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General Terms and Conditions

These General Terms and Conditions govern your access to and use of YourworldBooks and any purchases made through our website.

By accessing our website, creating an account, or placing an order, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to these General Terms and Conditions.

Contact Information

Website: YourworldBooks

Email: support@yourworldbooks.com

Phone: +1 307-427-2410

Address: 1919 North Bridge Street, Elkin, NC 28621, United States

Contact Form: Contact YourworldBooks

Customer Service Hours:
Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.

General Terms

By accessing or placing an order with YourworldBooks, you agree to be bound by these General Terms and Conditions.

These terms apply to the entire website and to communications between you and YourworldBooks, including email, telephone, contact forms, and other available communication methods.

If you do not agree with these terms, you should not use our website, create an account, or place an order.

YourworldBooks reserves the right to update product information, prices, website content, policies, and available services when reasonably necessary.

Changes will not affect rights or obligations that arose before the changes became effective, except where required by applicable law.

License to Use the Website

YourworldBooks grants you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to access and use this website for lawful personal shopping and informational purposes.

This license does not transfer ownership of any website content, intellectual property, software, images, designs, trademarks, or other materials.

Definitions and Key Terms

Company, we, us, or our: Refers to YourworldBooks, operating through yourworldbooks.com from 1919 North Bridge Street, Elkin, NC 28621, United States .
Website: Refers to YourworldBooks.
Service: Refers to the website, products, customer support, and related services provided by YourworldBooks.
Customer, user, or you: Refers to any individual or organization accessing the website or purchasing a product.
Device: Refers to any internet-connected device used to visit the website, including a computer, smartphone, or tablet.
Cookie: Refers to a small data file stored through a web browser to support website functions, preferences, analytics, and user experience.
Third-Party Service: Refers to services operated by other businesses, including payment processors, shipping carriers, analytics providers, and website applications.
Country: Refers to the United States.

Eligibility and Acceptable Use

You may use this website only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these General Terms and Conditions.

You agree not to use the website in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden, interfere with, or impair the operation or security of the website.

Restrictions

You agree not to:

License, sell, rent, lease, assign, distribute, transmit, host, outsource, or commercially exploit the website without written authorization.
Copy, modify, create derivative works from, disassemble, decrypt, reverse compile, or reverse engineer any protected part of the website.
Remove, alter, or obscure copyright, trademark, ownership, or other proprietary notices.
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to customer accounts, website systems, servers, payment systems, or restricted areas.
Upload malicious software, harmful code, viruses, automated scraping tools, or other technologies intended to interfere with the website.
Use false, misleading, fraudulent, or unauthorized payment, billing, account, or shipping information.
Use the website in violation of applicable laws, regulations, or the rights of another person or business.

Product Information

We make reasonable efforts to present product titles, descriptions, editions, formats, images, availability, and prices accurately.

Product images are provided for identification and illustration. Packaging, cover appearance, publisher markings, or minor design details may vary where the product itself remains materially consistent with the description.

Customers are responsible for reviewing the complete product title, edition year, format, ISBN when available, and product description before placing an order.

Orders and Order Acceptance

Submitting an order does not guarantee acceptance. We reserve the right to reject or cancel an order when reasonably necessary, including when:

The product is unavailable.
The product price or description contains a material error.
Payment cannot be authorized or verified.
Shipping information is incomplete or invalid.
The order appears fraudulent or unauthorized.
The order violates these terms or applicable law.

When a paid order is cancelled by YourworldBooks, the applicable amount will be refunded to the original payment method.

Prices and Payment

Prices are displayed in the currency shown on the website. Applicable costs are presented during checkout before the customer completes the order.

Customers must provide current, complete, and accurate billing and payment information.

Payment processing may be completed by third-party payment providers and may be subject to their own terms, privacy policies, and security procedures.

Shipping and Delivery

Shipping countries, costs, processing times, estimated delivery times, tracking information, and delivery procedures are explained in our Shipping Policy .

Delivery dates are estimates and may be affected by carrier operations, weather conditions, incorrect addresses, holidays, transportation disruptions, or other circumstances outside our reasonable control.

Return and Refund Policy

Thank you for shopping at YourworldBooks. We want customers to have a clear and satisfactory purchasing experience.

Return eligibility, the 30-day return window, return shipping costs, damaged or incorrect products, refund processing, and non-returnable products are explained in our Return and Refund Policy .

By placing an order, you agree to these General Terms and Conditions, our Return and Refund Policy , our Shipping Policy , and our Privacy Policy .

Customer Accounts

Customers are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their account information and password.

You are responsible for activity conducted through your account unless the activity resulted from a security failure controlled by YourworldBooks.

Contact support@yourworldbooks.com promptly if you believe your account has been accessed without authorization.

Your Suggestions and Feedback

Feedback, comments, ideas, improvements, or suggestions voluntarily submitted to YourworldBooks may be used to improve our website, products, services, and customer experience.

You confirm that any feedback you submit does not violate another person’s intellectual property, privacy, confidentiality, or other legal rights.

Your Consent

By using our website, registering an account, or making a purchase, you consent to these General Terms and Conditions and the policies referenced within them.

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not operated or controlled by YourworldBooks.

We are not responsible for the content, availability, security, privacy practices, accuracy, or policies of third-party websites.

When you leave our website, your use of another website is governed by that website’s own terms and policies.

Third-Party Services

We may use third-party services for payment processing, shipping, website hosting, analytics, fraud prevention, communication, and other operational purposes.

Third-party services are subject to their respective terms, availability, and privacy practices.

Cookies

YourworldBooks may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember customer preferences, support shopping cart functions, understand website performance, and improve the user experience.

More information about the collection and use of information is available in our Privacy Policy .

Browser settings may allow you to restrict or disable cookies. Disabling cookies may affect certain website functions.

Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise stated, the website design, original text, graphics, logos, layout, and other original website materials are owned by or licensed to YourworldBooks and are protected by applicable intellectual property laws.

Product names, book titles, publishers’ marks, code organizations, and third-party trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.

Displaying third-party products does not imply sponsorship, endorsement, authorization, or an official partnership unless expressly stated.

Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

The website and its content are provided for general shopping and informational purposes.

Code books, standards, manuals, and professional references sold through the website do not replace professional, legal, engineering, safety, or regulatory advice.

Customers are responsible for confirming that the title and edition they purchase meet the requirements of their jurisdiction, employer, school, examination provider, or project.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, YourworldBooks will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential losses arising solely from the use or inability to use the website.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot legally be excluded or limited.

Modifications to the Website

YourworldBooks may modify, update, suspend, or discontinue website features or services when reasonably necessary.

We do not guarantee that every feature or product will remain available permanently.

Website Updates

We may provide improvements, maintenance, security updates, bug fixes, upgrades, or other changes to website functionality.

Updates may add, modify, or remove certain website features.

Changes to These General Terms and Conditions

We may update these General Terms and Conditions to reflect changes to our services, website, business practices, or applicable requirements.

Updated terms will be posted on this page. Continued use of the website after an update means that the revised terms apply to future use and purchases.

Term and Termination

These General Terms and Conditions remain effective while you access or use the website.

You may stop using the website at any time.

YourworldBooks may suspend or terminate access to an account when there is reasonable evidence of fraud, unauthorized activity, a material violation of these terms, abuse of the website, or risk to other customers or website security.

Severability

If any provision of these General Terms and Conditions is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue to apply to the extent permitted by law.