As an Internet Auction Site, ItchyPig.com 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. ItchyPig 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 detailed to every registered member on our site.
We pledge that we will not release personal information about you without your permission, however if you win an auction or sell an item please be aware that your user details (username) and details such as your name and address will be given to the user involved. This is so the transaction can be completed easily and safely. At no time will your telephone number be given out.
Coverage
This policy applies to all members and registered users on ItchyPig.com.
Helpful Definitions
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 ItchyPig in certain ways
The next sections tell how and when ItchyPig.com collects anonymous information and personally identifiable information.
Collection and Use of Personally Identifiable Information
Registration
We want to assure you that you can visit our site 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.
The majority of our site requires customer registration, without this a user cannot sell or purchase upon the site. 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 ask for contact information (such as first and last name, email address, and zip code / postcode). ItchyPig.com uses this contact information in several ways:
- To welcome you to the ItchyPig.com Auction Site
- To send messages and updates / newsletters
- To display all your details to the other party involved after a successful transaction (in an e-mail) to enable the sale to complete & the item/s to be sent
- And many more reasons
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.
PLEASE NOTE: 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 violating the site. We may also disclose your personally identifiable information when we believe 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.
Cookies: How They Are Used and Opting-Out
How They Are Used
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 customisable services and to allow you to sign-in to our site. For example, we can store your zip code / postcode in a cookie and this enables us to allow your instant log in each time you visit our site. Cookies also make web surfing easier for you by saving your preferences while you're on our site.
Special Categories of Information
ItchyPig will not share any personally identifiable information about our users that is of medical, financial or sexual nature.
System E-mails
If you subscribe to the newsletter you will receive the latest news as and when it happens, this will give you more info on the site and the latest releases.
If you don't subscribe to the newsletter you will only receive a system e-mail if urgent information needs to be sent or if they system / server is faulty, this is very rare but we appologise if this does happen now.
Use of IP Addresses
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.
ItchyPig may collect I.P. addresses for purposes of system administration & trouble makers. 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.
Security
ItchyPig operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection. ItchyPig has security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your user data under our control.
Only authorized employees have access to the information you provide us. For example, we impose strict rules on ItchyPig 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.
ItchyPig.com reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. All changes will be posted to this page, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of any material changes to this privacy policy
