Harvard University Press Privacy Policy

Harvard University Press respects the privacy of the people who visit and buy books from our Web site and we adhere to the following privacy policy. If you have any questions about this policy, please feel free to contact the webmaster.

Harvard University Press
79 Garden Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Telephone: Within the United States and Canada
617-495-2600

Telephone: Outside of the United States and Canada
401-531-2800

Email: Contact_HUP@harvard.edu

Tracking Software

Visitors to this website who have javascript enabled are tracked using Google Analytics. (Google Analytics is subject to the privacy policy of Google, Inc., which you can find on their website.) This data is primarily used to optimize our website for our visitors. This data DOES NOT include any personalized identification information such as:

  1. Names
  2. Phone Numbers
  3. Email Addresses
  4. Mailing Addresses
  5. Social Security Numbers
  6. Bank Account Numbers
  7. Credit Card Information
We do not use cookies to track the activity of anyone on our site. We make use of cookies technology in our shopping cart, but that information is stored on the visitor's computer, not on our server. The shopping cart accesses that information to allow the visitor to collect items in a personal shopping cart, remove them, change them, and add to them indefinitely without making a purchase. The shopping cart keeps track of the visitor's selections and calculates charges. The information stored in cookies is never collected, reviewed, or in any way made use of except in the automated processing of the customer's submitted order.

Email Addresses

There are three instances in which we ask for email addresses over our Web site but these email addresses are never sold, traded, or shared in any way with third parties:

  1. When someone orders a book over our site, we ask for an email address to help facilitate orders.
  2. When a visitor subscribes to any of our email book-announcement services, an email address is required to transmit the book information.
  3. When visitors register to receive access to electronic versions of course adoption titles, we ask for an email address to identify the visitor as being fully registered when he/she returns to use this service.

Postal Addresses

When someone buys books from Harvard University Press, his/her name and shipping address (only) are added to a mailing list that we use to inform our readers of new books and that in some instances may be made available to other university presses and organizations serving academic professionals. If you do not want to have your name on this mailing list, please submit your request in writing--via email or post--to:

Direct Mail
Harvard University Press
79 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
hup_promo@harvard.edu
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