Hamilton College Bookstore: Your Hub for Academic and Campus Life

The Hamilton College Bookstore is more than just a place to buy textbooks. Located in the heart of campus within the Sadove Student Center, it serves as a central resource for students, offering a variety of essential services and products that support both academic success and campus life.

Location and Accessibility

The Bookstore's location inside the Sadove Student Center places it at the center of student activity. The Sadove Student Center itself is centrally located on Martin’s Way. This substance-free building provides various spaces for students to relax, study, and socialize, making the Bookstore easily accessible and a natural part of students' daily routines.

Products and Services

The Hamilton College Bookstore provides a comprehensive range of products and services, catering to the diverse needs of the student body:

Textbooks and Course Materials: The Bookstore offers new, used, rented, and digital books. Note that books/course materials must be purchased online.
Apparel and Merchandise: Students can purchase Hamilton College apparel and merchandise both in-store and online, allowing them to show their school spirit.
Supplies: The Bookstore stocks a variety of supplies.

Sadove Student Center: A Hub of Activity

The Sadove Student Center, where the Bookstore is located, offers a multitude of resources and amenities for students:

Euphoria Coffee: Located within Sadove, Euphoria Coffee provides a convenient spot to grab coffee and snacks.
Student Organization Spaces: The third floor of Sadove is designated for student groups and organizations to meet, work, and create posters. A Resource Room is available on this floor.
The Underground: The Underground at Sadove is a bookable event space.
Kitchen: The Sadove kitchen, located in the basement, can be reserved by student organizations.

Utilizing Technology

Hamilton College provides students with access to a secure wireless network (aps-hamilton). Instructions for connecting laptops and mobile devices to the network can be found at hamilton.edu/campuswifi. LITS recommends configuring devices for the secure wireless network.

Read also: Navigating Hamilton College

Important Resources and Services

Beyond the Bookstore and Sadove Student Center, Hamilton College offers a range of additional resources and services to support students:

Hill Card: The Hill Card serves as a student identification card, meal plan card, door access card, library card, and campus debit card. Photos for Hill Cards are taken. Students can add their mobile Hill Card to Apple Wallet or Google Play.
Library and IT Help Desk: The Library and IT Help Desk provide essential support.
Locker Rooms: Locker room areas are available to students who use the fitness center and pool. Single-visit, non-permanent lockers are located in the Blood Fitness Center. Permanent, long-term use lockers can be obtained in the Alumni Gymnasium.
Student Activities Office: Keys and equipment can be checked out at the Info Desk in the Sadove Student Center. When the Info Desk is closed, students can visit the Student Activities Office.
Shuttle Services: Hamilton offers shuttle services to and from the Syracuse and Albany airports, as well as the Utica train/bus station, during school breaks. Reservations must be made in advance.
HamVotes: HamVotes is a student-run, non-partisan organization that focuses on educating students about voting and providing students with the tools they need to cast their vote.

Understanding Data Privacy at Hamilton College

Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (BNED), including Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, and MBS Textbook Exchange, LLC, collects, uses, and discloses personal information through various channels, including online platforms, in-store interactions, customer service, and other online and offline interactions. This data privacy information is essential for students to understand how their data is handled.

Information Collection

BNED collects several types of information:

Information You Provide: Registration is optional, but certain features require an account. Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their access information.
Information Collected Automatically: BNED collects information automatically through tracking technologies.
Information From External Sources: Personal information may also be collected from external sources, including friends, vendors, customers, educational institutions, advertising networks, publicly available information, and affiliates.

Use of Information

The collected information is used for various purposes:

Security and Safety: Protecting the rights, property, life, health, security, and safety of BNED, its services, users, or any other party.
Business Transactions: BNED engages in business-to-business interactions with customers and vendors.
External Services: BNED maintains branded pages on social networks.
Advertising: Engaging with vendors, customers, and other parties to serve ads on BNED's services or external services, including interest-based advertising and retargeting.
Analytics: Using vendor tools like Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics to analyze performance and deliver services and advertising.

Data Protection Measures

BNED takes steps to help protect personal information through administrative, technical, and physical safeguards. Access to personal information is limited to employees and authorized parties.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information.

Categories of Personal Information Collected: BNED collects various categories of personal information about California residents.
Data Retention: Personal information is retained only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, satisfy legal obligations, or resolve disputes.
Sale and Sharing of Personal Information: BNED sells and/or shares personal information for advertising purposes to third parties, including advertisers and analytics vendors.
Right to Delete: California residents have the right to request the deletion of their personal information.
Opt-Out of Sale and Sharing: Users can opt out of the sale and sharing of their personal information via tracking technologies.
Right to Correct: Users can request the correction of inaccurate personal information.
Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: Users can direct BNED to limit the use and disclosure of their sensitive personal information.

Additional Privacy Rights

California law permits customers to request details about how their personal information is shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes. However, BNED does not share personal information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.

Children's Privacy

BNED's services are not intended for children under the age of 16, and the company does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16.

Financial Incentives

The financial incentives offered by BNED are reasonably related to the value of the consumer’s data, based on expenses related to the collection and retention of personal information.

Privacy Laws

Users have the right to opt-out of the “sale” of personal information and processing for targeted advertising and profiling. More information can be found on BNED-run sites.

Read also: Education in Hamilton

Policy Updates

BNED may update its privacy policy from time to time and will indicate changes by updating the date at the top of the policy.

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