Our privacy policy

  General information

Last updated on May 2, 2008

The aim of our Privacy Policy is to protect the privacy of our customers and visitors.

If you have any questions, suggestions or complaints regarding our Privacy Policy, please email us at the address on our Contact page and we will reply to you promptly.

If at any point you wish to know if we are holding any information about yourself, please email us at the address indicated above.

  Your privacy

At spanish-bookworld.com we are firmly committed to protecting your privacy while you navigate through our website and are aware of our responsibility for keeping any information you may send us confidential at all times.

  Your email address

When you contact us by email, we automatically get your email address so we can get back to you. Once your query has been answered, we will never contact you again unless you ask us to do so.

When you subscribe to our mailing list, your email address is automatically added to our list. We only use that list to inform you about new publications, new forums, new free Spanish lessons, and general improvements made to our sites. You may unsubscribe from our mailing list at any point.

spanish-bookworld.com never shares, sells, loans or passes on the email addresses of its visitors to any other company, individual or organization, without exception.

We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect ourselves against loss, misuse or alteration of the data we have.

  Your personal data

When you make a purchase through our links, we do not get any financial data belonging to our visitors. We do not get their post addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers or any other personal information.

All the information we get is general statistics about the products that have been sold through our links, prices paid, dates and cancellations. We do not get details of who purchases our products.

  Cookies

A cookie is information stored on your computer by a website with the aim of remembering your computer on your next visit. Cookies are commonly used on the Internet and do not harm your system. You may block the use of cookies by changing the settings on your browser.

When a visitor clicks on one of our sponsored links, a cookie is sent to our sponsors so they know their potential customer came from our site. That way we can receive the commission agreed if a sale is made. No details about you are sent to us.

  Statistical information

spanish-bookworld.com uses statistical information provided by Google and our ISP to analyze our website's popularity. This information is purely statistical and, therefore, not linked to an identifiable visitor.

Here are some examples: we get information on the percentage of our visitors that use Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and other browsers. We get graphics that indicate the daily trends, so we can see which days we get more visitors. We also get the list of our most visited pages and the list of pages that give an error messages. We only use those statistics to improve our website.

  Links on our sites

At spanish-bookworld.com we have links to other sites over which we have no control and, therefore, we cannot be held responsible for the practices and/or content of those sites. However, we constantly monitor our links and do not allow any of the sites that are linked to us to promote any of the following materials: pornography of any kind, gratuitous violence; religious, racial, gender, political or social hatred; illegal activities, and/or human or animal abuse. Sites who are found to violate this rule will be permanently banned from our site.

Spanish set phrase
Ponerle a alguien un ojo morado

English literal translation
To put someone a purple eye

English equivalent
To give someone a black eye