1. Bookhuddle's Privacy Policy: Updated May 18, 2008

    Welcome to Bookhuddle, the online community of book lovers created to help you discover, organize, and share book information and connect with friends and other book lovers. The founders and employees of Bookhuddle take your privacy very seriously.

  2. Information Collected by Bookhuddle

    A display name, your email address and a password you define are the only required pieces of information to create an account at Bookhuddle.

    You may choose to provide other information such as your age, location, interests, and other content; you can control the privacy of your information; and you can change the information at any time.

    Bookhuddle may also collect technical, non-personally identifiable information, such as IP addresses and type of browsers used to help track site usage and improve services

  3. Use of Information

    We will display your personal information on your profile and elsewhere on the site, where it may be seen by other members or non-members, according to the preferences you set in your "My Account" settings. As with any online service, we encourage users to think carefully about what personal information they will disclose on their profile.

    We may use information such as your age, zip code or IP address, to compile statistics, analyze site usage and to customize our site's content, layout and services. The resulting information will not reveal any of your personally identifiable information, but will allow us to improve our site and better understand and serve our users.

    We do not share your personally identifiable information with third-party service providers.

    Finally, we will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or to protect the rights and property of Bookhuddle, its affiliates or the public. We may also cooperate with law enforcement agencies in any official investigation and we may disclose your personally identifiable information to the relevant agency in doing so.

  4. Reviewing and Changing Your Profile

    You can review and revise your personal profile at any time.

  5. Email Policies

    By default, we may send you periodic updates of various site information including new books, recommendations, site announcements, etc.

    You have full control regarding which of these emails you want to receive. To change your options, simply click "My Account" at the top right corner of any page.

  6. Inviting Friends to Bookhuddle

    Bookhuddle is intended to be a place to "huddle up" with friends to discover, share, and discuss books. We hope you will like the site and invite others to join you!

    Inviting friends to Bookhuddle is always completely optional. When you choose to invite friends, we will send an email to the addresses you enter indicating that it is a message from you. We will share your display name and email address with anyone you invite so that they know who the invitation is coming from.

  7. Children

    Children under the age of thirteen (13) are not eligible to use our service. If we become aware that any user is under the age of 13, we cancel their account and delete all of their personal information.

  8. Use of Cookies

    Cookies are a standard Internet technology, and many major web sites use them to provide useful features for their members. Cookies allow us to store and retrieve login information on a user's system. They provide us with data that we can use to improve the quality of our service and make it easier to use. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you'd prefer, you can set yours to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of our web site if you do so.

  9. Third Party Advertising

    We may use advertising on the site as a source of revenue. We may share aggregate usage information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties in order to present to members more targeted advertising, products and services. Advertisements that appear on this web site are delivered to users by our advertising partners. Our advertising partners may set cookies.

  10. Acquisition or Business Transfer

    We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a merger, acquisition or reorganization of ownership of Bookhuddle. It is possible that an acquiring company may materially change this privacy policy.

  11. Security

    The security of your personal information depends on your protection of your account password. Please do not disclose your account password to unauthorized people. Bookhuddle uses industry standard technology designed to help keep your personal information safe. If you have any other questions about the security of our website, please contact us via the feedback page.

  12. Changes in Privacy Policy

    From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy. Your continued usage of Bookhuddle constitutes an acceptance of the then-current Privacy Policy and Terms of Service so we encourage you to visit this page periodically to review any changes.

  13. Canceling Membership

    You always have the option to cancel your membership at any time. If you are a member and no longer wish to participate in Bookhuddle you can sign in to the site and click on the "My Account" at the top of the page; then select "cancel membership" and follow the simple instructions.

  14. Contact

    If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this website or your dealings with this website, you can contact us via the feedback page.