Privacy Policy FontaniniAuction.com is committed to our customers and the privacy of their personal information. FontaniniAuction.com will never sell your personal information and will make every reasonable attempt to ensure the security of your personal information. Information Collection and Use We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Registration In order to use FontaniniAuction.com, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information. Required information collected during registration at FontaniniAuction.com includes name, email address, address, city, state and daytime telephone number. Optional information includes an evening telephone number, payment methods you accept, fax number and alternate addresses. This information is used to contact users about services on our site and also for billing users for selling items. Once you sign in to FontaniniAuction.com, you are not anonymous to us. FontaniniAuction.com collects information about your transactions. FontaniniAuction.com automatically receives and records information in our server logs that will help to identify you. This includes your IP address, cookie information and the pages you visit. FontaniniAuction.com uses this information to customize advertising, improve our services, contact you and provide anonymous reporting to sellers. Children Children under the age of 18 may not use the services of FontaniniAuction.com. FontaniniAuction.com will not contact (knowingly) or maintain information about any individual that tells us they are not 18 years old. Buying Account When you open a buyer/bidder account with FontaniniAuction.com, you must provide your personal and shipping information. This includes your name, address, daytime phone and email address. No financial information is required. Sellers Account When you open a seller's account with FontaniniAuction.com, you must provide your personal and shipping information. This includes your name, address, daytime phone and email address. Additionally you must provide billing information including name and address and information about the types of payments you will accept from buyers. Seller information will be used to bill FontaniniAuction.com customers for services. Listing Items When you list an item at FontaniniAuction.com, your name, state and country of residence, email address and payment methods you select become available on the website. This information is used by bidders to identify the person selling the item and is used by FontaniniAuction.com in identifying who is selling an item. FontaniniAuction.com does not sell, rent or share this information. Bidding When you bid on an item at FontaniniAuction.com, your name, state and country of residence and email address become available on the website. This information is used by sellers to identify the person who is purchasing the item and is used by FontaniniAuction.com in identifying who is buying an item. FontaniniAuction.com does not sell, rent or share this information and only uses this information in Case a dispute arises between buyer and seller. When you purchase an item using FontaniniAuction.com, any additional information you provide the seller is at your discretion and your risk. You may be asked to provide payment information and shipping information to the seller. FontaniniAuction.com is not able to vouch for the integrity of all of our users, however we will assist both the buyer and seller whenever possible. FontaniniAuction.com will make your shipping information available to sellers. Cookies A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. Use of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on the FontaniniAuction.com website. FontaniniAuction.com will set cookies when you login and will maintain cookies until you logout. FontaniniAuction.com specifically uses cookies to maintain your login while on the FontaniniAuction.com site. Cookies set on FontaniniAuction.com are not shared with third party companies in any circumstance. To use FontaniniAuction.com, you must enable cookies on your computer. Log Files We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Sharing FontaniniAuction.com does not share information with our partners or advertisers. FontaniniAuction.com does use third party services to provide better services to the FontaniniAuction.com community. We do not provide any third party service with personally identifiable information and these third party service providers are only allowed to gather information to provide a specific service. If information about you is subpena'd or otherwise ordered released by the courts, we will provide the information requested. Information will not be released unless specifically and legally ordered. Links This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that FontaniniAuction.com is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave FontaniniAuction.com and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by FontaniniAuction.com. Email Contact by FontaniniAuction.com FontaniniAuction.com will contact our users by email to promote new services and events at FontaniniAuction.com. The information used to send the email is your email address. You may opt-out when registering at FontaniniAuction.com. Advertisers Our advertisers may use cookies to collect information about the people viewing their ads. Our advertisers may collect information that does not personally identify you to them. Any information collected by our advertisers does not belong to FontaniniAuction.com nor do we have the ability to view the information. Security FontaniniAuction.com takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. When we ask for sensitive personal information, that information is encrypted and is protected with SSL. While on a secure page, such as our registration form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to unlocked, or open when you are just surfing While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect your personal information off-line. All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who actually need the information to perform a specific job (example - customer service or billing) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Notification of Changes If we change our privacy policy, we will post the date of the latest privacy policy at the very top of the privacy policy along with the changes made so our users can easily see what changes have been made. Our users deserve to know what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances (If any) we disclose information. Users continued use of the FontaniniAuction.com website after changes to the privacy policy have been posted, construe acceptance of the privacy policy as amended. All information will be used according to the privacy policy in place at the time information was collected.
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