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The privacy practices of this statement apply to our services available under
the domain and subdomains of www.tynax.com (the "Site"). For
simplicity, we refer to Tynax Inc. as 'Tynax', 'us', or 'we'. Click here for details of
our Terms of Use Agreement.
Your privacy is very important to us. We do not sell or rent your personal
information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your express
consent. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn more about the ways in which
we use and protect your personal information. By visiting this website you agree
to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not
agree please do not use or access our Site.
1-Introduction
This Privacy Policy describes the information, as part
of the normal operation of our services, we collect from you and what may happen
to that information. Although this Privacy Policy may seem long, we have prepared a
detailed Privacy Policy because we believe you should know as much as possible about our
practices so that you can make informed decisions.
By accepting this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use Agreement in registration,
you express consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in
accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into
and subject to the terms of our Terms of Use Agreement. This Privacy Policy is effective
upon acceptance in registration for new registering users, and is otherwise
effective on December 1st, 2003 for all users.
2-Children
As stated in our Terms of Use Agreement, this Site provides
a public forum for members to exchange ideas and information. As such, children,
or minors, using the Site can communicate with strangers, and may be exposed to
inappropriate content. We therefore, restrict access to the Site to adults.
Please do not use this website, or send any personal information to us, if you
are under 18 years of age.
3-Information You Post on Message Boards and Public Forums
Information you post on our message boards and other public
forums is available to the public. Do not disclose trade secrets and sensitive
information that you do not want to have in the public domain. Refer to our
Terms of Use Agreement.
4-Information We Collect
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to
provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This
allows us to provide services and features that we hope will meet your needs, and
to customize our service to make your experience safer and easier. We only
collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for achieving
this purpose.
In general, you can browse the Site without telling us who you are or revealing
any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal
information, you are not anonymous to us. If you choose to use our services, we
may require you to provide contact and identity information, billing
information, shipping information and other personal information as indicated on
the forms throughout the Site. Where possible, we indicate which fields are
required and which fields are optional. You always have the option to not
provide information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature.
Under some circumstances we may require some additional financial information,
such as, but not limited to: if you are registering using an email account at a
free email service, or registering to sell on the Site. We use your financial
information, including credit card information to verify the accuracy of your
name, address, and other information, as well as to bill you for your use of our
services.
We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on the Site.
We use this information to do internal research on our users' demographics,
interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve you and our
Tynax community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether
this URL is on the Site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is
on the Site or not), your computer browser information, and your IP address.
We use data collection devices such as "Cookies" on certain pages of the Site to
help analyze our web page flow, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote
trust and safety. Cookies are small files placed on your hard drive that assist
us in providing our services. We offer certain features that are only available
through the use of a cookie. We also use cookies to allow you to enter your
password less frequently during a session. Cookies can also help us provide
information that is targeted to your interests. Most cookies are "session
cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at
the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser
permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on
the Site and you may be required to reenter your password more frequently during
a session.
Additionally, you may encounter "cookies" or other similar devices on certain
pages of the Site that are placed by third parties. For example, if you view a
web page created by a user, there may be a "cookie" placed within that web page.
We do not control the use of cookies by third parties.
If you choose to request further information on a listing, we collect
information submitted by you in this regard and pass it on to the lister. We
also collect this information for our records.
If you establish a credit account with us to pay the fees we charge, we collect
some additional information, such as a billing address, credit card number and
a credit card expiration date and tracking information from checks or money
orders.
If you choose to post messages in our Message Boards or other message areas, we
will collect that information you provide to us. Our system automatically
records and stores the Internet protocol ('IP') address where all Message Board
postings originate. So, if you post messages in the Message Boards, your
IP address will be logged and stored on our system. We retain this information as
necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot
problems as permitted by law.
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.
5-Our Use of Your Information
We use your personal information to facilitate the services
you request. We use your personal information in the file we maintain about you,
and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the
Site to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote safe trading;
collect fees owed; measure consumer interest in our products and services,
inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates;
customize your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other
criminal activity; enforce our Terms of Use Agreement; and as otherwise
described to you at the time of collection. At times, we may look across
multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we
may examine your personal information to identify users using multiple User IDs
or aliases. We may compare and review your personal information for errors,
omissions and for accuracy.
If you choose to list an item on the Site or open a credit account, or otherwise
provide us with your financial information, we use your address and billing
information to bill you and provide associated support.
You agree that we may use personal information about you to improve our
marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content
and product offerings, and customize the Site's content, layout, and services.
These uses improve the Site and better tailor it to meet your needs, so as to
provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized experience while using
the Site.
You agree that we may use your personal information to contact you and deliver
information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as
targeted advertisements, administrative notices, product offerings, and
communications relevant to your use of the Site. By accepting the Terms of Use
Agreement and this Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this
information. If you do not wish to receive these communications, we encourage
you to opt out of the receipt of certain communications on the notification
preferences page.
6-Our Disclosure of Your Information
As a matter of this Privacy Policy, we do not sell or rent any of your
personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your
express consent. However, the following describes some of the ways that your
personal information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business to provide
our services.
a. Advertisers. We aggregate (gather up data across all user accounts) personal
information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable
manner to advertisers and other third parties for their marketing and
promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these
entities any information that could be used to identify you personally. Certain
information, such as your name, email address, password, credit card number, and
bank account number, are not disclosed to these third parties in a personally
identifiable manner without your express consent.
b. Tynax Community. Your User ID is displayed throughout
the Site and is therefore available to the public. All of your activities on the
Site will be identifiable to your User ID. Therefore, if you associate your name
with your User ID, the people you have revealed your name to will be able to
personally identify your Tynax activities. Others may
illegally attempt to automatically collect your email address from the Site. We
also provide a number of ways to allow other users to find out more about you
and your site activities. Further, we may send out notices to you or other
community members regarding suspicious activity or this Privacy Policy violations on the
Site.
c. External Service Providers. There are a number of separate services offered
by third parties that we refer to as external service providers that may be
complimentary to your use of the Site (e.g. listing agents, escrow,
authentication, mediation organizations). If you choose to use these separate
services, disclose information to the external service providers, and/or grant
them permission to collect information about you, then their use of your
information is governed by their this Privacy Policy. We do not disclose your
personal information to external service providers unless you provide your
express consent. With your express consent we may provide some of your personal
information to the external service provider offering such services, for your
convenience. To prevent our disclosure of your personal information to an
external service provider, you can decline such express consent or simply not use their
services. Because we do not control the privacy practices of these third
parties, you should evaluate their practices before deciding to use their
services. Users who register on a Tynax co-branded web
site grant Tynax permission to pass your email address
back to that co-branded web site. The use of your email address by the co-brand
web sites is limited by their applicable privacy policies.
d. Internal Service Providers for Our Operations. We may use third parties that
we refer to as internal service providers to facilitate or outsource one or more
aspects of the business, product and service operations that we provide to you
(e.g., search technology, discussion boards, bill collection, affiliate and
rewards programs, co-branded credit cards) and therefore we may provide some of
your personal information directly to these internal service providers. These
internal service providers' are subject to confidentiality agreements with us
and other legal restrictions that prohibit their use of the information we
provide them for any other purpose except to facilitate the specific outsourced
Tynax related operation, unless you have expressly agreed
or given your prior permission to them for additional uses. In some instances,
the internal service provider may collect information directly from you (such as
for Tynax surveys or for a co-branded credit card). In
these cases, you will be notified of the involvement of the internal service
provider, and all additional information you provide them and their additional
uses will be strictly up to you. If you provide additional information to an
internal service provider directly, then their use of your personal information
is governed by their applicable this Privacy Policy.
e. Other Corporate Entities. We share much of our data, including personal
information about you, with our subsidiaries and joint ventures that are
committed to serving your online trading needs and related services, throughout
the world. To the extent that these entities have access to your information,
they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they
obtain from their other users. Our subsidiaries and joint ventures follow
privacy practices no less protective of all users than our practices described
in this document, to the extent allowed by applicable law. Tynax, its
subsidiaries, its joint ventures, or any combination of such, will share some or
all of your personal information with another business entity 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 Privacy Policy, you will receive prior notice
in as provided in Section 11 ("Notices & Policy Modifications").
f. Legal Requests. Tynax cooperates with law enforcement
inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual
property rights, fraud and other rights, to help protect you and the Tynax community from bad actors. Therefore, in response to a verified
request by law enforcement or other government officials relating to a criminal
investigation or alleged illegal activity, we can (and you authorize us to)
disclose your name, city, state, telephone number, email address, UserID
history, fraud complaints and listing history without a subpoena. Without
limiting the above, in an effort to respect your privacy and our ability to keep
the community free from bad actors, we will not otherwise disclose your personal
information to law enforcement or other government officials 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 report suspected illegal activity.
Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your
private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in
ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. By way of example (without
limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose personal information to
the government or third parties under certain circumstances, third parties may
unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or users
may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the Site.
Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy,
we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or
private communications will always remain private.
7-Your Use of Other User's Information
In order to facilitate interaction among all our community
members, our Site allows you limited access other users' contact information.
You agree that, with respect to other users' personal information that you
obtain through the Site or through a related communication Tynax hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for: (a)
Tynax-related communications that are not unsolicited
commercial messages, (b) using services offered through Tynax (e.g. escrow, and fraud complaints), and (c) any other purpose that a
user expressly agrees to after you tell them the purpose you would like to use
it for. In all cases, you must give users an opportunity to remove themselves
from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected
about them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this
Section, can you disclose personal information about another user to any third
party without our express consent and the express consent of that user. You agree that other
users may use your personal information to communicate with you in accordance
with this Section.
Tynax and our users do not tolerate spam. Therefore,
without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add a Tynax user, even a user who has purchased an item from you, to your mail list
(email or physical mail) without their express consent. To report Tynax related spam to us, please email:
reportspam@tynax.com.
8-Control of Your Password
You are responsible for all actions taken with your User ID
and password, including fees charged to your account. Therefore we do not
recommend that you disclose your Tynax password to any
third parties. If you choose to share your User ID and password or your personal
information with third parties, you are responsible for all actions taken with
your account and therefore you should review that third party's this Privacy
Policy.
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 change your password.
9-Other Information Collectors
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy
Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we
collect from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other
parties, whether they are buyers or sellers on our site or other sites
throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of
the information you disclose to them. Since we do not control the privacy
policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy policies of that third
party. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal
information to others.
10-Security
Your information is stored on Tynax Inc.'s servers located in the United States. We use procedural and technical
safeguards to protect your personal information against loss or theft as well as
unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy. We treat data as an
asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ
many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access
by users inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not
exist on the Internet.
11-Notices & Policy Modifications
We may update this Privacy Policy. We will notify you about
significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice
to the primary email address specified in your account or by placing a prominent
notice on our site.
Questions
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please
email us at the following address:
PrivacyPolicyQuestions@tynax.com. Revision:
Jun-5, 2007
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