Privacy & Security

Protecting Your Privacy

scholarly-bibles.com shares your concern about how information pertaining to you may be used and possibly shared with others. We appreciate your trust that we will handle your data carefully and sensibly.

The information we obtain from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at scholarly-bibles.com. The type of information we gather includes:

Information you give us: We receive and store any information you enter on our website or provide to us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but – in that case -  may not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our stores, and communicating with you.

Automatic information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you communicate with us. For example, like many web sites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information whenever your web browser accesses scholarly-bibles.com. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at scholarly-bibles.com if we cannot identify you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.

Email communications: To help us make emails more useful and interesting, we may be requesting automatic confirmation whenever you open e-mail from scholarly-bibles.com, if your computer supports such capabilities.

Information from other sources: We may be receiving information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.

Does scholarly-bibles.com share the information it receives?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only as described below and with other Bible societies that either are subject to this privacy notice or follow practices at least as protective as those described here.

Affiliated businesses we do not control: We work closely with our affiliated Bible societies. You will be able to tell whenever a third party is involved in your transactions, and we are sharing customer information related to those transactions with that particular third party.

Agents: We employ other companies and individuals to perform certain services on our behalf. Examples include filling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, purging customer lists from duplicate information, data analysis, marketing assistance, provision of search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing of credit card payments and customer  support. These parties have access to personal information needed to perform their respective services, but may not use this information for any other purposes.

Protection of scholarly-bibles.com and others: We will release account and other personal data, if and when we believe such disclosure is necessary to comply with legal requirements or to protect the rights, property or security of scholarly-bibles.com, its users, or any third parties. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, this does not include selling, renting, sharing, or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in violation of the commitments set forth in this Privacy Notice.


With your consent: In any event other than those described above, you will be notified whenever information about you might be shared with any third parties, and you will have the option not to share such information.

What information can I access? scholarly-bibles.com gives you access to a broad range of information about your account and your communications with GBS for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating such information.

Customer Security

Secure Shopping at scholarly-bibles.com
scholarly-bibles.com is concerned about protecting the security of its customers. We have therefore established a number of IT protection features to ensure that our transaction processes are safe and our customers' information secure.

However, keep in mind that customer protection is a two-way street. Shopping on any online venue requires appropriate caution: