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Privacy Policy

Date of Last Revision: June 7, 2008.

Tradeversity is a pro-active market place to connect you (as a buyer or seller) with other buyers and sellers around you. We understand often times you may feel uncomfortable sharing your personal information across the net. That is why we, as well as our partnered associates do not share your personal information with any third party individuals or entities. In addition,

  • You can control your privacy settings
    You have the ability to control who (everyone, people in your region, friends and their friends, friends, or no one) have the ability to see your basic and personal profile, photos, friend list, email, phone, screen name and item lists.

  • You can control your notification settings
    By default, to keep the users with most up to date information about his or her listings, users will receive emails from us when they receive messages, being added as a friend, have friends who updated, receive group invitations etc. These settings can be easily changed by clicking here

  • You can change your account settings
    If you believe your account has been compromised in anyway, you are able make changes in your personal settings (including your display name and password) here.


Tradeversity Privacy Policy

Tradeversity (along with Pacific Atlantic Entertainment and other associate entities) is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy documents the reasons we collect your personal information and how they are used to assist you with your trading experience.

From time to time, we add or change functions, features or products to our Web Sites.

By using Tradeversity, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy statement.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact our privacy staff at webmaster@tradeversity.com.


The Information We Collect

When you visit Tradeversity you provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected by us and Web Site use information collected by us as you interact with our Web Site.

When you register with Tradeversity, you provide us with certain personal information, such as your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender and any other personal or preference information that you provide to us.

When you enter Tradeversity, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all Tradeversity visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. These cookies terminate once the user closes the browser. By default, we use a persistent cookie that stores your login ID (but not your password) to make it easier for you to login when you come back to Tradeversity. You can remove or block this cookie using the settings in your browser if you want to disable this convenience feature.

When you use Tradeversity, you may set up your personal profile, form friendships, send messages, perform searches and queries, form groups, buy and purchase items and transmit information through various channels. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view prior messages you have sent or easily see your friend list. When you update information, we usually keep a backup copy of the prior version for a reasonable period of time to enable reversion to the prior version of that information.

You post User Content (as defined in the Tradeversity Terms of Use) on the Site at your own risk. Although we allow you to set privacy options that limit access to your pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other Users with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.

Any improper collection or misuse of information provided on Tradeversity is a violation of the Tradeversity Terms of Service and should be reported to webmaster@tradeversity.com.

If you choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email or instant message inviting him or her to visit the site. Tradeversity stores this information to send this one-time invitation, to register a friend connection if your invitation is accepted, and to track the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact us at webmaster@tradeversity.com to request that we remove this information from our database.

Tradeversity may also collect information about you from other sources, such as newspapers, blogs, instant messaging services, and other users of the Tradeversity service through the operation of the service (e.g., photo tags) in order to provide you with more useful information and a more personalized experience.

By using Tradeversity, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United States.


Children Under Age 13

Tradeversity does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for Tradeversity or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on Tradeversity. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at webmaster@tradeversity.com.


Children Between the Ages of 13 and 18

We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.


Use of Information Obtained by Tradeversity

When you register with Tradeversity, you create your own profile and privacy settings. Your profile information, as well as your name, email and photo, items purchased and sold, are displayed to people in the networks specified in your privacy settings to enable you to connect and trade with people on Tradeversity. We may occasionally use your name and email address to send you notifications regarding new services offered by Tradeversity that we think you may find valuable.

Profile information is used by Tradeversity primarily to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the service and to be presented to others permitted to view that information by your privacy settings. In some cases where your privacy settings permit it (e.g., posting to your wall), other Tradeversity users may be able to supplement your profile.

Profile information you submit to Tradeversity will be available to users of Tradeversity who belong to at least one of the regions or networks you allow to access the information through your privacy settings (e.g., school, geography, friends of friends). Your name, network names, and profile picture thumbnail will be available in search results across the Tradeversity network and those limited pieces of information may be made available to third party search engines. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send a friend request. People who see your name in searches, however, will not be able to access your profile information unless they have a relationship to you (friend, friend of friend, member of your region and school, etc.) that allows such access based on your privacy settings.

Tradeversity may send you service-related announcements from time to time through the general operation of the service. For instance, if a potential buyer for an item you posted is found or a seller in your area is selling something on your ‘wants’ list, you may receive an email alerting you to that fact.

Generally, you may opt out of such emails here, though Tradeversity reserves the right to send you notices about your account even if you opt out of all voluntary email notifications.

Tradeversity may use information in your profile without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do this for purposes such as aggregating how many people in a network like a band or movie and personalizing advertisements and promotions so that we can provide you Tradeversity. We believe this benefits you. You can know more about the world around you and, where there are advertisements, they're more likely to be interesting to you. For example, if you put a movie in your ‘wants’ list, we might serve you an advertisement highlighting a screening of a similar one in your town. But we don't tell the movie company who you are.

We may use information about you that we collect from other sources, including but not limited to newspapers and Internet sources such as blogs, instant messaging services, Tradeversity Platform developers and other users of Tradeversity, to supplement your profile. Where such information is used, we generally allow you to specify in your privacy settings that you do not want this to be done or to take other actions that limit the connection of this information to your profile.


Sharing Your Information with Third Parties

Tradeversity is about trading and sharing with others — friends and people in your networks — while providing you with privacy settings that restrict other users from accessing your information. We allow you to choose the information you provide to friends and networks through Tradeversity. Our network architecture and your privacy settings allow you to make informed choices about who has access to your information. We do not provide contact information to third party marketers without your permission. We share your information with third parties only in limited circumstances where we believe such sharing is 1) reasonably necessary to offer the service, 2) legally required or, 3) permitted by you. For example:

  • Your current status and new items for sale may aggregate the information you provide and make it available to your friends and network members according to your privacy settings. You may set your preferences for these settings here.

  • Unlike most sites on the Web, Tradeversity limits access to site information by third party search engine "crawlers" (e.g. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask). Tradeversity takes action to block access by these engines to personal information beyond your name, profile picture, and limited aggregated data about your profile (e.g. number of wall postings).

  • We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about Tradeversity, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for items or services, to offer an online job application process, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use for a limited time in connection with these business activities. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the Tradeversity-specified purposes.

  • We occasionally provide demonstration accounts that allow non-users a glimpse into the Tradeversity world. Such accounts have only limited capabilities (e.g., messaging is disabled) and passwords are changed regularly to limit possible misuse.

  • We may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. We do not reveal information until we have a good faith belief that an information request by law enforcement or private litigants meets applicable legal standards. Additionally, we may share account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Tradeversity service or using the Tradeversity name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.

  • We let you choose to share information with marketers or electronic commerce providers through sponsored groups or other on-site offers.

  • We may offer stores or provide services jointly with other companies on Tradeversity. You can tell when another company is involved in any store or service provided on Tradeverstiy, and we may share customer information with that company in connection with your use of that store or service.

  • If the ownership of all or substantially all of the Tradeversity business, or individual business units owned by Tradeversity, Inc., were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.

When you use Tradeversity, certain information you post or share with third parties (e.g., a friend or someone in your network), such as personal information, comments, messages, photos, sales listings or other information, may be shared with other users in accordance with the privacy settings you select. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personal information in your profile or when posting comments, messages, photos, sales listings or other items, this information may become publicly available.


Links

Tradeversity may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Tradeversity.


Third Party Advertising

Advertisements that appear on Tradeversity are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and "web beacons" (also known as "1x1 gifs") to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. Tradeversity does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on Tradeversity unless you choose to share it with them.

This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Tradeversity and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.


Activity Associated with User IDs

Your User ID is used throughout Tradeversity but it is not available to the public. All of your activity on our sites is 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. Notices are sent to other community members regarding suspicious activity and policy violations on our sites and refer to User IDs and specific items.


Changing or Removing Information

Access and control over most personal information on Tradeversity is readily available through the profile editing tools. Tradeversity users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their Tradeveristy account may do so on the My Account page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of Tradeversity.

Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on Tradeversity, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another Tradeversity user) you generally cannot remove such communications.


Security

Tradeversity takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information. Your account information is located on a secured server behind a firewall. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number or your password), we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). (To learn more about SSL, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer). Because email and instant messaging are not recognized as secure communications, we request that you not send private information to us by email or instant messaging services. If you have any questions about the security of Tradeversity Web Site, please contact us at webmaster@tradeversity.com.


Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions

Your use of Tradeversity, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its dispute resolution provisions including arbitration, limitation on damages and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use at any time. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this site. If we make changes, we will post them and will indicate at the top of this page the policy's new effective date. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or through notice on our home page. We encourage you to refer to this policy on an ongoing basis so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.


Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at webmaster@tradeversity.com. You may also contact us by mail at Mckinley Executive Center, 2245 S. State Street suite 100, Ann Arbor, Michigan.