This Privacy Policy applies to personal and other information that may be collected when you interact with the Black Author Gifts, & Services Incorporated, which dba BuyBlackAuthors.com and Buy Black Authors websites owned, operated and managed by Buy Black Authors, including each website that links to this Privacy Policy, and (collectively, "Buy Black Authors Websites”).

Protecting the privacy and security of your personal information is a priority at Buy Black Authors, and we believe that a single, comprehensive privacy policy that is straightforward and clear is in the best interests of our customers and our businesses. Personal information is sometimes referred to as personal data in certain jurisdictions.

Buy Black Authors reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time. You will be notified of any material changes to this Privacy Policy which are less protective of customer information prior to such changes becoming effective. We may notify you of these changes by email reminders, by notice on this site, or by other acceptable means. Such modifications will only apply to information collected on, or after, the date of the modification.

1. What is the personal information that we collect?

Depending on how you choose to interact with Buy Black Authors, we may collect personal information from you, for example your name, e-mail address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, credit card or bank account information, date of birth and other persistent identifiers that can be used to personally identify you. We may also collect other personal information regarding your interaction with Buy Black Authors Websites, Devices and Apps, including usage information, the items that you browse, purchase, download, read, watch and otherwise access, and your geographic location.

2. Why do we collect personal information?

We collect your personal information in an effort to provide you with a superior customer experience and, as necessary, to administer our business. It allows us to provide you with easy access to our products and services, with a particular focus on the items and programs that may be of most interest to you. For more information as to why we collect personal information, please see the section below entitled: "How do we use your personal information?"

Your personal information also allows us to communicate with you about special offers, promotions, and other marketing programs and news that may be of interest to you. You always have the opportunity to unsubscribe from promotional emails by following the instructions included in each marketing email or by changing your preferences in your account.

3. How do we collect your personal information?

(a) Information that you provide to us

As a general matter, you can browse in our stores and on the Buy Black Authors Websites without submitting your personal information to us, although we may receive and collect certain personal information automatically, including site analytics regarding our websites, information your Internet browser automatically sends when you visit our websites, and information collected by cookies.

However, there are a number of circumstances in which you may need to provide us with your personal information.

The most common of these circumstances include:

• Making a purchase or placing an order

• Creating an account or joining a Buy Black Authors

  Member Program

• Using Buy Black Authors Websites, Devices and Apps

• Contacting customer service

• Entering a sweepstakes or contest

• Interacting with social networking sites

• Publishing through communities

• Signing up for promotional communications

  Making a purchase or placing an order

  When you make a purchase or place an order in our stores, place an order online or purchase, download, or stream digital books, periodicals, and other digital content ("Digital Content"), you may need to submit personal information to us.

  Creating an account or joining a Buy Black Authors Member Program

  In order to use Devices, and features of Buy Black Authors Websites, or to purchase or access Digital Content, you may be required to create a password-protected user account and provide us with personal information when you do so. Similarly, when you enroll in our Buy Black Authors Member Programs, we will ask you to submit personal information as part of your member profile. We will store and use this information to administer the programs and services in which you choose to participate, and as permitted by this Privacy Policy.

Using Buy Black Authors Websites, Devices and Apps

Buy Black Authors Websites, Devices, and Apps may provide you with the ability to enter (either directly, or by authorizing Buy Black Authors to access the information from a third party such as a social networking site or application) certain information such as your contacts, calendar entries or photos, or images you may submit to us to help us locate products for you.

Contacting Customer Service

When you contact customer service, we may ask you to provide, or confirm, personal information so that we can better serve you.

Entering a sweepstakes or contest

If you enter a sweepstakes or contest we offer, we may ask you to provide personal information so that we can consider your entry and, if you win, so that you may redeem your prize.

Interacting with social media sites

Our Devices and Apps may provide you with the ability to enter (directly, or by authorizing us to download the information from a third party such as a social media site or application) personal information such as contacts or lists of friends. These or related applications may also allow you to provide information directly to social media sites including information about your purchases, physical location, or comments.

Signing up for promotional communications

If you sign up to receive promotional communications or notifications from us, we may ask you to provide personal information so that we can provide these to you.

(b) Information automatically collected

There are circumstances in which we automatically receive and collect information from you. The most common sources of this information include:

• Web server logs

• Cookies

• Pixel tags or clear GIFs

• Third party web analytics services

• Targeted advertising

• Your Device or Apps you use

• Geolocation, including general and precise location

  information

• Wireless networks operated by Buy Black Authors in

  retail stores

• Social media sites

• Business partners, contractors, and other third parties

  For your convenience, we have provided a summary description of each of these circumstances below:

  Web server logs

  When you visit a Buy Black Authors Website, our web servers may automatically log information that your browser sends us. For example, we may receive and collect: the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet; the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the date and time you access the Buy Black Authors Website; and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to the Buy Black Authors Website. We may also collect information regarding search queries run on the Buy Black Authors Website. We use this information to monitor the usage of the Buy Black Authors Websites and as necessary for our business.

Cookies

Like many online retailers, we and/or our third party providers use cookies to recognize you as you use or return to the Buy Black Authors Websites. This is done so that we can personalize and enhance your browsing and shopping experience. "Cookies" are small files that are placed in your browser to collect information about your activities on a Buy Black Authors Website. Cookies help us to: (1) speed navigation, keep track of items in your shopping bag and provide you with content that is tailored to you; (2) remember information you gave us so that you do not have to re-enter it; (3) determine the effectiveness of some of our and our third party partners' marketing efforts and communications; and (4) monitor the total number of visitors, pages viewed, and the total number of ads displayed.

Browsers are typically set to create cookies automatically. You can choose to have your browser notify you when cookies are being written to your computer or accessed, or you can disable cookies entirely.

Pixel tags or clear GIFs

We may use sensing technologies that use pixel tags or clear GIFs (which are also called web beacons). These technologies allow us to determine the effectiveness of our e- mail and advertising and marketing efforts. For this purpose, we tie the pixel tags and clear GIFs to personally identifiable information. We may also collect information regarding the links within such marketing materials that you click on and purchase statistics regarding items you buy following receipt of such marketing.

Third party web analytics services

We work with third party service providers, including but not limited to Facebook and Google Analytics, to help us better understand how you use the Buy Black Authors Websites. These third party service providers will place cookies in your browser to collect information such as how you were referred to the Buy Black Authors Website, how you navigate around the Buy Black Authors Website, what you purchase and what traffic is driven by various marketing methods. This information will help us to better serve you and provide you with more personalized information and product offerings. We do not allow third party service providers to collect your credit card information, e-mail address, or password information. These third party service providers may only use your personal information to perform services for us and may not share your personal information with anyone else, or use it for any other purpose, except on an aggregated, non-personally identifiable basis.

Targeted advertising

We may partner with third party advertising networks that collect IP addresses, unique device identifiers (UDIDs), browser type, operating system, time zone, country, referring pages, and other information through the use of cookies, web server logs and pixel tags on Buy Black Authors Websites, Apps, emails and on third party websites and emails. They use this information to provide you with advertisements that are customized to your particular preferences, including for companies that are not affiliated with us. You may see these advertisements on Buy Black Authors Websites and third party apps and websites, and across different devices you use. We may use this process to help us manage and improve the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. If you would like to learn more about the third party advertisers that may be aware of the fact that you visit Buy Black Authors Websites or use our Apps, and to understand your opt-out choices, please visit the website of the National Advertising Initiative. Please note this does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic ads.

Please understand that Buy Black Authors does not control these third party cookies, and you should check the privacy policies of third party advertising networks to see whether and how it uses cookies.

Your Device or Apps you use

When you use a Device or our Apps, we automatically collect information through the Device or App when it is connected to the Internet. For example, we may receive and collect information concerning device registration, operating system, settings, usage, firmware version, signal strength, search queries, network interaction, the name of the network from which you access the Internet, the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the device you are using, unique device identifiers (UDIDs), downloads, sideloaded content, configuration, or service information relating to any malfunction of the Device or App. This may include information regarding your activity on such Devices or Apps, such as books opened, date and time of use, time elapsed, page turns, bookmarks, annotations, or customer reviews.

Geolocation

In addition, to provide location-based services on Devices or through Apps, Buy Black Authors and third party application providers may automatically collect real-time geographic location information or other location-based information about you and your Device or other mobile device on which the App is installed. This information may be used to provide certain device or application functionality or to offer, provide and improve products and services.

Social media

We may provide you the ability to sign into a Buy Black Authors Website or App using a social media account such as a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, or Google account, or use your social media accounts to share information from Buy Black Authors Websites, Devices or Apps. In these cases, as well as when you use a Buy Black Authors app on a social media site or choose to join (or "like") a Buy Black Authors page on a social media site, the social media site may provide us with certain information about you, including but not limited to your contacts and other "likes". In addition, we may share your information, including personal information, with third party vendors to facilitate your choice to sign into a Buy Black Authors Website or App using a social media account. Please see the privacy policy for the applicable social media site to learn more about how these sites share your personal information.

Business partners, contractors, and other third parties

We may collect personal information and other information about you from business partners, contractors and other third parties. This includes, but is not limited to, instances in which you affirmatively authorize third parties to provide us with information.

4. How do we use your personal information?

Buy Black Authors uses your personal information across our enterprise to provide you with a superior customer experience and, as necessary, to administer our businesses. For example, we use your personal information to:

• Provide you with products, services and information across the Buy Black Authors enterprise, including product and subject recommendations and other information through emails from our businesses, and on the Buy Black Authors Websites and online interactive communities, your Devices, Digital Content, Apps and software, and display associated content and advertising;

• Administer our programs;

• To protect against deceptive and fraudulent activity;

• Provide customer service in stores, by telephone and

  online;

• Conduct research and perform analysis in order to measure, maintain, protect, develop and improve our products and services;

• Administer sweepstakes, contests, promotions or surveys and provide appropriate notifications;

• Communicate with you about special offers, events, or new products or services that may be of interest to you;

• Customize and enhance the Buy Black Authors Websites and advertising;

• Make communications necessary to notify you regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues; and

• Manage our business.

  5. With whom do we share personal information?

  Protecting the privacy and security of your personal information is a priority at Buy Black Authors. Buy Black Authors shares your personal information with:

• Other entities within the Buy Black Authors enterprise. Buy Black Authors owns and operates other operations and businesses and we may share your personal information with our other business units and operations, even if such business units or operations are sold.

• Partners. We provide personal information to our partners that provide product and service offerings or technologies that we think may be of interest to you.

• Service providers, subcontractors and agents who perform services on our behalf. We provide personal information to third party service providers, subcontractors, and agents that work under contract on our behalf to provide certain services. These third parties do not have the right to use personal information we provide to them in any way that is not authorized by Buy Black Authors. They are contractually obligated to use such information only as necessary to assist us and to maintain the confidentiality and security of such information.

• Third party providers of products and services. These are third parties that provide products and services you may purchase or request from or through us. These third parties do not have the right to use personal information we provide to them in any way that is not authorized by Buy Black Authors. They are contractually obligated to use such information only as necessary to assist us and to maintain the confidentiality and security of such information.

• Third party membership programs. We work with certain third party entities to help them administer their own membership or rewards programs by providing them with purchasing information about their customers who make purchase from Buy Black Authors. We disclose only the information that is necessary to make these third party programs work and to support your membership in them. This information usually includes your name and e- mail address as well as the dollar amount of the purchases made at Buy Black Authors. We require such entities to obtain your consent before we provide them with this information, which they usually do as part of their own membership or participation rules.

• Credit card companies. Credit card transactions are handled by third party financial institutions and their vendors and contractors who receive credit card numbers and other personal information from us to verify the credit card numbers and process transactions.

Although Buy Black Authors’s treatment of this information is governed by this policy, the use of your information by the third party financial institutions and their vendors and contractors will be subject to their own privacy policies.

• Law enforcement officials and as required by law. Buy Black Authors may release personal information to third parties when we determine, in our judgment, and without your consent, that it is necessary to (a) comply with the law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request; (b) enforce or apply the terms of any of our policies or user agreements; (c) establish or exercise our rights, to defend against a legal claim, to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety of person or property, or a violation of our policies, (d) protect the rights, property or safety of Buy Black Authors, our employees, our customers, users, or others; or (e) to comply with your request for the shipment of products to or the provision of services by a third party intermediary.

• Co-branded offerings. In some instances, we may offer a service or feature that is co-branded by Buy Black Authors and a third party company. If you provide information in connection with such co-branded service or feature, that information may be shared between Buy Black Authors and the third party. Although Buy Black Authors’s treatment of the information is governed by this policy, the third party’s treatment of your information will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy.

• Other websites operated by Buy Black Authors. In some instances, we may operate a Buy Black Authors Website on behalf of a third party. If you provide information in connection with a Buy Black Authors Website operated by Buy Black Authors on behalf of a third party, that information may be shared between Buy Black Authors and the third party. Although Buy Black Authors’s treatment of the information is governed by this policy, the third party’s treatment of your information will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy.

• Sales, mergers, and acquisitions. If Buy Black Authors becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, restructuring, reorganization, or any form of sale or other disposition of some or all of its assets, personal information and your transaction history may be provided to the entities and advisors involved subject to a confidentiality agreement, and we will provide notice to you at your email address on file before any personal information is finally transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy. Such a transaction may involve us (i) retaining the right to continue to use transferred personal information in addition to the right of the transferee to use such information, and (ii) engaging in additional transfers of personal information (including new personal information) with the transferee from time to time following such a transaction.

• Certain Digital Content providers. We may need to forward your name, email address, IP address, and shipping or billing address to certain content providers in connection with your order. The content providers may share this information with the applicable publisher and circulation auditors, and may use this information to fulfill your order and for other purposes. In these cases, the terms of the privacy policy of the publishers whose content you have purchased or downloaded will apply to you. If you do not wish to receive marketing communications from these publishers, you must contact the publisher directly.

• Your Consent. We may ask if you would like us to share your information with other unaffiliated third parties who are not described elsewhere in this policy.

6. How do we protect personal information?

No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is fully secure. While we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of a breach to your personal information we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.

Some of our websites permit you to create a Buy Black Authors account. When you do you will be prompted to create a password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, and you are responsible for any access to or use of your account by someone else that has obtained your password, whether or not such access or use has been authorized by you. You should notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account.

7. How do we respect your choices about your personal information?

You may choose to opt out from receiving marketing and promotional communications from Buy Black Authors at any time by following the instructions below.

• For Buy Black Authors Booksellers: At any time, a customer may choose to opt-out of the receipt of any promotional communications by clicking on the opt-out link provided at the bottom of each email and following the instructions, or by emailing our Customer Service Department at support@buyblackauthors.com.

• For Buy Black Authors account Holders: Any account holder can opt-out of the receipt of any promotional communications by selecting the link at the bottom of any promotional email communication and following the instructions.

• For Buy Black Authors Member program: Any participant can opt out of the receipt of any Member program promotional communications by logging on to their account and following the instructions. If you do not have a Buy Black Authors account, you may opt-out of the receipt of such communications by selecting the link at the bottom of any promotional email communication and following the instructions.

  Even if you opt-out of receiving promotional communications, you may continue to receive emails and notifications relating to order confirmations, back order notifications, membership information, and/or other business-related communications.

  8. Buy Black Authors does not sell your personal information under the customary definition of sale.

  We do not provide your name, phone number, address, email address or other personally identifiable information to third parties in exchange for money.

  However, under certain state privacy laws, sharing information for advertising purposes may be considered a “sale” of “personal information.” You have the right to opt out of the “sale” of personal information, and we’ve made it possible for you to stop the information transfers by emailing support@buyblackauthors.com.

Analytics & Targeted Advertising

You may choose to opt out of collection of automatically collected information, including cookies, Google Analytics, and targeted advertising, by using the functionality in your browser to reject cookies.

Online Community Users

Buy Black Authors provides you with the ability to access, correct, change or request deletion of the personal information in your community profile(s) at any time by following the instructions below. However, you cannot currently change your profile name although you may re- register and choose a new name. To review or modify your profile information, please click here. Please be advised that Buy Black Authors may archive information it collects on its community and visitors. Additionally, by participating in the Buy Black Authors online interactive community, including but not limited to, the submission of customer reviews, participation in Buy Black Authors’s other various interactive offerings, you agree to receive communications from Buy Black Authors, other users, and moderators related to the provision of these services.

Accessing, correcting and deleting your information

You have the right to ask us not to use your personal information for direct marketing purposes. You also have the right to request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies rectified. Finally, you have the right to request that we delete your personal information. If required by law we will grant a request to delete information, but you should note that in many situations we must keep your personal information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, or for another one of our business purposes.

California residents may be entitled to object, or opt-out, of having their information sold to third parties. If you are a California resident and would like to opt-out of having your information sold, email support@buyblackauthors.com. We do not discriminate against California consumers who exercise any of their rights described in this policy.

Note that, as required by law, we will require you to prove your identity. We may conduct an identity verification by phone call or email. Depending on your request, we will ask for information such as your name, the last item you purchased from us, or the date of your last purchase from us. We may also ask you to provide a signed declaration confirming your identity. Following a request, we will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you in our files.

10. What other information about Buy Black Authors’s Privacy Policy would I want to know?

Policies for Minors, including children under the age of 18

Buy Black Authors is committed to complying with all applicable laws and regulations regarding the collection, storage and use of personal information of Minors under the age of 18, including the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.

Except as noted below: (i) our products and services are marketed for and directed towards purchase by adults or with the consent of adults; (ii) Individuals under the age of 18 ("Minors") are not permitted to use Buy Black Authors Websites or Apps without the supervision of a parent or legal guardian; (iii) we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register for an online account or to post personal information on the Buy Black Authors Websites; and (v) should we learn that someone under the age of 18 has provided any personal information to or on any of the Buy Black Authors Websites, we will remove that information as soon as possible.

If we direct certain Devices features or Apps to Minors who may be under the age of 18, we require the parent or legal guardian to provide verifiable consent to such Minor’s use of our products and services and our collection of personal information in connection with such use. With your consent, we may collect, use and share information regarding Minors under the age of 18 consistent with this Privacy Policy. 

If you are a parent or guardian who believes that your Minor under the age of 18 has submitted personal information or other information to us without your consent, please email support@buyblackauthors.com. Once we verify that you are the parent or legal guardian, at your request, we will promptly provide to you information regarding what, if any, personal information we have collected about your child and how it has been used or shared. We will, at your request, remove personal information about your child from its database.

If you are a Minor under the age of 18, you may request and obtain removal of certain content or information posted on Buy Black Authors Websites and Apps by sending an email to support@buyblackauthors.com with a subject line of “Privacy Rights for Minors” in the subject line. Please be advised that our removal of your post(s) does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information you have posted on Buy Black Authors Websites or Apps.

Data retention policy

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Notice of Financial Incentive

We provide price discounts, coupons, services and other benefits for (1) members of our Membership Program, and other customer programs; (2) large volume customers; (3) members of our mailing or text list; and (4) Buy Black Authors Account Holders (collectively “Programs”). Through these offerings, customers provide us with the necessary personal information (e.g., names, emails, phone numbers, educator credentials) when they opt-in to our programs. There is no obligation to opt-in and customers may opt-out at any time. The details of each Program are contained in the terms and conditions for each Program. We offer these Programs, among other things, to enhance our relationship with you so you can enjoy more of our products/services at a lower price. We invest heavily in our marketing and brands, in part, so we can provide Programs to our customers. The value to our business of customers’ personal information is dependent on specific facts such as whether and to what extent they, in the aggregate, take advantage of any offerings and whether and to what extent they opt-out of any offerings. Our ability to create any value from the Programs is heavily based on our ability to leverage said intellectual properties. We do not calculate the value of customer data in our accounting statements. To the extent we create overall value from our Programs to our business that could be directly or reasonably related to the value of customer data in the aggregate, the method for calculating same would include: the costs associated with (1) our intellectual property; (2) enhancing customer data by our marketing team’s efforts; (3) leveraging our significant investments in understanding you as our existing and future customers; (4) all other costs reasonably related to the programs and (5) for each program, and in the aggregate, whether the sales generated by the program(s) exceed the cost to us of offering them.

You can opt-in to, or opt-out of, our Programs at any time through the same means they are offered, or by emailing our Customer Service Department at support@buyblackauthors.com.

Information collected from visitors from outside the United States

Certain jurisdictions outside the United States require that we have a lawful basis to justify our processing of your personal information. Where applicable, the lawful bases that Buy Black Authors relies upon to justify a particular processing activity may differ from the lawful basis used to justify a different processing activity. Buy Black Authors relies on the following lawful bases to process personal information, as permitted under applicable law:

• Processing necessary for the negotiation, execution, or performance of contracts

• Processing to comply with legal and regulatory obligations and as necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims

• Processing in furtherance of our legitimate interests, including our interests to conduct legitimate business activities (such as improving our products and services, to communicate with you, to secure our systems, among other legitimate interests)

• Processing for employment purposes

• Processing based on your consent


We may obtain your consent to collect and use certain types of personal information when we are required to do so by law. If we ask for your consent to process your personal information, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the details at the end of this Policy. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

You can contact us at support@buyblackauthors.com for more information about our processing of your personal information.

Some jurisdictions outside the United States have provided individuals with certain rights in relation to the processing of their personal information. This may be the case, for example, if you are located in the European Union or United Kingdom. These rights are not available to everyone, and they do not necessarily apply in all contexts. You may have a right under your jurisdiction’s data protection law to the following with respect to some or all of your personal information:

By doing business or interacting with Buy Black Authors, you are consenting to the transfer, storage, and processing of your personal information to and within facilities located in the United States and other facility locations selected by Buy Black Authors.

Terms of Use

Any dispute between you and us regarding the privacy of your personal information is subject to this Privacy Policy and the terms of use or terms of service applicable to our product or service you use, including limitation on damages, resolution of disputes, and application of the law of the State of Tennessee.

Contact Information

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, you may contact us by emailing support@buyblackauthors.com

Effective Date: November 1, 2021