delivery and address information from our carriers, which we use to correct our records and deliver your next purchase more easily. See the ‘Examples of Information Collected’ section below to see additional examples of the information we receive.

For What Purposes Does Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Process Your Personal Information?

We process your personal information to operate, provide, develop and improve products and services that we offer our customers. These purposes include:

• Purchase and delivery of products and personalised services. We use your personal information to take and handle orders, deliver products and services, process payments, and communicate with you about orders, products and services, and promotional offers, recommend products that might be of interest to you, identify your preferences, and personalize your experience with Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency).
• Provide, troubleshoot, and improve Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services. We use your personal information to provide functionality, analyse performance, fix errors, and improve the usability and effectiveness of the Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services, and for internal record keeping purposes.
• Communicate with you. We use your personal information to communicate with you in relation to the Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services via different channels (e.g., by phone, e-mail, chat), for example to respond to questions that you raise or to update you about orders you have made.
• Advertising. We use information such as your interactions with the Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) site to display interest based-ads for features, products, and services that might be of interest to you. We do not use information that personally identifies you to display interest-based ads. To learn more, please read the What About Advertising? section of this Privacy Notice.
• Fraud Prevention and Credit Risks. We process personal information to prevent and detect fraud and abuse in order to protect the security of Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency), our customers, and others. We may also use scoring methods to assess and manage credit risks.
• Comply with legal obligations. In certain cases, we have a legal obligation to collect and process your personal information to comply with laws. For instance, we collect from sellers information regarding place of establishment and bank account information for identity verification and other purposes.
• Purposes for which we seek your consent. We may also ask for your consent to process your personal information for a specific purpose that we communicate to you. When you consent to our processing your personal information for a specified purpose, you may withdraw your consent at any time and we will stop processing of your data for that purpose. We may periodically send promotional emails to the email address that you give us, for example, when you sign up to our newsletter. We may contact you about new products, special offers, or other information we think you may find interesting. Please see ‘Controlling your personal information’ for further information, including how you may opt out of receiving promotional emails. From time to time we may contact you for market research purposes.

What about Cookies and Other Identifiers?

We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your shopping experience, provide our services, understand how customers use our services so we can make improvements, and display ads. Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads. For more information about cookies, how we use them and how you may opt out of certain cookies, please read our Cookies notice.

Does The Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Share Your Personal Information?

Information about our customers is an important part of our business and we are not in the business of selling our customers’ personal information to others.

Third party service providers: We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders for products or services; delivering packages; sending postal mail and e-mail (including sending promotional emails on Books and More’s behalf); removing repetitive information from customer lists; analysing data; providing marketing assistance; providing search results and links (including paid listings and links); processing payments; transmitting content; and providing customer service. These third party service providers have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Further, they must process the personal information in accordance with the contractual agreement we enter into with them and as permitted by applicable data protection laws.

• Transactions involving third parties: We may offer services or sell product lines jointly with third party businesses, such as discount codes provided by third parties. You can tell when a third party is involved in your transactions and we share customer information related to those transactions with that third party to the extent needed to provide you with the relevant service.
• Protection of Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) and others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency), our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy other businesses or services. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Notice (unless, of course, the customer consents otherwise).

What About Advertising?

Our website may include third-party advertising and links to enable you to visit other websites. Third-party advertising partners may collect information about you when you interact with their content, advertising and services. For more information about third-party advertising at The Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency), including interest-based ads, please read our Interest-Based Ads policy. Use of Third-Party Advertising Services: We provide ad companies with information that allows them to serve you with more useful and relevant Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) ads and to measure their effectiveness. We never share your name or other information that directly identifies you when we do this. Instead, we use an advertising identifier like a cookie or other device identifier.

What Information Can I Access?

You can access your information, including your name, address, payment options, profile information, and purchase history in the ‘My Account’ section of the website. See the ‘Examples of Information Collected’ section for a list of examples that you can access.

What Choices Do I Have?

If you have any questions or objections as to how we collect and process your personal information, please visit our Contact us page. Please also note:

• If you are a registered user, you can update your personal information by logging in to your account.
• If you don’t want to receive e-mail or other communication from us, you can change your contact preferences by simply clicking ‘My Account’ at the top of the page and click ‘Contact Preferences’. If you do not want to receive commercial marketing communications from us, please select your choices by using the boxes available on that page. You will also have the ability to opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us at any time by using the “unsubscribe” button within any promotional e-mails that we send you. Please note you will still receive transactional emails from us (such as, emails about purchases you have made). For anything else, please Contact us.
• Subject to applicable law, you have the right to request access to, correct, and delete your personal data, and to ask for data portability. You may also object to our processing of your personal data or ask that we restrict the processing of your personal data in certain instances. If you wish to do any of these things, please write to or email us via the Contact us page as soon as possible, or at the above address.

Are Children Allowed to Use Books and More (Jordan distribution Agency) Services?

Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) doesn’t sell products for purchase by children. We sell children’s products for purchase by adults. If you’re under 18, you may use Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services only with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

How long do we keep your personal information?

We keep your personal information for as long as is necessary to enable your continued use of the Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services, for as long as it is required in order to fulfil the relevant purposes described in this Privacy Notice, as may be permitted by law such as for tax and accounting purposes, or as otherwise communicated to you. If you delete your account, any reviews you have written will not be deleted but default to ‘anonymous’. For example, we retain your transaction history so that you can review past purchases (and repeat orders if desired) and what addresses you have shipped orders to, and to improve the relevancy of products and content we recommend.

Contacts, Notices & Revisions

If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to our processing please contact us via the Contact us page. You can file a complaint with our supervisory authority, this Policy, as well as your access to the Website, is subject to and governed by the laws of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan as applied in Jordan without giving effect to conflicts of law principles thereof. Any dispute regarding this Policy or our handling of your Personal Information and General Information shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of Jordan.

APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

This Policy, as well as your access to the Website, is subject to and governed by the laws of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan as applied in Jordan without giving effect to conflicts of law principles thereof. Any dispute regarding this Policy or our handling of your Personal Information and General Information shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of Jordan.

Our business changes constantly and our Privacy Notice will change too. You should check our website frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Examples of Information Collected

Information You Give Us When You Use Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services

You provide information to us when you:

• Set up an account with Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) and provide information in your account;
• Place orders through the Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services;
• Search for products on the Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services;
• Communicate with us by e-mail, online chat or otherwise;
• Compile Wishlists;
• Make certain choices on the Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services, such as to receive recommendations or offers;
• Participate in community features, such as leaving a customer review;

As a result of these actions, you might supply us with such information as: your name, address (e.g, billing and shipping address), email address and phone number, payment information (e.g., credit card details), your age, names, addresses and other details of people to whom purchases have been or will be dispatched, contact details of your friends and others, competition entries, survey responses, customer reviews and the content of messages you send us.

Automatic Information

Examples of the information we collect and analyse include:

• The Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet;
• Login; email address; password;
• Purchase and content use history;
• the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time); cookie number; products and/ or content you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as clicks).

We may also use device identifiers, cookies, and other technologies on devices, applications and our web pages to collect browsing, usage or other technical information for fraud prevention purposes.

Information From Other Sources

Examples of information we receive from other sources include:

• Credit history information in order to help prevent and detect fraud;
• Payment confirmations from payment processors;
• Purchase and content use history;
• search results and links, including paid listings (such as Sponsored Links).

Information You Can Access

Examples of information you can access through Books and More (Jordan Distribution Agency) Services include:

• status of recent orders;
• your complete order history;
• personally identifiable information (including name, e-mail and password and address book);
• payment settings (including payment card information);
• your Wishlist;
• e-mail notification settings (contact preferences).