AllequipmentAuctions.com

Privacy Policy

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Our Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is handled on the Allequipmentauctions.com websites. It applies to the Allequipmentauctions.com website and other related websites where this policy appears in the footer of the page.  Our Allequipmentauctions.com websites or websites we operate or co-brand may be governed by separate privacy policies. The policy that applies on any of our domains or sub domains is always the policy that appears in the footer of each website.This Privacy Policy addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. If you disclose your information to others, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. Allequipmentauctions.com does not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. Always ask questions and know who you disclose your personal information to before doing so.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 January 1st, 2009.

Privacy Policy Changes

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on this site. All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days after they are initially posted on the Site. Or we will notify you through the Allequipmentauctions.com Message Center. If your questions are not answered online, you may write to us at: Allequipmentauctions.com Inc. Attn: Privacy Policy Changes,  P.O  Box 276, Grand Island, Ne 68802 or using the contact form on the Allequipmentauctions.com website.

USE

 You can browse our sites without registering without revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you register you give us your personal information you consent to the transfer and storage of that information on our servers located in the United States. We reserve the right to bill your credit card when your account total reaches $100.Our collecting personal information is to provide you with safe experience. You agree that we may use your personal information to:

• Conduct services and customer support.
• Check and troubleshoot information for accuracy and problems.
• Resolve disputes, collect fees and prevent prohibited or illegal activities
• Enforce our User Agreement.
• Inform you of our service updates, and promotional offers.

Collecting and Storing Personal Information

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;
• Information based on your activities on the sites (such as bidding, buying, selling, item and shipping, billing and other information you provide to purchase or ship an item.
• Website discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through our sites, and correspondence sent to us and all other information from your interaction with our sites, services, content and advertising, including computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information;
• All other information from other companies including information from third parties (for example, if you incur a debt to Allequipmentauctions.com, we will generally conduct a credit check by obtaining additional information about you from a credit bureau, as permitted by law; or 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, or a recent utility bill or other information confirming your address, or to answer additional questions online to help verify your information).

Our Marketing

We don't sell or rent your personal information. We may combine your information with information we collect from other companies and use it to improve our services. If you don't wish to receive marketing communications from us, simply indicate your preference once you sign-on in My Allequipmentauctions.com. Allequipmentauctions.com displays targeted advertisements.  Advertisers may assume that people who interact with, view, or click targeted ads meet the targeting criteria. Allequipmentauctions.com does not provide any personal information to the advertiser when you interact with or view a targeted ad. However, by interacting with or viewing an ad you are consenting to the possibility that the advertiser will make the assumption that you meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.        

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:

• Service providers under contract who help with our business operations.
• Our owned companies to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and provide services.
• 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.)
•  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 information relevant to the investigation, such as name, city, state, zip code, telephone number, email address, User ID history, IP address, fraud complaints, and bidding and listing history.

Without limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy, 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. 

Your User IDs

Your User ID is displayed throughout Allequipmentauctions.com and is therefore available to the public. All of your activity on our sites is traceable to your User ID. Other people can see your bids, items that you have purchased in the past, items for sale, storefronts, feedback and ratings., When communicating with others by associating your name with your User ID, the people to whom you have revealed your name will be able to personally identify your Allequipmentauctions.com activities.

Account Protection

Your password is the key to your account. Use unique numbers, letters and special characters, and do not disclose your Allequipmentauctions.com 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 Allequipmentauctions.com and change your password.

Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information

You can review and change your personal information by signing on to Allequipmentauctions.com. You must update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate. If requested 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 to comply with law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, and enforce our Allequipmentauctions.com policies, permitted by law.

Security

Your information is stored on our servers located in the United States. We treat data as an asset that must be protected and use lots of tools like encryption, passwords and physical security to protect your personal information against unauthorized access. 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.

Use of Cookies

We use "cookies" on some of our web pages to help analyze our web page and customize our services.A few important things you should know about cookies:

• Cookies are small files placed on your hard drive.
• We use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status.
• Certain website features are available only through the use of cookies.
• You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits.
• You may encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of the sites 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 Spoofing

You may not use our communication tools to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our User Agreement. We automatically scan and may manually filter messages to check for spam, viruses, phishing attacks and other malicious activity or illegal or prohibited content. We and our users do not tolerate spam. Make sure to set your Allequipmentauctions.com notification preferences so we communicate to you as you prefer. You are not licensed to add other Allequipmentauctions.com users, even a user who has purchased an item from you, to your mailing list (email or physical mail) without their consent. Report spam or spoof emails to Allequipmentauctions.com, please forward the email to teck1admin@Allequipmentauctions.com.com.

Using Information from Allequipmentauctions.com

Allequipmentauctions.com enables you to share personal and financial information 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. When users are involved in a transaction, they may have access to each other's name, User ID, email address and other contact and shipping information. When an auction has successfully closed, buyers and sellers are invited to rate one another. All ratings for a buyer or seller are publicly displayed under the "Ratings" tab of a user's Auction Profile. Both parties (the party that was rated as well as the party that did the rating) are identified with their Allequipmentauctions.com IDs and with a link to the auction that they transacted within the rating itself.You agree to use user information only for:

• Allequipmentauctions.com transaction-related purposes that are not unsolicited commercial messages;
• Using services offered through Allequipmentauctions.com (e.g. escrow, insurance, shipping and fraud complaints), or
• All other purposes that a user chooses.