PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT

Protecting our users personal data is an important concern for our company. All of Illustrated Children’s Books web activities comply with European legislation and the GBDe Recommendations issued in September 2001. This privacy policy governs the treatment of the information Illustrated Children’s Books gathers on you when you visit this Web site.

Collection and Processing of Personal Data

Personal data is information that identifies you, e.g. your name, your address, e-mail or postal address. Illustrated Children’s Books only collects information when you volunteer it when registering your details for online payment.

Use and Divulgence of Personal Data

Illustrated Children’s Books will use your personal data if you have agreed to receive emails when registering. Illustrated Children’s Books will neither sell your personal data to third parties nor market it elsewhere unless you give us permission to do so. The employees of Illustrated Children’s Books are duty-bound to respect the confidentiality of your data and abide by the UK's Retail Codes of Conduct.

Freedom of Choice

You control the information you provide Illustrated Children’s Books about yourself. However, if you choose not to share your information with Illustrated Children’s Books, please be aware that you may be unable to access some of the areas of the web site such as online payment and will be impacting on the level of service we can provide you.

Automatically recorded information (non-personal data)

When you access the Illustrated Children’s Books website, general non-personal information (Internet browser used, number of visits, average time spent on site, pages viewed) is recorded automatically (not as part of website maintenance). This information is used to gauge our websites appeal and to improve its content and functionality. Your data is not processed any further nor is it transmitted to third parties.

Cookies

Cookies are tiny files that are temporarily stored on your hard disk, enabling our site to recognize your computer the next time you visit the Illustrated Children’s Books website.

Cookies contain no personally identifiable data, so the protection of your privacy is ensured.

Depending on your settings, your Internet browser will automatically accept Cookies. However, you may change your browser settings at any time and choose to access the Illustrated Children’s Books website without accepting Cookies.

Security

Illustrated Children’s Books employs trusted and reputable third party hosting agents and payment providers to ensure the security of personal data. Your data is conscientiously protected from loss, destruction, distortion/falsification, manipulation and unauthorized access or unauthorized disclosure.

Minors

Illustrated Children’s Books strongly advises all parents and guardians to teach their children safe and responsible handling of personal data on the Internet. Minors should not transmit any personal data to the Illustrated Children’s Books website without the permission of their parents or guardians. Illustrated Children’s Books will never knowingly collect personal data from minors, or use it in any way, or disclose it to third parties without permission.

Links to other Websites

This statement on privacy protection applies for the www.illustratedchildrensbooks.com homepage hosted by Illustrated Children’s Books. The web pages in this homepage may contain links to other providers within and outside the Illustrated Children’s Books website, to which this privacy protection statement does not extend. When you leave the Illustrated Children’s Books website, please be aware of and read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information.

Right to information

If you have questions concerning our privacy protection policy or how your personal data is processed, please feel free to contact our Privacy Protection representative.  Upon request, you will promptly be informed - in writing and pursuant to applicable legislation,  which of your personal data, if any, was collected during your visits to the Illustrated Children’s Books Web site. 

Notification of Changes

Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted to this privacy statement, the homepage, and any other places we deem appropriate.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

Online Content

The author assumes no liability whatsoever for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. The author shall be held harmless for any and all liability claims against the author for material or intangible damage arising from the use or non-use of the information provided, or from the use of defective and incomplete information unless the author's intentional or grossly negligent fault is proven. All content is subject to change without notice and is non-binding. The author expressly reserves the right to modify, supplement or delete parts of the pages or the entire content without prior advance notice, or to suspend or terminate publication.

Referrals and Links

With respect to direct or indirect referrals to third-party Internet pages ("links") outside the author's area of responsibility, liability would come into force only if the author were aware of the content and if he/she were reasonably and technically able to prevent the use of illegal content. The author therefore expressly declares that the respective linked pages were free from illegal content at the time the links were placed.

The author has no influence whatsoever on the current or future design or on the content of the linked/connected pages. Therefore, the author shall be exculpated from any damages arising from the content of any linked/connected pages that have been modified since the link has been placed. The author has no influence whatsoever on the current or future design or on the content of the linked/connected pages. Therefore, the author shall be exculpated from any damages arising from the content of any linked/connected pages that have been modified since the link has been placed.

This applies to any links and referrals placed within the company's Internet content as well as to postings or messages to guest books, discussion boards and mailing lists set up by the author. Solely the provider of the page linked to shall be liable for illegal, defective or incomplete content and particularly for damage arising from the use or non-use of such information; the provider of the page merely linking to the respective publication shall not be held liable for any such damage.  

Copyright and Trademark Law

The author endeavors to respect the copyright of any graphics, audio files, video sequences and texts used in all publications, to use self-created graphics, audio files, video sequences and texts, or to make use of royalty-free graphics, audio files, video sequences and texts. Any brands and trademarks named in the Internet content that may be protected by third-party rights are fully subject to the provisions of the currently applicable trademark law and the possessor rights of the respective registered owner. The simple mention shall not be interpreted as such that brands are not protected by third party rights.

The author retains the copyright for any published objects that have been created by the author. The duplication or use of such graphics, audio files, video sequences and texts in other electronic or print publications is not permitted without the author's express approval.

Online Payment

All payments on Illustrated Children’s Books are processed via Paypal payment processing service. Illustrated Children’s Books assumes no liability whatsoever for the availability and functionality of this service. Illustrated Children’s Books assumes no liability for any financial loss caused by the use of Paypal. Paypal complies with the Electronic Commerce Directive.

The following applies to all transactions that are carried out with Paypal electronically.