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PRIVACY POLICY
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This Privacy Policy describes how we handle your personal
information for our services on Ablewise.com. It applies generally
to Ablewise.com website(s) and other related websites where this
policy appears in the footer of the page ("the Sites"). Some
Ablewise.com websites or websites we operate may be governed by
separate privacy policies. The policy that applies on any of our
domains or subdomains is always the policy that appears in the
footer of each website.
By accepting the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use in
registration, you expressly consent to our collection, storage, use
and disclosure of your personal information as described in this
Privacy Policy.
1. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you register with Ablewise.com, you provide us with personal
information and consent to the transfer and storage of that
information to our servers located in the United States.
We may collect and store the following personal information:
* email address, physical contact information, and sometimes
financial information, such as credit card or bank account numbers;
* community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence
through the Site, and correspondence sent to us;
* computer sign-on data, statistics on page views, traffic to and
from the Site, and ad data;
* other information, including IP address and standard web log
information, and
* supplemental information from third parties. (For example, if the
information you provide cannot be verified, we may ask you to send
us additional information (such as your driver license, credit card
statement, and/or a recent utility bill or other information
confirming your address), or to answer additional questions online
to help verify your information.)
* Please do not post any personal information on Ablewise.com's
classifieds that you expect to keep private.
2. USAGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide
you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. You
agree that we may use your personal information to:
* provide the services and customer support you request;
* resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
* prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce
our Terms of Use;
* customize, measure, and improve our services and the Sites'
content and layout;
3. OUR DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose personal information to respond to legal
requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a listing
or other content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone's
rights, property, or safety.
We may also share your personal information with:
* service providers under contract who help with our business
operations; (such as fraud investigations, bill collection,
affiliate and rewards programs and co-branded credit cards)
* other third parties to whom you explicitly ask us to send your
information; (or about whom you are otherwise explicitly notified
and consent to when using a specific service)
* law enforcement or other governmental officials, in response to a
verified request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged
illegal activity; (In such events we will disclose name, city,
state, telephone number, email address, User ID history, and fraud
complaints.) and
* other business entities, 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 policy, you will receive
prior notice.)
4. ACTIVITY ASSOCIATED WITH USERNAME
Your Username is displayed throughout Ablewise.com and is therefore
available to the public. All of your activities on the Site will be
traceable to your Username. Other people can see ads that you have
posted, feedback, ratings and so on. Notices are sent to other
community members regarding suspicious activity and policy
violations on the Site and refer to Username(s) and specific items.
Therefore, if you associate your name with your Username, the people
to whom you have revealed your name to will be able to personally
identify your Ablewise.com activities.
5. USING INFORMATION FROM ABLEWISE.COM
Our Sites enable you to share personal information in order to
complete transactions. We encourage you to disclose your privacy
practices and respect the privacy of other users. We cannot
guarantee the privacy or security of your information and therefore
we encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security policies of
your trading partner before entering into a transaction and choosing
to share your information. To help protect your privacy, we allow
only limited access to other users' contact(s). When users are
involved in a transaction, they may have access to each other's
name, User ID, email address, and other contact(s). In all cases,
you must give other users a chance to remove themselves from your
database and a chance to review what information you have collected
about them.
You agree to use user information only for:
* Ablewise.com transaction-related purposes that are not unsolicited
commercial messages;
* using services offered through Ablewise.com (e.g. PM system and
fraud complaints), or
* other purposes that a user expressly chooses.
6. COOKIES
We use "cookies" (small files placed on your hard drive) on certain
pages of the Site to help analyze our web page flow, customize our
services, measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and
safety.
A few important things you should know about cookies are that:
* We offer certain features that are only available through the use
of cookies.
* We use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in
status.
* 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 doing so may interfere with your use of the Sites.
7. NO SPAM, SPYWARE OR SPOOFING
We and our users do not tolerate spam. Make sure to set your
Ablewise.com notification preferences so we communicate to you as
you prefer. You are not licensed to add other Ablewise.com users,
even a user who has disclosed his/her contact(s) information you, to
your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express
consent. To report Ablewise.com related spam or spoof emails to
Ablewise.com, please inform us via the Contact Us page. You may not
use our communication tools to send spam or otherwise send content
that would violate our Terms of Use. We do not rent or sell these
email addresses.
8. ACCOUNT PROTECTION
Use unique numbers, letters, and special characters for your
Ablewise.com password and do not disclose it to anyone. If you do
share your password or personal information with others, remember
that you are responsible for all actions taken in the name of your
account. 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 notify Ablewise.com and change your password.
9. ACCESSING, REVIEWING AND CHANGING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
You can review and change most of your personal information by
logging into the Site. Generally, we will not modify your personal
information because it is very difficult to verify your identity
remotely. You must promptly update your personal information if it
changes or is inaccurate. Once you make a public posting, you may
not be able to change or remove it. Upon your request, we will close
your account and remove your personal information from view as soon
as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in
accordance with applicable law. We do retain personal information
from closed accounts in order to comply with law, prevent fraud,
collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems,
assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use, and take
other actions otherwise permitted by law.
10. SECURITY
Your information is stored on our servers located in the United
States. We treat data as an asset that must be protected and use
lots of tools (encryption, passwords, physical security, etc.) to
protect your personal information against unauthorized access and
disclosure. However, third parties may unlawfully intercept or
access transmissions or private communications, and other users may
abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the
Site. Therefore, although we work very hard to protect your privacy,
we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal
information or private communications will always remain private.
11. THIRD PARTIES
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy, this
document addresses only the use and disclosure of information we
collect from you. If you disclose your information to others on the
Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of
the information you disclose to them. Since Ablewise.com does not
control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to
the privacy policies of those third parties. We encourage you to
find out more about the relevant third parties' policies before you
disclose your personal information.
12. GENERAL
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended
terms on the Site. All amended terms automatically take effect 30
days after they are initially posted on the Site. In addition, we
will notify you in accordance with your Notification Preferences.
Please direct all your questions to us via the Contact Us page. |