Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy governs your BottleAuction.com account and the
Information you provide on this BottleAuction.com Web site.
A. Overview B. Information We Collect C. Use And Disclosure Of
Your Personal Information D. Accessing And Changing Your Information E.
How To Contact Us
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A. Overview In order to operate BottleAuction.com and to reduce the risk of
fraud, BottleAuction.com must ask you to provide us with information about
yourself and your credit card and/or bank account. This Privacy Policy describes
the information, why we collect that information, and how we use it.
BottleAuction.com takes your privacy seriously and will only use the information
in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. We will not sell or rent
your personal information or provide any lists of our customers to third
parties. However, as described in more detail in Part C below, there are limited
Circumstances in which some of your information will be shared with third
parties, under certain conditions, so it is important for you to review this
Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to all services that are hosted on
the BottleAuction.com Web site, whether the services are offered by
BottleAuction.com or by its subsidiaries. Maintaining your privacy is important
to us.
B. Information We Collect
Information from third parties In order to protect all our customers against
potential fraud, we verify with third parties the information you provide. In
the course of such verification, we receive personal information about you from
such services. In particular, if you register a credit card or debit card with
BottleAuction.com, we will use card authorization and fraud screening services
to verify that your information and address matches the information that you
supplied to BottleAuction.com. If you register your online business with
BottleAuction.com or if you send high overall payment volumes through
BottleAuction.com, in some circumstances we will conduct a background check on
your business by obtaining information about you and your business from a credit
bureau or a business information service. We will generally conduct a credit
check on you by obtaining additional information about you from a credit bureau,
to the extent permitted by law. BottleAuction.com also reserves the right
periodically to retrieve and review a business and/or consumer credit report for
any account, and reserves the right to close an account based on information
obtained during this credit review process.
Customer Service Correspondence If you send us correspondence, including
e-mails and faxes, we retain such information in the records of your account. We
will also retain customer service correspondence and other correspondence from
BottleAuction.com to you.
We retain these records in order to measure and improve our customer service
and to investigate potential fraud and violations of our User Agreement. We may,
over time, delete these records if permitted by law.
C. Use And Disclosure Of Your Personal Information
Internal operations We collect, store, and process your personal information
on servers located in the United States. We use the information we collect about
you in order to 1) provide our services and process your transactions, 2)
provide customer service, 3) determine your eligibility to receive offers for
special features or products, such as discounts and listing privileges, and to
improve our products and services.
We give access to personal information about our users to our authorized
representatives who require this personal information to fulfill billing and
customer service requests.
We communicate with users on a regular basis via e-mail to provide requested
services, and we also communicate by phone to resolve customer complaints or
investigate suspicious transactions. We use your e-mail address to confirm your
opening of a BottleAuction.com membership account, to send you notice of
payments that you owe, to send information about important changes to our
products and services, and to send notices and other disclosures required by
law. Generally, users cannot opt out of these communications, but they will be
primarily informational in nature rather than promotional.
Legal requests or investigations We disclose information that we in good
faith believe is appropriate in order to cooperate in investigations of fraud or
other illegal activity or to conduct investigations of potential violations of
our User Agreement. For example, this means that if we conduct a fraud
investigation and conclude that one side has engaged in deceptive practices, we
can give that person or entity's contact information (but not bank account or
credit card information) to victims who request it.
We disclose information in response to a subpoena, warrant, court order,
levy, attachment, order of a court-appointed receiver or other comparable legal
process, including subpoenas from private parties in a civil action.
Spam BottleAuction.com does not tolerate Spam. We will not Spam our
members nor will we accept Spam from any source. We strictly enforce our
Anti-Spam Policy! To report BottleAuction.com-related Spam, please contact us at
the following link: auctionadmin@BottleAuction.aspnow.com
The security of your BottleAuction.com account also relies on your protection
of your BottleAuction.com password. You should never share your
BottleAuction.com password with anyone. BottleAuction.com will never ask you to
send your password or other sensitive account information to us in an e-mail,
though we may ask you to enter this type of information in a new window on the
BottleAuction.com Web site, which will always have a URL beginning with
https://www.BottleAuction.com /. Never respond to a suspicious e-mail request by
replying to that e-mail or by providing any information, and we advise you to
always open a new window to report any suspicious e-mail.
BottleAuction.com will never e-mail you to ask you to update your
information, nor will we send out any e-mail or other communication requesting
your password, asking you to provide sensitive account information via e-mail,
or linking to a Web site with a URL that does not begin with
http://www.BottleAuction.com that is accessed thru your membership home page
after login. If you wish to make changes to your personal information, we
recommend you close all active Internet windows and open a new window to
BottleAuction.com and then enact the desired changes.
Any suspicious e-mails that do not conform to the conditions listed above
should be treated as unauthorized and suspicious and should be reported to
BottleAuction.com immediately. Please send any reports of suspicious e-mail
information requests to the Spoof E-mail Master at the following e-mail link:
auctionadmin@BottleAuction.aspnow.com
D. Accessing And Changing Your Information
You can review the personal information you provided us and make any desired
changes to such information or to the settings for your BottleAuction.com
account at any time by logging in to your account on the BottleAuction.com Web
site and entering the membership home page. You can view your bill status, and
change your user information, billing data, user password, and username. You can
also close your account through the BottleAuction.com Web site if you so desire.
If you close your BottleAuction.com account, we will mark your account in our
database as "Closed," but will keep your account information in our database.
This is necessary in order to deter fraud, by ensuring that persons who try to
commit fraud will not be able to avoid detection simply by closing their account
and opening a new account. However, if you close your account, your personal
information will not be used by us for any further purposes, nor sold or shared
with third parties, except as necessary to prevent fraud and assist law
enforcement, or as required by law.
E. How To Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or
BottleAuction.com's information practices, please write to us
at: BottleAuction.com P.O. Box 2146 VISTA CA 92085-2146 Or contact
us by e-mail: admin@bottleauction.com
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