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Privacy Policy
This privacy policy developed July 10, 2000
Last Modified January 14, 2003

buynsellit.com has created this privacy policy in order to demonstrate our commitment to your privacy.

The following discloses the personal information buynsellit.com and our advertisers gather from you, including information related to your past use of buynsellit.com. Personal information is information that can be used to identify you (such as name, address, email or phone number). This privacy policy does not apply to companies outside of buynsellit.com or to individuals or companies that buynsellit.com does not employ or manage.

If you feel that buynsellit.com is not abiding by our posted privacy statement, we encourage you to contact wsi@buynsellit.com or customerservice@buynsellit.com. We will work with you to address your concerns.

Our Committment to Our Customers

buynsellit.com is committed to our customers and the privacy of their personal information. buynsellit.com will never sell your personal information and will make every reasonable attempt to ensure the security of your personal information. Buynsellit.com may share your information with third party auction events where that information is vital to completing a sale (such as Public Television, Charity or Collectibles Auction Houses such as Inman Auctions).

Information Collection and Use

buynsellit.com is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. Buynsellit.com may

We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. buynsellit.com collects information from our users at several different points on our website.

Registration

In order to use buynsellit.com, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information. Required information collected during registration at buynsellit.com includes name, email address, address, city, state and daytime telephone number. Optional information includes an evening telephone number, payment methods you accept, fax number, tax id number (such as Federal ID number for business or personal social security number) and alternate addresses.

This information is used to contact users about services on our site and also for billing users for selling items. Once you sign in to buynsellit.com, you are not anonymous to us. Buynsellit.com collects information about your transactions. Buynsellit.com automatically receives and records information in our server logs that will help to identify you. This includes your IP address, cookie information and the pages you visit. Buynsellit.com uses this information to customize advertising, improve our services, contact you and provide anonymous reporting to sellers.

Children

Children under the age of 18 may not use the services of buynsellit.com. buynsellit.com will not contact (knowingly) or maintain information about any individual that tells us they are not 18 years old.

Correcting/Changing Registration Information

If a user's personal information changes, or If a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can be done in the members area at buynsellit.com, by emailing customer service or by placing a phone call to customer service.

You can also modify which marketing preferences you would like to receive. You may delete your account by contacting customer service.

Buying Account

When you open a buyer/bidder account with buynsellit.com, you must provide your personal and shipping information. This includes your name, address, daytime phone and email address. No financial information is required.

Sellers Account

When you open a seller's account with buynsellit.com, you must provide your personal and shipping information. This includes your name, address, daytime phone and email address. Additionally you must provide credit card information, billing information including name and address and information about the types of payments you will accept from buyers. Seller information will be used to bill buynsellit customers for services.

Listing Items

When you list an item at buynsellit.com, your name, state and country of residence, email address and payment methods you select become available on the website. This information is used by bidders to identify the person selling the item and is used by buynsellit.com in identifying who is selling an item. buynsellit.com does not sell, rent or share this information.

Bidding

When you bid on an item at buynsellit.com, your name, state and country of residence and email address become available on the website. This information is used by sellers to identify the person who is purchasing the item and is used by buynsellit.com in identifying who is buying an item. buynsellit.com does not sell, rent or share this information and only uses this information in Case a dispute arises between buyer and seller..

When you purchase an item at buynsellit.com, any additional information you provide the seller is at your discretion and your risk. You may be asked to provide payment information and shipping information to the seller. buynsellit.com is not able to vouch for the integrity of all of our users, however we will assist both the buyer and seller whenever possible. Buynsellit.com will make your shipping information available to sellers.

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Use of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on the buynsellit.com website. Buynsellit.com will set cookies when you login and will maintain cookies until you logout. Buynsellit.com specifically uses cookies to maintain your login while on the buynsellit.com site. Cookies set on buynsellit.com are not shared with third party companies in any circumstance. To use buynsellit.com, you must enable cookies on your computer.

Log Files

We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Sharing

buynsellit.com does not share information with our partners or advertisers. buynsellit.com does use third party services to provide better services to the buynsellit.com community. We do not provide any third party service with personally identifiable information and these third party service providers are only allowed to gather information to provide a specific service.

In the Case of special events such as charity auctions, collectible auctions or public television auctions, we will make available to auction organizers appropriate information that will allow them to contact you. This information may include, name, address, phone number and credit card information.

If information about you is subpena'd or otherwise ordered released by the courts, we will provide the information requested. Information will not be released unless specifically and legally ordered.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that buynsellit.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave buynsellit.com and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by buynsellit.com.

Email Contact by buynsellit.com

buynsellit.com will contact our users by email to promote new services and events at buynsellit.com. The information used to send the email is your email address. You may stop receiving our news bulletins by visiting the sign up for newsletter page in our members only area and selecting unsubscribe.

Community

The buynsellit.com Community includes message boards which can be read by the general public. We encourage caution when posting messages to a message board. The information you provide about yourself when posting messages is public information (meaning anyone can view the message and respond to it). The use of our community area is voluntary and any information our users provide while using the community section is given voluntarily.

Surveys and Contests

From time-to-time buynsellit.com requests information from our users via surveys and/or contests. Participation is voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose information. Information requested may include contact information (address, name, email address) and demographic information (zip code, age level, income). Contact information will be used to notify winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of buynsellit.com.

Advertisers

Our advertisers may use cookies to collect information about the people viewing their ads. Our advertisers may collect information that does not personally identify you to them. Any information collected by our advertisers does not belong to buynsellit.com nor do we have the ability to view the information.

Security

buynsellit.com takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line.

When we ask for sensitive personal information, that information is encrypted and is protected with SSL. While on a secure page, such as our registration form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to unlocked, or open when you are just surfing

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect your personal information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who actually need the information to perform a specific job (example - customer service or billing) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our employees must use password protected screen savers when they leave their desk. Furthermore, all employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices.

If you have any questions about the security at buynsellit.com, you can send an email to administrator@buynellit.com.

Notification of Changes

If we change our privacy policy, we will post the date of the latest privacy policy at the very top of the privacy policy along with the changes made so our users can easily see what changes have been made. Our users deserve to know what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances (If any) we disclose information. Users continued use of the buynsellit.com website after changes to the privacy policy have been posted, construe acceptance of the privacy policy as amended. All information will be used according to the privacy policy in place at the time information was collected.