Privacy Policy

Half Price Books believes that your personal information - including, but not limited to, your purchase history, email and residential addresses - belongs to you. To serve our customers better, we collect this type of information when you provide it to us, but we do not rent or sell your information to affiliates or third parties.

The B(eco)me Web site is governed by the Half Price Books Privacy Policy, as stated above, and applies when you visit this site or submit any information to us via this Web site.

What We Collect & Why. Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with a smooth, efficient, customized shopping experience. Below are the different types of information we may gather.

When you contact us, we may use your email address, telephone number, or comments provided to help us assist you. We may pass your feedback along to other departments or stores within our company in order to improve our service.

The B(eco)me Web site may employ an invisible coded sensor, commonly known as a cookie, that is activated when you visit a page. This sensor communicates your browser, and recognizes if you have visited our Web site before. Cookies do not communicate any additional information. Some persons may have cookies disabled on their browser, which does not allow us to collect this information to determine if you are a new or returning visitor.

Law Enforcement and Legal Disclosure. Half Price Books may disclose your personal information to a government institution that has asserted its lawful authority to obtain the information or to comply with a subpoena or warrant or an order made by a court, person or body with jurisdiction to compel the production of information, or to comply with court rules regarding the production of records and information, or to its legal disclosure of your personal information, and that use and disclosure is not subject to this Policy. Where Half Price Books has reasonable grounds to believe the information could be useful in the investigation of unlawful activity or fraud, your personal information may be accessed. For this reason, please do not submit information to B(eco)me about any criminal or illegal activities.

Our Web site may offer links to other sites. Other sites have their own policies regarding privacy. If you visit one of these sites, you should review the privacy policy on that site.