Terms of Use

Welcome to the Mary Schrock Books web site located at MarySchrockBooks.com (“website”), which is owned by Mary Schrock.

The purpose of this website is to provide factual, honest information about the Amish religion and lifestyle through blog content, email content, products, and services provided. The information presented on this website reflect the views and opinions of Mary Schrock are are designed for informational purposes only.

Mary Schrock Books is committed to keeping any and all personal information collected from those individuals that visit our website and make use of our online facilities and services accurate, confidential, secure, and private. Our privacy policy has been designed and created to insure those affiliated with Mary Schrock Books of our commitment and realization of our obligation not only to meet but to exceed most existing privacy standards.

THEREFORE, this Privacy Policy Agreement shall apply to Mary Schrock Books, and thus it shall govern any and all data collection and usage thereof. Through the use of MarySchrockBooks.com you are herein consenting to the following data procedures expressed within this agreement. Please read this page carefully before using this website.

Content Management

All contents of this website are ©2019 Mary Schrock. All rights reserved. This website contains copyrighted material, trademarks, service marks, logos, trade dress and other proprietary content, including but not limited to text, excerpts from a book, photographs, buttons, images, video and graphics, and the entire selection, coordination, arrangement and “look and feel” of this website and the content are copyrighted as a collective work under United States copyright laws (collectively, the “Content”).

Except as provided in these Terms, you may not use, modify, republish, frame, license, transfer, post, transmit, create derivative works from, or otherwise exploit any Content from this website, in whole or in part, without the express permission of Mary Schrock.

Reproduction, distribution, republication, and/or retransmission of material contained within this website is prohibited without prior written consent of Mary Schrock. Any other use, including the reproduction, modification, distribution, transmission, republication, display or performance, of the content on this site is strictly prohibited.

Collection of Information

This website collects various types of information such as:

Voluntarily provided information which may include your name, address, email address, billing and/or credit card information, etc., which may be used when you purchase products and/or services and to the services/products you have requested.

Information automatically collected when visiting our website, which may include cookies, third party tracking technologies, and server logs.

Please rest assured that this site shall only collect personal information that you knowingly and willingly provide by way of surveys or email. It is the intent of this site to use personal information only for the purpose for which it was requested and any additional uses specifically provided on this site.

Mary Schrock Books may have the occasion to collect non-personal anonymous demographic information, such as age, gender, as well as the type of browser you are using, IP address, type of operating system, at a later time, that will assist in providing and maintaining superior quality service.

Use of Information Collected

Mary Schrock Books may collect and may make use of personal information to assist in the operation of our website and to ensure delivery of the services you need and request. At times, we may find it necessary to use personally identifiable information as a means to keep you informed of other possible products and/or services that may be available to you from MarySchrockBooks.com. Mary Schrock Books may also be in contact with you with regards to completing surveys and/or research questionnaires related to your opinion of current or potential future services that may be offered.

Mary Schrock Books does not now, nor will it in the future, sell, rent, or lease any of its customer lists and/or names to any third parties.

Mary Schrock Books may deem it necessary to follow websites and/or pages that their users may frequent in an effort to glean what types of service and/or products may be the most popular to customers or the general public.

Mary Schrock Books may not disclose your personal information, without any prior notice to you, unless required to do so in accordance with applicable laws and/or in a good faith belief that such action is deemed necessary or required in an effort to:

Remain in conformance to any degrees, laws, and/or statutes or in an effort to comply with any process which may be served upon Mary Schrock Books and/or its website;
Maintain, safeguard, and/or preserve all the rights and/or property of Mary Schrock Books; and
Perform under demanding conditions in an effort to safeguard the personal safety of users of MarySchrockBooks.com and/or the general public.

Non-Marketing Purposes

Mary Schrock Books greatly respects your privacy. We do maintain and reserve the right to contact you if needed for non-marketing purposes (such as bug alerts, security breaches, account issues, and/or changes to Mary Schrock Books products and services). In certain circumstances, we may use our website or other public means to post a notice.

Children Under Age of 13

Mary Schrock Books does not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen (13) without verifiable parental consent. If it is determined that such information has been inadvertently collected on anyone under the age of thirteen (13), we shall immediately take the necessary steps to ensure that such information is deleted from our system’s database. Anyone under the age of thirteen (13) must seek and obtain parent or guardian permission to use this website.

Unsubscribe or Opt-Out

All users and/or visitors to our website have the option to discontinue receiving communication from us and/or reserve the right to discontinue receiving communications by way of email or newsletters. To discontinue or unsubscribe to communications from our website please click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of your email or send an email that you wish to unsubscribe to maryschrockbooks@gmail.com. Mary Schrock Books will continue to adhere to the privacy policy described herein with respect to any personal information previously collected.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to affiliate or other websites. Mary Schrock Books does not claim nor accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices and/or procedures of other such websites. Therefore, we encourage all users and visitors to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy statement of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. The aforementioned Privacy Policy Agreement applies only and solely to the information collected by our website.

Security

Mary Schrock Books shall endeavor and shall take every precaution to maintain adequate physical, procedural, and technical security with respect to its offices and information storage facilities so as to prevent any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure or modification of the user’s personal information under our control.

Mary Schrock Books also uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for authentication and private communications in an effort to build users’ trust and confidence in the internet and website use by providing simple and secure access and communication of credit card and personal information.

Acceptance of Terms

Through the use of this website, you are hereby accepting the terms and conditions stipulated within the aforementioned Privacy Policy Agreement. If you are not in agreement with our terms and conditions, then you should refrain from further use of our sites. In addition, your continued use of our website following the posting of any updates or changes to our terms and conditions shall mean that you are in agreement and acceptance of such changes.

Changes to Privacy Policy Agreement

This Privacy Policy is effective as of October 1, 2019 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

Mary Schrock Books reserves the right to update and/or change the terms of our privacy policy, and as such we will post those changes to our website, so that our users and/or visitors are always aware of the type of information we collect, how it will be used, and under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose such information. Your continued use of this website after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If at any point in time Mary Schrock Books decides to make use of any personally identifiable information on file, in a manner vastly different from that which was stated when this information was initially collected, the user or users shall be promptly notified by email. Users at that time shall have the option as to whether or not to permit the use of their information in this separate manner.

How to Contact Us

If you have any further questions or concerns regarding the Privacy Policy Agreement related to our website, please feel free to contact us at the following email address:

Email: maryschrockbooks@gmail.com