We value our own privacy and yours, and do not abuse your
information. Specifically:
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We disclose your information to other EBidz users only when a
sale is made between two parties.
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All the personal data entered is recorded and stored in a secure
database.
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We will not sell or give your name to other organizations for
them to contact you.
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We will disclose your contact information to other users who
have a valid reason to contact you.
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We will use your contact information to send you invoices plus
any notifications, newsletters and announcements you opt into via My EBidz >
My Notifications.
Full Privacy
Policy
-How EBidz Uses your Personal Data.
In this section we have set out:
.. The general categories of personal data that we may process;
.. In the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from
you, the source and specific categories of that data;
.. The purposes for which we may process personal data; and
.. The legal bases of the processing.
We may process data about your use of our website/apps and
services ("usage data"). The usage data may include your IP address,
geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral
source, length of visit, page views and website/apps navigation paths, as well
as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The
source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system. This usage data may
be processed for the purposes of analyzing the use of the website/apps and
services. The legal basis for this processing is consent or legitimate
interests, namely monitoring and improving our website/apps and services.
We may process your account data ("account data"). The
account data may include your name, email address, telephone number, address,
if you are an individual or business and your business information. The account
data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website/apps, providing
our services, ensuring the security of our website/apps and services,
maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal
basis for this processing is the proper administration of our website/apps and
business and the performance of such services.
We may process your information included in your personal
profile on our website/apps ("profile data").The profile data may
include your name, address, telephone number, email address, profile pictures
or logos, company logos. The profile data may be processed for the purposes of
enabling and monitoring your use of our website/apps and services. The legal
basis for this processing is consent or our legitimate interests, namely the
proper administration of our website/apps and business or the performance of a
contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at you request, to enter into
such a contract.
We may process your personal data that are provided in the
course of the use of our services ("service data"). The service data
may be processed for the purposes of operating our website/apps, providing our
services, ensuring the security of our website/apps and services, maintaining
back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this
processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our
website.
We may process information that you post for publication on our
website/apps or through our services ("publication data"). The
publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such publication
and administering our website/apps and services. The legal basis for this
processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our
website/apps and business.
We may process information contained in any enquiry you submit
to us regarding goods and/or services ("enquiry data"). The enquiry
data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling
relevant goods and/or services to you
We may process information relating to our customer
relationships, including customer contact information ("customer relationship
data"). The customer relationship data may include your name, telephone
number, address email address and information contained in communications
between us and you. The customer relationship data may be processed for the
purposes of managing our relationships with customers, communicating with
customers, keeping records of those communications and promoting our products
and services to customers. The legal basis for this processing is our
legitimate interests, namely the proper management of our customer
relationships and interactions between you and potential or otherwise
counterparties.
We may process information relating to transactions, including
purchases of goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or through our
website/apps ("transaction data"). The transaction data may include
your contact details, your card details and the transaction details. The
transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased
goods and services and keeping proper records of those transactions. The legal
basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us
and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract and our
legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website/apps and
business.
We may process information that you provide to us for the
purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters
("notification data"). The notification data may be processed for the
purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The
legal basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you
and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract
("registration").
We may process information contained in or relating to any
communication that you send to us ("correspondence data"). The
correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata
associated with the communication. Our website/apps will generate the metadata
associated with communications made using the website/apps contact forms. The
correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you
and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate
interests, namely the proper administration of our website/apps and business
and communications with users.
We may process data about your products and services. This data
may include product information, product location and shipping details and
charges. This data may be processed for specify purposes. The legal basis for
this processing is our legitimate interests, namely specify legitimate
interests in the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking
steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
We may process any of your personal data identified in this
policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal
claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court
procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests,
namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and
the legal rights of others.
We may process any of your personal data identified in this
policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance
coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for
this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of
our business against risks.
In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process
your personal data set out in this section, we may also process any of your
personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal
obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests
or the vital interests of another natural person.
Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us,
unless we prompt you to do so.
-Providing Your Personal Data to Others.
We may disclose your personal data to any members or any member of our group of
companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all
its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes, and on the
legal bases, set out in this policy. Information about our group of companies
can be found at the bottom of the page.
We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or
professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of
obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining
professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims,
whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
We may disclose personal data to our suppliers or subcontractors.
Financial transactions relating to our website/apps and services are OR may be
handled by our payment services providers, Barclay Merchant Services, Paypal
and Pay360. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers
only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments,
refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to
such payments and refunds.
We may disclose your enquiry data to one or more of those
selected third party suppliers of goods and services identified on our
website/apps for the purpose of enabling them to contact you so that they can
offer, market and sell to you relevant goods and/or services. Each such third
party will act as a data controller in relation to the enquiry data that we
supply to it; and upon contacting you, each such third party will supply to you
a copy of its own privacy policy, which will govern that third party's use of
your personal data.
In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out
in this section, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is
necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in
order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural
person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is
necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether
in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
-International Transfers of Your Personal Data
In this section, we provide information about the circumstances in which your
personal data may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic
Area (EEA).
We and our other group companies have offices and facilities in
the
The hosting facilities for our website/apps are situated in
You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for
publication through our website/apps or services may be available, via the
internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such
personal data by others.
-Retaining and Deleting Personal Data
This section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are
designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation
to the retention and deletion of personal data.
Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall
not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
We will retain your personal data as follows:
..Personal data category or categories will be retained for a minimum
period of 6 years following registration or cookie collection and for a maximum
period of 6 years following registration with financial and transaction data.
In some cases it is not possible for us to specify in advance
the periods for which your personal data will be retained. In such cases, we
will determine the period of retention based on the following criteria:
Activity as a seller, buyer or registered member with trading or financial
history.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, we may
retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with
a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital
interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
-Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our
website/apps.
You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy
with any changes to this policy.
We may notify you of significant changes to this policy by email
or through the private messaging system on our website/apps.
-Your Rights
In this section, we have summarized the rights that you have under data
protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have
been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws
and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these
rights.
Your principal rights under data protection law are:
(a) the right to access;
(b) the right to rectification;
(c) the right to erasure;
(d) the right to restrict processing;
(e) the right to object to processing;
(f) the right to data portability;
(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority;
and
(h) the right to withdraw consent.
You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your
personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with
certain additional information. That additional information includes details of
the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and
the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of
others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data.
The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be
subject to a reasonable fee. You can access your personal data by visiting your
My EBidz > My Details section when logged into our website/apps.
You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about
you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have
any incomplete personal data about you completed.
In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your
personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal
data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected
or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you
object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law;
the processing is for direct marketing purposes; and the personal data have
been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to
erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for
exercising the right of freedom of expression and information; for compliance
with a legal obligation; or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal
claims.
In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the
processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the
accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure;
we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you
require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal
claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that
objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue
to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with
your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; for
the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons
of important public interest.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal
data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent
that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary
for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the
exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the
legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an
objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can
demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override
your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the
establishment, exercise or defense of l You have the right to object to our
processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes (including
profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we
will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal
data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on
grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is
necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public
interest.
To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your
personal data is:
(a) consent; or
(b) that the processing is necessary for the
performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at
your request prior to entering into a contract,
and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the
right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and
machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would
adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
If you consider that our processing of your personal information
infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint
with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in
the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place
of the alleged infringement.
To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your
personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at
any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the
withdrawal.
You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal
data via your My EBidz > My Details section, in addition to the other methods
specified above.
-About Cookies
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers)
that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The
identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a
page from the server.
Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or
"session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web
browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the
user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire
at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally
identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be
linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
-Cookies That We Use
We use cookies for the following purposes:
(a) Authentication - we use cookies to identify you
when you visit our website/apps and as you navigate our website/apps
(b) We use cookies to help us to determine if you are
logged into our website/apps
(c) We use cookies to store information about your
preferences and to personalize the website/apps for you
(d) Security - we use cookies as an element of the
security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing
fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website/apps and
services
(e) Advertising - we use cookies to help us to display
advertisements that will be relevant to you
(f) Analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyze
the use and performance of our website/apps and services
(g) Cookie consent - we use cookies to store your
preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally
-Cookies Used By our Service Providers
Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your
computer when you visit our website/apps.
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website/apps.
Google Analytics gathers information about website/apps use by means of
cookies. The information gathered relating to our website/apps is used to
create reports about the use of our website/apps. Google's privacy policy is
available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
We publish Google AdSense interest-based advertisements on our
website/apps. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To
determine your interests, Google will track your behavior on our website/apps
and on other website/apps across the web using cookies. OR We publish Google
AdSense advertisements on our website/apps. To determine your interests, Google
will track your behavior on our website/apps and on other website/apps across
the web using cookies. This behavior tracking allows Google to tailor the
advertisements that you see on other website/apps to reflect your interests
(but we do not publish interest-based advertisements on our website/apps). You
can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by
visiting: https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the AdSense
partner network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising
Initiative's multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at:
http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms
themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your
opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in
respect of a particular browser, you may wish to consider using the Google
browser plug-ins available at: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996.
-Managing Cookies
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The
methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version.
You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting
cookies via these links:
(a)
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
(b)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website/Apps-preferences
(Firefox);
(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/
(Opera);
(d)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
(Internet Explorer);
(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
(Edge).
Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the
usability of many website/Apps.
If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the
features on our website/Apps.
