PRIVACY NOTICE

  1. Scope and Consent

    This Privacy Notice describes your privacy rights regarding our collection, use, disclosure, retention, and protection of your personal information. It applies to any Swapyourauto.com site where this Privacy Notice appears in the footer, and to any Swapyourauto.com application, service, or tool (collectively "Services") where this Privacy Notice is referenced, regardless of how you access or use them, including through mobile devices

    By using our Services and/or registering for an account with us, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Notice and our User Agreement, and you are consenting to our collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information as described in this Privacy Notice and in our User Agreement. If you do not provide the information we require, we may not be able to provide all our Services to you.

    If you reside in the United States, you are contracting Brockport Development LLC, 516 NW 75th St, Unit #10, Gainesville, FL 32607 (herein "Swapyourauto.com").

    The company you are contracting with is your data controller, and is responsible for the processing of your personal information in accordance with our global privacy standards. Your data controller may transfer data to other Swapyourauto.com data controllers as described in this privacy notice. We may store and process your personal information on our computers in the US and elsewhere in the world where our data centers are located.

  2. Personal Information

    "Personal information" is information that can be associated with a specific person and could be used to identify that specific person whether from that data or from that data and other information that Swapyourauto.com has or is likely to have access to. We do not consider personal information to include information that has been made anonymous or aggregated so that it can no longer be used, whether in combination with other information or otherwise, to identify a specific person.

  3. Changes to this Notice

    We may amend this Privacy Notice at any time by posting the amended terms on this site. All amended terms automatically take effect 30 days after they are posted. We will notify you through our website and/or via email of any material changes to this Privacy Notice.

  4. Global Privacy Standards

    Brockport Development LLC . has established global privacy standards for Swapyourauto.com. They are our commitment to protect your personal information and honor our privacy obligations regardless of where your personal information is collected, processed, or stored..

  5. Collection

    We collect personal information from you and the devices (including mobile devices) you use to access or use our Services. This personal information we collect includes, but is not limited to personal information of the kinds described below:

    1. Personal information you give us when you use our Services

      1. Identifying information such as your name, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses

      2. Trading, buying, or selling information for a particular transaction or other transaction based content you generate or is connected to your account for that particular transaction

      3. Financial information such as credit card or bank account numbers in connection with a transaction

      4. In some instances, you may provide age, gender, interests and favorites

      5. You may also provide us other information through your participation in community discussions, chats, dispute resolution, correspondence through our sites, or correspondence sent to us

      6. Additional information we are required by applicable law authorizes to request in order to authenticate or identify you to use or verify the information we have collected (such as under laws requiring the seller of second hand goods to provide authentication in any country)

    2. Personal information we collect automatically when you use our Services

      We also collect information about your interaction with our Services, advertising, or e-mail communications. This is typically information we receive from your computer or other devices, including your mobile devices.

      1. Device ID or unique identifier, device type, ID for Advertising, unique device token

      2. Geo-location information, including location information from your mobile device. Keep in mind that:

      3. Most mobile devices allow you to control or disable the use of location services in the device's settings' menu.

      4. You may also be presented with an additional notice explaining any additional information we may collect from you that is not listed in this notice.

      5. Computer and connection information

      6. Statistics on page views, traffic to and from the sites, referral URL, ad data, IP address, and browsing history and web log information

    3. Personal information we collect using Cookies, Web Beacons and Similar Technologies

      We use cookies, web beacons, unique identifiers, and similar technologies to provide and improve our Services and personalized advertising and marketing, and to provide safer experience and personalized experience on our sites. We collect information about the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take on our Services, or within our advertising or e-mail content.

    4. Personal information from other sources

      1. We may supplement the information we collect with information from third parties and add it to your account information. For example, as permitted by law, we may collect demographic information that is publically available, additional contact information, credit check information, and information from credit bureaus as allowed by law. We may combine information you give us with information we collect from other sources and use it for any purpose disclosed in this privacy notice.

      2. We may allow you to share information with third party social media sites, or use social media sites or other sites to create or connect to your account. Those social media sites may give us access to certain personal information stored by them (e.g., content viewed and information about the advertisements within the content you have been shown or may have clicked on, etc.) from your interaction with the online services. Remember that you control the personal information you allow us to have access to through the privacy settings on that third party site and the permissions you give us when you grant us access. By associating an account managed by a third party with your Swapyourauto.com account and authorizing Swapyourauto.com to have access to this information, you agree that Swapyourauto.com may collect, use and store the information provided by these sites in accordance with this privacy notice.

      3. If you give us personal information about someone else, you must do so only with their consent. You agree to inform them that we have collected their personal information and tell them how we collect, use and disclose the personal information.

  6. Use and Retention

    We use the personal information we collect to operate, improve and personalize our Services, to contact you and provide you customer service, customize our advertising and marketing, and to detect, prevent and mitigate fraudulent or illegal activities. You agree that we may use your personal information as follows:

    Operate, improve, and personalize our Services

    1. Provide you use of and access to our Services

    2. Provide you site content that includes great products that we think you will like and keeps track of the collections and stores that you have chosen to follow

    3. Give you access to your purchase history, scores, bids, internal email and other features

    4. Customize, measure, and improve our sites, applications and Services

    5. Provide other services requested by you as described when we collect the information

    6. We may use geo-location information to provide you with location based services, such as advertising, search results, and other personalized content

    Contact you and provide you customer service

    1. Provide customer support you request

    2. Contact you, either via email or telephone (using autodialed or pre-recorded calls), text (SMS) messages (if applicable) as authorized by you to resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems with your account or our Services and for other purposes authorized by law and consistent with this Privacy Notice

    3. Compare the personal information you provide for accuracy, and verify it with third parties as necessary

    Customize our advertising and marketing communications with you

    1. Customize, measure, and improve our content and advertising based on your ad customization preferences

    2. Contact you, either via email, telephone, text (SMS) messages (if applicable based on your consent), or postal mail, or otherwise as authorized by you to offer coupons, discounts and special promotions, and inform you about our services and those of our corporate family. You agree that Swapyourauto.com will use the contact information you have provided to contact you by e-mail and/or SMS text Message and data rates may apply.

    3. Deliver targeted marketing, service updates, and promotional offers based on your communication preferences

    Detect, Prevent and Mitigate Fraudulent or Illegal Activities

    1. Prevent, detect, and investigate fraud, security breaches, potentially prohibited or illegal activities

    2. Enforce our User Agreement or other applicable policies

    We retain your personal information as long as it is necessary and relevant for our operations. In addition, we retain personal information from closed accounts to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, enforce our User Agreement and take other actions permitted by law. After it is no longer necessary for us to retain your personal information, we dispose of it in a secure manner it according to our data retention and deletion policies.

  7. Choice

    You have a choice about how we use your personal information to communicate with you, send you marketing information, and provide you with customized and relevant advertising.

  8. Communication Preferences

    You can control how and when you want to receive notifications from Swapyourauto.com about your activities and the methods by which we may contact you from the Communication Preference section within your My Swapyourauto.com. You can also control your member-to-member communications preferences setting and choose which newsletters and promotions you want to receive if these services are offered in the future.

  9. Marketing

    We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. If you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us, you can unsubscribe from the link in the email you received, change your Communication Preferences within My Swapyourauto.com or indicate your preferences within the direct communication from us.

  10. Advertising

    We do not allow third parties to track or collect your personal information on our site for their own advertising purposes without your explicit consent. We will still allow the collection of usage data for certain purposes (e.g., research, analytics and internal online services operation purposes)

    If you withdraw your consent for the use or disclosure of your personal information for the other purposes set out in this Privacy Notice you may not have access to our all our Services and we might not be able to provide you all of the Services and customer support offered to our users and authorized under this Privacy Notice and our User Agreement.

  11. Access

    We take steps to ensure that the personal information we collect is accurate and up to date, and that you have the ability to access or correct it.

    1. You can see, review and change most of your personal information by signing on to your account. Please update your personal information immediately if it changes or is inaccurate

    2. Once you make a public posting, you may not be able to change or remove it. Upon your request, we will close your account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable law

    3. We will honor any statutory right you might have to access, modify or erase your personal information. You can use the Contact Us to request access and find out whether any fees may apply, as permitted by law. Where you have a legal right to request access or request the correction of information, we can still withhold that access or decline to correct information in some cases in accordance with applicable law, but will give you reasons if we do so.

  12. Disclosure

    There are times when we disclose your personal information to members of the Brockport Development LLC . corporate family or other third parties. This disclosure may be required for us to operate or provide you access to our Services, comply with our legal obligations, enforce our policies, facilitate our advertising, or reduce or prevent fraud related to our Services. We minimize the amount of personal information we share to what is directly relevant and necessary to accomplish the specified purpose. As stated above, we do not disclose your personal information to third parties for their marketing and advertising purposes without your explicit consent.

    We may disclose your personal information for the following purposes:

    1. Service Providers and Financial Institutions Partners

      1. Third party service providers who help us operate our Services, and assist with fraud investigations, bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs, co-branded credit cards and other business operations

    2. Law enforcement, legal proceedings, and as authorized by law

      1. to comply with our legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a listing or other content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone's rights, property or safety

      2. to law enforcement or governmental agencies, or authorized third-parties, in response to a verified request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other Swapyourauto.com user to legal liability. We will only disclose information we deem relevant to the investigation or inquiry,such as name, city, state, postcode, telephone number, email address, User ID history, IP address, fraud complaints, bidding and listing history, and anything else we deem relevant

      3. to credit bureaus as authorized by applicable law (e.g. information on late or missed payments or other defaults on your account that may be reflected in your credit report)

      4. to third parties involved in a legal proceeding, if they provide us with a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal procedure, or we otherwise believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss or to report suspected illegal activity.

    3. People you authorize us to provide it to

      1. Swapyourauto.com users as authorized by you or your use of our Services (e.g. if you buy an item the seller may view your email address and request and obtain your contact information, including phone number or email and postal address to help complete the transaction)

  13. Security

    We protect your information using technical and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls to our data centers, and information access authorization controls.

  14. Important Information

    There are just a few more pieces of important privacy information related to your use of our Services that we need to cover:

    1. When you share your personal information on Swapyourauto.com - what happens?

      1. Other users have access to the information you share on Swapyourauto.com. Other users can also see any information you chose to share in your profile or your collections.

      2. Your User ID is displayed throughout Swapyourauto.com and is available to the public. It is connected to all of your Swapyourauto.com activity. Notices sent to other community members about suspicious activity and notice violations on our sites refer to User IDs and specific items. So if you associate your name with your User ID, the people to whom you have revealed your name will be able to personally identify your Swapyourauto.com activities.

      3. To help protect your privacy, we allow only limited access to other users' contact, shipping and financial information as necessary to facilitate your transactions and collect payments. However, when users are involved in a transaction, they have access to each other's name, User ID, email address and other contact and shipping information.

    2. How you should use the information you receive on Swapyourauto.com

      1. Swapyourauto.com enables you to obtain personal information of others to complete transactions and collect payments. We encourage you to disclose your privacy practices and respect the privacy of other users. In all cases, you must give other users a chance to remove themselves from your database and a chance to review what information you have collected about them

      2. Use the personal information that you have access to only for Swapyourauto.com transaction-related purposes, for using services offered through Swapyourauto.com (such as escrow, shipping, and fraud complaints), and for purposes expressly consented by the user to whom the information relates. Using personal information that you have access to for any other purpose is a violation of our policies.

    3. Unwanted or Threatening Email

      1. 1. Sending unwanted or threatening email is against our policies and constitutes a violation of our User Agreement. To report Swapyourauto.com-related spam or spoof emails please forward the email to Brockport@Swapyourauto.com.

    4. Children's Privacy

      1. Our websites are general audience websites, and our Services are not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from users in this age group.

    5. Third Party Privacy Practices

      1. This Privacy Notice addresses only the use and disclosure of personal information we collect from you. If you disclose your information to others, their privacy notices and practices will apply.

      2. We cannot guarantee the privacy or security of your information once you provide it to a third party and we encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security policies of your trading partner before entering into a transaction and choosing to share your information. This is true even where the third parties to whom you disclose personal information are bidders, buyers or sellers on our sites.

    6. Questions or Complaints

      1. 1. If you have a question or a complaint about this Privacy Notice or our global privacy or information handling processes, you can reach the Global Privacy Office in writing by sending us a letter or postcard to: Brockport Development LLC , 516 NW 75th St, Unit #10, Gainesville, FL 32607,.