Kean University Bookstore: Your Comprehensive Guide

The Kean University Bookstore, an affiliate of Barnes & Noble College, serves as a central hub for students' academic and personal needs. Located in the Green Lane Academic Building (GLAB), the bookstore offers a wide array of products and services, ensuring students have the resources they need to succeed. Mr. Guillermo Giler is the General Manager of the Kean University Bookstore.

Textbooks and Course Materials

The Kean University Bookstore provides options for students to rent or buy new and used textbooks, and access codes directly via KeanWISE. This accessibility streamlines the process of acquiring essential course materials. Recognizing the growing trend of digital learning, the bookstore also offers digital books for purchase or rent through Kean’s YUZU app, catering to students who prefer electronic resources. The Kean University Bookstore will price match only for the first two (2) weeks of classes from the start of the semester.

Textbook Buyback Program

Students can sell their books back to the Bookstore twice a year during the week of finals in December and May. This buyback program allows students to recoup some of their textbook costs while providing the bookstore with an inventory of used books, which can be offered to future students at a lower price.

Technology and Electronics

Beyond textbooks, the Kean Bookstore features a technology shop where students can purchase electronics such as headphones, printers, video game systems, chargers, cords and cables, and USB drives. Recognizing the importance of technology in modern education, the bookstore also offers Apple products (online only) and laptops, including Microsoft Surface and Pro Tablets recommended for courses within the Michael Graves College.

School Supplies

eCourse-related school supplies can likewise be found in the Kean University Bookstore.

Kean Swag and Merchandise

Kean swag for both men and women is available via the University Bookstore as well. General merchandise offerings include Nike, Under Armour, Columbia and Champion clothing; Adidas, Herschel and Vera Bradley backpacks; diploma frames; car accessories; hats; mugs; and more.

Barnes & Noble Café

Following a day full of classes and shopping, students are encouraged to stop by the Barnes & Noble Café for Starbucks coffee, sandwiches, snacks, and desserts.

BNED Data Collection and Use

Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (“BNED”) and our subsidiaries, including Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC; and MBS Textbook Exchange, LLC (collectively, “BNED”, “we”, “us”, “our”), collect, use and disclose your personal information, which applies: (i) Online where this Policy is posted; (ii) in person in our stores and at our events; (iii) through our customer service channels; and (iv) in other Online and offline interactions with you.

Information Collection Practices

BNED collects several types of information, including:

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

Use of Collected Information

BNED uses collected information for various purposes, including:

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Delivering and maintaining services
Tracking outages and protecting against spam, fraud, and abuse
Measuring audience engagement and site statistics
Developing and improving new services
Delivering and measuring the effectiveness of ads
Showing personalized content and ads

Data Disclosure and External Services

BNED may disclose personal information to:

Vendors and Institutions
Government and law enforcement authorities
Protecting the rights, property, life, health, security, and safety of BNED, our Services, our users, or any other party.

External services and vendors may use their own tracking technologies to collect information. BNED maintains branded pages on social networks, and user interactions with these services may result in information being publicly displayed.

Advertising and Analytics

BNED may engage with vendors and customers to serve ads on its Services or on external services. These ads may be tailored to user interests based on browsing activity, sometimes referred to as "interest-based advertising." Vendor tools like Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics may be used to analyze performance and deliver services and advertising.

User Rights and Choices

Users have several rights and choices regarding their personal information:

Communication and Marketing Preferences: Users can manage their communication and marketing preferences.
Review, Update, or Change your Information: Users can review, update, or change their information.
Browser Settings: Our Services do not currently respond to browser Do Not Track” signals.
Self-Regulatory Advertising Organizations: Opt-out tools are available through organizations like the DAA and NAI.
Mobile Device Settings: Mobile device settings can be used to limit tracking technologies.
Vendor-Specific Tools: Disabling or removing tracking technologies may affect the functionality of the Services.

User-Generated Content

BNED's Services may allow users to post or submit User Generated Content (“UGC”), including personal information. Information shared in public areas is accessible by anyone and is not subject to usage or sharing limitations.

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Children's Privacy

Children under the age of 16 are not eligible to use BNED's Services and must not submit any personal information.

Promotions

Sweepstakes, contests, and promotions may require submitting personal information, which may be disclosed to BNED, co-sponsors, vendors, and other parties.

Data Security

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

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

This California Consumer Privacy Act Policy and Notice at Collection (the “Notice”) describes how we collect and use personal information, and the rights that the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (the “CCPA”), provides to California residents. This Notice does not apply to personal information collected from employees, contractors or job applicants. This Notice supplements other parts of our Policy and provides additional information for California residents.

Information Retention

Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information (which includes the categories of personal information set forth in the charts and sections herein) for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, as required to satisfy any legal obligations, or as necessary to resolve disputes.

CCPA Rights

California residents have specific rights under the CCPA:

Right to Delete: Request the deletion of personal information.
Right to Opt-Out: Opt-out of the sale and sharing of personal information via Tracking Technologies.
Right to Correct: Request the correction of inaccurate personal information.
Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: Direct us to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive Personal Information to uses/disclosures that are reasonably necessary to provide our goods and services, or as needed: to ensure security and integrity; to prevent fraud or illegal activity; for physical safety; for short-term, transient use, including for non-personalized advertising; to perform services on behalf of the business; and to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance such services or devices.

Financial Incentives

The financial incentives that we offer are reasonably related to the value of the consumer’s data. We have made a good faith estimate of the value of the consumers’ data based on relevant expenses related to the collection and retention of consumers’ personal information as part of each Program.

Privacy Laws

Privacy Laws”), that use our Services. You can learn more about the personal information we process in the “Personal Information We Collect” section and the purpose for processing such personal information in the “How We Use Your Personal Information” section. You can also learn more about our disclosure of personal information and the categories of external parties we disclose personal information to in the “How We Disclose Your Personal Information” section. We also process your personal information for Targeted Advertising. Privacy Laws. You have the right to opt-out of the “sale” of personal information, which may overlap with your right to opt out of Targeted Advertising. You have the right to opt out of our processing of personal information for the purposes of profiling.

Updates to the Policy

From time to time, BNED may update this Policy and indicate changes by updating the date at the top of the Policy.

Additional Resources at Kean University

Printing Facilities

Commuter students are able to print in black and white in any of the University computer labs and in the University Center Atrium.

On-Campus Employment

Students interested in on-campus employment can fill out an application by visiting Human Resources located on the 2nd floor of the Administration Building. In addition, some departments may have their own application process and conduct private searches for student assistants. Networking with particular departments of interest is recommended.

Student Involvement

There are many ways to get involved at Kean University. The easiest way would be to go onto CougarLink at kean.collegiatelink.net and look through the upcoming events on campus. Also, you can find organizations on CougarLink that meet your needs and interests. With 160 student groups on campus, there is sure to be a club or organization for you. If you are looking for a leadership position on campus, you can visit the Office of Student Government. The Office of Student Government has many opportunities to become a student leader. The office funds 25 groups that are given a budget to do various types of programming on campus. In addition, students can get involved in the student government boards by running on the Executive Board or as a representative, where you can be a voice for the students. One can also get involved with the Leadership programs offered by the Center for Leadership and Service.

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