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Trade Away has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. This document discloses our information gathering and usage practices. For additional information about Trade Away, please review our Terms and Conditions
Use of your Information
Trade Away does not rent or sell your personally identifying information to third parties.
We release account and other personal information only when we believe release is appropriate to comply with any law; enforce or apply our terms and conditions; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Trade Away Pty Ltd our users, or others.
Email
It is the policy of Trade Away to send our members emails throughout the auction process and other emails they elect to receive, in addition to customary business communications (payment confirmations, etc.). Further, it is our policy to immediately remove any member from any mailing list upon the member's request. In addition, Trade Away will send newsletters to members. Newsletters will contain clear and obvious instructions for how the member can remove himself or herself from that mailing list.
We do use email as a means of receiving feedback from our members, and we encourage you to email us with your questions or comments.
Emailing Tools
Trade Away provides facilities throughout the site to refer a friend to Trade Away or to send references to a specific listing to a friend. You may not use the "Email a Friend" service or other email forwarding services that we offer to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our privacy policy or terms and conditions . We do not permanently store, sell, or rent these email messages or the email addresses.
Membership Registration
Our site's registration form initially only requires an email address, a password and a nickname. When a member becomes address verified, our process requires you to provide us contact information and may also require demographic information. We may use your contact information from the registration form to send you information about our company and promotional material from some of our affiliated partners. Your contact information is also used to contact you when necessary.
Updating Your Personal Information
Trade Away provides you with ways in which you can alter your personal data, including changing your email address, password, phone number, etc. Trade Away will store previous email addresses against your profile to ensure compliance with our terms and conditions - specifically the use of one account per member.
Control of Your Password.
You are responsible for all actions taken with your user name, email address, nickname and password, including fees. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your Trade Away password to any third parties. If you choose to share your user name, email address and password or your information with third parties to provide you additional services, you are responsible for all actions taken with this information and therefore you should review that third party's privacy policy.
Credit Card Security
We work diligently to protect the security of your personal information, including credit card information.
We protect your credit card information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. When paying by credit card, you can choose to "save this card for next time". If you choose this option, your credit card details are encrypted and securely stored. Your credit card details are not held by Trade Away and can not be accessed by Trade Away staff.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer by ensuring you log off when you have finished visiting Trade Away if using a shared computer.
Other Information we Collect
We use additional information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and your IP address.
Users who sign in have their IP addresses recorded. This information can be used to track users who abuse the Trade Away system and will only be provided to legal authorities in cases of suspected fraud. IP addresses can be used, in conjunction with an Internet Service Provider, to find the dial-in account of a user and, ultimately, further information to identify a user. This information is stored securely and will not be provided to other members or non-authorised parties.
If you choose to post messages in our message areas or leave feedback for other users, we will collect that information you provide to us.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.
Membership Removal
If you wish to have your registration removed from our directory for any reason, simply send us an email requesting to be removed.
Advertising and Third Party Links
Some Trade Away advertisers may request information directly from users, or link to sites that do so. Trade Away has no control over its advertisers' privacy policies, and encourages users to review such policies prior to submitting any personal information to them.
Trade Away contains non-advertising links to a variety of third party sites to enhance the member experience. Trade Away has no control over either the content or privacy policies of such sites, nor should such links be considered an endorsement of these sites except where otherwise noted.
Updates to our Information Practices
From time to time, we make changes to our information practices or alter the functionality of our Web site. We always update this statement accordingly, so we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on privacy practices at Trade Away. We will also list these on our Site Announcements page located on the Community page.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy or any other matter, please contact us at theteam@tradeaway.com.au
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