This site is hosted by Yahoo! Store. Yahoo! hosts the store pages, ordering system, and order data. Yahoo! automatically collects order information but may only use this information in the aggregate. If you accessed this store through Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! also automatically collects information about your shopping experience. Please see the Yahoo! Privacy Policy for more information about how Yahoo! uses this information. Your privacy is important, so we'd like to explain what information we may collect when you visit Nilelinielbooks.com, why we collect it, how it is used and whether we give it to others. We'd also like to explain your options to access and control your information, our data security practices and other matters. This Policy is governed by our Terms of Service. SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT CHILDREN Although we sell fantasy and science fiction books in both children's and young adult categories, Nilenielbooks.com is not intended for children, especially children under 17. Children may use this site only with the direct supervision of their parent. SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT EROTICA/ROMANTICA BOOKS Many of the books in our erotica/romantica section are rated NC-17 by 3 or more readers, meaning that they are not suitable for children under the age of 17. By clicking on or ordering a book in this category, you are certifying that you are over 17 years of age. Erotic romance is defined by us as: any work of literature that is both romantic and sexually explicit in nature. Love scenes are usually explicit, leave nothing to the imagination, and are high in volume per word count. In addition, some erotic books may contain fantasy material that some readers may find offensive, such as bondage, submission, same sex encounters, forced seductions, etc. They may also carry explicit language. SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT GAY & LESBIAN FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS Many of the books in our gay & lesbian section are not suitable for children under the age of 17. By clicking on or ordering a book in this category, you are certifying that you are over 17 years of age. Many of these books contain explicit homoerotic romance. Homoerotic romance is defined by us as: any work of literature that is both romantic and sexually explicit in nature between two people of the same sex. Love scenes may be explicit, leave nothing to the imagination, and high in volume per word count. In addition, some gay & lesbian books may contain fantasy material that some readers may find offensive, such as bondage, submission, same sex encounters, forced seductions, etc. They may also carry explicit language. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU? WHY? We May Collect Information Needed to Contact You Later: If we collect any personal contact information (as described below), you may later have us modify or remove the information, but you may not access the information yourself. You may choose simply not to provide the personal contact information described below by opting-out at the point of collection. We May Collect Your Name, Physical Address and Telephone Number. We may request your name, telephone number, and mailing or billing address or other information needed to contact you by telephone or by postal mail. This information may reveal who you are or be linked to you personally. We use it to: Complete the online activity you requested. Because Nilelinielbooks.com engages in retail sales of physical goods, customers need to furnish us with contact information that will allow us to send them the product they have purchased or, if necessary, to contact them about their order. This information will NOT be shared with any other company. We will never sell your information to other companies. We May Collect Your Email Address. We may request your email address or other information needed to contact you online. This information may reveal who you are or be linked to you personally. We use it to: Complete the online activity you requested. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity - we will not disclose this information to third parties or public forums generally. We may use your email address to contact you about special Nilelinielbooks.com sales & promotions, as well as newsletters at select times. You may opt out of these emails out at anytime by contacting us at webmaster@nilelinielbooks.com. We May Collect Other Kinds of Information from You: If we collect any personal information about you described below, you may later have us modify or remove the information, but you may not access the information yourself. You may choose simply not to provide the following kinds of information by opting-out at the point of collection. We May Collect Your Credit Card Number. We may ask you to enter a credit card number, bank account number or other information that associates a financial status with your personal identity. We use this information to: Complete the online activity you requested; specifically, individuals making purchases from Nilelinielbooks.com as described above will be required to provide credit card or bank account information in order to complete payment processing. Such information is submitted via secure server (SSL) directly to our merchant account processor. The process is automated, so that our staff need not access your account information unless, for any reason, it becomes necessary to manually process payment information for a limited time. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents. We May Collect Information About Your Computer. When you visit our site, we may automatically collect information about your computer configuration, such as your browser type, operating system, IP address or ISP domain name. This information will not reveal or be linked to you personally. We use this information to: Improve the Site for everyone, by providing required technical information so that the site remains compatible with user computer configurations. Support reasonable purposes consistent with fair practices, such as internal market analysis of reader demographics. Support reasonable purposes consistent with internal risk management, such as allowing us to ban offensive users or to trace fraudulent credit card transaction attempts. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents. We May Collect Interactive Data. You may decide to input data while using certain interactive features at one of our sites, such as queries submitted to a search engine. This information will not reveal or be linked to you personally. We use this information to: Improve the Site for everyone, by keeping abreast of what readers are looking for when they visit. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents. We May Collect Demographic Data About You. We may request information about your demographic or social characteristics, such as gender, age and income level. This information will not reveal or be linked to you personally. We use this information to: Complete the online activity you requested. Support reasonable purposes consistent with fair practices, such as internal market analysis of reader demographics. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed to third parties and in public forums generally; general demographic data is made available publicly on this website, for the purpose of providing appropriate information to potential purchasers of advertising space. We May Collect Your Online Postings and Content. Certain features of our sites may allow you to contribute content, such as discussion postings, chat room communications, email messages and the like. By its nature, this information may reveal or be linked to you personally. We use this information to: Complete the online activity you requested. This information may be disclosed to third parties and in public forums generally, in that message board posts, chat room communications, and directory listings are posted to public forums. CERTAIN EXCEPTIONAL DISCLOSURES We may disclose your information if necessary to protect our legal rights or if the information relates to actual or threatened harmful conduct. Disclosure may be required by law or if we receive legal process. WE DO USE COOKIES Cookies are small data files stored by your browser in your computer when you visit a web site. Cookies are used to recognize users during visits and to improve web site performance. We do use cookies in conjunction with some of the features on our sites. These cookies allow certain features to remember your last visit and display appropriate information (such as the number of new discussion forum posts since your last visit), or to log in to a Subscription Access area. We do not use these cookies to track your activities within our sites or elsewhere on the Internet, and we do not disclose any information related to these cookies to anyone except our staff. HOW DO WE PROTECT INFORMATION WE COLLECT? We offer secure web pages to collect certain kinds of user information and we store certain kinds of data in encrypted form. We also establish and maintain reasonable practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of data stored on our internal computer systems. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by our site reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP USER INFORMATION? Generally, we retain user data on our server or in our archives for as long as we reasonably need it. We may alter this practice according to changing legal and business requirements. For example, we may delete some data if needed to free up storage space. Data management requests are administered in an orderly manner to the extent feasible and within our direct control. Note: we have greater control over recently collected data than for archived data. Once data is removed from the system and archived, it may not be feasible to accommodate specific requests. In those cases, our general data retention policy applies. YOUR CONSENT TO THIS POLICY By using our sites, you agree to this Policy. This is our entire and exclusive Privacy Policy and it supersedes any earlier version. Our Terms of Service take precedence over any conflicting Policy provision. We may change our Policy by posting a new version on our sites. LEGAL STUFF This Site operates AS-IS, AS-AVAILABLE without liability of any kind. We are not responsible for events beyond our direct control. This Policy is governed by California law, excluding conflicts of law principles. Any legal actions against us must be commenced in California within one year after the claim arose, or be barred. IF YOU HAVE A PRIVACY QUESTION If you have a privacy question about any of our web sites, please email: Debbie Winkler at debbie@nilelinielbooks.com. Or write: Nileliniel, 8231 Ellis Avenue #3C, Huntington Beach, CA 92646.