Who we are
Our website address is: https://elephantsbookshop.com.
Privacy Policy and Disclosures
Privacy Policy
We are committed to protecting your privacy. With your permission, we collect information about you on our website so appropriate products and services can be provided. We do not collect information about you unless you provide it to us by placing an order, submitting a contact form, or subscribing to our newsletter. We do not sell, share or otherwise make available to any third parties any information collected from your use of this website.
If visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Financial Information
We DO NOT collect or store any financial information on or through this site. The Elephant’s Book Shop uses PayPal, the world’s most experienced online payment processor, for credit or debit card purchases. The design of this site and the use of such a third-party payment processor means that all transactions involving financial information for the purpose of making purchases take place entirely on PayPal’s secure servers. The Elephant’s Book Shop never even sees your financial information.
You do not need to have or create a PayPal account. You can use any debit or credit card to make payment, and you are not required to create a PayPal account or save your payment information in order to complete your purchase.
Contact Forms
If visitors use a contact form on the site we collect only the data shown in the contact form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
Cookies
We may use “cookies” to make your visit more enjoyable. A cookie is information that a website puts on your hard disk to record your preferences when using a particular site. Any cookies used by this site will be solely related to your use of this site, and will not collect information from your computer or place any information unrelated to your use of this site on your computer.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Links to other sites
This site contains links to other sites. Some of the sites listed as links herein are not under our control. Accordingly, we make no representation concerning the content on those sites. Our linkage to a site is NOT an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation by us with respect to such site, the content found on that site, or its owners, or its providers. We are providing those links only as a convenience to you. We cannot guarantee the privacy of any information you may provide on such websites. However, you should be advised that we may derive a benefit, financial or otherwise, directly or indirectly, from your decision to follow certain links.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell, share or otherwise make available to any third parties any information collected from your use of this website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
If you leave a comment, submit a contact form, or subscribe to our newletter the content and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments or contacts automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue or classifying them as spam.
If you subscribe to our newsletter you will find an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every newsletter we send, and you can cancel your subscription by unsubscribing at any time. If you “unsubscribe” your email address will be permanently deleted from our mailing list within 48 hours, so it is possible that you might receive one more email from us after you unsubscribe.