PRIVACY POLICY - OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY

This site is owned and operated by Recovery Books Online C.C.  Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

INFORMATION GATHERING AND TRACKING
Recovery Books Online C.C. gathers two types of information about users:

Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our reviews, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys;

Information Recovery Books Online C.C. gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Under no circumstances does Recovery Books Online C.C. divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.

Recovery Books Online C.C. Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:

Optional Voluntary Information

We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:

1. Electronic newsletters policy

We offer a free electronic newsletter to users. Recovery Books Online C.C. gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link to the subscription management (“My Account”) page. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.

2. "E-mail this to a friend" policy

Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.

3. Book Reviews

We offer a book review service to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our customers think about the books that they have purchased. Opinions are identifiable to the particular user. Recovery Books Online C.C. reserves the right to edit and/or delete these reviews and/or delete objectionable content.

4. Surveys

Recovery Books Online C.C. may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.

CHILDREN AND MINORS
We will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

USAGE TRACKING
Recovery Books Online C.C. tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. Recovery Books C.C. does break down overall usage statistics according to a users domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every users browser).

Recovery Books Online C.C. sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and dont like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

COOKIES
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can not read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Recovery Books Online C.C. uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you have set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.

USE OF INFORMATION
Recovery Books Online C.C. uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Recovery Books Online C.C. never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and do not like based on traffic to those areas, we do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we do not track which terms a particular user enters.

Recovery Books Online C.C. creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we do not track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Recovery Books Online C.C. uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audiences demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

SECURITY
Recovery Books Online C.C. operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.

OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
• Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.

• Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users

YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Recovery Books Online C.C. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Recovery Books Online C.C. shall take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information of Users. For the purpose of this clause, "personal information" shall be defined as detailed in the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 (PAIA). The PAIA may be downloaded from the www.polity.org.za website.

Recovery Books C.C. may electronically collect, store and use the following personal information of Users:
• name and surname;
• birth date;
• gender;
• country of residence;
• closest city;
• non-personal browsing habits and click patterns;
• e-mail address;
• IP address


Recovery Books Online C.C. collects, stores and uses the abovementioned information for the following purposes:
• to greet the User when he/she accesses the Recovery Books Online C.C. web site;
• subject to the Users consent, inform the User of facts relating to his/her access and use of the Recovery Books Online C.C. website;
• subject to the Users consent, inform the User about competitions and special offers from Recovery Books Online C.C. and/or its partners / affiliates;
• to compile non-personal statistical information about browsing habits, click-patterns and access to the Recovery Books Online C.C. web site.
• to verify the identity of the User when transacting with Recovery Books Online C.C.
• to ensure that the goods are received by the addressee Information detailed above is collected either electronically by using cookies or is provided voluntarily by the User. Users may determine cookie use independently through their browser settings.
• Recovery Books Online C.C. may collect, maintain, save, compile and share any information collected from users, subject to the following provisions:
• Recovery Books Online C.C. shall not disclose personal information from Users unless the User consents thereto;
• Recovery Books Online C.C. shall disclose information without the Users consent only through due legal process; and
• Recovery Books Online C.C. may compile, use and share any information that does not relate to any specific individual.
• Recovery Books Online C.C. owns and retains all rights to non-personal statistical information collected and compiled by Recovery Books C.C..