Navigating the Liberty University Bookstore: Hours, Location, and Resources

Liberty University partners with Barnes & Noble College to provide textbooks and course materials. Understanding the bookstore’s operations, including hours, location, and available resources, is crucial for students. This article offers a comprehensive guide.

Barnes & Noble College Partnership

Liberty University has partnered with Barnes & Noble College to provide textbooks and other course materials needed for online classes. This partnership ensures students receive the correct edition of the textbook. Any errors will be resolved through collaboration between Liberty University and Barnes & Noble College.

Barnes & Noble College accepts Liberty University online book vouchers for graduate and doctoral programs. Students can purchase new, used, and digital copies of textbooks, depending on availability. Renting and selling used books are also options.

For customer service, students can call (800) 325-3252 or (573) 441-9179. Barnes & Noble College closes on certain holidays.

Purchasing Materials from Other Vendors

Students can purchase books and course materials from other vendors. However, it is the student's responsibility to ensure the correct materials are purchased for their required courses. Students need to know the class number, start date, and duration of each online course. This information can be found in myLU by searching for Student SSB, selecting the appropriate term, and reviewing the schedule.

Read also: Liberty University Fees

Payment Options

Students can use a credit card or an online book voucher to purchase materials for classes. Depending on financial aid eligibility, a book voucher can be requested during the Financial Check-In process. It is recommended to order books early.

Electronic Textbooks

To provide affordable education, electronic textbooks are provided for all undergraduate courses at no additional cost. Students can access these resources through the Microsoft Office 365 page.

Liberty Flames Apparel

Students can purchase Liberty University apparel and more online through Liberty University’s on-campus bookstore to show their Liberty Flames pride.

Data Privacy and Information Collection

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC; and MBS Textbook Exchange, LLC (collectively, “BNED”, “we”, “us”, “our”), collect, use and disclose your personal information. This policy applies: (i) Online where this Policy is posted; (ii) in person in our stores and at our events; (iii) through our customer service channels; and (iv) in other Online and offline interactions with you. or to other countries by our Vendors (as defined below).

Information Provided by Users

While registration is optional, certain features of the Services may not be available without an account. Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their access information and controlling access to their accounts. Logging out at the conclusion of a session is recommended when using a public computer to access an account.

Read also: History of Liberty's Flames

Automatically Collected Information

BNED collects personal information about you from external sources, including your friends, our Vendors, customers, applicable educational institution(s), and other third parties that provide information to us, including advertising networks, publicly available information and our affiliates that generally have shared management or ownership with us. BNED affiliates, Vendors and Institutions, Government and law enforcement authorities.

Security and Safety

Where permitted by applicable law, BNED may disclose your personal information for the purpose of protecting the rights, property, life, health, security, and safety of BNED, our Services, our users, or any other party.

Business Transactions

BNED engages in business-to-business interactions, so our personnel interact with the personnel of our customers and Vendors.

External Services

Vendors and external services may use their own tracking technologies to independently collect information about you and may solicit personal information from you (“Tracking Technologies”). For example, BNED maintains its own branded pages on various social networks.

Social Features

Certain functionalities on our Services may allow you to interact with external services, such as social networks (“Social Features”). If you use Social Features, and potentially other external services, information you post or provide access to may be publicly displayed on our Services (see “User Generated Content” section, below) or by the external services that you use. Similarly, if you post information on an external service that references our Services, e.g., by using a hashtag associated with BNED or our affiliates in a Social Feature, your information may be used on or in connection with our Services or otherwise by BNED. Also, both BNED and its customers and Vendors may have access to certain information about you, and your use of our Services and any external services.

Advertising

BNED may engage and work with Vendors, customers, and other parties to serve ads on our Services or on external services. Some of these ads may be tailored to your interest based on your browsing, across time, of our Services and elsewhere on the Internet, which may include use of data from cross-device usage, sometimes referred to as “interest-based advertising” or “Online behavioral advertising” (“Interest-based Advertising”), which may include sending you an ad on external services after you have left our Services i.e., “retargeting”.

Analytics

BNED may use Vendor tools, such as Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics, to help us analyze our performance, and to deliver Services and advertising to you. Additionally, some of the technologies used on our Services, e.g., session replay tools, allow us and our Vendors to monitor and analyze how visitors use our Services to better understand user behavior and improve our Services. Please note that any links to external services are provided for your convenience only.

Managing Your Information and Preferences

Communication and Marketing Preferences

Users have the ability to review, update, or change their information.

Browser Settings

Because there is no consensus on how to interpret “Do Not Track” signals, our Services do not currently respond to browser Do Not Track” signals.

Self-Regulatory Advertising Organizations

Certain Vendors that perform advertising-related services on our behalf participate in voluntary programs that provide tools to opt-out of interest-based advertising, such as the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (“DAA”) Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. BNED supports this program, and we expect those ad networks we directly engage to serve you interest-based advertising will do so as well, although we cannot guarantee their compliance. Some of these companies are also members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”).

Mobile Device Settings

You can use mobile device settings to limit mobile Tracking Technologies and associated activities. For instance, you can adjust or reset the advertising identifiers on your mobile device in the device settings. In some cases, you can also use mobile device settings to allow or restrict the sharing of location information. If you do not share your location information, some features of our Services may not be available for use, but we may still estimate your general location based on the IP address you use to access our Services.

Vendor-Specific Tools

If you disable or remove these Tracking Technologies, some functionality on our Services may not be available nor function properly. Please be aware that, even if you are able to opt out of certain kinds of Interest-based Advertising, you may continue to receive other types of ads. In addition, we may serve ads on external services that are targeted to reach people on those services that are also identified on one of more of our databases (“Matched List Ads”). This is done by using Tracking Technologies, or by matching common factors between our databases and the databases of the third-party services. We are not responsible for these external services, including without limitation their data security.

BNED may implement Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA technology on our Services in order to reduce spam and prevent abuse of our Services.

User-Generated Content

Our Services may permit you to post or submit User Generated Content (“UGC”) including, without limitation, written content, user profiles, audio or visual recordings, computer graphics, pictures, data, or other content, including personal information. If you choose to submit UGC to any public area of our Services, your UGC will be considered “public” and will be accessible by anyone, including BNED. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, unless otherwise explicitly agreed by us, personal information included in UGC is not subject to our usage or sharing limitations, or other obligations, and may be used and shared by BNED and other parties. We encourage you to exercise caution when making decisions about what you disclose in such public areas.

Children's Privacy

Children under the age of 16 are not eligible to use our Services and must not submit any personal information to us. Our Services are not intended for children under the age of 16 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16.

Promotions

BNED may offer sweepstakes, contests, and promotions (each, a “Promotion”), including any Promotion jointly or solely sponsored or offered by other parties, which may require submitting your personal information to such other parties. If you voluntarily choose to enter a Promotion, your personal information may be disclosed to BNED, Promotion co-sponsors or administrators, Vendors, and other parties, including for administrative purposes and as required by law, e.g., on a winners list. By entering, you are agreeing to the official rules that govern that Promotion, which may include consent to additional or differing privacy practices from those contained in this Policy.

Data Security

BNED takes steps to help protect your personal information. We maintain appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to help protect personal information collected or received through our Services. Additionally, we limit access to personal information to employees and authorized parties who need to access that information to operate, develop, or improve our Services.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

This California Consumer Privacy Act Policy and Notice at Collection (the “Notice”) describes how we collect and use personal information, and the rights that the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (the “CCPA”), provides to California residents. This Notice does not apply to personal information collected from employees, contractors or job applicants. This Notice supplements other parts of our Policy and provides additional information for California residents.

Categories of Personal Information Collected

BNED collects the categories of personal information about California residents that are indicated in the chart below. Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information (which includes the categories of personal information set forth in the charts and sections herein) for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, as required to satisfy any legal obligations, or as necessary to resolve disputes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider applicable legal requirements, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes we process your personal information for, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.

Selling and Sharing Personal Information

BNED sells and/or shares this personal information for advertising purposes to third parties. The third parties to whom this personal information was sold and/or shared are advertisers and analytics vendors.

Right to Delete

You may request that we delete your personal information that we have collected directly from you and are currently maintaining. Please note, however, that we may have a legal basis for retaining certain personal information under the CCPA, despite your request.

Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing

BNED engages in sales and/or sharing via Tracking Technologies. You have the right to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information in the context of Tracking Technologies. You may also opt out of the sale and/or sharing of your personal information via Tracking Technologies through an opt-out preference signal. In order to process your request through an opt-out preference signal, you must use a browser supporting the preference signal.

Right to Correct

You may request that we correct personal information that we maintain about you if you believe such personal information is inaccurate. We may request documentation from you in connection with your request. We will also require you (or your agent) to be verified before honoring your correction requests.

Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information

You may direct us to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive Personal Information to uses/disclosures that are reasonably necessary to provide our goods and services, or as needed: to ensure security and integrity; to prevent fraud or illegal activity; for physical safety; for short-term, transient use, including for non-personalized advertising; to perform services on behalf of the business; and to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance such services or devices.

Direct Marketing

California law permits customers in California to request certain details about how their personal information is shared with third parties, and in some cases our affiliates, if personal information is shared for those third parties’ or our affiliates’ own direct marketing purposes. We do not share personal information with third parties or our affiliates for those third parties’ or affiliates’ own direct marketing purposes.

Removal of Minor's Content

We will make a reasonably good faith effort to remove the content from prospective public view or anonymize it so the minor cannot be individually identified. However, this removal process cannot ensure complete or comprehensive deletion from the Internet.

Financial Incentives

The full terms and conditions of a Program will be set forth where the opportunity to sign up is offered. The financial incentives that we offer are reasonably related to the value of the consumer’s data. We have made a good faith estimate of the value of the consumers’ data based on relevant expenses related to the collection and retention of consumers’ personal information as part of each Program.

Global Privacy Rights

Privacy Laws”), that use our Services. You can learn more about the personal information we process in the “Personal Information We Collect” section and the purpose for processing such personal information in the “How We Use Your Personal Information” section. You can also learn more about our disclosure of personal information and the categories of external parties we disclose personal information to in the “How We Disclose Your Personal Information” section. We also process your personal information for Targeted Advertising.

Privacy Laws. You have the right to opt-out of the “sale” of personal information, which may overlap with your right to opt out of Targeted Advertising. You have the right to opt out of our processing of personal information for the purposes of profiling. Privacy Laws HERE for BNED-run sites. Please note that, depending on the nature of your request, you may be asked to provide information to verify your identity before your request can be processed.

We currently do not “sell” covered information as “sale” is defined by such law, and we do not have plans to “sell” this information. Please review this Policy for more information about our information collection and sharing practices.

From time to time, we may update this Policy and indicate changes by updating the date at the top of the Policy.

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