Interchange Privacy Policy
Last Updated:December 2006
MyAuctionSearch (”MyAuctionSearch.net,” “we,” “us” or “our”)understands the importance of maintaining the privacy of our users, and we therefore strive to provide our services with the protection of your privacy in mind. This Privacy Policy applies to your use of MyAuctionSearch.net’s service (the Service”) that provides users, who submit search queries in an MyAuctionSearch.net search box on a Web page (a “Search Page”), with Internet navigation assistance web pages containing relevant local search results and other content (“Results Pages,” and, together with any Search Pages, the “MyAuctionSearch.net Web Pages”). This Privacy Policy is maintained in conformity with any and all applicable privacy-related laws and regulations.
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time, and those changes will be available for your review on most MyAuctionSearch.net Web Pages that you view and on our web page located at MyAuctionSearch.net/privacy. htm. Your continued use of our Service after any such changes have been made will signify your assent to the changed Privacy Policy. Accordingly, we ask that you bookmark and periodically review this Privacy Policy to ensure continuing familiarity with the most current version.
1. INFORMATION WE GATHER
We do not collect any personally identifiable information about you (such as your name, physical address, email address, or telephone number) when you use our Service. If you wish to submit an online request for information about partnering with MyAuctionSearch.net or any other information about our Service, you will be asked to provide certain personally identifiable information, including your name, company, e-mail address, and telephone number. We will always let you know whether such information is required or optional. MyAuctionSearch.net Web Pages will transmit limited non-personally identifiable information that your browser makes available whenever you visit a web site. This log information includes your internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, operating system, the domain name of the web site. From which you linked to our Service, search queries entered by you on our Service , and the date and time of you queries. Please note that any search query information collected by us is maintained by MyAuctionSearch.net on an aggregated basis (i.e., together with the queries of all of our end-users) for the purposes of generating statistics regarding the use of our Service (such as the number of queries performed by the average end-user per month, a list of the most popular query terms, etc.), and is never used in a manner that matches specific search query information with the identity of any particular end-user.
2. COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS
When you visit a MyAuctionSearch.net Search Page, a cookie that uniquely identifies your browser may be sent to your computer. A cookie” is a small file containing your preferences that is sent to your browser and sent back by your browser each time your browser accesses our services. Cookies that we may use may only be read by the server that placed them there. We use cookies to improve the quality of our Service (for example, by fulfilling your language, filtering, and other preferences) and to better understand how people interact with our Service (for example, by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search). Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. If you wish to control how and whether cookies will be accepted by your browser, you should refer to the documentation accompanying your browser. However, some aspects of the MyAuctionSearch.net Service may not function properly without cookies.
We currently use the services of a web analytics company to help us measure the effectiveness of our Service, including the advertising on the Service. To do this, we allow the web analytics company to include Web beacons and cookies on the MyAuctionSearch.net Web Pages. The type of information collected via such Web beacons and cookies includes search terms, search parameters, click-through rates, how to improve our Service, and what kinds of offers our users like to see. Although our web analytics company logs this information on our behalf, we control how that data may and may not be used.
Most, if not all, of the advertisements appearing on the Service are delivered to you by Ingenux, our Web advertising partner. In the course of delivering such advertisements, Inenux may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. Thereafter, information about your visits to the Service, such as the number information about Ingenux cookies, and how to “opt-out”, please click here.
3. HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE GATHER
Most of the limited, non-personally identifiable information collected is used to operate, develop, and improve our products and services. For example, MyAuctionSearch.net may use your IP address to determine which language to use to provide you with Internet search results or to advise you how far a particular vendor is from your location. In addition, information collected from end-users may be used in aggregate form to, among other things, determine the total number of end-users who are using our Service, prepare utilization reports for our partners or affiliates (collectively, “Partners”), diagnose and fix compatibility problems or other problems with our Service, and perform statistical analyses to enable us to build higher quality, more useful online services. The information collected from end-users also allows us to deliver search results pages that are responsive as possible to an individual end-user’s particular search query {for example, serving results in the end-user’s native language and tailored to the end-user’s country of connectivity). We also take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to, or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of, data.
4. WHEN WE DISCLOSE THE INFORMATION WE GATHER
As a general rule, we do not share the information we collect from end-users with third parties. However, when users submit a search query on our Service, IP addresses and search terms or phrases are transmitted to certain Partners with whom MyAuctionSearch.net has subcontracted (such as Looksmart and Miva, and others) so that those Partners can deliver responsive Internet search results, advertising, or other services. The data is also used by those Partners for internal data reporting purpose, but we have not given such Partners the authority to use such data for the purpose of marketing to our end-users, In addition, some of the information we collect is provided, in aggregate form only, to our Partners solely for purposes of calculating amounts owed to such Partners or helping such Partners improve their services, not for the purposes of marketing to our end-users. Our Partners are obligated by applicable law to protect the privacy of certain types of data, however, we are not responsible for their actions or omissions, including the manner in which they use information that they receive from us. Nevertheless, if you contact them directly and also to inform us by e-mailing us at privacy@MyAuctionSearch.net If in the future we sell or transfer assets or portions of our business, or if we experience a change in control, reorganization or liquidation, we may transfer such information to our successor or buyer, subject to this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to share aggregated information with others. Examples of this include the number of users who searched for “used cars” or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Finally, we reserve the right to disclose any information about you if it is required by law, necessary to defend our legal rights, or if we in good faith believe it is appropriate to cooperate in investigations of fraud or other illegal activity I which you may be involved (or are reasonably suspected to be involved),
5. NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIRD-PARTY PRACTICES
Certain of our Partners who provide or enable any functionality on the Service may also collect information from you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of our Partners. In addition, any web sites that you click to from one of our Results Pages may have been developed by third-parties over which we exercise no control. Such web sites may send their own cookies to end-users, collect data, or solicit personally identifiable information from you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites, including such web sites’ use of any information collected when our end-users click through to such web sites. Even though such information might not identify you personally, we strongly encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of those web sites.
6. QUESTIONS
Questions regarding this Privacy Policy should be directed to MyAuctionSearch.net at privacy@MyAuctionsearch.net.