Privacy Policy

<h1>BIDFIRE IS COMMITTED TO YOUR PRIVACY</h1>   We value your patronage and respect your privacy rights.  As part of the normal operation of our services, we collect and, in some cases, may disclose information about you.  We have created the following Privacy Policy to let you know what information we collect when you visit our website located at http://www.bidfire.com/ (the “Website”), why we collect it, and how it is used.  This Privacy Policy applies to all information that you provide to BidFire, Inc. (“us,” “we,” or “our”) and that we maintain electronically, whether you provide the information through our Website, or through other means.  Additionally, this Privacy Policy applies to any Personal Information (defined below) obtained from your use of the Website.  This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you may provide to third parties; for example, other Websites linked to this Website.  You should contact such third parties directly to determine their respective privacy policies. This Privacy Policy is governed by our Terms of Service (See Terms and Conditions help forum).  We reserve the right to change the Privacy Policy at any time, without prior notice to User. In the event we do so, we will post the changes on this page and the date of the changes at the top of this page. It is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy frequently and remain informed about any changes to it, so we encourage you to visit this page often.  If you believe we have not adhered to this Privacy Policy or if you have any other questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@bidfire.com.   SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT CHILDREN In order to be eligible to use the Website, You must be at least eighteen (18) years of age or older.  We do not currently market to or create special areas for use by children.  Accordingly, we do not knowingly collect age identifying information, nor do we knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of 13 years.  However, we hereby advise all visitors to our Website under the age of 13 not to disclose or provide any Personal Information on our Website.  In the event that we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information to us, in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act we will delete the child’s Personal Information from our files to the extent technologically possible.    WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU AND WHY? We collect and maintain a variety of Personal Information about you to enable us to provide you with the best service.  “Personal Information” is information about you by which you may be identified.  We currently collect Personal Information through e-mail and the various online inquiry forms on the Website.  The Personal Information we collect and maintain about you includes your username, date of birth, state of residence and/or zip code, the time zone in which you live, and your email address.  In event you are the successful bidder on an item, we will also collect your mailing address and phone number. We only collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provide to us or voluntarily provide to our Partners (defined below) who share that information with us.  We also use your Personal Information for other things that may include, but are not limited to, the following: <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"> Correspondence and Interactions We use your Personal Information to communicate with you in the event we have any questions with regard to your online inquiry.  We may also contact you to notify you about important changes to our Website, products and services provided by this Website and our Partners and other affiliates.  We intend to retain any correspondence, including facsimiles, mail and e-mails, set to us.  We also may retain correspondence such as customer service e-mails from us to you.  We may delete such records over time. </li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"> Marketing Data You may have the opportunity to participate in demographic surveys and other marketing inquiries in an effort to further improve the use of the Website.  Participation in these efforts is voluntary. </li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"> Use of IP Address IP addresses are numbers that are automatically assigned to your computer, and, if associated with other individually identifiable information, could be considered personal information.  Your user IP address information is used only for our internal tracking purposes. </li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black;"> Use of Cookies Cookies are a standard technology used by commercial web services to store small pieces of information on your hard drive by sending a small string of text to your browser. They make your use of this Website more pleasing and efficient by “personalizing” your Website experience and gathering Website statistical data, such as which parts of the Website you have previously visited, what material you downloaded, your Internet provider’s domain name and country, and the addresses of websites you visited immediately before and after our Website.  They enable us to tailor the information you receive and to assist our Partners or other third party organizations with whom we have strategic alliances by identifying you as our customer or Website user.  Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, unless you have configured yours not to accept them.  In order for us to provide you with services on our Website, your browser must accept cookies, as they are essential for website administration and security.  We do not use cookies either to collect individually identifiable information or to collect non-individually identifiable information using a cookie that is combined with a personal identifier. </li> </ul>   WHAT GENERAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU AND WHY? “General Information” is information about you or your activities on our Website that do not identify you personally.  When you use the Internet, your web browser or software may communicate certain information to the host website you visit.  This information may include the unique number assigned to your server or Internet connection, the capabilities and features of your computer, you geographic location, and your movement and activity within a particular website.  We collect the same information on our Website.  We use this General Information to generate statistics about visitors to our Website.   HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION The information we collect is used to (i) respond to your inquiries; (ii) provide customer services and resolve any complaints; (iii) improve the Website and service and resolve any technical problems; (iv) communicate with you concerning the services offered on the Website by us or any of our Partners; (v) cross-reference with other Personal Information that we have acquired about you or may acquire about you through other sources; (vi) create aggregate data; (vii) ensure compliance with the Website Terms of Service; and (viii) comply with any applicable laws and regulations. We may provide your information to government officials and agencies as required by law, and Partners as part of business operations, transaction processing, and marketing efforts, as identified below.  For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Partner” shall mean any person or entity with whom we enter into any kind of business transaction who is under an obligation to us to use reasonable care to keep Personal Information confidential.   DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, we will not sell, trade, or disclose to third parties any Personal Information obtained by us through this Website or from our Partners about you, without your consent.  We may disclose Personal Information (i) to companies that help process the transactions you request, in order to protect your transactions from fraud and verify your identity; (ii) that we in good faith believe is necessary or appropriate to cooperate in investigations of fraud, intellectual property infringements or other activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability, or to conduct investigations of violations of the Website Terms of Service; (iii) when required by law or to comply with a court order, subpoena, search warrant or other legal process; (iv) to comply with legal, regulatory or administrative requirements of governmental authorities (including, without limitation, requests from the governmental agency authorities to view your Personal Information); (v) to protect and defend us and any of our officers, directors, employees, attorneys, agents, contractors and partners, in connection with any legal action, claim or dispute; (vi) to prevent imminent physical harm; (vii) to provide data, including Personal Information about you, to our Partners, as well as other business partners with whom we deem it necessary to communicate in order to provide our services (e.g., PayPal); (viii) to sell or otherwise provide the information to third parties in the event of a bankruptcy or liquidation; and (ix) to sell or otherwise provide information to third parties in the event of a future merge or acquisition by another company.  In the event we merge or are acquired by another company, the successor company will have access to your Personal Information in order to continue to provide services, but would continue to be bound by this Privacy Policy unless and until it is amended as described in the subsection labeled “Changes to this Privacy Policy” below.   HOW WE PROTECT INFORMATION WE COLLECT We offer secure web pages to collect certain kinds of user information and we store certain kinds of data in encrypted form.  We follow reasonable technical and management practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of data stored on our system.  Although no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented on our Website reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.   HOW LONG WE KEEP USER INFORMATION We generally keep user data on our server or in our archives for as long as we reasonably need it.  We may alter this practice according to changing requirements.  For example, we may delete some data if needed to free up storage space.  We may keep other data for longer periods if the law requires it.  In addition, information posted in a public forum could stay in the public domain indefinitely. Data management requests are administered in an orderly manner to the extent feasible and within our direct control.  Please note that we have greater control over recently collected data than over archived data.  Once data is removed from the system and archived, it may not be feasible to accommodate specific requests.  In those cases, our general data retention policy applies.   PERSONAL CHOICE IN THE DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION If you do not want us to share your Personal Information with our Partners for marketing purposes, or if you do not want to receive certain communications and offers from us you can “opt out” of such sharing, communications and offers by writing to us at support@bidfire.com.   ACCESS AND CORRECTIONS TO YOUR INFORMATION You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing us at support@bidfire.com. If you believe that any Personal Information collected by us about you is not correct or has changed, please send an e-mail message to support@bidfire.com explaining the correction or change and providing any relevant confirmation or reference number.   CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY By using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy.  We reserve the right to change, modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time.  When this Privacy Policy is changed, modified or amended, the revised Privacy Policy will be posted on this Website.  Any revised Privacy Policy will only apply prospectively to Personal Information collected or modified after the effective date of the revised policy.  It is your responsibility to periodically check and review our Privacy Policy for changes.    IF YOU HAVE A PRIVACY QUESTION If you have a privacy question about this Website, please send an email to us at support@bidfire.com. 2009-06-16T15:20:17-07:00

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