Privacy Policy

This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for our website: OMF Books.

OMF Books has created this privacy policy to inform you of the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site, OMF Books. Because OMF Books wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, we have agreed to disclose our information practices and notify you of:

• What personally identifiable information (or third party personally identifiable information) of yours is collected from you through our website
• The organization collecting the information
• How the information is used
• With whom the information may be shared
• What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information
• The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under OMF Books's control
• How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

If you feel that OMF Books is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, you should contact us.

Information Collection and Use

OMF Books is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. OMF Books collects information from our users at several different points on our website.

Membership

When you make a purchase on our site, you automatically become a member. You provide the following information to OMF Books:

• Your name
• Your e-mail address
• Your billing and shipping address
• Your telephone number
• The type of credit card you are using if applicable
• Your credit card number and expiration date, or other form of payment

Your E-mail address is your member identification. You choose your own password to access your account. All members can choose whether or not they would like to receive electronic mailings from OMF Books.

Order

We request information from the user on our order form when making a purchase. This is where a user must provide their contact information (name and shipping address) and shipping information, credit card number and expiration date. This information is used for billing purposes and to fill the customer's order. If we have difficulty processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the customer.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. We use both session and persistent cookies. Usage of a cookie from our site is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information. Cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users in the aggregate by analyzing popular areas and products to enhance future experiences on our site.

Usage Tracking

OMF Books's database tracks the traffic throughout our site. This information is used to compile overall statistics and is not recorded at an individual level. This includes IP (internet protocol) addresses, browser type, ISP (internet service provider), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement in the aggregate. The statistics help us determine which products and services best serve our members and guests.

Aggregate Information

OMF Books uses aggregate information from demographic surveys, traffic patterns and IP addresses to customize our site. Aggregate information is occasionally shared with OMF International to plan advertising or promotions. We do not share any personally identifiable information.

Sharing

OMF Books gives you access to third party partners to provide you with certain services that are detailed below. OMF Books will provide that third party with your transaction information and then that third party will collect additional information if needed to provide you with the requested service. These third parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

We use outside shipping companies to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by OMF Books.

Catalog, Newsletters, Etc.

If a user wishes to subscribe to our catalog, newsletter, etc., we ask for contact information such as name, street address and e-mail address to provide these communications. Out of respect for our users privacy we provide a way to opt-out of these communications. Please see the choice and opt-out section below.

On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send you an Email. Generally, users may not opt-out of these communications, though you can deactivate your account. However, these communications are not promotional in nature.

Tell-A-Friend

If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about an item, we ask them for the friend's name and e-mail address. OMF Books will automatically send the friend a one-time e-mail inviting them to visit the site. We do store the friend's e-mail and they have an option to opt-out in the communication.

Security

OMF Books takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via our website, your information is protected both online and off-line.

When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number and/or social security number), that information is encrypted and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - Secure Socket Layers (SSLs). While on a secure page, such as our order form, a lock icon appears on the bottom of your Web browser. When you are not on a secure page, no lock icon will appear.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information (like your credit card information) online, we also do everything in our power to protect user information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password-protected screen-savers when they leave their desk. When they return, they must re-enter their password to regain access to your information. Furthermore, ALL employees are fully informed about our security and privacy practices and updated as new policies are added or revised. They are regularly notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure that our customers' information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment under restricted access.

If you have any questions about the security at our website you may contact us.

Special Offers

Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special offers and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our choice and opt-out below.

Correcting/Updating/Deleting/Deactivating

If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code, phone, e-mail or postal address), or if a user no longer desires our service, we provide a way to correct, update or delete/deactivate that user's personally identifiable information provided to us. This can be done by using the unsubscribe feature in our communication.

Choice/Opt-Out

Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information. For example, our order form has an 'opt-out' mechanism so users who buy a product from us, but don't want any marketing material, can keep their Email address off of our lists.

If we decided to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

If, however, we are going to use your personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify you via e-mail. You will have a choice as to whether or not we use your information in this different manner. However, if you have opted out of all communication with the site, or deleted/deactivated your account, then you will not be contacted, nor will your personal information be used in this new manner. In addition, if we make any material changes in our privacy practices that do not affect user information already stored in our database, we will post a prominent notice on our web site notifying users of the change. In some cases where we post a notice we will also Email users, who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.

OMF Books does not reveal any of your personally identifiable information to any third party for marketing purposes.