YOUR MARKET PLACE PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to Your Market Place Privacy Policy. This privacy policy sets out our approach to handling your personal information. We collect, use, and share personal information to help Your Market Place work and keep it safe. Your Market Place, Hobart, Tasmania, is the “data controller” of your personal information. This policy is effective 1 September 2010.
Your privacy is very important to us. You must read and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy before buying or selling on Your Market Place. As part of the normal operation of our services we collect, use and, in some cases, disclose information about you to third parties. This Privacy Policy governs the information we collect about you and your use of the information we provide to you. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner prescribed in this Privacy Policy. The privacy practices of this notice apply to the website located at http:///www.yourmarketplace.com.au
Questions regarding this privacy policy should be directed to Your Market Place by sending an email to info@yourmarketplace.com.au
Accessing Your Market Place by children
Children (persons under the age of 18 years) are not eligible to use our services unsupervised. Children should not submit any personal information to Your Market Place. Children under the age of 18 years may use the service when in conjunction with, and under the supervision of, their parents or guardians.
Information we collect
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to improve the services we provide to you. We will collect information for our internal research and to further develop current services or new services which will better meet your needs.
In order to list items for sale on the site (or to participate on the site), you will need to register and provide us with your contact information. You will need to pay your upload fees prior to completing your upload of items for sale.
Your Market Place does not use collection devices such as ‘cookies’.
Your credit card number and expiration date, and other financial information are not stored with Your Market Place. These details are only used at the time of the transaction. All financial transactions for Your local buy and sell will be handled by PayPal. You should familiarise yourself with PayPal’s privacy policy. For further information, please visit www.paypal.com.au
Businesses will need to provide their PayPal merchant number for online payments by customers. Businesses can pay Your Market Place for business services by eWay or as otherwise notified by Your Market Place.
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 Your Market Place, then we may keep this information under a file specific to you.
Our use of your information
Use. We use users’ personal information to:
• provide our services
• resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
• encourage a safe online environment and uphold our policies;
• customise users’ experiences, and refine and improve our services,
• communicate improvements and updates to the site, as well as to customise marketing and promotional offers;
• undertake anything else as described when we collect the information.
Using Information from Your Market Place. You may use personal information gathered from Your Market Place only to follow up with another user about a specific posting. You are not authorised or permitted to send spam, or collect personal information from someone who has not given their express permission.
Any person found to be harvesting addresses or sending spam may be banned from use of any part of Your Market Place. To report spam from other users, please contact us on info@yourmarketplace.com.au
Communications and email tools. By ticking the relevant box in the terms and conditions, you agree to receive marketing communications. If you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us, then you can leave the box unticked.
If you use our tools to send content to a friend, such as recommending a product to them, then we don’t permanently store your friends’ addresses or use or disclose them for marketing purposes.
Security
Your Market Place uses a range of industry standard practices to protect your personal information against unauthorised access or disclosure. This includes, but is not limited to, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) standard technology, MD5 password encryption, no use of cookies, databases on private networks, regular data backups, use of POST method for http requests, SQL statements protected against SQL injection using such approaches as php mysql_real_escape_string(), and log out procedures.
Your Information is stored on Your Market Place’s server located in Australia. We use industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information. These safeguards include hardware based firewalls as well as software based firewalls installed on each server, as well as employing intrusion detection software, amongst other security safeguards.
Your Market Place however does not guarantee that such unauthorised access or disclosure will not occur and that your private communications or personal information will remain private.
Our disclosure of your information
While Your Market Place utilises a range of industry practices to protect your communications and information, 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.
For example, Your Market Place may need to disclose information to law enforcement agencies, the government, or third parties under certain circumstances (such as listed below). Third parties may also unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications.
Your Market Placedoes not sell or rent any personal information about you to any third party.
Legal request Your Market Place may lawfully disclose your personal information to law enforcement or regulatory agencies, for example, dealing with intellectual property rights. Your Market Place reserves the right (and you grant us the right) to disclose any information about you to law enforcement or other government officials in the event that we believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, piracy or other activity that is illegal or may expose us to legal liability.
Further, we can (and by agreeing to our policies and Terms of Use when using Your Market Place you authorise us to) disclose your, name, street address, city, state, post code, country, phone number, email and company as necessary for an investigation by Your Market Place or by any third party nominated by us for investigation into possible fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy or other activity that may expose us to legal liability.
Control of your password
You are responsible for all actions taken with your password including the payment of fees. We do not recommend that you disclose your password for Your Market Place to any third parties. If you choose to share your password or your information with third parties to provide you additional services, then you agree that you are responsible for all actions taken with your password and therefore you should review that third party's 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.
Accessing, reviewing and changing your personal information
Following registration, you can review and change the information you submitted during registration including:
• Your email address;
• Your registration information such as: name, title, address, city, state, post code, country, primary phone number, gender and birthdate;
• Your password.
You must promptly update your personal information if it changes. Once posted, you cannot change or remove any public postings made.
Upon your request, we will deactivate your account, and delete your contact information from our active database. To make this request, send an email via the contact us information. Such information will be deactivated within 10 business days.
In the event that we retain information in our files that you have requested to remove, it will only be for circumstances such as to prevent fraud, resolve disputes, assist investigations or to meet legal obligations. There may be some technical limitations that also prevent personal information being completely removed, but such information will be removed from view or use by the public.
Other information collectors
Except as otherwise expressly discussed 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 Your Market Place or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the personal information you disclose to them.
Please be aware that Your Market Place contains links to other websites. Your Market Place is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those websites.
General
This policy may be updated at any time, taking effect when you next post or 30 days after we post the updated policy on the site, whichever is sooner. If we are involved in a merger or acquisition, we may share personal information with another company, but this policy will continue to apply. If you have any questions about this policy please contact us on info@yourmarketplace.com.au.