Privacy Policy

UpperBidŽ Online Auctions understands the power that the Internet holds for changing people's lives, expanding their horizons, and enhancing the ease with which they perform their jobs. All these benefits are at risk if people are concerned about their personal privacy. UpperBidŽ Online Auctions is committed to providing its users with an Internet experience that respects and protects their personal privacy choices and concerns.

Our privacy policy and practices are detailed below, and we ask you to read them thoroughly. This policy is derived from three pledges that we make to you, our users:

• We pledge that we will not release personally identifiable information about you without your permission (except as needed to provide to you the services you have expressly requested, as explained in greater detail in the section on "third party relationships" below) or when we must verify your identity for the safety of all users as explained in the section on "identity verification" below.

• We pledge that we will provide the means for you to manage and control our usage of the information that you have voluntarily provided to us.

• We pledge that we will provide mechanisms for you to communicate your privacy questions and concerns to us and that we will respond to them thoroughly and thoughtfully.

We are constantly improving the tools you can use to manage the data that you provide to us. Please refer to this page from time to time to see these new features.

Coverage

This policy applies to UpperBidŽ Online Auctions. Our affiliates have their own privacy policy statements, which we encourage you to read whenever you visit these sites. When we talk about "UpperBidŽ Online Auctions" or "we" in this policy, we are referring to this website.

Helpful Definitions

Personally identifiable information is information such as your name, birth date, e-mail address or mailing address that can be used to uniquely identify you.

Anonymous Information is not personally identifiable information. Anonymous information is information about how you use our site (such as places visited and search queries performed). Anonymous information also includes the domain names and/or I.P. addresses (as explained in greater detail below) of browsers that visit our site, time of day the site was visited, and other non-personally identifiable information. Anonymous information is information that is not tied to any individual, but helps to characterize UpperBidŽ Online Auctions's users.

The next sections tell how and when UpperBidŽ Online Auctions collects anonymous information and personally identifiable information.

Collection and Use of Personally Identifiable Information

Registration

We want to assure you that you can visit our site and use many of our services without telling us who you are or revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself to us. It is only during registration to become a registered user will you be asked to provide us with personally identifiable information.

Although some of our services do not require any form of customer registration, we do require registration for the use of certain services, the auctions and classifieds. During this registration process we require you to complete certain fields, offer optional fields for you to complete, and ask you to select a user name and password. For example, we ask for contact information (such as first and last name, email address, and zip code). UpperBidŽ Online Auctions uses this contact information in several ways:

• to welcome you to the UpperBidŽ Online Auctions Network

• to send communications from us about new features and services available through UpperBidŽ Online Auctions

• to display advertisements on your screen that closely match your interests

• to provide a first and last name on messages sent from your UpperBidŽ Online Auctions email account

• to share your information with select sponsors and partners who work with UpperBidŽ Online Auctions, only if you allow us to do so (as we explain below)

• to allow our sponsors and partners to communicate with you, but only if you tell us you want to receive these communications about their services and offers

If you indicate to us that you do not want to receive certain types of communications at the time of registration, we will respect your wishes, and comply with your preferences. If you already are a registered user and would like to review or change the choices you have made, you will be able to do so.

Contests, Etc.

From time to time, we may run contests on our site in which we ask participants for contact information, such as their email address(es). If you participate in contests, your contact information will be used primarily to reach you in connection with the contests. We may also use the collected contact information to send you information about UpperBidŽ Online Auctions, our services, as well as offers tailored to your interests by our advertisers and sponsors, if you have opted to receive these communications. You may choose to opt-out of receiving such mailings at the time of registration for the contest, or afterwards.

Sharing Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties

To deliver advertising to you that most closely matches your interests, we share your personal information with carefully selected companies with whom we have relationships and trust. However, we will not share your personally identifiable information unless we have first given you notice that we might share your data, and you have authorized us to do so. If you have not opted-in to receive these offers, and would like to do so now, you will be able to change your preferences. If you have previously opted-in, but now wish to remove yourself from these mailing lists, you will be able to change your preferences, or you may send email directly to us, and we will modify your preferences accordingly. Our partners who receive information from us have the right to use the data we provide them (sometimes, in connection with other information they may have gathered about you), but are generally prohibited from sharing this information with other companies or people. In addition, if we add new features or services that might require the sharing of your personal information with an additional advertiser or sponsor, we will provide you with notice and the opportunity to opt-in to receive these offers.

PLEASE NOTE: In certain special cases, we may disclose your personally identifiable information when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to you, or otherwise injuring or interfering with UpperBidŽ Online Auctions's rights, property or operations, other UpperBidŽ Online Auctions users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. We may also disclose your personally identifiable information when we believe the law requires it, or in response to any demand by law enforcement authorities in connection with a criminal investigation, or civil or administrative authorities in connection with a pending civil case or administrative investigation. In addition, we will pro-actively contact the appropriate law enforcement and provide them with all the personal information of any user who commits any illegal activity on our site. We will also pro-actively contact email providers, payment processing companies, financial institutions, and any other relevant websites, companies and/or institutions to provide them with their personal information in order to spearhead the disruption of their criminal activities and ensure their arrest as quickly as possible.

Anonymous Information

When you use our site, we collect anonymous information, even if you have not registered with UpperBidŽ Online Auctions. We use this information to personalize your experience at our site, show you more relevant advertising messages, and generally to improve our services. We share this anonymous information with selected advertisers and partners, in order to deliver to you more relevant advertising messages.

UpperBidŽ Online Auctions will not share any anonymous information about your use on our site if that information is or will be linked to your personally identifiable information unless we have given you notice as described above and you have given us authorization to do so. If you prefer that anonymous information not be shared with other companies, then you may choose to opt-out during registration, or by updating your preferences at any time.

Cookies: How They Are Used and Opting-Out

Special Categories of Information

Use of IP Addresses

Keywords

Third-Party Relationships

In order to provide you with news and features that match your interests, UpperBidŽ Online Auctions has relationships with many of the best media and services companies throughout the world. You can recognize these sites by the joint branding of UpperBidŽ Online Auctions and such companies. For example, if you see a logo in the upper-right corner of the page that says 'Powered by ______', you will know you are on a co-branded Web page. If you ever have any questions about whether certain information, content or services pertain to us, or are "powered by" one of our partners, please contact us at Legal Support .

Whenever you provide registration information on certain co-branded Web pages or for certain services provided in conjunction with third party partners, we want to be clear that some data you provide is shared with partners. You should make every effort to read the privacy policies provided by or in association with such third parties, and make an informed decision on your own whether or not to continue utilizing the services based upon the privacy policies posted on these co-branded Web pages, at your own discretion. However, we will make every effort to ensure that you have the ability to opt-out of the sharing of such data with partners. You may email us directly at Legal Support and we will forward your request to the appropriate company, and help you follow up to ensure that your concerns are adequately handled.

In addition to finding co-branded Web pages, you will find direct links on UpperBidŽ Online Auctions to the sites offered by third parties. Some of these sites are authorized to use the UpperBidŽ Online Auctions brand and/or logo. UpperBidŽ Online Auctions carefully evaluates all parties that are authorized to use its brand and/or logo, and believes that all such sites have adopted acceptable privacy policies. Again, you should read these third party privacy policies, and make an informed decision on your own as to whether or not to continue based upon these sites' privacy practices, at your own discretion. No third-party sites are covered by this Privacy Policy.

VERY IMPORTANT: If you feel that a site using the UpperBidŽ Online Auctions brand and/or logo has not posted an acceptable privacy policy, or is not following the privacy policy it has posted, please send us an email at Legal Support . We will forward complaints to the appropriate third parties and help you follow up to ensure that your concerns are adequately handled. Of course, if any of these third party companies does not have a privacy policy that is acceptable to you, you should refrain from providing information until your concerns have been satisfactorily addressed.

Identity Verification

UpperBidŽ Online Auctions may use identification verification sources and/or services to ensure that the user is who they claim to be and that they have provided valid personal information when they registered at UpperBidŽ Online Auctions. Your personal information will be shared with other sources and/or services in this process for the use of identity verification so we can be certain that the user is exactly who they claim to be. This is strictly for the protection of all users on this website.

Security

UpperBidŽ Online Auctions operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection. UpperBidŽ Online Auctions has security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your user data under our control.

Only authorized employees or contractors have access to the information you provide us. For example, we impose strict rules on UpperBidŽ Online Auctions employees and contractors who have access either to the databases that store user information or to the servers that host our services. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we make every effort (such as the use of passwords) to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.

If you have questions about this privacy policy or the practices of this site, please contact:

UpperBidŽ Online Auctions
Email : Legal Support .

UpperBidŽ Online Auctions reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. All changes will be posted to this page.