Who we are

BigLeagueBaseballHistory.com is an ecommerce website owned and operated by author Paul DeFonzo for the commercial purpose of marketing and selling books and promotional materials from his book series, Big League Baseball – A History.

Our team consists of two member-administrators:

• Paul DeFonzo: Owner, Operator, Author
• Jesse Loving: Artist, Creative Content Manager, Site Administrator

BigLeagueBaseballHistory.com has a physical, business, and sales tax nexus in Washington State.

Our website address is: https://bigleaguebaseballhistory.com.

What we collect and store

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

• Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
• Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
• Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

• Send you information about your order
• Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
• Process payments and prevent fraud
• Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
• Improve our store offerings
• Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for tax and accounting purposes in accordance with local, state, and federal laws. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

Who on our team has access

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, Administrators can access:

• Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
• Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.

Payments

We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.

We also accept payments through Stripe. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Please see the Stripe Privacy Policy for more details.

Payment Processing, Shipping & Tax

The data we use:

• For payments with PayPal or Stripe: purchase total, currency, billing information.
• For taxes: the value of goods in the cart, value of shipping, destination address.
• For checkout rates: destination address, purchased product IDs, dimensions, weight, and quantities.
• For shipping labels: customer’s name, address as well as the dimensions, weight, and quantities of purchased products.

The data we sync:

• For payments, we send the purchase total, currency and customer’s billing information to the respective payment processor. Please see the respective third party’s privacy policy (Stripe’s Privacy Policy and PayPal’s Privacy Policy) for more details.
• For automated taxes we send the value of goods in the cart, the value of shipping, and the destination address to TaxJar. Please see TaxJar’s Privacy Policy for details about how they handle this information.
• For checkout rates we send the destination ZIP/postal code and purchased product dimensions, weight and quantities to the carrier directly or via EasyPost, depending on the service used.
• For shipping labels we send the customer’s name, address as well as the dimensions, weight, and quantities of purchased products to EasyPost. We also store the purchased shipping labels on our server to make it easy to reprint them and handle support requests.

What we share with others

Aside from the data use and sync requirements listed directly above, we do not share your information with any third parties, ever.

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