We believe your business is no one else's. Your privacy is
important to you…and to us. So we'll protect the information you share with us.
This
policy informs you about how we use and protect your personal information.
eBitsy
is a international trading platform having independent websites who have
agreed to abide by this Privacy Policy. Each independent website may have
additions to this Privacy Policy which will be displayed on their website and
of which you should make yourself aware. This Privacy Policy generally covers
all websites affiliated with eBitsy.
Contents
•Scope
•Collection
•Marketing
•Use
•Our
Disclosure of Your Information
•Activity
Associated with User IDs
•Using
Information from eBitsy
•Cookies
•No
Spam, Spyware or Spoofing
•Account
Protection
•Accessing,
Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
•Security
•Third
Parties
•General
Scope
This
Privacy Policy describes how we handle your personal information for our
services on the eBitsy websites. It applies generally to the ebitsy.com,
ebitsy.com/en/, ebitsy.com/es/, ebitsy.com/fr, ebitsy.com/nl, ebitsy.com/it
websites and other related websites where this policy appears in the footer of
the page. The policy that applies on any of our domains or subdomains is always
the policy that appears in the footer of each website.
Our
subsidiaries’ and joint ventures’ privacy practices are similar to those
described in this Privacy Policy. Subject to the requirements of applicable
law, we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices throughout the
global eBitsy trading community.
By
accepting the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement in registration, you
expressly consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your
personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy
is effective upon acceptance for new users and is otherwise effective on February
26, 2010.
Collection
When submitting your personal Information
to eBitsy you will be taking to our secure sign in page, meaning information
submitted to eBitsy is only available to you and eBitsy alone. You can browse our sites
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 provide us with personal information, you consent to the
transfer and storage of that information on our servers located in the USA.
We
may collect and store the following personal information:
•email
address, physical contact information, and (depending on the service used)
sometimes financial information, such as credit card or bank account numbers;
•transactional
information based on your activities on the sites (such as bidding, buying,
selling, item and content you generate or that relates to your account);
•shipping,
billing and other information you provide to purchase or ship an item;
•community
discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through our sites, and
correspondence sent to us;
•other
information from your interaction with our sites, services, content and
advertising, including computer and connection information, statistics on page
views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log
information;
•information
from other companies, such as demographic and traffic data; and
•other
supplemental information from third parties (for example, if you incur a debt
to eBitsy, we will generally conduct a credit check by obtaining additional
information about you from a credit bureau, as permitted by law; or if the
information you provide cannot be verified, we may ask you to send us
additional information, such as your driver license, credit card statement, or
a recent utility bill or other information confirming your address, or to
answer additional questions online to help verify your information).
•When
you provide information to an affiliated website the information you provide
will be held on our servers located in the USA. In addition this information
will be available to the independent website operator to provide similar
services as described above.
Marketing
We
don't sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their
marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may combine your
information with information we collect from other companies and use it to
improve and personalize our services, content and advertising. If you don't
wish to receive marketing communications from us or participate in our
ad-customization programs, simply indicate your preference once you sign-on in
My Account (or similar account status page) or by following the directions
provided in an email or from a link on the advertisement.
Use
Our
primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a
safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. You agree that we may use
your personal information to:
•provide
the services and customer support you request;
•resolve
disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
•prevent
potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our User Agreement;
•customize,
measure and improve our services, content and advertising;
•tell
you about targeted marketing, service updates, and promotional offers based on
your communication preferences; and
•compare
information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties.
Using Information from eBitsy
eBitsy
enables you to share personal and financial information to complete
transactions. We encourage you to disclose your privacy practices and respect
the privacy of other users. We cannot guarantee the privacy or security of your
information and therefore we encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security
policies of your trading partner before entering into a transaction and
choosing to share your information. To help protect your privacy, we allow only
limited access to other users' contact, shipping and financial information to
facilitate your transactions. When users are involved in a transaction, they
may have access to each other's name, User ID, email address and other contact
and shipping information. In all cases, you must give other users a chance to
remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information
you have collected about them.
You
agree to use user information only for:
•eBitsy
transaction-related purposes that are not unsolicited commercial messages;
•using
services offered through eBtisy (e.g. escrow, insurance, shipping and fraud
complaints), or
•other
purposes that a user expressly chooses.
Cookies
We
use "cookies" (small files placed on your hard drive) on certain of
our pages to help analyze our web page flow; customize our services, content
and advertising; measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and
safety.
A few
important things you should know about cookies are that:
•We
offer certain features that are available only through the use of cookies.
•We
use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status.
•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 doing
so may interfere with your use of some of our sites or services.
•You
may encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of the sites that we
do not control. (For example, if you view a web page created by another user,
there may be a cookie placed by that web page.)
Cookies, Web Beacons, and Your Privacy
eBitsy
uses cookies, web beacons, and related tools provided by third parties to
provide you with services that make the eBitsy site more efficient for your
buying and selling activities. eBitsy limits the use of these tools to protect
your privacy.
About cookies
"Cookies"
are small files placed on the hard drive of your computer.
eBitsy uses
cookies on certain pages of the website to:
·Allow you to enter your password less frequently during a
session.
·Provide information that is targeted to your interests.
·Promote and enforce trust and safety.
·Offer certain features that are only available through the use of
cookies.
·Measure promotional effectiveness.
·Analyze our web page flow.
Cookies we use for trust and safety (Flash cookies)
- eBitsy uses Flash cookies, which are cookies
written with Flash technology, to help ensure that your account security is not
compromised and to spot irregularities in behavior to prevent your account from
being fraudulently taken over.
Cookies on eBitsy's discussion boards – eBitsy's discussion boards use session cookies to
facilitate conversation threads and overall service functions.
Your choices about cookies –
We offer certain features that are only available through the use of a cookie.
You are always free to decline cookies if your browser permits. However, if you
decline cookies, you may not be able to use certain features on the website,
and you may be required to reenter your password more frequently during a
session. Learn how to set your browser to accept cookies.
Web beacons
A web beacon is an electronic image placed in the web page
code that can serve many of the same purposes as cookies. Web beacons are used
to track the traffic patterns of users from one page to another in order to
maximize web traffic flow.
How eBitsy protects your privacy with third parties
·eBitsy may work with other companies who place cookies or web
beacons on our websites. These companies help operate our websites and provide
you with additional products and services. They are subject to confidentiality
agreements with eBitsy and other legal restrictions. eBitsy does not permit any
of these companies to collect personal information using cookies or web beacons
on our websites.
·eBitsy participates in cookie-based ad networks operated by
Google and Yahoo. This means that these
companies may use some anonymous information about you (based on a cookie on
your computer) to display ads. We do not permit these companies to collect any
personal information about you.
·eBitsy does not permit third-party content on eBitsy (such as
an item listing) to include cookies or web beacons, although this may still
happen from time to time. If you believe a listing may be collecting personal
information or using cookies, please report it to admin@ebitsy.com.
Our zero tolerance no Spam, Spyware or Spoofing Policy
We and our users do not tolerate
spam. Make sure to set your eBitsy notification preferences so we communicate
to you as you prefer. You are not licensed to add other eBitsy users, even a
user who has purchased an item from you, to your mailing list (email or
physical mail) without their express consent. To report eBitsy-related spam or
spoof emails to eBitsy, please forward the email to admin@ebitsy.com . You may not use our
communication tools to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate
our User Agreement. We automatically scan and may manually filter messages to
check for spam, viruses, phishing attacks and other malicious activity or
illegal or prohibited content, but we do not permanently store messages sent
through these tools. If you send an email to an email address that is not
registered in our community (via Refer-a-Friend or other tools), we do not
permanently store that email or use that email address for any marketing
purpose. We do not rent or sell these email addresses.
Account Protection
Your password is the key to your
account. Use unique numbers, letters and special characters, and do not disclose
your eBitsy password to anyone. If you do share your password or your personal
information with others, remember that you are responsible for all actions
taken in the name of your account. 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 notify eBitsy and
change your password.
Accessing, Reviewing and Changing
Your Personal Information
You can see, review and change most
of your personal information by signing on to eBitsy. Generally, we will not
manually modify your personal information because it is very difficult to
verify your identity remotely. You must promptly update your personal
information if it changes or is inaccurate. Once you make a public posting, you
may not be able to change or remove it. Upon your request, we will close your
account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably
possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable law.
We do retain personal information from closed accounts to comply with law,
prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems,
assist with any investigations, enforce our eBitsy User Agreement, and take
other actions otherwise permitted by law.
Security
Your information is stored on our
servers located in the USA. We treat data as an asset that must be protected
and use lots of tools (encryption, passwords, physical security, etc.) to
protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure.
However, as you probably know, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access
transmissions or private communications, and other users may abuse or misuse
your personal information that they collect from the site. Therefore, although
we work very hard to protect your privacy, we do not promise, and you should
not expect, that your personal information or private communications will
always remain private.
Third Parties
Except as otherwise expressly
included in this Privacy Policy, this document addresses only the use and
disclosure of information we collect from you. If you disclose your information
to others, whether they are bidders, buyers or sellers on our sites or other
sites throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or
disclosure of the information you disclose to them. eBitsy does not control the
privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies
of those third parties where applicable. We encourage you to ask questions
before you disclose your personal information to others.
General
We may amend this Privacy Policy at
any time by posting the amended terms on this site. All amended terms
automatically take effect 30 days after they are initially posted on the Site.
In addition, we will notify you through the eBitsy Message Center. If your
questions are not answered online, you may write to us at: