Last Updated: August 17, 2023
This privacy policy applies to grottobook.com owned and operated by MYDATES LTD. This privacy policy describes how MYDATES LTD collects and uses the personally identifiable information you provide on our web site: grottobook.com. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personally identifiable information and how you can access and update this information.
grottobook.com respects your privacy. As we develop our online presence, we will revise our Privacy Policy to reflect our practices and to meet any legislative or other requirements. The terms of this Privacy Policy form part of and should be read in conjunction with the Terms of Use and Licenses which govern this Website.
MYDATES LTD is the sole owner of the information collected on grottobook.com collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site.
If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and billing address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).
We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you.
After registering an account with us, you will receive an email containing a welcome message and your login details. After successfully completing a purchase, you will receive an email invoice of your order.
If you purchase a gift certificate from us, we will ask you for the name and email address of the recipient in order to fulfill the purchase request. The information is not used for any other purpose.
grottobook.com will collect information generated by its webservers for the purpose of assessing the technical performance of its systems and to enhance service levels.
From time to time, we may also request and you may choose to provide us with personally identifiable information through the use of the Website or through email addresses available from our Website.
If you do not provide us with the personally identifiable information that we request, we may not be able to properly assess your request for service and the level of service we can provide you may be reduced to the extent that you do not provide us with relevant information.
We will not collect sensitive information about you from anyone else without your consent.
We will use personally identifiable information you provide to us for the purpose of providing you with the service or product that you have requested. We do not share personally identifiable information with third parties.
We will not sell, rent, trade, share, reveal or disclose any of your personally identifiable information, unless
We may provide aggregate information and statistics about grottobook.com's customers, sales traffic patterns and related site information to third parties but these statistics will not include individual personally identifiable information. We use a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.
We may provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as shipping your order or offering customer service. These companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
We may use your contact information to send you information about our Services, to market to you, and to help prevent spam, fraud or abuse. You may use your settings for email and mobile notifications to control notifications you receive from us. You may also unsubscribe from a notification by following the instructions contained within the notification or the instructions on our website.
We MYDATES LTD and our affiliates, or analytics use technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts, to analyze trends, administer the website, tracking users' movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual and aggregated basis.
We use cookies to improve the functionality of it's site and to support all browsers. grottobook.com uses cookies to assess the performance of the Website and to confirm your preferences and for user authentication. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our website, but your ability to use some features or areas of our website may be limited.
We use Local Storage, such as HTML5, to store content information and preferences. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5.
We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our website or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this website and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests.
As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.
We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.
Upon request MYDATES LTD will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may update, delete/remove it by logging in to your account or by emailng Customer Support at support@grottobook.com or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
We provide you the opportunity to "opt-out" of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example, if you create an account but do not wish to receive any additional marketing/promotional material from us, you can indicate your preference on our registration form. Customers may not opt-out of purchase invoices and confirmation emails as these are obligatory.
If you sign up for our email alerts, notifying you of new book releases, and you no longer wish to receive our alerts and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at support@grottobook.com.
You will be notified when your personally identifiable information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.
grottobook.com takes your privacy and the privacy of all its customers very seriously. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received.
If you have any concerns about your privacy and the use of the Website or any of grottobook.com's services or products, please contact support@grottobook.com. We will respond to your request to access 30 days.
You may request that we provide you with a copy of the personally identifiable information collected by us from your use of the Website or through your dealings with us.
If you choose to purchase a product or service from grottobook.com online, grottobook.com only stores enough information concerning your transaction as to permit it to verify your instructions and reconcile payment information from its merchant clearance system.
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by grottobook.com. Please be aware that we, grottobook.com, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy policy of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page prior to the change becoming effective.
In the event that grottobook.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via a notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personally identifiable information.
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:
MYDATES LTD trading as grottobook.com
39/5, Granton Crescent, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, EH5 1BN
support@grottobook.com
Registered number 15224878
We conduct the following business:
1. Provide intelligent, helpful reading recommendations to our members.
2. Enable our members, through the grottobook.com website and its associated domains and apps (collectively the “Website”), to buy, borrow or otherwise acquire access to, download, store, read, use and manage ebooks for their personal use.
1. grottobook.com
We process personal information to enable us to make better, more helpful reading recommendations; to sell goods and services to and to support and advise our members; to promote and advertise our services; maintain our own accounts and records and to support and manage our employees.
In order to perform these tasks well, we need to store information about you and your correspondence with us, and your shopping and browsing activity on the Website.
There are only two lawful reasons that we process and store information about you, and they have formal, legal definitions which you can find here:
1. Consent: You have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose.
2. Legitimate Interests: The processing is necessary, in order for us to provide the products and services that we offer, or to enable you to benefit most from grottobook.com.
We use your information only as set out in this Policy and will not sell, rent or pass your information on to others for marketing purposes without your consent.
We may however provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third-party vendors and relevant affiliate partners, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information.
We never pass on information to any third party which would enable the recipient to identify you personally, except:
1. For the purpose of processing purchase transactions (credit card, etc.), and
2. Where we believe in good faith that this release is reasonably necessary to comply with the law.
Our site uses cookies to keep track of your visits to our website. A cookie is a small file that can be stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We may use these to do a number of things:
You can usually change your browser so that it will not accept cookies. If you'd like to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org
grottobook.com places tiny text files called cookies onto your computer, tablet or mobile device. This is standard practice for almost all websites.
Cookies are not harmful to your computer and are an essential part of online shopping. They allow us to give you a more efficient customer experience.
There are two main types of cookie; we call them "first party" and "third party" cookies.
First party cookies are small data files that we use for things such as keeping track of what you've put in your basket and remembering who you are when you return to our site. We don't save personal information such as credit card details in the cookies we create.
Third party cookies are set on our behalf. The most important of these are Google and Commission Junction, who display text or banner adverts on our behalf on a number of other reputable websites or in Internet search results. Commission Junction does not collect personal data from our website. Because our website uses Google Analytics to help us optimise our web pages and better understand the website’s traffic, if you visit us while you’re logged in to your Google account (like Gmail, for example) then some of your browsing activity on our site may be …
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Cookies enable us to meet our contractual obligations to make payments to third parties (like Google and Commission Junction) when a product is purchased by someone who has visited our website from a site operated by those parties.