Information Internet Privacy Policy Collected About You - BidBrat.COM

BidBrat.COM ("BidBrat," "Us," or "We") respects the privacy of every individual who visits our websites. The following Privacy Policy outlines the information BidBrat may collect and how we may use that information. 

1. In General
   Personally Identifiable Information (or personal information) is information that can be used to identify or contact you. When you visit our Website, we collect only the personal information you provide to us. We collect the information that you provide to us in two general and distinct ways: (1) when you register, and (2) when you choose to use various Website Services or participate in surveys or send emails to us.
   
   We also collect non-personal information from you and about your use of our Website, emails, special promotions and newsletters that we send to you, and Websites of selected sponsors and advertisers. For example, we may use "cookies" or "web beacons" to collect non-personal information about your use of our site, selected sponsors' sites, or emails we send to you. BidBrat does not store any personal information in any cookies on your computer. We do not use web beacons to collect any personal information from or about you or to track your activities across Websites generally. All of these are described in more detail below.
2. Registration and Member Profile
   You may use our Website without registering or submitting any personal information. In that case, the only information we collect will be non-personal information collected through the use of cookies or web beacons (see details below). However, in order to have access to certain services and content available on our site you are required to complete a registration form. We use the personal information that you provide through registration to respond to questions from you and/or inform you of significant changes to this Privacy Policy. We may also use this information to send you emails with special promotions or newsletters with content that we think may be of interest to you. You can always opt-out of receiving such emails or unsubscribe to newsletters at the time you register or at any time.
3. Interactive Tools
   BidBrat collects information you provide voluntarily through responses to surveys, questionnaires polls, and the like.
4. Cookies
   BidBrat collects anonymous, non-personal information about your use of our site and your use of emails, special promotions and newsletters that we send to you. For example, we collect non-personal information about your use of our site and your use of the sites of selected sponsors and advertisers through the use of Cookies. Cookies are small computer files that are transferred to your computer's hard drive and result in information regarding how often someone visits a site and the activities they conduct while on that site (such as the chatrooms visited, whether orders for products have been submitted, etc.).
   Every computer is assigned a different cookie by us. The information collected by cookies helps us dynamically generate advertising and content on web pages or in emails specifically designed for you and allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our site and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, opening our emails, and for what purposes. We may use cookie information to target certain advertisements to your browser or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements.
   Your browser software can be set to reject all cookies. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to reject cookies in the "Help" section of the toolbar. If you reject our cookie, certain of the functions and conveniences of our site may not work properly but you do not have to accept our cookie in order to productively use our site. While it may be possible to link non-personal cookie information to personal information collected in other ways, we want you to know that if you accept our cookie we will not, without your consent, link the cookie information we collect to personal information you provide to us on our site.
5. Web Beacons
   In limited circumstances we also may use Web Beacons to collect anonymous, non-personal information about your use of our web site and the sites of selected sponsors and advertisers, and your use of emails, special promotions and newsletters we send to you. Web beacons are tiny graphic image files imbedded in a web page or email that provide a presence on the web page or email and send back to its home server information from the Users' browser. The information collected by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our site and selected sponsors' and advertisers' sites, opening our emails, and for what purposes. Our web beacons are not used to track your activity across Websites generally. While it may be possible to link non-personal web beacon information to personal information collected in other ways, we want you to know that we will not, without your consent, link the web beacon information we collect to personal information you provide to us on our site.
6. E-mails and Newsletters
   BidBrat may collect anonymous, non-personal information about your use of e-mails and newsletters that we send to you. In some cases, when you click on a link or an advertisement in an e-mail or newsletter, your browser may be momentarily directed to the site of a third party which, acting on our behalf (see Disclosure to Website Service and Content Contractors, below), notes or "counts" your response to the e-mail or newsletter before re-directing your browser to its proper destination; this re-direction process will not be apparent to you.
1. Children
   BidBrat adheres to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 and the guidelines of the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc. in each of our Web sites. Parents can help by spending time online with children and monitoring children's online use. Please help us protect children's privacy by instructing them never to provide personal information on this site or any other without your permission.
   
   BidBrat does not collect and keep any personal information from persons who BidBrat actually knows are under 13 years of age.
2. Public Forums
   This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you use our public forums. You should be aware that any information shared in a chat room, bulletin board, posting or online discussion is public information and may be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties that do not adhere to our Privacy Policy. You should think carefully before disclosing any personal information in any public forum.
3. Emails to Us
   This Privacy Policy does not protect you when you send information, ideas, concepts or inventions to us by email, or to the various departments listed on the "Contact Us" link on our Website.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

1. Disclosure to Operations and Maintenance Contractors
   Our operations and maintenance contractors sometimes have limited access to your personal information in the course of providing products or services to us. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content related to improve operation and maintenance of our Website. These contractors also may have access to your email address to send newsletters or special promotions to you on our behalf or to send emails to you for purposes such as conducting market research on our behalf. Access to your personal information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary in order for the contractor to perform its limited function for us.
2. Disclosure to Website Service and Content Contractors
   Certain content and services offered to you through our Website are served on Websites hosted and operated by a company other than BidBrat ("Third Party Contractor Websites"). BidBrat does not disclose your personal information to these Third Party Contractor Websites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose once you access these other sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. BidBrat does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Contractor Websites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the other site to understand how that Third Party Contractor Website collects and uses your personal information. BidBrat makes an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave our Website and enter a Third Party Contractor Website, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the site.
3. Disclosure of aggregate Information
   We may provide to third parties non-personal information about you that does not allow you to be identified or contacted and that is combined with the non-personal information of other users.