ScrappyAuctions.Com Privacy Policy

ScrappyAuctions.Com has created this statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. This document discloses our information gathering and usage practices. For additional information please review our Terms and Conditions.

Use of your information

ScrappyAuctions.Com does not sell, rent or share your personal identification with or to third parties*.

* We release account and other personal information only when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; enforce or apply our terms and conditions; or protect the rights, property, or safety of ScrappyAuctions.Com, our users, or others.

Email

It is the policy of ScrappyAuctions.Com to send our members email throughout the auction process and other email they elect to receive, in addition to customary business communications (payment confirmations, etc.). Further, it is our policy to immediately remove any member from any mailing list upon the member's request. In addition, ScrappyAuctions.Com may send a newsletter to members. Newsletters will contain clear and obvious instructions for how the member can remove himself or herself from that mailing list.

We do use email as a means of receiving feedback from our members, and we encourage you to Contact Us with your questions or comments.

Emailing Tools

ScrappyAuctions.Com provides facilities throughout the site to refer a friend to ScrappyAuctions.Com or to send references to a specific listing to a friend. You may not use the "Email This Auction to a Friend" service or other email forwarding services that we offer to send spam or otherwise send content that would violate our Privacy Policy or Terms and Conditions. We do not permanently store, sell, or rent these email messages or the email addresses.

Membership Registration

Our site's registration form requires you to provide us contact information and may also require demographic information. We may use your contact information from the registration form to send you information about our company and promotional material from some of our affiliated partners. Your contact information is also used to contact you when necessary. By using ScrappyAuctions.Com, you consent to the collection and use of this information by ScrappyAuctions.Com only.

Updating Your Personal Information

ScrappyAuctions.Com provides you with ways in which you can alter your personal data, including changing your email address, password, phone number, etc. ScrappyAuctions.Com will store previous email addresses against your profile to ensure compliance with our Terms and Conditions - specifically the use of one account per member.

Delivery Address Details

ScrappyAuctions.Com enables you to save your delivery address which we will store against your profile. When you buy an item your delivery address will then be sent to the seller. We will never give the seller your address without your permission.

Control of Your Password

You are responsible for all actions taken with your user name, email address and password, including fees. Therefore we do not recommend that you disclose your ScrappyAuctions.Com password to any third parties. If you choose to share your user name, email address and password or your information with third parties to provide you additional services, you are responsible for all actions taken with this information and therefore you should review that third party's privacy policy.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored in a browser-related file on your computer's hard drive when you use our Web site. We use cookies to improve the member experience. We also use them to deliver information and fresh content specific to your interests. Cookies are widely used on most major Web sites.

ScrappyAuctions.Com mostly uses "session" cookies, which are removed from your computer once you leave ScrappyAuctions.Com. These are used so our service can remember that you have logged in already and prevent you doing so more frequently. The technology we use requires the use of session cookies. Session cookies expire and are deleted after 30 minutes of no activity on ScrappyAuctions.Com.

We also use persistent cookies to personalise the user experience, to help protect our members and to provide us with research information (such as how often members visit ScrappyAuctions.Com each month). Persistent cookies allow us to track users on the site and helps us identify users abusing the ScrappyAuctions.Com service

Other information we collect

We use additional information to do internal research on our users' demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand and serve you and our community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not), what browser you are using, and your IP address.

Users who login have their IP addresses recorded. This information can be used to track users who abuse the ScrappyAuctions.Com system and will be only be provided to legal authorities in cases of suspected fraud. IP addresses can be used, in conjunction with an Internet Service Provider, to find the dial-in account of a user and, ultimately, further information to identify a user. This information is stored securely and will not be provided to other members or non-authorised parties.

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.

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.

Membership Removal

If you wish to have your registration removed from our directory for any reason, simply Contact Us requesting to be removed or if you are logged in please Click Here.

Advertising and Third Party Links

Some ScrappyAuctions.Com advertisers may request information directly from users, or link to sites that do so. ScrappyAuctions.Com has no control over its advertisers' privacy policies, and encourages users to review such policies prior to submitting any personal information to them.

ScrappyAuctions.Com contains non-advertising links to a variety of third party sites to enhance the member experience. ScrappyAuctions.Com has no control of either the content or privacy policies of such sites, nor should such links be considered an endorsement of these sites except where otherwise noted.

Updates to our information practices

From time to time, we make changes to our information practices or alter the functionality of our Web site. We always update this statement accordingly, so we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on privacy practices at ScrappyAuctions.Com.

If you have any questions about our privacy policies or any other matter, please Contact Us.

Best Wishes,
The Scrappy Auction Staff