Ship4You - Privacy Policy

At Ship4You, we realise that privacy is a subject that is important to all our users. We have therefore produced this privacy policy to explain how your personal information is managed. Personal information is defined as being any information concerning an individual allowing the identification of that person. Personal information includes name, address, telephone number, email address or credit card information.

Overview

The privacy practices of this statement apply to our services available under the domain and subdomains of www.Ship4You.com (the "Site"). By visiting this website, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use or access our site.

By accepting the Privacy Policy and the User Agreement in registration, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of the Ship4You User Agreement.

Information Collection & Use

In order to use this Site, you must first complete the registration form. During the registration process, you are required to give contact information such as name, address, phone number and email address. This allows us to provide services and features that are likely to meet your needs, and to customize our service to make your experience safer and easier. We only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for achieving this purpose.

Generally, you can browse the Site without providing us with any of your personal information. If you choose to use our services, we may require you to provide contact and identity information, billing information and other personal information as indicated on the forms throughout the Site. Where possible, we indicate which fields are required and which are optional. You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to use a particular service or feature.

Certain information may be tracked based upon your behaviour on the Site. This information is used to do internal research on our users' interests, demographics and behaviour to better understand, protect and make improvements to the Site. This information may include the URL that you came from, which URL you go to next, your computer browser information, and your IP address.

If you choose to list or make bid on shipment on the Site, we will collection information about your activity and behaviour. We also collect other users' comments about you in our feedback area.

If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.

If you choose our referral service to tell a friend about the Site, will ask you for your friends name and email address. These details will be stored solely for purpose of sending this one-time email. We do not store anything on a referral send. Email address will only be stored if they register to the Site.

Uses of Your Information

We use your personal information, including your email address, to facilitate the services you need. We use your personal information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the Site to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; help promote safe matching; collect fees owed; measure consumer interest in our products and services; inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce our User Agreement; and as otherwise described to you at the time of collection. If necessary, we may examine your personal information to identify users using multiple usernames or aliases. We may compare and review your personal information for errors, omissions and for accuracy.

You agree that we may use personal information, including your email address to improve our marketing and promotional efforts. These uses improve the Site and better tailor it to meet your needs.

Communication from the Site

We will occasionally send you information on products, services, special offers and promotions, as well as a newsletter. You are signed up for these emails at registration and you may unsubscribe at any time by going to your account and opting out of the emails, or by following the directions to unsubscribe in the email.

Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe from each of these communications. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication.

Our policy is not to make any personal information available to any third parties.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

It is our policy not to sell, rent or share any of your personal information, including your email address, to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. However, the following describes some of the ways that your personal information may be disclosed in the normal scope of business to provide our services.

Your Ship4You user ID displayed throughout the Site and is therefore available to the public. All of your activities on the Site will be identifiable to your user ID. Other people can for instance see your bids, shipments you have listed, your feedback rating and associated comments or your postings on the Site. Therefore, if you associate your name with your user ID, the people you have revealed your name to will be able to personally identify your Ship4You activities. If you are involved in a transaction, we have features that allow parties to the transaction to view your email address and obtain your contact information to help complete the transaction.

Ship4You will cooperate with law enforcement inquires, as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property rights, fraud and other rights, to help protect you and the Ship4You community. Therefore, in response to a legitimate request by law enforcement relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity, we can (and you authorize us to) disclose your name, address, telephone number, email address, userID history, fraud complaints, bidding and listing history or any other necessary information. We will otherwise not disclose your personal information to law enforcement or other government officials without a court order or substantially similar legal procedure, except when we believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to: prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss; or report suspected illegal activity.

Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. For instance, we may be forced to disclose personal information, including your email address, to the government or third parties under certain circumstances, third parties may unlawfully intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or users may abuse or misuse your personal information that they collect from the Site. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we cannot guarantee, and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communication will always remain private.

Log Files

As is true of most Web sites, we collect certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

We use a third-party tracking service called Omniture that uses cookies and log files to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in the aggregate. We track trends in users' usage and volume statistics to create a more efficient and usable site, and to determine areas of the site that could be improved to enhance the user experience.

Links to Other Sites

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Ship4You. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information criticism

If your personally identifiable information, including your email address, changes or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by making the change on our member Account page.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

Business Transitions

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information, including your email address, submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate to ensure your fully aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently.

Last Revised Date: Monday 11th May 2009