Policy - Rev 2/16/2016
BooqSmart.com™ is owned and operated by Illuminositi, Inc. The following describes the privacy policy (as amended or otherwise changed from time to time, the "Privacy Policy") applicable to the services available through the BooqSmart.com™ web site (the "Site") from Illuminositi, Inc. Certain services which you may access on the Site are provided by our third party partners, and protection of your information relating to such services will be governed by the privacy policy of such third party (see "Sharing Your Personal Data-Certain Services," below). By visiting the Site, you are accepting the Privacy Policy described herein.
On occasion Illuminositi, Inc. may revise this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the law, our Personal Data collection and use practices, the features of our Site, or advances in technology. If we make revisions that change the way we collect or use your Personal Data, those changes will be posted in this Privacy Policy and the effective date will be noted at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. Therefore, you should review it periodically so that you are up to date on our most current policies and practices. Illuminositi, Inc. will also prominently post such material changes prior to implementing the change.
Our Commitment to Your Privacy
Illuminositi, Inc. is proud to be a leader in the field of electronic commerce and a true innovator in the way people buy the educational things they need.
This Privacy Policy covers the site www.BooqSmart.com. Because we want to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, we have agreed to disclose our information practices and have our privacy practices reviewed for compliance.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first click here to contact us. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact us by mail at Illuminositi, Inc., 3613 Del Prado Blvd, Cape Coral, FL 33904.
We value your trust in us and will work hard to earn your confidence so that you can enthusiastically use our services and recommend us to your friends and family.
Information We Collect
We collect personally identifiable information ("Personal Data") about you that you provide to us while using the Site. Personal Data includes information that can identify you as a specific individual, such as your name, address, phone number, credit card number or e-mail address.
We also collect non-personally identifiable information, including your log-in name, search preferences related to specific searches, bids through our BooqSmart.com™ cookies. Third parties also may collect non-personally identifiable information on our Site as described below.
Protecting Your Personal Data
We save your Personal Data to make it easier for you to use our services on return visits.
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure correct use of Personal Data, we will employ reasonable and current Internet security methods and technologies. To protect credit card transactions, Illuminositi, Inc. currently uses Secure Socket Layer technology to encrypt Personal Data and DOES NOT hold your credit card information on-site, but rather uses a Third Party Gateway - NaviGate Payment Gateway.
How We Use the Information We Collect
We use Personal Data to provide you with the products and services from our Site, to build features that will make the services available on the Site easier to use, and to contact you about these services. This includes faster purchase requests, better customer support and timely notice of new services and special offers.
From time to time, Illuminositi, Inc. may contact you to request feedback on your experience using the Site, to assist us in improving the Site, or to offer special savings or promotions to you, as a Site user. If you would prefer not to receive notices of special savings or promotions, you may simply "opt-out" from Signing Up for the BooqSmart.com™ eNewsletter.
Sharing Your Personal Data
Illuminositi, Inc. does not share your Personal Data, except as disclosed in this statement. Illuminositi, Inc. may share your Personal Data with its subsidiaries and with third parties as described in the categories below:
Certain Services: In order to provide you with certain services, we may share your Personal Data with our third party partners, or require that you transact directly with a third party partner. Third party partners consist of companies with which Illuminositi, Inc. has contracted in order to provide you with services or products featured on our Site. Below is a list of some of such services:
Place Your Bid!™ Service
Place Your Bid!™ Auction Service is offered through Suppliers and Vendors. When you provide Personal Data in connection with the purchase or booking of a Class or Classes, Products, and Services, you are providing such Personal Data to Suppliers and Vendors, which hold such Personal Data on our behalf. Our contract with Suppliers and Vendors requires the Suppliers and Vendors to maintain such Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
BooqSmart.com™ "Search Schools" (CPL) Service
BooqSmart.com™ "Search Schools" (CPL) Service is offered through Suppliers and Vendors. When you provide Personal Data in connection with an information Request for a Class or Classes, Products, and Services, you are providing such Personal Data to Suppliers and Vendors, which hold such Personal Data on our behalf. Our contract with Suppliers and Vendors requires the Suppliers and Vendors to maintain such Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We may revise this list from time to time if we decide to offer additional services through these or other third-party partners.
Illuminositi, Inc.'s Agents
Many of the operations we perform require us to hire other companies to help us with these tasks. For example, Illuminositi, Inc. hires companies to help us develop our website (including the management of our database), analyze the data we collect, market our products and services, and handle credit card transactions. The companies we employ to help us with these tasks have access to Personal Data to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Illuminositi, Inc. requires all agents to whom Personal Data is disclosed to enter into confidentiality agreements.
External Service Providers
When you use the Illuminositi, Inc. service to purchase a Class or Classes, Products, and Services, or to take advantage of any of our other products and services (Test Prep or Tests), we provide Personal Data to the Suppliers and Vendors or other involved third-party.
Advertisements, Marketing Material and Other Offers
Illuminositi, Inc. will occasionally send advertisements, marketing material or other offers on behalf of other businesses in the BooqSmart.com™'s eNewsletter that we think might be of interest to you. This material is sent by Illuminositi, Inc., and when we send these offers, we do not give that other business your name or address. If you do not want to receive these advertisements, marketing material or other offers, DO NOT Sign Up for the BooqSmart.com™'s eNewsletter and you will not receive these offers.
Future Business Transfers
Our business is constantly changing. As part of that process, Illuminositi, Inc. may sell or buy other companies, and Personal Data may be transferred as part of these transactions. It is also possible that Illuminositi, Inc., or substantially all of its assets, may be acquired by another company, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, and Personal Data may be transferred as part of such a transaction.
Compliance with Law and Protection of Illuminositi, Inc.
Illuminositi, Inc. reserves the right to release Personal Data in order to comply with the law. We may also release Personal Data to enforce or apply the terms and conditions applicable to our products and services, or protect the rights, property or safety of Illuminositi, Inc.
Our Policy Concerning Cookies
To serve you faster and with better quality, we use "cookie" technology and also allow third parties to use cookies on our Site. Cookies are small bits of code, usually stored on a user's computer hard drive, which enable a web site to "personalize" itself for each user by remembering information about the user's visit to the web site.
As described in more detail below, BooqSmart.com™'s cookies have many benefits to enhance your experience on our web site. The third party cookies used on our site are also designed to improve your web site experience by facilitating the receipt of targeted advertisements while on our site and while you are viewing other, non-Illuminositi, Inc. web sites.
BooqSmart.com™ Cookies (First Party Cookies)
We, at BooqSmart.com™, use our cookies to reduce the time it takes for you to submit purchase requests. For example, we use a cookie to store a registered user's e-mail address so that the user does not need to enter their e-mail address each time that they log-in onto BooqSmart.com™. We will also use a cookie to keep track of your search criteria while you are engaging BooqSmart.com™'s services. BooqSmart.com™cookies are associated with a user's personal information.
No third party has access to the information we collect through our BooqSmart.com™ cookies.
Third Party Cookies and Pixels
We also use third-party advertising companies to serve ads while you are visiting our site and permit these companies to place and access their own cookies on your computer in the course of serving advertisements on this site. These companies may use information obtained through their cookie (which does not include your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to our and other web sites, in combination with non-personally identifiable information about your purchases and interests from other online sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies and not ours. Such advertisers do not have access to our cookies.
In addition, we may share web site usage information about visitors to our sites with these companies for the purpose of managing and targeting advertisements and for market research analysis on our site and other sites. For these purposes, we and our third-party advertising companies may place pixel tags (also called clear gifs) on some of the pages you visit on our site. We will then use the non-personally identifiable information that is collected using these pixel tags to serve you relevant advertisements when you are visiting other sites on the Internet. These advertisements may be targeted to specific searches you conducted on BooqSmart.com™ during earlier browsing sessions.
You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer's hard drive by searching for files with "cookie" in it. This action could affect your subsequent visits to certain web sites, including the BooqSmart.com™ web site, by requiring that, for example, you enter you login name when you return to that web site.
How You Can Access or Change Your Personally-Identifying Information
BooqSmart.com™ understands that you may want to change or access your Personal Data. You may do so by accessing your account. To protect your privacy and security, your e-mail address and password are required in order to access your account information.
A Special Note About Children
Persons under the age of 18 are not eligible to use any services on our Site.
How to Contact Us
Should you have any questions, concerns or comments, please click here.