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Effective: July 1, 2002
General Statement
Your privacy is one of our highest priorities
at Proxibid. We provide this Privacy Policy to help you make
an informed choice about your personal information. We desire
to be open and honest at all times with you about information
collected from you, how that information is used, and your
rights regarding that information.
To make this Privacy Policy easy for you to
find, we provide it on our welcome page and at every point
where personally identifiable information may be requested.
If you have any questions or comments about this privacy statement,
please contact Proxibid’s privacy representative:
Ken Maxwell
11837 Miracle Hills Drive
Suite 200
Omaha, NE 68154
402-505-7770
402-505-7981 fax
info@proxibid.com
This privacy statement applies to all information
collected by or supplied to http://www.proxibid.com.
OVERVIEW
Proxibid’s purpose is to provide bidders
an opportunity to participate in live auctions even when they
cannot be physically present at the auction site. Proxibid
webcasts the live auction and allows bidders to place bids
in real time. Proxibid can also place automated bids on behalf
of a bidder unable to personally monitor the auction webcast.
Proxibid collects information from you to create your Bidder
Profile. This Bidder Profile allows Proxibid to verify your
identity and contact you regarding your auction activity.
All auctions are operated by independent Auction
Houses. Proxibid only facilitates your access to these Auction
Houses when you are unable to attend in person. The Auction
Houses have their own rules and requirements for participating
in each auction. You may be required to submit information
to the Auction House before participating in an auction. This
information is governed by the Auction House’s privacy
policy, not Proxibid’s privacy policy. Before you submit
any information to an Auction House, you should review that
Auction House’s privacy policy to understand how your
information will be handled.
Proxibid does not have any control over operation
of the actual auctions. Proxibid only facilitates the web
connection between the Auction site and you, the Bidder.
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY PROXIBID
Proxibid collects contact information to sign
you up as a Bidder. That information is provided to the individual
Auction Houses when you select to apply for participation
in one of their auctions. Proxibid needs the following information
for every Bidder using proxibid.com:
Name:
Address:
E-mail:
Home Phone Number
Work Phone Number
Affirmation that you are over the age of 21
Credit Card Billing Address
Proxibid does not collect any information about
individual Bidders other than the information provided directly
to us in connection with Bidder Profiles.
We do gather aggregate information about site
usage, such as the number of visitors, most visited pages,
and length of visit. However, this information does not identify
Bidders specifically by IP address, e-mail address or other
user identifier. Rather, it tells us how our Bidders as a
group are using the site. Thus, aggregate site usage data
helps us expand and improve the Proxibid web site in order
to make your experience with Proxibid the best possible.
You may be required to submit additional information
to participate in certain auctions. Each individual Auction
House determines what information you will be required to
submit to participate. This information is submitted through
our website and stored in our database. The information is
passed on to the Auction House requiring it. Any information
received by the Auction House is governed by the Auction House’s
privacy policy, not Proxibid’s privacy policy. We provide
a direct link to each Auction House’s Privacy Policy
from the Proxibid website. We suggest that you review the
individual Auction House’s Privacy Policy before you
submit any personally identifiable information.
We do not sell, trade or rent any of your information.
Other than the contact information we provide to the Auction
Houses, we do not provide any of your information to a third
party, unless you expressly give permission to do so. Thus,
your personal information is only used to help you participate
in live auctions.
Please rest assured that Proxibid has taken
adequate precautions to protect both the physical and electronic
security of collected information and other data.
COOKIES
Proxibid, Inc. only collects information pertaining
to session cookies and does not store any persistent cookies
on your computer hard drive. A cookie is a small piece of
information that is sent to your browser-- along with a Web
page-- when you access a Web site.
There are two kinds of cookies. A session cookie
is a line of text that is stored temporarily in your computer's
RAM. Because a session cookie is never written to a drive,
it is destroyed as soon as you close your browser. A persistent
cookie is a more permanent line of text that gets saved by
your browser to a file on your hard drive. Depending on your
browser settings, you may receive notification that a given
site is requesting cookie information, possibly with an expiration
date. Persistent cookies have an expiration date in the future.
Session cookies have no date associated with them. Proxibid.com
uses ABSOLUTELY NO persistent cookies. The site DOES however
require the 'session cookie'. Accessing any and all of Proxibid's
web pages will create a session cookie. And it is indeed required
for any and all of the pages to work. But as stated above,
it is only stored in memory for as long as you have your browser
window open.
SECURITY
Proxibid takes industry standard security measures
to protect your information. Proxibid has contracted with
First Technology Solutions to provide security for Proxibid’s
physical servers.
We restrict access to your personal identification
and contact information within the company to only those authorized
employees who need to use that information for a specific
job function.
Though Proxibid takes the multiple electronic
and physical security precautions described herein, we cannot
be responsible if a third-party gains access to the database
or your personal or credit card information by evading our
security measures.
CHANGING YOUR BIDDER PROFILE
You may change, update or delete any of the
information you have provided to Proxibid by calling Proxibid
at (402) 505-7770 or emailing Proxibid at info@proxibid.com.
We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before
granting access or making corrections. You can access your
Bidder Profile through the login option on the Proxibid homepage.
If you find an error in your Bidder Profile, please send an
e-mail to techsupport@proxibid.com
notifying us of the error. Please include credible evidence
of the error and the correct information for your Bidder Profile.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Proxibid contains links to web sites of other
companies. This policy does not apply to the privacy practices
of those sites. We strongly suggest that you visit the privacy
section of those web sites to learn about the collection and
use of your personal information before you provide any information
to those sites. Proxibid is not responsible for the use of
personal information collected at other sites.
Except as described in this Privacy Policy,
Proxibid does not disclose any of your personal contact information
to third parties except when it is required by law, or to
protect Proxibid, our Users or others.
POLICY AMENDMENTS
From time to time, we may use Bidder information
for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed in our
privacy notice. If such a change in use would occur, Proxibid
will post any changes to the privacy policy, allowing you
to know the kind of information collected by Proxibid and
how that information is used.
If you are concerned about how your collected
information is used, please refer to this page regularly.
You may prevent your information from being used for any new
purpose by opting-out at opt-out@proxibid.com.
Again, if you have questions about this privacy
policy, please feel free to contact our Privacy Representative
as identified at the top of this page.
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