Privacy Policy/Terms of Use
Lee College Bookstore is committed to protecting your privacy. We have established the Privacy Policy and are providing it to you so that you can 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 Lee College Bookstore; it 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.
INFORMATION COLLECTED
Lee College Bookstore recognizes the need for consumers to control the use and management of personal information. By personal information we mean information that can be used to identify or contact an individual. This includes a first and last name, a physical address, an email address, a student id number, or a phone number. If you are visiting our site to browse merchandise or find information about our business or our products, you do not need to provide any information. If you decide to make a purchase, however, we do collect this information so that we can provide you with the product or service you requested and so that we can contact you with information regarding your order.
Our website makes use of various technologies to collect information about types and versions of internet browsers used when accessing our web site. This information, and information about internet IP addresses, as well as date and time web pages are visited are stored in various security and traffic logs. Our service provider review these logs, using statistical analysis, in an effort to track and predict traffic patterns and estimate resource needs. Unless we are tracking down a technical problem or we suspect either fraudulent behavior or illegal conduct we do not trace specific user sessions.
INFORMATION USE
Within the Lee College Bookstore web site you may be asked to give us personal information, such as when a question requires a response, request certain information online, or register to make a purchase online. This information may include your name, address, e-mail address, phone number student id number, and credit card. Lee College Bookstore does not collect personal information from you unless you provide it to us and we do not sell or redistribute the names and addresses of our web site customers. When you submit an order you will receive an email confirmation from our system. As your order status changes you may also receive notifications via email. These notifications are considered part of our service and may not be disabled.
THIRD PARTY USE
We do partner with other third parties to provide various products and services. When you sign up for these services or products we will share required personal information that is necessary for the third party to provide the product or service to you. We take reasonable steps to ensure that these third parties are obligated to protect your information on our behalf. It is also against our policy to sell or trade information collected online without consumer consent. We may, however, release personal information if we are legally required to do so. If we are legally compelled to release information to a third party, Lee College Bookstore, may or may not notify you of this release. Notification will be at the discretion of Lee College Bookstore and will be based on the nature and conditions surrounding the release of information.
INFORMATION CONTROL
Your customer profile is accessible from our website and you may update it at anytime. Our web site provides you with the ability to change your phone numbers, physical address, and e-mail address information stored in your profile.
CHILDREN
Lee College Bookstore web site is targeted to college students and as such is not meant to attract children. We do not intend to collect personal information from anyone we know to be under thirteen years of age.
TECHNOLOGY USE
Our web site uses cookies, session identifiers, JavaScript, and browser detection technology to provide consumers with a more pleasant online experience. Many browsers provide consumers with the ability to disable some or all of these technologies. Disabling them, especially in the case of JavaScript, may prevent you from viewing some web pages. Note that the cookies we use do not place any personally identifiable information on your computer. Our site also does not participate in AD Networks or use Web Bugs/Web Beacons to track consumer activity.
CONFIDENTIALITY AND SECURITY
Lee College Bookstore takes reasonable steps to ensure that your information is protected. On our website we use industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption when collecting your personal information. Our web site is hosted in a data center which makes use of multiple levels of redundant firewalls and database encryption to protect information. Internally, we limit access to your information to those employees or agents who we believe have reasonable need to use the information to provide products or services to you, or to perform their jobs.
NOTIFICATIONS/HISTORY
Lee College Bookstore first established a privacy policy in January 2005. We may make changes to the policy to reflect additions or changes to our practices. You may review the current policy at anytime by returning to this web page. This policy was last changed on February 7, 2005.
COMPLIANCE
This privacy policy complies ecommerce industry best practice guidelines and with California's Privacy Protection Act of 2004. If you should have any questions or concerns about this policy please contact us using the information provided below.
Lee College Bookstore
511 S. Whiting
Baytown, TX 77520
