Our Privacy Policy
YungJunk has been created to save students on one of the most expensive parts of going to school. Not only that, but it also helps in empowering students, book vendors, party promoters, aspiring artists and musicians, and the young community and businesses in making money, like never before. Since students are required to submit personal information to obtain material or make purchases, we focus to ensure that user privacy is ensured strictly.
We work hard to earn and keep your trust, so we adhere to the following principles to protect your privacy:
We will never make commercial profit by selling or renting out information that personally identifies you to third parties for marketing purposes.
Any sensitive information that you provide will be secured with all industry standard protocols and technology.
Notice of all changes that materially affect ways in which your personally identifiable information may be used or shared will be posted in updates to our Privacy Policy. If you continue to use the YungJunk services after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices.
Please read this privacy policy to learn more about:
- What personally identifiable information of yours is collected by YungJunk
- How the information is used
- With whom the information may be shared
- How you can access and change your account information
- What security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information collected by YungJunk YungJunk
How to contact us:
If users have questions or concerns regarding this statement, contact YungJunk.com by email at privacy@YungJunk.com.
Information Collection:
In order to become a YungJunk user, you must first create an account with this web site. To create an account you are required to provide the following contact information: name, email address, and ZIP/postal code.
Once registered as a user, you may provide additional information in the Profile section describing your contact information, privacy filters and student information. Providing additional information beyond what is required at registration is entirely optional, but enables you to better identify yourself and helps YungJunk find you the textbooks you want.
Cookies & Log Files:
Like most web sites, YungJunk uses cookies and web log files to track site usage. A cookie is a tiny data file which resides on your computer which allows YungJunk to recognize you as a user when you return to our site using the same computer and web browser. Unfortunately, if your browser settings do not allow cookies, you will not be able to use our website. Like the information you enter at registration or in your Profile, cookies and log file data is used to customize your experience on the web site.
One type of cookie, known as a "persistent" cookie, is set once you've logged in to your YungJunk account. The next time you visit the YungJunk web site, the persistent cookie will allow us to recognize you as an existing user so you will not need to log in before using the service. Additionally, if you log out of the YungJunk site you will need to re-enter your password the next time you visit in order to log in to your account. This cookie also functions as a "session" cookie, it is used to identify a particular visit to the YungJunk site. Session cookies expire after a short time or when you close your web browser.
Due to the communications standards on the Internet, when you visit the YungJunk web site we automatically receive the URL of the site from which you came and the site to which you are going when you leave YungJunk. We also receive the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer operating system and type of web browser you are using, as well as the name of your ISP. This information is used to analyze overall trends to help us improve the YungJunk experience and services. The linkage between your IP address and your personally identifiable information is never shared with third-parties without your permission, except when required by law.
Web Beacons:
We allow other companies, called ad networks, to serve advertisements to YungJunk public or private users. Ad networks include third party ad servers, ad agencies, ad technology vendors and research firms. YungJunk may "target" some ads to users that fit a certain general profile - for example, "engineering students at Stanford University." YungJunk does NOT use personally identifiable information to target ads.
To deliver these ads properly, YungJunk may include a file, called a web beacon, from these ad networks within pages served by YungJunk so the networks can provide anonymized, aggregated auditing, research and reporting for advertisers as well as to target ads to you while you visit other websites.
Because your web browser must request these advertisements and web beacons from the ad network's servers, these companies can view, edit or set their own cookies, just as if you had requested a web page from their site.
These general targets may also be used by ad networks to display targeted ads on other websites as a substitute for random, irrelevant ads. You will never see additional ads as a result of being a YungJunk user and YungJunk never provides personally identifiable information to any advertiser nor any third party.
No One Under the age of 13:
Anyone over the age of 13 is eligible to use our services and we ask that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us. YungJunk and its affiliates recommend under age users, use our site under adult supervision. Anyone under the age of 18 CANNOT sell tunes, rent/sell books, sell notes, sell tickets for an event and venue or participate in any of our 'Seller Programs'. For students who are entering college and younger than the age of 18, please have your parent's supervision when submitting any personal information. Anyone under the age of 18 is only allowed to use the 'Social Networking' features to social network with other members their age group.
YungJunk Communications:
YungJunk will communicate with you through email and notices posted on this website. These include a series of up to three welcome emails which help inform new users about various features of the services. Please be aware that you will always receive certain emails from YungJunk related to the proper functioning of your account, such as email notices when another user in your network sends you an opportunity to join their network. YungJunk may send you promotional information unless you have opted out of receiving such information. If you wish to opt-out of receiving promotional emails, please send a request to opt-out@YungJunk.com
Customized Content:
Information you provide at registration or in your Profile section is also used to customize your experience on the web site. For example, when you login to your account we will display the screen names of new items that have recently been posted for your campus. Information Sharing, new friend requests, new purchases from you or new communication attempts from another member or user are also displayed.
Sharing Information with Third Parties:
YungJunk takes the privacy of our users very seriously. We will never sell, rent, or otherwise provide your personally identifiable information to any third parties for marketing purposes. We will only share your personally identifiable with third parties to carry out your instructions and to provide specific services. For instance, we use credit card processing companies to bill users for purchases, etc. These third parties do not retain, share, or store any personally identifiable information except to provide these services and are bound by strict confidentiality agreements which limit their use of such information.
We may provide aggregated data about the usage of our services to third-parties for such purposes as we deem, at our sole discretion, to be appropriate. We may segment our users by status (i.e. freshmen, sophomore, juniors, seniors, etc), major, geographic location and university. If you would like to be excluded from the aggregated research or products based upon aggregated data about our users' activities on the site, please email customer service.
Partnering with Other Organizations to Offer Combined Services:
YungJunk may partner with other online services to give you the combined results of many services. Whenever we offer such combined services, it will be your choice if you want to make use of the combined services or not. In these cases, your personally identifiable information will only be passed from YungJunk to our partner's or affiliates if you choose to use the combined service.
Communications between User and Merchant or Member to Member
Many emails you initiate through YungJunk, like any dispute email sent to a merchant for instance, may or may not list your email address and name or screen name in the header of the message. Other communications that you initiate through the YungJunk website, like a request for contact, will list your name or screen as the initiator but will not include your personal contact information. Your contact information will only be shared to provide shipping labels for the merchant.
Legal Disclaimer:
It is possible that we may need to disclose personal information when required by law. We will disclose such information wherein we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary to comply with a court order, ongoing judicial proceeding, or other legal process served on our company or to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. Accessing and Changing Your Account Information.
You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired changes to the information, or to the settings for your YungJunk account, at any time by logging in to your account on the YungJunk website and editing the information on your Profile page or the My Account Page. If you close your YungJunk account, we will remove your name and other personally identifiable information from our publicly viewable data. We may retain certain data contributed by you if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, or for legitimate business purposes, such as analysis of aggregated, non-personally-identifiable data, account recovery, or if required by law. All retained data will continue to be subject to the terms of the YungJunk Privacy Policy that you have previously agreed to. To request that we close your account and remove your information from the YungJunk service, please send your request to privacy@YungJunk.com. Please send your request using an email account that you have registered with YungJunk under your name. You will receive a response to requests sent to privacy@YungJunk.com within five business days of our receiving it.
Security:
In order to secure your personal credit information, all communications between you and the Google Checkout or PayPal website (payment gateways) or our credit card or bank account information is passed through secure socket layer (SSL) encryption.
Changes to this Privacy Policy:
YungJunk may update this privacy policy. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display a notice on this site. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
Questions or Comments:
If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, please email us at privacy@YungJunk.com or contact us at:
Attn: Privacy Policy Issues
YungJunk.com
P.O. Box 341063
Brooklyn, NY 11234
or
Privacyissues@YungJunk.com
