PRIVACY & COOKIES STATEMENT
THE AGREEMENT SET OUT BELOW, WHICH CONSISTS OF A PRIVACY AND COOKIES STATEMENT (COLLECTIVELY ‘TERMS’) ARE BETWEEN YOU AND BOOKHINT, A PRIVATE COMPANY WITH LIMITED LIABILITY UNDER THE LAWS OF THE NETHERLANDS, HAVING ITS REGISTERED OFFICES IN AMSTERDAM (‘BOOKHINT’), AND GOVERN YOUR USE OF THE PLATFORM, THE WEBSITE, AND ITS CONTENT ALL IF, AND TO THE EXTENT MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU FROM TIME TO TIME, YOUR PRIVACY AND RELATED MATTERS.
THE PLATFORM AND ITS CONTENT IS HERINAFTER REFERRED TO AS: ‘PLATFORM’, THE WEBSITE, ITS AND ITS CONTENT ARE HEREINAFTER COLLECTIVELY REFERRED TO AS: ‘WEBSITE’. FOR PURPOSED CONCERNING THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT, THE WEBSITE IS OPERATED BY BOOKHINT AND TO THE EXTENT APPLICABLE ALSO FOR THE BENEFIT OF BOOKHINT
BOOKHINT IS HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS: ‘WE’ AND ‘>US’.
BY ACCESSING, BROWSING, OR USING THIS WEBSITE AND/OR PLATFORM (WHICH INCLUDES WITHOUT LIMITATION OUR AND OTHER PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, WHETHER FROM BOOKHINT OR THIRD PARTIES) YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND TO COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS AND REGULATIONS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OR COMPLIANCE OBLIGATIONS, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE AND/OR PLATFORM.
- PRIVACY
When You visit respectively log into the Website and/or Platform, whether or not You are a visitor or a user of the Platform, We may register Your personal data. All personal data collected shall remain within the European Union. We will only use this personal data for the purposes described in this Statement and will protect any personal data collected in accordance with the applicable laws. This Statement contains information regarding the objectives that We pursue when processing personal data collected on the Website and/or Platform and how You can exercise your rights regarding Your personal data.
When You visit the Website and/or Platform We collect and process data of visitors and users of the Website and/or Platform in order to inform You and/or to make available to You certain content, services and news and/or to develop or optimize those services, website and/or Platform for the benefit of the business operations of Bookhint.
If You contact Us by e-mail, use any of the webforms on the Website and/or Platform, or contact Us by mail, fax or other offline means You will provide certain personal data which we may retain in order to process your inquiries, respond to requests and improve our services, Website and/or Platform.
When You register any kind of Bookhint account, you will need to provide some personal information (such as, but not limited to: your email address, your name, address and login details). In addition, if you purchase a service subscription, you will also need to provide your name, billing address and payment verification information.
Information that You provide may be used to contact You, for example, for new services on the Website and/or Platform, or to offer You deals, discounts, newsletters and other content or services that may be of interest to You, unless You inform Us through contact@bookhint.com that You do not wish to receive any offers from Bookhint. We will not use this Website and/or Platform to collect special personal data such as information regarding political views, race, religious beliefs, health, criminal-law data, or other matters.
- COOKIES
We place cookies which collect and process different kinds of data through the Website and/or Platform and use this information in different ways, as described below.
When you visit the Website and/or Platform We use Cookies to collect certain essential data (such as but not limited to: language settings, login details and IP-address) in order to help Us remember Your login details, authentication data, language settings and other essential information which helps You to navigate through Our Website and/or Platform.
Furthermore We use Cookies to help us remember non-essential data such as Your user preferences in order to optimize Your user experience or to recognize your device for the next time when You visit Our Website and/or Platform. Certain Cookies contain personal data for example, if You click the button ‘remember me’ when logging in, a Cookie will be placed to store your username.
In addition to our own cookies, we work with various reputable companies to help us analyze how the Website and/or Platform is used, and to optimize our Website and/or Platform to deliver the best possible experience. Currently, We use (i) Google Analytics and Google Adds by Google Inc. this to help us monitor our Website and/or Platform traffic and provide You with custom offers, (ii) Monitoring Cookies to monitor the performance of Our Website and/ or Platform (iii) Twitter, Facebook and Google+ in order to easily login if You may want to follow us on those platforms, follow our social stream or share content from our Website with third parties, and (iv) Doubleclick.net in order to help us monitor Your preferences on Our Website.
The Website and/or Platform may include buttons, widgets or content that link to third party services and / or websites, for example Twitter and Facebook. These third parties may serve you Cookies. Bookhint does not control the dissemination of these third party cookies and cannot block Cookies from those sites. For more information on these third party cookies, please check the relevant third party website.
Obviously, We respect your choices of Cookies settings. If You want to receive Cookies on the Website and/or Platform, other than analytic Cookies set above, You can opt-in. If You do not want Us to collect personal data, You can decide not to opt-in. We may need to set essential/required Cookies so that We can remember Your choices when You next visit the Website and/or Platform from the same browser.
Please also be aware that we make every effort to respect Your choices, however, there is the possibility that not all Cookies will be captured. If this is a concern then We would recommend that You change Your Cookies settings via Your browser; Your browser help function can help You further. For more information about Cookies, please check: www.allaboutcookies.org .
- MISCELLANEOUS
From time to time, we will revise these Terms, without further notice. We recommend that You regularly check whether these Terms have been revised. However, We will notify You via a prominent notifications on our Website and/or Platform about any major changes that would negatively impact your interests, although we are not envisioning any such changes in the near future. These Terms do not apply to third-party websites that may be accessed through links on this Website and/or Platform.
These Terms are exclusively governed by the laws of the Netherlands. Any and all disputes that may arise with respect to these Terms will be referred exclusively to the competent court in the Netherlands.
Questions regarding these Terms, regarding insight into and the accuracy of information that You provided to Us via this Website and/or Platform, or requests to have outdated information deleted, may be submitted to our Us via the following email address: contact@bookhint.com.