LinkAdage Brokerage Privacy PolicyWe understand and appreciate the fact that our customers are concerned about the privacy afforded to their information collected when dealing with us. We are committed to providing our customers with a high level of privacy in relation to the personal information that is collected whilst dealing with LinkAdage™. To display this commitment, we provide the following privacy statement for our customer's viewing Personal Information CollectedThe type of information generally collected by LinkAdage™ includes your name, address, telephone number, user messages, e-mail address, city and region. This information is collected in order for LinkAdage™ to perform the services that you have requested and to enforce the LinkAdage™ User Agreement. Information collected on this siteWhen you look at this website, our Internet Service Provider makes a record of your visit. Also, the following information is logged, used, and monitored for statistical purposes, enforcement of the User Agreement and to facilitate member disputes. We do not use or disclose your personal information collected for any other purpose other than the primary purpose without firstly gaining your consent, or where it is required by law. Credit Card InformationLinkAdage™ which is fully owned and operated by WebOriginations LLC is aware of the potential risks inherent to online transactions. As such, we have the most advanced security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Furthermore, each employee of LinkAdage™ has been and will be made aware of security issues and practices as part of our extensive job training, and these practices are reviewed monthly at team meetings. As well, web security is reviewed monthly. Your e-mail address is recorded when you register at the site. We respect the confidentiality of the information you provide to us. As such, any personal information that we collect will only be used for the purpose for which it has been provided to us. Under no circumstances will your e-mail address be added, sold or given to a mailing list or used for any other non-LinkAdage™ Brokerage related purpose without your consent being obtained or where it is required by law. While not recommended, our site offers members the ability to opt out of all LinkAdage™ email communications. Personal Information SecurityLinkAdage™ is committed to keeping secure the data you provide us and we will take all reasonable precautions to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, misuse or alteration. LinkAdage™ CommunityThroughout the Site, you are identified by your User ID. If you select your email address as your User ID you will disclose your email address to other users and third parties. As a result, other users and third parties might send you unsolicited email and be able to personally identify all of your public activities on the Site. Others may illegally attempt to automatically collect your email address from our site. Even if your User ID is not your email address, your User ID can be used to identify you and your activities throughout the Site. Other people can see your bids, items that you have purchased in the past, your feedback rating and associated comments, your postings on the Site, and so on. We also provide a number of ways to allow other users to find out more about you and your site activities, such as our feature that allows users to quickly see all of the items you are offering at the time. If you are involved in a transaction, we have a feature that allows other users to view your email address and obtain your contact information. Our Use of Your InformationWe use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the site, including user messages, to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our User Agreement. At times, we may look across multiple users to identify problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your information to identify users using multiple User IDs or aliases. You agree that we may use personally identifiable information about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize our site's content, layout, services and to enforce the User Agreement. These uses improve our site and better tailor it to meet all members needs. Access To Personal InformationYou can request us to provide you with access to the personal information we hold about you. If we are able to, we will provide you with access. A fee may apply to such access. If we deny your request for access, we will let you know why. Access is limited to our record of your address, contact details, photographic identification details, accounts with us and balances and statements relating to those accounts. Privacy ComplaintsIf you wish to make a complaint about any breach or potential breach of this privacy policy or the National Privacy Principles, you can contact us. You have the following options to do this: 1. You can send an e-mail to 2. You can send mail to the following address: Changes to the Privacy PolicyOur privacy agreement may change from time to time, any major change will be posted to the announcements section of the site. Legal DisclaimerThough we make every effort to preserve your privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site. If you have any questions about our security & privacy policies, the practices of this site, or your dealings with LinkAdage™, please contact: |