Who we
are:
Book Club Network Net is a place
where people who love Book Club Network can
find all of Book Club Network picks listed
in order by year, alphabetically by title,
or by author for easy reference. Oprah's
Book Club Net is also a place where Book
Club members can share their thoughts and
views about Oprah, Oprah's Books, and other
issues related to the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Oprahs Book Club Net is privately owned and
is not affiliated with Oprah Winfrey, the
Oprah Winfrey Show or oprah.com in any way.
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complete a transaction with our company,
such as making a purchase,
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some of the affiliate companies Oprah's Book
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or other personal information. If, by
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orders, delivering packages, sending
postal mail and e-mail, removing
repetitive information from customer
lists, analyzing data, providing
marketing assistance, providing search
results and links (including paid
listings and links), processing credit
card payments, and providing customer
service. They have access to personal
information needed to perform their
functions, but may not use it for other
purposes.
- Business Transfers: As we
continue to develop our business, we
might sell or buy stores, subsidiaries,
or business units. In such transactions,
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otherwise). Also, in the unlikely event
that BookClubNetwork.Net, or
substantially all of its assets are
acquired, customer information will of
course be one of the transferred assets.
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and Affiliated Companies: We release
account and other personal information
when we believe release is appropriate
to comply with the law; enforce or apply
our Conditions of Use and other
agreements; or protect the rights,
property, or safety of
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others. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and
organizations for fraud protection and
credit risk reduction. Obviously,
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renting, sharing, or otherwise
disclosing personally identifiable
information from customers for
commercial purposes in violation of the
commitments set forth in this Privacy
Notice.
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as set out above, you will receive
notice when information about you might
go to third parties, and you will have
an opportunity to choose not to share
the information.
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About Third-Party Advertisers and Links to
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to other websites. We do not provide any
personally identifiable customer information
to these advertisers or third-party
websites. These third-party websites and
advertisers, or Internet advertising
companies working on their behalf, sometimes
use technology to send (or "serve") the
advertisements that appear on our website
directly to your browser. They automatically
receive your IP address when this happens.
They may also use cookies, JavaScript, web
beacons (also known as action tags or
single-pixel gifs), and other technologies
to measure the effectiveness of their ads
and to personalize advertising content. We
do not have access to or control over
cookies or other features that they may use,
and the information practices of these
advertisers and third-party websites are not
covered by this Privacy Notice. Please
contact them directly for more information
about their privacy practices. In addition,
the Network Advertising Initiative offers
useful information about Internet
advertising companies (also called "ad
networks" or "network advertisers"),
including information about how to opt-out
of their information collection.
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much as you like without ever providing
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be asked for personal information, such
as address and credit card information,
once you've decided to make a purchase
in a secure shopping cart, or to
participate in online discussion forums.
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information, even though it might be
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to sell products for purchase by children.
We may, however, offer children's products
for purchase by adults. If you are under 18,
you may use BookClubNetwork.Net only with the
supervision of a parent or guardian.
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If you choose to visit BookClubNetwork.Net,
your visit and any dispute over privacy is
subject to this Notice, including
limitations on damages, arbitration of
disputes, and application of the law of the
state of Washington. If you have any concern
about privacy at BookClubNetwork.Net, please
contact us
and we will try to resolve it.
Our business changes constantly, and our
Privacy Notice will change also. You should
check our Web site frequently to see recent
changes. Unless stated otherwise, our
current Privacy Notice applies to all
information that we have about you and your
account. We stand behind the promises we
make, however, and will never materially
change our policies and practices to make
them less protective of customer information
collected in the past without the consent of
affected customers.
Examples of Information Collected
Information You Give Us
When you search, buy, bid, post,
participate in a contest or questionnaire,
or communicate with customer service, you
may provide personal information to
BookClubNetwork.Net. For example, you provide
information when you search for a product;
place an order through Amazon.com or one of
our third-party sellers; make an Auction bid
or purchase on eBay.com; communicate with us
by phone, e-mail, or otherwise; complete a
questionnaire or a contest entry form;
participate in Discussion Boards or other
community features. As a result of those
actions, you might supply us with such
information as your name, address, and phone
numbers; credit card information; people to
whom purchases have been shipped, including
addresses and phone number; and financial
information.
Automatic Information
Examples of the information we collect
and analyze include the Internet protocol
(IP) address used to connect your computer
to the Internet; login; e-mail address;
password; computer and connection
information such as browser type and
version, operating system, and platform;
purchase history, which we sometimes
aggregate with similar information from
other customers to create features such as
Purchase Circles and Top Sellers; the full
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream
to, through, and from our Web site,
including date and time; cookie number;
products you viewed or searched for; zShops
you visited; your Auction history; and the
phone number you used to call our 800
number. During some visits we may use
software tools such as JavaScript to measure
and collect session information, including
page response times, download errors, length
of visits to certain pages, page interaction
information (such as scrolling, clicks, and
mouse-overs), and methods used to browse
away from the page.
Information from Other Sources
Examples of information we receive from
other sources include updated delivery and
address information from our carriers or
other third parties, which we use to correct
our records and deliver your next purchase
or communication more easily; account
information, purchase or redemption
information, and page-view information from
some merchants with which we operate
co-branded businesses or for which we
provide technical, fulfillment, advertising,
or other services; search term and search
result information from some searches
conducted through the Web search features
offered by our subsidiaries, search results
and links, including paid listings (such as
Sponsored Links from Google); and credit
history information from credit bureaus,
which we use to help prevent and detect
fraud and to offer certain credit or
financial services to some customers.
Third-Party Advertisers and Links to
Other Websites
Examples of third-party advertisers and
advertising companies that you can link to
from the
BookClubNetwork.Net website or that serve
advertising content directly to your browser
on certain
BookClubNetwork.Net pages include
Google and ClixGalore. You can find out
more about their information collection and
use practices, including how to opt out of
cookies and other collection techniques that
they use, by clicking on the links in their
websites.
Affiliate Companies and Joint
Offerings
Examples of businesses with which we are
affiliated with include but are note limited
to; Amazon.com, Assoicate-o-Matic,
eDiets.com, eBay.com and other stores.