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Groobie Privacy Policy
This privacy policy describes how we handle your
personal information. We collect, use, and share personal information
to help the Groobie website (“Groobie”) work and to keep it safe (details
below). This policy is effective 6/29/2007.
Collection. Information posted on Groobie is obviously publicly available. Our servers are located in the
United States and in the European Union. Therefore, if you choose to
provide us with personal information, you are consenting to the
transfer and storage of that information on our servers in the United
States and Europe. We collect and store the following personal
information:
- email address, physical contact information, and (depending on the service used) sometimes financial information;
- computer
sign-on data, statistics on page views, traffic to and from Groobie and
ad data (all through cookies – you can take steps to disable the
cookies on your browser although this is likely to affect your ability
to use the site);
- other information, including users IP address and standard web log information.
Use. We use users’ personal information to:
- provide our services
- resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;
- encourage safe trading and enforce our policies;
- customize users’ experience, measure interest in our services, and inform users about services and updates;
- communicate marketing and promotional offers to you;
- do other things for users as described when we collect the information.
Disclosure. We don’t sell or rent
users’ personal information to third parties for their marketing
purposes without users explicit consent. We may disclose personal
information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies,
respond to claims that a posting or other content violates other’s
rights, or protect anyone’s rights, property, or safety. We may also
share personal information with:
- corporate affiliates who help detect
and prevent potentially illegal acts and provide joint services. (Our
corporate affiliates will market only to users who ask them to).
- service providers who help with our business operations.
Using Information from Groobie.
You may use personal information gathered from Groobie only to follow up
with another user about a specific posting, not to send spam or collect
personal information from someone who hasn’t agreed to that.
Access, Modification, and Deletion.
You can see, modify or erase your personal information by reviewing
your posting or account status page. Contact customer support ( privacy@groobie.com
) to review any personal information we store that is not available on Groobie. There may a charge associated with such requests but these will
not exceed the amounts permitted by law. We delete personal information
when we no longer need it for the purposes we described earlier. We
retain personal information as permitted by law to resolve disputes,
enforce our policies; and prevent bad guys from coming back.
Security. We use lots of tools
(encryption, passwords, physical security) to protect your personal
information against unauthorized access and disclosure, but as you
probably know, nothing’s perfect, so we make no guarantees.
General. We may update this policy at
any time, with updates taking effect when you next post or after 30
days, whichever is sooner. If we or our corporate affiliates are
involved in a merger or acquisition, we may share personal information
with another company, but this policy will continue to apply. Send
questions about this policy to privacy@groobie.com.
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