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Privacy Policy Last Updated: June 24, 2008.

At BellthorpeBooks.com we believe that your personal information deserves the utmost protection. As a proudly Canadian business, we have endeavored to meet our obligations under Canada's "Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act" (PIPEDA), which received Her Majesty's Royal Assent on April 13, 2000, and is fully in effect as of January 2004.

BellthorpeBooks.com strives to offer its visitors the many advantages of the latest Internet technology and to provide an interactive and personalized experience. We may use Personally Identifiable Information (your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number) subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will never sell, barter, or rent your e-mail address to any unauthorized third party. Period.

How We Gather Information From Users

How we collect and store information depends on the page you are visiting, the activities in which you elect to participate and the services provided. For example, you may be asked to provide information when you register for access to certain portions of our site or request certain features, such as newsletters or when you make a purchase. You may provide information when you participate in sweepstakes and contests, message boards and chat rooms, and other interactive areas of our site.

Like most Web sites, BellthorpeBooks.com also collects information automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to our visitors. For example, we may log the name of your Internet Service Provider or use cookie technology to recognize you and hold information from your visit. Among other things, the cookie may store your user name and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or may control the number of times you encounter a particular advertisement while visiting our site.

As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can choose not to provide us with information, for example by setting your browser to refuse to accept cookies, but if you do, you may be unable to access certain portions of the site or may be asked to re-enter your user name and password, and we may not be able to customize the site's features according to your preferences.

What We Do With The Information We Collect

Like other Web publishers, we collect information to enhance your visit and deliver more individualized content and advertising. We respect your privacy and do not share your information with anyone.

Aggregated Information (information that does not personally identify you) may be used in many ways. For example, we may combine information about your usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to help enhance our site and services (e.g., to learn which pages are visited most or what features are most attractive). Aggregated Information may occasionally be shared with our advertisers and business partners. Again, this information does not include any Personally Identifiable Information about you or allow anyone to identify you individually.

We may use Personally Identifiable Information collected on BellthorpeBooks.com to communicate with you about your registration and customization preferences; our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy; services and products offered by BellthorpeBooks.com and other topics we think you might find of interest.

Personally Identifiable Information collected by BellthorpeBooks.com may also be used for other purposes, including but not limited to site administration, troubleshooting, processing of e-commerce transactions, administration of sweepstakes and contests, and other communications with you. Certain third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our site (our Web hosting service for example) may access such information. We will use your information only as permitted by law.

In addition, from time to time as we continue to develop our business, we may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets. We may also disclose your information in response to a court order, at other times when we believe we are reasonably required to do so by law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may owe to us, and/or to law enforcement authorities whenever we deem it appropriate or necessary. Please note we may not provide you with notice prior to disclosure in such cases.

Affiliated Sites, Linked Sites And Advertisements

BellthorpeBooks.com expects its partners, advertisers, and affiliates to respect the privacy of our users. Be aware, however, that third parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates, and other content providers accessible through our site, may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to our site you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a BellthorpeBooks.com page, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party.

Also, through BellthorpeBooks.com you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information, Web sites, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other parties. Please note that BellthorpeBooks.com is not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.

While on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners, or other third parties may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences or retrieve information about you. For example, some of our advertising is served by third parties and may include cookies that enable the advertiser to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before. Other features available on our site may offer services operated by third parties and may use cookies or other technology to gather information. BellthorpeBooks.com does not control the use of this technology by third parties or the resulting information, and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.

You should also be aware that if you voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on message boards or in chat areas or in forums, that information can be viewed publicly and can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge or consent and may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of BellthorpeBooks.com and this Privacy Policy.

Cookies And Web Beacons

BellthorpeBooks.com may use cookies to help you personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize the site's pages, or register with any of our site's services, a cookie enables BellthorpeBooks.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.

Here is how Google explains cookies: "A 'cookie' is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie allows that site to recognize your browser. Cookies may store user preferences and other information."

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying your Web browser; however, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to experience the interactive features of the site fully.

A Web beacon is a transparent image file used to monitor your journey around a single Web site or collection of sites. They are commonly used by sites that use third-party services to monitor traffic. Web beacons may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content on a Web site.

We may serve third-party advertisements that use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served on our website to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information on our web site.

Cookies and Web beacons will send these advertisers information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Canadian ads to someone in Canada, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (showing recipe ads to someone who frequents recipe sites, for example).

Some third-party advertisements may be provided by Google, which uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Google uses the DoubleClick DART cookie, which enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visits to this site and other sites on the Web. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

You can choose to reset your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being sent. Privacy software can be used to override web beacons. Taking either of these actions shouldn't cause a problem with our site, should you so choose. Some website features, however, may not function properly without the use of cookies.

Child Privacy

Internet child safety issues are very important. BellthorpeBooks.com does not knowingly collect or solicit Personally Identifiable Information from or about children under 13 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have received any information from a child under 13 in violation of this Privacy Policy, we will delete that information immediately.

Please read our Child Privacy Policy and helpful Internet Safety Tips For Kids. If you believe BellthorpeBooks.com has any information from or about anyone under 13, please contact us at the address listed below. Internet child safety should concern us all.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy statement, our Child Privacy Policy or the privacy practices of this site, BellthorpeBooks.com can be reached by e-mail using our handy Contact Us form. We can also be contacted by writing directly to us at our mailing address:

Donald R. Bell, e-Publisher
Bellthorpe Books
2414 Burnham Line
RR 7 Station Main
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 6X8
CANADA

For additional information about electronic privacy issues and the management of personal information in the private sector, or to view a copy of Canada's "Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act" (PIPEDA), contact the office of The Privacy Commissioner of Canada at www.privcom.gc.ca or write to:

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada
112 Kent Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 1H3
CANADA

Telephone: 1-613-995-8210
Toll free: 1-800-282-1376
E-mail: info@privcom.gc.ca

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We (BellthorpeBooks.com) reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes to our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes. Information collected prior to the time any change is posted will be used according to the rules and laws that applied at the time the information was collected.

Governing Law

This Web site, BellthorpeBooks.com, (excluding linked Web sites) is controlled, operated and administered within the Province of Ontario, Canada. This site can be accessed from all provinces and territories of Canada, as well as from other countries around the world. As each of these jurisdictions has laws that may differ from those of the Province of Ontario, by accessing this site, the user agrees that all matters relating to access to, or use of, BellthorpeBooks.com, or any other hyperlinked Web site, shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein.

The user also agrees and hereby submits to the exclusive personal jurisdiction and venue of the courts of the Province of Ontario and acknowledges that the user does so voluntarily and is responsible for complying with local laws.

If a dispute arises under this Policy, we agree to first try to resolve it with the help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator in the following location: Peterborough, Ontario. All mediation must take place in person. Any costs and fees other than attorney fees associated with the mediation will be shared equally by each of us. Your transportation costs to Peterborough, Ontario, and your housing costs while in Peterborough, Ontario will be solely borne by you.

If it proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution through mediation, we agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration at the following location: Peterborough, Ontario, under the rules of the Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Canada. Judgment upon the award rendered by the arbitration may be entered in any court with jurisdiction to do so.

If any provision of this Policy is void or unenforceable in whole or in part, the remaining provisions of this Policy shall not be affected thereby.

BellthorpeBooks.com is controlled, operated and administered entirely within Ontario, Canada. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.

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