 Privacy Policy Effective Date and Last Updated: August 00, 0000 This Privacy Policy describes how Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. and its subsidiaries, including Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC; MBS Textbook Exchange, LLC; Student Brands, LLC; or any of their affiliates or subsidiary companies (collectively, "BNED," "we," "us," "our"), collect, use and process your information. When you purchase products from, register on or use BNED sites where this Privacy Policy is posted, certain of your information will be collected. This Privacy Policy applies to your use of the Services. Please review it carefully. This Privacy Policy will take precedence over any conflicting privacy terms related to any other BNED products or services you access and/or use. Information Collected by Us. Information You Provide. BNED provides a family of products, Internet sites, services and browser-based and/or mobile applications (collectively, "Services"). While registration with us is optional, please keep in mind that you will not be able to use many features of our Services unless you register with us. Depending on how you interact with our Services, you may provide us, our agents, vendors, consultants, and other service providers (collectively, "Service Providers,") with, and the Services may include hyperlinks to websites, locations, platforms, applications or services operated by third parties (collectively, "Third-Party Services") which require, information that may include: your name, email address, username, password, address, postal code, phone number, credit card number, gender, school attending, graduation year, and other registration information; information about your preferences; transaction-related information, such as your orders for any Services, downloads or other features, or purchases, if any, that you make from us; information you otherwise provide us, such as when you contact us (e.g., for help); and other information related to your use of certain offerings on our Services. Information Collected Automatically. We, our Service Providers, or Third-Party Services may automatically receive or collect certain information from you when you use the Services. This information may include: your browser or operating system; your manner of connecting to the Internet (including the browser and/or type of device you are using) and the name of your Internet service provider or wireless carrier; your Internet protocol ("IP") address; data relating to malfunctions or problems that occur when you use the Services; log file information, including your Web request, IP address, browser type, referring/exit pages and URLs, number of clicks and how you interact with links on our Services, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information; and information collected by cookies, which are Cookies are small pieces of information or text files that a website sends to your computer for record-keeping purposes, which information is stored in a file on your computer's hard drive, and other tracking technologies, including but not limited to, web beacons (also known as "tracking pixels"), embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, fingerprinting, device recognition technologies, in-app tracking methods and other tracking technologies now and hereafter developed ("Tracking Technologies") may be used to collect information about interactions with the Services or emails, including information about your browsing and purchasing behavior. Cookies make Web-surfing and browsing easier for you by saving your preferences so that we can use the saved information to facilitate and improve your use of the Services. You can adjust your Internet browsers to reject cookies. However, if you disable the cookies on your computer you may not be able to use certain features of the Services and disabling cookies may invalidate opt outs that rely on cookies to function. We may use cookies to improve the quality of our Services, store user preferences, store and retrieve login information on a user's system, and to personalize content and offers of interest to our users. Note that your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a "Do Not Track" signal to websites and online services you visit; such signals may prevent third parties from collecting information about your online activities over time and across different websites. California law requires us to disclose how the Services respond to these kinds of "Do Not Track" signals. Like many websites, the Services currently are not designed to respond to "Do Not Track" signals from visitors' browsers. To learn more about "Do Not Track" you may wish to visit this site. We will treat information that does not personally identify you as non-personal information, and we may de-identify, anonymize or otherwise convert your personal information to non-personal information. As permitted by applicable law, we reserve the right to use, process, share and otherwise exploit your non-personal information without limitation. See our Cookie Disclosure, below, for more information. Use of Your Information. Our Use of Your Information. We may use your information to: process your registration, manage your account (including your payment information and preferences), and deliver our Services and features desired by you (including any customization features requested by you); improve our Services; fulfill other purposes disclosed to you at the time you provide us with your information or otherwise where we are legally permitted to do so; personalize content and offers and serve you advertising that may be of interest to you; respond to your inquiries; fulfill your request for Services; provide you with updates and other information regarding the Services; understand your general location (i.e., not your specific geolocation) based on your IP address; keep our Services safe and secure and to prevent detect fraud and abuse; comply with our legal obligations, policies, and procedures; and administer and manage our Services including content and layout, site usage, troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes. How We May Share Your Information. We may share your information: with our Service Providers in connection with their work on our behalf; with our family of BNED affiliates who may have content and offers of interest to you. We do not share your personal information to non-affiliate third parties for marketing purposes unless expressly authorized by you; if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our terms of use or other applicable terms or policies, or to protect the rights, property, life, health, security and safety of BNED, the Services, or its users, or any third party; in the event of a change of ownership, as described below; to comply with law, law enforcement or other legal process, and, where permitted, in response to governmental requests or legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena); and to other circumstances in which we have a good faith belief that a crime has been or is being committed by a user. BNED may implement Google's Invisible reCAPTCHA technology on our Sites in order to reduce spam and prevent abuse of our Sites. Your use of the Invisible reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Sweepstakes, Contests and Promotions. We may offer sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions (each, a "Promotion"), including any Promotion jointly sponsored or offered by third parties, which may require submitting your information. If you voluntarily choose to enter a Promotion, your information, including personal information, may be disclosed to BNED, Promotion co-sponsors, Service Providers, and other third parties, including for administrative purposes and as required by law (e.g., on a winners list). By entering, you are agreeing to the official rules that govern that Promotion, which may include consent to additional or differing data practices that will take precedence over those contained in this Privacy Policy in case of a conflict. Please review those official rules carefully. Information You Disclose Publicly or to Others. The Services may permit you to post or submit User Generated Content ("UGC") including, without limitation, written content, user profiles, audio or visual recordings, computer graphics, pictures, data, or other content, including personal information. If you choose to submit UGC to any public area of the Services, your UGC will be considered "public" and will be accessible by anyone, including BNED. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, unless otherwise explicitly agreed by us, personal information included in UGC is not subject to our usage or sharing limitations, or other obligations, and may be used and shared by BNED and third parties to the fullest extent not prohibited by applicable law. We encourage you to exercise caution when making decisions about what you disclose in such public areas. For more information on how UGC is treated under the Services' Terms of Use. California minors should see the "Minors" section below regarding potential removal of certain UGC they have posted on the Services. Third-Party Content, Third-Party Services, Social Features, Advertising and Analytics. Third-Party Services. Third-Party Services may use their own Tracking Technologies to independently collect information about you and may solicit personal information from you. For example, BNED maintains its own branded pages on various social networks. When you visit these BNED-branded social media pages, the provider of the social network and other Third-Party Services may set Tracking Technologies on your browser or device. Social Features. Certain functionalities on the Services may permit interactions that you initiate between the Services and certain Third-Party Services, such as third-party social networks ("Social Features"). Examples of Social Features include: enabling you to send content such as contacts and photos between the Services and a Third-Party Services; "liking" or "sharing" BNED content; logging in to the Services using your Third-Party Services account (e.g., using Facebook Connect to sign-in to the Services); and to otherwise connect the Services to a Third-Party Services (e.g., to pull or push information to or from the Services). If you use Social Features, and potentially other Third-Party Services, information you post or provide access to may be publicly displayed on the Services (see "Information You Disclose Publicly or to Others" section above) or by the Third-Party Services that you use. Similarly, if you post information on a third-party service that references the Services (e.g., by using a hashtag associated with BNED or its affiliates in a tweet or status update), your post may be used on or in connection with the Services or otherwise by BNED and its affiliates. Also, both BNED and the third party may have access to certain information about you and your use of the Services and any Third-Party Services. Advertising. We may engage and work with Service Providers and other third parties to serve advertisements on the Services and/or on Third-Party Services. Some of these ads may be tailored to your interest based on your browsing, across time, of the Services and elsewhere on the Internet, which may include use of data from cross-device usage, sometimes referred to as "interest-based advertising" and "online behavioral advertising" ("Interest-based Advertising"), which may include sending you an ad on a third-party service after you have left the Services (i.e., "retargeting"). Our advertisers' and ad networks' use of Tracking Technologies are governed by their own privacy policies. Your Tracking Technologies Choices. Regular cookies may generally be disabled or removed by tools available as part of most commercial browsers, and in some instances blocked in the future by selecting certain settings. Browsers offer different functionalities and options so you may need to set them separately. Also, tools from commercial browsers may not be effective with regard to Flash cookies (also known as locally shared objects), HTML0 cookies, or other Tracking Technologies. For information on disabling Flash cookies, go to Adobe's website http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-third-party-local-shared.html. Please be aware that if you disable or remove these technologies, some parts of the Services may not work and that when you revisit the Services your ability to limit browser-based Tracking Technologies is subject to your browser settings and limitations. Some App-related Tracking Technologies in connection with non-browser usage (e.g., most functionality of a mobile app) can only be disabled by uninstalling the app. To uninstall an app, follow the instructions from your operating system or handset manufacturer. Apple and Google mobile device settings have settings to limit ad tracking, and other tracking, but these may not be completely effective. Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a "Do Not Track" signal to online services you visit. Note, however, there is no consensus among industry participants as to what "Do Not Track" means in this context. Like many online services, we currently do not alter our practices when we receive a "Do Not Track" signal from a visitor's browser. To find out more about "Do Not Track," you can visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com, but we are not responsible for the completeness or accuracy of this third-party information. You have the right to request information from us about the Services that currently do not respond to 