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Privacy Notice
Your privacy is very important to us. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes
without your explicit consent. Please read this privacy policy to learn more about the ways in which we use and protect your personal information.
Overview
The privacy practices of this statement apply to our services available under the domain and subdomains of www.wvmountainmall.com
(the Site) and apply generally to our subsidiaries or joint venture websites whose specific privacy policies are available from our Privacy Central pages. By visiting this
website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree please do not use or access our Site.
This Privacy
Policy describes the information we collect from you as part of the normal operation of our services and what may happen to that information. Although this policy
may seem long, we have prepared a detailed policy because we believe you should know as much as possible about WVMM’s practices so that you can make
informed decisions. All of our subsidiaries and joint ventures operate under similar privacy practices as described in this Privacy Policy and, subject to the
requirements of applicable law, we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices throughout the global WVMM trading community.
By accepting
the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement in registration, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this
Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the WVMM User Agreement. This Privacy Policy is effective upon acceptance in
registration for new registering users, and is otherwise effective on August 17, 2005 for all users.
Table of Contents
1. An Important Note About
Children
2. Information We Collect
3. Our Use of Your Information
4. Our Disclosure of Your Information
Advertisers
External Service
Providers
Internal Service Providers for Our Operations
Other Corporate Entities
Legal Requests
5. Your Use of Other Users
Information
6. Control of Your Password
7. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
8. Other Information Collectors
9.
Security
10. Privacy Questions
11. Notice
1. A Special Note About Children.
Children under the age of 18 are not eligible to use the
Site unsupervised and we ask that children do not submit any personal information to us. If you are under the age of 18, you may only use this Site in conjunction with
and under the supervision of your parents or guardians.
2. Information We Collect.
Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to
provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This allows us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs, and to
customize our service to make your experience safer and easier. We only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for achieving this
purpose.
In general, you can browse the Site 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 use our services, we may require you to provide contact and identity information, billing
information, shipping information and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout the Site. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required
and which fields are optional. You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature.
Under some
circumstances we may require some additional financial information, such as, but not limited to: if you are registering using an email account at a free email service, or
registering to sell on the Site. We use your financial information, including credit card information to verify the accuracy of your name, address, and other information,
as well as to bill you for your use of our services.
We automatically track certain information based upon your behavior on the Site. We use this information
to do internal research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve you and our community. This information may
include the URL that you just came from, whether this URL is on the Site or not, which URL you next go to, whether this URL is on the Site or not, your computer
browser information, and your IP address. We use data collection devices such as cookies on certain pages of the Site to help analyze our web page flow, measure
promotional effectiveness, and promote trust and safety. Cookies are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing our services. We offer certain
features that are only available through the use of a cookie. We also use cookies to allow you to enter your password less frequently during a session. Cookies can
also help us provide information that is targeted to your interests. 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 in that case you may not be able to use certain features on the
Site and you may be required to reenter your password more frequently during a session.
Additionally, you may encounter cookies or other similar devices
on certain pages of the Site that are placed by third parties. For example, if you view a web page created by a user, there may be a cookie placed within that web
page. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties.
If you establish a credit account with us to pay the fees we charge, we collect some additional
information, such as a billing address, a credit card number and a credit card expiration date and tracking information from checks or money orders.
If you
choose to post messages in our message areas or leave feedback for other users, we will collect that information you provide to us. We retain this information as
necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law.
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 the Site, we may collect such information into a file
specific to you.
If you register for WVMM on another web site or use a web site providing a service for WVMM or a web site that helps facilitate your
activity on WVMM, that web site may provide personal information about you and your transactions back to WVMM.
3. Our Use of Your
Information.
We use your personal information to facilitate the services you request. We use your personal information in the file we maintain about you, and
other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote safe trading; collect fees owed;
measure consumer interest in our products and services, inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates; customize your experience;
detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce our User Agreement; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection. At
times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your personal information to identify users using
multiple User IDs or aliases. We may compare and review your personal information for errors, omissions and for accuracy. If you choose to list an item for sale on
the Site or open a credit account, or otherwise provide us with your financial information, we use your address and billing information to bill you and provide
associated support. You agree that we may use personal information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our
content and product offerings, and customize the Sites content, layout, and services. These uses improve the Site and better tailor it to meet your needs, so as to
provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized experience while using the Site.
You agree that we may use your personal information to contact
you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices, product
offerings, and communications relevant to your use of the Site. By accepting the User Agreement and Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information.
You may make changes to your notification preferences at any time.
4. Our Disclosure of Your Information.
As a matter of policy, we do not sell
or rent any of your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. However, the following describes some of the
ways that your personal information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business to provide our services.
Advertisers. We aggregate (gather up data
across all user accounts) personal information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for their
marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally.
Certain information, such as your name, email address, password, credit card number, and bank account number, are not disclosed to these third parties in a
personally identifiable manner without your explicit consent.
External Service Providers. There are a number of separate services offered by third parties
that we refer to as external service providers that may be complimentary to your use of the Site (e.g. listing agents, escrow, authentication, mediation, shipping,
packaging). If you choose to use these separate services, disclose information to the external service providers, and/or grant them permission to collect information
about you, then their use of your information is governed by their privacy policy. We do not disclose your personal information to external service providers unless
you provide your explicit consent. With your consent we may provide some of your personal information to the external service provider offering such services, for
your convenience. To prevent our disclosure of your personal information to an external service provider, you can decline such consent or simply not use their
services. Because we do not control the privacy practices of these third parties, you should evaluate their practices before deciding to use their services. Users who
register on a WVMM co-branded web site (for example, CompuServe, AOL.com, and AOL) grant WVMM permission to pass your email address back to that
co-branded web site. The use of your email address by the co-brand web sites is limited by their applicable privacy policies.
Internal Service Providers for
Our Operations. We may use third parties that we refer to as internal service providers to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of the business, product and
service operations that we provide to you (e.g., search technology, discussion boards, bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs, co-branded credit cards) and
therefore we may provide some of your personal information directly to these internal service providers. These internal service providers are subject to confidentiality
agreements with us and other legal restrictions that prohibit their use of the information we provide them for any other purpose except to facilitate the specific
outsourced WVMM related operation, unless you have explicitly agreed or given your prior permission to them for additional uses. In some instances, the internal
service provider may collect information directly from you (such as for WVMM surveys or for a co-branded credit card). In these cases, you will be notified of the
involvement of the internal service provider, and all additional information you provide them and their additional uses will be strictly up to you. If you provide
additional information to an internal service provider directly, then their use of your personal information is governed by their applicable privacy policy.
Legal Requests. WVMM cooperates with law enforcement inquiries, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights,
fraud and other rights, to help protect you and the WVMM community from bad actors. Therefore, in response to a verified request by law enforcement or other
government officials relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose your name, city, state, telephone number,
email address, UserID history, fraud complaints, and bidding and listing history without a subpoena. 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 or other government officials
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 report suspected illegal activity. Further, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose your name, street address, city,
state, zip code, country, phone number, email, and company name to WVMM 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.
Due to the existing regulatory environment, 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. By way of example (without limiting the foregoing), we may be forced to disclose personal
information to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications,
or users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the Site. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your
privacy, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private.
5. Your Use
of Other Users Information.
WVMM and our users do not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add a WVMM
user, even a user who has purchased an item from you, to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express consent. To report WVMM related spam to
WVMM, please contact us at info@wvmountainmall.com.
6. Control of Your Password.
You
are responsible for all actions taken with your User ID and password, including fees charged to your account. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose
your WVMM password to any third parties. If you choose to share your User ID and password or your personal information with third parties, you are responsible
for all actions taken with your account 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 as detailed in Section 8.
7. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal
Information.
We offer you the ability to automatically review and change the information you submit to us by logging into the Site and entering in the new
information yourself. Generally, we will not modify your personal information based on your request because it is very difficult to authenticate your account manually.
You can change your user Id, email address, contact information, financial information, shipping information and user preferences by going to the edit account section
of your user account. You must promptly update your personal information if it changes or is inaccurate. Once posted, you may not be able to change or remove any
public postings made on the Site including our message areas or the feedback area.
Upon your request, we will deactivate your account, contact
information, billing information, shipping information, and financial information from our active databases. To make this request, email info@wvmountainmall.com. Such information will be deactivated as soon as reasonably possible based on your
account activity and in accordance with our deactivation policy and applicable law.
We will retain in our files some personal information you have requested
to remove to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our User Agreement and comply
with legal requirements as is permitted by law. Therefore, you should not expect that all of your personal information will be completely removed from our databases
in response to your requests. However, such personal information will be deactivated from public and member viewing and will only be available to select WVMM
personnel.
8. Other Information Collectors.
Except as otherwise expressly included 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 bidders, buyers or sellers on our
site or other sites throughout the Internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. Since WVMM does not control
the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy policies of that third party. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal
information to others.
9. Security.
Your information is stored on WVMM servers located in the United States. We use procedural and technical
safeguards to protect your personal information against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy, including encryption,
firewalls and Secure Socket Layers. We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security
techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. However, perfect security does not exist on the
Internet.
10. Privacy Questions.
It is our goal to make our privacy practices easy to understand. If you have questions about any part of this
summary or if you would like more detailed information, we encourage you to review our full privacy policy.
11. Notice.
We may amend this
Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amend terms on the Site. All amended terms shall automatically be effective 30 days after they are initially posted on the
Site. In addition, we will notify you in accordance with this agreement. |
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