Textbooks 101

Privacy Policy

Last Modified: March 30, 2016

Textbooks 101 is a great way for students to ensure that they're always getting the best prices on schoolbooks. As a result of using the Textbooks 101 application, you will inevitably share some information with us. This document describes what information we collect from you, how we use it, and who we share it with.

Information About You That We Collect

Information That You Choose To Give Us

When you use and interact with the services provided by Textbooks 101 (and Friday Software Group Inc.), we collect the information that you voluntarily share with us. For example, when you create an account on Textbooks 101, we will store the first and last name you provide to us, as well as the school, city, username and profile picture that you associate with your account. If you sign up via Facebook, a unique access token provided by Facebook is obtained and stored within your user account, as well as your Facebook profile ID and the expiration date of said token. This information will be private if you request from within your profile settings, and will be public if you allow your name and school to be public.

As well, all books added for buying or selling purposes are stored and kept as long as you keep them on Textbooks 101. Deleting any added books for either buying or selling purposes will remove them from being stored on our service. All messages that you receive from others, and messages that you send to others are stored. As a result, we highly recommend that you do not share any sensitive or personal information over messages, such as addresses, financial information or any other information that you wouldn't casually share publicly.

When you contact Textbooks 101 for support, we may store the information that you voluntarily provide while communicating with our support team as a result of support-providing process.

Information Accumulated While You Use Our Services

While using the Textbooks 101 service, we collect information about how you use the application. This information may include user analytics, usage statistics, advertising-based statistics and error reporting. Here's a breakdown of some of the information collected while you use our services:

How The Information Is Used

The information obtained by Textbooks 101 has a very simple purpose: improve the application and provide the best user experience possible. Other uses may be:

How and When We Share Information

Advertising Services and Analytics Services Provided By Others

We may allow third party services integrated within Textbooks 101 to collect and use information about you in order to serve advertisements, provide diagnostic information about Textbooks 101 such as errors, crashes, bugs and software performance information. Integrated third party advertising services may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies within their services.

International Users Outside the United States and Canada

We invite international users to give Textbooks 101 a shot. Textbooks 101 is proudly developed, operated and maintained within Canada. The information collected about you is stored, processed and used within the United States and may be transferred and processed in countries and regions outside of the United States. Due to the nature of a global internet, at some point, information collected about you could be processed or stored in a region with different privacy laws than the country you reside.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

If we make changes to this privacy policy, we will let you know by changing the date at the top (date modified). If we make a change which we consider to be a major change and that could effect the majority of users, we may notify you of such a change via push notification.