Privacy Policy for Amazon Medical Auctions, LLC
This privacy policy governs your use of the Web sites located at the following Web addresses: www.bigmedicalauctions.com, www.bigmedicalauction.com The Web site's are owned, operated and/or controlled by Amazon Medical Auctions, LLC. As
used in this privacy policy, the terms “we”, “our” and “us” refer to
this company. This privacy policy also governs the
collection, use, and disclosure of information submitted by bidders who
register on the bidding platform.
This privacy policy is effective upon acceptance in registration for
new registering users, and is otherwise effective on October 1, 2013,
for all other users. We may from time to time make amendments to this
privacy policy. We will post all amendments on this Web page.
- Collection. We will collect and store the
following Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) on our
servers if you choose to register on our site: your name, your
company, your address, your driver’s license, and at least one
telephone number. We also request PII and/or login information
(which would provide access to your PII) elsewhere on our site,
including our login page, bidding page, account update page, and
e-mail subscription page. Unless you provide us with your PII, it will
not be collected or stored. Once you provide us with your PII, you
have consented to the transfer and storage of that information in
accordance with the terms of this policy. You can review, change,
and delete the PII that you provide to us by logging into Your
Personal Page, or by contacting us using the information found by
clicking the “Contact Us” link on our home page. We may prompt you
to make updates to your PII from time to time, but in order to
combat “phishing” (a fraudulent tactic employed by criminals to
acquire PII), we will request that you make the updates on our
site. We will also collect a valid credit card number if you
choose to register on our site. In addition, we automatically collect
certain non-PII relating to your interaction with our site, such
as your IP address. Your IP address is stored when you register on
our site and every time you place a bid on our site. We use
cookies, but purely for your convenience to allow you to remain
logged into our site. We will not collect or store any other
cookie information stored on your computer. We do not allow third
parties to place cookies on your computer.
- Use. If you provide us with your PII, it will
primarily be used for internal business purposes. Your driver’s
license will be collected to ensure that you are old enough to
place bids on our site. Your credit card information will be
collected to guarantee that you will be able to pay for any items
with respect to which you may place the winning bid. Your
telephone number will be used in case we need to contact you
concerning any bids that you may place. Your address or e-mail address
may be used, at your request, to communicate information about
upcoming auctions. Your e-mail address or cell phone number may be
used, at your request, to send you automatic bidding
notifications. You may opt-out of receiving any communications
from us either during registration or by contacting us using the
information found by clicking the “Contact Us” link on our home
page. Your IP address is used internally for liability purposes to
keep a record of each bid's origin. Cookie information will be
used purely for your convenience to allow you to remain logged into our
site.
- Disclosure. We will not trade, sell, or rent your
PII to third parties, except that we reserve the right to
transfer your PII to appropriate third parties in the event that
we sell all or part of our business, make a sale or transfer of
all or substantially all of our assets, or in the event that we
are involved in a merger. In the event that we disclose your
information in the course of any such sale, transfer, or merger,
your information will remain subject to the terms and conditions
of this policy and any amendments thereto. Also, if we do disclose
your PII in the course of a sale, transfer, or merger of one of
our companies, please be advised that we will continue to store your PII
until such time as you request that it be deleted. We will not
otherwise make your information available to third parties, except
when necessary to assist our service providers and vendors in
completing authorized undertakings, and/or where necessary to
provide confirmation of purchases to persons or entities who
require such information to ensure successful fulfillment of any
purchases made on our site. We do, however, reserve the right to
disclose user PII without user permission in order to protect our
legal rights, to comply with the law or legal process, to protect the
integrity of our site, and/or to protect the safety and security of
site users and visitors. Internally, your information will only be
available to employees who have the proper security clearance.
- Security. We use a variety of methods to protect
your information, both during transmission and after receipt, from
unauthorized access, use and disclosure. Any PII that you
transmit to us is protected during transmission by Secure Sockets
Layer (SSL) technology. SSL technology enables encryption of
sensitive information during online transmissions. Any PII that
you transmit to us, with the exception of credit card information,
is then stored on our database servers. Our database servers are
both firewall protected and password protected. In addition, while
stored on our database servers, your user password will be
encrypted with the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Our
database servers are stored with an off-site agent in secure
facilities, and can only be accessed by an authorized
representative of our off-site agent. While we strive to provide a secure
data transfer and storage environment, there are always potential
security risks when doing business over the Internet. Consequently, we
do not represent or guaranty that the information that you
transmit to us will remain secure against all unauthorized access
or use. You can assist us with our efforts by preventing
unauthorized access to your user password and to your computer.
You should make sure that you sign off when finished using a
shared computer, and you should otherwise take precautions to
protect your user password. If your user password becomes compromised
for any reason, you should immediately change your password, and
notify us.
- Children’s Privacy. Our Web site is designed for
adult use only. We will not intentionally collect children’s PII,
but if you believe that we may have done so, please notify us and
we will address the issue.
- Third Parties. We do not control the privacy
policies of third parties, so if you disclose your information to
third parties, whether bidders, buyers or sellers, in the course
of using our Web site, you may be subject to different rules with
respect to the collection, use, and disclosure of your
information.
If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy and/or our
privacy practices that are not answered in this policy, please contact
us using the information found by clicking the “Contact Us” link on our
home page.
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