Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice explains how MBS Ebooks ("we", "us", "our") collects, uses, and protects your personal data when you use our website and purchase ebooks from us.

1. Who is the data controller

MBS Ebooks is the data controller of personal data collected through this website. You can contact us at support@mbsebookmarketplace.com.

2. What personal data we collect

We collect the following categories of personal data:

• Order information — the email address you provide at checkout, the title(s) you purchased, the order amount, and an order reference.
• Support communications — the contents of any emails you send us, so we can respond.
• Usage and device information — IP address, browser and device type, pages visited, and basic analytics events, collected automatically when you visit the site.
• Email delivery metadata — whether emails to you were delivered, bounced, or were unsubscribed, so we can keep our mailings clean and reliable.

Payment card details are not collected or stored by us. They are collected directly by our payment provider Paddle (see below).

3. Why we use it and our legal basis

• To deliver your purchase (sending download links, providing customer support) — legal basis: performance of our contract with you.
• To run and improve the Service (site analytics, debugging, security) — legal basis: our legitimate interests in operating a reliable, secure site.
• To prevent fraud and abuse — legal basis: our legitimate interests and, where applicable, compliance with legal obligations.
• To meet legal and tax obligations — legal basis: compliance with a legal obligation.

4. Who we share it with

We share personal data with the following categories of recipients:

• Paddle.com Market Ltd ("Paddle") — our Merchant of Record. We share order and customer details with Paddle so it can process payments, manage subscriptions, issue invoices, handle refunds, and meet its tax compliance obligations. See Paddle's privacy notice for how it handles your data.
• Hosting, database, storage, and email providers that we use to run the Service — they process data on our instructions as our sub-processors.
• Professional advisers (such as accountants and lawyers) where we need their advice in connection with our business.
• Authorities where we are legally required to disclose data (for example, in response to a valid court order).

5. International transfers

Some of our service providers are based outside your country, including in the United States and the United Kingdom. Where data is transferred outside the UK/EEA, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or an adequacy decision.

6. How long we keep it

We keep order records for as long as needed to provide the Service and to comply with our tax, accounting, and legal obligations (typically up to 7 years). Support emails are kept for as long as is useful to help you and to improve our Service. We delete or anonymise personal data when it is no longer needed for those purposes.

7. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to our use of your personal data, to receive a copy of it in a portable format, and to withdraw consent where we relied on it. To exercise any of these rights, email us at support@mbsebookmarketplace.com. We will respond within one month. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

8. Security

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data, including encryption in transit, access controls, and signed time-limited download links. No system is perfectly secure, but we take this seriously.

9. Cookies and analytics

We use a small number of essential cookies that are required for the site to work (for example, to keep you signed in to the admin area). We may also use privacy-respecting analytics to understand which pages are popular and how to improve them. You can control cookies through your browser settings.

10. Changes

We may update this notice from time to time. If we make a material change, we will update the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, let you know by email or in the Service.

11. Contact

For any privacy questions or to exercise your rights, email support@mbsebookmarketplace.com.