Last Updated: Jun 14, 2006

BidOnUSA takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. This policy tells you about how we use and protect your personal information. As a member of the Internet community, BidOnUSA's 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. BidOnUSA's 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 share or release personally identifiable information about you without your permission (except as needed to provide to you the services you have requested).

We pledge that we will provide the means for you to manage and control 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
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This policy applies to sites whose URL terminates in BidOnUSA's. Our affiliates have their own privacy policy statements, which we encourage you to read whenever you visit these sites. When we talk about "BidOnUSA.com", "BidOnUSA's", or "we" in this policy, we are referring to Company and its majority-owned or majority-controlled subsidiaries.

Marketing
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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 (such as demographic data) to improve and personalize our services.

Helpful Definitions
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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 BidOnUSA's users.

The next sections tell how and when BidOnUSA's collects anonymous information and personally identifiable information.

Collection and Use of Personally Identifiable Information
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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 store items. 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 may collect and store information such as first and last name, email address, physical contact information, telephone #, birth date, sometimes financial information (depending on the service used), such as credit card or bank account numbers, and all information you provide and all your contents generate to our site.

BidOnUSA may also collect and store: 1)private messages, community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through the Site, and correspondence sent to us 2)transactional information based on your activities on the Site (such as bidding, buying, selling, item and content you generate or that relates to your account) 3)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 4)shipping, billing and other information you provide to purchase or ship an item 5)supplemental information from third parties. (For example, if you incur a debt to BidOnUSA, we will generally conduct a credit check by obtaining additional information about you from a credit bureau, as permitted by law. As another 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.)

BidOnUSA's uses this information in several ways:

• to welcome you to the BidOnUSA's Network
• to provide the services and customer support you request
• to send communication from us about new features and services available through BidOnUSA's
• to ensures that registered users do not input false details and can be contacted
• to resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems
• to display advertisements on your screen that closely match your interests (only if you allow us to do so)
• to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our User Agreement
• to provide a first and last name on messages sent from your BidOnUSA's email account
• to customize, measure, and improve our services and the Site's content and layout
• to share your information with select sponsors and partners who work with BidOnUSA's, 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
• to compare information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties
• to contact you by email, mail, or by telephone
• to complete transaction between users
• to provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients

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.

You understand and agree that BidOnUSA may make a copy of all your information, and store in our offices located in the United States.

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 User Agreement, and take other actions otherwise permitted by law.

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 addresses). 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 BidOnUSA's, 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.

Using Information from BidOnUSA
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You are not licensed to add other BidOnUSA users, even a user who has purchased an item from you, to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express consent. Our Site enables you to share personal and financial 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, shipping and financial information in order 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: 1)BidOnUSA-transaction-related purposes that are not unsolicited commercial messages. 2)Using services offered through BidOnUSA (e.g. escrow, insurance, shipping and fraud complaints). 3)Other purposes that a user expressly chooses.

Sharing Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties
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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. 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: Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, advertisers found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such advertiser. You agree that BidOnUSA.com shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on the Service.

The Service may provide, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because BidOnUSA.com has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that BidOnUSA.com is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that BidOnUSA.com shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such Content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.

Third-Party Relationships
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If you disclose your information to others, 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 BidOnUSA does not control the privacy policies of third parties, you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others. In order to provide you with news and features that match your interests, BidOnUSA's has relationships with many of the best media and services companies throughout the world. You can recognize these sites by the joint branding of BidOnUSA's and such companies. For example, if you see a logo in the upper-right corner of the page that says 'Powered by BidOnUSA', 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@bidonusa.com.

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 policy 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.

In addition to finding co-branded Web pages, you will find direct links on <% %SITE_NAME%%>'s to the sites offered by third parties. Some of these sites are authorized to use the BidOnUSA's brand and/or logo. BidOnUSA's 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 BidOnUSA's 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 BidOnUSA's 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.

Tell A Friend
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If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friends name and email address. BidOnUSA will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. BidOnUSA stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program. The friend or the user may contact BidOnUSA to request the removal of this information from our database.

Our Disclosure of Your Information
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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 BidOnUSA's rights, property or operations, other BidOnUSA's users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.

We may share your personal information with members of our corporate family to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and provide joint services.

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 share your personal information with service providers who help with our business operations; (such as fraud investigations, bill collection, and...)

We may also disclose your personally identifiable information when 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.

We may also share your personal information with 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.

Anonymous Information
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When you use our site, we collect anonymous information, even if you have not registered with BidOnUSA's. 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.

BidOnUSA's 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.

Activity Associated with User IDs
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Your User ID is displayed throughout the Site and is therefore available to the public. All of your activities on the Site will be traceable to your User ID. Other people can see your bids, items that you have purchased in the past, items for sale, storefronts, feedback, ratings and associated comments, and so on.

Cookies: How They Are Used
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A "cookie" is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies do not damage your system or impair its functioning in any way. We use cookies to help us provide customizable services and to allow you to sign-in to our site. For example, we can store your zip code in a cookie and this enables us to display your local weather each time you visit our site. Cookies also make web surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you're on our site. Some Cookies are use for BidOnUSA Affiliate Program and Link Directory to track transactions. Cookies may also be use and deliver by BidOnUSA's partners on co-branded Web pages, as explained in the "third-party relationships," so please be aware of this as you visit these Web pages. Please Note: cookies may also be use and deliver by third party and other Ad servers.

You can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies, or allow your browser to show you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept these cookies, your experience at our site and other Web sites may be diminished and some features will not work as intended. Cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions.

Use of IP Addresses
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An Internet protocol (I.P.) address is a set of numbers that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you log on to your internet service provider or through your company's local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). Web servers - the powerful computers that provide web pages for viewing - automatically identify your computer by the IP address assigned to it during your session online.

BidOnUSA's may collect I.P. addresses for purposes of system administration, to report anonymous user information to our advertisers (as explained above), and to audit the use of our site. Some IP logs are use for BidOnUSA Affiliate Program and Link Directory to track transactions. We do not ordinarily link a user's I.P. address to personally identifiable information of that user, which means each user's session will be logged, but the user remains anonymous to us. However, we can and will use I.P. addresses to identify users of our site when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our site's terms of use or terms of service, or to protect our service, site, or other users.

PLEASE NOTE: Under certain circumstances, I.P. addresses and/or domain names may be linked to personally identifiable information, when said information is stored in databases managed by Internet registrars or registries.

Keywords
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Certain advertisers have paid for the right to display advertisements on search results pages corresponding to certain words. For instance, a particular resistor manufacturer may want its advertisement to be displayed when users search for its resistor. We want to be clear: by serving these ads, we are not affecting the integrity of the search results in any way. The only difference is that the ads that you see on the page may be influenced by the words searched. Of course, many of the ads on the search results page may also be randomly generated, so there is no clear-cut way of knowing which ads are targeted to certain "key words" searched for, and which are not. This is true whether or not you are a registered user of our site.

Opt-In/Out
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You can change Newsletter Preferences and Email Notification Preferences at any time from our site.

• To change Newsletter Preferences, please click here.
• To change Email Notification Preferences, please click here.

Correction/Updating Personal Information
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You can see, review and change most of your personal information by logging into your account at any time. Please Note: you must maintain and promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.

Closing Your Account
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To close your account, you could email our customer support at accounts@bidonusa.com. 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 User Agreement, and take other actions otherwise permitted by law.

Your Password
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You may not disclose, share, or distribute your password to any third party. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. 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. If you feel your password has been jeopardized, you may change your password at any time, and as often as you wish. If you unable to login to your account with correct User ID and Password, you must notify BidOnUSA.com immediately. You must ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session.

Security
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When you submit personal information to BidOnUSA, we will protect your information both online and offline. All of our users information, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number or password) over the Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. We store and process personal information on servers, and in our offices located in the United States that are protected. BidOnUSA's operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection. BidOnUSA's has security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your user data under our control. For example, we impose strict rules on BidOnUSA's employees 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 employee passwords and non-disclosure agreements) to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.

Contacting Us
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If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage or the Announcements Board, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage or on the Announcements Board.

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

Privacy Policy - Customer Care
BidOnUSA
1928 Hancock St.
Los Angeles, CA 90031
Email: support@bidonusa.com