Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes the information, as part of the
normal operation of our services, we collect from you and what may happen to
that information. Although this policy may seem long, we have prepared a
detailed policy because we believe you should know as much as possible about
our practices so that you can make informed decisions. All of our subsidiaries
and joint ventures operate under similar privacy practices as described in this
Privacy Policy and, subject to the requirements of applicable law, we strive to
provide a consistent set of privacy practices.
By accepting the Privacy Policy, you expressly
consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance
with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective upon visiting the
site for all users.
Table of Contents
- 1. Information We Collect
- 2. Our Use of Your Information
- 3. Our Disclosure of Your
Information
- 4. Control of Your Password
- 5. Security
- 6. Notice
1. Information We Collect
Our primary purpose in collecting personal
information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized
experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely
meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience safer and
easier. We only collect personal information about you that we consider
necessary for achieving this purpose.
In general, you can browse the Site without
telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself.
Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us. Where
possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields are optional.
You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to use a
particular service or feature.
We automatically track certain information based
upon your behavior on the Site. We use this information to do internal research
on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand,
protect and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL
that you just came from (whether this URL is on the Site or not), which URL you
next go to (whether this URL is on the Site or not), your computer browser
information, and your IP address.
We use data collection devices such as
"cookies" on certain pages of the Site to help analyze our web page
flow, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety.
"Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in
providing our services. We offer certain features that are only available
through the use of a "cookie". Cookies can also help us provide
information that is targeted to your interests. Most cookies are "session
cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive
at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your
browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain
features on the Site.
If you establish a credit account with us to pay
the fees we charge, we collect some additional information, such as a billing
address, a credit card number and a credit card expiration date and tracking
information from checks or money orders.
2. Our Use of Your
Information
We use your personal information to facilitate
the services you request. We use your personal information in the file we
maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past
activities on the Site to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help
promote safe trading; collect fees owed; measure consumer interest in our
products and services, inform you about online and offline offers, products,
services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us against
error, fraud and other criminal activity; At times, we may look across multiple
users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may
examine your personal information to identify users using multiple User IDs or
aliases. We may compare and review your personal information for errors,
omissions and for accuracy.
If you choose to list an item for sale on the Site
or open a credit account, or otherwise provide us with your financial
information, we use your address and billing information to bill you and
provide associated support.
You agree that we may use personal information
about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site
usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize the Site's
content, layout, and services. These uses improve the Site and better tailor it
to meet your needs, so as to provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and
customized experience while using the Site.
You agree that we may use your personal
information to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases,
are targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements,
administrative notices, product offerings, and communications relevant to your
use of the Site. By accepting the User Agreement and Privacy Policy, you
expressly agree to receive this information. If you do not wish to receive
these communications, we encourage you to opt out of the receipt of certain
communications on the notification preferences page. You may make changes to
your notification preferences at any time.
3. Our Disclosure
of Your Information
As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any
of your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes
without your explicit consent. However, the following describes some of the
ways that your personal information may be disclosed in the normal scope of
business to provide our services. Legal Requests. as well as other third
parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other
rights, to help protect you from bad actors. Therefore, in response to a
verified request by law enforcement or other government officials relating to a
criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity, we can (and you authorize
us to) disclose your name, city, telephone number, email address. We will not
otherwise disclose your personal information to law enforcement or other
government officials without a subpoena, court order or substantially similar
legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of
information is necessary to
4. Control of Your
Password
You are responsible for all actions taken with
your User ID and password, including fees charged to your account. Therefore we
do not recommend that you disclose your password to any third parties. If you
choose to share your User ID and password or your personal information with
third parties, you are responsible for all actions taken with your account and
therefore you should review that third party's privacy policy. If you lose
control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal
information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf.
Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should
immediately change your password.
5. Security
Your information is stored on our servers. We use
procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal information
against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect
your privacy, including encryption, "firewalls" and Secure Socket
Layers. We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and
unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect
such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company.
However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.
6. Notice
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by
posting the amend terms on the Site. All amended terms shall automatically be
effective 30 days after they are initially posted on the Site.