Books Boost Business cares deeply about the privacy of its visitors and users and is fully committed to protect their personal information and use it properly in compliance with data privacy laws.
This policy describes how we may collect and use personal information, and the rights and choices available to our visitors and users regarding such information.
We strongly urge you to read this policy and make sure you fully understand it, before you access or use any of our services.
1. Please read carefully!
This Books Boost Business Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how we (Books Boost Business, “we” or “us”) collect and use information pertaining to each of our unregistered visitors and registered users, including users with Paid Services (each, a “Visitor” or “User” (respectively), or
“you”), in connection with their access to and use of Books Boost Business websites.
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The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide you with a clear explanation of when, why and how we collect and use your personal information, as well as an explanation of your statutory rights.
This Privacy Policy is not intended to override the terms of any contract you have with us, nor any rights you might have under applicable data privacy laws.
Read this policy and make sure you fully understand our practices in relation to your personal information, before you access or use any of our Services. If you read and fully understand this Privacy Policy, and remain opposed to our practices, you must immediately leave this website,
application or service, and avoid or discontinue all use of any of our Services. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us at laurahelen@booksboostbusiness.com
This policy describes our privacy practices – what information we collect on our visitors and users, how we collect it, what we do with it, how we protect it, and your rights regarding your information.
By accessing or using any of our services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy.
2. What type of information do we collect?
We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information,
including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card
information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.
Jobs Applicant Information: We also collect information that is provided to us by Books Boost Business jobs candidates (“Applicants”), when they apply to any of the open positions published at Books Boost Business.com by e-mail or otherwise laurahelen@booksboostbusiness.com
3. How do we collect information?
Books Boost Business collect information which you provide us voluntarily. For example, we collect the Personal Information you provide us when you register to our Services When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect the personal information you give us such
as your name, address and email address.
Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.
4. Why do we collect such personal information?
We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:
• To provide and operate the Services;
• To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
• To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
• To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
• To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
• To facilitate, sponsor and offer certain contests, events and promotions, determine participants’ eligibility, monitor performance, contact winners and grant prizes and benefits;
• To consider Applicants’ candidacy for working at Books Boost Business.
We will only use your Personal Information for the purposes set out in Section 5 where we are satisfied that:
our use of your Personal Information is necessary to perform a contract or take steps to enter into a contract with you (e.g. to provide you with a book publishing services, to provide you with our customer assistance and technical support), or our use of your Personal Information is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we have, or our use of your Personal Information is necessary to support legitimate interests that we have as a business (for example, to maintain and improve our Services by identifying user trends and the effectiveness of Books Boost Business campaigns and identifying technical issues), provided it is conducted at all times in a way that is proportionate, and that respects your privacy rights.
Our Services are not permitted to children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 should provide any Personal Information to us through any of our Services. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 18. Parents and guardians should supervise their
children’s activities at all times.
We collect and use information in order to provide our services and make them better and safer.
5. How do we store and use your site visitors’ personal information?
Books Boost Business is hosted on the WordPress.com platform. WordPress.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through WordPress.com’s data storage, databases and the general WordPress.com applications.
They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
Books Boost Business is based in United Kingdom which is considered by the European Commission to be offering an adequate level of protection for the Personal Information of EU Member State residents.
Books Boost Business affiliates and service providers that store or process your Personal Information on Books Boost Business behalf are each contractually committed to keep it protected and secured, in accordance with industry standards and regardless of any lesser legal requirements which may apply in their jurisdiction.
Upon request Books Boost Business will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your Personal Information. You may access, correct, or request deletion of your Personal Information by following the instructions provided in these Help Center articles: “GDPR: Retrieving
Your Books Boost Business Account Data” or “GDPR: Permanently Deleting Your Books Boost Business Account. We will respond to your request within a timeframe imposed by local laws or a reasonable timeframe.
Please note that permanently deleting your Books Boost Business account erases all of your information from Books Boost Business databases. After completing this process, you can no longer use any of your Books Boost Business Services, your User Account and all its data will be removed
permanently, and Books Boost Business will not be able to restore your account or retrieve your data in the future. If you contact Books Boost Business Support in the future, the system will not recognize your account and Support agents will not be able to locate the deleted account.
Books Boost Business data storage providers are contractually committed to protect and secure your data.
All direct payment gateways offered by WordPress.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
6. Sharing personal information with third parties
Books Boost Business may share your Personal Information with third parties (or otherwise allow them access to it) only in the following manners and instances:
Third Party Services: Books Boost Business has partnered with a number of selected service providers, whose services and solutions complement, facilitate and enhance our own. These include billing and payment processing services, fraud detection and prevention services, performance
measurement, data optimization and marketing services, content providers, and our legal and financial advisors (collectively, “Third Party Service(s)”).
Such Third Party Services may receive or otherwise have access to our Visitors’ and Users’ Personal Information in its entirety or in part – depending on each of their particular roles and purposes in facilitating and enhancing our Services and business, and may only use it for such purposes. Note that while our Services may contain links to other websites or services, we are not responsible for such websites’ or services’ privacy practices. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Services and read the privacy statements of each and every website and service you visit before providing your Personal Information.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to such linked third -party websites and services.
Law Enforcement, Legal Requests and Duties: Where permitted by local data protection laws, Books Boost Business may disclose or otherwise allow others access to your Personal Information pursuant to a legal request, such as a subpoena, legal proceedings, search warrant or court order,
or in compliance with applicable laws, if we have good faith belief that the law requires us to do so, with or without notice to you.
Protecting Rights and Safety: Books Boost Business may share your Personal Information with others if we believe in good faith that this will help protect the rights, property or personal safety of Books Boost Business, any of our Users, or any member of the general public, with or without notice
to you.
Books Boost Business Subsidiaries and Affiliated Companies: We may share Personal Information internally within our family of companies, for the purposes described in this Privacy
Policy. For example, we may share your Personal Information with foreverfamilyforeverfree.com our subsidiary, in the course of facilitating and providing you with our Services. In addition, should Books Boost Business or any of its affiliates undergo any change in control, including by means of merger, acquisition or purchase of substantially all of its assets, your Personal Information may be shared with the parties involved in such event. If we have good faith that such change in control might materially affect your Personal Information stored with us, we will notify you via e-mail and/or
prominent notice on our Website of this event and certain choices you may have regarding your Personal Information.
Sharing of Personal Information from Books Boost Business subsidiaries and affiliated companies in the European Union and Switzerland to Books Boost Business adheres to the EU-US and SwissUS Privacy Shield frameworks.
To clarify, Books Boost Business may share your Personal Information in manners other than as described above, pursuant to your explicit approval, or if we are legally obligated to do so. Moreover, Books Boost Business may transfer, share, disclose or otherwise use Non-personal Information in
its sole discretion and without the need for further approval.
7. Jobs applications
We welcome all qualified Applicants to apply to any of the open positions published at Books Boost Business.com by sending us their contact details and CV (“Applicants Information”) via the relevant Position Application Form on our Website, or through any other means provided by us.
We understand that privacy and discreetness are crucial to our Applicants, and are committed to keep Applicants Information private and use it solely for Books Boost Business internal recruitment purposes (including for identifying Applicants, evaluating their applications, making hiring and
employment decisions, and contacting Applicants by phone or in writing).
Please note that Books Boost Business may retain Applicants Information submitted to it for no longer than two years after the applied position has been filled or closed. This is done so we can reconsider Applicants for other positions and opportunities at Books Boost Business; so we can use
their Applicants Information as reference for future applications submitted by them; and if the Applicant is hired, for additional employment and business purposes related to his/her work at Books Boost Business.
If you previously submitted your Applicants Information to Books Boost Business, and now wish to access it, update it or have it deleted from Books Boost Business systems, please contact us at laurahelen@booksboostbusiness.com We welcome all qualified job seekers to apply to any of our
open positions, by sending us their contact details and CV. We will use such information solely for our internal recruitment, employment and business purposes.
8. Use of cookies and other tracking technologies
Books Boost Business, together with its marketing, analytics and technology partners, uses certain monitoring and tracking technologies (such as cookies, beacons, pixels, tags and scripts). These technologies are used in order to maintain, provide and improve our Services on an ongoing basis,
and in order to provide our Visitors and our Users with a better experience. For example, thanks to these technologies, we are able to maintain and keep track of our Visitor’s and Users’ preferences and authenticated sessions, to better secure our Services, to identify technical issues, user trends
and effectiveness of campaigns, and to monitor and improve the overall performance of our Services.
Please note that Third Party Services placing cookies or utilizing other tracking technologies through our Services may have their own policies regarding how they collect and store information. Such practices are not covered by our Privacy Policy and we do not have any control over them.
Cookies: In order for some of these technologies to work properly, a small data file (“cookie”) must be downloaded and stored on your device. By default, we use several persistent cookies for purposes of session and user authentication, security, and marketing campaigns, and generally
providing and improving our Services.
If you want to delete or block any cookies, please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Information on deleting or controlling cookies is also available at www.aboutcookie.org (note that this website is not
provided by Books Boost Business, and we therefore cannot ensure its accuracy, completeness or availability). Please note that deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies or tracking technologies may prevent you from accessing certain areas or features of our Services, or may otherwise adversely affect your user experience.
Clear Gifs: We and certain Third Party Services may employ a software technology called “clear gifs” (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), which enables them and us to improve our Services by measuring their effectiveness and performance. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier,
similar in function to cookies, however are not stored on your device, but instead embedded within our Services.
Flash and HTML5: We and certain Third Party Services may also employ certain tracking technologies known as “Flash cookies” and “HTML5”, mainly for advertising purposes. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing or blocking such technologies.
Additional information about managing Flash cookies is available here.
(Please note that these websites are not provided by Books Boost Business, and we therefore cannot ensure its accuracy, completeness or availability). Behavioral Targeting/Re-Targeting: Certain Third Party Services and ad networks may display advertising on our Website, on Books Boost Business Apps and on Books Boost Business mobile apps, or manage our advertising on other websites. Such parties may use certain tracking technologies to collect certain information about your activities on the Services and different third party Services to provide you with targeted advertising based on your interests and preferences.
You may opt-out of receiving targeted ads from certain advertisers and ad networks by clicking here (or if you are located in the European Union click here (provided by YourChoicesOnline.eu).
Please note this does not opt you out of receiving all advertising and that your opt-out will only be in relation to the specific advertising. You will continue to receive advertising for which you have not opted out.
User Data Supplementation: We may receive information about you from other sources, including publicly available databases or third parties from whom we have purchased data, and combine this data with information we already have about you. This helps us to update, expand and analyze our
records, identify new customers, and provide products and Services that may be of interest to you.
Where we obtain your Personal Information from these third parties, we ensure that such parties are contractually committed to inform you that your Personal Information will be disclosed to us and we take steps to ensure the accuracy of your Personal Information before using it. If you provide us
personal information about others, or if others give us your information, we will only use that information for the specific reason for which it was provided to us. “Do Not Track” Signals: Please note that we do not change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from a browser or mobile application.
We and certain third party services may use cookies and similar tracking technologies throughout our services.
These technologies are used mostly for stability, security, functionality, performance and advertising purposes.
You may block, opt-out of or otherwise manage such tracking technologies by yourself, through your browser settings or other sources – but please note that this may adversely affect the way you experience our services.
9. How do we communicate with your site visitors?
Promotional Messages: We may use your Personal Information to send you promotional content and messages by e-mail, text messages, direct text messages, marketing calls and similar forms of communication from Books Boost Business or our partners (acting on Books Boost Business behalf)
through such means. If you do not wish to receive such promotional messages or calls, you may notify Books Boost Business at any time or follow the “unsubscribe” or STOP instructions contained in the promotional communications you receive.
We take steps to limit the promotional content we send you to a reasonable and proportionate level, and to send you information which we believe may be of interest or relevance to you, based on your information.
We may send you promotional messages and content. You can easily opt-out of receiving
promotional messages by contacting us or unsubscribing.
Service and Billing Messages: Books Boost Business may also contact you with important
information regarding our Services, or your use thereof.
For example, we may send you a notice (through any of the means available to us) if a certain Service is temporarily suspended for maintenance; reply to your support ticket or e-mail; send you reminders or warnings regarding upcoming or late payments for your current or upcoming subscriptions.
It is important that you are always able to receive such messages. For this reason, you are not be able to opt-out of receiving such Service and Billing Messages unless you are no longer a Books Boost Business Visitor or User (which can be done by deactivating your account).
We may also contact you with service and billing-related messages and content. You will not be able to opt-out of receiving such messages.
10. Your rights in relation to your personal information
It is imperative that you have control over your Personal Information. That’s why Books Boost Business is taking steps to enable you to access, receive a copy of, update, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information.
Before disclosing the requested Personal Information, we may ask you for additional information in order to confirm your identity and for security purposes. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law (e.g., if your request is unfounded or excessive).
You have the right to file a complaint with your local supervisory authority for data protection (but we still recommend that you contact us first).
If you are a Books Boost Business Visitor or User, and you wish to receive a copy, access and/or request us to make corrections to the Personal Information that you have stored with us or wish to request a list of what Personal Information (if any) pertaining to you we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes, please follow the instructions provided in these Help Center articles: You can also, mail your request to Books Boost Business, Laura Helen Herbert, Apt 7472 Chynoweth House, Trevissome Park, Truro, TR4 8UN
We will make all reasonable efforts to honor your request promptly (unless we require further information from you in order to fulfill your request), subject to legal and other permissible considerations. You may also correct, update or remove certain parts of such Personal Information by yourself, through your User Account or User Website settings.
Please note that permanently deleting your Books Boost Business account erases all of your information from Books Bost Business ‘s databases. After completing this process, you can no longer use any of your Books Boost Business services, your account and all its data will be removed
permanently, Books Boost Business will not be able to restore your account or retrieve your data in the future.
If you contact Books Boost Business Support in the future, the system will not recognize your account and Support agents will not be able to locate the deleted account. Books Boost Business You may request to access, receive a copy of, update, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Information you have stored with us. Just send us an e-mail laurahelen@booksboostbusiness.com
You may also correct and/or update your information through your account settings.
You can delete your Personal Information by deleting your entire account. We will respond to your requests within a reasonable time frame.
11. Data Retention
We may retain your Personal Information for as long as your User Account is active, as indicated in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise needed to provide you with our Services.
We may continue to retain such Personal Information even after you deactivate your User Account and/or cease to use any particular Services, as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes regarding our Users, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our agreements and/or protect our legitimate interests.
We maintain a data retention policy which we apply to information in our care. Where your Personal Information is no longer required we will ensure it is securely deleted. We may keep your information for as long as your account is active, and longer as needed (for example, if we are legally obligated to keep it longer, or need it to protect our interests).
12. Security
Books Boost Business has implemented security measures designed to protect the Personal Information you share with us, including physical, electronic and procedural measures. Among other things, we offer HTTPS secure access to most areas on our Services; the transmission of sensitive payment information (such as a credit card number) through our designated purchase forms is protected by an industry standard SSL/TLS encrypted connection; and we regularly maintain a PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) certification. We also regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and regularly seek new ways and Third Party Services for further enhancing the security of our Services and protection of our Visitors’ and Users’ privacy.
Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by Books Boost Business, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of your Personal Information, or any other User Content you upload, publish or otherwise share with Books Boost Business or anyone else.
We therefore encourage you to set strong passwords for your User Account and avoid providing us or anyone with any sensitive information of which you believe its disclosure could cause you substantial or irreparable harm. Furthermore, because certain areas on our Services are less secure than others (for example, if you set your Support forum ticket to be “Public” instead of “Private”, or if you browse to a non-SSL page), and since e-mail and instant messaging are not recognized as secure forms of communications, we request and encourage you not to share any Personal Information on any of these areas or via any of these methods.
If you have any questions regarding the security of our Services, you are welcome to contact us at laurahelen@booksboostbusiness.com
We are committed to securing your personal information and use various security measures to better protect it.
However, as we can’t guarantee absolute protection – we encourage you to be careful, set a strong password for your account, and avoid submitting any sensitive information which, if exposed, could cause you major harm.
13. Updates and interpretation
We may update this Privacy Policy as required by applicable law, and to reflect changes to our information collection, usage and storage practices. If we make any changes that we deem as “material” (in our sole good faith discretion), we will notify you by email) prior to the change becoming effective.
We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. Unless stated otherwise, our most current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you with respect to our Website, and other Services. We may change this policy at any time.
