Privacy Policy
Last updated: May 1, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how BookDeals.pro ("we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit our website bookdeals.pro (the "Website") or use our services.
By using the Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including:
- Personal Data: When you create an account, we collect your name, email address, and password. If you choose to provide it, we may also collect your postal address, phone number, and payment information.
- Book Preferences: Information about books you're interested in, including titles you've searched for, added to your watchlist, or clicked on.
- Usage Data: Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
- Device Information: Information about your computer, internet connection, and browser, including your IP address, browser type, and operating system.
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our Website and services
- Create and manage your account
- Track book prices on your watchlist and send you price alerts
- Improve, personalize, and expand our Website and services
- Understand and analyze how you use our Website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you about our services, including sending you alerts, updates, and marketing messages (if you've opted in)
- Process transactions and send related information, including confirmations and receipts
- Find and prevent fraud
We may share your personal information in the following circumstances:
- Affiliate Marketing: As an affiliate partner with booksellers like AbeBooks and others, when you click on a link to a retailer from our site, certain information may be shared with that retailer to track your visit from our site.
- Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, and other contractors that we use to support our business.
- Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
- With Your Consent: We may share your information for any other purpose with your consent.
We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amounts of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly and cannot be switched off in our systems.
- Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features.
- Analytics cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our Website by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
- Advertising and affiliate cookies: These cookies are used to track visits from our Website to affiliate partners' websites. They are placed by our affiliate partners (like AbeBooks) and help us earn commissions on purchases you make after clicking a link on our site.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Website.
5. Third-Party Websites
Our Website contains links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a link to a third-party website, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
6. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
If you request deletion of your account, we will delete your personal information, but may retain anonymized usage data for analytical purposes.
7. Data Security
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
8. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:
- Access: You can request copies of your personal information.
- Correction: You can ask us to correct inaccurate personal information and complete incomplete personal information.
- Deletion: You can ask us to delete your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Restriction: You can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Objection: You can object to our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Data Portability: You can ask that we transfer your personal information to another organization or to you in certain circumstances.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided in the "Contact Us" section.
9. Children's Privacy
Our Website is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can take necessary actions.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
Email: privacy@bookdeals.pro
Address: 24 Beach Road, Weston-super-Mare, BS23 1BA, United Kingdom