Privacy Notice

Our Privacy Policy

Whyrentbooks.com has been created to save students on one of the most expensive part of going to school, while also preserving the environment. Since students are submitting personal information to obtain materials or purchases, we focus to ensure that user created privacy is strictly adhered.

We work hard to earn and keep your trust, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy: We will never commercially profit by selling or renting out information that personally identifies you to third parties for marketing purposes.

Any sensitive information that you provide will be secured with all industry standard protocols and technology.

Notice of all changes that materially affect ways in which your personally identifiable data may be used or shared will be posted in updates to our Privacy Policy. If you continue to use the Whyrentbooks.com service after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices

Please read this privacy policy to learn more about:

What personally identifiable information of yours is collected by Whyrentbooks.com. How the information is used. With whom the information may be shared. How you can access and change your Account information.

What security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information collected by Whyrentbooks.com.

How to contact us:

If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact Whyrentbooks.com by email at privacy@Whyrentbooks.com.

Information Collection:

In order to become a Whyrentbooks.com user, you must first create an account on this web site. To create an account you are required to provide the following contact information: name, email address, ZIP/postal code, and choose a password.

In order to use Whyrentbooks.com, you may be entering school/class information that will help you find the textbooks you are looking for. Any school information is in the public/private section; however, your profile information will only be provided as authorized by you in the private section of Whyrentbooks.com.

Once a user, you may provide additional information in the Profile section describing your contact information, privacy filters and student information. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself and helps Whyrentbooks.com find you the textbooks you want.

Cookies & Log Files:

Like most web sites, Whyrentbooks.com uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows Whyrentbooks.com to recognize you as a user when you return to our site using the same computer and web browser. Unfortunately, if your browser settings do not allow cookies, you will not be able to use our website. Like the information you enter at registration or in your Profile, cookie and log file data is used to customize your experience on the web site.

One type of cookie, known as a "persistent" cookie, is set once you've logged in to your Whyrentbooks.com account. The next time you visit the Whyrentbooks.com web site, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing user so you will not need to log in before using the service. Additionally, if you log out of the Whyrentbooks.com site you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account. This cookie also functions as a "session" cookie and is used to identify a particular visit to the Whyrentbooks.com site. Session cookies sections expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.

Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the Whyrentbooks web site, we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave Whyrentbooks.com. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the Whyrentbooks.com service. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is never shared with third-parties without your permission or except when required by law.

Web Beacons:

We allow other companies, called ad networks, to serve advertisements to Whyrentbooks.com public or private users. Ad networks include third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms. Whyrentbooks.com may "target" some ads to users that fit a certain general profile - for example, "engineering students at Stanford University." Whyrentbooks.com does NOT use personally identifiable information to target ads.

To deliver these ads properly, Whyrentbooks.com may include a file, called a web beacon, from these ad networks within pages served by Whyrentbooks.com so the networks may provide anonymized, aggregated auditing, research and reporting for advertisers as well as to target ads to you while you visit other websites

Because your web browser must request these advertisements and web beacons from the ad network's servers, these companies can view, edit or set their own cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site.

These general targets may also be used by ad networks to display targeted ads on other websites as a substitute for random, irrelevant ads. You will never see additional ads as a result of being a Whyrentbooks user and Whyrentbooks.com never provides personally identifiable information to any advertiser nor any third party.

Students under the age of 18:

Students under the age are not eligible to use our service and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us or use the service. For students who are entering college younger than the age of 18, please have your parents fill out a Parental Consent Form.

Whyrentbooks Communications:

Whyrentbooks.com will communicate with you through email and notices posted on this website. These include a series of up to three welcome emails which help inform new users about various features of the service. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from Whyrentbooks.com related to the proper functioning of your account, such as email notices when another user in your network sends you an opportunity. Whyrentbooks may send you promotional information unless you have opted out of receiving such information. If you wish to opt-out of receiving promotional emails, please send a request to opt-out@Whyrentbooks.com

Customized Content:

Information you provide at registration or in your Profile section is also used to customize your experience on the web site. For example, when you login to your account we will display the screen names of new items that have recently posted for your campus.

Information Sharing

Sharing Information With Third Parties:

Whyrentbooks.com takes the privacy of our users very seriously. We will never sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to any third parties for marketing purposes. We will only share your personally identifiable with third parties to carry out your instructions and to provide specific services. For instance, we use a credit card processing company to bill users for subscription fees. These third parties do not retain, share, or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and are bound by strict confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information.

We may provide aggregated data about the usage of our services to third-parties for such purposes as we deem, in our sole discretion, to be appropriate. We may segment our users by status (i.e. Freshmen, Sophomore, Juniors, Seniors, etc), major, geographic location, university. If you would like to be excluded from the aggregated research or products based upon aggregated data about our users' activities on the site, please email customer service.

Partnering with Other Organizations to Offer Combined Services:

Whyrentbooks.com may partner with other online services to give you the combined results of both services. Whenever we offer such combined services it will be your choice to make use of the combined services or not. In these cases, your personally identifiable information will only be passed from Whyrentbooks.com to the partner if you choose to use the combined service.

Communications Between User and Merchant:

Many emails you initiate through Whyrentbooks.com, an dispute email sent to a merchant for instance, will list your email address and name in the header of the message. Other communications that you initiate through the Whyrentbooks.com website, like a request for contact, will list your name as the initiator but will not include your personal contact information. Your contact information will only be shared to provide shipping labels for the merchant.

Legal Disclaimer:

It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.

Accessing and Changing Your Account Information:

You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to the information, or to the settings for your Whyrentbooks.com account, at any time by logging in to your account on the Whyrentbooks.com website and editing the information on your Profile page. If you close your Whyrentbooks.com account, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our publicly viewable data. We may retain certain data contributed by you if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained data will continue to be subject to the terms of the Whyrentbooks.com Privacy Policy that you have previously agree to. To request that we close your account and remove your information from the Whyrentbooks.com service, please send your request to customerservice@Whyrentbooks.com. Please send your request using an email account that you have registered with Whyrentbooks.com under your name. You will receive a response to requests sent to customerservice@Whyrentbooks.com within five business days of our receiving it.

Security:

In order to secure your personal credit information, all communications between you and the Google Checkout or Paypal website (our payment partners) or our credit card merchants are protected through secure socket layer (SSL) encryption.

Changes to this Privacy Policy:

Whyrentbooks.com may update this privacy policy. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display a notice on this site. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Questions or Comments:

If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@Whyrentbooks.com or contact us at:

Attn: Privacy Policy Issues
Whyrentbooks.com
1828 Schenectady Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11234
(866) 557-6411