Privacy
Statement for DAK's Web Sites
FREE BOOKS 5000.COM
Last Updated
On November 4, 2001.
For: Freebooks5000.com
 Welcome to Free Books 5000.com,
A DAK Industries 2000, Inc. Website. DAK is committed to protecting your privacy
online at DAK's Web sites, which include but are not limited to the following:
www.DAK.com, www.FreeBooks5000.com,
as well as our sister site, www.drew.com (the
"DAK sites"). We know that registering and buying online can raise concerns
about the security of your data. Because we gather certain types of information
about users (we call you DAKonians) on the DAK sites, we feel you DAKonians should
fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding our acquisition and use
of your data.
This privacy statement discloses
what information we gather, how we use it, and how you can correct or update that
information.
What Information Is Collected By The DAK Sites
Security For Orders And Registrations Placed On DAK Sites
How The DAK Sites Use Cookies
Use Of This Web Site By Children
How The DAK Sites Use The Information.
Do We Share Your Information?
The Opt Out Policy For The DAK Sites
Change Or Correct Your Information?
Changes To This Policy
Tell Drew what you think
What Information Is Collected By The DAK Sites:
Your Personal Information
In general, you can visit a DAK
site on the Web without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable
information about yourself. However, there are times when we will request some
information from you. For example, when you register to use restricted parts of
our sites, and register for our newsletters, we ask for your eMail address and
a password and some times your name. Further, when you place an order with a DAK
website, you provide certain ADDITIONAL personal information to us, such as your
credit card information, billing/shipping addresses, and telephone numbers. This
is in addition to your name and eMail address.
Anytime your personal information
is requested on any of the DAK sites, you should see a link to this Privacy
Policy.
DAK gathers user information
at times of site access registration, newsletter SignUp, purchasing, customer
support, and otherwise as follows:
1.) DAK Newsletters: During
registration for the DAK newsletters including but not limited to the Free Books
5000.com newsletters, the DAKonian registrant is asked to provide information
such as your eMail address, a password and sometimes your name. This information
helps us to inform you DAKonians when updates, new products or services are available.
2.) DAK provides DAK products
and products made by third Parties for purchase and, at the time of purchase,
you are required to provide your credit card number and your billing and mailing/shipping
addresses. Credit card information is never transferred to our customer database
and is only used for order processing and billing.
3.) Additional: While visiting
the DAK sites, you may choose to participate in an online survey or poll. Information
gathered from these activities is used only in the aggregate form to better help
DAK define the likes, dislikes and general demographic picture of our DAKonian
Members. It's not linked directly to you in any way.
Unless you instruct us otherwise,
DAK's practice is to take the information you provide and incorporate it into
our customer database. We don't keep Credit Card information in the customer database.
It's only used for processing/billing your order.
Site Logs And IP Addresses
When anyone visits our web sites,
some information such as Internet or IP address, Internet Service Provider, operating
system, type of browser, the site or most recent site from which you came, and
the time and date of your visit may be collected automatically as part of the
operation of the site. This information is not linked to any of your personally
identifiable information. We use this information to compile aggregate statistics
about the total number of daily visitors to our site, the most frequently visited
pages and how long DAKonians stay at each page. This allows us to understand DAKonian
needs and to plan improvements to the site, making it more useful and easier to
navigate.
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Security For Orders
And Registrations On The DAK Sites
DAK's order submission process
encrypts any ORDER information you send to us if you are using an encryption enabled
browser. DAK uses the widely adopted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to
accomplish this encryption. By encrypting your ORDER information, our intent is
to make it extremely difficult for someone to be able to use your information
even if it is intercepted. We do not encrypt simple newsletter registrations and
Customer Service eMails, although the data is stored in secure protected servers
utilizing firewall technology.
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How The DAK Sites
Use Cookies
A cookie is a small data file
that many Web sites including DAK's, write to your hard drive when you visit them.
A cookie file can contain information (such as a user ID) the site uses to track
the pages you have visited, or the frequency of your visits to the site. However,
the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply.
A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk. If you have set your browser to
warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each
cookie. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser, however we
will be unable to personalize your experience, provide restricted site services
or provide the shopping cart shopping experience.
The DAK Sites Use Cookies As Follows:
1.) All the DAK sites may
use cookies or logs and track IP addresses to get an accurate count of DAKonians
visiting our sites, what they looked at, how many pages they viewed and the like.
This information is used in an aggregate form to help DAK improve the content
of the DAK sites, to evaluate shopping trends and to predict demand for products.
IP addresses of visitors to the DAK sites are logged and tracked for systems administration
purposes (such as to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer
our Web site) and to track a user's session (to give DAK an idea of which parts
of our site people are visiting). We do not link your IP addresses to anything
personally identifiable except for when you use our eGreeting Card service, where
your IP address is provided as a security measure.
2.) DAK sites use cookies
to give you access to restricted parts of our sites when you register for our
newsletters and restricted site access.
3.) DAK sites use cookies
to keep track of your shopping cart.
4.) DAK conducts on-site
surveys/polls of our DAKonian members in order to gather satisfaction and other
marketing information. Cookies are used in conjunction with these surveys in order
to ensure that DAKonian responses and votes are only tabulated once.
5.) In the future, DAK
may choose to use cookies for other purposes. In such an event, DAK will modify
this policy to inform you how DAK is using the cookie.
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Use Of This Web Site
By Children
DAK believes that parents should
take an active interest in their children's use of the Internet. DAK does NOT
knowingly collect information from children who are under 13 years old. If you
are under 13, you should not provide information on this site. Please ask your
parents to do so. If DAK discovers that it has received information from a person
under 13 years old, it will be deleted and not used for any purpose. At no time
do knowingly we ask for, collect or store information regarding the age of our
visitors.
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How The DAK Sites
Use The Information
DAK uses the information it collects
on the DAK sites for various purposes. The information collected on the DAK sites
is used to process your newsletter registrations, your orders and to update you
about new services and products that DAK offers.
1.) DAK creates aggregate
reports on DAKonian demographics and traffic patterns for internal use to improve
our service to you.
2.) DAK tracks the actions
of site visitors to determine what DAKonians want and do not want. DAK does break
down overall usage statistics and user behaviors according to a user's domain
name, browser type, resolution and the like. However, this information is not
tied to personally identifiable information.
We send registered DAKonian Newsletter
subscribers and purchasers of products from DAK sites, eMails and direct mail
communications on products and services we think you will find useful. It is our
policy to never send messages to DAKonians who have asked us not to do so through
an Opt Out process. In every eMail from any DAK company, we will provide you with
an easy OPT Out link.
If you prefer not to receive promotional
information from us, we make it easy for you to let us know. You can contact us
at any time by eMail or postal mail to decline promotional material.
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Do We Share Your
Information?
DAK does not sell, rent, share,
trade, or disclose any personally identifiable information except as follows.
We give vendors, suppliers, and others involved in the electronic commerce
distribution chain (such as credit card processing center and fulfillment centers)
only the information they need to provide you the products or services you order,
and require them to keep your information confidential and not use it for other
purposes. Again, we never sell, rent, share, or trade your information.
Sale Of Assets
You are in control. Although a
customer information database is customarily considered a business asset, and
DAK shall have the right to transfer its customer database in a merger or sale
of some or all of its assets or in an action for bankruptcy, your personal information
will continue to be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy by any acquiring
or merged company. Unless you are notified, agree and are provided an opportunity
to opt-out, no changes not identified in Changes To This Policy
below, can be made to this Privacy Policy.
Law Enforcement
DAK fully cooperates with law
enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our services for illegal activities.
We reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that
we reasonably believe to be unlawful. We disclose personal information only in
the good faith belief that we are required to do so by law, or that doing so is
reasonably necessary to:
1.) Comply with any legal proceedings,
2.) Respond to any type of claims,
or
3.) Protect the Rights, Property,
or Personal Safety of DAK, our Customers, or the Public in general.
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The Opt Out Policy
For The DAK Sites
DAK does not want to use your
information if you don't want us to do so. We will always keep your information
in case we need to notify you of a problem with a product but we will identify
you as a Do-Not-Contact DAKonian who does not wish to receive any further marketing
information. We've provided you with several options to tell us to remove your
information from our list of DAKonians. Every newsletter we send you will have
an easy to understand and use Opt Out link which you can use to stop receiving
future marketing communication from us. If, at any time, you wish to stop receiving
promotional information from any DAK Company, please eMail us at
yourprivacy@DAK.com.
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Change Or Correct
Your Information?
Anytime you wish, you can instantly
update, correct, or remove your name and data, yourself! Please be sure you
are logged in and then Click
Update (It's at the bottom of the yellow Returning Member Sign In box) to
change your information or opt-out of the Newsletter. You can also reach the update
page anytime from the 'Sign In' or 'Register Pages'. Or, you can eMail us at yourprivacy@DAK.com
and specify the information you would like to change or remove. You must promptly
notify us if your credit card, password or user information is stolen.
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Changes To This Policy
DAK reserves the right to change,
modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. We will alert
you that we've made changes by indicating on the Privacy Policy the date it was
last updated. You should keep a record of the date you register or purchase from
DAK sites. When you visit any of the DAK sites, check the current Privacy Policy
because you are accepting the current version of this policy as posted on the
site at that time.
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Tell Drew what you think
This privacy pledge is all about protecting you. In summary, I want to repeat
and emphasize that we only use the information we collect on the sites to make
working with DAK the best possible experience for you. We do not sell, trade,
or rent your personal information to others. If you have any questions or suggested
changes or additions I would love to hear from you. Please eMail me at yourprivacy@dak.com.
While I do MY best to deliver the best products, the best prices, the best eBooks
and the best information, when YOUR privacy is concerned, only YOUR 100% total
satisfaction is good enough.
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