 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