Privacy Statement
The Privacy and Security of your personal information collected at our website is very important to us. In order for us to gain and maintain your continued patronage, buyaboat operates under a strict code of conduct for our online auctions, detailed below in our Privacy Statement.
By registering with buyaboat, you consent to the use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this privacy statement.
1. Why do I need to supply personal information to participate at buyaboat?
buyaboat requires your personal information in order that we can process your online bids and purchases including processing payment of amounts to us if you are the Winning Bidder. Naturally, you must be a registered customer prior to placing any online bids with buyaboat.
2. When is personal information collected?
There are two areas on the site where you may enter and submit personal information. The first area is the Registration Form that will need to be completed prior to placing a bid at an auction. The second area is your Profile where you can modify or update some of your personal information such as your address or your telephone contact number.
We will also collect information when you submit an online bid at an online auction (such as what you are bidding for and how much you bid). In addition, the buyaboat server automatically collects certain information about your use of our service. The information collected in each case is described under section 4 below.
4. What personal information is collected?
The buyaboat Online Registration Form requires potential bidders and buyers to provide:
a. their contact details (such as name, password/login, address, e-mail address, mail address).
If the information under 4(a) is not provided then we will be unable to process your bids or contact you when items of interest to you come up for sale or auction.
As stated above, we will also collect information about the bids you submit for our online auctions such as what you are bidding for, how much you bid.
If you send us correspondence we may also collect this and keep it on your account file.
The buyaboat server automatically collects additional information about your use of our service. This information can be described as "navigational data" and comprises: browser type; IP address; the URL you come from and go to; links to other sites you click on; the pages you view on our site and time spent on it; cookies; your domain type and service provider. It is standard for many sites to collect this type of information in order to enable them to monitor usage of a site and improve site content and navigation.
When a buyaboat web page is requested and viewed, that request is logged on our servers with information including the IP address of the computer that requested the page. An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a unique string of numbers that identifies a computer or server on the Internet. These numbers are normally shown in groups separated by periods. Your IP address is stored in our bidder database whenever you place a bid, and may be used for various purposes including:-
- To increase the level of customer security. IP addresses can be used to validate your bids.
- Diagnose service or system problems reported by our users that may be associated with IP addresses controlled by a specific Internet Service Provider (ISP)
5. Where will my personal information be used?
Personal information such as contact details is collected in order that we can efficiently process your registration and your bids at online auctions.
6. Will my personal information be given to anyone else?
Your details may be passed on to third parties where necessary, for the purpose of processing and collecting any amounts which may become payable by you to us.
buyaboat may use or disclose your personal information to the vendor of any goods if required under or authorised by any law.
buyaboat uses cookies to keep track of your bidding. These cookies are placed in your browser file on your hard drive and help us collect general information about visitor behaviour on our site, track password functions and to help us develop better functionality within our site. Cookies do not capture or track any personal information and cannot identify individual users. We may also use an outside advertising company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. Cookies received with banner ads are collected by our advertising company, and buyaboat does not have access to, or control over, this information.
Our site may from time to time contain links to other sites. We stress that these sites may have a different privacy policy to buyaboat's and you should check this with them.
7. How will buyaboat keep my personal information safe?
The most important thing to remember here is to always keep your buyaboat login and password secret. Never give your login and password to anyone.
8. Can I correct or update my personal information?
Once you have registered with buyaboat, you may at anytime access and modify the personal information you provided in the Registration Form by visiting My Profile. This includes updating your address or providing an updated contact telephone number should we need to contact you.
In order to ensure that we can provide you with the most efficient service we ask that you alter your profile, if necessary, before bidding.
buyaboat will also take reasonable steps to destroy or permanently de-identify personal information if it is no longer required or if you ask us to do so because you no longer intend to use our site. However, due to technical and accounting constraints your personal information may not be completely destroyed. buyaboat may also need to retain personal information in order to fulfil legal responsibilities or resolve disputes which may arise.
9. Contacting buyaboat
Naturally, it is in our interest to protect your privacy in order that we develop a long and trusted relationship with you. If at anytime you have any questions regarding this Privacy Statement, the practices of this site or dealings with this Web site, you can contact:
buyaboat
21 Edith Street
Marks Point NSW 2280
Office 02 4945 8111
Freecall 1800 985 911
E-mail [email protected]
10. Online Privacy Statement Updates.
buyaboat strives to comply with the National Privacy Principles in the National Scheme for Fair Information Practices in the Private Sector. buyaboat also intends to comply with industry privacy codes as and when they are developed.
We may amend our Privacy Statement if further privacy legislation and/or self-regulatory codes are introduced.
These amendments will take effect from the time of posting and you should check back from time to time for any such amendments.
