This policy tells you about how we use and protect your personal information. To
see a summary of this policy, and for more information to answer your privacy concerns,
please go to our
Privacy Central page.
Contents
Scope
This Privacy Policy describes how we handle your personal information for our services
on the sbuy.in websites. It applies generally to the sbuy.in website and content and
other related websites where this policy appears in the footer of the page. Some
sbuy.in-branded 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.
Our subsidiaries’ and joint ventures’ privacy practices are similar to those described
in this Privacy Policy. Subject to the requirements of applicable law, we strive
to provide a consistent set of privacy practices throughout the global sbuy.in trading
community. By accepting the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement in registration,
you expressly consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal
information as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective
upon acceptance for new users and is otherwise effective on August 13, 2008.
Collection
You can browse our sites 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 provide us with personal information, you
consent to the transfer and storage of that information on our servers located in
the United States.
We may collect and store the following personal information:
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email address, physical contact information, and (depending on the service used)
sometimes financial information, such as credit card or bank account numbers;
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transactional information based on your activities on the sites (such as bidding,
buying, selling, item and content you generate or that relates to your account);
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shipping, billing and other information you provide to purchase or ship an item;
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community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through our sites,
and correspondence sent to us;
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other information from your interaction with our sites, services, content and advertising,
including computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic
to and from the sites, ad data, IP address and standard web log information;
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additional information we ask you to submit to authenticate yourself or if we believe
you are violating site policies (for example, we may ask you to send us an ID or
bill to verify your address, or to answer additional questions online to help verify
your identity or ownership of an item you list);
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information from other companies, such as demographic and navigation data; and
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other supplemental information from third parties (for example, if you incur a debt
to sbuy.in, we will generally conduct a credit check by obtaining additional information
about you from a credit bureau, as permitted by law).
Marketing
We don't sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing
purposes without your explicit consent. We may combine your information with information
we collect from other companies and use it to improve and personalize our services,
content and advertising. If you don't wish to receive marketing communications from
us or participate in our ad-customization programs, simply indicate your preference
in My sbuy.in or by following the directions provided with the communication or advertisement.
Use
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:
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provide the services and customer support you request;
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resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
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prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our User Agreement;
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customize, measure and improve our services, content and advertising;
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tell you about our services and those of our corporate family, targeted marketing,
service updates, and promotional offers based on your communication preferences;
and
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compare information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties.
Our Disclosure of Your 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. Such information will
be disclosed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
We may also share your personal information with:
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Members
of the sbuy.in Inc. corporate family—like PayPal, Skype or Shopping.com—to
provide joint content and services (like registration, transactions and customer
support), to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and violations of
our policies, and to guide decisions about their products, services and communications.
Members of our corporate family will use this information to send you marketing
communications only if you’ve requested their services.
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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).
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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).
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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 information relevant to the investigation, such as name, city,
state, zip code, telephone number, email address, User ID history, IP address, fraud
complaints, and bidding and listing history.
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sbuy.in VeRO Program participants under confidentiality agreement, as we in our sole
discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation
of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity.
In such events, we will disclose name, street address, city, state, zip code, country,
phone number, email address and company name.
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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.)
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, other government officials, or other third
parties 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 to report suspected illegal
activity.
Information You Share on sbuy.in
Your User ID is displayed throughout sbuy.in (and so available to the public), and
is connected to all of your sbuy.in activity. Other people can see your bids, purchases,
items for sale, storefronts, feedback, ratings and associated comments. Notices
sent to other community members about suspicious activity and policy violations
on our sites refer to User IDs and specific items. So if you associate your name
with your User ID, the people to whom you have revealed your name will be able to
personally identify your sbuy.in activities.
If you access our sites from a shared computer or a computer in an internet café,
certain information about you, such as your User ID, activity or reminders from
sbuy.in, may also be visible to other individuals who use the computer after you.
Using Information from sbuy.in
sbuy.in enables you to share personal and financial information 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, shipping
and financial information to facilitate your transactions. When users are involved
in a transaction, they
may have access to each other's name, User ID, email address and other contact
and shipping information. 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:
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sbuy.in transaction-related purposes that are not unsolicited commercial messages;
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using services offered through sbuy.in (e.g. escrow, insurance, shipping and
fraud complaints), or
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other purposes that a user expressly chooses.
Cookies
We use "cookies" (small files placed on your hard drive) on certain of our pages
to help analyze our web page flow; customize our services, content and advertising;
measure promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. For more information
about why we use cookies, see
Cookies, Web Beacons, and Your
Privacy.
A few important things you should know about cookies are that:
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We offer certain features that are available only through the use of cookies.
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We use cookies to help identify you and maintain your signed-in status.
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Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted
from your hard drive at the end of a session.
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You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although doing
so may interfere with your use of some of our sites or services.
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You may encounter cookies from third parties on certain pages of the sites that
we do not control. (For example, if you view a web page created by another user,
there may be a cookie placed by that web page.)
No Spam, Spyware or Spoofing
We and our users do not tolerate spam. Make sure to set your sbuy.in notification preferences
so we communicate to you as you prefer. You are not licensed to add other sbuy.in users,
even a user who has purchased an item from you, to your mailing list (email or physical
mail) without their express consent. To report sbuy.in-related spam or spoof emails
to sbuy.in, please forward the email to spam@sbuy.in
or spoof@sbuy.in. You may not use our communication
tools to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our User Agreement.
We automatically scan and may manually filter messages to check for spam, viruses,
phishing attacks and other malicious activity or illegal or prohibited content,
but we do not permanently store messages sent through these tools. If you send an
email to an email address that is not registered in our community (via Refer-a-Friend
or other tools), we do not permanently store that email or use that email address
for any marketing purpose. We do not rent or sell these email addresses.
Account Protection
Your password is the key to your account. Use unique numbers, letters and special
characters, and do not disclose your sbuy.in password to anyone. If you do share your
password or your 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 sbuy.in and change your
password.
Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
You can see, review and change most of your personal information by signing on to
sbuy.in. Generally, we will not manually 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 to comply with law, prevent fraud, collect
any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations,
enforce our sbuy.in User
Agreement, and take other actions otherwise permitted by law.
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, as you probably know, 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.
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, whether they are bidders, buyers or sellers on our sites
or other sites throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or
disclosure of the information you disclose to them. sbuy.in does not control the privacy
policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those
third parties where applicable. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose
your personal information to others.
General
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended terms on this
site. All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days after they are initially
posted on the site.