Privacy
Effective November, 2010
DynamicBooks respects your concerns about privacy and value
the relationship
we have with you.
We offer web-based products and services to
adopting instructors and students A user account is necessary to get
support for
these products and services. To create a user account, you
will need
to enter your name and e-mail address. You will also need to
establish
a password of your choosing. We may require additional
information
to confirm your status as an instructor or student, e.g., your
school
name and location, course information, including the
textbook you
are using, and a telephone number where we can contact you.
In addition,
you may choose to provide optional information (e.g., your
areas of
interest), which will allow us to serve you better.
Protection of information entered is controlled
by password systems that depend upon both instructors and
students
keeping their passwords secure. In the event that providing
technical
or user support requires accessing student work to diagnose
or fix
the problem, DynamicBooks will only take that step with permission
from the
student and/or instructor involved.
From time to time we may run sweepstakes, contests or
other promotions on our websites. If you choose to
participate, we
may request your contact and other information in connection
with
the promotion.
We may ask visitors to our websites to complete online
surveys and opinion polls on a variety of topics, such as
their activities,
attitudes, and interests, and our products and services.
These surveys
help us understand the needs of our visitors.
You may choose to contact us through our website. If
you e-mail us comments or questions, we will have your
e-mail address,
as well as any other information you choose to provide.
We also use log files to collect certain aggregate
information about website use, such as how many users visited our site, the
average
time spent on the site and the pages viewed. By collecting
this information,
we learn how best to tailor our websites to our visitors.
While we
generally examine such information only in the aggregate,
such information
could be linked back to individual IP addresses. In
addition, if you
are a registered user of one of our websites, this
information will
be associated with your user name or id.
We may also contact you as a user of one of our products to: ask
you to serve
as a reviewer; to request an appointment with you at your campus
or at a
conference to talk about an existing or planned product; and other
similar
kinds of feedback and discussion. We may also use the information
we collect to
send you information or products we think may be of interest to
you, and to
customize our contacts with you.
We may use some of the information we collect to analyze website use
and to do other internal analyses, such as market research, that
will allow us
to better meet the needs of our customers.
We do not sell, rent, trade or otherwise disclose personal
information about
our Web site visitors, except as described here. If we describe
more limited
sharing practices in connection with your use of a specific
product or service
anywhere on our Web sites, those more limited practices will apply
as to that
product or service only. We may share the information you provide
with
companies that are related to DynamicBooks through common ownership. We
also share
information provided by our Web site visitors with service
providers we have
retained to perform services on our behalf. In addition, we may
share
information about you with non-affiliated third parties whose
products or
services may be of interest to you. These third parties may
contact you about
their products and services. We will not share your information
with these
third parties for their own marketing purposes if you request that
we not do
so. We may, however, engage in joint marketing activities, such as
contests or
promotions, with selected third parties and may share personal
information
about our Web site visitors with them. In addition, we may
disclose information
about you (i) if we are required to do so by law, (ii) in response
to legal
process, (iii) to law enforcement authorities or other government
officials, or
(iv) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to
prevent physical
harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of
suspected or
actual illegal activity.
We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you
in the event
we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets.
Should such a
sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to
ensure that
the transferee uses personal information you have provided through
this website in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice.
We provide links to other websites for your convenience. These sites may operate independently from DynamicBooks, and may not be
under our
control. These sites may have their own privacy notices in place,
which we
strongly suggest you review if you visit any linked websites. We
may not be
responsible for the content of these sites, any products or
services that may
be offered through these sites, or the privacy practices of these
sites.
We use administrative, technical and physical safeguards to
protect information
in our possession and control against foreseeable hazards. Please
note,
however, that perfect security does not exist on the Internet.
We may change or update portions of this Privacy Notice at any
time and without
prior notice to you. Please check back from time to time so you
are aware of
any changes or updates to the Notice. We will indicate above the
effective date
of the Notice.
