(1) Perspective:
The privacy policy of 1000bids.com explains how we handle your personal information for our services on our websites. 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. 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 world.
The information we collect from you in this privacy policy and what may happen to that information as part of the normal operation of our services is narrated.1000bids endeavors to provide a reliable set of privacy practices across an international community, and as such, all of our affiliates operate under same privacy practices as described in this Privacy Policy, subject to the requirements of applicable law.
We shall not disclose, rent, share, or transfer any information provided by the visitors of this website to any third party, except to a government department asked by the law, or government regulations. This is as per our ethical standards.
Cookies respect to computer science terminology may be set and access on the visitors’ computers or machines of any type. The cookies improve the use of your visiting this website. However, you may refuse to accept cookies at your end by setting your computer software. In that case, some or all information may not be available on the website.
By accepting the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement at the point of registration, you expressly approve to 1000bids use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is included into and subject to the terms of the 1000bids User Agreement. This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance in registration for new registering users.
(2) Collection of information from kids:
1000Bids.COM will not knowingly obtain personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18 years old. Children under the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian to verify their registration on 1000bids.com or when submitting online forms.
(3) Collection of information by us:
We may collect the following personal information about you like your email address, contact numbers, your name, other information, including IP address and standard web log information to provide our services in a proficient and friendly manner.
(4) Utilization of information collected by us:
1000bids uses the information collected from you to transmit administrative notices, buy/sell information and support, billing information, to send you specific information that you have requested, to process your credit card purchases, and to complete the paperwork necessary to transfer a domain name registration. We may also use it to send you information that is targeted to your interests, such as upcoming auctions and promotions. You expressly agree to receive this information, by accepting this membership agreement. Additionally, on appropriate portions of the site, we may display or archive your user name and system- and user-generated feedback, including the comments you submit and that others submit about you.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if third parties such as other users send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the site, we may collect such information into a file with information specific to you. We use this information to support your customer inquiries, settle disputes, enforce our Membership Agreement, maintain our customer ranking system, troubleshoot problems, and to identify you as eligible for special user campaigns. On rare occasions, we may look across multiple users to identify problems, resolve disputes, and evaluate you for multiple usernames.
(5) Revelation of your information:
In general, 1000bids do not sell or rent any personally identifiable information about you to any third party. If you choose to use the optional services available on the site, we will, by necessity, provide some of your personally identifiable information to these service providers. However, you can avoid these disclosures by choosing to not 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.
Although our pages may be coded with robot exclusion headers, others may illegally attempt to automatically collect your email address from the site. If you are involved in a transaction, 1000bids have features that may allow other users to view your email address and obtain your contact and other information to help complete the transaction. Further, we may send out notices to you or other users regarding suspicious activity or policy violations on the site. To enhance the effectiveness of our exchange, 100bids has formed strategic partnerships with select organizations, mostly registrars. Upon request by such Partners, 1000bids will disclose some of your personally identifiable information to the Partners for the Partners' marketing purposes.
Due to the existing regulatory environment, 1000bids cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable information will never be disclosed. We will not 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 protect our rights or to prevent imminent physical harm, financial loss or to report suspected past, present, or future illegal activity. Further, we can, and you authorize us to, disclose to a third party your information, including your name, street address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, email, and company name, 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.
(6) Utilization of others information by you:
In order to facilitate interaction among all 1000bids community members, our Site allows you to access other users' contact information. Further, as a seller you will be sent via email the 1000bids ID, email address and other information of the winning bidder(s), and as a winning bidder you will be sent via email the 1000bids ID, 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 a 1000bids.com-related communication or 1000bids-facilitated transaction, 1000bids hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for:
(a) 1000bids.com -related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages,
(b) using co-branded services offered through 1000bids
(e.g. 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 our 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.
(7) Safeguarding your login name and password:
You are solely responsible for safeguarding and maintaining the secrecy of your account, passwords and/or any account information in your possession or control, and it is important to keep us updated with your most current contact information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online. The Site contains links to third parties who may collect information directly from you. Each of the websites linked from the Site may have separa0te privacy policies and data collection practices, independent of 1000bids. 1000bids has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies or actions and is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites, nor does 1000bids make any warranties or representations about the contents, products or services offered on such websites or the security of any information you provide to them.
(8) Corrections, accessing and reviewing your personal information:
1000bids is committed to ensuring that the personal information we hold for each registered user is accurate, up-to-date and complete. You have the right to access your personal information in our files and to update or remove that information as necessary, subject to any legal restrictions that would prohibit such action. Generally, we will not modify your personal information based on a request not submitted through the site because it can be difficult to authenticate your identity manually.
To access your personal information, please contact our Privacy Compliance Officer by telephone, e-mail or post at the numbers and address provided below. Please be sure to specify what information requires updating or removal. Corrections will be made at no cost to you. For other requests, a small fee may be charged to cover the associated costs. We will endeavor to keep these fees as reasonable as possible and will alert you to the charge and amount prior to executing your request. In these instances, you will be given the opportunity to withdraw your request.
ON your request, we will terminate and delete your account, contact information, billing information, shipping information and financial information from our active records.
Your account will be terminated and deleted as soon as we receive your request but no later than 30 days.
(9) Discussion boards:
Any usage of discussion boards, situated on our site by you, for any personally identifiable information you have given can be read, collected or even used by others which should be known to you. 1000bids is hereby not responsible for personal information you decide to submit to us.
(10) Information from third parties:
Our Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information that we collect. To the extent that you reveal information to other parties, even if you connected to those parties through the 1000bids Web site, different rules may apply, and 1000bids does not manage or control such information. 1000bids implements standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, whether they are bidders, buyers or sellers on our site or other sites throughout the Internet, 1000bids does not control the privacy policies of third parties.
(11) Protection:
We have put into place reasonable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to help safeguard and prevent unauthorized access to, use and/or disclosure of your personal information. Although we use reasonable efforts to safeguard the security of your personal information, transmissions made on or through the Internet and personal information stored on our servers are vulnerable to attack and cannot be guaranteed to be secure. In addition, submissions made via e-mail are not protected by encryption and are vulnerable to interception during transmission.
We treat your data as an asset that must be protected. To protect your personal information against unauthorized access and disclosure, 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.
(12) Revision to this privacy policy:
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy from time to time without notice to you. If at any time we decide to substantially change the manner in which we collect or use personally identifiable information, we will inform our members by posting a prominent announcement on our home page. However, your personal information will always be used in accordance with the privacy policy in effect at the time the information was collected.
(13) Contact us:
If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us via email at info@1000bids.com exerts best efforts to protect our Users' privacy. |
