Privacy Policy

We collect two basic types of information – personal information and anonymous information – and we may use personal and anonymous information to create a third type of information, aggregate information. In particular, we collect:

• link your profile on a third-party site or platform with your registration account, such as your first name and surname, country of residence, gender, date of birth, email address, username, and password;
• Transaction information you provide when you use our software, such as real estate listing information and bids you send or receive related to real estate listings upon which you are transacting;
• Information we obtain from a third party, such as a site or platform provider, about use of our applications on third-party platforms or devices;
• Location information, including location information provided by a mobile or other device interacting with one of our sites, applications, or physical properties (including through beacon technologies), or associated with your IP address or other online or device identifier, where we are permitted by law to process this information;
• Activity information about your use, and the use by any person(s) you authorize through your account, of our sites and applications, such as the content you view or post, how often you use our services, and your preferences;
• • Usage, viewing, technical, and device data when you visit our sites, use our applications on third-party sites or platforms, or open emails we send, or connect with our wireless Internet access services and other similar technologies, including your browser or device type, unique device identifier, and IP address.

How We Collect Your Information:

• We collect information you provide to us when you register to use our Software and services, or information from us. You may provide information in a variety of ways, including by typing or using voice commands.
• We collect information through a variety of technologies, such as cookies, Flash cookies, pixels, tags, software development kits, application program interfaces, and Web beacons, including when you visit our sites and applications or use our applications on third-party sites or platforms using one or more devices, whether or not you are logged in or registered.
• We collect information using analytics tools, including when you visit our sites and applications or use our applications on third-party sites or platforms.
• We acquire information from other trusted sources to update or supplement the information you provided or we collected automatically, such as when we validate postal address information using third party services. Applicable law may require that you authorize the third party to share your information with us before we can acquire it.
• We will never sell your information to a third party.

How We Use Your Information:

zBid, Inc. may access your information where they perform services on behalf of the data controllers (as data processors) and, unless prohibited under applicable law, for use on their own behalf (as data controllers) for the purposes described in this policy. Consistent with applicable law and choices and controls that may be available to you, we may use information collected from you, or from devices associated with you, to:

• Provide you with the experiences, products, and services you request, view, engage with, or purchase;
• Communicate with you about your account or transactions with us and send you information or request feedback about features on our sites and applications or changes to our policies;
• Send you offers and promotions for our products and services or third-party products and services;
• Personalize content and experiences;
• Provide you with targeted advertising based on your activity on our sites and applications and on third-party sites and applications.
• Operate, understand, optimize, develop, or improve our sites, applications, products, services and operations, including by using guest survey research and analytics tools; and
• Detect, investigate and prevent activities that may violate our policies, pose safety issues, or be fraudulent or illegal; and
• Notify you of product recalls or safety issues.

The Limited Circumstances Under Which We Share Your Personal Information With Others.

We will not share your personal information with a third party outside zBid, Inc. except in limited circumstances, including:

• When you direct us to share your personal information with another company to fulfill your request.
• Please note that once we share your personal information with another company in the above circumstances, the information received by the other company is controlled by that company and becomes subject to the other company’s privacy practices.
• When we are compelled by Subpoena or Court Order to produce such information as part of a valid legal cause of action, civil or criminal.