Privacy
Policy
Overview
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Questions
regarding this statement should be directed to whybidmore.com
by sending email to privacy@whybidmore.com.
So
what does whybidmore.com' relationship mean for you? It means
that your privacy is very important to us and you can be assured
that our privacy practices are held to high standards by outside
organizations.
As
part of the normal operation of our services we collect and,
in some cases, disclose information about you. This Privacy
Policy describes the information we collect about 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 whybidmore.com's practices
so that you can make an informed decision. The privacy practices
of this notice apply to the http://www.whybidmore.com/
website and apply generally to our subsidiaries or joint venture
partners websites. Generally all of our subsidiaries and
joint venture partners 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 throughout our global whybidmore.com trading community.
As
described below, some of your personally identifiable information
is disclosed to third parties and used by us and third parties.
By accepting the User Agreement, you expressly consent to our
use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information.
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the
terms of the whybidmore.com User Agreement.
Table
of Contents
1.
A Special Note About Children.
Children are not eligible to use our services and we ask that
minors do not submit any personal information to us. If you
are a minor, you can use this service only in conjunction with
your parents or guardians.
2. Information We Collect.
Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you is
to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience
while using our services. This allows us to provide services and
features that most likely meet your needs, and to customize our
service to make your experience easier and quicker.
To
fully use our services, you will need to register using our
online registration form, where you will be required to provide
us with your contact information and other personal information
as described in our privacy appendix. You must provide us with
a Username. Under some circumstances, such as if you are registering
using an email account at a free email service, we require some
additional information, including billing address, credit card
number and credit card expiration date. We use this credit card
information to verify your name, address, and other information.
We
automatically track certain information about you based upon
your behavior on our site. We use this information to do internal
research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior
to better understand and serve our users. This information is
compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. This information
may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL
is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this
URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and
your IP address.
In
addition, we may use cookies on certain pages of our site. We
may also offer certain features that are only available through
the use of a cookie. Among other reasons why we use cookies,
cookies allow you to enter your password less frequently during
a session. Cookies can also help us provide information which
is targeted to your interests.) Cookies are stored on your hard
drive, not on our site. Most cookies are "session cookies,"
meaning that they are automatically deleted 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 our site and you may be required to
reenter your password more frequently during a session.
If
you choose to bid, buy or sell on our site, we collect information
about your bidding, buying and selling behavior. We also collect
other users' comments about you in our feedback area.
If
you establish a credit account with us, we collect some additional
information, including billing address, credit card number and
credit card expiration date and tracking information from checks
or money orders.
If
you choose to post messages in our forums, chat rooms or other
message areas or leave feedback for other users, we will collect
such information about you as you choose to disclose.
If
you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters,
or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about
your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such
information into a file specific to you.
If
you use a service provided by a company providing a service
co-branded with whybidmore.com branding (a "Co-Brand Service
Provider"), the Co-Brand Service Provider may provide personal
information about you and possibly the transaction back to whybidmore.com
as is more fully detailed in Section 4 below.
3.
Our Use of Your Information.
We use personally identifiable information about you to improve
our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze
site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to
customize our site's content, layout, and services. We believe
these uses allow us to improve our site and better tailor it to
meet our users' needs.
We
may also use your information to deliver information to you
that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as
targeted banners, new services and promotions. By accepting
the User Agreement you expressly agree to receive this information.
We
use your email address, your mailing address, and phone number
to contact you regarding administrative notices, new product
offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the Site.
If
you choose to conduct an auction on our site or open a credit
account, we use your address and billing information to bill
you and provide associated support.
We
use 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 and
enforce our User Agreement. At times, we may look across multiple
users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular
on rare occasions we may evaluate your information to look for
users using multiple Usernames or aliases.
4. Our Disclosure of Your Information.
Unfortunately, due to the existing regulatory environment, we
cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other
personally identifiable information will never be disclosed in
ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of
example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to
disclose information to the government or third parties under
certain circumstances, or third parties may unlawfully intercept
or access transmissions or private communications. We can (and
you authorize us to) disclose any information about you to law
enforcement or other government officials as we, in our sole discretion,
believe necessary or appropriate, in connection with an investigation
of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or other activity
that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability. Further,
we can (and you authorize us to) disclose you Username, name,
street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number,
email, and company to whybidmore.com participants as we in our
sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection
with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement,
piracy, or other unlawful activity. Therefore, although we use
industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not
promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable
information or private communications will remain private.
As
a general proposition, we do not sell or rent any personally
identifiable information about you to any third party. The following
describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable
information may be disclosed.
Advertisers.
We do aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose
such information in aggregate to advertisers and for other marketing
and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do
not disclose to these entities any information that could be
used to personally identify you. Certain information, such as
your password, credit card number, and bank account number,
are not disclosed to marketing advertisers in aggregate at all.
whybidmore.com
Community. Throughout the Site, you are identified by your
Username. Your Username is directly identifiable to the
email address you provide us. As a result, other users
and third parties might send you unsolicited email and be able
to personally identify all of your activities on the Site. Although
our pages are coded with robot exclusion headers, others may
attempt to automatically collect your email address from our
site. We describe how to change your Username below in Section
8. Other people can see your bids, items that you have
won in the past, your feedback rating and associated comments,
your postings on the Site, and so on. We also provide others
a number of ways to allow other users to find more out about
you and your site activities, such as our feature that allows
users to quickly see all of the auctions you are offering at
the time.
Co-Brand
Service Providers. whybidmore.com offers a number of third
party services from our site (e.g., escrow, authentication,
personal shopper). If you choose to use these optional services,
we will, by necessity, provide some of your personally identifiable
information to the Co-Brand Service Provider offering such services.
Before we provide your information to the Co-Brand Service Provider,
we will let you see what data is about to be sent to them. You
can, of course, avoid having us make such disclosures by choosing
not to use these services. Because we do not control the privacy
practices of these third parties, you should evaluate their
practices before deciding to use their services.
Legal
Requests. whybidmore.com cooperates with law enforcement
inquires and other third parties to enforce laws, intellectual
property and other rights. Therefore, participants, intellectual
property and other rights owners, and local, state, federal
and international law enforcement can request and may receive
your personally identifiable information.
Suppliers
and Other Service Providers. We may use third party Suppliers
and Service Providers to facilitate our services. For example,
we may outsource the operations of one or more aspects of our
site to a Supplier or Service Provider who performs services
according to our requirements. In some instances, the Service
Provider may collect information directly from you (such as
the situation where we ask a Service Provider to conduct a survey
for us). In these cases, you will be notified of the involvement
of the Supplier or Service Provider, and all information disclosures
you make will be strictly optional. In all cases, we restrict
how these Suppliers and Other Service Providers may access,
use and disclose your information. In general, we do not permit
these Suppliers and Other Service Providers to sell your information
to third parties.
whybidmore.com
Subsidiaries and Joint Ventures. We will share much of our
data, including personally identifiable information about you,
with our subsidiaries and Joint Ventures that are committed
to serving your person-to-person trading needs throughout the
world. To the extent that these entities are getting access
to your information, they will treat it at least as protectively
as they treat information they obtain from their other users.
We usually require our subsidiaries and joint ventures to follow
privacy practices no less protective of all users than our practices
described in this document.
5.
Your Use of Other Users' Information.
In order to facilitate interaction among all whybidmore.com community
members, our service allows you to access other users' contact
information. Further, as a seller you will be sent via email the
Username, email address and other information of the winning bidder(s),
and as a winning bidder you will be sent via email the Username,
email address and other information of the seller.
By
entering into our User Agreement, you agree that, with respect
to other user's personally identifiable information that you
obtain through the Site or through an whybidmore.com-related
communication or whybidmore.com-facilitated transaction, whybidmore.com
hereby grants to you a license to use such information only
for: (a) whybidmore.com-related communications that are not
unsolicited commercial messages, (b) using co-branded services
offered through whybidmore.com (e.g. escrow, insurance, shipping
and fraud complaints), and (c) any other purpose that such user
expressly opts into after adequate disclosure of the purpose(s).
In all cases, you must give users an opportunity to remove themselves
from your database and a chance to review what information you
have collected about them. In addition, under no circumstances,
except as defined in this Section, can you disclose personally
identifiable information about another user to any third party
without our consent and the consent of such other user after
adequate disclosure. Note that law enforcement personnel and
other rights holders are given different rights with respect
to information they access.
whybidmore.com
and our users do not tolerate Spam. Therefore, without limiting
the foregoing, you are not licensed to add an whybidmore.com
user—even a user who has purchased an auction item from
you-to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their
express consent after adequate disclosure.
6. Email This Auction to a Friend Service.
The terms applicable to the Email This Auction to a Friend service
apply to your use of that service. Without limiting the foregoing,
you may not use the service to send Spam.
We
do not use the email addresses you enter for any purpose other
than to send your email. We do not rent or sell these email
addresses. Indeed, we generally discard the email addresses
at some point after they have been used to send your email.
7. Control of Your Password.
Except as specifically permitted by this section, you may not
disclose your whybidmore.com password to any third parties nor
share it with any third parties. If you lose control of your password,
you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable
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 as
detailed in Section 8. You may, however, disclose your password
to certain third parties with whom whybidmore.com has entered
into specific contractual and technical arrangements designed
to safeguard your password ("Authorized Password Users"),
in order to enjoy the benefits of those third parties' services
in relation to the whybidmore.com services.
8. Reviewing and Changing Your Personally Identifiable Information.
Following registration, you can review and change the information
you submitted during registration including:
Your Username and email address. If you change your Username we
keep track of your old Username(s) and your new Username.
Your name, address, city, state, zip code, country, primary phone
number, and gender.
Your password.
Your credit card number and expiration date, if you supplied one.
You must promptly update your information if it changes.
Once posted, you cannot change or remove any public postings made
in our chat rooms or other message areas or the feedback area.
Upon
your request, we will remove your credit card number and credit
card expiration date from our databases. To make this request,
email privacy@whybidmore.com.
Such information will be removed after one billing cycle of
your last sale on whybidmore.com unless your account is in dispute,
in which case your information will be kept on file until the
dispute is resolved. However, if you have a free email service
account or are otherwise required to provide a credit card for
other reasons, you may not request to remove your credit card
from file unless you wish to terminate your account or place
a different credit card on file.
We
will retain in our files information you have requested to remove
in some circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot
problems and enforce our User Agreement. Further, such prior
information is never completely removed from our databases due
to technical constraints and the fact that we back up our systems.
Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personally
identifiable information will be completely removed from our
databases in response to your requests.
9. Other Information Collectors.
Except as otherwise expressly discussed in this Privacy Policy,
this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information
we collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information
to other parties, whether they are bidders, buyers or sellers
on our system or other sites throughout the Internet, different
rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information
you disclose to them. To the extent that we use third party advertisers,
they adhere to their own privacy customs and policies. Since whybidmore.com
does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are
subject to the privacy customs and policies of that third party.
We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal
information to others.
10. Security.
whybidmore.com uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the
confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, such
as firewalls and Secure Socket Layers. However, "perfect
security" does not exist on the Internet. |
