Privacy Policy
Books Are Fun™ Book Blast Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, process, disclose, and retain your personal data when you access or use our website. Please review this Privacy Policy carefully. We use this website to collect contributions to buy books for students. This is done through parents/guardians entering email addresses and text number of friends and family, which are then used to request contributions for books for their children. Your privacy is important to us. When you submit information, we collect and use it solely for communication purposes regarding our book drive program. By submitting any information to us, you consent to this Privacy Policy.
Section 1 – Collection and use of your data
When you register and create an account on our website, we collect the personal information you provide to us in connection therewith, such as your name and email address, as well as your child’s name. This information is used to create your account so you may log in, add your child’s name, invite friends and family, and monitor contribution progress. We may collect additional information when you use or interact with our website, such as any information you provide in connection with contribution requests and thank you letters that get sent to contributors, as well as information you submit concerning your child/student.
We collect and use personal data for the following: (i) to provide, administer, deliver, and support the book drive program; (ii) complete your contribution requests; (iii) create and manage your online accounts; (iv) respond to your requests and other communications from you; and (v) comply with any of our legal obligations.
We do not sell any of your data. We do not share any of your data with third parties unless legally required to do so or to protect the rights of us and/or our users, as expressly set forth in Section 4 of this Privacy Policy.
Section 2 - Consent
How do you get my consent? When you provide us with personal information to create an online account, manage your online account, and/or manage your contribution information and preferences, you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only. If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing messages, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.
How do I withdraw my consent? If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time, by contacting us at bookblastsupport@booksarefun.com
You may opt out of receiving promotional and marketing communications from us by following the instructions in those communications or by otherwise changing your communications preferences. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional communications, including communications related to book drive contributions.
Section 3 - Your privacy rights
Depending on where you reside, you may have the right to request to know more about and access your personal data, request deletion of your personal data, and/or request correction of inaccurate personal data. You can make these requests at any time by contacting us at bookblastsupport@bookarefun.com. You can also access, correct, or delete certain of your information stored within your online account at any time by logging into the same and making such changes.
Section 4 - Disclosure
We may disclose your personal data if doing so is necessary to comply with applicable law or legal process, to respond to claims, to enforce or apply our Terms of Service, or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of us, our users, employees, and others.
Book Blast customer service representatives and developers will have access to the personal data you provide as necessary to perform their duties. Your child/student’s school will also have access to the personal data you provide concerning yourself and your child/student.
Additional Information for California Customers:
If you are a resident of California, California law requires us to disclose the following additional information with respect to our collection, use, and disclosure of personal data.
In the preceding twelve months, we have collected the following categories of personal data: identifiers (name, email and phone number).
In the preceding twelve months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal data for business or commercial purposes to the following categories of recipients:
Category of Personal Data: Identifiers
Categories of Recipients: Campaign partners (such as host schools) and contributors.
In the preceding twelve months, we have not sold any personal data.
Section 6 - Security
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.
Like most websites, ours uses cookies to analyze visits to our website and helps us improve our website, services and marketing campaigns. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually set your browser to remove or reject cookies. Please follow your browser’s process for doing so. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could negatively affect the availability and functionality of our website.
Section 7 - Retention of personal data
We retain personal data for periods based on business needs and legal requirements. We store personal data associated with your online account for as long as your account remains active. If you close your account, we will delete your account data within the applicable regulatory timeline. We retain other personal data for as long as necessary for the processing purposes for which we originally collected it and for other business purposes explained in this Privacy Policy.
If you want to obtain a copy of your personal data that we are in possession of, you may submit a request to bookblastsupport@booksarefun.com. If you would like to submit a request for us to delete your personal data that is being retained, you may submit a request to bookblastsupport@booksarefun.com. There may be situations where we cannot grant your request — for example, if you ask us to delete your personal data, or any portion thereof, and we are legally obligated to keep a record of that data to comply with law. We may also decline to grant a request where doing so would undermine our legitimate use of data for anti-fraud and security purposes, such as when you request deletion of an account that is being investigated for security concerns.
Section 8 - Children's Privacy
This Privacy Policy is in accordance with applicable global privacy laws, such as the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (also known as COPPA). By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that your child has provided us with personal data without your consent, please contact us at bookblastsupport@booksarefun.com. If we learn that a child’s personal data was collected without appropriate authorization, it will be deleted as soon as possible.
Section 9 - Changes to this policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
In the event of any corporate transaction whereby we or our assets, including our online store, is acquired by or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to offer products to you.
Questions and Contact Information
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact us at bookblastsupport@booksarefun.com.