Privacy and Cookies Policy
In English, we don't sell your info. We only use it to respond to inquiries, ship you your products, and track website traffic.
1 Introduction
1.1 Welcome to www.Desert-books.com, owned by Distribution Enterprises, Inc (referred to as “Distribution Enterprises”, “we”, “us” or “our” as appropriate), a company established in United States. The main part of the Site is currently available at http://www.desert-books.com, which also includes the online store of Desert books.
1.2 This Privacy and Cookies Policy describes our practices with regard to the information that we collect when you use the Site, what we do with such information and how we protect it. It also describes our practices on the use of cookies.
1.3 We strive to protect the privacy of Site users. We encourage all users to act responsibly and with care when it comes to their personal information and that of others. Please read this Privacy and Cookies Policy to understand how the information you provide to us is used. If you have any questions regarding these practices, please see the end of this Privacy and Cookies Policy for details of how to contact us.
1.4 Please note that by visiting and using the Site, you are agreeing to the use of your information and the use of cookies, as described in this Privacy and Cookies Policy.
2. Changes
2.1 Subject to applicable law, we may make changes to this Privacy and Cookies Policy at any time. See the end of this Privacy and Cookies Policy for details of the date when it was last updated. We may notify you of any such changes by sending you notice in writing, and/or by posting a copy of the revised Privacy and Cookies Policy on the Site.
2.2 If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use and/or share personal information, we will give you prominent notice of these changes. We will not, without your consent, apply these changes to any personal information that we previously collected from you.
3. What information we collect and how we use it
Personal information
3.1 We do not collect information that identifies you personally on or via the Site, unless: (a) you choose to provide it to us when contacting us or purchasing; or (b) the technical data that we collect (such as an IP address) are treated as personally identifying information under applicable laws.
Information from other sources – this is not displayed publicly.
We also work closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners and analytics providers) and may receive information about you from them. In either case, we use this information in relation to the Site for the purpose of understanding our audience.
When you place an order with the Desert Shop, we collect:
Your first name, surname, email address and (if relevant) delivery address.
these are not displayed publicly. We use this information only:
this is not displayed publicly. We use this information only:
In addition we may collect information that does not identify you personally for a variety of purposes as set out below:
Anonymous analytics data
Like many companies who operate websites, we collect basic information about your use of our site, such as the number and duration of visits to the Site, any search questions entered on our site, and details of which particular pages have been visited. We do not combine this information with any other information that could identify you personally. We use this information to analyze how the Site is functioning and how it is used by our users, to help us maintain and improve the Site on an ongoing basis.
Performance data
While using the Site, certain information is automatically logged about how you are using the Site to analyze performance and usage of the Site. This information may include the URL of the website that linked you to the Site, your IP address and the pages you visit while on the Site. The IP address indicates the location of your computer on the internet. We use this information to analyze how the Site is functioning and how it is used by our users, to help us maintain and improve the Site on an ongoing basis.
Third-party analytics data
Like many companies that operate websites, we allow carefully selected third parties to set cookies in order to capture analytics information. When you use social-media functionality on the Site, analytics cookies may be set to measure usage. This information is collected in an anonymous way that does not identify you personally.
Customer service questions
If you contact us to raise a query, in doing so you may provide us with some of your personal information, such as your name or contact details. We use that personal information only for the purpose of responding to your query.
4. How else may we use the information we collect?
4.1 We may use the information we collect to comply with law, to investigate a complaint made by another user or a potential breach of the Site’s terms and Conditions or to prevent and detect unlawful or criminal activity, fraud and misuse of, or damage to, the Site or the products, content and services made available through it, and to take appropriate legal action against those responsible.
5. Information sharing and disclosure
We share your personal information in certain limited ways as described below.
5.1 If you disclose personal information to us when contacting us with a question or placing an order, we may share that personal information with authorized third parties for the purpose of handling your query or order and for the purposes of operating, managing and administering the Desert Shop. Such third parties include, for example, providers of our customer service, hosting, e-commerce delivery, payment facilities and other support services.
5.2 We may share your information with other third parties including commercial partners, suppliers and sub-contractors from time to time (“Partners”) for the performance of any contract we enter into with them in connection with the Site. Your information will not be retained or used for any other purposes.
5.3 We may further share and disclose your personal information with other third parties including Partners for the purpose of better integrating their services with the Desert Shop. Before we share or disclose any of your personal information with any third parties for marketing purposes, we will ask you for your permission to do so.
5.4 In addition, we may share information about visitors to the Site in an anonymous and aggregate form with third parties (including our business partners) to understand user trends and patterns and to manage and improve our business relationships.
5.4 We do not send any information that we collect on the Site to any social networking sites, nor do we share that information with such sites. We do not collect any personal information about you from those sites. We may, however, disclose information we collect, including personal information, as set out below:
(a) to our employees, agents Partners, and authorized third-party providers for them to administer any services provided to you through the Site as described above.
(b) apart from the use and sharing of your personal information in the circumstances already described, we may share information we collect (including personal information) as required or allowed by law (for example, as needed to protect our rights and property or to comply with any applicable law or valid legal process);
(c) to affiliated companies and/or joint venture partners in connection with the Site; and/or
(d) with your permission.
6. Your payment details
We will never send you an email containing your full payment details, and we will never publicly disclose your payment details, whether on the Desert Shop or elsewhere. If you appear to have received an email from us, or seen a Desert Shop page, that displays your full payment details, this is not genuine. a third party may be attempting to steal your information. Please see section 10 for further information on how we protect the payment information held for you for the Desert Shop.
7. Cookies and similar technologies
7.1 While you are using the Site, certain information is automatically logged about how you are using the Site to analyze performance and usage of the Site. This information may include, for example, the URL of the website which linked you to the Site, your IP address and the pages you visit while on the Site. The IP address indicates the location of your computer on the internet.
7.2 A “cookie” is a small data file that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your device’s hard drive. References below to cookies also include other means of automatically accessing or storing information on your device. Many browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies as you prefer:
E-commerce (Weebly and Paypal)Used via the Desert Shop to manage your shopping basket and user experience. We use Weebly and Paypal. These e-commerce cookies are set by Weebly and Paypal in accordance with its own privacy and cookies policies.
Session stateBy continuing to use the Site, you are providing your consent for us to use cookies in these ways, but you can disable any of these cookies at any time if you wish (as set out below).
7.3 You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your web browser that allows you to refuse the setting of cookies, or you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it. The Help portion of your browser, most likely found on the toolbar, typically tells you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device, then you can do this by going to the help menu within your internet browser.
8. Links
The Site contains links posted by us to third-party websites (including social networking platforms such as Facebook or Twitter) that we do not operate or control and that are not subject to this Privacy & Cookies Policy. Please note that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of external sites. Please read our Terms and Conditions for further information on these links. We strongly recommend that you read the privacy policy and cookies policy of any such website that you visit before disclosing any information via such website.
9. How do we protect personal information?
9.1 As required by applicable data-protection and privacy laws, we follow appropriate security procedures in relation to the storage and disclosure of information that you have given to us in order to protect against unauthorized access. In particular, we take steps to protect the security of your information, with appropriate physical, technological and administrative measures. You accept the inherent risks of providing information and dealing online and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security that is due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
9.2 If you have any concerns about data security, please see the end of this Privacy and Cookies Policy for details of how to Contact Us
10. About us and how to contact us
10.1 The Site is owned by Distribution Enterprises, a company incorporated in United States.
If you have any other questions about privacy or cookies on the Site, please feel free to contact us:
By email: You can send us any questions using the online Contact form
Last updated: 27 July 2017
1 Introduction
1.1 Welcome to www.Desert-books.com, owned by Distribution Enterprises, Inc (referred to as “Distribution Enterprises”, “we”, “us” or “our” as appropriate), a company established in United States. The main part of the Site is currently available at http://www.desert-books.com, which also includes the online store of Desert books.
1.2 This Privacy and Cookies Policy describes our practices with regard to the information that we collect when you use the Site, what we do with such information and how we protect it. It also describes our practices on the use of cookies.
1.3 We strive to protect the privacy of Site users. We encourage all users to act responsibly and with care when it comes to their personal information and that of others. Please read this Privacy and Cookies Policy to understand how the information you provide to us is used. If you have any questions regarding these practices, please see the end of this Privacy and Cookies Policy for details of how to contact us.
1.4 Please note that by visiting and using the Site, you are agreeing to the use of your information and the use of cookies, as described in this Privacy and Cookies Policy.
2. Changes
2.1 Subject to applicable law, we may make changes to this Privacy and Cookies Policy at any time. See the end of this Privacy and Cookies Policy for details of the date when it was last updated. We may notify you of any such changes by sending you notice in writing, and/or by posting a copy of the revised Privacy and Cookies Policy on the Site.
2.2 If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use and/or share personal information, we will give you prominent notice of these changes. We will not, without your consent, apply these changes to any personal information that we previously collected from you.
3. What information we collect and how we use it
Personal information
3.1 We do not collect information that identifies you personally on or via the Site, unless: (a) you choose to provide it to us when contacting us or purchasing; or (b) the technical data that we collect (such as an IP address) are treated as personally identifying information under applicable laws.
Information from other sources – this is not displayed publicly.
We also work closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners and analytics providers) and may receive information about you from them. In either case, we use this information in relation to the Site for the purpose of understanding our audience.
When you place an order with the Desert Shop, we collect:
Your first name, surname, email address and (if relevant) delivery address.
these are not displayed publicly. We use this information only:
- to identify and contact you about orders that you place via the Desert Shop;
- to identify you in our internal records as the purchaser of the product that you order;
- for other business and operational purposes related to the Desert Shop.
this is not displayed publicly. We use this information only:
- to authorize and approve your payments for orders that you place;
- to contact you by postal mail in the event that we are unable to contact you by other methods;
- to identify you in our internal records as the purchaser of the copy of the product that you order.
In addition we may collect information that does not identify you personally for a variety of purposes as set out below:
Anonymous analytics data
Like many companies who operate websites, we collect basic information about your use of our site, such as the number and duration of visits to the Site, any search questions entered on our site, and details of which particular pages have been visited. We do not combine this information with any other information that could identify you personally. We use this information to analyze how the Site is functioning and how it is used by our users, to help us maintain and improve the Site on an ongoing basis.
Performance data
While using the Site, certain information is automatically logged about how you are using the Site to analyze performance and usage of the Site. This information may include the URL of the website that linked you to the Site, your IP address and the pages you visit while on the Site. The IP address indicates the location of your computer on the internet. We use this information to analyze how the Site is functioning and how it is used by our users, to help us maintain and improve the Site on an ongoing basis.
Third-party analytics data
Like many companies that operate websites, we allow carefully selected third parties to set cookies in order to capture analytics information. When you use social-media functionality on the Site, analytics cookies may be set to measure usage. This information is collected in an anonymous way that does not identify you personally.
Customer service questions
If you contact us to raise a query, in doing so you may provide us with some of your personal information, such as your name or contact details. We use that personal information only for the purpose of responding to your query.
4. How else may we use the information we collect?
4.1 We may use the information we collect to comply with law, to investigate a complaint made by another user or a potential breach of the Site’s terms and Conditions or to prevent and detect unlawful or criminal activity, fraud and misuse of, or damage to, the Site or the products, content and services made available through it, and to take appropriate legal action against those responsible.
5. Information sharing and disclosure
We share your personal information in certain limited ways as described below.
5.1 If you disclose personal information to us when contacting us with a question or placing an order, we may share that personal information with authorized third parties for the purpose of handling your query or order and for the purposes of operating, managing and administering the Desert Shop. Such third parties include, for example, providers of our customer service, hosting, e-commerce delivery, payment facilities and other support services.
5.2 We may share your information with other third parties including commercial partners, suppliers and sub-contractors from time to time (“Partners”) for the performance of any contract we enter into with them in connection with the Site. Your information will not be retained or used for any other purposes.
5.3 We may further share and disclose your personal information with other third parties including Partners for the purpose of better integrating their services with the Desert Shop. Before we share or disclose any of your personal information with any third parties for marketing purposes, we will ask you for your permission to do so.
5.4 In addition, we may share information about visitors to the Site in an anonymous and aggregate form with third parties (including our business partners) to understand user trends and patterns and to manage and improve our business relationships.
5.4 We do not send any information that we collect on the Site to any social networking sites, nor do we share that information with such sites. We do not collect any personal information about you from those sites. We may, however, disclose information we collect, including personal information, as set out below:
(a) to our employees, agents Partners, and authorized third-party providers for them to administer any services provided to you through the Site as described above.
(b) apart from the use and sharing of your personal information in the circumstances already described, we may share information we collect (including personal information) as required or allowed by law (for example, as needed to protect our rights and property or to comply with any applicable law or valid legal process);
(c) to affiliated companies and/or joint venture partners in connection with the Site; and/or
(d) with your permission.
6. Your payment details
We will never send you an email containing your full payment details, and we will never publicly disclose your payment details, whether on the Desert Shop or elsewhere. If you appear to have received an email from us, or seen a Desert Shop page, that displays your full payment details, this is not genuine. a third party may be attempting to steal your information. Please see section 10 for further information on how we protect the payment information held for you for the Desert Shop.
7. Cookies and similar technologies
7.1 While you are using the Site, certain information is automatically logged about how you are using the Site to analyze performance and usage of the Site. This information may include, for example, the URL of the website which linked you to the Site, your IP address and the pages you visit while on the Site. The IP address indicates the location of your computer on the internet.
7.2 A “cookie” is a small data file that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your device’s hard drive. References below to cookies also include other means of automatically accessing or storing information on your device. Many browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies as you prefer:
E-commerce (Weebly and Paypal)Used via the Desert Shop to manage your shopping basket and user experience. We use Weebly and Paypal. These e-commerce cookies are set by Weebly and Paypal in accordance with its own privacy and cookies policies.
Session stateBy continuing to use the Site, you are providing your consent for us to use cookies in these ways, but you can disable any of these cookies at any time if you wish (as set out below).
7.3 You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your web browser that allows you to refuse the setting of cookies, or you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it. The Help portion of your browser, most likely found on the toolbar, typically tells you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.
If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device, then you can do this by going to the help menu within your internet browser.
8. Links
The Site contains links posted by us to third-party websites (including social networking platforms such as Facebook or Twitter) that we do not operate or control and that are not subject to this Privacy & Cookies Policy. Please note that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of external sites. Please read our Terms and Conditions for further information on these links. We strongly recommend that you read the privacy policy and cookies policy of any such website that you visit before disclosing any information via such website.
9. How do we protect personal information?
9.1 As required by applicable data-protection and privacy laws, we follow appropriate security procedures in relation to the storage and disclosure of information that you have given to us in order to protect against unauthorized access. In particular, we take steps to protect the security of your information, with appropriate physical, technological and administrative measures. You accept the inherent risks of providing information and dealing online and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security that is due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
9.2 If you have any concerns about data security, please see the end of this Privacy and Cookies Policy for details of how to Contact Us
10. About us and how to contact us
10.1 The Site is owned by Distribution Enterprises, a company incorporated in United States.
If you have any other questions about privacy or cookies on the Site, please feel free to contact us:
By email: You can send us any questions using the online Contact form
Last updated: 27 July 2017
