Privacy policy

Last updated: December 8, 2025

Kingsbridge Books operates this store and website, including all related information, content, features, tools, products, and services, to provide you, the customer, with a personalized shopping experience (the “Services”). Lauren Parker Books is powered by Shopify, which enables us to provide the Services to you. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit, use, or make a purchase or other transaction through the Services, or otherwise communicate with us. If there is a conflict between our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy prevails with respect to the collection, processing, and disclosure of your personal information.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using and accessing the Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and understand the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in it.

Personal information we collect or process

When we use the term “personal information,” we mean information that identifies or can reasonably be linked to you or another person. Personal information does not include information collected anonymously or de-identified so that it cannot identify you or reasonably be linked to you. Depending on how you interact with the Services, where you live, and as permitted or required by applicable law, we may collect or process the following categories of personal information, including inferences drawn from that information:

  • Contact information, including your name, address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, and email address.
  • Financial information, including credit card, debit card, and financial account numbers, payment card information, financial account information, transaction details, payment method, payment confirmation, and other payment details.
  • Account information, including your username, password, security questions, preferences, and settings.
  • Transaction information, including items you view, place in your cart, add to your wish list, purchase, return, exchange, or cancel, and your past transactions.
  • Communications with us, including information you include in your communications with us, for example when submitting a customer support inquiry.
  • Device information, including information about your device, browser, or network connection, your IP address, and other unique identifiers.
  • Usage information, including information about your interactions with the Services, including how and when you interact with or navigate the Services.

Sources of personal information

We may collect personal information from the following sources:

  • Directly from you, including when you create an account, visit or use the Services, communicate with us, or otherwise provide personal information to us;
  • Automatically through the Services, including from your device when you use our products or Services or visit our websites, and through cookies and similar technologies;
  • From our service providers, including when we engage them to enable certain technology and when they collect or process your personal information on our behalf;
  • From our partners or other third parties.

How we use your personal information

Depending on how you communicate with us or which Services you use, we may use personal information for the following purposes:

  • Providing, personalizing, and improving the Services. We use your personal information to provide the Services, including to perform our agreement with you, process payments, fulfill orders, remember your preferences and items you are interested in, send account notifications, process purchases, returns, exchanges, or other transactions, create, maintain, and otherwise manage your account, arrange shipping, facilitate returns and exchanges, enable you to post reviews, and create a personalized shopping experience, such as recommending products related to your purchases. This may include using your personal information to better personalize and improve the Services.
  • Marketing and advertising. We use your personal information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as sending marketing, advertising, and promotional communications by email, text message, or mail, and showing online advertisements for products or Services on the Services or other websites, including based on items you previously purchased or added to your cart and other activity on the Services.
  • Security and fraud prevention. We use your personal information to authenticate your account, provide a secure payment and shopping experience, detect, investigate, or take action regarding potentially fraudulent, illegal, unsafe, or malicious activity, protect public safety, and secure our Services. If you choose to use the Services and register an account, you are responsible for keeping your account credentials safe. We strongly recommend that you do not share your username, password, or other access credentials with anyone else.
  • Communicating with you. We use your personal information to provide customer support, respond to you, provide effective Services, and maintain our business relationship with you.
  • Legal purposes. We use your personal information to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal processes, including requests from law enforcement or government agencies, investigate or participate in civil discovery, potential or actual litigation, or other adversarial legal proceedings, and enforce or investigate potential violations of our terms or policies.

How we disclose personal information

In certain circumstances, we may disclose your personal information to third parties for legitimate purposes subject to this Privacy Policy. These circumstances may include:

  • With Shopify, vendors, and other third parties that perform services on our behalf, such as IT management, payment processing, data analytics, customer support, cloud storage, fulfillment, and shipping;
  • With business and marketing partners to provide marketing services and advertise to you. For example, we use Shopify to support personalized advertising through third-party services based on your online activity across different merchants and websites. Our business and marketing partners use your information in accordance with their own privacy notices. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to ask us not to share information about you for targeted advertising and marketing based on your online activity across different merchants and websites;
  • When you direct, request, or otherwise consent to our disclosure of certain information to third parties, for example to ship products to you or through your use of social media widgets or login integrations;
  • With our affiliates or otherwise within our corporate group;
  • In connection with a business transaction, such as a merger or bankruptcy, to comply with applicable legal obligations, including responding to subpoenas, search warrants, and similar requests, enforce applicable terms of service or policies, and protect or defend the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users or others.

Relationship with Shopify

The Services are hosted by Shopify, which collects and processes personal information about your access to and use of the Services to provide and improve them for you. Information you submit to the Services will be transmitted to and shared with Shopify and third parties that may be located in countries other than where you live, to provide and improve the Services. In addition, to help protect, grow, and improve our business, we use certain enhanced Shopify features that incorporate data and information obtained from your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify. To provide these enhanced features, Shopify may use personal information collected about your interactions with our store, other merchants, and Shopify. In these circumstances, Shopify is responsible for processing your personal information, including responding to requests to exercise your rights regarding the use of your personal information for these purposes. To learn more about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you may have, visit the Shopify Consumer Privacy Policy. Depending on where you live, you can exercise certain rights regarding your personal information through Shopify’s Privacy Portal.

Third-party websites and links

The Services may contain links to websites or other online platforms operated by third parties. If you follow links to sites not affiliated with or controlled by us, you should review their privacy and security policies and other terms and conditions. We do not guarantee and are not responsible for the privacy or security of those sites, including the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of information found on them. Information you provide in public or semi-public spaces, including information shared on third-party social networking platforms, may also be viewed by other users of the Services or those third-party platforms without restrictions on its use by us or a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply endorsement of the content on those platforms or their owners or operators, except as disclosed on the Services.

Children’s information

The Services are not intended for use by children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children under the age of majority in your jurisdiction. If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with personal information, contact us using the details below to request its deletion. As of the effective date of this Privacy Policy, we do not have actual knowledge that we “share” or “sell” personal information about individuals under 16 years of age, as those terms are defined by applicable law.

Security and retention of your information

Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and that we cannot guarantee “perfect security.” Information you send us may also not be secure during transmission. We recommend that you do not use unsecured channels to communicate sensitive or confidential information to us.

How long we retain your personal information depends on various factors, such as whether we need it to maintain your account, provide Services, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce other applicable contracts and policies.

Your rights and choices

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights regarding your personal information. These rights are not absolute, may apply only in certain circumstances, and in some cases we may decline your request as permitted by law.

  • Right of access / right to know. You may have the right to request access to personal information we hold about you.
  • Right to deletion. You may have the right to request that we delete personal information we hold about you.
  • Right to correction. You may have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we hold about you.
  • Right to portability. In certain circumstances and subject to certain exceptions, you may have the right to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and request that we transfer it to a third party.
  • Managing communication preferences. We may send promotional emails to you. You can opt out at any time using the unsubscribe option in our emails. If you opt out, we may still send non-promotional emails, such as emails about your account or orders.

If you live in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area (EEA), subject to exceptions and limitations under local law, you may exercise these additional rights:

  • Objection to processing and restriction of processing. You may have the right to ask us to stop or restrict processing personal information for certain purposes.
  • Withdrawal of consent. Where we rely on consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw it. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before it was withdrawn.

You can exercise these rights where indicated on the Services or by contacting us using the details below. For more information about how Shopify uses your personal information and any rights you may have, including rights concerning data processed by Shopify, visit https://privacy.shopify.com/en.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights. We may need to verify your identity before processing requests, as permitted or required by applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, you may designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. Before accepting such a request, we require the agent to demonstrate that you authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may ask you to verify your identity directly with us. We will respond to your request in a timely manner as required by applicable law.

Complaints

If you have complaints about how we process your personal information, contact us using the details below. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to appeal our decision by contacting us using those details, or to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. For the EEA, a list of the responsible data protection supervisory authorities is available here.

International transfers

Please note that we may transfer, store, and process your personal information outside the country where you live.

If we transfer your personal information outside the EEA or the United Kingdom, we rely on recognized transfer mechanisms, such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent contracts issued by the relevant competent authority in the United Kingdom, where applicable, unless the information is transferred to a country determined to provide an adequate level of protection.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised policy on this website, update the “Last updated” date, and provide notice as required by applicable law.

Contact

If you have questions about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, or would like to exercise any of your rights, please call or email us at info@laurenparkerbooks.com or kingsbridgebooks@outlook.com. For the purposes of applicable data protection law, we are the controller of your personal information.