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 uBid.com Holdings, Inc., the owner and operator of Bidville.com,
is a licensee of the TRUSTe Privacy Program. TRUSTe is an
independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to build
user’s trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the
use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers
the site http://www.bidville.com.
Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your
privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and
have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If
you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you
should first contact Bidville at
http://www.bidville.com/cs/cs_email.asp.
If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your
inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact
TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php.
TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your
concerns.
The
TRUSTe program covers only information that is collected through
this Web site, and does not cover information that may be
collected through software downloaded from this site.
Effective
Date: 9.11.2006
uBid.com Holdings, Inc.,
Inc. is located at: 8550 West Bryn Mawr Avenue, Suite 200, Chicago, Illinois 60631
Information
Collection and Use
BidVille.com
is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We
will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways
different from what is disclosed in this statement. BidVille.com
collects information from our users at several different points
on our website.
Registration
In
order to use this website, a user must first complete the
registration form. During registration a user is required to give
their contact information (such as name and email address). This
information is used to contact the user about the services on our
site for which they have expressed interest.
To
become a seller on Bidville, a registered member must provide
either an authorized credit card or checking account to
Bidville’s secure site. Members are welcome to add or update
their credit card information in their Bidville account by
filling out and submitting the secure form.
The
transmitted credit card information is protected by
industry-standard SSL encryption.
The
credit card information will appear in the member’s Bidville
online account immediately.
The
credit card on file will automatically be charged for the
member’s Bidville invoices.
Registered
Bidville members who do not have a credit card or checking
account may pay a $15 deposit in cash, check, or money order to
Bidville to deduct future seller fees incurred.
The
winning bidder or the ‘Take It’ buyer will have access to the
email address of the seller of the item(s) both located in
TrackPal under items won and in an email sent from Bidville. The
seller of items purchased will have access to only those email
addresses of winning bidders or ‘Take It’ buyers. No other
personal information on file is sent to the buyer or seller in a
transaction.
Tell-A-Friend
‘Email
this auction to a friend’ is a feature that Bidville offers its
members to email specific auctions to people that they feel would
be interested in that auction. If you choose to use our referral
service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your
friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send
your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the
site. Bidville does not store this information.
Bidville
also has the following policy in place for this feature: We do
not allow our site to be used for spamming purposes. Please send
emails only to people you know who would be interested in this
item. If this person asks you not to send this type of email to
them again, please comply. If you are using this service to
advertise an item that you are selling, and the recipient
complains, your account may be inactivated.
Cookies
A
cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive
containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no
way linked to any personally identifiable information while on
our site. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user
would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby
saving time while on our site. If a user rejects the cookie, they
may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the
user will be limited in some areas of our site. For example, the
user will not be able to participate in any of our occasional
Sweepstakes, Contests or monthly Drawings that take place.
Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of
our users to enhance the experience on our site. If a user
chooses to reject cookies they will need to log in repeatedly in
order to use the site.
Some
of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for
example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control
over these cookies.
Log
Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer
the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use.
Sharing
We
will share aggregated demographic information with our partners
and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information
that can identify any individual person.
We
use a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and
services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use
personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
We
reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable
information as required by law and when we believe that
disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply
with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served
on our Web site.
Links
This
web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we
[Bidville.com] are not responsible for the privacy practices of
such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they
leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and
every web site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected
by this website.
The
Message Board Terms of Service (TOS) Rules and Guidelines are
located in the Community section of Bidville. All members
participating in our public message forums are responsible for
their own words. Users should be aware that any personally
identifiable information submitted on our Message Boards can be
read, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and
could be used to send unsolicited messages. We are not
responsible for the personally identifiable information users
choose to submit in these forums. To view the Bidville Message
Boards TOS Rules and Guidelines please visit
http://www.bidville.com/community/messages/guidelines.asp
Surveys
& Contests
From time-to-time our site requests
information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in
these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user
therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this
information. Information requested may include contact
information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic
information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information
will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey
information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving
the use and satisfaction of this site.
Security
This
website takes precautions to protect our user’s information.
When users submit sensitive information via the website, your
information is protected both online and off-line.
When
our Create Seller Account form asks users to enter sensitive
information (such as credit card number), that information is
encrypted and is protected with encryption software - SSL. While
on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the
bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft
Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or
open, when you are just surfing.
While
we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we
also take steps to protect user-information off-line. We use
industry standard measures to protect user information.
If
you have any questions about the security at our website, you can
send an email to http://www.bidville.com/cs/cs_email.asp.
Special
Offers
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify
password and username. Established members will occasionally
receive information on products, services, special deals, and a
newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we
present the option to not receive these types of communications.
Please see our choice and opt-out below.
Site
and Service Updates
We also send the user site and service
announcement updates. Members are not able to un-subscribe from
service announcements, which contain important information about
the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested
services and in regards to issues relating to their account via
email or phone.
Correction/Updating
Personal Information:
If a users personally identifiable
information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no
longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to
correct, update or remove that users personal data provided to
us. This can be done by logging into your account, clicking on
Trackpal and choosing View/Edit My Personal information or by
emailing Bidville Customer Service
(http://www.bidville.com/cs/cs_email.asp)
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to opt-out of having
their information used for purposes not directly related to our
site at the point where we ask for the information. For example,
our registration form has an opt-out mechanism so users who
register, but don’t want any marketing material, can keep their
email address off of our lists.
Users
who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional
materials from our partners may opt-out of receiving these
communications by unsubscribing here
http://www.bidville.com/personal/unsubscribe.cfm
or by emailing us at
http://www.bidville.com/cs/cs_email.asp.
Users
of our site are notified when their information is being
collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can
make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with
services that require an outside party, or not.
Notification
of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we
will post those changes on our Bidville Announcements section
(http://www.bidville.com/community/messages/forums.asp?forum=5)
so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how
we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at
any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in
a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected,
we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a
choice as to whether or not we use their information in this
different manner. We will use information in accordance with the
privacy policy under which the information was collected.
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