For security reasons, our website deletes customer data and information every 3 months. After downloading the e-book, please store it in a safe place on your device.

Collection of personal information

“Personal Information” is any information or a combination of pieces of information that can reasonably permit you to be identified, or that can reasonably be linked to you. Information that is aggregated or de-identified so it is no longer reasonably associated with an identified or identifiable natural person is not Personal Information and may be used for any business purpose.

We collect Personal Information about you from a variety of sources. We collect information from you directly (e.g., when you contact us or create an account with us), automatically, (e.g., data collected via cookies and similar technologies when you use the E-books Services), and from other sources, including commercially available sources, such as public databases (where permitted by law).

For example, we collect, process and use your Personal Information when you:

• register for a E-books Account or log into an existing account;
• interact with the E-books Services;
• order products or content from us;
• use the E-books Services to access electronic content; or
• contact us for customer care.

Registration and account information

When you create an account, you voluntarily provide us with certain Personal Information, such as your email address, and password.

Profile information

You may also complete an optional registration profile, which may include your name, gender, birth date, contact phone number and any additional optional information you choose to provide.

Payment information

We collect your payment information when you purchase e-content or sign up for subscription-based services.

Communications

We may also collect information you provide in your communications to us, such as when you respond to polls or surveys, write a review, or contact us with a question, comment, or request. You may choose to provide us with certain information when you upload e-content to the Services as a member of E-books Writing Life, fill out a form, submit a request to our customer care team, respond to a survey, submit ratings and reviews or participate in promotions or contests.

Information we collect from your use of the E-books Services.

Usage information

We collect Personal Information when you use or otherwise interact with the E-books Services. For example, we collect information about how you use the E-books Services, such as pages you view, the rate at which you consume e-content (how often and for how long), genres, authors or subject matter you prefer and searches you make or share, the ebooks or audiobooks you have liked, comments you have left and also websites you have viewed through links in the comments. We collect this information across the various devices, applications, and other tools via which you access and interact with the E-books Services.

Device information

We collect certain technical information about your device – such as your IP address, device type, device model and manufacturer, device identifier and your device operating system type and version.

Transactional information

We automatically collect certain information about your transactions on the Services such as amount charged, date and time, and use of promotions.

Information we collect from other sources.

We may receive additional information about you from third party service providers and/or retail partners, such as demographic data, your activities on and off the E-books Services through partnerships and our third-party advertisers. We may supplement the information we collect with information received from data suppliers and commercially available resources (e.g. demographic information and additional contact information).

Additionally, we may draw inferences about your preferences and characteristics from any of your Personal Information that we collect to develop a record of your potential preferences, characteristics, predispositions, behaviour, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. We may automatically process your personal information to make decisions or conduct ‘profiling’ about you. This involves using software that is able to evaluate your personal aspects and predict risks or outcomes. We may carry out this automatic processing, for example, for the purposes of customer segmentation and pricing, and may involve decisions about you that relate to, for example, your browsing preferences. We may also make automated decisions about you based on your personal information in order to select personalized offers, discounts or recommendations to send you based on your shopping history, browsing history, preferences, or reviews. These types of decisions will not have legal or similar effects for you, but you can still contact us for further information.

Registration through third parties

We provide you with the option to sign in to the E-books Services using an account you already have with another provider (such as: Facebook, Google or Rakuten ID).

Categories of information we collect.

The information we collect via the methods described above includes:

• Identifiers: For example, your name, email address, postal address, username, IP address, and online identifiers.
• Demographics: Such as your age and gender.
• Transactional information: Such as the products you purchase, access, or review; subscriptions; payment methods; and discount programs.
• Online activities: For example, browsing and search history; interactions with web or other digital content; whether you open, interact with, or forward our electronic communications; and how you interact with advertisements offered by us or third parties.
• Billing location information: Based on the information you provide or inferred from your IP address, to ensure we have the right to sell you the books you wish to purchase .
• Inferences: As noted above, we may use the information we collect to identify your potential preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behaviours, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

Children under 16 years of age.

Users must be at least 16 years old or older to register for a E-books Account to use the E-books Services. E-books does not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that E-books has in its database the Personal Information of a child under the age of 16, please contact us at [email protected] and we will use our best efforts to remove the information from our records.

How and why we use the information we collect.

We may use your Personal Information for the following purposes:

• Identification and authentication: We use your identifiers to verify your identity when you access your account and to ensure the security of your Personal Information;
• Operating the E-books Services: We process your Personal Information to provide you with access to the E-books Services and to process your transactions, as you have requested. We use Personal Information, such as your location to identify whether content is available in your region. And we use information to provide and improve the E-books Services, identify and troubleshoot errors, and analyze the E-books Services;
• Managing your account: We use Personal Information to create, maintain, and monitor your account.
• Improving the E-books Services: We analyze information about how you use the E-books Services to provide an improved experience for all users;
• Communicating with you: We may use your Personal Information to communicate with you, for example if we are providing information about changes to the terms and conditions, to issue security alerts or reminders, or if you contact us with questions;
• Marketing: We may use your Personal Information to learn about the interests of our customers, to build a profile about you and place you into particular marketing segments, and to identify the devices you use to access digital content and the E-books Services in order to understand your preferences better and to appropriately personalize the marketing messages we send to you. We may also use your identifiers to send you marketing communications about the E-books Services and other products or services that may be of interest to you, subject to any consent that may be required under applicable law. This may include information regarding services and offers associated with (i) our affiliates (within the Rakuten Group) and (ii) our retail partners (collectively, “third party business partners”). We will not require you to consent to receive marketing as a condition of receiving the E-books Services, and you may withdraw any consent you have provided at any time;
• Personalized Advertising and Re-marketing: E-books uses Personal Information to: (1) serve you with targeted advertising that may interest you based on your device activity and inferred interests (2) measure the effectiveness of targeted advertising, and (3) understand the usage of our Services. E-books’s third party advertisers may use Personal Information (such as cookies, platform device identifiers, software agents, and IP address), to deliver targeted advertisements, measure their effectiveness, and to understand the usage and visitation of our Services and the other applications and websites tracked by these companies. We do not have access to or control over cookies, platform device identifiers, software agents, or other technologies that they may use. You can manage your consent to how such data is collected and how E-books shares Personal Information for re-marketing or re-targeting advertising using the Privacy Controls and Preference Centre here.;
• Managing contests: From time to time, E-books may invite you to enter various contests or promotions. If you choose to participate in a contest or promotion, your Personal Information may be used to administer the contest, as specified in applicable terms.
• Exercising our rights: We may use your Personal Information to exercise or protect our legal rights where it is necessary to do so, for example to detect, prevent and respond to fraud claims, intellectual property infringement claims or violations of law or our terms and conditions, to respond to requests from law enforcement or other third parties, and to secure the E-books Services;
• Complying with our obligations: We may process your Personal Information to comply with legal or regulatory requirements, where this is required by law, such as in response to court orders or to comply with privacy or financial regulations;
• Customizing your experience: When you use the E-books Services, we may use your Personal Information to improve your experience, such as by providing interactive or personalized elements and providing you with content based on your interests; and
• Protecting against harm: We may use Personal Information as necessary to protect the rights and safety of us, you, or others.

In addition, we may link together your activity across the E-books Services and the devices you use to access them along with the accounts you may use across Rakuten services. We may associate your activities and accounts under a single Rakuten ID. And we combine information we have about you with information we obtain from business or retail partners or other companies, such as your activities on other sites and apps.

How we may share the information we collect with others.

We may disclose certain Personal Information with service providers, business partners or affiliates, or by selling it to third parties where such sales are compliant with applicable law. As used in this Policy, the “sale” of Personal Information refers to sharing your Personal Information

In association with our personalized advertising and re-marketing activities, we may share Personal Information with advertisers, digital advertising companies, and other entities that support digital advertising activities. These third parties may have rights to use the information noted below for their own purposes, which is why we treat such a disclosure as a sale, even though no money changes hands.

• Identifiers: For example, your name, email address, postal address, username, IP address, and online identifiers.
• Demographics: Such as your age and gender.
• Online activities: For example, interactions with web or other digital content; whether you open, interact with, or forward our electronic communications; and how you interact with advertisements offered by us or third parties.

Personal Information we Disclose

To support our business purposes, we disclose your Personal Information to service providers and business partners who are data processors. We disclose your Personal Information with our service providers that perform business services and/or operations on our behalf or under our instructions.

For example, we may partner with other companies to process secure payments, provide authentication services, optimize E-books Services, fulfill orders, perform analytics, send our newsletters and marketing emails, support email and messaging services, administer our promotions, provide targeted advertising services as a processor to E-books, and provide sweepstakes, contests, and surveys. Some of our service providers or business partners may engage their own service providers or business partners to further assist us. Unless otherwise specified, we require these companies to use Personal Information only for the purposes described in this Policy.

Law enforcement agencies, courts, regulators and government authorities

We may share the information we collect, including Personal Information, with law enforcement or to otherwise comply with any statutory or regulatory requirement or the order of a court or other public authority agency, regulator, government authority or other third party where we believe this is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights or the rights of any third party.

In the context of a transaction

We may share the information we collect, including Personal Information, with any third party that purchases, or to which we transfer, all or substantially all of our assets and business. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to ensure that the entity to which we transfer your Personal Information uses it in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Your choices and your rights over your Personal Information.

If you are visiting a E-books website from the EEA or any other jurisdiction with laws similar to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you may have certain rights, in accordance with applicable domestic law and limitations, including:

• Right to restrict our use of your Personal Information;
• Right to rectify the Personal Information we hold about you;
• Right to access Personal Information: Users exercising this right may request access to the categories and specific pieces of their Personal Information we hold;
• Right to data portability: Users exercising this right may receive their Personal Information in a usable electronic format and transmit it to a third party;
• Right to object to our use of your Personal Information;
• Right to disclosure: Users exercising this right can receive additional information regarding the sources from which we collect information, the purposes for which we collect and share Personal Information, the information of theirs we hold, and the categories of parties with whom we share their information;

Additional Rights of California, USA residents

• Right to opt-out of sales: You may register your opt-out (Do Not Sell My Personal Information) by using the opt-out function at the bottom of our website pages.
• Right to know about processing of Personal Information: If you reside in California, USA, you may request that we inform you of the categories of Personal Information we have collected about you; the categories of sources from which we collected the information; our purpose for collecting or selling the information; and the categories of third parties with which we share personal information.
• Right to learn about certain disclosures: If you reside in California, USA and have provided your personally-identifiable information to us, you may request information once per calendar year about our disclosures of certain categories of your personally identifiable information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to us in writing at the following email address: [email protected]; and
• Right to be free from discrimination: California residents may freely exercise these rights without fear of being denied goods or services. We may, however, provide a different level of service or charge a different rate reasonably relating to the value of your data.

You may in some cases have the option to decline providing us information. However, your choice to not provide information may impact your use of certain features or services. You may also have other rights in relation to your Personal Information under local law. In the event you reside in such a jurisdiction and would like to exercise one of your rights, please contact us at [email protected]. Please note that we may require additional information from you in order to honour your request, and we may decline your request as permitted under applicable law.

If contacting us does not resolve your complaint, you may have the right to make a complaint to your data protection authority (if one exists in your country).

User rights

You can unsubscribe or opt-out of receiving marketing communications from Us in your settings by clicking “Account Settings” under “My Account” once logged into your E-books account. Or you can click the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of an automatic email. You can also deactivate your E-books Account at https://www.etextzone.com/help/deactivateaccount. Please note that even if you opt-out of receiving marketing communication, we may continue to send you non-marketing emails and other types of communications, as permitted by law, such as response to your support requests, or service email relating to your account.

You can change information about your account by connecting to your E-books Account and modifying the information listed in the “Account Settings” function at www.etextzone.com. Some of this information is optional and you are not required to provide it to us, however other information such as payment information is required for E-books to be able to provide you with our services. You are not required to provide any information to us that is unnecessary to provide the E-books Services.

You may control the use of cookies at the browser level. If you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our Services. For more information on how we use cookies and how you can manage them please see our Cookie Policy.

Third party Websites.

The E-books Services may contain links to websites not owned or controlled by E-books. We encourage you to be aware of these other third-party websites and their privacy statements, as we cannot control and are not responsible for privacy policies or practices of third-party websites. This Privacy Policy applies solely to the information collected by E-books. Please review the Terms of Use for more information.

Do Not Track Signals.

We do not currently respond to web browser “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that provide a method to opt out of the collection of information across websites or other online services. If we do so in the future, we will update this privacy policy.

Security and Data Retention.

We care about the security of your Personal Information. We deploy administrative, technical, and physical measures designed to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk to the Personal Information we collect. We evaluate these safeguards on an ongoing basis to help minimize risks from new security threats as they become known. However, no information system can be 100% secure. Moreover, we are not responsible for the security of information you transmit to us over networks that we do not control, including the Internet and wireless networks. We need your help too: it is your responsibility to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate and we encourage you to ensure that your password is unique, secure and not shared with third parties.

We retain the information collected via the E-books Services for as long as we have a relationship with you, and until such time as you choose to close your E-books Account. After that time, we will only retain your Personal Information if we are required to do so to comply with local law, or if there are outstanding claims or complaints that will reasonably require your Personal Information to be retained. We may also anonymize and aggregate the data and retain the data in that form for analytical purposes.

Changes to this Privacy Policy.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The effective date of the current Privacy Policy is noted at the top of this page. We may notify you in writing where we materially change these terms, for example, by posting a banner on the Services, however we encourage you to periodically review this page for updated terms.

How to contact us.

If you would like to contact us with questions about our privacy or data protection practices, please contact us at [email protected]

E-books (“E-books,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) maintain our websites including etextzone.com, etextzone.com, and our other related websites, mobile applications, eReaders, and other services (collectively, the “Services”). We, along with our vendors, use a variety of technologies to learn more about how people use the Services. You can find out more about these technologies and how to control them in the information below and by reviewing our Privacy Policy here.

Cookies & Other Tracking Technologies: How We Use Them

Like most companies, we use cookies and similar technologies such as cookie IDs and settings, and tracker software tools (“cookies”).

We may use cookies for a variety of purposes and to enhance your online experience, for example, by remembering your log-in status.

We use both session and persistent tracking technologies. Tracking technologies can either be persistent (i.e., they remain on your computer until you delete them) or temporary (i.e., they last only until you close your browser).

We also use first and third-party cookies. First party cookies are used and controlled by us to provide services for the Services. Third-party cookies are controlled by third-parties, mostly for analytics purposes.

We and our third-party service providers or business partners may collect information about you automatically through the use of cookies and similar technologies, including information over time and across different websites or online services. We may collect such information when you access content, advertising, sites, interactive widgets, applications, and other products (both on and off of our E-books Services) where E-books’s data collection technologies (such as web development tools, cookies and other technologies) are present, including in the emails we send to you. We use browser cookies and similar technologies such as cookie IDs and settings, and tracker software tools (collectively, “cookies”) to collect and store certain information when you use, access or interact with E-books Services. These data collection technologies allow us to understand your activity on and off our E-books Services and to collect and store information when you interact with E-books Services we offer to partners. We and our retail partners automatically collect information from cookies and similar technologies to recognize you, learn how you interact with the E-books Services and use your devices, and to serve you with surveys, tailored promotions and other marketing and content recommendations. You may limit our ability to automatically collect certain types of information by adjusting the cookie settings on your web browsers.

Subject to local law, you may have certain rights regarding information that we have collected from cookies and that is related to you. We encourage you to contact us to update or correct your information if it changes or if you believe that any information that we have collected about you is inaccurate. Please note that we will likely require additional information from you in order to honour your requests. If you would like to discuss or exercise such rights, send us an email at [email protected]. Alternatively, you may have a right to complain to your local data protection authority (if one exists in your country).

Our Services use the following categories of cookies:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies (Class A): These are cookies which are needed to provide services and features you have specifically requested. We may use cookies and tracking technologies for system administration and/or to allow you to make use of shopping-cart functionality. We are not required to obtain your consent for cookies that are strictly necessary.
• Analytics and Performance-Related Cookies (Class B, Class C): We may use cookies to assess the performance of our Services, including as part of our analytics practices to improve the selection of content recommended to you through the Services.
• Functionality-Related Cookies (Class B, Class C): We may use cookies to tell us, for example, whether you have visited the Services before or if you are a new visitor and to help us identify the features in which you may have the greatest interest.
• Targeting-Related Cookies (Class D): We may use cookies to deliver content, including ads, relevant to your interests on our Services.

You can withdraw your consent to the use of these cookies in whole or part, at any time, by deleting placed cookies and disabling cookies in your browser.

Your Cookie Choices

You have the choice whether to accept the use of cookies.

Most browsers are initially set up to accept HTTP cookies. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies and how to disable existing cookies. Controlling the HTML5 local storage on your browser depends on which browser you use. For more information regarding your specific browser please consult the browser’s website (often in the Help section). Please note, however, that without HTTP cookies and HTML5 local storage, you may not be able to take full advantage of all the features of our Services and some parts of the Services may not function properly.

You can also disable analytics for mobile apps from the settings screen on your mobile device.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies Used on E-books’s Services

Table A below sets out details of the individual cookies and tracking solutions that we use with our devices, website and applications, including mobile applications, and the purposes for which we use them.

We provide the chart in Table A as a courtesy for all users independent of any rights you may have to consent to the use of cookies, otherwise. We are not obligated to maintain or update it, nor do we warrant it will be up-to-date, or the linked third party information will be up-to-date when you view it. We are not responsible for third-party sites and their privacy practices as they relate to any opt-outs from tracking activities that may exist on these sites, many of which may not be compliant for users on our sites who are from the European Economic Area. Table A contains a list of third-parties that collect information from you on Our Services and that have provided notices where you may obtain information on their policies and practices and in some instances, opt-out of certain of their activities directly.

Reading Activity

We keep track of your reading activity to provide you with information such as reading statistics, and improve personalized book recommendations. If you would like to turn it off on your eReader, you may do so via Settings >Energy saving and privacy > Uncheck – Help improve our App.

Contact Us

For any queries in relation to this Cookies and Tracking Technologies Policy please contact us at [email protected].

California Consumer Privacy Act

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms.    You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Sale of Personal Data

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information to third parties. These cookies collect information for analytics and to personalize your experience with targeted ads. You may exercise your right to opt out of the sale of personal information by using this toggle switch. If you opt out we will not be able to offer you personalised ads and will not hand over your personal information to any third parties. Additionally, you may contact us for further clarification about your rights as a California consumer.

If you have enabled privacy controls on your browser (such as a plugin), we have to take that as a valid request to opt-out. Therefore we would not be able to track your activity through the web. This may affect our ability to personalize ads according to your preferences.