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Your
privacy is very important to us. We do not sell or rent your personal
information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your
explicit consent. Please read this privacy policy to learn more about the
ways in which we use and protect your personal information. We want you to
fully understand our privacy practices. |
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The
privacy practices of this statement apply to our services available under the
domain and subdomains of www.Bidacard.com
(the "Site") By visiting this website you agree to be bound by the terms and
conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree please do not use or
access our Site.
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 Bidacard's practices so that you can
make informed decisions.
By
accepting the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement in registration, you
expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in
accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into
and subject to the terms of the Bidacard User Agreement. This Privacy Policy is
effective upon acceptance in registration for new registering users, and is
otherwise effective on June 10th, 2004 for all users.
Table
of Contents
1.
An
Important Note About Children
2.
Information
We Collect
3.
Our
Use of Your Information
4.
Our
Disclosure of Your Information
Advertisers
Bidacard
Community
External
Service Providers
Internal
Service Providers for Our Operations
Other
Corporate Entities
Legal
Requests
5.
Your
Use of Other Users' Information
6.
Use
of Email Tools
7.
Control
of Your Password
8.
Accessing,
Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
9.
Other
Information Collectors
10.
Security
11.
Privacy
Tools
12.
Notice
1.
A
Special Note About Children.
Children
(persons under the age of 18) are not eligible to use the Site unsupervised and
we ask that children do not submit any personal information to us. If you are
under the age of 18, you may only use this Site in conjunction with and under
the supervision of your parents or guardians.
2.
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. If you choose to use our services, we may require
you to provide contact and identity information, billing information, shipping
information and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout
the Site. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which fields
are optional.
We
use your financial information, including credit card information to verify the
accuracy of your name, address, and other information, as well as to bill you
for your use of our services.
If
you choose to bid, buy or operate a fundraiser on the Site, we may collect
information about your bidding, and buying behavior.
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.
If
you choose to post messages in our chat rooms or other message areas for other
users, we will collect that information you provide to us. We retain this
information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and
troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.
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.
3.
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; enforce our User Agreement; and as otherwise described to you at the
time of collection. 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 bid on a card or deck and or operate a fundraiser 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.
4.
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.
Bidacard
auctions.
Your User ID is displayed throughout the Site and is therefore available to the
public. All of your activities on the Site will be identifiable to your User ID.
Other people can see your bids, cards that you have purchased in the past. Your
postings (fundraisers) on the Site, and so on. Therefore, if you associate your
name with your User ID, the people you have revealed your name to will be able
to personally identify your eBay activities. Others may illegally attempt to
automatically collect your email address from the Site. We suggest you never use
your email address as your User ID. We may send out notices to you or other
community members regarding suspicious activity or policy violations on the
Site.
External
Service Providers. There are a number of separate services
that may offered by third parties that we refer to as external service providers
that may be complimentary to your use of the Site (e.g. listing agents, escrow,
authentication, mediation, shipping, packaging). If you choose to use these
separate services, disclose information to the external service providers,
and/or grant them permission to collect information about you, then their use of
your information is governed by their privacy policy. We do not disclose your
personal information to external service providers unless you provide your
explicit consent. With your consent we may provide some of your personal
information to the external service provider offering such services, for your
convenience. To prevent our disclosure of your personal information to an
external service provider, you can decline such consent or simply not use their
services. Because we do not control the privacy practices of these third
parties, you should evaluate their practices before deciding to use their
services.
Internal
Service Providers for Our Operations. We
may use third parties that we refer to as internal service providers to
facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of the business, product and service
operations that we provide to you (e.g., search technology, discussion boards,
bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs, co-branded credit cards) and
therefore we may provide some of your personal information directly to these
internal service providers. These internal service providers' are subject to
confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions that prohibit
their use of the information we provide them for any other purpose except to
facilitate the specific outsourced Bidacard related operation, unless you have
explicitly agreed or given your prior permission to them for additional uses. In
some instances, the internal service provider may collect information directly
from you (such as for Bidacard surveys or for a co-branded credit card). In
these cases, you will be notified of the involvement of the internal service
provider, and all additional information you provide them and their additional
uses will be strictly up to you. If you provide additional information to an
internal service provider directly, then their use of your personal information
is governed by their applicable privacy policy.
Legal
Requests.
Bidacard cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third
parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other
rights, to help protect you and the Bidacard community 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, state,
telephone number, email address, UserID history, fraud complaints, and bidding
and listing history without a subpoena. Without limiting the above, in an effort
to respect your privacy and our ability to keep the community free from bad
actors, 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: prevent imminent physical harm or
financial loss; or report suspected illegal activity.
Due
to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your
private communications and other personal 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 personal information to
the government or third parties under certain circumstances, third parties may
unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or users
may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the Site.
Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy,
we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or
private communications will always remain private.
5.
Your
Use of Other Users' Information.
In
order to facilitate interaction among all eBay community members, our Site
allows you limited access other users' contact and in the case of fundraiser
auctions (non hosted) shipping information. As a Fundraiser host you have access
to the User ID, email address and other contact and shipping information of the
buyer or winning bidder(s), and as a buyer or winning bidder you have access to
the User ID, email address and other contact information of the Fundraiser host.
By
entering into our User Agreement, you agree that, with respect to other users'
personal information that you obtain through the Site or through an
Bidacard-related communication or Bidacard-facilitated transaction, Bidacard
hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for: (a)
Bidacard-related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages,
(b) using services offered through Bidacard (e.g. escrow, insurance, shipping
and fraud complaints), and (c) any other purpose that a user expressly agrees to
after you tell them the purpose you would like to use it for. 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
personal information about another user to any third party without our consent
and the consent of that user.
Bidacard
and our users do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing,
you are not licensed to add an Bidacard user, even a user who has purchased an
item from you, to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express
consent.
6.
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 Bidacard 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 request a
manual change of your password.
7.
Accessing,
Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information.
We
offer you the ability to automatically review and change the information you
submit to us by logging into the Site and entering in the new information
yourself. Generally, we will not modify your personal information based on your
request because it is very difficult to authenticate your account manually.
You
can change your user Id, email address, contact information, financial
information, shipping information and user preferences by going the preferences
page and accessing Personal
Information.
You must promptly update your personal information if it changes or is
inaccurate. Once posted, you may not be able to change or remove any public
postings made on the Site including our chat rooms.
Upon
your request, we will deactivate your account, contact information, billing
information, shipping information, and financial information from our active
databases. To make this request, email Customer
Service@bidacard.com.
Such information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible based on
your account activity.
We
will retain in our files some personal information you have requested to remove
to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot
problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our User Agreement and comply
with legal requirements as is permitted by law. Therefore, you should not expect
that all of your personal information will be completely removed from our
databases in response to your requests. However, such personal information will
be deactivated from public and member viewing and will only be available to
select Bidacard personal.
8.
Other
Information Collectors.
Except
as otherwise expressly included 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 site or other sites throughout the Internet,
different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you
disclose to them. Since Bidacard does not control the privacy policies of third
parties, you are subject to the privacy policies of that third party. We
encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to
others.
9.
Security.
Your
information is stored on Bidacards servers located in the
10.
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.