Last Revised August 2008

Overview

This Privacy Policy describes the policies between BookLetters and Subscribing Libraries ("Users") related to applications created and delivered by BookLetters on BookLetters servers. BookLetters also contains links and Widgets to third-party web services common to the industry including publisher generated promotional materials that is deemed to be safe, but outside of the control of BookLetters. Web services operated by third-parties linked from BookLetters LLC are not part of this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to refer to the privacy policies of those services.

Your use of this Service constitutes your acceptance of all of the terms and conditions contained in this Privacy Policy. We may change the terms of this Privacy Policy, review this page from time to time. Your continued use of this Service following the posting of changes to the Privacy Policy means that you accept the changes.

Information Collection - e-mail

We gather and store e-mail addresses of patrons on behalf of users as part of this service. We may also record other information that identifies users' computers to this Service and tracks behavior on the Service. Methods used to collect this information may include "cookies," which are small amounts of data sent to your browser from a server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Most browsers allow Users to block the receipt of cookies, but doing so may compromise your ability to use certain features of this Service.

Use of Information - e-mail

We use this information to send e-newsletters to library patrons as authorized and controlled by library personnel from the ToolKit. We also use this information to better understand the needs of our users, improve security, administration, and to help diagnose problems with e-mail delivery. We do not sell, share, or otherwise disclose this information to any outside parties, however, we may disclose aggregated anonymous statistics. We monitor e-mail "bounces" on behalf of users and may delete selected e-mail addresses that we believe to be inactive or inaccurate from User subscriber lists . We consider the subscriber lists of our users to be the sole property of Users.

Clublist.net

The BookLetters Clublist.net module contains membership profile information that requires the collection of additional personal information for authentication. This information is used by BookLetters solely for the execution of that service and available only to the User sponsoring that member.

Security

We limit the amount of data we collect and we use reasonable security safeguards to protect personal information we collect from unauthorized access, use, modification or disclosure. However, due to the design of the Internet and other factors outside our control, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and our servers will be free from unauthorized access by third-parties.

Termination Practices

Upon termination of this service between BookLetters and the user, BookLetters deletes and destroys all subscriber e-mail address listings collected on behalf of User.