Welcome to Major Books (“we”, “our”, “us”). We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website www.majorbooks.com (the “Site”) and purchase our books online or subscribe to our newsletter. Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
Data Controller
Major Books is the data controller responsible for your personal data. If you have any questions about this policy or our data practices, please contact us at contact@major-books.com.
Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Personal Data
Identity Data: Includes first name, last name, username, or similar identifier.
Contact Data: Includes billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
Transaction Data: Includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Profile Data: Includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.
Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our website, products, and services.
Marketing and Communications Data: Includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
Non-Personal Data
We also collect, use, and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data under the law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.
How We Collect Your Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our Site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.
How We Use Your Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Performance of Contract: Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
Legal or Regulatory Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
Legitimate Interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Consent: Where you have given consent to our use of your personal data.
Purposes for Which We Will Use Your Personal Data
To process and deliver your order: Including managing payments, fees, and charges and collecting and recovering money owed to us.
To manage our relationship with you: Including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy and asking you to leave a review or take a survey.
To administer and protect our business and this website: Including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data.
To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you: And measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
To make suggestions and recommendations to you: About goods or services that may be of interest to you, including sending you our newsletter if you have subscribed to it.
Newsletter Subscription
If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your email address to send you newsletters and marketing emails. You can unsubscribe at any time by following the unsubscribe link in each email or by contacting us at contact@major-books.com
Cookies
Our Site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and also allows us to improve our Site.
Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Site.
Analytical/Performance Cookies: These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Site when they are using it.
Functionality Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our Site.
Targeting Cookies: These cookies record your visit to our Site, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed.
Managing Cookies
You can manage the use of cookies through your browser settings. However, if you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Site may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of your personal data.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes we make will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at contact@major-books.com.
Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
