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Contents
- Scope
- Collection
- Marketing
- Use
- Our Disclosure of Your Information
- Activity Associated with User IDs
- Using Information from infocera
- Cookies
- No spam, Spyware or Cookies
- 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 available through the www.infocera.com (the "Site")
and applies generally to our subsidiaries and joint venture web sites
whose specific privacy policies are available from our Privacy Central
pages. 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 infocera 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 March 11, 2006.
Collection
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 provide us with personal information, you
consent to the transfer and storage of that information to our servers
located in the India.
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 Site (such as bidding, buying, selling, item
and content you generate or that relates to your account): ..community
discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through the
Site, and correspondence sent to us: .computer sign-on data, statistics
on page views, traffic to and from the Site, and ad data: .other information,
including IP address and standard web log information: and .supplemental
information from third parties. (For example, if you incur a debt
to infocera, we will generally conduct a credit check by obtaining
additional information about you from a credit bureau, as permitted
by law. As another example, 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, and/or a recent utility
bill or other information confirming your address), or to answer additional
questions online to help verify your information.
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 (such
as demographic data) to improve and personalize our services.
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 and the Site's content and layout;
- .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.
Our Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose personal information to respond to
legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a
listing or other content violates the rights of others, or protect
anyone's rights, property, or safety.
We may also share your personal
information with: - .members of our corporate family to help detect
and prevent potentially illegal acts and provide joint services;(Our
corporate affiliates will market only to users who request these services.)
- .service providers under contract who help with our business operations;
(such as fraud investigations, bill collection, affiliate and rewards
programs and co-branded credit cards)
- .other third parties to whom
you explicitly ask us to send your information; (or about whom you
are otherwise explicitly notified and consent to when using a specific
service)
- .law enforcement or other governmental officials, in response
to a verified request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged
illegal activity; (In such events we will disclose name, city, state,
telephone number, email address, User ID history, fraud complaints,
and bidding and listing history.)
- .we in our sole discretion believe
necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud,
intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity;
(In such events we will disclose name, street address, city, state,
zip code, country, phone number, email, and company name.) and
- .other
business entities, should we plan to merge with, or be acquired by
that business entity. (Should such a combination occur, we will require
that the new combined entity follow this privacy policy with respect
to your personal information. If your personal information will be
used contrary to this policy, you will receive prior notice.)
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, other government
officials, or other third parties 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 to report suspected illegal
activity.
Activity Associated with User IDs/identities
Your identity/user
ID is displayed throughout the Site and is therefore available to
the public. All of your activities on the Site will be traceable to
your User ID/identity. Other people can see your bids, items that
you have purchased in the past, items for sale, storefronts, feedback,
ratings and associated comments, and so on. Notices are sent to other
community members regarding suspicious activity and policy violations
on the Site and refer to User IDs/identities and specific items. Therefore,
if you associate your name with your User ID/identity, the people
to whom you have revealed your name to will be able to personally
identify your infocera activities.
Using Information from infocera
Our Site enables you to share personal and financial information in
order 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 in order to facilitate your transactions. When users are
involved in a transaction, they may have access to each other's name,
User ID/identity, 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:
- .infocera-transaction-related purposes that are not unsolicited commercial
messages.
- .Using services offered through infocera (e.g. escrow, insurance,
shipping and fraud complaints).
- .Other purposes that a user expressly
chooses.
Cookies
We use "cookies" (small files placed on your hard
drive) on certain pages of the Site to help analyze our web page flow,
customize our services, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote
trust and safety. For more information about why we use cookies, see
Cookies, Web Beacons, and Your Privacy (http://pages.infocera.com/help/newtoinfocera/cookies-web-beacons.html).
A few important things you should know about cookies are that:- .We
offer certain features that are only available 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 the Site.
- .You may
encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of the Site
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.).
No Spam, Spyware or Cookies
We and our users do not tolerate spam.
Make sure to set your infocera notification preferences so we communicate
to you as you prefer. You are not licensed to add other infocera users,
even a user who has purchased an item from you, to your mail list
(email or physical mail) without their express consent. To report
infocera related spam or spoof emails to infocera, please forward
the email to infocera.com. You may not use our communication tools
to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our User
Agreement. We do filter and automatically scan messages before they
are sent for viruses and other illegal or prohibited content but do
not permanently store email 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 tool), 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 infocera 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 infocera and change your password.
Accessing, Reviewing and
Changing Your Personal Information
You can see, review and change
most of your personal information by logging into the Site. 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 in order to comply
with law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes,
troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our
infocera User Agreement, and take other actions otherwise permitted
by law.
Security
Your information is stored on our servers. 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 Site or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules
may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose
to them. Since infocera does not control the privacy policies of third
parties, you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties.
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 the Site.
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