Objective
Giants Book Studios is committed to protecting your privacy when you visit our Site(s). We want you to know what information we collect, how we use it, and how you can request that this information is updated or corrected.
The company reserves the right to amend or otherwise can change this Privacy Policy, so please regularly re-visit this page to search for changes. At the top of this text, the date of the last revision is displayed.
Scope
This privacy policy refers to data that we collect or use on websites and applications owned or operated by Giants Book Studios. This policy applies to both online and offline collection, storage, processing, and transfer of Personal Information.
Definitions
As used in this Privacy Policy, the following terms have the following meanings:
"Business Associates" means third-party service providers with whom the Company may contract to provide services on its behalf, including those relating to the Website(s) or transactions on the Website(s), including, but not limited to, social networking, hosting, web analytics, lead generation, academic, business or financial services.
"Financial Information" means specific Personal Information of a financial nature such as your credit card number.
"Information" means any Information collected and includes: "Personal Information", "Financial Information", "Web Analytical Information" or any other information collected from you through our Site(s).
"Marketing Information" means your Web Analytical Information and your Personal information that the Company collects, uses, and discloses for marketing and promotional purposes, such as your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number, as disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
"Personal Information" means information that can be used to classify a single person, alone or in combination, and which includes financial information.
Site" or "Sites" means the Organization's website located at www.giantsbookstudios.com as any other Organization-controlled or authorized Sites (including, without limitation, any Business Associate sites), regardless of the domain name or IP address.
"Social Network", means different Internet networking technologies are provided on websites that facilitate online conversation and interaction between individuals, but not limited to, blogs, discussion boards, wikis, chat sessions, newsgroups, etc.
"Social Network Content" (or "SNC") means the user-generated content that you agree to post through the Social Network includes, but is not limited to, personal information, including digital sounds and photographs that you upload to the Social Network. It also contains your personal information, which can be viewed on the Social Network pages of other users.
"Organization", "we", "us", and "our" refer to the Giants Book Studios.
"Unrelated Entities" means a third party that is not Educational Partners and who are not providing services to Giants Book Studios. as Business Associates.
"Web Analytical Information" means web-generated data that we collect when you visit our sites. Marketing and personal data can be related to this information. If you are connected to any information that uniquely identifies you, either alone or in conjunction with other information, that information may also be called personal information.
Collectable Information
When we speak to you on the phone, we collect different types of information from you through our pages. Any of this information is automatically obtained via various web and internet technologies, including the organization’s social networking tools. Other information is obtained when you provide it in response to an advertising or information request; or if you register or order educational or other products and services, set up a social network or other website profile, or if you want to use one of our learning tests or other interactive resources.
Our Web Analytical Information collection helps us to see how users find and access our Sites, user expectations about the Site or Social Networking Material and informs us which pages users visit more frequently so that we can make our Sites more useful and important. To serve the objectives mentioned in this Privacy Policy, this information may be related to personal information.
Information Collected Automatically
Web analytical information is obtained automatically each time you visit one of our pages. This information does not, in general, identify you directly. Examples of Web Analytical Information include, but are not limited to:
- IP address
- Collection Date
- Publisher Name
- Connection Speed
- Day of Week Time of Day (hour)
- Language settings
- Country, State, DMA, City (relating to IP address, if available)
- Domain (.com, .net, .mil, .org, .edu, etc.)
Use Of Information Marketing
We use marketing information to help us better design our websites and services to meet your needs; to calculate and improve the services and features of our website(s), to interact with you about goods or services that may be of interest to you through e-mail, postal mail, telephone, cellular / mobile phone, PDA devices, and/or on mobile phone applications such as iPhone or Blackberry. (including illegal downloading of copyrighted materials by our Copyright Infringement policy), and to enforce our Terms of Use. To identify and resolve anomalous behavior and to screen content to avoid such violations, such as spam, we often use many technical systems. On occasion, these actions can result in the permanent suspension or termination of the functionality of the Site for some users.
Personal Information
The organization understands that you are demonstrating your confidence in us by choosing to provide us with your personal information, and we take that confidence seriously. Your details will not be sold, rented, or leased to anyone. We may collect, use, and disclose Personal Information for the following purposes:
- to provide requested products and services
- to respond to your inquiries
- to administer promotions to which you have indicated an interest
- for our internal marketing purposes, which includes, but is not limited to, sending you material about products, services, updates, etc. that we think may be of interest to you
- for fostering communication and collaboration among members of the Organization community through Social Networks
- for sharing with our Partners who may contact you concerning their services;
- for sharing with our Partners or Business Associates who are performing services on our behalf
- to analyze how Sites and services are being accessed and used;
- to improve Site and service performance and delivery
- to analyze academic and learning outcomes and preferences
- to analyze risk and business results
- to obtain payment for services that we provide to you
- to maintain business records for reasonable periods
We can use an automated telephone dialing device, artificial or pre-recorded voice messages, or text messages to provide you with various communications following the uses set out above. Also, if you provide us with a cellular, wireless, or mobile telephone number as your contact number, you agree to send us your express consent to accept calls, pre-recorded voice messages, or text messages relating to your registration using an automated dial-up device. Please provide us with a LAN-based telephone number if you do not wish to receive these updates on your cellular or mobile phone.
Financial Information
Your financial information will be used to provide the goods and services required, to evaluate operational and business outcomes, to analyze risk, and to conclude your registration or other transaction with us that you have initiated. Except in the case of a reorganization, merger, or sale of our shares or assets, it will not be sold, leased, or otherwise transferred to an Educational Partner, Business Associate, or Unrelated Entity outside of that intent. To protect your credit card information sent to us over the Internet, we use Stable Socket Layer (SSL) 128-bit encryption. No one, not even our staff members, can access your credit card details.
Opt-Out
Subject to contractual, academic, legal, or technological restrictions and fair notice, you may opt-out of our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information at any time. Notice that we will no longer be able to deliver these goods or services if you opt-out of certain uses of your personal information. For instance, but not limited to, educational announcements, maintaining a reasonable academic, business, and transaction records and disclosures to government agencies as needed for us to comply with applicable laws, you may not be allowed to opt-out of such essential sets, uses, and disclosures.
You may choose not to receive marketing messages from us any longer and, where indicated in the relevant email or other correspondence, you may express your preference. However, please notice that such a request would only remove you from our list and the list of any services rendered on our behalf by a Business Associate. We are not responsible for the use of the information by any other individual after it has been transferred in compliance with this Policy, and you will need to contact that organization to delete the information from their database.
Subject to contractual, academic, legal, or technological limitations and fair notice, you can change various user settings related to the sharing of your Personal Information contained in any user profile that you set up as part of the Social Network activities supported by us. Remember that your withdrawal from the activities of the Social Network may prevent us from providing those products or services to you.
Security Measures
To safeguard against the loss, misuse, and modification of the information under our control, we will take commercially fair steps to secure and store your information. When accepting your credit card details during the online ordering process, and if we ask you to log in to any of our pages, we use industry-standard security measures.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the web can be assumed to be entirely free. As a consequence, while we will use certain precautions, we do not guarantee that the loss, misuse, or modification of the information under our control will be avoided and that you will supply us with information at your own risk. You should always take care of how your personal information is managed and released and avoid sending personal information through unsecured e-mail, social networks, or other web channels.
Monitoring Communications
For the training of our representatives and quality assurance purposes, we can track and maintain all incoming and outgoing communications. To the degree that such communications are chosen, they shall be kept only for as long as required for the satisfactory discharge of such purposes, unless, for legal reasons, particular communications need to be kept. Please notify your representative if you want your correspondence not to be kept for any cause.
Usage Of Internet Technology
On our websites, cookies, web beacons, and other related internet technologies are used to allow us to make the above-mentioned uses, to deliver messaging to the websites, and to keep track of your information. Your computer and browser contain these tiny pieces of program code and they can be deleted. You can do so if you want to uninstall those technologies, but this may make our sites unusable for you. By disabling these features in your browser software, you can opt-out of cookies or other Internet technologies used. For help with modifying cookie settings or deleting cookie files, consult your browser's Help menu.
Children's Privacy
We are very sensitive to the problem of privacy for children. Our websites are not designed for or aimed at children under 13 years of age. You can email us or delete it directly if you feel that your child has provided us with Personal Details or registered on one of our Websites and would like to have these details deleted.
Links From Our Sites To Other Sites
Our Business Associates can host some of our websites or contain links to external websites hosted by partners and unrelated entities. When you visit these websites or external websites, website providers may have access to your personal information and may apply their policies on the use of your personal information. Please make sure you carefully read the policies of any places you visit on the internet. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any websites or external websites that we do not directly monitor and that Partners, Business Associates, and Unrelated Organizations will be subject to the policies applicable to these other websites or external websites to gather, use and publish information about you.
Privacy Policy Changes
Giants Book Studios. This Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time or revised. If you are worried about the use or disclosure of your details, you can contact us as mentioned below or regularly check back on this website to obtain an updated copy of this Privacy Policy. To access the latest edition, we advise you to revisit this Privacy Policy regularly. Your continued provision of Personal Information or use of our services following any alteration to this Privacy Policy constitutes your approval of such modifications. If we plan to use information that defines you individually in a way that is materially different from what we said at the time it was obtained, we will try to contact you at least 30 days in advance. You will be given a choice as to whether or not information that was previously submitted can be used in a new way.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our Services or our privacy policy? Please contact us at:
Note: It is strictly illegal to use stolen credit cards and it is considered a serious crime. We work in close collaboration to fight cybercrime and make sure that all fraudulent orders are reported to the Federal and State Agencies.
