Navigating the East Carolina University Bookstore: Hours, Services, and Resources

East Carolina University (ECU) offers various resources for students, including the Dowdy Student Stores, operated by Barnes & Noble College (BNC). Understanding the bookstore's operations, including its hours, services like the ECU First Day program, and policies regarding personal information, is essential for students. This article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of these aspects, drawing upon information provided by Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (BNED) and details about the ECU Dowdy Student Stores.

Understanding BNED's Data Privacy Practices

Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (BNED), along with its subsidiaries like Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, and MBS Textbook Exchange, LLC, collects, uses, and discloses your personal information through various channels:

Online platforms where their privacy policy is posted.
In-person interactions at their stores and events.
Customer service channels.
Other online and offline interactions.

BNED may also transfer your data to other countries through their vendors.

Types of Information Collected

BNED collects several types of information:

Information You Provide: Registration is optional, but some services require an account. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your access information.
Information Collected Automatically: BNED uses tracking technologies to automatically collect data.
Information From External Sources: They may collect personal information from external sources, including friends, vendors, customers, educational institutions, advertising networks, publicly available information, and affiliates.

How BNED Uses Your Information

BNED and its vendors and institutions may use your information for various purposes, including:

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Security and Safety: Protecting the rights, property, life, health, security, and safety of BNED, its services, users, or any other party.
Business Transactions: Interacting with personnel of customers and vendors in business-to-business interactions.

External Services and Social Features

BNED uses external services and social features that may impact your data:

External Services: Vendors and external services may use their own tracking technologies to collect information independently.
Social Features: Functionalities may allow interaction with external services like social networks. Information posted or accessed may be publicly displayed.

Advertising and Analytics

BNED engages in advertising and analytics practices:

Advertising: Working with vendors, customers, and other parties to serve ads on their services or external services, potentially tailored to your interests (Interest-based Advertising).
Analytics: Using vendor tools like Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics to analyze performance and deliver services and advertising. Technologies may monitor and analyze how visitors use their services to improve user behavior.

Managing Your Preferences

You have options to manage your communication and marketing preferences, review, update, or change your information.

Browser Settings: Their services do not currently respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals.
Self-Regulatory Advertising Organizations: Supporting programs like the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising.
Mobile Device Settings: Using mobile device settings to limit mobile Tracking Technologies and sharing of location information.
Vendor-Specific Tools: Disabling or removing Tracking Technologies may affect functionality.
Matched List Ads: Serving ads on external services targeted to people identified on their databases.

User-Generated Content (UGC)

Be cautious when posting User Generated Content (UGC):

If you submit UGC to any public area of their services, it will be considered "public" and accessible by anyone.
Personal information included in UGC is not subject to usage or sharing limitations and may be used by BNED and other parties.

Children's Privacy

Children under 16 are not eligible to use their services and must not submit any personal information.

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Promotions

If you enter a sweepstakes, contest, or promotion, your personal information may be disclosed to BNED, co-sponsors, administrators, vendors, and other parties.

Data Security

BNED takes steps to help protect your personal information with administrative, technical, and physical safeguards.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

For California residents, BNED adheres to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):

They collect categories of personal information as indicated in their notice.
They retain your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected.
You have the right to request deletion of your personal information, with certain exceptions.
You have the right to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information via Tracking Technologies.
You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information.
You may direct them to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive Personal Information.
They do not share personal information with third parties or affiliates for their own direct marketing purposes.

Privacy Laws

BNED complies with Privacy Laws regarding your personal information. You have the right to opt-out of the “sale” of personal information and processing of personal information for profiling.

ECU First Day Program

The ECU First Day program, offered by Barnes & Noble College (BNC) and operated on campus by ECU Dowdy Student Stores, provides access to course materials without the need to shop around. This program includes textbook rentals and digital course materials, depending on the class. Students have the option to buy their rented textbooks at a reduced price at the end of the semester.

Enrollment and Cost

Enrollment in the program is automatic, with a cost of $20 per credit hour per term, added to the student's account based on their course schedule.

Program Details

Upon registering for courses, students are automatically enrolled in the ECU First Day program, and Dowdy Student Stores will begin preparing their materials.
Students have the option to pick up their materials on campus or have books shipped to their home. The program includes the student's full course schedule.
Students may wish to compare the cost of course materials before deciding to participate. Details about covered materials can be found on the FAQ webpage.

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